| Who is God? |
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings
having a human experience.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
”God must be greater than the greatest of human weaknesses and, indeed, the
greatest of human skill. . . How can any man or woman sin against such
greatness of mind? How can one little carbon unit on Earth—in the backwaters
of the Milky Way, the boondocks—betray God almighty? That is impossible. . .”
Ramtha (in “What the &*( do We Know?)
I grew up in a family where God was a given. But I certainly had questions.
I couldn’t reconcile what I knew about God: angry, but all-loving; condemning me,
but created me as I am; all-powerful, but couldn’t control me. If he didn’t want me
to sin, why even make that an option? It was very confusing.
That was only the beginning. How did He work? What if I and my opponents both
prayed to win the game? And what about praying for what I wanted: Was God just
a sort of cosmic Santa Claus?
And how was it possible that I, an insignificant speck on a tiny planet in “the
backwaters of the Milky Way” could impact God with my sins? Why would he give
me the power to incur his wrath if I bowed down to an idol? An almighty, all-
powerful, all-knowing, loving God could be so thrown by me?
There were many twists and turns, but ultimately, the God of my childhood became
irreconcilable, and I abandoned him.
My seeking led me to Taoism, and culminated with Access. With Access it all fell
into place for me. The things that had always seemed true to me worked within a
coherent framework. Here’s part of that framework:
We are all infinite beings. I take these words quite literally, because they match
my knowing. I am infinite, and so are you. We occupy all the space there is.
Occupying all the space there is, we are enmeshed with each other. In our
energetic bodies, we are not separate. Many times a day, I pop out into space.
Many times a day, I connect to someone I care about half way around the world or
across the country. Sometimes I feel drawn to call them, and they will say, “I was
just thinking about you . . .” If an entity God exists, he, too, is infinite and occupies
all the space there is. As do we. We are omnipresent.
As infinite beings we know, be, perceive, and receive everything. Only our
limitations (which we ourselves create) separate us from this. One of the great
miracles of Access is that as we clear more and more limitation from our lives, we
regain our innate connection to knowing everything, perceiving everything. As this
process continues, we know ourselves as part of a miraculous energy system with,
literally, billions and billions of possibilities. So this characteristic of the traditional
God we also share: omniscience (all-knowingness).
We are the creators of our reality. This is a belief that many new-age systems
espouse, but again, I accept it without qualification. Everything that happens to
me is my creation. No exceptions. Last year I created a huge financial fiasco for
my life. Two months ago I decided to take on a cold. I do not control the
manifestation, but the creation is all mine.
Because I recognize the omnipresence and omniscience that are mine, as well as
my creation of my own reality, I don’t see a need for God. Remember that we are
infinite, so we are NOT inside our bodies: Our bodies are inside us. We occupy
all the space there is. Think of a vast energy body, with one little finger of energy
that animates our physical body. We are not human beings having a spiritual
experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience. As our energy
occupies a body, that portion of our energy narrows to occupy our body. My
connection to all I am is unchanged. But then socialization starts, and human
energy is the energy that guides socialization here on Earth. I accept limits, I cut
off my knowing, I accept programs from my parents, I learn rules. I come to
believe that I am what is inside my body, nothing more.
Understanding this process can really help. A child connected to her full self, for
example, may share information with her parents that she could not have gotten
linearly: “Mommy, I don’t know why, but I think something’s wrong with Grandma’s
heart.” Grandma lives 1000 miles away and the mother knows that no phone
communication has taken place. “Don’t worry, honey. I’m sure she’s fine. Do you
feel okay?” The subtextual messages (‘You’re wrong’ and ‘why are you acting this
way’) tell the girl she couldn’t possibly know this, so don’t share this information.
Within her, she creates form and structure, in the form of a rule: ‘You can’t possibly
know things that don’t come to you through your senses.’ She cuts of her
perceiving. Through her childhood she will assimilate thousands and thousands of
rules and beliefs: “Good people always ____”, “Good girls never _____”, “This is
right, and that is wrong.” Later she will report that, when she’s in certain situations,
she ‘hears her mother’s voice in her head’ repeating one of these rules. The
limitation is programmed, and will consistently trigger in certain situations.
Would an infinite being need to run on programming and pre-defined limitation?
If I am truly connected to my knowing, I don’t need rules. In any situation I can rely
on my ability to know, perceive, be, and receive everything. Sometimes trusting a
stranger will feel light and expansive for me. At other times my perceiving will
reveal the stranger’s desire to manipulate and take advantage of me. In that 10
seconds, I can make my choice. Rules will never be subtle enough to handle the
infinite possibilities.
In the last few decades, many have become fascinated with the concept of the
Present Moment, and Being Present. You cannot be in the present moment if
programs and rules are determining all of your reactions. Being present means
being connected to your infinite knowing and perceiving. Not reacting as your
father wanted you to, but knowing that you have all the information you need, and
can make any choice. Being present means being fully in your self, and choosing
based on this moment, not past programming or limitations. The second you rely
on a rule, you have left the present moment.
So, back to God. Let’s put all these pieces together. Here you are, creating your
reality. You’re connected to everything. You are knowing, being, perceiving, and
receiving everything. You are not responding to rules or programs; you are
present. You are an infinite being, and can handle whatever happens. If all those
were true, what would the role of God be?
Now, my knowing tells me there are Access practitioners who believe in God.
And I have no problem with that. If that concept truly assists you in moving toward
consciousness, I’m entirely for it (for you). I am also not married to my disbelief; I
hold it lightly. Every day I’m willing to destroy and uncreate all that I think I believe,
including my belief that God doesn’t exist. If I run into him one day, there will
nothing stopping me from accepting his existence. I choose every 10 seconds,
and I accept no form and structure. Any commitment to the idea that he doesn’t
exist would only limit me. And I’m in this for consciousness, so I accept no
limitations of any kind.
Voltaire famously said, “If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.”
Did you ever wonder about that statement? I was always confused by it! Now I
know why: it represents a human perspective. I don’t need a superior being to
guide me. I don’t need punishment for alleged sins. I don’t need to feel smaller
than. I know that rules cannot guide me to consciousness.
I am an infinite being. I know, be, perceive, and receive everything!
What would it be like to be out of control, definition, limitation, significance, rules,
and beliefs? To simply give no power to must’s, must not’s, should’s, shouldn’t’s,
and can’t’s? To know that, in every moment, you are an infinite, fabulous being,
responding to the magical and infinitely varied energies of the universe?
What would it be like to think that you are God? Does that rock too many rules?
Would you be willing to destroy and uncreate all of that?
What would it be like to stand, present and connected, in the fullness of your
particular abilities and magic?
What will it take for you to step up and claim them? When will the time finally be
right?
having a human experience.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
”God must be greater than the greatest of human weaknesses and, indeed, the
greatest of human skill. . . How can any man or woman sin against such
greatness of mind? How can one little carbon unit on Earth—in the backwaters
of the Milky Way, the boondocks—betray God almighty? That is impossible. . .”
Ramtha (in “What the &*( do We Know?)
I grew up in a family where God was a given. But I certainly had questions.
I couldn’t reconcile what I knew about God: angry, but all-loving; condemning me,
but created me as I am; all-powerful, but couldn’t control me. If he didn’t want me
to sin, why even make that an option? It was very confusing.
That was only the beginning. How did He work? What if I and my opponents both
prayed to win the game? And what about praying for what I wanted: Was God just
a sort of cosmic Santa Claus?
And how was it possible that I, an insignificant speck on a tiny planet in “the
backwaters of the Milky Way” could impact God with my sins? Why would he give
me the power to incur his wrath if I bowed down to an idol? An almighty, all-
powerful, all-knowing, loving God could be so thrown by me?
There were many twists and turns, but ultimately, the God of my childhood became
irreconcilable, and I abandoned him.
My seeking led me to Taoism, and culminated with Access. With Access it all fell
into place for me. The things that had always seemed true to me worked within a
coherent framework. Here’s part of that framework:
We are all infinite beings. I take these words quite literally, because they match
my knowing. I am infinite, and so are you. We occupy all the space there is.
Occupying all the space there is, we are enmeshed with each other. In our
energetic bodies, we are not separate. Many times a day, I pop out into space.
Many times a day, I connect to someone I care about half way around the world or
across the country. Sometimes I feel drawn to call them, and they will say, “I was
just thinking about you . . .” If an entity God exists, he, too, is infinite and occupies
all the space there is. As do we. We are omnipresent.
As infinite beings we know, be, perceive, and receive everything. Only our
limitations (which we ourselves create) separate us from this. One of the great
miracles of Access is that as we clear more and more limitation from our lives, we
regain our innate connection to knowing everything, perceiving everything. As this
process continues, we know ourselves as part of a miraculous energy system with,
literally, billions and billions of possibilities. So this characteristic of the traditional
God we also share: omniscience (all-knowingness).
We are the creators of our reality. This is a belief that many new-age systems
espouse, but again, I accept it without qualification. Everything that happens to
me is my creation. No exceptions. Last year I created a huge financial fiasco for
my life. Two months ago I decided to take on a cold. I do not control the
manifestation, but the creation is all mine.
Because I recognize the omnipresence and omniscience that are mine, as well as
my creation of my own reality, I don’t see a need for God. Remember that we are
infinite, so we are NOT inside our bodies: Our bodies are inside us. We occupy
all the space there is. Think of a vast energy body, with one little finger of energy
that animates our physical body. We are not human beings having a spiritual
experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience. As our energy
occupies a body, that portion of our energy narrows to occupy our body. My
connection to all I am is unchanged. But then socialization starts, and human
energy is the energy that guides socialization here on Earth. I accept limits, I cut
off my knowing, I accept programs from my parents, I learn rules. I come to
believe that I am what is inside my body, nothing more.
Understanding this process can really help. A child connected to her full self, for
example, may share information with her parents that she could not have gotten
linearly: “Mommy, I don’t know why, but I think something’s wrong with Grandma’s
heart.” Grandma lives 1000 miles away and the mother knows that no phone
communication has taken place. “Don’t worry, honey. I’m sure she’s fine. Do you
feel okay?” The subtextual messages (‘You’re wrong’ and ‘why are you acting this
way’) tell the girl she couldn’t possibly know this, so don’t share this information.
Within her, she creates form and structure, in the form of a rule: ‘You can’t possibly
know things that don’t come to you through your senses.’ She cuts of her
perceiving. Through her childhood she will assimilate thousands and thousands of
rules and beliefs: “Good people always ____”, “Good girls never _____”, “This is
right, and that is wrong.” Later she will report that, when she’s in certain situations,
she ‘hears her mother’s voice in her head’ repeating one of these rules. The
limitation is programmed, and will consistently trigger in certain situations.
Would an infinite being need to run on programming and pre-defined limitation?
If I am truly connected to my knowing, I don’t need rules. In any situation I can rely
on my ability to know, perceive, be, and receive everything. Sometimes trusting a
stranger will feel light and expansive for me. At other times my perceiving will
reveal the stranger’s desire to manipulate and take advantage of me. In that 10
seconds, I can make my choice. Rules will never be subtle enough to handle the
infinite possibilities.
In the last few decades, many have become fascinated with the concept of the
Present Moment, and Being Present. You cannot be in the present moment if
programs and rules are determining all of your reactions. Being present means
being connected to your infinite knowing and perceiving. Not reacting as your
father wanted you to, but knowing that you have all the information you need, and
can make any choice. Being present means being fully in your self, and choosing
based on this moment, not past programming or limitations. The second you rely
on a rule, you have left the present moment.
So, back to God. Let’s put all these pieces together. Here you are, creating your
reality. You’re connected to everything. You are knowing, being, perceiving, and
receiving everything. You are not responding to rules or programs; you are
present. You are an infinite being, and can handle whatever happens. If all those
were true, what would the role of God be?
Now, my knowing tells me there are Access practitioners who believe in God.
And I have no problem with that. If that concept truly assists you in moving toward
consciousness, I’m entirely for it (for you). I am also not married to my disbelief; I
hold it lightly. Every day I’m willing to destroy and uncreate all that I think I believe,
including my belief that God doesn’t exist. If I run into him one day, there will
nothing stopping me from accepting his existence. I choose every 10 seconds,
and I accept no form and structure. Any commitment to the idea that he doesn’t
exist would only limit me. And I’m in this for consciousness, so I accept no
limitations of any kind.
Voltaire famously said, “If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.”
Did you ever wonder about that statement? I was always confused by it! Now I
know why: it represents a human perspective. I don’t need a superior being to
guide me. I don’t need punishment for alleged sins. I don’t need to feel smaller
than. I know that rules cannot guide me to consciousness.
I am an infinite being. I know, be, perceive, and receive everything!
What would it be like to be out of control, definition, limitation, significance, rules,
and beliefs? To simply give no power to must’s, must not’s, should’s, shouldn’t’s,
and can’t’s? To know that, in every moment, you are an infinite, fabulous being,
responding to the magical and infinitely varied energies of the universe?
What would it be like to think that you are God? Does that rock too many rules?
Would you be willing to destroy and uncreate all of that?
What would it be like to stand, present and connected, in the fullness of your
particular abilities and magic?
What will it take for you to step up and claim them? When will the time finally be
right?
© John DeVault 2005