Richard’s Substack

Richard’s Substack

Faith and experience

From chapter 7 of The Dice Game of Shiva: How Consciousness Creates the Universe. Copyright (c) 2009 by Richard Smoley.

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Feb 06, 2026
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Let’s look now at how the divine actually manifests itself, and what clue these manifestations give to its nature. To return to the primordial duality I’ve been exploring in this book, there is that which experiences and that which is experienced: “I” and the world, purusha and prakriti. The divine can manifest in either or both of these guises. How it does will determine its appearance and even its apparent location.

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