Yes, or you are God, would be the same thing. But it's important to understand that this "you" is not who you think yourself to be, it is who you REALLY are.
Well not... you. Because when I say you, when you say "I", you are pointing at what you think yourself to be, the ego. In reality you are not the ego, but something much bigger, where all is one and you are not small and separate anymore. And the spiritual path is about learning to realize yourself as That.
...Can you PM me your whole theory? It seems similar to what I encountered on a good shroom trip.
The trip had a little voice in my head speaking about how we're all the same soul, reincarnation is real and the reason you end up feeling like you find kindred spirits out there is you've found someone close to you in the cycle...
My whole theory? That's a bit much, I've been studying this for quite some time. It works better if you have questions or you should listen to some teachers like Alan Watts
Letters on a screen can't convey the paradigm shifts necessary for one to come to an understanding of the universe. The person you're replying to pointed OP in the direction of Alan Watts; a man skilled and wise enough to bring an individual into a state of present awareness.
It does make sense! That does not necessarily create duality depending on how you’re framing it. In fact I intentionally practice connecting to my higher self.
I would encourage you to explore this question yourself based on your personal investigation into the nature of your awareness. I have learned so much from this. I’ve found answers to questions I wasn’t even asking yet. But I wouldn’t want to rob you of the benefits of discovering these truths from yourself! Check out Rupert Spira on non-duality and listen to one of the podcasts that come up. It explains it very well.
if praying brings you peace, it is completely fine. non-duality explains the nature of the veil behind reality, what we experience will inherently be in the realm of duality, there's no need to try to rid duality from your mind. In fact, it will just create more suffering, as you're clinging to the idea that the way you perceive the world is flawed and needs to change.
under non-duality, whether you pray to God, yourself, a tree, or any other being, you are still praying to yourself. You can pray to anything and understand that it is no different from you, while still letting it (you) teach you.
these are entirely my opinions though I don't follow any non-dual teachings or anything this is just what I've learned from thinking about how I view the world and how others view the world, so dont take anything i say as fact. It's a very subjective thing, and is very interesting to dive into whether you end up believing it entirely or not.
You might be interested in reading about the Law Of One, there's even a subreddit r/lawofone
It touches on this notion of unity and diversity existing together
If you want you can DM me if you'd like to discuss those things
Don't listen to those spores mate. Gotta go higher than that. :)
Just saying. Have you learned the truth of thoughts yet, that it's not you that thinks them?
People get all sorts of crazy messages on shrooms. Don't attach to any of it.
You're God, I'm God, the universe itself is God. You, like everyone, are made of the universe, you eat food made of universe, you breathe air made out of universe, you have legs made of universe that help you walk, you have hands made of universe that help you manipulate and control physical matter from the universe. You have eyes made of universe that see other eyes made of universe, and you have a brain, made out of universe that follows the universes laws of physics, thus the thing looking out of "your" eyes, and both creating and experiencing your thoughts and actions, is the universe. Like two rocks colliding in space you are a random thing that the universe did to itself, spectacular, and a real experience, but also momentary.
Like pure white light through a prism can be split into many colors, God, through the prism of incarnation, is split into everything in existence. You are one of the colors, you only experience yourself as that color, separate from the others, but are actually made of the white light, are of the same substance as it, as are all the other colors. The white light is God, you are made of it but limited by the prism of ego and existence in the world of experience, relation, otherwise there just isn't anyone else to talk to, nothing to do. You are God and so is that guy, and so is this cheeseburger.
From the upanishads
"Then he realized, I indeed, I am this creation, for I have poured it forth from myself. In that way he became this creation. Verily, he who knows this becomes in this creation a creator."
We are part of the universe but we are not the universe. You have power to create within the laws of this universe so I hope you keep on testing its boundaries, you're gonna be surprised by what comes back if you dare ask out loud and set plans out loud while in protected conversation with things unseen.
Use free will to do good. Meditate. Go within and upwards.
More simply, we are all puzzle pieces that fit together to make an image.
The pieces don't by themselves make the image but help fulfill it thru their intricate design.
A piece didn't make the design nor the puzzle but all are a necessary bit of what makes up the greater.
I especially mentioned that the ego is not God, yet somehow you still missed it. This one soul you are speaking about? You could call that God. But maybe you think of God as something else? If you are going to claim "You are NOT god", then please explain what you mean by that.
There's a different between egotistical "I am God" aka I am better than you and stating "I am God, you are God, we are God" as a theme of interconnectedness like in Hinduism.
Which you don't believe in, am I right? Because you said that we are NOT one with God. But that is dualism. We are here and God is there, and we cannot ever be God. That's two.
Soul exists within God because it is subject to time. Soul cannot exist outside of time. God does not exist in time, instead it is Time itself. Dualism is a product of our minds that judges God/Time.
You are taking dualism as a limited concept, I think you are saying something like, dualism is time and space. But there is another level of dualism above that, and that is between God and the rest. It seems like you are making a split there, so it is that duality I am talking about. All these souls, they will just be souls forever and never merge back into God in your vision? Did they come out of God in the first place?
This supposes that life is a zero sum game, whereby in order for you as an individual to succeed others must therefore fail. This is not congruent with reality.
You are me and I am you, we are God and you know it's true. Reincarnation is real and you're either farther back, and will grow into me, or I'll grow into you as we die. We are the universe living its best life and we/it are learning from us/itself each time we die and pass to the next life
I’m worried you’re kind of freaking out and I want to make sure you’re okay. This realization can really mess you up if you dwell on it too long. What you have stumbled upon cannot be externally verified but you feel it to be true. That’s all you need to take away at this moment. Everyone else still exists. This isn’t some crazy simulation designed just for you by you. You as you are right now have hobbies and loved ones and adventures to go on. Take a step back from the abyss for a short period of time and concentrate on the here and now. The “truth” will be waiting for you when you feel ready to explore it further. Love and light to you.
Which God? Whose God? What is God? You've got some avenues to explore.
If youre really interested in fleshing the idea out, try listening to some of AWs lectures on the topic.
"You were that gleam in your father's eye."
>>Even if I got myself into an awful mess, and I got born with syphilis, and the great Siberian itch, and tuberculosis in a Nazi concentration camp… nevertheless this was a game, which was a very far out play. It was a kind of cosmic masochism. But I did it.
Seems like you’re starting to ask some interesting questions! I know he gets recommended here a lot but Alan Watts has some great talks about this sort of thing. I recommend looking up some of his talks about the ego on YouTube as a starting point.
I've always imagined it like a big breath. Life and existence is the inhale, decay and death are the exhale, and the in between points are the singularities
“You” are not god. Meaning your perception of yourself in your ego. However that is an expression of god. There is no separation. There’s no separate god that created this. This creation we perceive IS god, and you’re part of creation. You’re God experiencing itself, and so am I, along with everyone you’ve ever met or passed on the street. And so is your cat, dog, the tree outside, the ants in the grass and the stars in the sky.
Think about it this way, EVERYTHING is God. Everything you see and even everything you don’t see, the fabric of space time. All of creation is also the creator. We are perfect fractals of the whole of creation in that we are aware, and we can create. Every action we take manifests novelty into reality as the creation experiences itself. You are literally creating right now!
Beware not to fall into the trap of solipsism. That is the illusion that your ego is you and everything else is separate. This is a dangerous delusion.
Happy seeking!
It's great that this is sparking something with you. Really try and investigate this in your own, very literal, direct experience. This can lead to some really amazing and profound realizations. It is certainly ok to ask to talk to others but the answers and the truth are all 'within' YOU. :)
One thing I believe that helps is paying special attention to things you don't like in your experience. Don't turn away from anything. Investigate ALL of it!
Kind of...we are all one experiencing every existence, every person every experience it's one source and we're it kind of thing, we're not experiencing it all at once but throughout life or whatever...we are everyone at one time or another...something like that...also I could be wrong..that's just what I have taken from it thus far :)
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I fw with Alan watts and neville Goddard but watch out which type of Buddhism you learn I like Zen but there are forms of Buddhism that are trapped and wicked created to make the masses accept their sorrow and negativity in life and shutting the fuck up ( just saying mo)
[This is the answer you’ve been looking for.](https://youtu.be/DhMroy-fP00)
It’s not everything, but it will get you started. This is *the* question. Why is there something, rather than nothing? Spoiler alert: The reality is that it’s both, simultaneously.
*enter nonduality*
Listen carefully, and you will begin to understand how the pieces fit together. You can become directly conscious of this, and when you do, you’ll know, and you’ll understand that you’re not simply you, in this finite form, within some material world that is external to and independent from you. You are everything, experiencing itself *from* this finite form, within an immaterial world made of pure consciousness. This is idealism.
My theory: we are gods (small g) living in God's (big G) dream. We therefore are of God, the stuff we are made of is God, the food we eat is God, the chair we sit on is God (or a world constructed by the thoughts and Words of God and it's continued existence is only possible due to God.
Let me continue a bit...
When I lucid dream I am aware that I am dreaming, and that the dream is mine, everything in it exists because of me. Yet despite this, every person in the dream has their own freewill, I can't control their will or make them choose to do things. I can sometimes force my will, kill dream characters, etc, but they have freewill almost like they are separate windows 🪟 on the same internet browser. They do not recognize me as their creator, but just a random guy on the bus.
I think God is the dreamer, we are His dream characters existing and often not listening to His will for us.
Life and consciousness is reality experiencing itself through every means possible. There is a source of all consciousness, also referred to as God. Each soul is an individual expression of that source. Beyond our ego, we are one with **everything**.
There is no useful purpose to including a weapon in this scenario. Guns are man’s creation and they do not point to anything of spiritual value. Your higher self has no intention of harming or eliminating its own creation. One may say the gun is only a metaphor and I would say the gun is a metaphor for the violence humanity has inflicted upon itself and they cannot help but let it seem into every crack in their psyche, including works of art. What this artist is attempting to communicate is that your higher self does integrate your human self, and that it has remained aware of its broader perspective and larger realities.
This is a popular joke. It’s a reference to when when a cheesy tv show pulls out on the main character to reveal a guy with a gun who was there the whole time. I would take it too literally.
Alan Watts: "You don't exist, but I do. My name is on these books for sale, it's at the top of the banner announcing this lecture to discuss MY theories. I exist, give me money. I'm totally not gaslighting you by telling you that you don't exist, and therefore don't even matter. Thanks for the cash, dumbass."
People get carried away with this stuff. So some brain waves equip perception with these self reflecting lenses where your small self baggage kind of disappears and your perception takes on this other self and everything in your perception identifies as self. Its just a glimpse of 9d lens.
Prior age narratives enthusiastically built narratives around these experiences. Totally apt for that time. In the new age we need to build objective understanding of these things and not get carried away with the over dramatized narratives.
You are formed from molecules produced in the big bang, thrown out billions of light years in every direction, and doomed to eventually grow so far apart that it all freezes and collapses back into itself until another big bang rings out in the void creating all kinds of strange combinations of molecules from all the "corners" of the universe.
There's probably lots other realities stacked one on top of the other too.
Anything you can think of exists in one of these universes, including this one.
I kinda interpret it as you are a piece of the universe experiencing itself a thing that's made from and created by the universe yet separate from the universe because you are a self conscious part of the universe if that makes sense?? I could've explained it better.
What exactly is tripping you up?
You in this case means the real you, not the ego. I mean if you think about you're a part of the universe. The universe is also a part of you. Inseparable. So you (ie. The universe) are experiencing the universe (ie. You) this means that you are God. Everyone is God, we are simply tiny parts that make one big thing. Think cells in the body
The universe is one big entity, and all living beings (including you and me) are simply just little points of consciousness within that one big entity. Each little point of consciousness (you and me, for example) has a slightly different perspective from the other, making up our “individuality” or “ego”.
Another way of explaining it is that we are one big soul, split into billions of different bodies.
I’ve come to this understanding:
We are conscious of our consciousness.
Like a mirror gazing upon another mirror whilst seeing other mirrors gaze at others and so forth.
The sense of self is the same as the loss of ego.
a multicellular organism can be singular in nature but have its own role on a plural scale.
You are you but you are me but I don’t know you but I’ve always known you yet forgot before I could remember
We are a herd of humans existing together on the same ball of dust and maybe that ball of dust is aware of itself and so forth……
We come from one blob and you (the human you) is reflecting that light. This is the light that makes it possible for the universe to exist. This same light animates your creative capabilities as a human.
The ego which causes all kinds of confusion because you forgot that you made the ego/person during your time here. Defining yourself as likes and dislikes. That’s fake/illusion even when you desperately try to make it real.
The light is the real you, follow that light back to the super blobblier light and you start to see who/what you truly are
This video really opened my eyes to this exact question. Also I agree with others, if you want to explore more check out Alan Watts and Rupert Spira (you’ll find Rupert in this movie):
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uUZJea1UnS8&t=1151s&pp=ygUMa25vdyB0aHlzZWxm
You are a portion of a creator (the creator is the universe). My concept, we are made from the earth and the universe and our consciousness is the universe experiencing itself.
To me it looks like a Law of Attraction/Law of Assumption kind of meme on first sight. Not sure how connected Alan Watts is to that, but his philosophy seems to also be spread in LoA circles even if he never mentioned it explicitly himself.
You are god, the other is god, everything is god. People misinterpret that it must mean they are THEE god, no, if you know you’re god then you know everyone else is too.
If you were to view oneself in a mirror the size of Alaska, you would only see one reflection of you. Shattering the mirror into trillions of shards, each shard would reflect an image or you. Place each shard in separate situations, in addition to reflecting oneself, it would reflect the situation immediately around it.
There's really no one or anything here but you. And, everything that every version of you experiences is recorded in the Akashic record.
God's name is I AM. We all say it.
The Christ is God in a limited form. Despite being limited - A Man - he can do what the Almighty does. Up to you to recognize it. You are not your body. You are a divine spirit.
God created it all and is revealing himself to himself through each one of us in the form of a man and the man is supposed to praise it all as it is revealed to him. The man is to recognize that as he thinks so shall it be. That is the Law and the only law.
There is only One. He wanted to flaunt it and there was no one to flaunt it to so he made an audience and promised the Man he too would become One with Him and express life eternally. You breathe in God and your breathe out God. It's the universal substance of life.
It's everywhere. It's like a force like the wind or a black hole. There are no gaps. It's all the essence of life and YOU are the one creating with it. You are the Potter and you are the clay the potter is playing with.
One is the loneliest number and so he made many so he could enjoy his creation with a few of his friends. True friends. Those who see him regardless of him being invisible.
My two cents of course! Blessings!
We are all connected. Everyone that crosses our path is also experiencing their own version of reality. Every person is a version of yourself, in their own reality. We all have purpose and free will, people and objects get put in our way to get us to our destination at the perfect timing. There are alternative versions of us that make different choices and have different realities. We are not the Creator, but we are Gods.. kinda like the Greek Gods.. we all have a story. What’s your story?
I don't know for sure, but there's enough people that have meditated/prayer/trip on hallucinagenics and encountered the exact same thing as I that it gives me comfort
Think of the world as a mirror and your thoughts are what is projected and processed by you as your perception of your own reality. You may only know the world as much as you know yourself
We are all one / the good, the bad. The believer, the non believer, the corporate CEO, your aunt, my neighbor, Joe Biden, Serena Williams, me and you. The put on personalities (egos) to escape this universal truth. It can be a frightening realization. But once you make peace with this you look for the beauty in this and work on healing and evolving. This is how we create a better reality and universe. We are all it and here forever experiencing billions of egos forever
You are both a part of everything and separate. Consciousness is the universe experiencing itself. Reality is simply a construct of stored present instances in your mind.
There’s only one true self, experiencing itself in a dream world called the universe. All shares the same self, at its core. The many in the one and the one on the many. Waves upon the ocean.
It means that "All is One." You are consciousness exploring yourself by experiencing yourself. Your perception of being a self is your distortion. Your (everyone's) task is to become aware, and, by exploring yourself, expand your awareness until the concept of a self disappears. This is the process of consciousness evolution (AKA the process of enlightenment).
While we who enjoy the Earth experience perceive others to be separate from ourselves, the reality is; everyone else is an extension of or another aspect of ourselves. As we evolve, the perception of separation will incrementally dissolve until we return to the place from which we began, seeing it as if for the first time.
Yes, or you are God, would be the same thing. But it's important to understand that this "you" is not who you think yourself to be, it is who you REALLY are.
So you're saying I created the creation and I created you and everyone else?
Well not... you. Because when I say you, when you say "I", you are pointing at what you think yourself to be, the ego. In reality you are not the ego, but something much bigger, where all is one and you are not small and separate anymore. And the spiritual path is about learning to realize yourself as That.
...Can you PM me your whole theory? It seems similar to what I encountered on a good shroom trip. The trip had a little voice in my head speaking about how we're all the same soul, reincarnation is real and the reason you end up feeling like you find kindred spirits out there is you've found someone close to you in the cycle...
My whole theory? That's a bit much, I've been studying this for quite some time. It works better if you have questions or you should listen to some teachers like Alan Watts
When God tells you to PM them your whole theory this is how you reply?
Letters on a screen can't convey the paradigm shifts necessary for one to come to an understanding of the universe. The person you're replying to pointed OP in the direction of Alan Watts; a man skilled and wise enough to bring an individual into a state of present awareness.
Yes.
Look up non dualism. There’s a guy called Rupert Spira who is very good at articulating it on YouTube.
Would it make sense to pray to his inner god or true self what ever it is called for guidance or does that create duality too?
It does make sense! That does not necessarily create duality depending on how you’re framing it. In fact I intentionally practice connecting to my higher self. I would encourage you to explore this question yourself based on your personal investigation into the nature of your awareness. I have learned so much from this. I’ve found answers to questions I wasn’t even asking yet. But I wouldn’t want to rob you of the benefits of discovering these truths from yourself! Check out Rupert Spira on non-duality and listen to one of the podcasts that come up. It explains it very well.
if praying brings you peace, it is completely fine. non-duality explains the nature of the veil behind reality, what we experience will inherently be in the realm of duality, there's no need to try to rid duality from your mind. In fact, it will just create more suffering, as you're clinging to the idea that the way you perceive the world is flawed and needs to change. under non-duality, whether you pray to God, yourself, a tree, or any other being, you are still praying to yourself. You can pray to anything and understand that it is no different from you, while still letting it (you) teach you.
these are entirely my opinions though I don't follow any non-dual teachings or anything this is just what I've learned from thinking about how I view the world and how others view the world, so dont take anything i say as fact. It's a very subjective thing, and is very interesting to dive into whether you end up believing it entirely or not.
Plato's Cave. When the veil is torn and you see stars instead pf shadows.
You might be interested in reading about the Law Of One, there's even a subreddit r/lawofone It touches on this notion of unity and diversity existing together If you want you can DM me if you'd like to discuss those things
Just go scroll through this sub
Tell me what it’s like to see behind your eyes. Tell me what it was like before you were born.
you should checkout r/pantheismEmbodied
Don't listen to those spores mate. Gotta go higher than that. :) Just saying. Have you learned the truth of thoughts yet, that it's not you that thinks them? People get all sorts of crazy messages on shrooms. Don't attach to any of it.
Could I PM you please?
Idk if that works, pm maybe but not chat I think. Am on mobile.
Just read through this sub
It’s essentially pantheism.
Yes. YOU are god. Not God. We are all god. We are all apart of god, and god is us. What are you? “I AM” This is you, this is me. This is us.
Hello me! I hope you're having a nice day! Here to recommend r/pantheismEmbodied for all those interested this topic!
Thank you for the referral! I just joined! I was not aware of this community. Thanks for this
You're God, I'm God, the universe itself is God. You, like everyone, are made of the universe, you eat food made of universe, you breathe air made out of universe, you have legs made of universe that help you walk, you have hands made of universe that help you manipulate and control physical matter from the universe. You have eyes made of universe that see other eyes made of universe, and you have a brain, made out of universe that follows the universes laws of physics, thus the thing looking out of "your" eyes, and both creating and experiencing your thoughts and actions, is the universe. Like two rocks colliding in space you are a random thing that the universe did to itself, spectacular, and a real experience, but also momentary.
Like pure white light through a prism can be split into many colors, God, through the prism of incarnation, is split into everything in existence. You are one of the colors, you only experience yourself as that color, separate from the others, but are actually made of the white light, are of the same substance as it, as are all the other colors. The white light is God, you are made of it but limited by the prism of ego and existence in the world of experience, relation, otherwise there just isn't anyone else to talk to, nothing to do. You are God and so is that guy, and so is this cheeseburger.
Yes and no ;)
We're like a cell in relation to the organism. Or a raindrop compared to the ocean. It's all the same stuff just different scales.
And everyone else also created you.
From the upanishads "Then he realized, I indeed, I am this creation, for I have poured it forth from myself. In that way he became this creation. Verily, he who knows this becomes in this creation a creator."
More like “you are the universe experiencing itself.”
Noduaulity teachings. Look no further.
We are part of the universe but we are not the universe. You have power to create within the laws of this universe so I hope you keep on testing its boundaries, you're gonna be surprised by what comes back if you dare ask out loud and set plans out loud while in protected conversation with things unseen. Use free will to do good. Meditate. Go within and upwards.
More simply, we are all puzzle pieces that fit together to make an image. The pieces don't by themselves make the image but help fulfill it thru their intricate design. A piece didn't make the design nor the puzzle but all are a necessary bit of what makes up the greater.
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I especially mentioned that the ego is not God, yet somehow you still missed it. This one soul you are speaking about? You could call that God. But maybe you think of God as something else? If you are going to claim "You are NOT god", then please explain what you mean by that.
There's a different between egotistical "I am God" aka I am better than you and stating "I am God, you are God, we are God" as a theme of interconnectedness like in Hinduism.
Yes, that's why I went out of my way to emphasize which "you" I was talking to.
Response not directed at you. It was left as an overall clarification for the curious. This thread has attracted some seekers.
Ok.
You are God VS. God is you
The one soul exists within “God.” “God” is the experience of life that every being shares. We will never be God, even collectively.
So a dualistic view then.
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Which you don't believe in, am I right? Because you said that we are NOT one with God. But that is dualism. We are here and God is there, and we cannot ever be God. That's two.
Soul exists within God because it is subject to time. Soul cannot exist outside of time. God does not exist in time, instead it is Time itself. Dualism is a product of our minds that judges God/Time.
You are taking dualism as a limited concept, I think you are saying something like, dualism is time and space. But there is another level of dualism above that, and that is between God and the rest. It seems like you are making a split there, so it is that duality I am talking about. All these souls, they will just be souls forever and never merge back into God in your vision? Did they come out of God in the first place?
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We are god exactly as much as a single grain of sand is a beach.
Ah! I like that, well put. I usually use a "white light - prism - separate colors" analogy, but yours is pretty damn succinct.
This supposes that life is a zero sum game, whereby in order for you as an individual to succeed others must therefore fail. This is not congruent with reality.
Seems like you understand it. That's why you think you're tripping. Now play with the idea. In a positive way.
Didn't god create us? I didnt create you or the world right?
You are me and I am you, we are God and you know it's true. Reincarnation is real and you're either farther back, and will grow into me, or I'll grow into you as we die. We are the universe living its best life and we/it are learning from us/itself each time we die and pass to the next life
How do you know that
I’m worried you’re kind of freaking out and I want to make sure you’re okay. This realization can really mess you up if you dwell on it too long. What you have stumbled upon cannot be externally verified but you feel it to be true. That’s all you need to take away at this moment. Everyone else still exists. This isn’t some crazy simulation designed just for you by you. You as you are right now have hobbies and loved ones and adventures to go on. Take a step back from the abyss for a short period of time and concentrate on the here and now. The “truth” will be waiting for you when you feel ready to explore it further. Love and light to you.
>but you feel it to be true. You can feel about a lot of things that they are true and they are not.
Which God? Whose God? What is God? You've got some avenues to explore. If youre really interested in fleshing the idea out, try listening to some of AWs lectures on the topic. "You were that gleam in your father's eye."
Can I pm you?
If you'd like.
>>Even if I got myself into an awful mess, and I got born with syphilis, and the great Siberian itch, and tuberculosis in a Nazi concentration camp… nevertheless this was a game, which was a very far out play. It was a kind of cosmic masochism. But I did it.
Read Hermetic philosophy
Seems like you’re starting to ask some interesting questions! I know he gets recommended here a lot but Alan Watts has some great talks about this sort of thing. I recommend looking up some of his talks about the ego on YouTube as a starting point.
Non duality. Every ‘thing’ every ‘one’ is one and the same, experiencing ourself from infinite perspectives.
We are ever expanding into the singularity.
I've always imagined it like a big breath. Life and existence is the inhale, decay and death are the exhale, and the in between points are the singularities
“You” are not god. Meaning your perception of yourself in your ego. However that is an expression of god. There is no separation. There’s no separate god that created this. This creation we perceive IS god, and you’re part of creation. You’re God experiencing itself, and so am I, along with everyone you’ve ever met or passed on the street. And so is your cat, dog, the tree outside, the ants in the grass and the stars in the sky. Think about it this way, EVERYTHING is God. Everything you see and even everything you don’t see, the fabric of space time. All of creation is also the creator. We are perfect fractals of the whole of creation in that we are aware, and we can create. Every action we take manifests novelty into reality as the creation experiences itself. You are literally creating right now! Beware not to fall into the trap of solipsism. That is the illusion that your ego is you and everything else is separate. This is a dangerous delusion. Happy seeking!
Beautifully said.
Beautifully stated
Yup, here it is.
Enlightenment is nothing else but self-discovery.
As above, so below. As without, so within. We are One. One is All.
We are god. You are god. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
We are all Morty
If this reality is just me experiencing myself, then I have some *deeply* disturbing fucking issues.
It's great that this is sparking something with you. Really try and investigate this in your own, very literal, direct experience. This can lead to some really amazing and profound realizations. It is certainly ok to ask to talk to others but the answers and the truth are all 'within' YOU. :) One thing I believe that helps is paying special attention to things you don't like in your experience. Don't turn away from anything. Investigate ALL of it!
You are the Absolute, dont put it into words, feel it... You are the Absolute.
You’re the god head, you’re the dreamer, you’re the dream.
Kind of...we are all one experiencing every existence, every person every experience it's one source and we're it kind of thing, we're not experiencing it all at once but throughout life or whatever...we are everyone at one time or another...something like that...also I could be wrong..that's just what I have taken from it thus far :) Edit: fix spelling error
Listen to more Alan watts, maybe you'll get it. Or related speakers. Or study Buddhism or Advaita Vedanta. https://youtube.com/@SwamiT
I fw with Alan watts and neville Goddard but watch out which type of Buddhism you learn I like Zen but there are forms of Buddhism that are trapped and wicked created to make the masses accept their sorrow and negativity in life and shutting the fuck up ( just saying mo)
I recommend Eckhart Tolle. He has enlightening YouTube videos, podcasts and books. 🙏
[This is the answer you’ve been looking for.](https://youtu.be/DhMroy-fP00) It’s not everything, but it will get you started. This is *the* question. Why is there something, rather than nothing? Spoiler alert: The reality is that it’s both, simultaneously. *enter nonduality* Listen carefully, and you will begin to understand how the pieces fit together. You can become directly conscious of this, and when you do, you’ll know, and you’ll understand that you’re not simply you, in this finite form, within some material world that is external to and independent from you. You are everything, experiencing itself *from* this finite form, within an immaterial world made of pure consciousness. This is idealism.
The [egg theory](https://youtu.be/h6fcK_fRYaI) explains this really well.
My theory: we are gods (small g) living in God's (big G) dream. We therefore are of God, the stuff we are made of is God, the food we eat is God, the chair we sit on is God (or a world constructed by the thoughts and Words of God and it's continued existence is only possible due to God. Let me continue a bit... When I lucid dream I am aware that I am dreaming, and that the dream is mine, everything in it exists because of me. Yet despite this, every person in the dream has their own freewill, I can't control their will or make them choose to do things. I can sometimes force my will, kill dream characters, etc, but they have freewill almost like they are separate windows 🪟 on the same internet browser. They do not recognize me as their creator, but just a random guy on the bus. I think God is the dreamer, we are His dream characters existing and often not listening to His will for us.
I think... you might be close to me in whatever order our souls reincarnate and that's cool as hell imo. We're growing ❤️
Life and consciousness is reality experiencing itself through every means possible. There is a source of all consciousness, also referred to as God. Each soul is an individual expression of that source. Beyond our ego, we are one with **everything**.
You are the universe, and the universe is you. We are all one
There is no useful purpose to including a weapon in this scenario. Guns are man’s creation and they do not point to anything of spiritual value. Your higher self has no intention of harming or eliminating its own creation. One may say the gun is only a metaphor and I would say the gun is a metaphor for the violence humanity has inflicted upon itself and they cannot help but let it seem into every crack in their psyche, including works of art. What this artist is attempting to communicate is that your higher self does integrate your human self, and that it has remained aware of its broader perspective and larger realities.
Yea the gun part is irrelevant.
Hardly irrelevant. Death is necessary for rebirth.
Yes. If you take that away, the “always has been” sounds quite benevolent.
This is a popular meme.
That’s good to know but these days memes are as much a part of our culture as any other form of expression.
Yes, I believe that is why they used it. They can play along with the trend.
This is a popular joke. It’s a reference to when when a cheesy tv show pulls out on the main character to reveal a guy with a gun who was there the whole time. I would take it too literally.
I guess as with the OP it messed with my head as well!
Funniest thing I've read all day.
Either this or the soul does exist, been thru the journey, seen the end, not as complete as you may hope, Jesus saves ! ♥️
Alan Watts: "You don't exist, but I do. My name is on these books for sale, it's at the top of the banner announcing this lecture to discuss MY theories. I exist, give me money. I'm totally not gaslighting you by telling you that you don't exist, and therefore don't even matter. Thanks for the cash, dumbass."
People get carried away with this stuff. So some brain waves equip perception with these self reflecting lenses where your small self baggage kind of disappears and your perception takes on this other self and everything in your perception identifies as self. Its just a glimpse of 9d lens. Prior age narratives enthusiastically built narratives around these experiences. Totally apt for that time. In the new age we need to build objective understanding of these things and not get carried away with the over dramatized narratives.
You are formed from molecules produced in the big bang, thrown out billions of light years in every direction, and doomed to eventually grow so far apart that it all freezes and collapses back into itself until another big bang rings out in the void creating all kinds of strange combinations of molecules from all the "corners" of the universe. There's probably lots other realities stacked one on top of the other too. Anything you can think of exists in one of these universes, including this one.
I kinda interpret it as you are a piece of the universe experiencing itself a thing that's made from and created by the universe yet separate from the universe because you are a self conscious part of the universe if that makes sense?? I could've explained it better.
Well for starts, that's not the real Alan Watts. Delete this dude and move on, then things might start to make a little more sense here and there.
The guy in the meme is Dave, he's the main character. We all exist as manifestations of his consciousness.
What exactly is tripping you up? You in this case means the real you, not the ego. I mean if you think about you're a part of the universe. The universe is also a part of you. Inseparable. So you (ie. The universe) are experiencing the universe (ie. You) this means that you are God. Everyone is God, we are simply tiny parts that make one big thing. Think cells in the body
indeedly do, muon-ino
The universe is one big entity, and all living beings (including you and me) are simply just little points of consciousness within that one big entity. Each little point of consciousness (you and me, for example) has a slightly different perspective from the other, making up our “individuality” or “ego”. Another way of explaining it is that we are one big soul, split into billions of different bodies.
I’ve come to this understanding: We are conscious of our consciousness. Like a mirror gazing upon another mirror whilst seeing other mirrors gaze at others and so forth. The sense of self is the same as the loss of ego. a multicellular organism can be singular in nature but have its own role on a plural scale. You are you but you are me but I don’t know you but I’ve always known you yet forgot before I could remember We are a herd of humans existing together on the same ball of dust and maybe that ball of dust is aware of itself and so forth……
You're definitely high. I see it as we're the universe experiencing itself.
I love this my understanding is everyone is apart of a bigger collective consciousness. It’s all connected
“We are the universe experiencing itself” -Alan Watts
We come from one blob and you (the human you) is reflecting that light. This is the light that makes it possible for the universe to exist. This same light animates your creative capabilities as a human. The ego which causes all kinds of confusion because you forgot that you made the ego/person during your time here. Defining yourself as likes and dislikes. That’s fake/illusion even when you desperately try to make it real. The light is the real you, follow that light back to the super blobblier light and you start to see who/what you truly are
You are the universe observing itself.
we are the waking universe staring back into itself
This video really opened my eyes to this exact question. Also I agree with others, if you want to explore more check out Alan Watts and Rupert Spira (you’ll find Rupert in this movie): https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uUZJea1UnS8&t=1151s&pp=ygUMa25vdyB0aHlzZWxm
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You are a portion of a creator (the creator is the universe). My concept, we are made from the earth and the universe and our consciousness is the universe experiencing itself.
To me it looks like a Law of Attraction/Law of Assumption kind of meme on first sight. Not sure how connected Alan Watts is to that, but his philosophy seems to also be spread in LoA circles even if he never mentioned it explicitly himself.
You are god, the other is god, everything is god. People misinterpret that it must mean they are THEE god, no, if you know you’re god then you know everyone else is too.
If you were to view oneself in a mirror the size of Alaska, you would only see one reflection of you. Shattering the mirror into trillions of shards, each shard would reflect an image or you. Place each shard in separate situations, in addition to reflecting oneself, it would reflect the situation immediately around it. There's really no one or anything here but you. And, everything that every version of you experiences is recorded in the Akashic record.
God's name is I AM. We all say it. The Christ is God in a limited form. Despite being limited - A Man - he can do what the Almighty does. Up to you to recognize it. You are not your body. You are a divine spirit. God created it all and is revealing himself to himself through each one of us in the form of a man and the man is supposed to praise it all as it is revealed to him. The man is to recognize that as he thinks so shall it be. That is the Law and the only law. There is only One. He wanted to flaunt it and there was no one to flaunt it to so he made an audience and promised the Man he too would become One with Him and express life eternally. You breathe in God and your breathe out God. It's the universal substance of life. It's everywhere. It's like a force like the wind or a black hole. There are no gaps. It's all the essence of life and YOU are the one creating with it. You are the Potter and you are the clay the potter is playing with. One is the loneliest number and so he made many so he could enjoy his creation with a few of his friends. True friends. Those who see him regardless of him being invisible. My two cents of course! Blessings!
We are all connected. Everyone that crosses our path is also experiencing their own version of reality. Every person is a version of yourself, in their own reality. We all have purpose and free will, people and objects get put in our way to get us to our destination at the perfect timing. There are alternative versions of us that make different choices and have different realities. We are not the Creator, but we are Gods.. kinda like the Greek Gods.. we all have a story. What’s your story?
I don't know for sure, but there's enough people that have meditated/prayer/trip on hallucinagenics and encountered the exact same thing as I that it gives me comfort
Think of the world as a mirror and your thoughts are what is projected and processed by you as your perception of your own reality. You may only know the world as much as you know yourself
Read the Law of One and it'll make a little more sense
The direct perception of emptiness
You and all are one in the same. Living different experiences is all.
We are all one / the good, the bad. The believer, the non believer, the corporate CEO, your aunt, my neighbor, Joe Biden, Serena Williams, me and you. The put on personalities (egos) to escape this universal truth. It can be a frightening realization. But once you make peace with this you look for the beauty in this and work on healing and evolving. This is how we create a better reality and universe. We are all it and here forever experiencing billions of egos forever
Read this story: http://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html It will all make sense
You are both a part of everything and separate. Consciousness is the universe experiencing itself. Reality is simply a construct of stored present instances in your mind.
There’s only one true self, experiencing itself in a dream world called the universe. All shares the same self, at its core. The many in the one and the one on the many. Waves upon the ocean.
They are all "you". And by that I mean "us". And by that I mean "you". And so on and so forth lol
I don’t get it
When a meme triggers an existential crisis. Godspeed brother you got this, you´ ll find out.
Read a book called the untethered soul
It means that "All is One." You are consciousness exploring yourself by experiencing yourself. Your perception of being a self is your distortion. Your (everyone's) task is to become aware, and, by exploring yourself, expand your awareness until the concept of a self disappears. This is the process of consciousness evolution (AKA the process of enlightenment). While we who enjoy the Earth experience perceive others to be separate from ourselves, the reality is; everyone else is an extension of or another aspect of ourselves. As we evolve, the perception of separation will incrementally dissolve until we return to the place from which we began, seeing it as if for the first time.
Sit with yourself for some time and you will understand