Point 1: a sort of warning: Monotheism is a psychopath’s lie for power
I would like to give a case of why Monotheism is a lie, and why Panentheistic Polytheism is correct.
Akhenaten invented monotheism in a practical way because the people, and history, had not known monotheism.
He had killed his siblings who had been up for the throne. Then when he eventually got it he used monotheism to gain power over the priesthood.
The monotheism had gained him power by his saying he was above Egypt and the Priesthood who before then held a good, integral sway as he was the highest priest of the Aten(his coincidentally timed inspiration from the otherwise new to humanity and only god) who heard Aten directly. He changed everything, but after his death everything changed back.
He lied and killed his competitor for the thrones, his brothers and sister. It was just a power grab, which was kept up by lies and threats of violence like we see in today's monotheism.
But there is a more grander, more mysterious "God" we can see in Nature. The one Polytheist/Panentheists like Khemet, the Egyptians, and Hermes Trismegistus taught about.
Point 2 Nature is alive and it is what we understand as God
Nature takes care of herself (Think Scientifically) as if she is a body. There is her head, Nothingness, Vacuum, Void which is what cares for her body which is her, us, everything, but not her brain. That is nothing, vacuum, space-time, and consciousness, I predict for reasons ahead, a feature of nothingness, scientific space-time. What to an organism would be mere breath, mere extancy.
Everything is able to do as it needs because consciousness is a feature of space-time. Bacteria are able to know what to do to survive, as well as plants, and they react to both pleasure and pain. Every life form is aware enough to act. Only ignorant organisms don't see because they don't want to, which is fine. I believe we pick up consciousness as we move through space, we just borrow it until we inherit being one with Nothingness, aka God, by ending our Great Dream in the Great Sleep (death) and gradually disintegrating back into Nothingness and Nature simultaneously sort of ever presently as atoms and as consciousness is my speculation.
Now consider the Pythagorean Monad, the first prime mover to the Greeks, 0. It means nothing, and this Monad creates everything. It creates multiplicity from one points to two points, a line, to 6 points, 3d shapes. It is how it was created, nothing to everything currently.
Now consider the underlying principle, Brahman. It comes before everything but is intrinsic to everything. It is what it is because it is making greater wholes, such as our Nothing, greater, even by our sheer breath, breathing up all the oxygen so anaerobic, and necessary for our lives, bacteria can thrive and turn wastes into foods for plants and thus foods for us and breathing out carbon dioxide for the plants to breathe. Doing absolutely everything. Even dying as dying returns the body to the soil and thus the plants have food continuing the cycle.
It is making the most of things. Take atoms. They’re mostly taking up empty space but they’re also ever able to turn into greater atoms that have more electrons and protons and neutrons. But they do so by taking electrons from other atoms in the stars bellies that upon death feed life by spewing atoms accrosss the Nebula. But in their absence, there is pluripotential to better diversify the worlds. Atoms are always making the most of things. Everything is making the most of things. Everything is doing what it can. Molecules do the same. They take up little to no space and make the most of everything by sheerly giving their all, an all necessary to Life, and Non-Life Universally who ever evolving coalescing each other in the discordant harmony of a relationship of necessary but complete opposites but one in the same spectrum, seemingly dualmonotheistic phenomena like God and Goddess, Goodness and not Goodness emerge.
Consider the Dao of Daoism. Take how the Dao is in ever flowing condition. It is without thought, without effort. That’s how great stones are withered away, by the sheer nonaction of bits of water colliding with the stone over vast time. Take the ocean, including of everything else, it’s just waving because it has to wave, something fell into the ocean like rain or asteroids or other rocks. It’s just the non-action of Nothingness.
It is born of Wu JI, limitlessness, as the Void is who births Nature!
Understand how planets, and all celestial phenomena including suns and asteroids form by the gravity of space-time, by sheer consequence of the self, by mere extancy, utter flow. And by extancy they are given water from the skies and water seldom if at all escapes. We will discuss more of this later.
Consider Sunyata, a sort of supreme being in Mahayana Buddhism. He is made of emptiness, the Void. He is the Void. So are all of us, as atoms and molecules and compounds and other things. There’s mostly space between those things.
Nothing, as a concept has a noticeable amount of attributes of God in Chritianity and other monotheist doctrines. Attributes such as omnipresence as space-time is present everywhere, transcendence as Nothingness is outside the Universe(s), immanence as The Void is within all things, aseity as the only thing requiring itself is Nothing or in other words Nothing does not require something, Space-time is the only eternal thing, Nothingness, the Void, Space-time is incorporeal, infinity as Space-Time is infinite, POSSIBLY immutable, unchangingness of the Void I do not know. There are potentially others if you hear me out further.
Nature, God, has coerced us to be happy by feeling. And the kinds of things that make us happy are things that support, in some way, our society, infrastructure, eachother and what have you and thus our life because of incentive for pro social behavior by Nature.
Besides this she gives back to where she takes, like with herd animals and grasses and microbes. The herd animals feast tightly packed and trample the ground as they poop. That poop is eaten by bacteria which is then shat and eaten by bacteria and then poops plant food. And the trampling helps as well. Nature takes from the grass and gives back to it, even in it's pain. And as a living being, us being the cells, essentially, God knows themself, as our brain knows our body. And they can operate themselves as they are alive. And so they know everything in the body, subconsciously, and can perform everything in the body, within limitations, not actual omnipotence as if that could be real.
And everything this, perhaps, true goddess does IS beneficial, at least in that it allows for growth. Like with the evolution of the atmosphere that protects us. First anaerobic organisms evolved who reacted violently to oxygen resulting in their death, bringing a mass extinction, then aerobic organisms evolved and ate the oxygen so that anaerobic organisms could flourish and thus we could evolve and exist.
And that weading of organisms killed off, broadly, weak organisms, or organisms not as fit as others, survivors, to their environment. Thus more life becomes more strong as the strong species genes grow in number.
Or the way when you are hurt, physically or mentally, you become more resiliant to the damage.
Or the way volcanoes and forest fires bring great fertility.
The way stars deaths spew their life bearing guts everywhere.
The way death, destruction, decay of all kinds bring something for the environment and thus
you as everything are healthier and thus you as your seemingly solitary (yet marauding home worlds to microfauna) self are better off!
Or the way all of this stuff happens without too much of it at once, just a proper place for life to spring up! Like rain being droplets or stars being eonically old before they die or the way explosions don’t happen very often.
Now the way everything formed from the first insemination of stuff was by sheer gravity a feature of space-time, like their breath is/would be. It clumps gases and dusts together to form nebulas and further clumps together suns, planets, comets and essentially solar systems all at once. Then these gradually evolve into life and us!
This shows the benevolent side of this being, a whole other section of attributes.
Thus there is a form of omnibenevolence inherent in Nature (everything at once including space-time) which is created by Nothing (space-time. We're just meant to be soil eventually, which is good because others will benefit from our becoming soil. Everything is somehow good, as long as you let it be. That does not mean seek badness, but be thankful when it comes because it can, if you allow it, build your character more resilience.
But I know. Life's not actually that great compared to what I allege. But that's because we don't have wellbeing and purpose and critical thinking (sorry for those who do, you can skip this or become better equipped to be happy and purposeful)
First let’s wet the appetite.
Let’s look at what we call Eternal Bliss. First, Nirvana. A state of ultimate bliss from realization. Or Salvation, described often as ultimate happiness. Or Moksha, ultimate bliss by liberation form ignorance again, like Nirvana.
These are all happiness and satisfaction and freedom from falsehood.
There are health benefits for all of what I teach you next. Some of this is the feedback loop of which happiness and health compounds and increases eachother. Some of this is increased ability for the body to function, like with fighting off disease, handling trauma, etc.
We could say that 'God' is 'no-thing' and 'every-thing' simultaneously, since it is out of the essence of spirit or consciousness (space) that all 'things' are formed, so a primordial 'nothingness' pervades all that exists, within which all things appear. There is ever the invisible and visible, the intangible and tangible co-existing and interpenetrating one another. The whole or totality of life within this corporeal world includes the incorporeal,....essence, substance and forms. The 'I AM' of pure awareness includes 'no-thing' and 'every-thing',....and more to infinity.
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I don't know what "nonlife" is, so can't help you there.
Rock, water, not soil (soil is rife with bacteria) but the particles of poop, yes, poop! that compose partially, with the bacteria, soil. Stuff that's been made by humans. Air particles like oxygen. They all evolve and regenerate (that doesn't mean there's not one or two things that we know of in the universe the violate one or either of these) and all are formations of nothing, in fact nothing created everything and nothing is everything! The scientific nothing, space-time, the void, nothingness.