On Friday, August 30, 2024 at 8:45:19 PM UTC+2 Brent Meeker wrote:




On 8/30/2024 12:48 AM, 'Cosmin Visan' via Everything List wrote: 
> I am God. And so are you. We are all one and the same God dreaming 
> infinite dreams. Why is this knowledge not taught in schools ? 
My dreams are finite and rather inconsistent.  That's how you can tell 
dreams from reality.  Everybody shares the same reality.


I have no idea. Brent could have dreamt that. Turtles all the way down.

And indeed, Tao and Hindu writings are but a few examples of different 
cultures coming to similar metaphysical conclusions, sometimes thousands of 
years before Cosmin found "the theory of everything that people have been 
searching for millenia". Curious. It's embedded according to some scholars 
in the Namaste greeting, as is noted even on Wikipedia (I guess they read 
Cosmin and retroactively changed their pages to update them):



*According to the Indologist Stephen Phillips, the terms "te and tvam" are 
an informal, familiar form of "you" in Sanskrit, and it is typically not 
used for unfamiliar adults. It is reserved for someone familiar, intimate, 
divine or a child.[16][17] By using the dative form of tvam in the greeting 
Namas-te, there is an embedded secondary, metaphorical sense in the word. 
This is the basis of the pragmatic meaning of Namas-te, that is 
"salutations to the (divine) child (in your heart)", states Phillips.[16]*
*In the contemporary era, namaḥ means 'bow', 'obeisance', 'reverential 
salutation' or 'adoration'[18] and te means 'to you' (singular dative case 
of 'tvam'). Therefore, namaste literally means "bowing to you".[19] In 
Hinduism, it also has a spiritual import reflecting the belief that "the 
divine and self (atman, Self) is same in you and me", and connotes "I bow 
to the divine in you".[20][5][21] According to sociologist Holly Oxhandler, 
it is a Hindu term which means "the sacred in me recognizes the sacred in 
you".[22] *

That's an entire culture, as it lives and worships today, that recognizes 
and greets each other, not just knowing "We are all one and the same God" 
as per Cosmin's original post and similar statements, but actually 
acknowledging what they consider to be that fact (Of course, given more 
nuance than I have time for).  No need to thank us. Cosmin. Just send the 
checks in Euro for proofreading your writings plus consultant fees to 
Brent, Quentin, Alan, Terren, and yours truly. If you pay and raise our 
fees, we have better problems/perspectives to offer. Also, the more you 
raise consultant and proofreading fees in general, the more the same gods 
will recognize the god in you. 😄 

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