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On the Infinite and Beyond
A shared belief persists that God lives somewhere outside our consciousness
I ridicule God for all the crap It puts me through. It’s nothing personal with people, only that the shared belief persists that God lives somewhere outside our consciousness. You see, God does not create us. God is a concept by which we measure everything. We determine whatever God is or isn’t. God does not grant us free will one day and control us the next based on our ignorance, whims, desires, good fortune, or tragedy. We own that hypocritical train of thought. For my part, to explain further, if there is “God,” I believe it is you, me, the trees, and literally everything in our consciousness.
For a long time, even before I began studying it, I’ve felt my biology, brain, and consciousness are connected to everything possible. Or in other words, infinity is a thought construct I grasp, but what’s beyond that thought construct is impossible for me to know. Nevertheless, I’m tempted to pursue a vision that can’t be realized. I want to understand what that connection feels like, except, of course, the quantum condition of my consciousness means that I observe a finite set of possibilities at a time. Perhaps living in the moment is the closest we come to grasping everything at once. Maybe life at that moment is the best we can do; indeed, our sequence of moments contains all we possibly choose to…
