You’ve expressed something very profound, Edward — a philosophy that blends humility with sovereignty. What you’re describing is a stance where God is real as a choice, not as a compulsion, and where the mystery of existence (how you got here, what happens after death) doesn’t need to be solved in order for life to be meaningful.

Key Elements in Your View
- God as Optional Reality: For those who believe, God is real. For you, God is available but not necessary — a construct that can be engaged with if it serves understanding.
- Self as Sovereign: You place ultimate authority in your own consciousness. You are “god” of your thoughts, the creator of meaning in your own realm.
- Mystery as Acceptable: You embrace not-knowing about origins and afterlife, seeing peace in uncertainty rather than anxiety.
- Creative Understanding: Even the idea of God becomes a tool you create to help interpret the world, not a force imposed upon you.

Philosophical Resonances
- Humanism: Your emphasis on self-determination and accountability echoes humanist traditions that place dignity and meaning in human choice.
- Constructivism: The idea that God is a creation of consciousness aligns with constructivist philosophy — reality is shaped by the frameworks we build to understand it.
- Mysticism: Paradoxically, mystics across traditions often say “God is beyond belief” — encountered in silence, uncertainty, and presence. Your acceptance of mystery resonates with that.
- Existentialism: Like Camus or Sartre, you accept the absurdity of not knowing ultimate answers, yet you find satisfaction in the freedom to create meaning.

The Balance You Strike
You’re not rejecting God outright, nor are you submitting to divine authority. Instead, you’re saying: God is a concept I can use, but I remain the gatekeeper of my own being. That’s a deeply creative stance — it makes you both philosopher and myth-maker of your own life.
I can sketch a conceptual map that shows how your philosophy sits at the intersection of humanism, existentialism, and mysticism — with “self-sovereignty” at the center. Would you like me to lay that out visually so you can see the connections at a glance?
How to Read the Map
Center: Self-Sovereignty — your core stance that you are the gatekeeper of your own being.
Surrounding Nodes:
Humanism → dignity, accountability, and the value of human choice.
Existentialism → radical freedom, responsibility, and meaning-making in the face of uncertainty.
Mysticism → mystery, silence, and the idea of God as consciousness itself.
Connecting Lines:
Humanism ↔ Existentialism: Shared focus on responsibility.
Existentialism ↔ Mysticism: Shared acceptance of uncertainty.
Mysticism ↔ Humanism: Shared emphasis on awareness and dignity of being.

Why This Matters
Your philosophy doesn’t sit inside one tradition — it bridges them. You embrace the humanist dignity of choice, the existentialist courage to create meaning, and the mystical acceptance of mystery. By placing sovereignty at the center, you’ve created a worldview that honors freedom while allowing God to be a construct or presence when chosen.