I can understand the thought of the universe being made of the substance of God, but at the same time I can also imagine different scenarios in which that is not the case. We are talking about God afterall. Perhaps we limit God too much based on our limits.

But I think we're coming to the complex reductive point, in that things tend to end up in a paradox; seperate yet inseperable, one and many, ect.

Thank you. This is one of the reasons why it's hard for me to align with monism ideas around God, the source, the singluarity, etc. It is likely a limit of our language, but that limit, when unrealized, ends up also limiting the potential scope of understanding that we can get. So, for example, in alchemy, the One Mind, to me, is singular and a plurality. This is probably why I also feel that while we are all connected, we still hold equal state of individuation. Any experience of no-self, or egolessness, are states of a spectrum of experience. It's hard for me to say that any of these states is more "real" or "true" than any other. They just are.

I speak a bit more about related ideas here.

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Ps. Thank you for sharing the excerpts from that poem. Really resonated and enjoyed them. Very paradox laden in ways.