Greetings beloved brothers and sisters. We are going to tackle quite a complicated topic today but a nevertheless important one. What is God? Now if you’re anything like me when I started my spiritual journey, the word ‘God’ had negative connotations. Growing up in a very orthodox Christian family, God was the term used for a judging, punishing and cruel being that creates people and then consistently tests them. But you can use any term that makes you feel more comfortable, such as the One Infinite Creator, Brahman (used in Hinduism), Allah, Source, Oneness, your Higher Self, or the One Consciousness. They are all describing the same fundamental thing. It is the one intelligence/consciousness/awareness behind the whole universe. It is the Source of everything.

We have already talked about how we are all part of God, and we are all God. When you fully understand oneness, you realise there is no separation between you and God, you and others, and you and the universe. It is all simply one being, manifesting in different forms to experience itself and learn about itself. Every being, atom, planet, star and galaxy is just a vessel which God uses to experience itself from different perspectives.

God is such a difficult concept to understand and describe; perhaps it is the most difficult concept. From my own meditations and psychedelic experiences, I have found that God cannot really be described by words. Trying to describe God through words is already limiting the concept. It is like describing the colour red to someone who has been blind all their life. God can only be experienced. God is also a concept that no one can fully understand until they have fully realised their divine nature at the end of their soul journey. However, a limited understanding is sufficient for this stage of our spiritual journey.

Let’s see what some spiritual texts have said about God. Christians believe God is all powerful, all knowing, all loving and present everywhere. In the Bible, particularly in the book of John, God is described as spirit, light and love. God is also described as the Alpha and the Omega; the beginning and end. In Islam, the Quran describes God as eternal, everlasting, the originator, the shaper, the creator and sustainer of the universe. He is also described as the all-seer. Hinduism describes Brahman as the ultimate reality — the one supreme spirit who is the indescribable, inexhaustible, omniscient, omnipresent, original, first, eternal and absolute principle, without a beginning, without an end, who is hidden in all and who is the cause, source, material and effect of all creation known, unknown and yet to happen in the entire universe. The ordinary senses and ordinary intellect cannot fathom, grasp, or be able to describe Brahman even with partial success. The Upanishads describe Him as the One and indivisible, eternal universal self, who is present in all and in whom all are present. In the Gnostic view, there is a true, ultimate and transcendent God, who brought forth from within Himself the substance of all there is in all the worlds, visible and invisible. In a certain sense, they therefore believe that all is God, for all consists of the substance of God. Zoroastrianism, the oldest living religion in the world, believes in one God called Ahura Mazda, and he is also described as all-knowing, all-powerful, present everywhere, impossible for humans to conceive, unchanging, and the creator of all life. Ahura Mazda is also described as the creator, maintainer and most benevolent spirit. As you can see, all these descriptions are extremely similar to each other, and they all seem to agree that God is inconceivable to man. Science, too, agrees with them; in the topic about oneness, we discussed the scientific validation of a zero point field, making up nearly all of the space in an atom, but which appears as dark emptiness to the human eye. This zero point field connects everything in the universe. It is this zero point field that is God. However, we do not need to know the full nature of God at this stage of our spiritual journey; what I do believe is important for us to know is summarised perfectly by Ra in the Law of One: “All is one, and that one is love/light, light/love, the Infinite Creator.”.

Some may still be questioning whether God exists or not, and that’s absolutely fine. It is good to question everything. Even Buddhists don’t really believe in one creator, but they still do believe in tathata, which means suchness. It is sometimes understood that tathata underlies reality, and the appearance of things in the phenomenal world are manifestations of tathata. In essence, they believe in one reality that underlies all forms. What really convinced me that there was a divine intelligence behind everything was the beauty and majesty of the Universe. The way our body just knows what to do all the time — from replicating itself from one cell to a full human body, to healing itself, to processing information. The way that schools of fish and flocks of birds move together in a beautiful synchronised fashion. The way the planet provides the right atmosphere for life to thrive. How plants absorb energy from the sun, and we take our energy from plants, either directly or indirectly. How carbon dioxide and oxygen are perfectly exchanged between plants and animals/humans. How water is recycled from our oceans to the atmosphere and back again. How the planet is the perfect distance from the sun to enable us to survive. The way that the same pattern, based on the Fibonacci sequence, appears everywhere throughout the Universe:

We will talk more about sacred geometry in a later level of the course. The beauty of sunsets, stars, nature, art. The different types of animals that can survive in all kinds of environments, from the bottom of the oceans, to deep underground, to deserts, mountains and the air. The unsolved mysteries of the universe. The way events seem to miraculously line up perfectly in life through synchronicities. For me, there has to be a divine intelligence behind all these things.

Instead of describing God and the universe, I have found that using analogies has helped my understanding. Here are my favourite analogies:

1) God’s VR game — One can simply view the Universe and creation as one really big long virtual reality game, where one being, God, is playing all the different characters. The game appears real to the characters, but ultimately there is only one being playing it from the comfort of his sofa.

2) God’s Dream — You can view the Universe and everything that happens in it as simply God having a very long lucid dream that he can control. The dreamer is not separate from the dream.

3) God’s Movie — God is creating a movie called ‘The Universe’, but God is the only actor, and so God must put different disguises to appear as different characters in the movie.

4) Hologram — We have already talked about how you can view the universe as a hologram projected by one mind. Each part of a hologram contains the whole. Well, we can say that God is the one projector, projecting the Universe from this one source. Each being forms a small part of the hologram, but ultimately there is one Source.

5) DNA — It is a scientific fact that every cell in our bodies contains all of our DNA. This means that each cell has the information within it to become any cell of the body. We all start off as one fertilised cell that contains all of our DNA; this cell then multiplies several times. Each cell then manifests only some of the information contained within its DNA to become a specific cell with specific functions. Each human body is made up of trillions of cells. So the Universe can be thought of as a human body; each atom or being is a different cell. And so each atom, being, planet, star and galaxy contains the information of the whole of God within it (like DNA), but only manifests a tiny part of that information to become an individual cell. Each being fulfils a different function.

6) Invisible Mist — Imagine a Disneyland that was under construction but didn’t end up getting completed. The scaffolding of the buildings are half done, the parts of the rides are there but the rides haven’t been assembled, and the costumes for each character are there but there are no people to wear them. It is a lifeless place. Then one day a golden mist comes to the Disneyland — this golden mist is magical; it appears to give life to everything it touches. As it touches the building, it looked complete. As it touched the rides, they appeared fully assembled. As it filled the costumes, it appeared as if there were different beings acting in the costumes. However, to ensure the different characters had different personalities, the mist wanted to appear invisible to them so that they didn’t initially know that it was just one mist behind everything and everyone there. Otherwise how could there be an experience? Disneyland now appeared fully functional and open for business. All the different characters learnt to live with each other and work with each other. Some fought with each other, some loved each other, some became greedy, some became poor, some became more famous than others. Then one day, one of the characters, Mickey Mouse, was able to take off his costume and see reality for what it truly was. Mickey tried to convince the other characters that they were all just one mist playing with itself, but the other characters thought he was insane. “What are you talking about”, they all screamed. But as time went on, more and more characters began to realise the truth — that Mickey was right all along. Eventually all the characters realised that they were just one mist filling different costumes, and the costumes were no longer needed. The mist went on a journey of self-discovery. Once it discovered itself, the experience had ended and the mist left Disneyland. Disneyland returned to the construction site it first was, and the mist moved elsewhere to have a different experience.

You may even explore the concept of a creator in your meditations and come up with different analogies for yourself; in fact, I encourage you to. It is a hard concept to imagine that there is one consciousness living within us and at the same time imagining that we are living within the one consciousness; mainly because we have denied our true divine nature by creating the ego, the false self. The main thing to understand is the oneness of the universe. By oneness we do not mean your physical body is one with another body or one with the physical body of a planet. Remember, God has been described in religions as a spirit within all things that cannot be detected or conceived by human senses. In science, God is the zero point field in each atom, which is invisible to us. We are not saying that God is physical matter. What we are saying is that God is the divine invisible essence (or spirit) within everything and everyone. Physical matter can be thought of as just disguises that hides the Oneness and makes it look like there is separation. Understanding this has profound effects on how you will treat people, animals, objects, the planet. By treating everything and everyone as divine and one with you, you will automatically be in a constant state of love. We will talk about love and forgiveness in the next couple of topics, but oneness is the ultimate foundational concept we must understand first.

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