I had been reading an analysis of Ibn Arabi's philosophy of "The Unity of Being" and wrote down the notes below.

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"I am God
The essence of me is one thing
My knowledge of me is made up of infinite attributes
These attributes are non-manifest potential
They become actualised when I establish a relationship between the potential of these attributes and non-existence "

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I was woken up at 3am the next morning and asked to write down the following:

Perhaps, it all comes down to energies vibrating in relation to each other, to form what is observable.

Energy is light (in terms of mass) and not anchored in the material. What is energy exactly? How does it vibrate? How does one differentiate one energy from another?

One cannot, because it is all one and the same. So EVERYTHING is just the same thing vibrating at different frequencies. It's the vibration that causes the relationship. It's the vibration that is the differential and the differentiating aspect.

So, if we were to take a blob of energy and get it to vibrate in an infinite number of ways, we could create something observable.

Think of an orchestra. Each instrument produces a myriad of sounds (vibrations) which individually are beautiful (or not) or just are. Individually each sound is independently an attribute that can be many (infinite) actualisations of its potential. It would depend on the choices made by the creator (musician) of the sounds in terms of the relationship between the energy vibrations. And not just the static choice of attributes. Not just the notes selected to play, but how they are played.

Think of a musician playing one note on a violin or cello for instance, and how the strings and bow and pressure from the fingers and the transfer of energy from human to instrument and many other attributes, combine to form a singular unique sound.

It's also not just the choices of how the notes are played, but also the temporal "when" relationship between the sounds that are created. Each note existing discretely without a relation to another is monotony. And even one discrete note existing without any relation to itself is almost nothing. Approaching zero.

To exist, a sound (God) must have multiple actualisations of itself simultaneously to be observable. And these multiple actualisations of itself exist ONLY in relation to each other. Multiple relational duplications of one discrete vibration of energy. So nothing actualises as a single, differentiable entity. The essence IS the whole.

And extending the metaphor - if we take each instrument, and its seemingly infinite possible sound vibrations, and put them together in an orchestra, the possibilities of relationships between the vibrations (sounds) expands exponentially. Ranging from cacophony to sublime beauty, both evoke emotion. Why?

Until the creator (musician) decides to play the instrument (flow of creativity) the sounds do not yet exist. They exist ONLY as potential sound, and further than that, they exist only as potential music (a collection of relational sounds).

In and of themselves, these collections of sounds are still not actualised until they are observed (heard) and then still the creative process continues with how the observer receives (hears) the sounds. This too could be in a myriad of ways.

And so - the whole of the creation exists in almost infinite variations of possibilities of its potential, while simultaneously existing as infinite variations of its actualised self, and it is a dynamic interchange between potential and actual which is determined (orchestrated) by the creator.

We are not however blobs of energy. If this "energy" is just ONE thing vibrating in infinite variations of the possible relational vibrations, then dualism does not exist. It's all one thing. God is one thing. We are God. We are I, and I am God.

"I" exist only as an actualisation of one of an infinite possible variations of "I", and everything I experience (see, hear, interact with) is also an actualisation of "I". Even that which is not or not yet, is "I" as potential.

In essence, the key is the relationship between the "I" that exists and all that is non-existent. Why?

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