Reply To: What is God?

[Kyrani Eade]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote: Do you believe in a personal god that intervenes in the lives of individuals?

Seeing God as personal or impersonal, is only a matter of how a particular person is able to or chooses to worship. If seeing God as personal (Jesus or Krishna etc.) enables them to develop love for the Divine, then it is a valid position to hold. But it is not necessary as every Muslim can attest. One can be the lover of the Beloved (God) without there needs to be any image of God at all.

Does God intervene?

Short answer: yes.

I believe that God or the Supreme Being consciously upholds the information /ideas in the Mind of God/ One Mind, which brings the physical reality into being.

At the same time we are created beings, not part of the physical reality, but of the essence of the Supreme Being, i.e., conscious beings.

As conscious beings, we may (incarnate into some form/) participate in the physical reality. We are not creators of this reality but we can make changes, however those changes are made by the participation of the Supreme Being, even though we may only see it as “asking of the Universe”.

To explain this in scientific terms, let’s look at the two slit experiment. There has been a recognized Observer Effect, however I don’t believe that this is due to consciousness as many are claiming. I think this is plainly due to asking to see some state.

In setting up an experiment to observe, we can’t just set up our apparatus to just “look to see what there is”. We can only set up an experiment to see a particular state. Hence we ask of the Universe to see a particular condition and we see the condition we asked to see.

So when we put a detector near one of the slits or both, we are asking to see particles. And when we do that we see particles and not probability waves. And this can even be done after the wave/particles have past the slits.

This is also the case in quantum entanglement. Experiments (Bell’s Inequality) have shown that entangled particles really do exist in superposition, i.e., they have all of the possible properties that they may display. If we ask to see some property of one particle, e.g., up spin, we will see up spin in that particle AND the other particle, regardless of how close or distant it may be, will show the complementary property when observed.

When it comes to asking for personal things, we need to do likewise. I think too many people ask the wrong way. For example they might say “God make me well”. This is too general and doesn’t address the problem. Also I think the person needs to have a good idea of what they are up against in order to ask to see a particular condition.

Generally speaking, everything in creation can only exist by the involvement of God, the Supreme Being. In the Gita, Krishna says “were I to cease my endless activity, even for a moment, all these worlds perish” (I can’t remember if these were the exact words).

Thus the very existence of a body, a huge community of 100 trillion cells, cannot sustain their structure and function without the involvement of God, because they are part of the physical reality. But the changes in structure and function arise out of the agency of conscious being that inhabits that body, in accordance to their perceptions and reactions.

In addition conditions affecting the person’s life and interaction with others and their environment are also subject to the desires of the agency (conscious being ) but the conscious being can also request for particular conditions and be able to realize them in their life. But again it requires correctly perceiving what is wanted and asking in the correct way.