Sensory information produces the brains neural firing, and the differences that are exposed from this activity produces the comparing which produces awareness. If there is no difference in the incoming sensation, then there will be no experience of it. The Ganzfeld effect demonstrates this when staring at a spot, and the saccades of the eyes are stopped and the field of vision turns white. There is still consciousness, but no awareness (some people turn those terms around). The producer of awareness is the comparing of information—which is the mind—and so the mind exists as the creator of all experience, and the consciousness that is with it, is the very base of it. A higher functioning of the mind is the producing of thoughts which are the tiers of comparing, resulting in concepts, which are effectively modules of prior experience and their extrapolation.
The background working activity of the mind, which is an ongoing process pending conclusive encapsulation of an idea or thought, is the mental activity that is desired to be cessated in meditation. This stilling of the mind can be a wanting peace and freedom from the hopeless infinite failing of being able to understand this creation of experience. The void that is sought is the first place and the First Self and the origin of creation.
Our mind is God. It creates everything that we experience; it is the creator of our world and defines our reality. Any concept of God can only use how our minds work, and so is it any wonder that a mind will create the belief in a creator that produces our world.
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God is the word for the full universe; its creation is the process of its making. The making of it is the made, the end is its beginning, the fullness of the whole is within every detail; its creation is its creator, its creator is its creation.
The beginning of a circle is also the end point of the circle. All parts are equal along its length, all parts are both higher and lower, more and less, yin and yang, and are interchangeable according to the perspective. The parameters of something define the boundaries, but as the wheel turns, good and evil can become confused. It is always only a revolving story. Light and dark are both necessary to produce the day. It is all a process of delimiting, and the judgement that accompanies that, produces the concepts of right and wrong. The places associated with this—heaven and hell—are just a by-product of the language that unfolds to tell the story, dividing it up and creating its opposites.
It is the non-universe that creates the universe; the yin and yang necessary for existence. The non-time allows the time to exist. Nothing must create something for anything to exist. There cannot be only one thing, or rather the one thing can only be the whole universe, including the outside of the universe or void; time and no time, at the same time. The universe is the one story and includes the non-universe. The creation of light/void—the primordial existence—is the precursor for the universe in its physical state. This void of light is both inside and outside the universe; a workable concept for the word God. And if this is God, then there is nothing there. All thoughts and thinking, the design and method of creation, are from the human mind and all require time. Any concept of God must realise that none of this can be how it is. The start of it and formulization comes from a place where there isn't any time or space, and so God cannot exist. The creator that people call God, is their mind at work. It is a story; it is fiction.
Our experience is our mind and it is our mind that is the creator of our experience. The Experience of the Creator is your um welt—it is your mind. There isn't anything that anyone has experienced which isn't the creation of their minds—the concepts derived from sensory information being processed by the brain. Everything is experience. The subdividing of our experience produces the words which have been allocated to the workings of which it comprises. Consciousness, mind, awareness etc are not words with definitive explanations of these processes.
Everybody can see that other people's reality are wrong when they contradict with their own, and will believe that it is their own reality that is the true one, and will filter their experience to prove it. The creator of your experience is your mind and your experience is provided by this God and your belief in it is quintessential to your very existence. What your story is, is the story that you have been given by your history. It is yours alone. Everybody believes that there view is the right one. It is quite probable that everyone is wrong.