You are the Universe Experiencing Itself | Spinoza’s God
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Every atom in your body was forged in the heart of a star. The calcium in your bones, the iron in your blood, the oxygen in your lungs, all of it was born in cosmic furnaces billions of years ago, long before the Earth even existed. Every atom inside you traveled across the universe for unimaginable stretches of time. And then, for one brief moment in cosmic history, the universe arranged itself into something capable of looking up at the stars in awe. The universe became… you.
This is the philosophy of Baruch Spinoza. The idea that you, me, every living thing, are not separate from the universe, but expressions of it. That consciousness itself is the cosmos becoming aware of its own existence. And that there is no God watching over the universe, but the universe itself is God.
00:00 Spinoza and the Stardust Inside Us
01:37 The God of Einstein
09:15 Deus Sive Natura
18:02 God is Dead
23:50 The Illusion of Free Will
32:32 Sub Specie Aeternitatis
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@ApertureThinking
June 16, 2026 at 12:15 pm
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@RyanVerity
June 16, 2026 at 12:15 pm
i was literally gonna say you needed to change the thumbnail, then I refresehed the page and you did. It looks much better now!
@1eahhwut
June 16, 2026 at 12:15 pm
damn i was a spinozist without even knowing it😭
@michaelsherwin3
June 16, 2026 at 12:15 pm
The Egg
@IntelFuturesOfficial
June 16, 2026 at 12:15 pm
Such a vast universe
@BehaviorFrame
June 16, 2026 at 12:15 pm
Beautiful philosophy. But if you're the universe, why do you feel so disconnected from
it?
@wedidntstartthefire1
June 16, 2026 at 12:15 pm
Theres a problem here. Your ability to see the pre determined nature of things is itself pre determined.
@matthewnicholson2699
June 16, 2026 at 12:15 pm
It's crazy after all that and today we've still got people trying to force their ridiculous dogmatic religious belief system
@mainikkelle
June 16, 2026 at 12:15 pm
I'm not a guy experiencing the universe… I'm the universe experiencing… a guy.
@jeaniebird999
June 16, 2026 at 12:15 pm
Yes! When I look at the stars I feel homesick.
@nandinii9
June 16, 2026 at 12:15 pm
✨❤️
@top115
June 16, 2026 at 12:15 pm
okay you are ready now. Thats perfectly integrating with wide parts of Joscha Bachs view.
If you want to fill some gaps 🙂
@hooskiistudios
June 16, 2026 at 12:15 pm
Thank you for this video!
@WFSQM
June 16, 2026 at 12:15 pm
Consciousness grew complex and then came humans, a life so complex it hunts life bigger, stronger, faster than itself, a life capable of communicating with itself around the world, capable of building vessels that travel at tremendous speeds in all land air and water, capable of reaching another stellar body,
But the universe made sure to make life so small as compared to its own vastness, that even this very complex conscious life is in awe of the universe and it too spends its lifetime acknowledging and understanding the universe…
@wedidntstartthefire1
June 16, 2026 at 12:15 pm
Well then why do i have to pay rent and deal with back pain?
@Juanelmajo13
June 16, 2026 at 12:15 pm
Fck religions. Reality is WAY more interesting.
@top115
June 16, 2026 at 12:15 pm
"If god is truly infinite than how can something exist independently from god"
I thought about it, first hilberts hotel came to my mind and in parallel to that the reflex (also to that) that Infinity is not really a number or a real thing. Its just what we use when thinking about unboundedness. There is always a next step calculation possible, either the universe ends in a loop somewhere – so kind of infinite – or everything stops. I think it will loop.
But never the less there would be room for an unbound god too.
But 'truly' infinite is BS in the first place (my opinion)
@GBV108
June 16, 2026 at 12:15 pm
Philosophy is so useless and science even though it works seems like wild goose chase. Existentialism is just making stuff up to feel good about ourselves. Society is doomed.
@Daniel-kx4sy
June 16, 2026 at 12:15 pm
Teachings like this has been around for thousands of years. They’re literally just a basic tenet of Hinduism. They’re hardly Spinosa’s idea.
@CouplesLite
June 16, 2026 at 12:15 pm
Another video about longwinded nothings, what a wasted opportunity.
@makl8995
June 16, 2026 at 12:15 pm
Focal points in which the universe is aware of itself.
@moonobsessed
June 16, 2026 at 12:15 pm
I researched Spinoza in the philosophy class that summer when i met whom i thought was the love of my life. A Beautiful story blossomed into a year and a half of what I felt was the purest form love I could ever encounter thinking only for it to be all taken away. It’s been 6 months since I’ve last seen him and 2 years since what it felt like the world stopped spinning when I looked into his eyes and here I am, clicking on a video and listening to what i was supposed to know all along. that what I called “forever” was only my mind extending a moment into infinity, and what I call loss is just change unfolding as it always is. He was not my whole world, but a finite part of it that I once understood through my own experience of love.
@AntiMullahs
June 16, 2026 at 12:15 pm
Hello other mes. Give me 50000$ asap. Me need it thus me need it (you). Me cant hate me. Me give me money.
@Haryazz
June 16, 2026 at 12:15 pm
But capitalism!
When somebody tell you the universe doesn't owe you anything, tell them it owes you everything. You owe it to yourself and you are the fucking universe.
@claw4336
June 16, 2026 at 12:15 pm
What if it has always been about the mind and soul all along no god needed
@asianartist1
June 16, 2026 at 12:15 pm
hahahaha, been saying this for about 2 decades now :p
@waynetan6056
June 16, 2026 at 12:15 pm
This is some what align with what the buddha realised 2500 years ago.
The real freedom is to extinguish the inner fire of the concept of self, ego, identity. Seeing emotions for what it is as everything governs the universe is dependent origination. We are all part of a process unfolding. The freedom that we have is to choose how we participate in the process.
@elypearl826
June 16, 2026 at 12:15 pm
I love Spinoza!
@momo.ru-chan
June 16, 2026 at 12:15 pm
The way I think about the universe and our existence is that we may be like living cells within a much larger being or consciousness. In the same way that bacteria and microbes live inside a host without necessarily being aware that they are part of a larger organism, we may exist within something far greater than ourselves.
Our scale is so small compared to the vastness of the universe that we may be incapable of fully understanding the complexity, nature, or thoughts of a higher existence. What we call the universe could itself be a living entity, and we are simply tiny components within it—just as individual cells are part of a body, often unaware of the whole they help sustain.
@xX_Gravity_Xx
June 16, 2026 at 12:15 pm
Western philosophers always seem to forget that outside of Europe, they ain't really act like that lol…
@al4904
June 16, 2026 at 12:15 pm
I came to the same conclusion almost 20 years ago.
@DaxDoesDigital
June 16, 2026 at 12:15 pm
6:55 …Very cult-like …It's what the Church of Scientology does to ex-members – LOL 😂 9:15 …."Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations" – Gene Roddenberry had it right. 11:45 …Wow 🤯 😮 That's literally how I've described god myself for many decades now: "G.O.D." – the Grand Ocean of Divinity… Holy crap! I've never heard anyone else come close to analogy. 👍🤣
@for_theLord
June 16, 2026 at 12:15 pm
"he dismantled" yet billions believe in Jesus!
@sinayemdiniso1758
June 16, 2026 at 12:15 pm
Spinoza was wronged by who again? Speaks so much about you know who
@ChubakaSteven
June 16, 2026 at 12:15 pm
RUN YOUR AUDIO THROUGH A DE-ESSER holy smokessszz
@ChubakaSteven
June 16, 2026 at 12:15 pm
The universe is taking a sht right now
@idrunn8764
June 16, 2026 at 12:15 pm
Who did your edit this time? That chapter card animation is terrible!
@knifeguystuff
June 16, 2026 at 12:15 pm
If einstein said yes, he would have lost all banking privileges.