So, there is no god.

Respectfully, you are incorrect. There is a Creator. 

Though, I think not the Creator that you imagine ... and by creator I mean Creator...not religion.

but - so you don't think there is creator...no big deal.

Advance in consciousness?  what do you mean?

The idea of god ... is dangerous.

Dangerous in what way?

2 questions to anyone discussing 'God'. What do you precisely *mean* by the word 'God'? Second, if you do believe God exists, how do you know?
(or in other words, how did you come to the knowledge that God according to how you understand it, actually exists)

Now the burden of proof lays with someone claiming the existence of something. It's not up to someone to prove that something does not exist.

One problem is inevitable speculation on matters which lay outside the horizon of what is objectively and intersubjectively knowable (so more than one person can verify, or maybe more importantly, falsify, the truth claim about the existence of something). We don't know (yet) how matter came to life, what sparked the existence of the observable universe or what came before that etc.), and cultures have been filled with cosmological tales to fill up these gaps that the wandering mind inevitable ponders on.

That also doesn't have to mean all the tales and speculations are false or not more or less closer to the truth. The other problem, also stemming from lack of knowledge, is to close the door shut on all metaphysical and cosmological speculation. How do you *know* all of these ideas are false?

Last remark. Aside from the truth value of these ideas, what about cultural/social, moral, emotional or other more psychological aspects of a subjective belief in God(s)? What about personal life experiences leading to someone to have a certain view of God(s), that is functional and helps them? Who am I to say that they shouldn't, if they have their own valid reasons..

- Endless cycles of everything. For what?

"For sure", lol

It's not like many of his conclusions can't be easily disseminated

No disrespect of course, just is what it is

Personally, the way I concluded it was brought on by much trial and error and experience. I would imagine that for anyone else, even with a very advanced level of creativity you would eventually conclude the same thing.

Think of it this way, if I were to imagine a working theory from scrap (purely imaginal), I would say something like:
our experience of the false self and 'personal life' (that is to say the life that we say belongs to us) are both illusory because we are gathering experience for some kind of Source and this Source wants to dive firsthand into many different lives to learn in the deepest possible way what it wants to learn. 
Just something like that can throttle someone to eventually work on themselves to the point where they refine and abandon concepts continually. 

Strange - because the difference between you and  me, Mark, is that what I know for sure is not  very much at all.


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