Drawing on Hindu scripture and the writing of Alan Watts, I liken the mental/material universe outside to a universal subconscious; and thus similiar to a dream, play or movie, the action or stream of thoughts, images and thing-events ocurring mentally and materially interact like a cosmic comedy-drama, often chaotic and subject to the principle of uncertainty. All of which is to say that though what happens in the universe maybe literal and actual, the play of energy itself is illusion (maya), incomplete, not reality. Reality (Totality of Being/Intubeing) Is fully Awake, Aware, Alive and Whole, not partial or outside the Center/Source/Ground of Energy-Consciousness in any way.

Thus God in God, the innermost Being of everything that is, in Resting completely selfless, formless (the Center of Energy-Consciousness Being everywhere nonliterally speaking and nowhere literally speaking), is not the dreamer or universal subconscious. But the conceptual aspect (icon) of God is, that is to say, God in phenomena. Therefore phenomena or thing-events in the dream (creation), that is, the forms dreaming (identifying with the dream), are by themselves conceptual sensations (creations) of the dreamer (mind) or self, in this case, the universal subconscious who, being the essential quality behind the forms (masks), is actually (though unconsciously perhaps) playing every part in the comedy-drama (universe) but sees each thing-event as being separate from and outside of himself (center). Indeed, the icon is not God, no conceptualization can be, but nevertheless such can be used by the individual consciousness to see through itself and return Into Consciousness, Into the Center/Source/Ground (uncarved Block) of Life itself, Ourself as a Whole.

Now God in God knows the Truth, Being the Truth (Principal of Life/Intulife), and so the dream (duality/sensory perception/ego/literal perspective) is no problem, like a reflection in the mirror is no problem to the reflector, who knows who he is (the center) and what the reflection is (outside the center). Likewise, phenomena just is what it is. God does not identify with the phenomena as Himself, and then taking Himself too seriously, allow phenomena to control by Him getting caught up in the dream, projecting preconceptions unto the subject matter.  There’s no attachment. God knows Himself (Ourself as a Whole) as the real happening or nonthing-event (Center of Energy-Consciousness). Therefore the seeming evil and terrible thing-events that happen in a violent and self-victimizing universe are but shadows or creations (projections) of the dreamer and thus insubstantial in themselves (nothingness). These thing-events, being partial, having beginning and ending, cannot occur in the Totality of Being (God in God), which has no past and no future–Resting Complete in Ourself as a Whole.

Thus when the forms dreaming wake up in the dream, the self (dreamer) is seen through from Within, and understanding Awareness, our innermost Being, comes Alive through the form (person). Personhood has psychologically died to itself and Energy-Consciousness (Intuconsciousness) Is regained! The self, even a universal subconscious is only the icon being used by the individual consciousness to confront, penetrate, understand and resolve the contraries of human nature (his own individuality). If the consciousness knows the icon for what it is, then there’s no problem with it, like a reflection in the mirror. The reflection is not the center of consciousness, and has no power, life or cause by itself. Likewise, personhood is insubstantial (nothingness). The only Power, Life or Cause That Is…Is selfless/formless…the pure Intelligence (Spirit/essential Quality) behind and Within all experience, the Totality of Being, Ourself as a Whole (Nonliteral Perspective)!

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