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Personal vs. Transpersonal God

Emind January 02, 2020 at 06:02 1825 views 3 comments The Lounge
Hi guys!

I've been thinking a bit about the different conceptions of god and how they relate to each other (aka personal vs transpersonal). I wanted to share a short podcast episode I made about it and see what you think.



Let me know your opinion!

Comments (3)

I like sushi January 03, 2020 at 12:56 ¶ #368086
‘God’ is a phenomenon of humans. It’s merely a term to appropriate ‘being’/‘existence’. Just like there is no ‘pure cat’ there is no ‘pure god’, we use such items as means of navigation - ‘god’ in this sense is an extremely abstract concept, whereas ‘cat’, is much more tangible and universally agreeable.

Generally speaking pantheons express certain human characteristics in regard to how we interact ‘in the world’. The hard sciences don’t/can’t deal with this directly.

Nils Loc January 03, 2020 at 21:32 ¶ #368209
A fun literary riff about "God" can be found in J.L. Borges grim short story of the Library of Babel.

In the story God represents the desire (a hopeful hypothesis) for a directory/cipher of the library itself (the universe), that would help one to either decode its gibberish or navigate toward a center of meaning. The only ciphers of the library of gibberish are its denizens, bound by the limitations of their own language and the banal recurrence of the library's geography.

There is much desire for understanding what can't be really be understood, what really isn't a desire for understanding but for something else (bliss, peace, a cessation of anxiety?). The subject's creation (a meaning as footing or anchor) then fills the void, whether as a solitary or collaborative act.

















Qmeri January 03, 2020 at 23:10 ¶ #368223
Edit: I was drunk. Was not a very useful comment from me, so I removed it.