God, Awareness, Infinity

The term "God," has echoed throughout all human history, but what is it attempting to point to? A conscious being? Pure awareness itself? The infinite totality of existence? Or an idea shaped by our longing for meaning? This circle moves beyond "Does God exist?" to dissect the architecture of the concept itself. We'll explore how definitions of God intersect with the nature of consciousness/awareness and infinity-and what this reveals about us.

Core Questions

1. When you say "God," what are you actually describing, a personality, a force, existence itself, or something else?

2. If God is infinity, does the concept become meaningless-or profoundly essential? Can the finite human mind truly grasp the infinite?

3. Awareness as Ground: If awareness is fundamental to reality, is that what we call God? Or is God what awareness arises from?

4. Can we ever "approximate" God? Or is every description just a human projection? What do different traditions (or atheism) project onto the concept?

5. Does God require personhood (intent, will, emotion)? What is gained or lost by viewing God as impersonal (e.g., pure consciousness, cosmic laws)?

6. Can "God" hold meaning separate from religion? Can religion exist without "God"? What remains sacred when dogma falls away?

Structure

• First 15 minutes: Arrival, coffee, connection
• 75–90 minutes: Socratic inquiry (no lectures, guided by questions above)
• Final 10–15 minutes: Reflection—one insight or unresolved question per person

Optional Reading

• Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras (esp. Samadhi Pada): Awareness as path to the divine.
• Meister Eckhart: Sermons on God as "ground of being" beyond form.
• Ibn Arabi: Fusus al-Hikam on imagination/consciousness as divine expression.
• Thomas Nagel: Mind and Cosmos on consciousness challenging materialism.

> "God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be proved, but something to be seen."
> — Swami Vivekananda