How I have been seeing god & religion ...

See an elephant ... a really BIG elephant. It is everything.

See a person standing close to the tip of its trunk - say the flaring
of the trunk touches his/her shoulder. See a dozen people along the
trunk in contact with it in different ways. See people on the
elephant, laying, standing sitting, handstands. See people under the
elephant from head to tail, even underfoot. See people leaning on the
legs in different ways, climbing them even. See people in contact
with the tail, even standing in droppings.

Now focus on some of these people, see their thoughts - one sees an
elephant, one sees Ganesha, one sees Buddha, one sees the old man in
the clouds, one sees bright light, one sees Hern, one sees light
through clouds, one sees Christ crucified, one sees Christ bathed in
light, what other images of god/s do we have, some see themselves in
relation to their god - being hugged, being hurt, being poked, being
patted, being held in its palm, being held on a leash, bowing, having
tea together, playing chess, being played like a chess piece. Now see
some of these people imagining other people - see their speech bubbles
- one or two might be of what they see, but many are are speaking of
other things: instructions, rituals, ??? See two people very close,
same contact with the elephant same image in mind, different speech.
See another two people very different contact with the elephant,
different images in mind, talking to each other and speeches
consistent.

See one there listening? Maybe two? I wonder what is in their thought bubble?

Now let's fade out the elephant image and see these people going about
living - what are they doing? Some preaching, some teaching, mothers
& fathers caring for children, cooking, farming, butchering,
paperpushing, thieving, killing, eating, swimming, nursing, hitting,
building, painting, praying, gossiping, casting spells, partying,
loving, writing. What are they each thinking?

See their faces: happy, sad, angry, joyful, serious, silly, afraid, serene.

Scan the elephant gradually back into the picture, see the elephant
get bigger and bigger so that its image overlays the people, larger
and larger so we see less and less of the outline of the elephant,
'til we don't see its edge anymore.

It is everything.