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What is your rough, tentative model of reality?

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There is a creator of reality. That creator is a sun that emits poetry-energy (1)(2). I react to that poetry-energy by having a powerful hallucination of time, space, me, you, things, stuff, money etc. (3). This space of reactions is like a cloud, occluding that light.

(1) It looks like a great sun-jewel. It is not conscious or intelligent or possessed of a personality as far as I can tell.

(2) By poetry energy I mean, well, consider your favorite song. Now take away the lyrics and the tune. What's left is a stream of feelings, the emotions, the poetry energy. That's what I'm talking about.

(3) Primary actors in this hallucination are awareness and the river of sensations (sight, sound etc).
 
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Let's take a number. It could be infinity, but let's say it's 10,000. That's how many worlds there are. An atom is 99.99% empty space. Each 0.01% of that space is an atom, phased out of our world and into another. Thus 10,000 of them.
But what is that atom? Well, it's a few 3-dimensional waves compressed into subatomic points, vibrating more slowly than the surrounding waves. These faster vibrating waves include the "fields" we perceive around us, like the EMF fields around cell towers, things that can be mathematically defined but not seen with the outer eyes. These faster vibrating waves also include light, which I would identify as the vehicle for consciousness. Now we have to define "consciousness".
At the basest level, a light particle or wave isn't consciousness the way we typically think of it. When we think of consciousness, we think of ourselves and our experience of consciousness. But by way of metaphor, this is like thinking of the ant colony or the beehive as the smallest unit of a species. While it's true that the beehive can only continue in perpetuity as a collective, each member of it can live on its own and has an individual experience. It's simply not capable of maintaining a hive (or for that matter really, itself) on its own. Similarly, a ray of sunshine is conscious in the sense that it is and it knows that it is, but it does not reflect upon its travels the way we do. Think again of how I said matter is slowly vibrating, condensed light/consciousness, and imagine yourself driving a car along the highway as a ray of stellar light traveling through the galaxy. Now, imagine you get to town and you see people out on the streets, there's clearly something going on, but you can't see through the crowd so you circle around the block. Eventually you get out and join the crowd to get a closer look yourself. This is a metaphor for light entering the pineal gland and being absorbed into your aggregate consciousness, slowing from Light Speed to Matter Speed. Sometimes this moment of consciousness/light entering the pineal gland is divine inspiration, sometimes it's an observer-particle that just wants to see "what's up?", often it's somewhere in between. I'd call these light particles "angels".
This is where the woo-woo comes in. Because we (and everything, even the stuff we can't see that's "empty space") are made of light/consciousness, that's how the law of attraction or manifestation or whatever you want to call it works. Call that 0.01% of space that everything is made out of "Our Matrix". Call the 0.01% of space that I say is an adjacent world "Another Matrix". Call the 100% of space that contains everything "The Matrix". Well, The Matrix is a series of overlapping, penetrating meshes that could hypothetically be represented entirely as mathematical fields (given sufficient compute). When I say "I'm going to win the lottery", my consciousness charts a plot through those meshes, landing at a destination point somewhere in the multiverse where the numbers in the drawing match the numbers on my ticket. As I travel along that path, I come across those fields, which penetrate across the axis of space these atoms take up, giving me things like dreams of my numbers coming up, or encounters with the model of car I plan to purchase after winning.
What I'm referring to as "The Matrix" is actually the fourth spatial dimension. A common misconception is that "the fourth dimension is time". In actuality, temporal dimensions and spatial dimensions are discrete concepts that get conflated.
This is my grounded take on the idea of humans as higher dimensional beings. I literally spatially exist along a band in the fourth dimension that is being perceived as a 3-dimensional plane intersecting a portion of that physical being, and my consciousness extends along that band. I am simultaneously myself at my best and at my worst, and my goal as a higher dimensional being is to move that entire band into a region where the worst is better than the best used to be.
 

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There is a creator of reality. That creator is a sun that emits poetry-energy (1)(2). I react to that poetry-energy by having a powerful hallucination of time, space, me, you, things, stuff, money etc. (3). This space of reactions is like a cloud, occluding that light.

(1) It looks like a great sun-jewel. It is not conscious or intelligent or possessed of a personality as far as I can tell.

(2) By poetry energy I mean, well, consider your favorite song. Now take away the lyrics and the tune. What's left is a stream of feelings, the emotions, the poetry energy. That's what I'm talking about.

(3) Primary actors in this hallucination are awareness and the river of sensations (sight, sound etc).
This was an insightful post.
 

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There is a creator of reality. That creator is a sun that emits poetry-energy (1)(2). I react to that poetry-energy by having a powerful hallucination of time, space, me, you, things, stuff, money etc. (3). This space of reactions is like a cloud, occluding that light.

(1) It looks like a great sun-jewel. It is not conscious or intelligent or possessed of a personality as far as I can tell.

(2) By poetry energy I mean, well, consider your favorite song. Now take away the lyrics and the tune. What's left is a stream of feelings, the emotions, the poetry energy. That's what I'm talking about.

(3) Primary actors in this hallucination are awareness and the river of sensations (sight, sound etc).
I believe that there is a “ground of reality” for lack of a better term. This equates to divinity, but is not a being or personality. In fact, as an unrepentant non-dualist, I can’t actually even say this ground “exists” in the sense of “being a thing” because it is beyond the reification of “thingness.” The concepts of “being” and “non-being” do not apply to it. This ground of reality overflows with itself own infinite possibility, which manifests in our perception as “things” - thoughts, energy, cars, books, et cetera. But nothing is really created or separate at the fundamental level from the ground. Nothing is really “real” in a sense, but at the same time, subjectively, it’s all completely real. If you walk in front of a truck, you will still get hit and suffer.
 

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The universe is within god who is nothing and everything simultaneously(1) in between the void and the totality is all of existence which we experience mental and physical this reality is distinct from god but is entirely dependent upon god and all phenomena within it are limited forms of the infinite divine being(2)
(1) things in our universe are distinct having a certain location makeup symbolic meaning etc this specificity makes them limited while an infinite god contains all possibilities and thus no specificity and is therefore nothing and everything simultaneously
(2) finite things are subsets of infinite attributes of god and thus cannot exist in isolation from god which contains it
 

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Ever since I encountered it, I've been partial to Baruch Spinoza's theory of an immanent "cosmic consciousness" that resides in all things at various levels of sentience. (The Kybalion proposes that "The All is vibration," which seems to fit.) I now consider myself a "Spinozan sympathizer" but I don't go as far as the pantheism or animism it fostered, and I abandoned his adherence to the anthropomorphic paradigm, or "God in the image of man.".
 
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This reality is God dreaming what it means to be human the truth is that only God exists, and the human experience is merely God's dream. So remember this, and enjoy life :)
 

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I wonder why so many go into the whole "the Creator is not a person" verbal abjuration... Is the Creator being a person something that should be abjured for their emotional needs? Or is this an antithetic viewpoint to the prominence of literally read Old Testament viewpoints?

I wouldn't even argue against a stone or a tree, or the Sun being a person... so then how would I even begin to argue the same about God? (even if I wanted to...)
 

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I subscribe to the theory of multiple worlds interacting to create our experience, with higher worlds acting through the medium of intermediate worlds and manifesting or coalescing in the lowest material world. Ive seen this described as the hierarchy of Absolue > Sun > Earth > Moon, or in the Enneads as The One > The Nous (intellect) > Psyche (world-soul) > Material world or in Kabbalah as Azilut > Beriah > Yetzirah > Malakuth or in Sufism as Allah Hu > Alam-I Imkan > Alam-I Arvah > Malakut... the list goes on.

The idea is that the monad (god the absolute) is cast like pure white light into a prism (the nous or the world of soul-forms, word of god) where it refracts into the many forms which are not yet physical, the physical world of Malkuth being the screen upon which these images are projected, the realm in which energy can condense into physical form.

All together this paints a picture of a downward cascade of energy from the "absolute one" to "absolute multiplicity", the intermediate transformative portion being the mental, emotional and spiritual life of man and the lowest world being the "stage". We are a being that inhabits two worlds, three if we work for it. The fourth and highest world, of the undifferentiated, un-delimited Monad being reserved for God alone.
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I wonder why so many go into the whole "the Creator is not a person" verbal abjuration... Is the Creator being a person something that should be abjured for their emotional needs? Or is this an antithetic viewpoint to the prominence of literally read Old Testament viewpoints?

I wouldn't even argue against a stone or a tree, or the Sun being a person... so then how would I even begin to argue the same about God? (even if I wanted to...)
I think it is really just an ego thing. The idea that consciousness doesn't come through us but rather is refracted through us like a prism is uncomfy for the man who imagines that he is the agent.
 

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Well, there are basically three kinds of things: the physical reality, which is the source of our perceptions but is otherwise completely beyond any reason, knowledge or language; the abstract world where all the actual objects reside and in which our minds operate; and then there's the third thing which some rather ambiguously call consciousness - I prefer the more traditional term "soul" - which is the "self" in all this.

Then of course there are spirits and gods and there is God, but that's a bit beyond the scope of a "rough, tenative model".
 

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Hyperdimensional, Immanent, Hylozoic in a co-creative reality model that is able to be revised and expanded.

Completely removes transcendental (panen)theistic model assumptions.
There is no need to assume a creator, anthropomorphized or not, with a presence outside the universe to make the model functional.
 

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I believe that there is a “ground of reality” for lack of a better term. This equates to divinity, but is not a being or personality. In fact, as an unrepentant non-dualist, I can’t actually even say this ground “exists” in the sense of “being a thing” because it is beyond the reification of “thingness.” The concepts of “being” and “non-being” do not apply to it. This ground of reality overflows with itself own infinite possibility, which manifests in our perception as “things” - thoughts, energy, cars, books, et cetera. But nothing is really created or separate at the fundamental level from the ground. Nothing is really “real” in a sense, but at the same time, subjectively, it’s all completely real. If you walk in front of a truck, you will still get hit and suffer.

What about this: not 'thingness', but 'nessness'
 
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