The son of God is the sun. "I" is the name of God's son. The sun is God's eye. God's eye creates the everchanging, infinite and timeless universe. Looking into God's eye, we can only glimpse the blinding whole of creation. Not to be overwhelmed, we see the whole through the hole of our eye. Our world is created by our hole into the whole....
More than 40 years back, I found myself in a NYC taxi. Though the driver didn't greet me, he didn't seem unfriendly. As he was dressed in clothes from the Indian subcontinent, I assumed he had recently arrived in the States. To know his story, I asked him in mock pidgin English: "You here, long time?" He responded in the King's English: "I have been here 10 years, but I don't know if that is long or short." We laughed. There is nothing to know....
In California, the animist gods of forest fires, floods, droughts, mudslides and earthquakes are screaming for people to leave. Yet, the false god of sentimental thinking (the self) tells some people to stay....
Fiction is our memory of non-fiction....
What happened historically is remembered hysterically....