It was something I knew all along. It’s something we all knew all along. We knew from religious experience that God is everything. We didn’t think to realize this statement.
Your mind is God. The works around you have a mind, and it is also God. When God stops to look at God, it knows God and it’s fashion in an instant. When you trust what your mind tells you about what is around you, because you realize these things, you have transcended thought and become all knowing, although you will know nothing that you didn’t know before. You have the Faith in Wisdom, which is what created mind. We have Faith in our intuition, but we did not know the single most important knowledge of all, which was to understand our minds and mind itself as absolute in a universe full of life, operating with nothing but.
Sentience is segregated from this discussion for good reason, on that note.
Mind IS God. I have realized this. When I translated the Poimandres, I didn’t understand this but I was realizing this very thing subconsciously. I had read this quote before doing so.
Whoa whoa whoa!! Wait. I need clarification, and I want to understand you. Are you saying mind is god as in, everything is god or of god? Or are you saying that our minds are god?
I dont think we should pay attention at all to what our minds say. They are manipulative, conniving, and are the progenitors of illusion. They delude themselves into thinking they are themselves (I think you understand that, if not I will explicate). This delusion is worse when the mind itself begins to think it is god. To know it intellectually is one thing, but to believe the mind itself is god, is a misunderstanding of this concept.
All is god, but from the mind, it is separated from god, and in itself, is not god.
Is too. A tenet of hinduism is that what we call mind is merely god playing hide and seek from himself and enjoying all the experiences of all minds. What is mind is a godly diversion to keep from being bored with himself.
It seems like a reasonable piece of conjecture to me.
I agree with you. Hence the paradoxical nature of our experiences. For all purposes of practicality, “from the mind” (ie. from the mind’s perspective (individual that is)), god, and everything else for that matter, is separate. From the standpoint of the “godly diversion”, there must be a felt realization of god in order to truly “know” or be aware that one is god, in which case then the “knower” or mind is no longer knowing; it is god.
The mind of the Earth has its stimulants. We rotate around the Sun, it creates seasons. The decision to have seasons is because of a stimulant, but the mind of the Earth because of its constituents is likely to change seasons because it cannot choose to NOT have a season unless its stimulants decide otherwise.
Likewise, with us, our minds are bound by other minds as well. But there is something fundamentally different about us. We have the ability to manipulate our constituents to interpret the stimulants in different ways. This is all sentience is, and which is why I decided to leave it out of the equation because we must admit that while we can be bound to the stimulants of the Earth and the universe, so also are we a stimulant to the constituents of the Earth and the universe. In this way, as we are constituents of the Earth, the Earth is a constituent of the solar system, and that the galaxy, and that the universe, and that the multiverse (Debatable, I know, but I believe its there because of Gnostic literature).
It was said to me recently “Do not contemplate, perceive instead.”. But we CAN find new ways to perceive by contemplating
