The substance of God

There are various principles related to spiritual life help, and a particularly important one is this: there’s only one presence in existence — God. This is a difficult concept to grasp, in part because it contradicts a core belief most everyone has: multiplicity or variety. In other words, there are a variety of forms to be found within existence and each of these forms has its own unique identity and so is separate from other forms. A person reading this posting is a separate entity from another person reading this posting. This multiplicity perspective seems quite obvious and is supported by the physical senses: we see unique forms, we hear unique forms, etc. How then can God be the only presence that there is?

Here’s one way to think about it.

Modern science believes that the universe is made up of three things: matter, dark matter or matter that cannot be seen, and energy. According to modern science then there are only differences in appearance and not in substance, since everyth…