What Happens When Humanity Remembers It Is God?

I recently finished a thesis called The Divine Spark: What Happens When Humanity Remembers It Is God?

Which is, admittedly, a pretty casual title.

Nothing controversial happening here.

Just God, science, consciousness, Jesus, atheism, mythology, creativity, purpose, the future of civilization, and my modest attempt to explain why I think you are divine.

Normal Tuesday.

But the strangest thing about writing this thesis is that I don’t think the idea actually began with the thesis.

I think I’ve been trying to articulate it since I was a kid.

I Saw My Future Before I Knew How to Build It

When I was around ten years old, I had an unusually clear picture of the person I believed I would become.

An artist.

A performer.

A writer.

A filmmaker.

An entrepreneur.

Someone whose life would somehow combine a ridiculous number of creative disciplines instead of choosing one respectable box and remaining inside it like a well-adjusted adult.

Years later, that became “Ace of All Trades: The Modern Renaissance Man.”

But long before there was a brand name for it, there was a kid with a vision.

I eventually wrote about that experience in my spoken-word poem Everything I Am. The poem is essentially a conversation across time. My older self speaks to the child I used to be, while that child is somehow already perceiving pieces of the man he will become.

For years, I thought I had written a poem about purpose.

Writing this thesis made me realize I had written something much closer to my theology.

I believe the future can call us.

And I believe we experience that call as conscience.

The Idea That Changed the Entire Thesis

One sentence became the center of everything:

The human conscience can be characterized as your future self trying to manifest itself in the present moment.

Consciousness allows us to perceive what is.

Conscience confronts us with what could be.

It is that strange internal experience that says:

You know you are capable of more.

You know that wasn’t honest.

You know you’re settling.

You know which decision moves you forward.

You know what you need to sacrifice.

You know who you could become.

That led me to another proposition:

God is the highest possible future personified.

God, within the framework I developed, is the highest point in our hierarchy of value. The fullest possible expression of truth, love, creativity, responsibility, goodness, purpose, and human flourishing.

And suddenly a lot of ideas I had carried around separately began connecting.

Consciousness.

Conscience.

Sacrifice.

Creativity.

Purpose.

Mythology.

Religion.

Psychology.

The future self.

The Divine Spark.

They became parts of the same process.

The Divine Spark

I define the Divine Spark as our capacity to perceive possibility, imagine something that does not yet exist, choose among possible futures, sacrifice for one of them, and participate in bringing it into reality.

Think about how strange that ability actually is.

A business exists in someone’s imagination before it employs anyone.

A song exists before anyone hears it.

A movement exists before anyone marches.

A building exists in consciousness before it exists in concrete.

A future version of you can exist psychologically before that person exists physically.

Human beings continually take what is invisible and make it visible.

We transform possibility into form.

Chaos into order.

Vision into reality.

That capacity is what I understand as divine.

So when I say that I believe we are Gods, I am not saying our human egos are omnipotent.

I am saying that we participate in creation.

And creative power comes with tremendous responsibility.

Writing the Thesis Forced Me to Challenge My Own Beliefs

I did not want to write ten pages of “here are some things Ace thinks about God.”

My professors and coaches pushed me to define my terms, research opposing perspectives, establish what could actually be supported, and distinguish between scientific evidence, philosophy, history, psychology, and my own spiritual interpretation.

That made the thesis dramatically stronger.

I researched the historical relationship between science and religion.

I studied the rise of the modern conflict narrative that treats the two as natural enemies.

I explored Spinoza, Einstein, Galileo, psychology of possible selves, purpose research, creativity research, social norms, mythology, Jordan Peterson’s Biblical lectures, implicit religion, and the psychological importance of meaning.

And somewhere in that process, I became even more convinced that one of modern culture’s greatest mistakes has been confusing the corruption of religious institutions with the death of God.

I understand why people reject religion.

I understand being angry at institutions that used fear, shame, exclusion, threats of hell, or claims of divine authority to control people.

Rejecting that can be healthy.

What troubles me is what sometimes happens next.

We throw out the institution.

Then the mythology.

Then God.

Then transcendence.

Then meaning.

Then we act surprised when people struggle to answer why any of this matters.

Science can tell us extraordinary things about how the universe functions.

I do not believe that makes questions of meaning, value, conscience, beauty, purpose, love, or sacredness disappear.

Explaining the mechanism does not explain away the mystery.

Purpose Is a Pact With the Future

One of the biggest realizations I had while writing was that purpose is not simply a career.

Purpose is a relationship across time.

Purpose is a pact with the future.

The future provides vision.

The present discovers mission.

And then we decide whether we are willing to become the person capable of carrying it.

That requires sacrifice.

Every meaningful future costs us another possible future.

You cannot simultaneously become every person you could become.

At some point, you choose.

You aim.

You surrender something.

You practice.

You create.

And slowly, possibility becomes identity.

This is why my practical framework for discovering the Divine Spark became:

Discover → Develop → Express → Contribute → Sustain

Discover what is uniquely calling you.

Develop the ability to carry it.

Express it in the world.

Use it to contribute beyond yourself.

And build the structures necessary to sustain that contribution.

Purpose without expression remains imagination.

Expression without contribution eventually becomes ego.

Contribution without sustainability burns out.

I wanted a philosophy that could actually be lived.

The Trinity Became a Map of Time

The thesis also changed how I understand the Christian Trinity.

I see God the Father as the highest possible future. The transcendent vision. The ideal calling us forward.

I see God the Son as that future embodied in the present. The ideal made flesh. A life demonstrating what the highest values look like when someone actually lives them.

And I see the Holy Spirit as the divine moving within and between us through nature, conscience, relationship, and collective consciousness.

The future calls.

The individual embodies.

The Spirit connects.

One God.

Within this framework, Christ becomes profoundly important to me because his life represents the possibility of embodying the divine rather than merely admiring it from a distance.

That interpretation also gave new meaning to the Fruit of the Spirit: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.

I think of self-control practically as discipline.

These become characteristics of the future self.

They answer an important question:

If we really are creative beings with tremendous power to shape reality, what kind of people should wield that power?

Because creativity alone is morally neutral.

Human beings can create medicine.

We can create weapons.

We can create families.

We can create concentration camps.

We can create art.

We can create propaganda.

We can create heaven.

And we can create hell.

The Divine Spark needs character.

What I Mean by “Raising the Vibration of the Planet”

This phrase appears in my thesis, and I wanted to define it clearly because I am not talking about an invisible spiritual Wi-Fi signal bouncing around the atmosphere.

When I say raise the vibration of the planet, I mean raising collective consciousness.

I define that as movement toward greater awareness, agency, creativity, compassion, responsibility, purpose, sovereignty, and interconnectedness.

I believe civilizations ultimately emerge from individuals.

What individuals repeatedly value becomes behavior.

Repeated behavior becomes culture.

Culture shapes institutions.

Institutions influence the next generation.

So I do not think the path toward collective transformation begins by erasing individuality.

I think it begins by developing it.

The more fully we become conscious, sovereign, responsible individuals, the more capable we become of recognizing ourselves in one another.

Paradoxically, individuality may be one of our deepest paths toward unity.

So, What Happens When Humanity Remembers It Is God?

We remember that creation is already happening through us.

Every day.

Through what we imagine.

What we tolerate.

What we sacrifice.

What we build.

What we refuse.

What we love.

What we teach.

What we become.

The future is not simply waiting somewhere ahead of us.

We are participating in its creation right now.

And somewhere ahead of you is a version of yourself who already knows something about the life you are capable of creating.

Your conscience keeps whispering from that direction.

The Divine Spark is your ability to answer.

So perhaps the better question is not:

What do you want to do with your life?

Maybe it is:

Who is the highest version of you that you can see?

What is that person asking you to become?

What are you willing to sacrifice today so they can exist tomorrow?

The future is being created through you.

The Divine Spark.

Have you discovered yours?

Read The Divine Spark

The Divine Spark: What Happens When Humanity Remembers It Is God? is my complete Anthropos Trainer Forum 2.0 thesis exploring consciousness, conscience, science and spirituality, implicit theology, creativity, purpose, mythology, the Holy Trinity, collective consciousness, and transcendent evolution.

About the Author

Ace Anderson is an actor, comedian, filmmaker, spoken-word artist, creative director, entrepreneur, and professional enemy of the sentence “just pick one thing.” His work explores creativity, consciousness, purpose, identity, spirituality, culture, and what becomes possible when human beings stop shrinking themselves to fit the boxes they inherited.