Experience Yourself

You have the power of life and death, and the free will to feel anything that you can imagine or create

I was sitting outside on the balcony this morning with my morning cup of coffee watching the sun come up and feeling a cool breeze from the water below me. I was trying to imagine being in a realm where you could not experience the five senses.

What would it be like to know everything that is — to know all the secrets of the universe? What would it be like to know a fresh cup of coffee in the morning but not be able to see, taste, or smell it? What would it be like to know a sunrise, but not be able to experience it? Imagine yourself all alone in a space where you could only experience nothing. Now from time to time, i long to be in that space. At this moment with my cup in hand and the warmth of the sun on my face, i can’t imagine being anywhere else. I can imagine being God, being all there is, all knowing,and all-powerful experiencing just that. To know everything, and not being able to experience that knowing — no sensations, no feelings, no emotion — what would it be like?

After millennia of existing this way, how would you begin to know yourself, to experience your own magnificence? The creator had the perfect solution—He created life! He divided himself into small pieces of himself within his own body—creating time and space so that he could look back at himself from all aspects of self and see how magnificent he is. That is the sole purpose of life to experience self in every conceivable aspect or possibility imaginable. It is the perfect solution to a dilemma that the creator must have contemplated since his own creation.

You can know yourself, but until you have experienced that awareness, it’s just a thought with no purpose. I can imagine myself studying for years to be a doctor or a lawyer and then not being able to be either of it. There would be no purpose in the absolute world. The purpose of life is simply to experience being alive. It is humanity that acknowledges his existence and creates a purpose for his physical life. That purpose is experienced by the creator through you. You are in fact, the creator experiencing all things that it knows, in three dimensional physical life.

Within you, you have all the attributes and characteristics of the creator. You have the power of life and death, and the free will to experience anything that you can imagine or create. All your present belief systems and experiences are real only for the time that you are experiencing them. They are all illusions, they are your personal experiences while you are in the holodeck of physical life. They are imagined only.

They are meant to be sensationalised and experienced. They are addictive and sought after by all souls now present and those that will choose to come later. The return of the soul in different bodies facilitates the physical experience from different vantage points, and terms of awareness. All aspects of the one mind, the one soul, work together in a beautifully choreographed experience that is shared. There are no victims, only souls that are working together from free will to experience itself.

Find Your Purpose

Spirituality brings purpose and meaning to life. And as we develop it, we grow in wisdom and love

Spirituality lies beyond the material world of proof, beyond what can be measured or counted. It is made up of the inner life, the realm of belief, mystery, and faith. And yet for all the mystery that surrounds it, spirituality is vital to our well-being.

It is the foundation of our most closely held values, the seat of our trust and hope. Spirituality brings purpose and meaning to life, and as we develop it we grow in wisdom and love. We begin to experience a sense of awe, a sense of connection to all of life, and a deep reverence for the Divine. We find ourselves moved to prayers of gratitude and moments of spontaneous worship. Spirituality calls a human being to a life of trust and service.

When our spirituality is nurtured and vibrant, we are connected. This connection is both a sense of relationship to the Creator, Great Spirit, or God (divine force), as well as a relationship to all people and to Mother Earth (our life-giving environment). Spirituality takes us beyond our ego-centered lives by expanding our hearts with compassion towards all.

Spirituality does not dwell in a realm apart. It is not an extracurricular activity. Spirituality involves a reverent attitude toward all things because it awakens us to a divine presence in all things. In this way of seeing and being, all things and persons are interconnected and interdependent. In the Sioux native language, the word for the Great Spirit is Wakan, which means ‘the great mystery.’ Yet this spirit, full of mystery, is every bit as real as the visible, tangible world.

It is important to differentiate spirituality from religion. Some people have rejected religion in order to escape what they consider to be oppressive rules and regulations. In the process, however, many lose the great gifts of joy and compassion that spirituality brings.

Religion and spirituality are related and intertwined, but they are not the same. A person may experience spirituality without being a member of any specific religious affiliation, and even the most religious person may feel spiritually bereft. The true purpose of religion is to enhance spirituality through ritual and practice. This is accomplished when a person approaches his or her religion as a way to enter the great mystery, to become aware of the sacredness of all life.

Religion can become a barrier to spirituality when it insists on narrow, judgmental dogma, and estranges its followers from a sense of connection with the Divine. Religion serves us best as a vehicle to nourish and develop our spirituality.

It is possible, however, to get too caught up in the vehicle, the religious practice, while losing sight of the destination, spirituality, which is communion with the Divine and compassion for all. For modern, academically oriented professionals, like physicians and health care workers, spirituality is often a difficult subject.

Their training is framed by science. They depend on logical, analytical, and rational approaches, and for good reason. These approaches have successfully ushered in a host of lifechanging improvements in health care and technology. While honouring science and the mind, our cultural tendency urges us to devalue belief and mystery, but the result is costly: They are left spiritually starved and out of balance.

Some of life’s most difficult questions are the spiritual ones. What is the purpose of life? Where does real meaning come from? What is of real value in our lives? If there truly is a God who loves us, how could there be so much suffering and unfairness in the world? Part of our addiction to the busyness of life is an attempt to prevent ourselves from thinking about our mortality, the inevitable fact of our own death. But when we keep ourselves too busy to consider the purpose of our existence, our lives cease to have meaning. Strangely, it is only when we fully accept the reality of our mortality that we truly begin to live. This is the point at which we begin to enter into and learn about the spiritual dimension of our humanity.

As French philosopher Pierre Teilhard de Chardin remarked, “We are not physical beings having a spiritual experience, but spiritual beings having a physical experience.” Our spirituality is our true essence. It is that part of our life which relates to our soul, which from a spiritual perspective is connected to the Divine and is infinite. This lifetime is but the physical experience of our deeper reality, our spirit, which is our fundamental nature.

At this point, you might ask yourself several questions to help assess your own spirituality. Do i have a sense of connection with the Divine? Do i feel compassion for others? Do i feel awe and reverence? Do i live a life of trust? Am i called to service? Is prayer or meditation an important part of my life?

Look, God is Within You

We cannot know God when we do not know ourselves as God. We cannot be with God if we are not God

It is ironic that in a world of God worshippers, none of them would recognise God if they see Him, eyeball to eyeball. In fact in our present state of evolution if we did recognise Him, we would probably stick him up on a cross or make ceramic dolls in his image. As a race we don’t like to see our gods in person. We are much more comfortable following in our ancestor’s footprints with symbols of gods.

How would you know God? Many would demand that He performs magic tricks to prove Himself. Then if he did, they would declare Him a devil and turn Him away. Others would demand that he heal someone to demonstrate his worth and authenticity. And then once again crucify him as they did his son, so that they could see him rise up. It is not possible to see God while you are looking for him. It is not possible to feel his presence while you are trying to know him. It is not possible to know God while you are looking away from him.

I just read an excerpt from a chapter of a new book that is coming out by a spiritual author. I was delighted to read about how God is everything and that God is all we can know through our five senses. Literally he was saying what I have been saying all along and what other more advanced authors are saying. We are God and God does not exist outside of ourselves. He is omnipresent, omniscient, and omnipotent.

We cannot see God when we look away from ourselves, we cannot know God when we do not know ourselves as God. We cannot be with God if we are not God. If you are God and you say that you are — why would you pray to God? The very second you call to God; you are creating another God outside of yourself. It is your words which command the universe to create what is your minds desire. When you talk about a car you are creating an image of a car outside yourself and that is what you will experience.

When you talk about God you are creating this thing which is not you — you are separate from it. You cannot know God or be with God as long as you talk about him, pray to him, or acknowledge that he is not you. It is not possible to know God while you are creating him/her. Because in the process of creating, he would not be complete.

It is language that separates us from ourselves. Because we are creators, when we speak we create. When we know something there is no need to speak, it does not have to be redefined or recreated. Knowing is absolute but it dissolves with every word that is spoken. It is not enough to know oneself as God unless one is prepared to speak as God. Saying that God is within us, or we are aspects of God or everything is God, will not take us to God. In the end, we must all know ourselves as God and speak as God if we are to experience the power of God.

As physical beings we are really God experiencing being physical using the body we believe is ours. To know God, you really just need to know yourself as that which you already are — God. And to be able to live with that knowledge it may be comforting to know that you, as God, have chosen to live here and experience limited physical life in your body. It is not necessary to recreate what you already are. Worshipping, praying, and creating physical symbols of who you are limits your power and keeps you physical — it is the paradox.

It is really not necessary to call yourself God, but to know yourself as God — unless of course you want to experience being the honoured guest in a specially built institution for those who call themselves God. The advantage of knowing yourself as God is that you will know that you are creating all the circumstances of your physical life and that you have the power to change it when you desire. Your life will not be a struggle, but an adventure and you will know the true purpose for being here.

Life will move easily for you, and you will live it time and time again, until you no longer wish to. The six billion bodies and the physical plane that it exists are your creation for your purpose. Know that it is perfect in its imperfection.

If worship, prayers, faith and images and statues help you, then it is appropriate that you have chosen them. But you will not know me until you no longer need them, and know that you are already where you say you want to be.

You are God manifested in the physical human body with the name your parents chose for you. You are not your body but that which gives live to it — you are God! I personally do not like the terminology, so the word God may be substituted for whatever works for you. I feel comforted in knowing that all things are life. I feel it all around me in everything that my senses can acknowledge. Therefore, for me the words are interchangeable and appropriate. I am life itself — i am all that is.

Let’s Strike At The Very Root Of Desire

Wants and desires have their roots in the urge for selfgratification. They are the distorted versions of the original sublime urge for a merger with the Divine. Having forgotten the true import and the primal goal of this urge, we engage ourselves in the futile task of somehow satisfying endless demands generated by the ego and senses. We need to only jog our memory.

When we embark upon the eternal chain of life, we are governed by two unique decrees under the Divine plan. Firstly, despite our divine origin, we fall under the spell of duality which creates an illusion of separation from the Absolute. Secondly, through a series of lives, unique to each one of us, we work our way back to the original non-dual state of merger with the Supreme.

We meander through many lives. Throughout this inevitable evolutionary process, on one side is the pull of separation from the One and, on the other, the longing for reunion. We experience constantly the outward pull of duality against the inward push of non-duality.

Duality has been created and so we marvel at and enjoy the world’s bewitching material extravaganza and the merger is offered so that we enjoy the ineffable bliss of Oneness. Both states are equally beautiful and one must endeavour towards experiencing both. Without this constant endeavour, life becomes meaningless. The illusion of separation through duality causes loss of wisdom, and reduces clarity of thought. This is spiritual ignorance or avidya. We flounder in avidya to get self-gratification. Wants and desires are thus rooted in avidya.

At some point in our evolutionary cycle, the true goal of life again becomes clear to us. We then get captivated by the idea of reaching it. As our aspiration increases, worldly desires slowly drop off. The endeavour itself becomes a self-fulfilling goal. It gathers momentum and propels us towards Divinity. Desires turn into an intense aspiration for the Supreme.

The spiritual path undertaken to reunite with the Supreme need not prevent us from having normal relationships, material goals, and enjoyment of wealth and comforts; nor should we be riddled with guilt for this. What drops off are greed and unquenchable, unreasonable, endless wants. Knowledge and guidance arise from within and inherent dynamism comes to the fore, although the goal and the path now stand altered.

In the striving for Oneness with the Divine, there are no desires. There is such a state of perfection and beauty that nothing is felt lacking. Nothing more is needed. There is a feeling of total fullness and completion. The urge to take the right action comes as intuition with a certainty that is born of inner knowledge. Then whatever action is undertaken springs from purity, from knowledge and from spontaneity, rather than from desire and selfish motives.

We are free now. Free of all the extraneous, detrimental, misery-begetting desires. Free from bondage. This is true freedom, known in spiritual parlance as nirvana or mukti. We, each one of us, can move towards this state by choosing to embark on a path that leads to the Divine, shorn of duality and externality. The feeling of oneness permeates entire creation, and unfettered, we move towards infinity.