The druid said: “The God experience costs”

The druid Finn’s minim “The God experience, COSTS” can be understood very simply once we strip away mystical language and look at how reality actually works.

In Finn’s monist view, everything that exists is a temporary local expression of one automatic blind universal procedure, and which he chooses to call God. You, me, a tree, a thought, every identifiable reality — all are brief emergents consisting of trillions of individual events binding together as identifiable units in a constantly changing world. But binding, indeed holding together, is not free. It takes energy, adjustment, and constant correction. In short: to exist as an identifiable reality — COSTS.

The “God experience I AM” is not something special or reserved for mystics. It simply means — being real— existing in the timeless formless infinite as a distinct identifiable real, truly awesome “something”. In that sense, every being is already having the God experience. Indeed, being itself is actually the God experience. In other words, LIFE itself is GOD.

And here is the key point: being real comes at a high price.
To exist as an identifiable reality means: Being real. Having boundaries that identify you. Being continuously exposed to change and decay. Experience both pleasure and pain.

That mix — joy and suffering, wonderful gain and dreadful loss — is the true cost of being real as the GOD EXPERIENCE.

This is exactly what ancient Indian philosophy called — SAMSARA: the cycle of lived existence, meaning LIFE, with all its ups and downs and final painful dissolution. SAMSARA, meaning LIFE, is not a mistake or punishment — it is the bill for emerging as something real, here and now, within an infinity of nothing.

The familiar saying — “There’s no such thing as a free lunch” —captures this perfectly. Nothing in reality comes without a cost. For something to exist, energy — real effort has to be invested to make and maintain it. The same applies to you as a living being.

So when Finn says — “The God experience - Costs,” he is making a blunt, naturalistic claim:

“Life is the God experience”, and to live and stay alive, costs.

The druid said: “The God experience costs” (Video)

The Cost of the God Experience

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