Eve Arthur - More on Berkley's "what is"

I wrote this as an introduction to a paper submitted for my Ancient and Medieval Philosophy class some time ago. I believe it relates well with Berkley's monistic view of reality.

One sunny Monday at noontime I had the pleasure of sitting with two unpublished philosophers upon cushions of grass and pine needles in the dappled sunshine. Eating a lunch of sweet fruit found previously in the dumpster, we three soon discovered the holiness of reality. We came to realize that while sitting on the grass in the sunshine, supping on pineapple, that we were really sitting on god, in god, through god, within god, under and above god; eating, speaking, seeing, inhaling, exhaling, pondering, being – God. In this Zen moment we realized that it was only rarely that we tapped into this divinity – usually we missed the holiness of our existence because of supposedly important schedules and tasks. Why are we deemed self-conscious beings, yet still we are so disconnected spiritually? We believe we are elite, superior beings because of our subjectivity, yet we seem to miss the true meaning of what it is to exist here on this plane – now. As one of my philosopher friends speculates, we became more disconnected when we (as humans) came to the decision that we in fact, were god, and everything else in existence was separate and inferior.