God created everything, but with what? No, not cheese. All the divine ingredients ever used exist solely in the mind of god.
This post will bridge together ideas presented in Know Thyself, Your Very Own Personal Holodeck, and One Moment in Time.
From nothing, something all at once
In the beginning, god was all there was. We often refer to god as “all there is” but in the beginning, that was more literal than it is now. One vast nothingness presided over by a faint glimmer of self-awareness. As explored in Know Thyself, that self-awareness began to dream everything it could think to dream. A faint glimmer of awareness slowly became a gushing river of experience.
To grow himself, god needed ever-evolving formats of expression from which to experience himself. But how would that work? Nothing existed except the observer himself. How could the lone participant create new experiences out of nothing? Vast nothingness had no grocery stores stocked with divine ingredients. There was no cosmic Play-Doh anywhere. There wasn’t even an anywhere. No time, no space, no matter, no energy. What’s a would-be creator to do?
The mind of god was all there was, so anything that was to be created would necessarily be created from the mind of god. Everything that ever “existed” was simply imagined in the mind of god.
We hear more and more cultural references to living in a computer simulation. Some physicists even believe this to be the case. We ask what’s the difference between a magically powerful computing device and the mind of god? One is science-based so it’s somehow more palatable to everyone who’s been utterly turned off by religion.
The mind of god
So god spends his existence imaging every conceivable scenario. Unfortunately, the list of conceivable scenarios is quite short in a vacuum. One vast nothingness isn’t a very rich format of expression. So god invented more. Many more.
We know the physical universe quite well, so we’ll use it as an example almost exclusively (you’re welcome). How does a creator invent time and space out of nothing? Easy, we have a post for that. Your Very Own Personal Holodeck explains exactly how to create a 3-dimensional reality from a perspective that doesn’t necessarily have any dimensions. One Moment in Time expands on the theme to show where our concept of time comes from.
Our entire physical universe is a bubble blown in the mind of god. It carves out a format for rules-based physical experience from an environment that has no such rules. Of course, any rules that exist in the mind of god would also exist inside the bubble. The law of attraction rule pervades the mind of god, and in fact, it might even be a statement about how the mind of god functions. Associative memory is a concept we use frequently here on planet Earth where like concepts recall each other.
So there it is. We have the why and the how of our physical universe. We understand, at least broadly speaking, what the mechanism of creation would even look like. Where do the divine ingredients come from? The answer turned out to be pretty simple actually. Everything exists inside of one of god’s many and ongoing dreams.
Conscious divine ingredients
We understand that god created lots of expressive formats. Reality and rules galore. Mediums of expression and experience. So many different facets of life can be explored in so many diverse ways. The only problem is that God’s experience of his creations occupies a limited perspective.
While it’s a rather complete perspective, its limitation comes from its completeness. Lack of limitations is a limitation. A perspective fully involved in the creation of each particle finds participation within the virtual reality a little artificial.
God would be an outsider merely peeking into his creation. Similarly, we can all watch the view of a deep-sea diver from the comfort of our couch, but that’s a very limited interaction. We’re watching from the outside. To truly experience the deep sea environment, we need to interact with it ourselves. We need a deep sea diver suit to exist in and interact with the deep sea. In general, we need a suit constructed of the destination environment in order to fully interact with the destination environment.
Everything humans call life was a step in this direction. Fish explore the seas. Birds explore everything above the sea, etc. As with everything divinely created, it all served multiple purposes. The flora and fauna not only explored the environment, but they facilitated its housekeeping and also created an overlay environment for yet more perspectives.
It was all wonderful, but since the roles were still tied to the creation of the environment, they didn’t fully solve the problem. Humans (and their predecessors) were the new perspective. Separate enough from the environment, we truly experience the environment in which we live. We were the final divine ingredient.
Recipe of divine ingredients
One of the aspects of experiencing life that we take for granted is our neighbors. A solo creator would find very quickly that there’s only one perspective – all that is. God had to find a way to create new perspectives that weren’t simply copies of the same perspective. Slight but perceived separateness had to be imagined, but once accomplished, provided endless unique vantage points.
Planet Earth hosts around 6 billion awake human perspectives (8 billion total). While most of those humans think they have completely separate identities from one another, the separation is entirely imagined. Well practiced but imagined.
It’s not clear to us how much separateness exists between our various inner beings, but we suspect the pattern continues “upward for a while.” Ramtha says we’re called “the forgotten gods,” so we suspect most perspectives outside Earth humans are much more able to look beyond their perceived separateness. Inner beings would fall into that category. The appearance of separateness notwithstanding, our inner beings can tap into who they really are whenever it’s convenient.
Separation is a useful facet of exploring existence, but it doesn’t have to define us. We have the option and ability to remember who we really are in any given moment. Some amount of detraining is necessary, but it’s what makes the humans unique among all the inhabitants of planet Earth. This is our final recipe, and we are its divine ingredients.
