What do you think God is?

[Mopsus]

I like to think of God as a disembodied mind. God created our universe by "imagining" it, the same way that we might imagine a fictional universe of our own. Of course, there are key differences: our universe is both infinitely more original than anything that we could imagine, given that there was no preexisting mold for God to copy, and is inhabited by sentient beings, which (presumably) could not be said of the universes of our mind's creation. Both of these facts are owing to the radical gulf that exists between God and ourselves: everything that we're able to think and do is limited by our material existence, which, by contrast, poses no obstacles to the Monad. This same way of thinking also allows us to answer the question "Who begat God?", which implies both a material existence and a linear timeline, both of which we know to exist in our own universe, but would be inappropriate to apply to the One.

It might seem that there's little comfort in this conception of the Divine, but I strongly believe that through prayer, meditation, or the use of psychedelic drugs, it's possible to attain a glimpse of the transcendence experienced by God (or as close an approximation as our fragile minds will permit), which can have a profoundly positive impact on the way that we live in and interact with the world.