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If "everything is energy" then what does this mean?

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Runewolf1973

Runewolf1973

Materialism/Animism
godnotgod said:
There is only consciousness without an agent of consciousness. Show me the 'interactor' of the 'interaction'. 'Interaction' assumes the presence of 'things' that interact, but there are no such 'things' in reality. The human mind makes the gross error of seeing the Universe as a great 'thing', when in reality, it is an action, but even this 'action' is illusory. The only true Reality is That which does not change, and That is Pure Abstract Intelligence.

There is no such thing as a 'whirlpool'; there is only whirling water.

There is no such separate agent we call 'human' that 'interacts' with the Universe. We are none other than the Universe itself, just as the wave is inseparable from its source that is the vast ocean. There is no 'observer of the observation'. That idea is just a mental construct. The observer, the observed, and the entire process of observation merge into a single Reality, and this single Reality is, at its source, changeless, uncaused, unborn, unconditioned.
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We wouldn't have eyes if there were nothing to see...nor ears if there were nothing to hear...nor hands if there were nothing to hold.
 
godnotgod

godnotgod

Thou art That
Runewolf1973 said:
We wouldn't have eyes if there were nothing to see...nor ears if there were nothing to hear...nor hands if there were nothing to hold.
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All of which are operative within the world of perceptual reality, which in turn tells us that this is a material world in interaction with itself. But it is Ultimate Reality which tells us that what we see and hear via perceptual reality is not real, just as awakening from a vivid dream tells us that the dragon slayer we knew we were in the dream was purely illusory in nature. So what I am saying here is that, what is 'true' on one level of conscious awareness is not true on the next higher level.

As for eyes, ears, hands, etc. we do know that at some point these tools of perceptual reality become unreliable. That is why the mystic abandons perceptual reality in favor of a higher state of consciousness, one that is beyond the trappings of the five senses.
 
Rick O'Shez

Rick O'Shez

Irishman bouncing off walls
LegionOnomaMoi said:
I've often heard people say that in some sense or another "everything" (whatever that is) is "energy". This confuses me, to put it bluntly. I often work with "energy" as it is "defined" (exists? described?) in modern physics, and this has not helped me understand the assertion that everything is energy. So if any members believe this and would be willing to describe what this belief means (or if any members are more knowledgeable about what this means than I) I would be grateful for an explanation as to what "everything is energy" means (e.g., what is the nature of this "energy"? why ought we to believe that everything is indeed a form of or made out of this "energy"? etc.). Thanks!
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It sounds like new-age nonsense to me.
 
godnotgod

godnotgod

Thou art That
ben d said:
Agree...but would add that awareness is relative...some energy you note that is aware of itself may in turn not be aware of energy exhibiting higher awareness.
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This 'energy that is aware of itself' is a concoction of the mind, which creates the idea of separate 'observer and observed'; of 'this and that'; of 'self and other', where no such duality exists in reality.
 
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