Do you know that you are god? Yes, you are god, all you do is god acting, all you think is god thinking, but as your body, brain is very limited, conditioned by many yesterdays, god is just an illusion, a mental construction, yes you are god.
I said god is illusion. But if god is truth why imagine it is a controller? Is there then anything to be controlled? All that exists emanate from him, is of his substance even if the universe is a dream , god is the dreamer, no reality can exist out of Him, he is absolute, so , control is a word not aplicable to god. If god exists we are god, cats are god, mountains, trees, stars, ALL is GOD. If god is a reality a truth, .
In my view, god is all that exists, and the unified champ where all the formal universe exists, 2 aspects of the same truth, obvious all forms of life are LIFE or GOD, call it the way you want. All universe is god, maybe the dream of god. God is a word that points to a truth that we cant comprehend by thought, maybe through meditation, a still , empty mind can feel god in its formless non existence, because existence means that which is out, expressed, god is the nom manifested and imanent in existence.
There is no beginning, there is no end, there is only that which you perceive in the moment. Is influence the same as control? The idea of one such as by Bach is definitely imaginative. We all may very well be the same at a certain level. Johnathon Livingston's Seagull though we are not.
The next level is not part of this level, so we can not use analogy or matter to explain it. The simple requirement is admittting we are not in control. after this we can stop trying to stop from crashing, and instead merely try to influece the direction of the ride and the objects we choose to appreciate along the way.
Individualistic thought can not be explained by chemicles to me. The gap between the light becoming the image in the perception is a long ways from being explained. The second anyone claims science has determined anything I start to laugh. We are children in this universe. We should behave as such, and quit trying to pretend we are otherwise.