Is America the greatest country

[Whateverist]

I wonder if you can say why you feel what understanding positive psychological states as being closer to god adds to your experience or understanding of the world.

Well I believe God is everything that is good - love, charity, kindness, honesty, generosity, etc. I believe everything that is not good is merely the absence of God. Cliche, but basically in the same way that darkness is the absence of light.

So is being of or from god something which exists in pleasant psychological states, being what they are like? Do you believe God can and does literally take the form of a human-like subject? Is there anything which God, as you understand it, is apart from the way we experience it?

I guess you know by now I think that God can seem as real to a person as they are themselves, and that is because I think both personal identity and god identity are the product of the human mind. Neither we nor god have any existence outside lived experience, but that doesn't mean that those who believe should be rid of belief in God any more than they should try to transcend belief in themselves as persons.

If it is any comfort, I think that God is usually experienced as encompassing a greater portion of ones total being. Furthermore, those of us who reject any gods in all forms don't always succeed in creating an alternative 'channel' for accessing that greater self. (But it isn't impossible.)