"deep thoughts"

Electromagnetic god ?

I think of this quite often - it’s mind-boggling that we exist at all! If we could step back far enough and look deeply enough at ourselves and our universe what we'd see is patterns and waves of energy, particles, and space - lots of space. We don’t normally apprehend, let alone appreciate, this until some science program or book reminds us that we’re each merely a temporary collection of particles vibrating at certain speeds, giving us (and everything else) seemingly coherent, but separate shapes. Apparently, we and everything else only seem to be separate from each other, while the reality is that it's all connected in a vast web of energy.

The fact that all these particles, waves, whatever you want to call them, all came from the original chemicals and material generated during the Big Bang is even more astonishing!

The universe is, always has been and always will be, vastly powerful and uncontrollable. The problem is, we humans at root, already feel rather insecure and vulnerable, so this is all just too unfathomable to contemplate.

I believe we lash out at “issues" and "enemies” that are falsely generated by the irritating throb of these  anxieties. Since we humans operate essentially out of a compulsion to, (and an illusion that we can) control most things, the fact that in reality we can't do that causes us to act stupidly, irrationally, and too often cruelly. As they say, it’s far easier to deal with a "threat" you can see, hear, smell, and feel than something vast, mostly invisible, and almost incomprehensible.

And so it is that warring factions all hold their “particular” (yup, pun intended) lives and views as precious enough to fight for - even to the death, yet seem not to hold them precious enough to realize how insane it is to constantly threaten and squander such a miraculous existence!

I propose the following perspective as a potential “balm” for our anxiety: 
Perhaps the electromagnetic expansions and contractions of the universe might be imagined as great in-breaths and out-breaths. Perhaps the whole thing is a living, breathing entity - the enormity of which may be likened to what many call god. 

But rather than being hidden somewhere in an abstract place called “heaven”; rather than the universe having been created by a “someone” at some highly debatable point in time, the entirety of the universe IS "it". And all our different and competing versions of god are actually about the same thing: the unfathomable, wondrous, boundless contents of the expanse we call space - is a macrocosm in which everything is connected and pulses together, charged by the great electromagnetic beat of the universe. Its "terrifying" movements, convulsions, fluctuations and other manifestations are merely functions of its being, in effect, alive.

Many ancient cultures conceived of this as a kind of web or net holding everything together. They saw it reflected in the constellations of the night sky, in the pattern of a spider's web, a plant, fishing net etc. For them it was a supportive matrix to which they were tied/attached/connected, or better put, integral to. Sure, life was very frightening at times, but the idea that everything and everyone was in it together somehow made sense, made it bearable, even made it wondrous. 

But most of humanity began to forget this a very long time ago and we now approach almost everything in a fragmented, often anxious, short-sighted way. We no longer feel deeply connected. Not even "the web" or constant cell-phone contact truly alleviate this sense of separation, and I think these merely create a superficial illusion of connection for most people.
So, in a world that so often feels like it's falling apart, with its connecting web fraying and breaking, those old ideas probably deserve some serious reconsideration?