But that's still using "God," isn't it?
By taking an ideal, though, be it an Eden or a Utopia, we can work towards that ideal without a "God." The ideal becomes the placebo. But are we creating and recreating, or are we simply being?
You are right that we flatter ourselves to think we "create" everything, even (or perhaps especially) our own realities. We are born into this world with everything given, and we work with what we've got to effect change: but still, we can only reform and reshape what is already there nothing comes out of nothing.
Or does it? If one believed in GOD with allthe heart and mind, then nothing is impossible. Pehaps we have to believe this to have morality of any kind, since we must acknowlege a realm beyond and imperceptible to our mortal intellects. It would be foolish not to.
To answer, GC, we recreate by virtue of our beingness. The ancients probably understood this better than most do today: perfection, the ideal, the utopia in our souls, is not realized by the Do-er, the one who simply egoically enjoys the merry-go-round of free action, but rather in the moral man who knows how to live his life and express himself holistically in the continuity of existence bequethed to us.
I have a saying:
The Moral of the Story is that the Story is Moral
Meaning it is a human story, told by and about what we liberally refer to as GOD, and that nothing is really wrong with us so long as the fate or destiny ordained for us is made true and real in our lives.