Very cool.
Simple yet profound and deep. I like it.
This lines up nicely with what I've always intuited about the nature of reality. Nothing being
No-thing. The universe/Nature/God becoming aware of itself, splitting itself up into many parts in order to perceive itself/creation.
Reminds me of this:
"What better way for God to know himself than to divide his awareness so that he can observe
objectively as creator and
subjectively as creation?"
The author also talks about how many esoteric philosophies refer to "us" as being thoughts in the Mind of God- "objects" that "Consciousness-Without-An-Object" has been imagining for eons:
"One of the first things we learn is that emanation consists of a hierarchy of awareness. The Kabbalah explains that the
Ein-Sof (Logos, Brahman, whatever) made ten emanations called
Sephiroth, vessels to contain the light (consciousness) pouring into them from Consciousness-Without-An-Object's imagination. These vessels weren't able to contain this outpouring, and in what Kabbalists describe as a "cosmic catastrophe", the vessels shattered in into innumerable pieces and scattered throughout the realms of hyperspace, each fragment containing a spark of divine light (that's us). The main task of every Kabbalist is to "raise the sparks" of his or her own separated consciousness to reunite with the
Ein-Sof that emanated them."
"Every sentient entity in the multiverse is both an observer and an object of perception, and the source from which they emanate is the Primary Observer, which is unadulterated Consciousness itself. Before emanation, perception can not take place because perception involves both an observer and that which is observed."
and
"[The universe is apparently] constructed (and thus in such as way as to be able) to see itself. But in order to do so, evidently it must first
cut itself up into at least one state which sees, and at least one other state which is seen. In this severed and multilated condition, whatever it sees is only partially itself...But, in any attempt to see itself as an object, it must, equally undoubtedly, act so as to make itself distinct from, and therefore, false to, itself. In this condition it will always partially elude itself." (55)
"Thus consciousness is prior to observation. Combine this logical necessity with emanation and we see that whatever the Cosmic Mind imagines cannot be separated from its source. It follows then, that as the matter-energy created within this explosive act of imagination expands and fragments, becoming ever more complex, each emerging monad of fresh awareness perceives as a subjective fractal of the objective One Mind in whatever dimension it finds itself. Hence universe becomes Multiverse."
From
The Cracking Tower, by Jim DeKorne.