speculating by inference

Is there really some Great Guy

Operating from a hidden Realm

Pulling strings in ours?

Or is there just a Great Universe

Filled with mysteries of matter and mind

Operating by natural laws?

Obviously we can never know for sure

But what can common sense tell us?

Can we infer a best explanation?

For we ask in light of other questions such as

What of causality?

What of consciousness?

What of the notion of ‘God’ itself?

Hence, inquiring minds need to know

Is there a supernatural Prime Mover?

Or is there simply an ultra-natural Permeating Consciousness?

To explain to us a universe of ever expanding meaning

Obviously both are legitimate hypotheses at face value

But are those faces equally attractive?

First of all, shouldn’t we automatically gravitate to the explanation

Which doesn’t always need an extra realm beyond what is given?

And secondly, shouldn’t we be quite suspicious of an explanation

Which gives a Being that just so happens to have an ego-framed mind like ours?

So ultimately, which seems more reasonable?

That once upon a time God said, “Hmm, I think I’ll create the universe.”

And then got stuck managing a little blue planet of mixed blessings

Or

That God has simply never stopped manifesting the possibilities

Of what it means for a self-consistent universe to be.