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Just a comment: Your storm experience, and the shaman comments, are all "reading true", to me. :)
Your expressed delight with the majesty of the weather events, and your sense that it was "a blessing" (while your brother viewed it somewhat differently :) is parallel to what I find my own experience is like these days: winds blow, lightning flashes, thunder crashes, and I find my response is, "Cool...!"
In human experience and perception a "monster" usually has this characteristic: it cannot be moved or persuaded by one's own wishes and desires. And: it has power enough to impose it's designs upon us. (Consider Poe's "Murders in the Rue Morgue", a perfect and simple example.)
We tend to look at a storm or hurricane or earthquake as "one really big, single happening" that would affect everyone in its vicinity indifferently, a blanket occurrence that happens to cover a whole lot of people. Viewed that way, who lives and who dies would appear to be a matter of "random chance".
Yet it could as easily be an experience _shared_ by a lot of people, with individualized/individuated parts to it. Your friend Russell Moon's ideas give us a hint about how it could happen that way - we're not "lumps of flesh" and nothing more; rather, we're unique and specialized configurations of energy vortices - in which case _of course_ we'd have differing experiences of the same 'reality', including what we'd think of as "strictly physical effects".
A tornado comes by; the house next door is entirely deconstructed by it, while our house is left practically untouched. Random chance? Or something else? The tendency has been to take one of two views: "God must have spared you," or else, "There is no God, it just happened that way." Vortex theory opens the third possibility: "Not God's choice but one's own 'spirit/energy configuration' is what makes the difference." It may be as simple as saying, "The house next door had a positive charge; our house had a negative one."
The idea might tie in nicely with Wilhelm Reich's ideas about "orgone", both good and bad. Do compassionate prayers work by increasing the amount of "good orgone" in the area prayed for? Do they help by "helping modify the 'charge'" in the area prayed for?
There's a line in the Bible somewhere, "...I will pour you out a blessing." Most have read that as, "I'll give you a nice glass full of blessing that you can drink and enjoy." :) But I think it might mean, "...I will 'pour _you_ out', a blessing [for the world and others in it]."
Rather than calling upon God/Life/Cosmos/Whoever to do the blessing, I think it's within our own capacity and responsibility to be the ones who bless. I think our human capacities are perfectly designed to do it. :)
You mentioned possibly sounding like seeking to be "as God", but that's not it. Rather, one can choose to remain 'spiritually available' to participate in the "pouring out" of blessing here on earth and in the world of human affairs.
