Talk:Fabric of Consciousness
Einstein hints at his understanding of the power and grandeur of The Fabric/Consciousness/Spirit. Note, his effacement of humanity arises from the fact that he uses as his model for "normal" humanity an unhealthy and disconnected victim of Toxic Socialization
Einstein: "I am not a mystic. Trying to find out the laws of nature has nothing to do with mysticism, though in the face of creation I feel very humble. It is as if a spirit is manifest infinitely superior to man's spirit. Through my pursuit in science I have known [[Cosmic Religious Feelings. But I don't care to be called a mystic." (Einstein, Hermanns, 1978: np).
Christianity
Meister Eckhart
For though she sink all sinking in the oneness of divinity, she never touches bottom. For it is of the very essence of the soul that she is powerless to plumb the depths of her creator. And here one cannot speak of the soul any more, for she has lost her nature yonder in the oneness of divine essence. There she is no more called soul, but is called immeasurable being.
The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God, as if He stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.
To gauge the soul we must gauge it with God, for the Ground of God and the Ground of the Soul are one and the same.
Islam
Kabir
Behold but One in all things; it is the second that leads you astray.
'I went from God to God, until they cried from me in me, “O thou I!"'
Taoism
Chuang Tzu
Do not ask whether the Principle is in this or in that; it is in all beings. It is on this account that we apply to it the epithets of supreme, universal, total.… It has ordained that all things should be limited, but is Itself unlimited, infinite. As to what pertains to manifestation, the Principle causes the succession of its phases, but is not this succession. It is the author of causes and effects, but is not the causes and effects. It is the author of condensations and dissipations (birth and death, changes of state), but is not itself condensations and dissipations. All proceeds from It and is under its influence. It is in all things, but is not identical with beings, for it is neither differentiated nor limited." Quoted form PP
Zen Budhism
The Lankavatara Sutra
"Pure in its own nature and free from the category of finite and infinite, Universal Mind is the undefiled Buddha-womb, which is wrongly apprehended by sentient beings." [PP]
