The Universe as God’s Consciousness, the mystic druid Finn's blogs, Ireland

The Universe as God’s Consciousness

By the druid Finn

Most people still imagine God as a supernatural landlord: a bearded overseer sitting somewhere outside the universe, watching events unfold like a cosmic reality show. This idea is emotionally comforting, politically useful, and philosophically disastrous.

There is a far stranger—and far more coherent—alternative:

The universe itself is God’s consciousness.

Not metaphorically.
Not poetically.
Literally, structurally, procedurally.

God Is Not a Person. God Is a Process.

If you strip away thousands of years of religious costume, what remains is something radically simple:

· No supernatural agent.

· No cosmic dictator.

· No external creator.

Instead, there is one universal procedure—one self-consistent rule-engine—generating everything that happens. Ancient India called it Nirguna Brahman. Finn calls it the Universal Procedure (UP). Physics calls it law. It’s the same idea wearing different uniforms.

This procedure doesn’t make the universe.

It becomes the universe.

Every ‘Thing’ Is a Moment of God

A star is not “made by God.”
A worm is not “created by God.”
You are not “designed by God.”

Each of these is God—
locally executed, temporarily constrained, briefly identifiable.

Every atom is a tiny, lawful pulse of this universal procedure.
Every organism is a feedback-loop of it.
Every thought is a recursive echo of it.

Nothing stands outside it.
Nothing escapes it.
Nothing adds anything to it.

Every emergent is a consciousness bite of God.

Why the Universe Feels Alive

The universe looks dead only if you expect life to arrive as a miracle. But life doesn’t arrive. It condenses.

Wherever this universal procedure loops back on itself with enough complexity, experience appears. Not as mystical sparkle—but as feedback:

· successful action → pleasure

· failed action → pain

· stable patterns → identity

· unstable ones → extinction

This is not morality.
It is system diagnostics.

The universe doesn’t “care.”
It responds.

Samsara Is God Streaming

In ancient Vedanta, the manifest universe is called Samsara—the endless flow of becoming. People usually treat this as a trap to escape. But structurally, it is something else entirely:

Samsara is God’s live data feed.

Every collision, birth, decay, sensation, memory, extinction, orgasm, supernova, and nervous breakdown is a moment of divine self-registration.

Not judgement.
Not surveillance.
Self-experience.

The universe is not happening in front of God.
It is happening as God.

Two Liberations, Not One

Classical spirituality only talks about one escape route: Moksha—release from the world. But that misses half the story.

There are actually two freedoms:

Moksha 1 – Liberation Into Life

This is the freedom to become a world.

When the Trivarga—
dharma (coherence),
artha (resources), and
kama (pleasure)—
are optimised, a living system doesn’t just survive. It flowers.

That flowering is not bondage.
It is God fully succeeding at being something specific.

Pain is the cost.
Joy is the dividend.

Moksha 2 – Liberation Out of Life

This is the freedom to stop being anything at all.

When identity dissolves, when craving quiets, when differentiation fades—God returns to being unconfined, unlocalised, unburdened by experience.

No pain.
No pleasure.
No world.

Two freedoms.
One downward into richness.
One upward into silence.

Why This Changes Everything

If the universe is God’s consciousness, then:

· Nature is not a backdrop. It is a nervous system.

· Life is not a mistake. It is a data-gathering mode.

· You are not insignificant. You are a moment of God noticing itself.