The Godhead is humankind's acknowledgement that there is more to the universe than we can encompass with our rational minds, and that in fact the portion that we cannot rationally encompass includes that which is most important.
	Gods and deities are man's way of dealing with the unknown, of cementing cultures together in a web of shared beliefs, and of establishing common bonds that enable society to function.
		The idea of God is a scam, thought up and maintained by a class of priests and other hucksters, to fleece the yokels and keep the temples well supplied with worldly goods.
God was born along with the universe, in the infinite and wonderful complexity of swirling particles that came with the Big Bang, with the cosmic inflation that followed it, and with the unknowable priortime that came before. When we contemplate the universe, we perforce contemplate God.
	The first God was born when the first protohuman looked up at the night sky and wondered.
		A new God can be born every time some tin tyrant wants to distract his people from their misery by leading them to war. Gods reflect the blank spaces in our knowledge; every time you learn something new, there's one less God to haunt you.
Life is born out of the process we call Universe. It is one of the more complex things that the Universe does, but there are a myriad others, all reverencing Deity in their own way.
	Life is the process by which the Universe becomes aware of itself. Only life is complex enough to require Gods; matter without life is self-sufficient, but it is in the nature of life to reach beyond itself.
		Life is what happens when you get a whole lot of matter really hot, and let it cool off really slowly, for billions of years. In some niches, intelligence is the best tool for life to reproduce itself, so sometimes you get intelligent life. This is very cool, but it's no big mystery.
A human can no more be a God than a fish can be the sea, or a planet can be a Sun. The universe is vaster than any human can conceive, let alone be.
	The idea of a man becoming a God is anathema to many religious systems, because the idea of God functions only when a God is a thing apart and superior, unattainable in this life by actual mortals. There may be men in the far past who became Gods, or became as Gods, and the spiritual / intellectual branches of belief may acknowledge a path to Godhood, but the mass of worshippers must not consider Godhead to be something they themselves can attain.
		If a person can become a God, God's aren't so special, so why should we pay taxes to their priests? If the King is worshipped as a God, the King's soldiers can't be trusted to stay out of the Church's coffers. So no man can be a God, because it would weaken the Church.
Creation is the realm of Deity. Humankind can rearrange matter, and today even transmute elements, but the universe itself springs from a source that is far beyond us, and that we can only venerate. Forgetting this is dangerous to the spirit.
	In the most spiritual moments, the times of most intimate contact with reality and with the Self, a person feels Oceanic, creative, at one with larger forces, and close to Godhead.
		Are we just unusually interesting points in the phase-space of some huge simulation, running on the equivalent of a home PC in the next universe up? If I simulate all the neurons of an Aplysia, and the relevant parts of their environment, have I not created life? If I can design a universe and implement it and watch it run, why am I not a God myself?
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