The Information God: The Modern Pragmatist's Guide to God, Aroutioun Agadjanian, 21st Century Information, 1999
The author presents a really different view of God and how to connect with Him in this modern, information age.
What he calls God is a global field of information and energy that covers the entire Earth, and includes all living things. At death, a person's soul is released into this global field, perhaps to show up in another body elsewhere. God has always existed, and was personified into what present-day people know as God by early humans.
Agadjanian looks at how to connect with God through flowers, music and dancing, family celebrations, movies, and even through war.
All human organisms are in a state of constant exchange of energy and information between themselves and this global field. Illness is caused by an abnormal exchange of information between the individual and everyone else. Flowers are brought to the sick because they are a natural amplifier of signals of the Global Field. Drinking a cup of coffee, for instance, temporarily connects the drinker with millions of others worldwide also drinking coffee at that moment to participate in a global information-energy meditation.
Everyone watching an athletic competition becomes a collective mind thinking constantly about needed improvments in the genes of new humans to make them more capable of competing in sports. God, therefore, can put some informational improvements in the souls of new human beings. Hollywood is part of the most powerful religious tools ever created; the religion of common sense and positive emotions. This is the most important way that God disseminates "right" American culture and values throughout the world.
Some say that this is a very un-spiritual world. The author says exactly the opposite; that mankind has never been as spiritual as now.
This is a very thought-provoking book. I'm not sure that I agree with any of it, but for a very different view of the world, check this out.
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