Universe is Brahman exhibiting DID?

[atanu]

Interesting.

Are we all multiple personalities of universal consciousness?

What Bernardo Kastrup proposes leads to this. Insignificant Atanu and superheroes such as @Sunstone and @Revoltingest and @Willamena are one person, exhibiting multiple personality disorder.

This is same as the Vedic knowledge of Brahman is All. Except that in case of Brahman it is not a disorder but a play -- leelA.

 

[Revoltingest]

Interesting.

Are we all multiple personalities of universal consciousness?

What Bernardo Kastrup proposes leads to this. Insignificant Atanu and superheroes such as @Sunstone and @Revoltingest and @Willamena are one person, exhibiting multiple personality disorder.

This is same as the Vedic knowledge of Brahman is All. Except that in case of Brahman it is not a disorder but a play -- leelA.

I'm working hard to keep my other personalities in line.
Rascally imps they are!

 

[atanu]

I'm working hard to keep my other personalities in line.
Rascally imps they are!

Brahman designated you as Deity of Rascals -- the highest rascal.

 

[Revoltingest]

Brahman designated you as Deity of Rascals -- the highest rascal.

Ooooo....that sounds good.

 

[osgart]

Delving into the schizophrenic landscape of reality, no doubt.

 

[atanu]

Delving into the schizophrenic landscape of reality, no doubt.

We call it leelA.

 

[osgart]

We call it leelA.

Never heard the term.

 

[atanu]

Never heard the term.

Yes, very few would have heard this Sanskrit word.

Lila (Hinduism) - Wikipedia

 

[Shantanu]

Interesting.

Are we all multiple personalities of universal consciousness?

What Bernardo Kastrup proposes leads to this. Insignificant Atanu and superheroes such as @Sunstone and @Revoltingest and @Willamena are one person, exhibiting multiple personality disorder.

This is same as the Vedic knowledge of Brahman is All. Except that in case of Brahman it is not a disorder but a play -- leelA.

If they were one person exhibiting multiple personality disorder, it is through genetics that this diversity has come about and this is only in our living reality (vyvaharika) in which Gods exist for consultation and actions in daily existence. Each person takes his actions as having been inspired by a different god as there are millions of gods that living beings can relate to in our consciousness.

Of course in the absolute truth (paramarthika) all we see (living beings and inanimate matter) is Pure Consciousness which some would equate to Brahman being All as we derive our directives from that Consciousness. But Consciousness as the Reality (the Doer) is Nirguna and not God but satchitananda (TruthExistence/Awareness/Bliss) so it has no attributes of either having manifested multiple personality disorders in living beings, nor is there any evidence that Brahman generated a play (leela) through maya (illusion) that causes conflicts among living beings and suffering in vyvaharika. It is just a Hindu assumption.

The fact remains that we exist to fulfill our dharma as individuals in vyvaharika and this is taken seriously by us not withstanding the suggestion of leela. It makes Nature work and generated evolution of plants and animals. Abiogenesis was an accident,is the implication. Dharma is an eternal and indelible aspect of Consciousness.

The suggestion that we are multiple personalities of a single universal consciousness means that Brahman has attributes other than satchitananda.

 

[Liu]

I didn't need Kastrup's theories to come to that same conclusion.

Btw, we're having a similar discussion over at another forum if anyone is interested:
Disassociative Identity Disorder and Set

 

[Vinayaka]

I'm working hard to keep my other personalities in line.
Rascally imps they are!

You da boss!

 

[Windwalker]

This is same as the Vedic knowledge of Brahman is All. Except that in case of Brahman it is not a disorder but a play -- leelA.

Yes, play is a better word. Plus, it's not many minds sharing one body, which would be considered a disorder if the functional person has essentially only one main "personality" processing all its bits, rather than several competing ones. That's more or less like having two heads. Rather, we are Reality awakening to itself as this individual creature, body as well as mind, as well as that other creature, and the next.

The other thing I would say is that it's not just human personalities, but the being of all things; that individual fly, that individual tree, etc. The Divine is incarnated in every thing, including all the individual quarks and strings in that individual fly, or individual tree. Reality is a living system of "God bits" creating the material world continually. Reality is Spirit expressing itself in form. It's turtles all the way down...

Of course, this does sit well with the panpsychist position, which he includes.

 

[Ben Dhyan]

We are all expressions of the one Cosmos, God, or Brahman if you like. Thing is, these expressions are not equal, some are greater due to their expressions being deeper than others. Some expressions are such that there is no awareness of even being an expression, but nevertheless these expressions are cosmically valid and serve a purpose in the greater scheme of things. Best advice to all expressions is the assurance that there is infinite potential at their disposal to become one with the source of their present expression.