God and I

It is possible to call what is in and beyond what is “God”. It is actually convenient. “God” is a word that does not mean anything, a placeholder for something that you cannot define, and might as well mean everything (as long as we don’t mean by that a countable totality).

God is incarnated in everything, if incarnation is a mode of apprehending beyond analytical. That there is something does not depend on the fact that I am. That I am does not depend on the fact that I am. This commonality is all that I can know, that does not depend on the nature of my knowing.

Like a tree toward the light, we in our lives grow toward God (at best; we can also writher and die). It does not last forever: even a tree eventually exhausts its growth, having accomplished all that a tree can, and all that this specific tree could, in this setting, with these ressources, neighbors, imponderables, etc. And that’s okay: the fact that it ends and we don’t know why this is so, why we are here exactly either, what all this means, doesn’t change the fact that the quality of our life is measured by inner yardsticks, crossing through layers of meaning, not by any external accomplishments.

Can we, having identified that all our experience is shaped by our consciousness, release the pressure of such shapes and open up more completely to the light? Which shines both outside and inside of ourselves, which are equally ourselves and not ourselves.

By definition, we can’t really have an experience not shaped by consciousness… But the indication of a beyond would be more potent if we don’t believe that the content of consciousness is reality.

To an extent, that is an individual teleology; strive to grow.

Jun 7th, 2023. 00:02. I am God; in that the only part of myself that I care to call “I” is that through which God shines.

So when I die I also don’t die.

(when my body dies, all that is left of me is, if I have succeeded, already God and in God, so nothing changes)

01:20 a big orange moon with a grin on it 😄

07:28 It is a truth that you can’t know. But that doesn’t mean that you should consider what you can know to be the truth. Keep pointing at the truth. Keep chanting the Name of God.