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You are the Universe Experiencing Itself | Spinoza's God

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Every atom in your body was forged in the heart of a star. The calcium in your bones, the iron in your blood, the oxygen in your lungs, all of it was born in cosmic furnaces billions of years ago, long before the Earth even existed. Every atom inside you traveled across the universe for unimaginable stretches of time. And then, for one brief moment in cosmic history, the universe arranged itself into something capable of looking up at the stars in awe. The universe became… you.

This is the philosophy of Baruch Spinoza. The idea that you, me, every living thing, are not separate from the universe, but expressions of it. That consciousness itself is the cosmos becoming aware of its own existence. And that there is no God watching over the universe, but the universe itself is God.

00:00 Spinoza and the Stardust Inside Us
01:37 The God of Einstein
09:15 Deus Sive Natura
18:02 God is Dead
23:50 The Illusion of Free Will
32:32 Sub Specie Aeternitatis
36:32 The intellectual love of God.
42:17 You are the Universe experiencing itself

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20 Comments

@ApertureThinking Creator 3 months ago Pinned

@BrieflyShpeaking 3 months ago

It's interesting how many people arrive at basically the same conclusion through very different entry points - philosophy, psychedelics, physics, or just prolonged existential reflection.

@NickDa3rd 3 months ago

you’re not a drop in an ocean, but the ocean experiencing a drop.

@TheSitherin 3 months ago

What up each and every version of me and y’all and the universe👋

@Chompa-vo6ls 3 months ago

"The ocean waves, and the universe peoples".

-Alan Watts

@eratas_dualitas 3 months ago

"We are the Universe becoming conscious of itself" - This has been my entire education

@MrSmackdab 3 months ago

the YOU niverse

@Theoramma 3 months ago

This is kinda funny to me. I've never heard of this guy but I came to this sort of conclusion when I was 23 after my first magic mushroom trip. I felt so connected to the Universe. I was in the middle of a computer science degree so I was systems oriented in my thinking. It all seemed just so obvious to me. I've been exploring that idea for 10 years now.

@NickyDiesel 3 months ago

It’s not much, but I feel like I should have paid for this video. Incredible work, thank you so much. Listened to this on my long drive to start my work day

@SMACKADOOS 3 months ago

The saying “treat others the way you’d treat yourself” HITS WAY HARDER the moment you learn about the concepts of pantheism and Spinoza’s God.

@austinpurdy 3 months ago

I swear I’ve never heard of Spinoza. But I took mushrooms and the mushrooms told me we are all god individually living through everything all at the same time

@MichaelReeser 3 months ago

We exist because we are possible. In infinite time all possibilities has already happened. We are just one of those possibilities.

@sgtKrud 3 months ago (edited)

I've never had an original idea
Edit: A lot of yall are really trying in the comments.

@ExistentialElk 3 months ago

The calf asks where the forest ends and the herd begins. The wise bull remains silent, for his breath is already the wind.

@slohmann1572 3 months ago

I feel like going door to door and ask people: hello Sir, have you heard of the God of Spinoza?

@Itsjettondon05 3 months ago

It’s adorable how simple reality truly is vs how complex and unknowable we make it

@moonobsessed 3 months ago

I researched Spinoza in the philosophy class that summer when i met whom i thought was the love of my life. A Beautiful story blossomed into a year and a half of what I felt was the purest form love I could ever encounter thinking only for it to be all taken away. It’s been 6 months since I’ve last seen him and 2 years since what it felt like the world stopped spinning when I looked into his eyes and here I am, clicking on a video and listening to what i was supposed to know all along. that what I called “forever” was only my mind extending a moment into infinity, and what I call loss is just change unfolding as it always is. He was not my whole world, but a finite part of it that I once understood through my own experience of love.

@PhilDavison-j6k 3 months ago

Rumi: You are not a drop in the ocean, but the ocean in a drop.

@maasAmin 7 days ago

That book by Elvar Oris about hidden starseed knowledge is honestly next level. The way he reveals secret truths about aliens and manifestation is crazy intense. I’ve been practicing what he teaches and, no joke, manifesting has become way easier—like the universe is just giving me what I want now.

@namaniu 3 months ago

This is the same thing Minecraft tried to tell us from its end poem.

In that conversation there was written that we are the universe experiencing itself, reading its own code, admiring its own beauty and WE ARE ETERNAL and WE ALL ARE THE SAME. Sometimes we call ourselves planet and stars, sometimes electrons and protons, sometimes angel and demons, sometimes humans and monsters and sometimes something and something. But we all are same, the same brothers and sisters, the same universe experiencing itself, We are Eternal and Infinite ♾😇🕊

Okay okay, lets look at this topic scientifically, According to the law of conservation of mass and energy "I", "You" will die but the universe will continue forever that makes me so glad because my energy and my mass both can't be destroyed, so "I" will not exist as "me"
but "we, the universe" will continue to exist eternally!

So whatever happens even the universes collide, we wake up in a simulation, we get erased, we go in hell even the worst scenes There will still be light in the Endless Possibilities of Infinite Universes♾
That's what I learned from Minecraft😇🕊