Personal Reflection 1

Introduction

I have a deep desire to discover the great metaphysical structures of this reality. It is a fire inspired by St. Thomas Aquinas. However, God has stated that if I were to do this, I must do this out of my own effort. So I title this series of writings as Personal Reflection. For God has declared that He has revealed to me all that is needed for me at this moment. It means that I just have to work out everything from the depths of my soul.

Whether the Union of Being and Experience is Important

The Church has never made any comments on the unity of being and experience, nor does Scripture speak of it. From the lack of statements we can safely conclude that the union of being and experience is actually just my egoistic desires, and is not actually important in the eyes of God. Though God does know whether there is an actual union of being and experience, it seems insignificant and for sure there are fundamental truths which are more significant than the union.

However, while the specific truth of the union is insignificant, the reflection on the union is significant. By reflection I mean the set of truths related to the union, that is what it means for our experience and for our being. The reflection is that our life is not dedicated to being, but to experience. For without experience, being is insignificant and meaningless. The reason any being is important to us is because it affects our experience, and that is the real reason. We do not seek the being behind our experience, rather simply the experience of that being.

The 2 Models

The implicit model of reality as we believe it and as God sees it is the Causal Model (revoked by the Holy Spirit). This is my label for the model where being is separate from experience and causes experience, such that experience is an inferior being from pure beings as they depend on the original being for being. The model I have been desiring is the Union Model, where Being and Experience are united as the Triune God is united. It means Being and Experience are different attributes of the same thing. 

HS: I do not ask you to change your writing, let what is written be written. However, how do you know that the Causal Model is the Truth? Have We not repeatedly emphasized that the Union Model is the Truth? Look at Us and you shall understand that Union is the Truth, not Causation. You must learn to trust in yourself, for trust in the self and trust in Us is inseparable. 

HS: It is best to understand that the essence of Being is that of Experience. Remember, without Experience, Being is empty and void. Let us conduct a thought experiment. What is color without the experience of color? It is simply different wavelengths, what are quantities if not from their experiences? Once you take away experience, everything becomes meaningless and they disappear, you get not even the particular void, you get the True Void. 

HS: You may have never encountered the Void, as such I present it to you now. The Void is a Nothingness without any properties, generally or in particular. We are not that Void.

The void is necessarily non-existent. It also cannot be experienced other than as a mere thought. However, the thought of the void corrupts the void and gives it meaning.