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 18 hours ago by Hojo

[Ziran]

17 hours ago, Ninja_pig said:

It makes me wonder what those religious people are talking about when they say "God".

Genesis:  God is dividing between light and dark; between waters and waters.
Exodus:   The God of your ancestors whose name is "Eternity".
Deuteronomy:  God spoke from within the cloud, you saw no form, there is nothing else.
Jeremiah:  Do you not know, God's glory fills the heavens and earth?
Isaiah:  God forms light, creates darkness, makes peace, and creates evil.
Psalms:  Darkness is like light for you [ God ]; you know all my words entirely before they reach my tongue.

17 hours ago, Ninja_pig said:

I somehow think it's a different thing than what I'm talking about.

Here's how I make sense of it.

If God is the one which is dividing this and that, then, God is in between everything, all of our bits and pieces.  In between all of our cells, in between all of our synapses, and in between all of our thoughts.  In between each beat of our hearts.  Hold to that concept with the mind's eye, then draw a sphere around the individual physical self.  Then compare all the different pieces with the the one and only which is dividing the parts and holding them in stasis against one another, as close as close can be.

Now, ask yourself:  How should the individual be defined?  By all the different bits and bots?  Or by the one which is uniform all throughout?  If you answered the "the one and only which is uniform"; then, you've chosen to identify as God because the alternative doesn't make sense.

This is the refuge that King David wrote about in psalms:  God is not only a being, God is also a place.  

As Jesus taught, the Kingdom of God is here and now... as close as close can be.  Going there is a pivot of one's awareness.  A realization of what is in comparison to what won't be.

18 hours ago, Ninja_pig said:

I've concluded that practically the only thing I know about God is that I'm him

Among the religious ( since you asked ); God can be known by what it's doing.  In this way, God is a verb.  An on-going event.  And a place which is forever probing inward and simultaneously expanding outward, forever and ever and always.

18 hours ago, Ninja_pig said:

existence itself is a total mystery

Yes.  An unanswered question which is its own answer.  "Who/what made all of these?" ( <--- another quote from the prophets of the Bible )

An unanswerable question is a medium through which a finite one can commune with the infinities beyond.  In this way, the question is the answer.

18 hours ago, Ninja_pig said:

I don't think I will ever really understand it.

It cannot be known; but it can be understood as unknowable.  Gnostic-Agnosticism.  The paradox of paradoxes.

Best wishes on your journeying,

 

[integration journey]

God is you without the you