A god's presence in the temple linked the human and divine realms and allowed humans to interact with the god through ritual.
If people cannot interact with the gods, it is pretty much the same as if the gods have been stolen," says Yates.
Although they were excluded from the formal rituals of the temple, laymen still sought to interact with the gods.
These sacred kings and their subordinates assumed the exclusive right to interact with the gods, and kingship became the unifying focus of the religion.
It makes me sad to see couples out on a date, sitting at a table in a restaurant, waiting for their food to come; but instead of talking and, God forbid, interacting with each other, they're both staring at their phones, scrolling through this feed or that, trying to keep up with their friends, or circles, or tweeps, or what have you.
Now I counsel people in the ways of becoming more intuitive themselves and ways to interact more with God.
Although there is a mythological background behind some cultic terminology (e.g., "a pleasing odour to YHWH" and "my bread"), sacrifice is conceived as tribute or is regarded (in priestly writings) as purely a sacrament i.e., as a material means of interacting with or making a connection to God.
You could adopt Wigner's ideas on wave function collapse to see God as continuously interacting with the universe and the evolutionary process.
The heart is the bridge or the connector between how we interact with the world and how we interact with God.
So what is the point of vaguely believing in God energy, but not interacting with it?
