Question

I am repeating my question, which was asked as a comment in the responsa pages and may have been missed, so I am asking again on the main responsa page –
Argument –
God exists and is unitary, and there is no need for causality (non-duality).
God is eternal and reality is eternal.
God exists within natural reality through two aspects, spiritual and physical, in effect like a kind of coin with two sides.
Reality is an expression of God in nature and in man, and the “spiritual” part of God is found in a shared consciousness of human beings.
The words of course reduce all the conceptions stated above, and below as well, but there is no other way to try to explain.
Assumptions – regarding God
God is eternal and reality is also eternal; it had no starting point and no end
The universe is expanding and may contract again, stop, or collapse, and so on cyclically; reality is infinite
From observing nature too one can see cyclicality and renewal alongside the conservation of matter
Even if tomorrow the world explodes or an enormous solar wave burns us all, reality will continue to exist
As for evolution (which of course exists), it has divine implications for consciousness, which I will expand on at the end.
Assumptions – regarding a person striving for faith
A person can never arrive at knowledge that God exists
And will always have to believe and not know, because there is no complete certainty in the world about anything (Descartes and others).
With respect to the existence of an intelligent Creator, I follow your path and that of others—rationalism etc.—and accept the matter.
With respect to the expectation of revelation—you believe in the revelation at Mount Sinai, and I agree with the first part but not the second.
That is, I agree that revelation is required by reality, but I do not agree with such a one-time revelation to many people or a revelation to one specific individual.
Especially when such a revelation is written in a book full of contradictions and errors, even if accompanied by some tradition or other (have you ever played “telephone”?)
Logic –
Part A – positive examination
Let us focus on the part of the required revelation –
Since the reality of God requires revelation, every person is “entitled” to experience “revelation,” regardless of religion, race, or sex, in every generation, without intermediaries and without external aids.
Moreover, the “revelation” cannot require high intelligence or advanced analytical ability in one person over another; only one thing is required –
Consciousness.
The logic: God created everything, and everyone should be able to recognize Him by direct and unmediated awareness.
If so, what would that path be?
If we return to the (accepted) assumption that a person cannot reach certainty about anything in reality except the self-awareness of “I think, therefore…” (and I understand that even the “thinking” is not quite correct, since the thinking itself is already taking place in the brain and not in the “mind,” and is tainted by perceptions, memories, emotions, etc.—that is, only the experience of “I” is the one and only experience in all natural reality about which a person can say “I know” and not “I believe”).
At this stage I assume that the ultimate truth a subject can reach is purified consciousness.
For a person to reach that knowledge and that experience of a purified “I,” clean of all thought, perception, memory, etc.
All that is required is a simple act of guided imagery or meditation for a minute or two (not an ashram in India, not a guru, and not secluding oneself in a forest)
During this experience, a person will always feel sensations of pleasantness and also what we would call a kind of love.
Conclusion –
Since this experience, in my view, is a spiritual experience, because it cannot be proven empirically!
I of course distinguish between emotions and sensations that today can be mapped in the cortex or in other areas of the brain, or through chemicals or hormones secreted in the brain, and consciousness itself—that is, that purified sense of “I” that is aware of all the sensations and emotions like a present external observer.

And therefore the necessary inference, in my view, is that this awareness/consciousness is itself the required revelation!
Moreover, the revelation is not of a God external to reality, but of an active and unitary God who is part of reality and part of the human being.
It is clear to me that the response to this often produces mockery or a claim of arrogance, but the opposite is true
The understanding that you are part of God means that every person you meet is part of God!
This has deep and enormous implications!
The imposition of real personal responsibility, without evasion
A demand to treat nature and humanity gently and lovingly
To act for human unity and not division, because God is unitary
And many other varied conclusions whose purpose is to add love and unity to the world.
But all from a real and awakened inner recognition!
Part B – negative examination
In my view, rationalism and logic games are very important, but these are attempts carried out under laboratory conditions.
One cannot relate to faith in God without examining historical and current reality, and therefore when I look at reality in order to understand existence, I also examine history and current events
And unfortunately we find that every religion that believes in one God separate from the world produces believers in a God in its own image (both human and physical), and just as God is conceived as separate, so too the religions are separate from one another and also internally divided—and this is true of all religions, including Judaism
The reason for this is twofold—this God is external to the world (Dad isn’t home), so we remove responsibility from ourselves, bring about horrifying results, and then concepts such as original sin and the like enter in; and since this God is not us, we project onto Him our own traits (God is vengeful, angry, loving, forgiving, punishing), all because we do not really know Him.
Examples (generalizing, of course) –
Islam – a subduing God; there is no relationship between God and man, only an absolute demand for submission = believers demand submission of themselves, and therefore also submission from anyone not like them (Shiites/Sunnis, and of course within those groups themselves they also try to subdue one another)
Christianity – original sin – in any case there is no point in acts of repair because we are all sinners and Dad isn’t home, and in Christianity too of course there is much division: Catholics, Orthodox, and hundreds of Protestant groups.
Much division, many wars.
Judaism – Judaism has gone through many transformations and reforms, and God has gone through reforms alongside it..
The God of the Hebrew Bible is not like the God of the first exile, nor like the God of the second exile, nor like the God of Religious Zionism; the God of Har Hamor is not like the God of Merkaz HaRav, nor like the God of Hasidism, nor like the God of the Mitnagdim, nor like the God of Shas, nor like the God of United Torah Judaism, nor like the Conservative God, nor like the Reform God.
The Jewish God is jealous, loving, vengeful, forgiving, fatherly—human traits! Traits that we projected onto Him, and therefore Judaism’s relationship with God is likewise one of obedience, prayer, love, ecstasy, fatherhood, etc.
In the end, a separate God = separation. Q.E.D.
Moreover, there is the paradox of the external causal God in all the monotheistic religions—redemption. For how can a causal reality suddenly become unitary? Here too Judaism found a solution through kabbalistic-Hasidic acrobatics… and I ask, why? when the solution is right in front of us!
Despite everything, there is no doubt that Judaism has a special place with the unitary God, and this emerges from observing historical reality –
My assumption regarding Judaism is that it has a role in the world in general: to awaken the world to recognition of the unitary God.
And this is also the reason for the connection between the people of Israel (the eternal spiritual people) who aspire to dwell in their land (the physical one), just as God lives within us and we must awaken and recognize this.
Further on this matter: the Torah was of course written by human beings, but it contains many seeds of the revelation of the unitary God, and many highly conscious people wrote in it, alongside many charlatans.
A few historical examples of the importance of the Jewish people –
The discovery of the unlimited God – Abraham
Values of freedom – Moses
(Regarding Moses: when Moses asks for God’s name, the answer given is the unitary God at the height of His glory: “I will be what I will be”)
Government and society – the kings of Judah and Israel
Morality – the prophets of Israel
Corruption – the Second Temple period
Revelation of the unitary God – Jesus
The Baal Shem Tov – a solution to centuries of the Sages through a unitary God who, in order to solve the paradox, contracted Himself…
Spinoza, Einstein, Freud, and 25% of Nobel Prize winners
(in physics and medicine the percentage rises toward 40), the overwhelming majority of them not religious…
The paradox, in my view, is that religion is a political structure that constrains spiritual development!
*Regarding the evolution of consciousness – God exists in nature and in reality, and the quantum “Lego blocks” that make up everything led, in an evolutionary process, to the creation of life on earth, and later intelligent life, and at their peak human beings with developed consciousness and awareness; and as an allegory one may imagine a flower seed planted in the ground from the days of creation, whose shoots emerged after the first rain and already testified to its existence, and the stem grew and rose, but the flower bloomed only at a certain point in time, and the world was exposed to its beauty only at a certain moment… and further, it is clear that the flower will wither and die, but its seeds have been scattered in the earth and new flowers will rise and bloom… and the rest, go and learn.
I would be very glad to receive your response to these ideas
Thanks in advance
Micha