Who Is Your God?

You are entitled to your beliefs, and what is written here is not meant to be a challenge to them. Perhaps my beliefs, as provided below will provide a complement, or a supplement, to what you already believe. If so or not, that's fine.

Is it possible to have any description of a Higher power, an Everpresent being, a Creator, without being subjective? Can any of us claim to be objective, to be the holders of Highest Truth? I don't believe so, and I don't believe others' subscriptions, whatever their experience, are any better or worse than any other. I believe we all arrive at our own answers, but the quality of those answers differ, possibly as a result of the quality and context of our search, for truth, or ourselves, or for relief from pain or anxiety. So my claims, my beliefs, are not meant to be seen as truths I expect anyone else to follow or abide by. But they may provide a few insights into your own. This seems to me to be a vital point of departure, when considering religious or spiritual ideas, an openness to ideas and philosophies, and the potential to embrace others, not to compete with them.

In the same way that ideas should flow in the embrace of those who find them useful, God flows in the relationship that I have with God, and indirectly, through others having their personal relationship with God, and their relationship with me. The extent of this is an unlimited bulb of light, of energy, taking and adapting to various forms.

In more concrete terms God is our connection to each other, and also to all things, rocks, beetles, trees and elephants. The same colors and skins that clothe flowers and feathers, flow through our eyes and fingernails. This is not just romantic, it has real implications. If we are connected to God, inherently, implicitly, then God is not separate from us, but part of us, and we, part of God. That is an exciting reality. Think about it! Feel the reality! This means that God functions through us, creating (since Creation still explodes forth) through our actions, bringing about balances and imbalances through our conscious and unconscious application of energy. Since we are connected to God, some responsibility exists for us to care for, protect and consider the safety and survival of (ie love) both ourselves, and others, and our world, since we are co-creators of all. And thus in that sence, God does not exist, as something separate from us, who we can cry to for salvation, for separate acts of redemption and especially for fulfillment in emergencies. We can only blame ourselves, and gnash our own teeth for separating ourselves from the Truth, or ask others to be agents for our own reconciliation back to health or justice(doctors, lawyers etc).

I believe that all our actions create consequences, including all suffering and pleasure. I believe cancer is not accidental, but a product of lifestyle, and many other things that appear random. Car accidents, murders, war, all these are consented to at some level either always by individuals, often by individuals consenting as groups, which can be more powerful. If we have the capacity to use our consciousness, to focus our thoughts and energies, especially our emotions and actions on altruism, on sharing and unselfish behaviour, it is possible that we can bring ourselves out of harms way. The afflictions we suffer are the rim of the world's kindness, falling in, and we all contribute to the consciousness of the world, and the total goodness that comes out of the world. This consciousness is the two way process that moves between ourselves and God, and sometimes our own access to it is limited (due to our own distractions) and sometimes it is highly conscious, and powerful.

Coincidences are the results of consciousness.
It is possible that in rare cases, random events do occur, or seem to be random. These are probably exceptional, and can probably be explained by preceding actions (say of parents that are borne out in the child's life). If random actions do happen, maybe they are based in the area of insanity that morphs the consciousness of some around us into what is, finally, a manifestation that is somewhat inexplicable. But even insanity is rooted in genetics (inbreeding) and poor dietary habits, and even occasionally in poor mental discipline (ie the inability to follow a diet of the mind).

The Now, is a useful analogy for God. That we exist in the eternal moment, and so do all other things, and together, we contribute to this moment, it's unthinking wisdom, it's unrepeatable energy and content, it's unique and powerful pattern. The Now evokes the necessity for action and consciousness. The past and future do not exist, except as lower levels of consciousness, imbued with our emotions, and thus liable to be repeated. Memory also survives in consciousness, and this is where we may find ourselves, or lose ourselves, whether or not we dwell in the present, in ways that serve others (or ourselves) or not.

Jesus Christ is a manifestation of this, but not the exclusive manifestation. I believe most of the bible to be true, and profoundly true, because it is the embodiment of the Highest Consciousness. Some of the interpretations, such as Christianity being the exclusive domain of Truth, I believe to be erroneous. Christianity is a domain of truth, and salvation, but it is not the only one. All the other religions are efforts to interpret that which cannot be finally and completely expressed. Some, arguably, do a better job than others, and are more popular as a result. Religions in any event can only exist within the framework of languages (spoken, written, read and listened to) and thus religions as we know them are a fairly recent social innovation or organisation based on fairly recent technology - the technology of language.
Obviously before language, none of the religions that are described by them even existed, but relatives, progenitors, did, such as paganism and so on that have influenced Christianity as the practical Romans used this powerful and successful new system called Christianity to organise their world, their laws and culture in their new domains. And so began the Roman Catholic Church.
It can be experienced and it can be felt, through our sense of being, through our consciousness, through our own revelations as to our identities, purposes and philosophies as a group of inspired creatures on the Earth.

Understanding God and ourselves accurately presupposes our using our imaginations on an enormously diverse array of related and seemingly unrelated areas. Everything effects everything else. So to have a useful belief, we need to consider a considerable number of things interacting, in nonlinear ways sometimes, over a considerable period of time (which is linear the way we think about time).
Then there is a magical realisation of Now, what Now is, and how it and we came into being. This is a simpler but less rational approach.


God has appeared in our image, and we have made God into our image as well. But God is beyond both. If it is helpful to understand God as a singular being, with a name, a certain style or dress, a period in which he or she lived and did specific things as examples on how we should live, then that is useful.

I have had moments when I believed in the existence of God, and moments when I did not. I've had moments when life after death seemed certain, and moments when it seemed unnatural, and implausible. I see that energy is conserved, is not destroyed, but can alter its state. My own experience of my own energy suggests something intransigent, something eternal, about my inner reservoir of energy. This seems to aid in an explanation where my soul seems to be part of God, but also, to an extent, just a single cellular expression in the great organism that functions as a single sentient being. That wisdom and power flows through me, and my vitality, back into it. Sometimes the poisons and toxins and excrement flows into me, and I have to recycle these or redistribute them.

God is about balance, connection, consciousness and tremendous explosions of energy. Balance means that even what we consider negative, evil, sickly, bad, wrong, are part of God, and part of our existence. In the movie The Matrix, (the anomaly) Neo's power is directly proportional and in a way responsible for Agent Smith (his antithesis, a virus). In Star Wars, Darth Vader is both the unbalancer and the restorer of balance (through his son) of the universe, importantly, through a subscriptiuon to the same source of power, The Force.

I am somewhat sceptical of the usefulness of religion, as defined, specific arrangements of people with prescribed beliefs. Particularly where aspects can be powerfully brought to bear on populations to get them to engage in wars and genocide. I would like a more thorough study of statistics, but it seems that war often gains support from its religious base, even though the real reasons are the pursuit of scarcity by the elites and leaders who know how to manipulate their less conscious subscribers.

In some cases though personal relationships with God are powerful, and powerfully expressed and experienced. In these cases it appears that 'God as a person' works effectively. Whether this is true in a group scale is debatable, particularly where fundamentalism, and hubris have done much to prove otherwise.

For me, God's existence is predicated on the results of our combined actions, emotions and thoughts, though we experience the unfolding of these three states first in the reverse order (acting often mostly out of a subconscious state) and then when we interpret actions, especially our own, where we take responsibility, and become accountable for our connection to God and God's actions over the earth, then the flow moves inward at a higher state of consciuousness, and finally outward again in a much more enlightened state. Obviously these patterns occur in infinite patterns, and this is the simple and complex and beautiful reality we call Now.

While I subscribe to 99% of what Christians believe, and also basically classify myself as a Christian, I see a fundamental and exclusive view (the 1% I don't agree with) as representing the crucial area where we compete with other groups for the Highest Truth, and rationalise war and destruction for this Greater Good. In the case of Infinite War (as in the Middle East), where two groups insist unto death that their belief is right (instead of realising that not one is better, but both are from the same truth) it may be better to take a long term view, and dismantle the mythic personalities, or some of the coda at least, that define religions.

God is in my belief a God of this world. Heaven is on Earth, and so is hell. A good road to begin, if you feel your faith is unshakeable, and unteachable, is to pursue this simple step: imagine the reality of heaven. Where is it? If you go there immediately, how and where would you go, and what exactly would you find. Conscious reasoning shows that Heaven is a state, a condition, a perfect experiece. I'm sure this is what we experience here, and I believe we can encounter the same in a below physical state (which comprises most of the universe, which is also beyond the visual spectrum). It is a great tragedy to pursue a dream that begins after we are dead, because in this philosophy, we might do great harm to ourselves and others (as was done in the name of Communism), and may lead ourselves and our world to ruin.

And I don't pretend to understand the Mystery that is God. There are many dimensions, of space and time, and perhaps even reincarnations, where we return again and again until we have the consciousness to get to a higher level. The idea of a simultaneous multidimensional co-operative reality, based on a sort of Game Level premise, and a Matrix-like philosophy, is baffling but possible. Since each person manifests our own reality, this provides one explanation for our unique experience of God. But the great Mystery that is God seems to me to be revealed best in the way all things are connected. Science to Faith, Creation to Evolotion, Man to Women, Light to Darkness, Good to Evil, Goverments to Terrorism. It is useful to find those things that support, that are related to, that connect with the other thing that is different, than on focussing on the disparities.
It is easier to solve a Mystery by examining and if possible, synergising all the divergent data into a cohesive whole, something that is digestable and perhaps comprehensible. Currently, our either or appraoch, black or white, is entirely too exclusive and limiting, and leads us to duality. Duality is a reality, but a really troubling, and lonely one. There is a greater reality, one in which we can participate, as individuals, as individuals conscious of God, and as a collection of consciousness (individuals conscious of ourselves, each other and God in all), which is the highest consciousness, which is God (and ourselves) operating in Harmony.