How Does God Know Us If Fragmentation Exists?

"I come from a Sufi-influenced Muslim tradition. The Quran says God is aware of the distinction between being one and unique, that there is none like Him. So, when we get back into the fragmented mind, isn’t that knowledge being contained within consciousness itself? Rupert says: ‘In order for the mind to know who it truly is, it must reflect on itself. The finite mind must turn around. It must turn away from the content of experience and reflect and trace its way back to itself. So self-reflection is something that takes place in the finite mind, but there’s no self-reflection, nor need there be, in infinite consciousness, because infinite consciousness knows itself just by being itself. The sun illuminates itself just by being itself, without having to turn around and illuminate itself. Knowing-being should be written as one word. You’re absolutely right. In order to know anything other than being, you must stand apart from that thing. You cannot be a thing and know that thing at the same time. The one exception is being’s knowledge of itself. Being doesn’t stand apart from itself in order to know itself. It knows itself by being itself.’"

From event 05 - 12 October, 2025 Seven-Day Retreat at Garrison Institute, 5–12 October 2025

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