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Before we express this relationship, actually a unity, between humans and The Divine Mystery, let us reassure you that there is no need “to fear Divinity.” That is, you needn’t assume that such a “religious” word indicates that we are slipping into magical thinking. We are not asking you to revere some authority’s notion of something you cannot see for yourself. Divinity is your sentient, experiencing self, your consciousness in which the light of the world “shines.”

Much to our surprise, after we embraced “Yo” as a single syllable referring to The Divine Mystery, we learned that some scholars believe that “Yo” was one of the single-syllable pronunciations of the Tetragrammaton. And we later learned that, for centuries, the Bambara people of Mali had been using the word “Yo” in the same manner! It was a genuine miracle 😉
The Divine Mystery and Yo-u (or “Yo and U make You”)
We humans are the sentient beings in whose experience the Universe, itself, springs into textured existence; we (our psyches) create/construct the world of our experience. On the other hand, in a spiritual but completely empirical sense, humans are also products of Nature; if “God” refers to everything—or, if Yo refers to the mysterious way in which the “stuff” of the world manifests as our experience—then we are 100% pure, unadulterated “God” or “Yo-stuff.” No additives or fillers.
We are composed of the material “stuff” of the Universe. This stuff was shaped into us by the Laws of Nature (the four forces acting in space-time on matter) over millions of years through a process we call evolution. The mysterious, self-manifesting universe (for those of us who don’t use the word God) became us, or evolved into us.
There are hidden contradictions in the minds of people who “love Nature” while deploring the “artificialities” with which “Man has spoiled ‘Nature.'” The obvious contradiction lies in their choice of words, which imply that Man and his artifacts are not part of “Nature”—but beavers and their dams are. (Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love)
Sentient human beings then are made up of this universal stuff, came out of, or were shaped out of the material substrate of the Universe. Furthermore, and a bit paradoxically, we are products of the very Universe that we produce (that springs into existence) in our experience.
We are the local embodiment of a Cosmos grown to self-awareness. We have begun to contemplate our origins: starstuff pondering the stars; organized assemblages of ten billion billion billion atoms considering the evolution of atoms; tracing the long journey by which, here at least, consciousness arose. (Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot)

As a result of a thousand million years of evolution, the universe is becoming conscious of itself, able to understand something of its past history and its possible future. This cosmic self-awareness is being realized in one tiny fragment of the universe — in a few of us human beings. Perhaps it has been realized elsewhere too, through the evolution of conscious living creatures on the planets of other stars. But on this our planet, it has never happened before. (Julian Huxley)
Or, as Robin Williamson and The ISB sang:
If you are comfortable with overtly religious terminology, we could be considered to be “Godheads,” or experiencing “nodes” of the pantheistic “Universe-God.” We also realized that, with or without the religious terminology, “Yo” could be used to refer to this whole, undivided Universal Field or Unknowable Essence that manifests as All-that-Is.