Giving it further thought, in a late night hour, not just for your sake, but including that too, here comes a further reasoning.
Let’s just call God, Spirit. Than, I admit, that the Spirit is present in all creation, as you say - but on various levels, and the more close we are to the dirt you mention, the less Spirit is present in it. It is normal to see how the most simple living being has quite another level of complexity than the so called inanimate matter (dirt). Thus, we must admit that even if both are created and sustained by Spirit, the former shows much more wisdom in it’s structure and organization that the latter. Now, for materialists, we need not even use this word, Spirit, let’s just use Complexity. A living being has a design, a blueprint, many functions, it is capable to react to stimuli, it reproduces and so on. And this is just an amoeba, yet. The same huge gap of complexity is present between a plant and an animal, or between an animal like a mouse, and a human being like Mozart, or Einstein. Regardless of you opinion of God being dirt , and Mozart, too, I doubt that if you had to chose what you throw into fire, you would not make a distinction. Thus, you must admit that even though dirt is also divine, it is not equal to Mozart. This is what I expect from such thinkers as you and Bentinho. If all is the same and One, divine, than treat them like it. But I bet you make similar distinctions I described all day long, all the time, naturally, without ever giving it a thought.
Without developing discernment about things like I mentioned, one will never really know anything. All is One, that is beatiful expression, and I can even accept it either as an ultimate truth, or as a belief in the organic whole of Creation/Existence. Yet, it is one thing to recognize a human being as whole, and another thing is to know how it operates, what laws, forces act in him/her, what make him/her tick. Oneness should not disappear if we direct our attention to it’s parts, but this activity of discernment is crucial towards it’s comprehension. To give an example: a healthy human being will use the whole of his/her organism without giving much attention to it. But watch how this changes when some disfunctionality appears - than he/she will be immediatly interested what happens, why, and what can be done about it. I cannot accept resigantion in thoughts like I am God, all is One, everything is allright. These are useful during relaxational meditation, or as inner believes what strenghten one’s soul, but these do not suffice in the surgery room, in the headquarters of a political party, in an architecture or a law firm, in places where relational knowledge is crucial. And I pretty much believe that the spiritual can be, and should be applied to these domains, too. I realize that scientific thought is actually alien to a mind what seeks unity because it is based on a contrary process, distinction. But my ideal is to realize Oneness not as a belief, but in the unification of various aspect of our lives, what are without a doubt distinct. This unification can happen only if we are really able to see the connections, and not just suppose them.
