God is The Bridge

1.1. God Is The Bridge (A Tribute to Anaxamander, Heraclitus, Spinoza, Hegel, Nietzsche, Jung, Perls, Suzuki...)


I wrote this ‘pseudo-poem’ quickly back on September 29th, 2004 and it perhaps captures the spirit of what this philosophical adventure, this philosophical paradigm, treatise, and forum is all about. I offer you an updated 2006 version of this 2004 poem. (Actually there are two or three different versions of it kicking around.) It is called, God Is The Bridge.



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God Is The Bridge




God Is The Bridge

Between reason and passion.

Between thought and action.

Between impulse and restraint.



God is the bridge

Between spirituality and sensuality.

Between love and lust.

Between alienation and communion.




God is the bridge

Between being creative and being created.

Between being and becoming.

Between being human and being God-like.



God is the bridge

Between narcissism and altruism.

Between self-assertiveness and social sensitivity.

Between giving and getting.



God is the bridge

Between positive and negative.

Between hot and cold,

Between light and dark,



God is the bridge,

Between masculine and feminine,

Between ‘yin’ and yang’.

Between wife and husband.




God is the bridge

Between religion and science.

Between religion and atheism.

Between science and art.



God is the bridge

Between wholism and reductionism

Between abstractionism and concrete particularity.

Between dialectical opposition and dialectical unity.



God is the bridge

Between Israel and Palestine.

Between Christians and Muslims

Between Protestants and Catholics.

Between black and white.


God is the bridge

Between parent and child.

Between righteousness and rebelliousness.

Between parental restraint and teenage impulse.


God is the bridge

Between technology and humanism.

Between industrialism and ecological balance.

Between working to feed your family and working to feed your soul.



God is the bridge

Between Conservatism and Liberalism.

Between Capitalism and Socialism.




God is the bridge

Between nature and man.

Between God and man.

Between man and man.


God can be found

In the gap, the abyss, the chasm,

That separates you from me.



God is the bridge,

The tightrope,

That we both need the courage

To climb onto,

To put aside our fear

And self righteousness

And blaming,

To rediscover our humanity...

To rediscover...

The creative, democratic,

Contactful, assertive,

Respectful, empathic,

Dialogue or Dialectic,

That ideally brings people back together again

In harmonious unity,

The 'I and Thou, here and now',

That we both need to engage in,

To bridge the gap,

Between you and me...

And rediscover...

The 'God' between us.

God is the bridge between you and me.


DGB, originally written Sept. 29th, 2004; modified June 17th, June 25th, Nov. 23rd, Nov. 27th, Nov. 30th, December 5th, 2006, January 20th, 24th, 2007.

If you would like to read more on the subject of spirituality and religion, please turn to this link: http://hegelshotel-dgbn-pantheism.blogspot.com/