We Are God

But if we pray, and if we keep in step with what the Spirit is doing among mature believers, we may find that he shakes some of our cherished traditions, and gives us new insights to suit our new, twenty-first century, situations. This is very interesting but at the same time, it disrupts my way of thinking about scripture. Not that that is a bad thing, just that we need to rely more on the Spirit to center our understandings in the person of Christ.

Did it seem otherwise to you? Or have I misunderstood you? There was God-God made us from himself-which means we all have God within us, hence we are all Gods children, sons and daughters of the most high. Hi Anton, thanks for reading and commenting. What do you think praying to yourself achieves? Is it just a psychological thing? We are the divine manifest. There is no separation through the eyes of God, and you are God.

All you must do is lift the veil that convinces us we are separate. Hi, thanks for sharing your ideas. Would you mind telling me please what makes you think this is true? It took me a long time as a Christian to open those spiritual eyes to the truth of this message.

I have long thought that the scriptures have many different levels of understanding and that as we grow spiritually those interpretations change. Hence the many different denominations. Just as the things we create have part of us in so do we have part of God in us. If man would ever get in his head that each person is part of God could we ever be mean, nasty, or in any way other than honorable to each other? No, we would value even the least of these as being holy and would try to uplift and honor each individual. Then truly we would have heaven on earth.

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HI thanks for your thoughts. In context, it seems clear that Jesus is being sardonic — the Psalm he was quoting is quite sarcastic about these so-called gods. But we agree that valuing each person and the whole creation a sin some senses holy would be a great step forward. Thank you for this insight. I have felt hope that all persons are life are connected to the creator being his intention.

I understand these esoteric interpretations of Christ are frowned upon by the institution of the church, beginning with Constantine in AD in his mission to sculpt Christianity to fit his mission. I have experienced personally higher vibratory states of being from time to time and I inherently found those experiences to be light, love filled, and God-like.

This would be the opposite of evil contradictory to popular belief, when you do something that is truly evil, like harm your brothers and sisters, the feeling you experience from it is quite different indeed.

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Hi, thanks for reading and commenting. I think he was first a historical person that the historians can discuss just lie any other ancient figure. Then of course I think he was something more than that. I think it is the part of Jesus that is human while still being the Son of God.

Its hard for anyone to claim to say they know the real truth, only through personal experience can we shape what it most true for us. We look for clues in the history that support our faith. Some scholars have referred to Jesus and Paul as having a mystical side to them. Some would argue that Jesus being the Son of god would not need to pursue in mysticism as he is already God in the flesh. If that were true than why did Jesus take all those outing in nature and the mountains to communicate with the Father, I would assume he already had this information internally, what was there to talk about?

I think the way Jesus communicated with the Father and how he instructed his followers and apostles to do so is of the most interest to me. Jesus needed to engage in spiritual practice, as a human, to maintain the connection to the Father and I feel we should all take on those spiritual practices to get there ourselves.

Regardless his teaching and way is the way of love, a way to find peace in yourself and to find happiness and salvation. I am still wrestling with the why god needed to come to us in the flesh to save us from sin, could he not forgive us from sin without that effort. I suppose it has something to do with him granting us free will. I believe our souls are here to learn. My understanding is that, historically, the gnostics thought the material world is evl, created by a lesser divine being.

But to hold this belief, they had to almost ignore the historical information about Jesus and come up new ideas about him.. You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Twitter account. You are commenting using your Facebook account. Notify me of new comments via email. Notify me of new posts via email. An argumentative encounter In John 10, Jesus is having one of those strong arguments with the religious teachers. Is this really true? To defend his claim to be divine, Jesus says other people are divine too? Better look at the context Jesus is quoting from Psalm 82, which pictures God presiding over an assembly and passing judgment those who favour the rich unfairly against the poor and oppressed.

After denouncing their behaviour and lack of understanding, the Psalmist says: This is very different than how Jesus uses the passage against the Pharisees. Does Jesus care about the context? The main assumption which stops us from seeing that we are God is called Materialism. It is the belief that existence is material or physical. We normally come to believe that we are inhabiting a physical world consisting of material objects and also we come to identify ourselves with our physical bodies.

And so we consider the nature of existence to be physical and material. We also come to the belief that our subjective experience or consciousness, somehow depends on our physical bodies for its existence and also that there is a physical world outside of us which is independent of our subjective internal reality. This constellation of related beliefs is called Materialism. This idea of Materialism is opposed by the idea called Idealism which holds that the essence of existence is consciousness, and that it is only the subjective world that is truly real. So these two philosophical ideas form the two competing camps in the great ontological debate which concerns itself with the nature of existence.

This debate between the Materialists and the Idealists has raged over the centuries and indeed over the millennia. Mostly, the dominant position has been Materialism and one of the reasons for this is that it has been very difficult to demonstrate convincingly how Idealism can be the more viable position. That is, no one has been able to show how all existence is consciousness.

Materialism is the position we normally come to accept, so it has always been a sort of default assumption, in the same way that primitive peoples normally came to believe that the World was flat. And without another competing view to challenge this belief, the idea of a flat Earth was the dominant viewpoint.

So we have a similar situation with the idea of Materialism versus the idea of Idealism. That is, throughout most of recorded history the dominant position of Materialism has never been seriously challenged and at the same time a strong case has never been made for the competing idea of Idealism.

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However, things have changed. Today the assumption of Materialism can be undermined from every conceivable angle, philosophical, spiritual and scientific. Also with the help of recent discoveries in mathematics made in the past few decades, a compelling case can now be made for Idealism. Some of the greatest philosophers from Plato to Rene Descartes, Immanuel Kant and George Berkeley have long been telling us the assumption of Materialism is flawed from the outset because we can never have certain knowledge of the physical world and that we can only truly know our own consciousness.

That is to say the belief in a material world independent of our consciousness can only ever be assumption, and also one that can never be proven. Modern day philosophers accept this, even those that believe in Materialism. However, though accepting the flaw in the assumption of Materialism, they might counter that the alternative belief Idealism, as mentioned earlier, cannot be proven either.

But this is what the mystics and founders of religion have been proving for themselves all through history. The experience of being God is not just the ultimate attainment of life but also the ultimate proof that everything is consciousness. The experience of being God is the experience of the oneness of all things, and the totality of that oneness.

Normally we experience ourselves as a part in the all, i. In the experience of being God we become the all and the physical universe including our physical bodies is then seen to be illusory. We become the all that is God, and experience that which we really are. In this state it is realized that it is we ourselves who are the generator of the illusion of the physical reality. This is a recurring theme in religion.

In the section of this website entitled ' The nature of reality ', I demonstrate how Idealism works and show what is behind the illusion of physical reality. The idea of the material world being illusory is a very ancient one that comes up again and again, all through history and all around the world. We've already mentioned Plato who described the material world as like shadows projected onto the walls of a darkened cave. And that spending our mortal lives within the cave we only ever see the shadows.

We never see the greater reality that exists outside the cave or the objects that we only see the shadows off. In Hinduism we have the concept of maya. Maya is the appearance of the physical world generated through lila which means the action or play of Brahman which is the Hindu expression for the ultimate God.

This physical world so created is merely illusory and God becomes embodied within this physical world of mere appearances. So God immersed in this illusion that is the physical world; takes on the roles of physical life forms, acting out an infinite succession of life paths. Therefore all of us are like the characters in a vast cosmic stage play and God is the actor who brings these characters to life. Therefore a part of maya is the illusion of the physical self and this gives rise to the belief that we have a spiritual essence or soul separate from Brahman or God.

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This in Hinduism is called atman. However, another recurring idea in Hinduism describes how the yogin or mystic adept is able through yoga disciplined unitive action to stop the process of lila or the play of God. Once lila ceases, he or she is able to see through the illusion of maya , transcend the illusory physical world and thereby become Brahman or God again. In so doing he or she is able to see that atman or the idea of self separate from the other people and separate from God was also an illusion.

This is the key idea at the heart of Hinduism, that atman and Brahman are one and the same, i. In the teachings of Buddha we have a concept, corresponding to that of maya in Hinduism. This is the called sanyatta which is sanskrit and translates as 'emptiness' in english. This concept describes how all the objects around us and all material things exist only as an appearances and behind that appearance is emptiness.

That is, they don't really exist and therefore it is only consciousness that exists. So physical objects and the material world exist only as projections of our conscious state. Conscious states themselves being manifestations of the one God or in Buddhist parlance 'the Void'.

This original meaning is sometimes misinterpreted by modern day Buddhists to mean that things are only empty of value. However, an ancient legend describes how when Buddha gave a sermon about sanyatta , many of the listeners suddenly had heart attacks. This story should not be taken literally. It was created to show that sanyatta is a shocking meta-physical assertion about the nature of reality not merely some statement about the relative value of things.

This true interpretation of sanyatta or emptiness is kept alive today mainly in some of the Mahayana strands of Buddhism and also by Vajrayana Buddhist sects from Tibet. Also, the fact that Buddhism is derived from Hinduism supports the case that sanyatta and maya are interchangeable concepts. That is they both talk about the illusory nature of reality. The idea of the illusory nature of reality is probably most developed in Hinduism and Buddhism but it is also alluded to in the other main religions of the world.

In the Gospels, Jesus time and time again points out a higher realm of existence above and beyond the physical world. And in his sayings and sermons he repeatedly tells people not to focus their time and energies on things and matters relating to the material world. In the Koran, Muhammad says that 'the life of this world is but a diversion'. And also, the Taoist sage ponders whether he is really a butterfly dreaming that he is a man.

When we consider that it is Materialism, or the belief in an external physical reality existing outside of consciousness which prevents us from seeing the ultimate truth in religion that we are God. Then it is not surprising that all the world religions should contain statements and sayings which undermine and contradict the fallacy of Materialism. We have already discussed that some of the greatest philosophers of all time have demonstrated that the belief in Materialism can only ever be an assumption and an unprovable one at that. World religion seems united in telling us that Materialism is not the real nature of things.

And also that there is something above and beyond the physical material world that is far more real and which is the true nature of existence. And so, moving onto the world of science we discover that through the enquiries of the quantum physicists, the metaphysical truths of world religion and the intuitions of the philosophic greats are today being confirmed. The discoveries of quantum physics are strongly suggesting that reality is indeed illusory. Today, science seems to have come full circle. If we study the history and origins of science we discover that the first scientists, or the proto scientists, were almost invariably mystical in their outlook or else religiously inclined.

Recently though, through the discoveries and insights from the quantum physicists, we are seeing science making a return to some very ancient mystical ideas. So what is Quantum physics. Quantum physics is the study of reality at sub atomic scales and is only a quite recent development emerging early in the 20th century.

It studies the substrate of the physical universe at an extremely fine resolution, indeed, at a sub atomic level. What quantum physics has discovered is that the material world of matter is very very strange and not what we think it is. Without getting into too technical a discussion, some quotes from some of the greatest physicists of recent times, help to illustrate the situation. For instance, quantum physics so baffled scientists that the Nobel prize winning physicist Richard Feynman said that "if you think you understand quantum mechanics, then you don't really understand it".

And also, the late great John Wheeler who worked with Albert Einstein, summed up what quantum physics is telling us about physical reality by saying that "There is no out there, out there! Quantum mechanics forces us to question our pre-conceived notions about reality, and challenges our existing assumptions. It has really exposed the cracks in our existing structures of belief, namely Materialism, and opens the way for other ideas to be considered. In the same way that advances in astronomy and navigation started to challenge the idea that the world is flat or the belief that the Sun revolved around the Earth.

So it is that quantum mechanics is challenging the incumbent assumption about the nature of existence called Materialism. This facilitates and helps to set up the necessary conditions for the acceptance of the idea that everyone is God. It undermines the main false assumption that stops us from seeing who we really are.

Another fairly recent discovery of science which is relevant to our discussion that everyone's true nature is God, is the phenomenon called quantum entanglement. When we consider this phenomenon that the quantum physicists have discovered called entanglement then we see why this is the case. Entanglement is the quantum mechanical property where if two sub atomic particles occupy the same point in space at the same point in time, then they become like a single unified whole.

This then gives rise to the phenomenon called 'non-locality', whereby these two particles may influence one another instantaneously even if they are both located at opposite ends of the universe. Though separated in space they seem to have instant communication with one another, as if they were one single entity. This property is so mysterious and baffling that even Einstein considered it an impossibility.

However experiments have repeatedly proven Einstein wrong, and have shown that entanglement and non-locality are indeed properties of the physical world. Things get interesting when we consider that the entire Universe started from a single point, the so called 'Big bang singularity'. Because the entire Universe occupied the same point of space, every single atom in the universe is entangled with every other atom.

So even though the universe which started with the big bang expanded and separated out to what we can see and measure today, it also exists as a single unified and inseparable whole. Without a doubt all of this is not intuitive and runs counter to what we normally assume about physical reality. It normally seems to us that there is a physical reality 'out there' populated by separate and distinct objects, so how can these objects really be a single entity?

But that's the whole point. Quantum mechanics is forcing us to re-examine our existing assumptions. It is suggesting to us that we consider the possibility that reality is not what it seems, that it is really illusory. Also quantum mechanics is inviting us to start entertaining the idea of the universe as being a 'oneness' and further still that we are that 'oneness'.

That is, we are that oneness reflecting upon itself. So therefore, that which stops us from seeing that we are God is the assumption called Materialism which, whether they know it or not, is the belief about reality that most people hold. As we have discussed, this assumption is undermined by findings from science and also by lines of inquiry from the world of philosophy.

Further, it is a view which is incorrect according to some of the metaphysical assertions of the World's great religions. When we abandon the assumption of Materialism then we can start to see that physical reality is indeed illusory and that the nature of existence is consciousness. We may also come to see that all reality is really one consciousness, i. God, and that we are that one consciousness.

This is the truth behind the position called Idealism which stands in opposition to the idea of Materialism, and its ultimate proof derives from the direct experience of being God. Put another way, the mystery of consciousness and the mystery of God are really different names for the same mystery.

If everyone is God, why am I not experiencing that I am God? When a person is told that their identity is really God, then normally the reaction is one of disbelief and a total rejection of the notion. Those that are willing to entertain the idea a little further may go on to ask, 'But if I am God why am I not feeling like God? Why do I suffer? Is this all there is to being God?