What is God?

[Ninja_pig]

What is God? I've had many experiences while taking DMT, 5MeO-MALT, Cannabis, or even just while sober and meditating where I experienced myself as God. However, I keep trying to understand what that actually means.

The best definition I have for God is "the thing that created the universe". Or, even more precisely, "the thing that is bringing this present moment into existence".

During God awakenings, it kind of feels like that effect in the movie Limitless where the camera FOV increases to the point of giving you an all encompassing view of the present moment/consciousness/reality. Whereas the process by which you create reality is normally subconscious and perceived as removed from your own self, an awakening elucidates this false dichotomy, showing you that the boundary you were drawing between self and other is just another facet of your reality construction mechanism.

I would expect that many people on this form would resonate with this picture. However, I think that many religious people would find this particular conception inaccurate, or even offensive. It makes me wonder what those religious people are talking about when they say "God". I somehow think it's a different thing than what I'm talking about. Then again it's hard to find a Christian who claims to have never had a spiritual experience, where the felt the presence of God.

It's really interesting that God can be experienced as either an external entity/force or identified with to the point of being one's own self. To me it is difficult to say which one of these perspectives is more correct, and what it means if they are both correct.

I've concluded that practically the only thing I know about God is that I'm him. Beyond that, existence itself is a total mystery to me. All "knowing" is basically the ego fooling itself, and to me it has always been downright baffling that anything exists at all, including God. I don't think I will ever really understand it. It's most likely not possible. In the words of Fred Davis: "I don't know what's going on, but I know I'm it!"

[Someone here]

“I searched for God , and found myself . 
I searched for myself , and found God .”

 

[Hojo]

I have a dream I'm petting my cat. I feel the heartbeat. In the dream I ask myself whats making the cats heartbeat. Then I wake up.

God is the thing that wakes up.

Focus attention on the qualia of waking up out of a dream. It is that.

You cant ever meet it because when you meet it you are waking up.

The only thing in the universe that can wake up is God.

When you go to sleep tonight instead of saying im going to sleep say im going to wake up and feel like you are going to wake up. See how scared your ego gets.

Edited 3 hours ago by Hojo