Posted in a thread that got me thinking, copying here for later.

Anyone read the Upanishads?

I think maybe we're all part of one big consciousness and the idea of a separate personification of a higher power leaves open many possibilities and the idea of detaching from the material world/dimension we perceive now in order to achieve a higher state of existence/consciousness is appealing. We can manifest reality and the way to do that is an infinite loop of both having intention and giving up your control of intention. A paradox, a fractal perception of ourselves as if Carl Sagan was on to something when he said we are the universe experiencing/perceiving itself in a plethora of ways simultaneously.

We may literally be time itself. Simulation theory might make sense since everything at the smallest level can be calculated to form infinite combinations of more abstract ideas/concepts/algorithms. Why does everything "Add up"? I've always seen it as fractals, a spiral of numbers that loops infinitely and can be measured in terms of how many loops it's made, but at the same time be a constant repetition of #1 through #9 where 10 is 1 and 11 is 2, but they are also 10 and 11 depending on the perspective, thus creating the 3rd dimension of perception over time. Something reaching the same point as before from one angle, but form another being entirely different. Higher dimensions are theoretically required in order for ours to exist in the first place, indicating a sort of "Creation", or affirmation of the infinite loop paradox.

Physical mass, light, and sound are all measured by various frequencies - waves of particles at varying speeds. Are they the same thing when it comes to our ability to measure it scientifically? Our observation is limited to itself. Ourselves. We're analyzing our self.

Sometimes things happen that are hard to explain as if a glitch has occurred. Perhaps we are all awakening to the reality of something much greater that we can not understand in our current forms. Or perhaps we are the attempt to re-create consciousness and it was successful? As if the idea of "AI" was met and achieved and we will spend eternity repetitively asking "Why" of ourselves. Maybe we're causing these things to happen and we don't realize it.

This isn't to say that we are gods, or that we can somehow achieve godhood, etc. But someday we might be just like the ancients described when they spoke of "gods with the ability to change form, bending and controlling matter with the use of tablets". Maybe it will lead to self destruction and the re-setting of civilization for some while others ascend to a higher realm of existential consciousness and re-create the world they came from. OR maybe we're already creating the world around us by perceiving it?

Late night ramblings, IDK.