God: He, She, It?

Projections, reflections, and a deep unity

“silhouette of man raising his right hand” by Rod Long on Unsplash

We humans cast everything in molds patterned after ourselves. It’s not necessarily hubris. We simply know what it’s like to be us and not what it’s like to be, say, a mosquito. That’s why, throughout history, we’ve attributed near-human levels of intelligence, emotion, and creativity to everything around us, so much so that we have a word for it…