Dear Jlcastagna: My sincere apologies for this being so long, but this is the shortest explanation I can give.
To understand my knowledge of God, one must first be willing to at least imagine letting go of this idea of their own individuality of what might be called the “small self.” Imagine instead a view that flows with what is now known about the universe we live in and the very nature of consciousness. We know now that beyond atomic and sub-atomic particles we can intuit a smallest unit of the physical world called strings, and these strings vibrate in such a way as to cause higher level structures such as atoms and molecules to create the things we see and experience, and this is boringly familiar of course to anyone familiar with QM, in which case I apologize for the replay. It has been inferred that consciousness causes them to take on form or “collapse into a reality” according to Erwin Schrödinger and many others. Particles such as photons exist as only wave potentials or potential realities until they are encountered by a conscious observer. This has been proven by observations in numerous experiments with particles and conscious observers, wherein the nature of a wave potential changes further back in an event continuum because of conscious observations made further downstream in the experiments. The conclusions one can draw from this are true revelations. The question arises then that if we cause what we see to happen, how is it that things existed eleven billion years ago across the universe? The answer is that something has always been watching and creating. This is the first snapshot in the multidimensional view it takes to get some small view of God.
Now, imagine that God has been creating and destroying universes over and over again and that there never was a start and nor will there be an end this. Consider that our cosmos is more likely to be cyclical rather than linear in nature, like the natural world around you. In our case, the vibration that caused our universe manifested (as most people agree) as a Big Bang, and probably most of them start that way. God is formless and beyond all of that, but He uses these vibrations as the causal force that activates creation over and over again.
Now that we have observed some links between the physical world and consciousness, something interesting happens. This part is at first a bit hard to accept from our self-centered perspective, but then it becomes liberating and then beautiful beyond belief. Consider that there really is no you, but only one consciousness in all the cosmos. Imagine that it experiences what it creates through the sentient beings it creates out of matter created in and of itself. If one were to fill a room with mirrors at all eight points of the compass and the floor and ceiling as well and then light a candle in the middle of the room we could illustrate this. The candle of course being God and the reflections being His creations. Collectively they exist together, the many dependent on the One, but the One further glorified by its many reflections. They are one interacting system with seemingly many forms, but they are actually one with the candle, in that they are all light, and from the same source. One light, shining as many forms. We get confused by getting identified with the sense organs and the mind that processes their (name removed by moderator)ut. But at a much deeper level, there is a much bigger, shared consciousness and we are part of that. In this regard, the human race is one big organism, but so too is the planet and also the cosmos through which it courses on its path. It follows that there has never been a time when you did not exist nor will there be a time when you don’t. Biblical nice reference: “before you were in the womb, I knew you.” If you would be so open minded as to relook at all of the scriptures from this view, they start to come to life. Consider when Jesus commanded to Love God and love your neighbor as yourself. From my view (if you were to step into my vantage point), He is saying a lot more than for us to just be nice. He is giving a glimpse into the connective nature of things - the One expressed in the many. At this point, one might be able to envision God and humankind differently from the far off King and His unworthy subjects. His connection with you is much deeper and so much more intimate, and therefore He loves everything far more than can be imagined, because He is nearer than the breath. He will lose none of it, for how can He lose what is part of Him?
There would be a lot more to explain, but none of us has years to talk on this and you have your beliefs to get back to. I have given you a very small peek at mine, and I thank you for your consideration, but perhaps you might now be able to see how I accept all faiths. No matter how off course anyone may be, they all belong to God and can only stray but so far and for so long. All paths eventually lead home. This is my belief, and I respectfully revere yours, because of course – you can’t miss.
