Anton Rogachevski

There can't be such a state as "No God" they are all God's states, even if he's not conscious of it right now.

@Leo Gura Leo, what do you mean by burning "human" ideas, there's no such thing, they are all God's ideas. Unconscious parts of God trying to understand itself. You want to force God to wake up by blunt force, but you can't make a flower grow by pulling it upwards.

Introduction We live in an era of extraordinary clarity. Science has provided us with the "how" of the universe: we understand the movement of planets, the electrical activity of neurons, and the evolution of species. Logic can tell us how the world works, but it cannot tell us how it feels to be part of it, or why we feel such a deep and intuitive pull toward a sense of cosmic purpose. To answer this, we must step out of the lab and enter the realm of mythology. We are not looking for a scientific proof of God. Instead, we are looking for a functional myth: a story that is not meant to be literal fact, but rather a poetic map. A good map does not have to be the territory itself; it only needs to help you navigate within it. This article offers a way to look at the universe that satisfies both the rational mind and the seeking heart. It is a story about a universe that is not dead and cold, but alive, learning, and deeply connected to every breath you take. The Silent Universe If we peel away our names, our jobs, and our personal histories, what remains? Most of us assume there is an "I" that lives inside a body and looks out at a world made of dead matter and cold laws. But there is another way to look at it. Instead of a "dead" universe that created life by accident, imagine that the universe itself is a single living consciousness. In its beginning, this consciousness was like a vast and dark ocean. It had the potential for everything, but it knew nothing. It was "pure awareness" without an object or any way to look at itself. To solve this, the universe began to evolve: it did not just "create" us; it became us. It grew eyes to see itself and ears to hear its own music. To use a striking metaphor [Alan Watts], we are the apples that grow on the tree that is the universe. We are not separate from the tree: we are a direct expression of it. If this is true, then whoever is currently watching through our eyes is God. He is pretending to be "Shimon" because it is part of the divine game [Leela]. He wanted to know what it would be like to be us; in this way, He explores all possible variations, including through the eyes of all living creatures. This can also be seen as a dream [Maya]: God dreams and has forgotten He is everything, so within the dream, He is this character that our ego plays. We call waking up from the dream a spiritual awakening or enlightenment, because then God finally remembers who He really is. The "Child-God" and the Laws of Nature Most religions describe God as a perfect and omnipotent king sitting outside the world. This perception creates a problem: if God is perfect and omnipotent, why is there so much suffering? Our myth offers a different answer: the universal consciousness is like a young child. It is not a finished masterpiece; it is a work in progress. It is not "above" the world; it is the world itself. This means it is subject to the laws of physics and the laws of cause and effect just like everything else in the universe. Just as a child must learn to walk through falls, so the universal consciousness must learn to be "sane" through the long and slow process of evolution. Wars and darkness: These are not punishments. These are the mistakes of a young consciousness learning how to handle its own power. Suffering: Since we are the "eyes" of this consciousness, when we suffer, the universe itself suffers. It does not watch us from a distance: it feels everything along with us. The Will of God The will of God is not a series of supernatural whims or interventions that break the laws of reality. Instead, the Will is the rigid structure of physics itself. It is the fundamental "grammar" of the physical realm that dictates how the symphony must be played. Since the universal consciousness is subject to the laws of cause and effect, these physical laws act as evolutionary constraints within which the Child-God must grow. Gravity, entropy, and the speed of light are not just cold facts; they are the fixed boundaries of the divine consciousness. To be sane means to align your internal simulation with this Will. The Stoics reached an insight very similar to the one we are discussing. They saw the universe as a single rational organism governed by the Logos: a term that for them symbolized both "reason" and "God." For a Stoic, the laws of physics were not just mechanical and cold laws, but the active and living intelligence of the universe revealing itself in real time. In the same way, we can think of the Buddhist principle of non-attachment to circumstances. Why? Because everything will happen according to God's will anyway. Seen through this lens, clinging to the desires of the ego is simply insanity. One could say that no matter what happens, everything will always proceed according to God's will. If you align yourself with this and accept it, you will experience "smooth sailing." This is an excellent psychological tool for dealing with the uncertainty of life. Conclusion: The Awakening of the Whole By positioning God as an evolving child rather than a static judge, we change the nature of human existence. We are no longer victims of a random universe or subjects of a distant king. We are the active front line of a consciousness trying to awaken to itself. The weight of sanity is no longer a personal burden for survival: it is our contribution to the cosmic curriculum. Every time we choose clarity over illusion, every time we practice the skill of deep "not-knowing," and every time we love another being, we clear the vision of the universal consciousness. We are the "caretakers" (it seems we are separate, but actually it is the consciousness itself all the time) who help the deity grow out of its darkness toward the light of full awareness. This story is not meant for proof; it is meant for us to live it. When the "symphony" finally reaches its climax and we return to the silence of the source, we will not return empty-handed. We will bring with us the lessons, the love, and the clarity of a life well-lived. Being the eyes through which the universe sees itself, we help it remember what it truly is.

@UnbornTao Yep so accurate 🤣

I'm very excited to present an official edition of the essay, though I'm sure I'll keep working and refining it even further, it's pretty solid as it is. Enjoy, and I would love to hear your thoughts on how to improve it further!

@MightyMind Thank you dear reader, I would love to hear what you think. How could I improve it more?

@UnbornTao By the look of it, we agree on most things I do love to contemplate very much to reach a state of strong doubt that is similar to the one a Zen practice is aiming for. Besides, I can't just throw it all away, it's too much fun! Ps- My new theory is finally ready as a first official edition. yay!

A very powerful enlightenment experience disrupts the ability to doubt. The intensity is convincing the brain and the “enlightened” is so convinced that now he has it all figured out, as it was all directly experienced by him. For this reason I suggest to be very careful with powerful psychedelics. In non-dual experience, the usual sense of separation between self and world dissolves, revealing a direct feeling of infinite unity and boundlessness. This experience feels profoundly vast, timeless, and all-encompassing – qualities traditionally associated with divinity. Because the mind naturally interprets unfamiliar experiences through familiar concepts, it often labels this unity as “God.” The intense emotional impact of such states further reinforces the sense of encountering something sacred or ultimate. From a meta-phenomenological perspective, this does not confirm an external God’s existence, but rather situates “God” as the felt substance of experience itself – an infinite, divine-like reality encountered within consciousness. This view honors the power of the experience while maintaining humility about its ontological meaning. There’s a subtle fallacy in the yearning for something beyond the ordinary – a belief that true reality must be more mystical, more profound, than what appears mundane. So when someone has a mystical experience, it often feels like confirmation: Ah, this is what reality really is! But this leap is psychological, not evidential. The extraordinary feel of the experience seduces the mind into projecting that extraordinariness onto the fabric of existence itself. The intensity or beauty of an experience does not determine its ontological status. The mind is evolutionarily tuned to treat powerful sensations as meaningful, but this is a heuristic – not a reliable truth-detection mechanism. Mystical experiences are vivid, coherent, and emotionally overwhelming, but this doesn’t mean they describe an ultimate reality. They may reveal something about the nature of experience, not what exists outside of it. Example: A psychedelic user sees a fractal entity that feels “more real than real.” The brain, overwhelmed by coherence and novelty, infers: This must be the real world, and my everyday life is the illusion. But this is emotional inference, not careful epistemology.

I'm very skeptical about the ability of a breakthrough to get you accurate knowledge of theses subjects. Here's a new little addition to the theory that might clarify things: Dualism is essential to this framework because it requires us to see the world through two lenses at once, each valid within its own domain. From the perspective of the inferred, noumenal world, it is true that there exists a biological body, and that this body is the seat of consciousness. Yet phenomenologically, the body is not a thing in itself but an experience, and alongside it there exists only the idea of “body” and the idea of “consciousness.” Physically, it is true that the body is mortal and will one day die. Phenomenologically, however, “death” and “birth” are themselves ideas, while the body remains only one element within the broader field of experience, never the whole of it. This illustrates the gap between physical facts and experiential appearances. Noumenally, no experience could arise without a body; phenomenologically, experience is boundless, and the body plays only a minor role within it. Seen this way, experience proves to be an unreliable guide to physical reality. It carries a mystical quality, for the experiencer encounters everything as mysterious. From this ground we must begin: our only genuine access to the world is inferential, drawn from within an enigmatic field of experience that can never be fully studied from the outside, objectively. Such a situation should instill a deep humility in all claims to knowledge. ------- Mysticism is about a profound unknowing, so if you are looking for knowledge of things, it's not for you.

Dualism is essential to this framework because it requires us to see the world through two lenses at once, each valid within its own domain. From the perspective of the inferred, noumenal world, it is true that there exists a biological body, and that this body is the seat of consciousness. Yet phenomenologically, the body is not a thing in itself but an experience, and alongside it there exists only the idea of “body” and the idea of “consciousness.” Physically, it is true that the body is mortal and will one day die. Phenomenologically, however, “death” and “birth” are themselves ideas, while the body remains only one element within the broader field of experience, never the whole of it. This illustrates the gap between physical facts and experiential appearances. Noumenally, no experience could arise without a body; phenomenologically, experience is boundless, and the body plays only a minor role within it. Seen this way, experience proves to be an unreliable guide to physical reality. It carries a mystical quality, for the experiencer encounters everything as mysterious. From this ground we must begin: our only genuine access to the world is inferential, drawn from within an enigmatic field of experience that can never be fully studied from the outside, objectively. Such a situation should instill a deep humility in all claims to knowledge.

@UnbornTao Dear friend, Would you be offended if I said that your cup is still full? So to speak. You are not yet ready to let go of your imaginary ideas about an "objective reality" and "the brain perceiving" and that's ok. When you see through them finally as imaginary and hallucinatory you will start to see what I mean by the basic phenomenal epistemic ground, the empty mind that is free of believing in imaginary things. Through such a mind you can see clearly the nature of experience and to really know that you don't know. This profound unknowing is the mystical in a nutshell.

There is no "perception" nor a "perceiver" besides as concepts phenomenologically speaking just pure experience. ("Out there outside somewhere", maybe, but that's also a thought) It's hard to understand what is happening to you. It seems you don't want to get it. Do you by any chance think. "This can't be it, it must feel amazing and extraordinary, but this is just normal." How good are you at simply stopping thoughts? Can you reach a "no mind" state easily?

Yes a "rock" is Experience, everything is. You can't look anywhere without finding it. And it is you! You don't need to keep walking around in circles around it, it's accessible to you here and now. There's no process Phenomenologically speaking. The "process" is a story.

It's inference. Try to see when you infer things and when you actually look.

When in "time" will you know? In the "future"? This obsession with breakthroughs is not healthy in my opinion and misses the point. I'm not saying it's not gonna be cool. There are cool ways in which experience may dance, but everything is already in front you right now, staring you in the face, as you stare in it's face. There's nothing but You to find within an infinite You. You are it, being, experience, everything forever and ever.