Spinoza believed that God is “the sum of the natural and physical laws of the universe and certainly not an individual entity or creator”. ... Therefore, God is just the sum of all the substances of the universe. God is the only substance in the universe, and everything is a part of God.Belinda wrote: ↑Sat Nov 27, 2021 1:27 pmI feel I understand all that, and I agree with it. I don't know how you came to understand your theory as stated ; I came to understand it via Spinosa and the philosopher who recommended I read Spinosa .Dontaskme wrote: ↑Sat Nov 27, 2021 8:03 amWhen you hold your hand in front of your eyes, what you see absolutely exists without doubt or error. That Existence is the absolute truth.
Yes, absolute being is undeniable, and can never be a falsehood. There actually isn't any faslehood in reality, there is only falsehood as a concept. So there isn't even a 'subject' who is experiencing...except as concept..in reality, there's just pure raw experience. The idea that 'experience' is a 'subjective experience' or 'my experience' is a concept.
Although a ''belief'' is what infinite consciousness imagines is real within the dream of separation. A 'dream belief' is Indistinguishable from absolute truth.
There's no distinction between absolute truth and fantasy, because indistinguishable cannot be distinguished as everything is distinction which is second order, but absolute truth has no opposite. It's always and ever first order.
''Experience'' is existence.
''Experience'' cannot know non-existence.
Yes Belinda, I too came to understand God through Spinoza. You are God. God cannot kill itself for that would require two things: ( a killer and the thing killed ) Similarly, God cannot birth itself, that would require two things: ( the birther and the thing birthed) OR put another way ( the knower and the known )
So, that realisation for me, was the easiest way I came to know the ONENESS that is God, and that I AM God.
There is only God, infinitely forever. The Oneness that Advaita Vendanta teaches is that Oneness means totality, and the death of the illusory sense of I is known as unification of duality into nonduality. And that both duality and nonduality are absolutely indistinguishable.
Everything that can possibly exist, aka existence itself is wholly complete and here right now, nowhere. When the concept of you dies, which it does within the conceptual dream of separation, there's just a dissolving back into infinite consciousness which is LOVE