Welcome to this week’s Bill Harvey Blog
Created April 24, 2026
A lot to unpack here. First, what do I mean by “God”? What is God in my worldview?
God is what each of us experiences as our consciousness, and everything we perceive through that consciousness, summed across all of existence as One Consciousness.
That view of what God is, is fully embodied in perhaps 1% of the human race. It is stated in less precise Western scientific terms, more metaphorically and perhaps more relatably, in the belief systems of Kashmir Shaivism, Advaita Vedanta, Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Sufism, Kabballah, and in the modern forms of American Transcendentalism known variously as “Manifesting”, The Secret, Silva Mind Control, et al. It is inherent in most other New Age thought and is widely held within MAGA, so that, in its less scientifically precise forms, its footprint could be in the ~25% range across the Earth’s human species.
Whereas there has been a gradual decline in the belief systems of the major world religions, this concept of God has been on the rise for the past Century, and it might be the fastest-growing cosmological system among the general public at this time.
The 1% who see it in its most scientific form tend to be kind, peaceful, and calm, because in their comprehension, we are all One and so, strife is inappropriate.
The ~25% who see it from a more metaphorical point of view can also exhibit those same collaborative tendencies, or can intellectualize the idea in a way that rationalizes xenophobia, homophobia, misogyny, racism, Us Versus Them thinking and behavior.
From the standpoint of social good or social utility, it would therefore be better for the idea to be comprehended from a scientific framework, rather than partially understood in a woo-woo framework.
Fortunately, there is a slow growth in the percentage of scientists who are willing to consider that consciousness might be more fundamental to reality than matter is, or that both consciousness and matter are manifestations of an underlying reality such as “information”. Physicalism is the term that has emerged as the main label for the scientific presumption that all that exists is physical matter and energy, which can convert from one to the other (E=MC2).
The slow growth of the group of scientists who are not willing to presume physicalism has caused new labels to appear to cover this group, specifically, the terms used are panpsychism and cosmopsychism. The fact that new names are being assigned is, in my view being a cosmopsychist, a good sign.
It is an indication of strong bias (which scientists are supposed to avoid like the plague) that scientists change the subject or make funny remarks about drug use when it is pointed out that the pioneers of quantum physics. Max Planck, Erwin Schrodinger, Werner Heisenberg, and Wolfgang Pauli; not to mention other great physicists Albert Einstein, John Wheeler, and Stephen Hawking, all stated that the physical universe is, as Dr. Richard Silberstein puts it in his new book coming out in October, “responsive to consciousness” (the observer). That mind over matter is real. It is not real to the physicalists, and the ground they stand on is shrinking under their feet each year.
The physical universe is… “responsive to consciousness” (the observer). That mind over matter is real.
How can this be visualized by the average person? This is God’s form of Virtual Reality. God, being the One Consciousness from which the multiverses sprang, inhabits all of creation in the form of little pieces of consciousness, which is the One Game Player that really exists, looking out from each set of eyes, pretending to be separate entities.
In one sense, each little piece of consciousness IS the One Consciousness. In another sense, it is a diminished form of the One Consciousness because in this temporary role, it sees only from its limited viewpoint, and in the case of virtually all Earth humans, has no conscious memory of being God.
This is part of the game.
It is a more than three-dimensional movie. We watch movies and videos and often lose ourselves in the protagonist, as if we are that person. God is doing the same thing with us, at a far higher level of technology.
It’s in that sense that each one of us is living a life that is fascinating to God.
The tiny percentage of human beings who have overcome their egos and risen to higher levels of consciousness and have seen this reality and reported it back to the rest of us, have had their observations written up in scriptures throughout the ages. One of the clear messages in these scriptures is that God loves a happy ending. That’s why God helps us with synchronicities and other forms of hinting and even blatant Deus ex machina intervention, which physicalists categorize as coincidences.
Centuries past our mythos was that the world is a mysterious, glamorous, magical place, our lives have meaning and purpose, and God looks after us. In our scientific ascent, there was an unnecessary sharp turn away from all that as “magical thinking”. Arthur C. Clarke famously said, “Any sufficiently advanced technology will be indistinguishable from magic.” The world is a magical place, meaning that the technology the One Consciousness has created so that we can all play this game together is of the highest unimaginable technology. The word “magic,” however, connotes a numinous feeling of awe and wonder, which are good feelings to have, certainly better than the average feelings around here in 2026.
We have trivialized life itself.
We have trivialized ourselves.
God, however, finds us fascinating.
Why all the suffering then? Free will. We make mistakes. Their benefit is learning. It’s the game. In the end, no one is extinguished; consciousness, like matter and energy, can neither be created nor destroyed.
Every movie and every novel that is aimed at drama requires an antagonist. That’s why there is antagonism in the world. Without it, there would be no drama.
The game is whether, in our imperfect semi-evolved form, can we overcome our mistakes and antagonisms, and how exactly will we do that?
Perhaps the One Consciousness is able to predict everything perfectly and so, there is no surprise, except down here at our levels where God, in an incarnation in which memory has been suppressed of ever having lived before or of being God, surprise is the key joy that God is able to experience through the design of the game, and perhaps (given omniscience) only by living through diminished versions of Herhimself.
Interestingly, when one observes the goal-seeking behavior of single-celled creatures, they appear to exhibit – besides the drives to survive predators and other environmental dangers (security), find food, and socialize – curiosity, which might also be called the urge to explore, to experience novelty, to be surprised. Every animal exhibits this motivation.
God might have set up the whole game just for the surprises.
More likely, the training SheHe is putting us through indicates that we are beloved companions desired to be kept around forever, who therefore need a certain amount of toilet training for the maximum enjoyment of our company in Eternity.
One way or another, we need to stop selling ourselves short. We have a glorious, glamorous destiny, and we are wasting time by dwarfing ourselves and playing smaller games when we could be playing The Big Game.
Here’s a short 3+ minute video on the One Consciousness from my Power of You podcasts.
Love to all,
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