If you are familiar with the psychological process, or mechanism, of projection, you understand that theology is nothing more than a collection of projections about God. And you know that God is a “projection magnet,” collecting ideas and opinions about God through all the ages of human existence.

Opinions about God are all there is to God. Words about God are all there is to God. Leaving us with the mystery of all that has been felt to be, and thought to be God from the beginning of God to here, now.

“Tao” is one of the really old terms for the experience of what might be thought of as “God.” “Psyche” is another. “Intuition” is another. Humans are capable of experiencing more than words can say, and “God,” “Tao,” “Psyche,” “Intuition,” are some of the words that attempt to say more than words can say about the experience of of more than words can say.

We do not have the vocabulary necessary for translating experience into words about experience. Which leaves us “in the lurch” between knowing what we are experiencing and being able to talk about it.

I am “at home with” words like “Tao,” “Psyche,” “Intuition,” even though I cannot say what they mean. And I don’t want anything to do with the word “God” because it is so encased in doctrine, dogma, theology that it means too much to mean anything.

Which seems to leave us with talking about things we don’t know what we are talking about and simply being open to our experience, waiting to see where it goes and what happens and what we do about it, like “corks on the water, leaves in the wind.”