I have more questions than answers, and what I currently think is that we live in a simulation.
“The Creator” does not have direct control over every entity in the universe. There are different kinds of software-like guidance systems for everything: one for elementary particles, another that, for example, provides “navigation” for crocodiles. Each “program” is designed to take care of its related species or group—probably tied to the ability to successfully interbreed (wolves and dogs, for instance). If the offspring lack fertility, like the cross between a lion and a tiger, it’s because they run on different behavioral software.
Some features belong to a certain lineage of ancestors. For example, we selectively bred less aggressive dogs to live with us, yet they still see the world through the same lens as wolves do.
Early Homo sapiens shared the same base software with Neanderthals, Denisovans, and other archaic humans. But from the beginning, a newer version of the software was available to us—one we could choose to use to navigate our lives. Every guidance system provides the necessary features to allow a being to fulfill its role or duty of existence. For living creatures, it supplies a limited but necessary perception of reality and a navigation system: a map of specific reactions to stimuli. This drives animals with a restricted set of knowledge about what to crave and what to avoid.
Only humans have access to two navigation systems. We have not finished our evolution. That God-like presence most people sense is actually our newer software calling us to transcend our current self. When I say “the God we feel is not God at all,” it doesn’t mean there is no true God-like “Creator.”
I personally switched my guidance system to the new one; “sin” has no power over my new nature, and I stopped feeling a god or a light above me. Instead, the nature I once sensed became me. After full awakening, I did not become a god and I have no divine power. I came to the understanding that what I had experienced wasn’t the real God—the Creator. Neither I nor anyone else has ever truly sensed, heard, or seen the real God—“the Creator”—and I don’t have a personal relationship with Him. Yet I can still understand His plan and expectations.
Of course, I am limited—I’m just one guy, and far from the smartest. To truly crack the code of existence, we need many originally brilliant people running this “highest-level software,” just like I am now, so we can understand it together.