The Krisana

Whether or not you believe in God, it’s hard to deny the impact the idea has had on the world. Across cultures and centuries, the concept of a higher being has shaped our laws, our values, and even our personal sense of purpose. But perhaps God is not just something we look up to — perhaps God is something we project upwards, born from our own longing to be better, wiser, and more whole

Is God the answer, or the question we keep becoming?

Psychologist Alfred Adler once wrote that all humans carry a feeling of inferiority. Rather than seeing this as weakness, he viewed it as the driving force behind growth — a healthy striving toward improvement. In that light, God may not only be a spiritual figure, but also an embodiment of our highest potential.

• God as judge may reflect our inner conscience — the awareness that we are being measured, by others and by ourselves.
• God as loving reminds us of the ideal: to show compassion, even when the world gives us little reason to.
• God as wrathful is less about punishment, more about moral cause and effect — a symbol of collective boundaries.
• God as sustainer echoes our responsibility to care for life, to steward the world we inhabit.
• God as creator reminds us that we, too, create — not only buildings or art, but futures, families, and meaning.

Seen this way, God becomes a reflection of who we could be at our best — not just a being to believe in, but a mirror of our better nature.

Can the sacred survive without mystery?

Of course, many will say this strips God of divinity — that to reduce the sacred to psychology is to miss the point entirely. But this isn’t an argument against God. It’s simply a way of understanding why, even in doubt, the idea remains. Whether divine or imagined, God continues to serve as a compass — and for many, that’s enough.

Closing Reflection:

Perhaps the idea of God is less about certainty, and more about aspiration.
Not a final answer, but an invitation:
To live with kindness, to grow through struggle,
and to become — the best we can — worthy of the ideals we dream into the sky.

Thank you,
take care,
and see you next time.