Haisch and the "God Theory"

The book I am currently reading (well, one of them...) is: Bernard Haisch's The God Theory. Haisch is an astrophysicist who is unwilling to accept materialistic monism and determinism. It is his view that fundamental reality is infinite consciousness and infinite potential (also known as "God"). Since Dr Haisch, like all the rest of us who are thinking and writing about these matters, is human, he uses human concepts to talk about this; for example, he suggests that, in creating the world as we perceive and understand it, God is "acting out and living out his ideas." Some quotes:

"the manifestations of this infinite consciousness in this particular universe are none other than all of us and all the things we perceive around us. The intelligence [God] experiences itself through us because we are one with it. We are the creating intelligence made manifest... following this logic, religion's claim that God knows our every thought begins to make sense. Our thoughts are part and parcel of this infinite consciousness."

"The God of [this] theory cannot require anything from us for his own happiness... The God of the theory cannot dislike, and certainly cannot hate, anything that we do or are... The God of the theory will never punish us, because it would ultimately amount to self-punishment."

Haisch proposes that the ancient concept of "karma" is a form of "spiritual physics," analogous to the laws of conservation of energy and matter. In other words, over the long run, "good" and "evil" are necessarily balanced, and everything that we do is ultimately something we are doing to ourselves. In a sense, then, through negative or harmful actions, "you create your own hell."

"The purpose of life is experience; God wishes to experience life through you. God desires your partnership, not your servility... Ultimately, your individual consciousness will be fully reunited with the infinite consciousness of God... The point of a created universe is to experience it. Life is God made manifest.... It is in your own best interest to live a life worthy of the creating intelligence, because that is the path to spiritual evolution and ultimate satisfaction."

My reading of all this (so far) is that Haisch effectively brings together the most enduring and most compelling strands of many ancient spiritual and religious traditions, and he does so in the context of human minds educated by contemporary science. He has given us a very appealing model.