But if God really is hiding, we know they're all mistaken... right?
Understanding the manifest phenomena as outlined, we can categorize them into distinct domains that encompass both the comprehensible and the transcendental:
- Rational Phenomena:
- Of Nature: This refers to the observation and understanding of the natural laws governing the universe. This domain includes physical, chemical, and biological phenomena that can be empirically studied and theoretically explained.
- Of Uncomprehended Nature: These are natural phenomena that currently elude scientific understanding. They may include rare or poorly understood events that challenge conventional explanations.
- Technological Phenomena:
- Comprehended: These include technologies developed and understood by humans, based on scientific principles and applied for practical purposes.
- Uncomprehended: This includes advanced technologies or phenomena that, while observable, are not yet fully understood in their entirety, possibly involving cutting-edge science and technology.
- Mythological Phenomena:
- At the Level of Spirits and Similar Entities: This refers to perceived manifestations or experiences related to spiritual entities, psychic phenomena, or paranormal events that transcend conventional scientific explanations.
- At the Level of Deities: These involve cultural and religious manifestations of divine beings and supra-human entities worshiped or revered by different religious traditions around the world.
When attempting to locate where a deity theoretically manifested, after a meticulous filtering process through the aforementioned categories, it does not technically constitute proof of God's existence. The existence of God is an idea that aligns with the parameters set by religious traditions within their respective cultural and historical contexts. Gods and religions are continuously constructed throughout human progression, reflecting spiritual needs, aspirations, and understandings of the world beyond the material.
While natural and technological phenomena can be studied and understood within the limits of current science, mythological and religious phenomena open a space for exploring the deeper dimensions of human experience, where ideas of transcendence and divinity find their place in the complex fabric of human belief systems.
Psychiatric medicine often interprets these transcendental factors—such as spiritual visions or intense religious experiences—through the lens of mental pathology, and in many cases, this interpretation is accurate, especially when such experiences are associated with disorders affecting mental health. However, skepticism, despite its analytical rigor, does not provide answers for every question, particularly when faced with profound existential issues and phenomena that transcend mere empirical observation.
Philosophical materialism, in turn, by reducing the human being to a mere cog in a mechanical system, overlooks or minimizes the complexity of subjective and transcendental experiences, thus stripping away the intrinsic meaning and value that human cultures have historically attributed to existence. In this view, humans are nothing more than a collection of chemical reactions and biological processes, disregarding the depth of our cultural, spiritual, and psychic experiences.
Recent advances in biological psychiatry have unveiled intriguing discoveries, such as the transmission of trauma through DNA (Epigenetic), suggesting that traumatic events experienced by one generation can influence subsequent generations. This field of study reveals the intersection between science and phenomena previously attributed solely to human behavior or social environment. The understanding that trauma can be inherited reopens philosophical discussions about the formation of consciousness and beliefs, suggesting that the idea of God, in its most archetypal form, might represent a profound collective trauma, passed down through generations within the Homo genus, from parent to child. This would posit the existence of God not only as a cultural concept but also as an ancestral echo deeply embedded in humanity's collective unconscious, born from primordial experiences of awe and fear in the face of the inexplicable.
This theory further broadens the field of study by proposing an interface between biology, religion, and psychology, challenging the boundaries between what is pathological, what is transcendental, and what is rooted in our very genetics.
