It is essential that we troll the internet and talk to Gemini, the Google AI in order to be thoroughly clear about the psychological mechanism of Projection because all we have ever heard about God consists of nothing beyond hearsay and projection.

We rarely talk to anyone about our experience of God. That is because we only have experience of someone else’s experience of God, and usually, not even that. Usually it is the experience of someone else’s experience of someone else’s experience of someone else’s experience, etc. of God.

But there is the possibility that all of us can experience something of what is called “God” by simply listening in the emptiness, stillness, silence (One thing, not three), for what might occur, emerge, arise in the silence–or we might have a dream of particular clarity and force that we would consider to be an encounter with God. The experience is one thing and talking about the experience is another, because words do not exist that allow us to speak directly of the experience. The experience confirms us in our first hand knowledge of “That Which Has Always Been Called God,” but it does not translate into a language that enables others to know what we know.

Meditation throughout the ages has occasionally provided those meditating with the experience of the reality of “That Which Has Always Been Called God,” but the best that they have managed to say about their experience comes from the Buddha who described his experience of meditation as, “Peaceful abiding here, now.”

Paul in 2 Corinthians 2:1-4 said, “I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven—whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows… was caught up into Paradise and heard things that are not to be told, that no mortal is permitted to repeat.” Paul did not have th vocabulary to say more, and “permitted to repeat” can be understand as “able to put into words.”

Direct experience is not translatable, which means we can only talk of the experience without being abe to communicate the experience itself.

Joseph Campbell quoted Heinrich Zimmer as saying “The best things cannot be said, and the Second best things create confusion by trying to say what cannot be said, which leaves with talking about the third best things.” (Which consists of news, weather, sports, and gossip).

We can know more than we can say, and that means we live from what we know in doing what we know is the right thing to do, and the right way to do it, and the right time and place in which to do it. And as long as we live from what we know everything works amazngly well. But. When we begin to live from what we want, and from what we fear, and from what someone else says is the way to live, we depart from the Way and wander in the wilderness far from that which is good and meet and right.