God Is Everything
A Framework, Not a Faith
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Not metaphor. Not poetry. A description of what everything is. BUY FROM INGRAMSPARKAMAZONKOBOREAD A CHAPTERTABLE OF CONTENTS 270 pages · Paperback ISBN 978-1-946458-29-2 · ebook ISBN 978-1-946458-64-3 |
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Not metaphor. Not poetry. A description of what everything is.
Most people relate to God as something external. Powerful, distant, fundamentally separate. God up there, you down here, and a relationship built out of worship, obedience and hope for intervention.
That framework rests on a misunderstanding. The separation between divine and human is the thing preventing you from recognizing what you already are. You are not apart from God. You are God experiencing itself from one particular vantage point.
If that is literally true rather than poetically true, everything downstream changes. Death becomes transition rather than ending. Relationships become encounters between different expressions of one consciousness. Suffering becomes exploration of the full range of possible experience rather than punishment or bad luck.
This started as a short exploration and would not stay short, because redefining the central term means re-examining consciousness, death, ethics, raising children, mental illness and evil. I am not asking anyone to believe it on faith. Read it and see whether it makes better sense of your own experience than what you were given. That is the only test that matters.
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Living with it
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The hard parts
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Who this is for
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Why me
Richard Lowe, the Writing King
Thirty-three years in enterprise technology taught me to test a model against what it has to explain, and to discard it when it fails. I am not a theologian and I hold no position in any tradition. This is a framework offered on its merits, and the only test I am asking for is whether it accounts for your own experience better than the alternatives.
Questions people ask
The framework either works or it does not
That is the only test, and you are the one who runs it.
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God Is Everything
God is not a being. God is being itself. God is not in the universe. God IS the universe. Every atom, every photon, every cubic inch of space, every nanosecond of time. The chair you’re sitting on. The air you’re breathing. The thoughts running through your head right now. All of it. God.
When I say God is everything, I mean everything. Not just the pretty stuff. Not just life and consciousness and love and light. Everything. The rock in your driveway. God. The bacteria in your gut. God. The nuclear fusion happening in the sun. God. The empty space between galaxies. God. The moment you were born. God. The moment you’ll die. God. Cancer is God. Earthquakes are God. The Holocaust was God. Your breakfast this morning was God. The explosion that created the universe was God. The heat death that might end it will be God.
Every particle that exists is God. Every proton, neutron, electron. Every quark and photon and neutrino. The energy that binds them together and the forces that push them apart. Einstein showed us that matter and energy are the same thing in different forms. E=mc². Matter is just energy moving slowly. Energy is just matter moving fast. Both are God.
God is not somewhere else. God is everywhere because God is where itself. Every location that exists, God occupies it. Not because God is spread thin across space, but because God IS space. The three dimensions you move through. The fourth dimension of time you travel forward in. God is the fabric they’re made of.
Consciousness isn’t something separate from matter. It’s what certain arrangements of matter do. Your brain is God thinking. Your thoughts are God having thoughts. You are God experiencing existence from your particular point of view.
When you look at another person, you’re looking at God. When you look in a mirror, you’re looking at God.
Table of contents
God Is Everything
- Introduction
- God Is Not What You Think
- How Humanity Has Imagined God
- The Universal Pattern – Power Beyond Human Limits
- The Truth – God Is Everything
- How God Relates to Time
- The Divine Design – Free Will and Consciousness
- Free Will vs. Determinism
- Life Throughout the Cosmos
- Evolution of Consciousness
- The Future of Humanity
- Consciousness vs. Flesh
- Dreams and Altered States
- The Meaning of the Genetic Code
- Death and What Happens After
- What Happens Before Birth?
- What Happens When You Pray to God?
- What God Gets From Your Life
- How Should We Live?
- Relationships in the God Framework
- Why Your Current Body Doesn’t Define You
- Parenting Divine Children
- Growing Old – What God Experiences Through Aging
- Work and Money
- The Concept of Sin
- Forgiveness – What It Really Means
- Do We Need God?
- What About Suffering?
- Creativity IS God
- Destruction IS Creation
- Mental Illness and Consciousness
- Psychopaths and Consciousness
- Animals and Consciousness
- Artificial Intelligence
- The Problem of Other Minds
- Collective Consciousness and Groups
- Miracles and Anomalous Phenomena
- The Hard Problem of Consciousness
- Why This Doesn’t Conflict with Religion
- Your Authentic Self and Spiritual Work
- Red Flags – How to Spot Destructive Spiritual Groups
- Red Flags – How to Spot Toxic people
- Ending Toxic Relationships – When Enough Is Enough
- Conclusion