What you have to understand is we all share in a collective intelligence. There are also mass/collective thoughtforms, there are also powerful individual thoughtforms contained in the works of previous greats of any tradition.
It's a bit like if you write a book on spirituality
the book has it's content, but the real content is in the thoughts behind the book. Those thoughts don't just vanish, they exist as a thoughtform..and the book itself is like a key to the thoughtform. someone can read the book without having access to the thoughtform and therefore miss the point.
It's the actual intent that determines how much of the thought form we receive.
In a similar way, music can contain energy forms that are often very dark, it isn't even the music itself or the lyrics that influence us negatively, but the energy in which the music was composed.
Basically what it means is, everything we do on the physical, has a bigger imprint on the subconscious level. Just like how Freud described our complex's like the tip of the iceberg, where the real issue is hidden in the subconscious.
Also, billions of people are reading scriptures, how come they don't just subconsciously pick up on ALL the intelligent ideas, ie why do dumb people pick up on poor narratives which lead to poor interpretations?
law of attraction right? what you focus on is what you'll get.
if you want to know, you'll know.
I'm not claiming to have all the answers, it's only whereever i've been able to focus, i've eventually received the answers I wanted.
As for terms like 'universal consciousness' this is an easier to understand modern new age term but it describes the same reality.
In islamic sufi circles the Kalam was called the Ruh-e-azam, the great soul.
In hinduis, vishnu is called the universal spirit.
Basically just different terms to describe the same idea.
All the traditions have used the analogy of the 'infinite ocean'.
As for the 'prism' analogy.
well it's like maya
maya isn't a seperate entity but the power of Brahman and it is through maya, Vishnu itself manifests as 'God with attributes'.
It is Brahman revealing it's own self.
YET they do not differentiate between vishnu and brahman ie same thing, with a different appearance, like the analogy of the 3 states of matter and ironically this is what the trinitarian christians use.
The problem I have with this version is, in effect all consciousness is basically Brahman, therefore panthiesm or monism..but in essence when we worship God then we are worshipping a manifestation of our own self.
The hindus do beleive that YOU are Brahman
The I AM state
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satcitananda
Now for me, my understanding is a variation where Brahman and vishnu are not the same thing, but vishnu is the expression of Brahman ie the Logos/Word of God.
Basically like the Father and Son.
in every way, vishnu is the same as the logos ie all things exist in it, come from it, return to it.
Look at it this way
was there ever a time, where God didn't know about you?
Your exist in His awareness.....and His awareness is eternal, therefore ALL things are eternally existing ie the Logos.
So it is perfectly fine for me to believe in the existence of both the Essence and the Logos together without making the Logos as GOD in the Transcendent sense.
I see the Logos as the means through which the Transcendent Essence reveals it's Immanent nature.
How do you understand this in light of the demiurge idea?