Yah, I frequently do.
The nature of the universe is that there are no ultimate boundaries or individual entities. What is the case with the universe is that it is one gigantic process where all things that you might call an individual are, in fact, expressions of everything else.
This is called interbeing or "Dependant Origination".. It's the nature of the mathematics used to create all of modern technology and to represent our understanding of physics. A neat image to visualize this is an infinite array of jewels in all directions in a big net. Each jewel is polished such that it reflects every other jewel. If one jewel moves, its movement is reflected in every other jewel. If you look in any one jewel you see a reflection of the entire universe.
The ego disconnects us from this reality. It gives us the false impression that we are separate from everything around us. We then walk around with the impression that we have things like free will. In fact, the reality is that we are complex machines that adapt to environmental stimuli in a complex fashion.
The notion of a boundary between you and me is only useful to the ego based world (which is fine to live in and I am not advocating we give it up). But ultimately, just because my skin doesn't enfold your neurons does not mean that we are a different process. Just as the impulse to flex your arm muscle travels down a neuron and stimulates the muscle cells to contract, my text is hitting your eyes and entering your brain right now. It's causing cascades of neurons in your brain that interact with other neural networks that have been laid down over time due to other external stimuli and your genetic makeup. Based on the content of this message and the historical makeup of your brain, you will respond in a certain way to this text.
All that being said, the Judeo/Christian/Muslim God... The god of the west... Is defined as an individual entity that we are necessarily separate from. Furthermore, this entity inserts us into the world, and then takes us out and judges us based on our behavior during our lives.
Given my above commentary, this God notion is clearly a product of the ego which is an illusion. If there is an ultimate God entity, then it must be identical with us and the whole universe and us identical with it. Boundaries are just how our control systems (brain) relate to the world to create our behavior. They do not have some sort of cosmic meaning where an ultimate creator of all the universe is concerned.
Pick up a neuroscience textbook or a physics/engineering course and get the feeling for the math used to describe the universe. You'll see arbitrary reference points and imaginary boundaries used as intermediates to understand elements of the cosmos. Engineers make a profession out of defining boundaries and manipulating the contents of the boundary to respond in a fixed and known way to information crossing that boundary (I/O systems engineering).
The judeo/christian god is a product of our ignorance.
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