I consider Tomorrow’s God to be one of the most exciting book in the entire CwG series. It is so exciting because it contains what I believe to be the best news that humanity has heard in the last century or more. In this book, God tells us that before the next 30 years are out, our species will create a new God. Or, more accurately, a new understanding of the only God there ever was, is now, or ever will be.
The book describes this new God in great detail, then moves on to tell us how the emergence of this new God will affect the most important aspects of our collective experience on this planet, including religion, education, politics, economics and commerce, and human relationships.
In this lesson, we shall explore one of the other topics opened up by the dialogue in Tomorrow’s God: the Basic Principles of Life.
My experience of these basic principles is that they have always been in evidence in my Life, I just never saw the evidence, never recognized it for what it was.
Then along came Tomorrow’s God, and once more, as with the other CwG dialogues, Life was made clear at a new level.
In this latest conversation, God tells us that all of Life is supported by three underlying principles. Life is functional, adaptable, and sustainable.
This means that everything in Life functions. Life is not willy-nilly. It works in a particular way, for a particular reason. The final reason, of course, is that Life wishes to go on. So, everything in Life seeks to function in a way that assures more Life. Left to its own devices, that is exactly the way it works. Yet Life includes sentient beings, beings who have control over the process of Life itself to some degree. These beings can alter the course of things, intervening in what Life would do of its own accord.
When sentient beings interfere with the order of things (such as we have been doing now for years with our environment, to list an obvious example), the order of things itself has to adapt. And it will. For this is the second basic principle of Life. It is what Life IS. Life is adaptable. It is functional and it is adaptable.
And so, whenever Life is affected or impacted by sentient beings in a way which threatens to render life itself non-functional, Life will adapt itself to that impact and adjust how it proceeds. It does this in order to render itself sustainable. When it has returned to a state of sustainability, it is once again fully functional, and the circle is complete.
Now let me give you an example from Nature of how this works, and we’ll see if we can understand it more clearly…

We all know that many forest fires start naturally. That is, the trees are set on fire by someone other than Man. Often, this could be a lightning bolt.
What is being suggested here is that the lightning bolt has not occurred by chance. It is, in fact, an “act of Nature.” It is Nature, taking care of itself. Too many trees choke the land. Trees naturally thin themselves out. Nature does it for them. Animal herds thin themselves out, too. Trees and animal herds can do this without any help from humans. They have, in fact, done it for millennia.
Nature is an eloquent expression of the Basic Principles of Life. It is imminently functional, adaptable, and sustainable. Humans are as well. It’s just that they don’t know it. Yet, if you think about it, you will probably see that you have put everything in place that it is within your power to put in place in order to make your life functional. When, your best efforts notwithstanding, something goes wrong and things are not functional any longer, you immediately adapt. If the first adaptation doesn’t work, you will continue to adapt, until you find something that does work. This is your effort to achieve sustainability. Once you achieve it, you will have returned to functionality once again
Human relationships are perhaps the most striking example of this process in action—although humans use the process in every aspect of their lives. Most simply do so unconsciously. Understanding the Basic Principles of Life allows us to engage Life’s process consciously. Thus, we become part of what futurist Barbara Marx Hubbard calls conscious evolution.
Here is the rub. If life becomes nonfunctional, it WILL adapt, whether we want it to or not. That is because adaptability is a basic principle of Life. Knowing this allows US to be in control of how we want that adaptation to take place. We then become creators, rather than observers, of the process by which Life renders itself sustainable.
The first step in this process of us has to do with noticement. That is, we must notice that Life around us is no longer functional in its present form. If we do not notice this, if we see it and refuse to acknowledge it or do not recognize it, we let go of the reins, and Life itself takes us where it wants us to go. The difficulty here is that Life has no preference in the matter of how it resolves the issue of dysfunctionality. We do, but Life itself does not. So, if we wish our preferences in the matter to play themselves out, we have to continually make ourselves aware of just how functional our lives are.
Look around you. Is life on the earth today proceeding in a way which serves Life? Or is much of our behavior life defeating? If there is behavior that is life defeating, now is our chance to change that—before it changes us.