Creation-Stories
So far I've heard of only theories in which everything has always existed/exists or nothing exists/existed. These are two opposite extremes of thinking and through my philosophy it is always a unification of the two that gives us truth. This is the principle of what I call a union of opposites, and is prevalent in our universe today. These two extremes could be called many things but in this case I will call them excess/deficient, I know Aristotle used them a lot to explain the balance of emotions, feelings, and habits which I consider all energy of some sort. For example; love is an energy because you can have an excess of it (pampering) or a deficient (neglect), each of which leads us out of the unified nature of the universe, and therefore out of life itself.
That said, everything that has an excess and a deficient can be considered energy. Because the universe we now know is an interplay of these opposites and no real extremes of these opposites exist(due to the presence of it's other), what came before the universe as we know it still had energy due to the law of conversation of energy, and it still had the principle of the union of opposites because energy existed. The picture I portray is an an empty yet infinite universe in which all of the various energies could only create through extremes and a union of opposites did not existed. Whatever the energy "God" was then (I have many reasons to believe it is thought) was the one that had unified these opposite extremes to create the universe.
The way "God unified these opposites remains a mystery, for if known I believe with the power of our thought we would be able to know and likewise become gods ourselves. Nonetheless, these opposites have an interplay between them like the inhalation and exhalation of the breath, or how our two feet walk( one always out competing the other) and this interplay allows events to unfold. For if these opposites were completely balanced then they would neutralize each other, which would stagnate all universal events. These opposites are henceforth not indifferent (for if they were it would be like they did not exist).
From my meditations when I walk my dog carrying a stick I realized that the most important thing to find the balance in my stick (and likewise in myself) is be using my feelings. This is where I think comes the advantage of being in a physical body, to be able to feel imbalances in your life for the body and mind are intrinsically connected (perhaps another union of opposites?). Being a massage therapist I know that whenever there is imbalances in the body the body dies, be it postural, functional, emotional, or habitual. And so I conclude that whenever we are out of touch with an interplay of these opposites and choose to use extremes in any aspect of our lives, we are, in truth, alienating ourselves from the essential nature of how the universe functions and so we suffer for it.