05-23-2014, 12:09 AM
At about 14:20 we get a chance to understand how Einstein viewed God for it is said that Einstein believed in Spinoza's God. At the core, I too believe in Spinoza's God; a God that is 'everything that there is'. Spinoza did not believe God was something that existed apart from Nature. Apparently, Spinoza believed God and Nature are one and the same thing.
I may not fully agree with many of the other things Spinoza believe to be true, but this is something I wholeheartedly agree with; and this, from direct, empirical experiences with Nature, not from the books of philosophies of others.
I've learned It is through the silencing of the internal dialogue that we can finally get a glimpse past who we THINK we are and begin to experience who we REALLY ARE outside of this temporary egoic personality we have created through the environment we have grown up in.
Apparently, Spinoza believed he could reason his way into a deeper, empirical relationship with "God", but I have learned that the Spirit of Intent can be like a wild animal. It responds favorably to virtue and can be brutal in how it deals with those it loves. The path to knowing the true God of the Universe is paved with suffering for doing good. The types of sufferings are set by the Spirit of Intent and also the durations of the sufferings one must endure to deepen a very real and functional relationship with the Conscious and Sentient Super-Awareness from which all things spring forth
I've learned that the proverbial refiner's fire of testing and refining has its primary goal making one incorruptible. One must become incorruptible before any real Divine Power is entrusted. Of so I've been led to believe.
I'm fully ready to find I'm incorrect about ANYTHING I currently believe to be true and I feel ALL TRULY ADVANCED BEINGS are!
UPDATE: Apparently, Spinoza's beliefs are so complex that different people interpret them differently. I am watching a different video where it says that, in a correspondence, Spinoza blatantly stated that he does not believe Nature and God are the same thing. Who to believe? Is that SUPPOSED correspondence legitimate? Is it a forgery? Has it been altered from it's original status? Your guess is as good as mine. I say: fools blindly believe evidence = proof
I may not fully agree with many of the other things Spinoza believe to be true, but this is something I wholeheartedly agree with; and this, from direct, empirical experiences with Nature, not from the books of philosophies of others.
I've learned It is through the silencing of the internal dialogue that we can finally get a glimpse past who we THINK we are and begin to experience who we REALLY ARE outside of this temporary egoic personality we have created through the environment we have grown up in.
Apparently, Spinoza believed he could reason his way into a deeper, empirical relationship with "God", but I have learned that the Spirit of Intent can be like a wild animal. It responds favorably to virtue and can be brutal in how it deals with those it loves. The path to knowing the true God of the Universe is paved with suffering for doing good. The types of sufferings are set by the Spirit of Intent and also the durations of the sufferings one must endure to deepen a very real and functional relationship with the Conscious and Sentient Super-Awareness from which all things spring forth
I've learned that the proverbial refiner's fire of testing and refining has its primary goal making one incorruptible. One must become incorruptible before any real Divine Power is entrusted. Of so I've been led to believe.
I'm fully ready to find I'm incorrect about ANYTHING I currently believe to be true and I feel ALL TRULY ADVANCED BEINGS are!
UPDATE: Apparently, Spinoza's beliefs are so complex that different people interpret them differently. I am watching a different video where it says that, in a correspondence, Spinoza blatantly stated that he does not believe Nature and God are the same thing. Who to believe? Is that SUPPOSED correspondence legitimate? Is it a forgery? Has it been altered from it's original status? Your guess is as good as mine. I say: fools blindly believe evidence = proof