American thought and thus, way of being in the world, is founded upon the supposition that each person, each individual, stands against the world. In this, American religions and American science agree. A person is a subject (from his/her point of view, the subject) and everything else is an object. We prize object-ivity. In doing so, we subject ourselves to trouble. We stand alone, heroic and tragic figures facing chaos which we forever vainly attempt to bring under our subjective rule.
My approach to life is radically different. (This may be why some have voiced difficulty in comprehending what I am saying.) If you think of the "objective" approach described above as a tree growing from earth upward, my experience is as a tree growing from the heavens downward. More accurately, I open out of the cosmos into and as this world. I long ago met "little Georgie" who was growing up and out from the earth and he and I have merged. In fact, we were never separate. Separation is an illusion.
American science and American religions hold the view that humans are self-directed units alienated from the cosmos (include nature here) that must somehow be reconciled while remaining forever apart. (Humpty Dumpty fell off the wall and all the king's horses and all the king's men cannot put us back together again.) With the religions, there is hope there will be supernatural intervention.
My experience is that we are the cosmos embodying and there is no separation. All is an interwhirling, an interpenetration, a perichoresis. All is natural. What the religions call God is not supernatural, but is with us and within us all the time.
As a result of being the cosmos embodying, I do not make a living.
I am a living.
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