The Nature of the God Experience

From Uncertain Inference to Certain Fact

From personalised fiction to personalised fact

By the Druid Finn

 

1. The Photon Analogy

Physics teaches us something strange about reality. A photon — the smallest quantum of energy — does not exist in the same way before and after observation.

·         Before observation: it exists only as an inference, a probability wave, an unseen possibility.

·         At observation: when it collides, striking with absolute (@c) precision a detector or screen, the photon becomes subjectively real.

·         Certainty requires singularity: the fact, as truth of its realness arises only in a one-to-one collision — as a quantum-to-quantum contact. Scattered traces or incomplete quanta (or units) never yield absolute certainty or finality.

 

2. The God-Seeker’s Dilemma

The spiritual seeker finds himself in the same position as the physicist. God, at first, is only an uncertain inference: a word, an idea, a doctrine, an artificial reference frame, a mere possibility.

Yet the seeker longs for absolute certainty — a subjective truth-as-proof experience. He does not want inference at second-hand but direct, one-to-one contact.

The dilemma is this: as long as the mind, i.e. the humans energy quanta processing function, is scattered, divided among many contexts, like thoughts, doubts, and images — that is, not quantised into discrete focus — God remains like a probability wave: uncertain.

 

3. The Principle of Concentration

The key lies in concentration — but not mere focus.

·         Perfect (hence @ maximum speed) concentration happens as compression of diffuse awareness to a singular point, the mental equivalent of a detector registering a single photon.

·         At this point-like state, relativity collapses. All alternatives vanish.

·         What remains is absolute contact: between the seeker and the God-inference, alone. Hence “the flight of the alone to the alone.”

 

4. How It Happens

Perfect (laser like) concentration can be attained in several ways, as recorded across traditions, including Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras II–IV and the Buddhist Satipatthana Sutra. Recall the great Satya Sai Baba’s three means of achievement of the God experience: ‘Concentration, concentration, concentration’, hence by:

·         Natural survival procedure: Concentration as sine qua non of decision making, hence quantization.

·         Long artificial practice: Yogic and Buddhist meditation, Sufi dhikr or concentration on the Śrī Yantra gradually eliminate scattered attention (i.e. diffuse processing) until only one point — or no point at all — remains.

·         Cultural implants: Early-life survival supportive reference frames, deeply reinforced/grooved, yield a habitual truth-realness response (satya in Sanskrit, meaning both truth and realness).

·         Shock or trauma: Sometimes sudden collapse of all relative perspectives, meaning entanglements, forces the mind into instantaneous one-pointedness by reverting to restart — to “one without a second status.”

·         Hypnosis: Hindu gurus and modern mindfulness practitioners use selective narrowing and redirection of awareness, meaning hypnosis, as a shortcut: reducing the field until one inference alone fills it and which is then experienced as absolutely real/true.

·         Dreaming: either during the end-phase of dream-sleep or via waking (i.e. lucid) dreaming.

·         Faking it: Generating a thought experiment + instant fixation of the solution @ max. = absolute processing capacity (The technique used by Raman Maharshi).

·         Reversion: Earlier (infancy or late infancy) survival, meaning fiction-to-fact functions, such as intense imaging and unrestricted high energy self-application, are reactivated.

In every case, the goal is the same: to convert an uncertain, relativised inference context (i.e. a personal fiction) into an absolutely certain personal fact (i.e. as experience = a hardware copy). This capacity to transform uncertain fiction into certain fact comes with the survival equipment at birth. It is natural therefore common to all and the sine qua non of decision-making, adaptation, and survival in an uncertain world.

 

5. The Transformation

At the instant of absolute, point-like concentration, the seeker of the God experience no longer thinks of God — he experiences, indeed is, God. The subjective inference collapses into absolute subjective certainty. The unreal becomes real/true.

This is why mystics with the gift of perfect concentration, meaning the capacity to attain @’one’ness, often make paradoxical declarations:

·         The Hebrew God proclaims: “I AM that I AM.”

·         The Upanishadic seer affirms: “Ayam ātmā Brahma — This self is Brahman.”

·         The modern druid distils it further still: “I AM the God experience.”

 

6. Examples in Daily Life

We already know this mechanism in ordinary ways:

·         A child imagines monsters in the dark. When fear becomes absolute, the imagined monster feels real.

·         A lover excludes all doubt, turning the idea “she loves me” into an unshakable certainty.

·         Athletes and artists speak of being “in the zone,” where all scattered inferences collapse into a single undeniable flow of action.

In each case, inference becomes certainty through perfect concentration that eliminates all but the focus.

 

7. The response to attainment

The response to attainment, irrespective of content, is relief, happiness, joy, bliss and so on. The attainment of the ‘I am the God experience’ may likewise result in relief, joy and so on. But it may also result in dismay, even horror when its ramifications manifest to the individual who is fully aware of the sheer brutality, briefness and finality of existence (as ‘God in his/her space’). As this (novel) ground experience repeats over and over its impact gradually reduces until it recedes from awareness. 

 

8. The Conclusion

The pathway to God — that is, to the absolute God-experience— is not unlike the way a photon becomes real as a particle. Both require an act of singular, quantised contact.

The seeker who reduces all apparent (‘as if’) observations— thoughts, feelings, doubts, multiplicities — to a single point (or focal node) and then applies full awareness (meaning processing capacity) to that point, namely their personal God-inference, or indeed any inference, experiences it as real, ‘as-is.’

Thus, the modern druid’s minim is not mysticism nor poetry, but the personal God context reduced to the absolute, hence limitless quantum of realness/truth:

“I AM the God experience.”

 

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