In doing some searches on the Internet recently, I was
amazed at the number of questions and articles asking this question or stating
it in an affirmative manner as fact. There were so many articles that I felt
compelled to discuss the "God Reality" subject once again. As some of
my readers already know, I have written much about the true nature of God, but
I am cognizant that in my writings I face a difficult task and must attempt to
offset thousands of years of ignorance and false teachings.
I have said before and
will probably repeat this statement time and time again in my efforts to
explain something that is at the very edge of the ability of the human
intellect to understand; God does not exist, at least not in terms that
you generally understand. He does not exist physically and since He does not
exist physically, then He cannot be dead, and if you had been paying attention
for the last 2000 years, I would not have to tell you this. God is not some super
human being; He/She/It is a Subjective Energy Essence, a Divine Knowing Process
out of which all realities emerge.
The only things that are
capable of dying are matter-centered physical identities, and that also includes
the animal world. God or All That Is, is more like a superlative dream
personality and dream personalities do not die. The only reason that you ask
the question; is God dead, is that you have a bad habit of assigning human
characteristics to an unseen Deity that exists in unseen dimensions and does
not possess human emotions, human characteristics or human intents, although
through you, He does possess them.
If you are depending on the intellect alone, understanding
what is written here will be practically impossible, so I might suggest that
you enlist the help of your other latent human asset, your intuition. In
enlisting both intellect and intuition, you may be able to emotionally feel the
truth in the concepts given here when the intellect operating alone falters and
fails.
Truth is that you could not live without the help of your
intuitional sense, but many people ignore those intuitional impulses when they
happen, your consciousness effectively screening them out of your daily
experience. You are supposed to be operating in the physical world smoothly and
effectively relying equally on your intellect and intuition, and if you had
been doing this for the last millennia you would be far ahead of where you are
now.
This may be hard to accept, but practically speaking you
would be better off if the human race had learned nothing over the last several
thousand years, since almost everything you have been taught to believe is flat
out wrong. There have been other teachers far greater than I, who spoke in
the nuances of their times but you didn't pick up on the true meanings behind
the teachings.
I am not trying to educate anyone in this one article and I
am far too wise to attempt to change your beliefs in one fell swoop, other than
to advise reading other articles available here concerning the God concept. I
thought that concerning ourselves with the recent profusion of articles about
the death or non-death of God might be a good starting point to encourage you
to look deeper into your inner self and realize that what you observe on the
surface is simply a physical reality veneer overlying the true inner nature of
your being.
Looking inwardly, might, just might make you curious enough
to get busy learning about the true nature of your world and the reality that
it supports in such luxurious splendor.
I ask that while reading this article, you hang your beliefs
in the "Beliefs Check Room" by the door and pick them up again when
you finish this article. You will be surprised to know that your consciousness,
yes, I am speaking of the consciousness of you Mark, Susan, Joseph, Melanie and
of course all of humanity, existed at that ancient beginning before the
universe existed, it just wasn't manifest, or should I say, it wasn't yet individualized
or personified. It was "awareized" but not "personified". It
knew it was, but it didn't know who or what it was.
Your consciousness existed before the Earth was formed. You
were a part of that ancient beginning, and it isn't too far a reach to say that
your consciousness has always existed, but had not assumed specificity. You
were part of the original bank of consciousness, that original massive energy
that I prefer to call "All That Is". There is no new consciousness
being created so everything that has existed in the past exists now and
everything that will exist in the future has come from the original bank of prime
consciousness.
That original bank of consciousness is of course
"God" and from here on, I shall try to refer to God as All That Is,
since that terminology dispenses with much of the in-grown distortions of
conventional religious doctrine, and we could get bogged down in erroneous religious
dogma should we continue along that path.
All That Is never was a humanoid, is not now a humanoid and
will never be a human being in the normal sense of the word, but let me clarify
before someone gets too misled. Humanoid form of human beings is only one
species of intelligent consciousness beings inhabiting the universe.
There are countless other beings that have no resemblance to
the traditional human form, yet they were all created by or through the
auspices of All That Is, and so we can say with full confidence that All That
Is, God, wears all faces and exists in all forms, and in that
respect is truly all that is, but All That Is, is more than the sum of it's
parts.
All That Is is within every thing that lives, the animals,
the insects, fish, humans, virus, bacteria, and even humans, endowing each of
His multitudinous parts with the same characteristics and abilities that he
possesses. There is a portion of All That Is within every living creature. You
my friend, possess in a somewhat condensed form all of these same
characteristics of the Original Creator, albeit somewhat unrealized at this
time. All That Is lives forever, but you live forever. All That Is is a creator
of reality, but you too are a creator of reality.
Before you begin to get too full of yourself knowing that,
let me say that anything that I attribute to the relationship between All That
Is and the human species, holds for all
other species, and there is no special place reserved for humans that all
living creatures do not also share. You were not given dominion over and were
never meant to dominate anything, anybody or any other creature.
In the beginning, there was only Energy that gradually
became aware of itself as a Prime Identity. I am not speaking here of
electrical energy that you are familiar with, but of Energy pervading
everything, and that can be misleading, since there was no physical universe,
so for now we will equate it with the dream universe.
There was no firmament, no objects, no air, no sky, just
infinite Energy, and by the way, there was also no time and space and no void
existed that could even contain a universe. These came about much later.
Einstein knew that energy and mass is the same thing, only
in a different form. The one thing he left out of that famous equation was that
consciousness = mass = energy or C =E=
mc2 (consciousness =energy = mass x velocity squared).
When you no longer inhabit your physical body, you will
understand how you can be an active, vital, purposeful identity without a solid
materialized form. It's how you existed before you were born and you did it
with great finesse unbeknownst to you now. True identity is non-physical;
assuming a physical form, is a specialization used in order to gain a new type
of experience in a physically materialized world. Consciousness always seeks to
be known and to accomplish that it assumes a variety of perceivable forms, both
physical and non-physical.
Consciousness creates matter for its own purposes, not the
other way around. The cumulative physical matter of the entire universe could
not create one speck of consciousness under even the most auspicious
conditions. One inspired idea,
propelled by eomtion and expectation created
the physical universe and I don't need to tell you the origin of that one
idea.
One of the great limitations to deeper understanding of
spiritual truths is your unbending, rigidly, critically focused attention to
that one brilliant light of Earthly physical experience, not realizing that it
is just one focus that the human race could have adopted, not realizing that
there are other quite as legitimate focuses that you elected not to concentrate
on. You think because it is, it had to be that way, but consciousness had
unlimited latitude in constructing its physical world.
Other worlds share the same space as earth; you are
surrounded by, immersed in and adjacent to other quite as legitimate reality
systems (worlds) that coexist in the same space with your earth reality system,
some actually moving through each other unnoticed. You will never see them
since they are not actualized in the same frequency signals as your physical
world.
The belief in one God of one small universe, one world and
one human species is so nonsensical to be almost laughable, but it can be
understood in light of the fact that many of you still insist that your God
created you in His image, inferring that God is human. Each race of the human
species creates their own gods in their own image and I can assure you that the
God that you assume created you is not the same God that other races assume created
their own cultures.
God is an energy essence personality that is within all living
creatures and non-living objects. There is vitalized, generalized consciousness
in all physical manifestations. There is God energized consciousness in a mouse
in a field, in the field itself, in the continent that contains the field, in
the world that contains the continent and in the universe that contains
everything.
On a micro and macro scale, everything is conscious from the
meson, quark, electron, atom, cell and molecule to a mulitverse containing all
worlds, galaxies and stars and there is not one speck of matter that is not
conscious to some degree. Consciousness created all of the above.
Energy is conscious and again, I am not speaking of simple
electrical energy, which is not a force of consciousness, but is created by
consciousness.
Finally, in speaking of these matters it is easy to get lost
in semantics and word games, so let me try and make my point clear.
God, All That Is, although existing, as the Prime Entity
could never exist in human form, since the unbelievable power of such a Prime
Being would overpower any physical form, but All That Is found a solution to that dilemma. He divided His Being
into infinitesimally small portions, fragmenting His consciousness into
innumerable small packages, creating multitudinous entities that would populate
all worlds in all universes, thereby creating separate appearing individuals
while still maintaining an inner connection with all of His creations.
You are a part of that original Prime Entity no matter what
you think about your worthiness, your perceived sinfulness, you cannot be
separated from your divine heritage and you cannot lose your soul, since soul
being a part of you, cannot be lost.
It would also be correct to say that God (All That Is) does
exist in human form since His presence is intertwined within all human beings
and all creatures, but as humans, you are not alone in sharing that privileged
stance since all species including animals, fish, birds and insects also share
that entitlement.
Here's where it gets a little sticky.
Although we speak in "time terms" in order to get
the point across, time only exists in physical reality; it doesn't even exist
in your dreams. In truth the conscious energy, which is All That Is, has always
existed, and so there was no real beginning and there can be no ending. It is
the passage of time that gives you the concept of life and death in the first
place.
All That Is, is eternal in that respect. You only believe in
the passage of time because from your viewpoint, it has always been that way
since your birth. Imagine if you were born into the dream world instead; your
consciousness would not be tuned into the
time context and a reality that is spontaneous, yet blossoms out in all
directions in the "now" would not seem unusual.
The universe begins NOW and renews itself in each nanosecond
and each NOW contains all pasts, presents and futures. "Consecutive
moments in time" do not need to be experienced, and yet there is still
room for growth. Growth in the earth system appears as value perception in others, growth in value, not in terms of growth
or inflation over time taking up more space.
I'll finish by saying that space does not exist in the way
it seems. All space is one space, all universes exist in the same space, but of
course, you cannot perceive it that way from your physical world platform.
Having said all of this, I trust you will now quit believing that God is dead.
The universe is born tomorrow.
If you have questions or comments on this article or any
other, please submit them by using the "comments" link after this article,
and I will try to address them as time permits.