Beyond God

Quantum cosmology concludes that there is only one, unified wholeness at the fundamental level of the Unified Field of Natural Law and no real fundamental division into observer and observed. Thus quantum cosmology verifies that the Unified Field observes itself in a completely self-referral manner and thereby confirms that the unmanifest, quantum-mechanical Unified Field of Natural Law is* a field of self-referral consciousness which generates the whole manifest universe by its process of self-observation. http://www.worldpeaceendowment.org/invincibility/invincibility2.html


The concept of god has become highly problematic for us in these post-modern times. Who or what is god? Does “he” exist? The Buddha was way ahead of us on this one. He didn’t answer the question but seemed to have considered it irrelevant. “God is a concept,” said John Lennon in an insightful and courageous lyric, “by which we measure our pain.” Still many of us intuitively sense or intuitively “know” that there is a greater being operating in and through this universe. And we sense that we are an inseparable part of this “greater being.” This greater being is who we are beyond our limited and limiting concepts. “God” him/her self is another such thought-construct. Once we get beyond the motive of social regulation, the “god” that we have been taught to believe in is an intentional fabrication. We might as well believe in Santa Claus.

Our thinking is inherently dualistic. We think in terms of self and other, but what if there is no “other?” What if the whole basis of our thought process is fundamentally flawed? We generally like to regard god and religion as benign at worst, but perhaps they are not at all – or at least in the way they have evolved over time. Unlike Richard Dawkins and others in the strict atheist camp, however, I am not suggesting that the whole idea of god and religion is aberrant in the face of scientific materialism; far from it. Instead we need to evolve our concepts, transcend dualistic thought and recognize the truth of our own being. “God” is not some being separate from us but is at the core of each of us.

When we are able to silence the lower “monkey-mind,” known as manas in yogic terminology, we are inherently able to access higher intuitive wisdom and knowledge. Does this wisdom and knowledge come from some being outside of ourselves, perhaps from outer space aliens? Or does it come from a deeper part of our own being? The nondual source of our beings is perfectly omniscient. It doesn’t know things dualistically however. It knows immediately and nonconceptually. This mode of knowing is what we call compassionate love, as distinguished from self-centered love. It is unity consciousness.