May 10, 2025 – B

Following up on the previous post, Alan Watts makes Hinduism plain. He says, The Upanishads, the sacred writings of the Hindus, says,“The intangible non-objective ground of everything that exists is identical with the ground of you.”  "And it is fundamental to Vedanta that the supreme Self is neither one nor many, but as they say non-dual. And they express that in this word advaita—a, is a negative word like non, dvaita is from dva, same as the Latin duo, two. So advaita is non-dual.” It is not one and not two, not nothing and not not-nothing. 

Watts says, “The intangible non-objective ground of everything that exists is called Brahman.” And we cannot hold ourselves aloof from it and talk about it because we are it! The Hindus would say, about us and it, "tat tvam asi  Thou Art That! You Are It! We are it!"

I propose that this "intangible non-objective ground of everything that exists" could as easily be called “The Psyche,” rather than "Brahman." We could say "The Psyche is the ground and substance of our existence," which we perceive/experience as “not ourselves” and call it “God.” And are at the point of understanding that "Thou Art That" applies to us!

We are the Psyche! ALL is the Psyche! The Psyche is God. We are God. Just as the Hindus would say, "All is Brahman! We are Brahman!" And theology, theologies, are imagined into existence as projections of our interpretations of reality and are not reality itself. Our theology is us pretending we are not God. But the actual truth is Thou Art That!

It all is Psyche!