Musings from the Realm of the ‘Not Known’

One of the best pieces of evidence that each of us is an aspect of God is, in actuality, the almost universal denial of the possibility. Not too many people grow into adulthood believing, much less professing to be one with God. The Holy Bible certainly doesn’t suggest such oneness. Instead it suggests that, while all is created by God, certain people rank among The Chosen, and that the “male” Creator of the Universe had but one “son” — no daughters, and no feminine “Mother” Creator Complement. These notions are rarely questioned by “the faithful.” Could it be because the faithful are really, the fearful?

I’ve certainly had my questions and fears about who, or what I am, versus who or what God is. Have you? General Christian doctrine such as “heaven and hell,” “good and evil,” and “fire and brimstone,” have all amounted to exercises in “us” versus “them”. By believing or not believing in this specific doctrine, you were either “with us, or agin’ us.” While some of the nuances are decidedly different, Islamic doctrine pretty much boils down to the same thing; you’re either “with us, or agin’ us.” As such, you are either friend, or enemy.

While I grew up in a Baptist home, and currently claim membership to no religious body, I was once told by a Muslim friend that I was “Muslim but didn’t know it.” She and I shared a great sense of spiritual kinship, a feeling from whence all true friendship is formed. A friend who embraced the Bahá’í faith told me that I was “Bahá’í, but didn’t know it.” She felt that I’d eventually “see the light.” After some extended conversation I was declared a Bodhisattva by a practitioner of Buddhism. Yet, if I suggested to any of these people that I am God, expressing as, and through “Me”, some distancing might be expected, to put it mildly. We are very reluctant to consciously embrace that connection, yet it is the only one that really makes sense to me.

I understand the fear. When it comes to new realizations, one of our first inclinations is to try to reconcile our new information with what we “knew” previously. The old way of thinking will stand in stark contrast, and sometimes opposition, to the new in direct proportion to how strongly we cling to the old view and try to make it fit with the new. “If I am God, expressing as ‘Me’, then why do so many __fill in the blank__ things ‘happen’ to me?” might be a common thought.

Well, nothing “happens” to us. Life is, at all times, a dynamic, active process, even when we appear to be acting passively. We attract people and experiences to us like a magnet attracts and repels certain metals. The experiential attractors that we actively use are invisible to the five senses. They are our beliefs and attitudes, thoughts and feelings. Immeasurable, but perceivable, they are constantly operational, working before we make any choice, utter any word, or take any action. They influence all expression and non-expression. All of humankind is one in the possession of these experiential “utilities.”

Even though we may not enjoy some of the experiences that we create, each one is in truth, magical. However, by shying away from, or outright denying our God-ness, that which is always sublime by its very nature becomes the mundane at best to our mind. At its worst, it becomes profane.

Someone is thinking, perhaps loudly, “If we are God, we should be able to heal the sick, have no poverty, and never die! We’d be able to stop those hurricanes from destroying so many lives!” What if such power is there, but we don’t know that it is, and thusly, have not even attempted to exercise it?

If we are indeed God expressing as “you” and “me,” then we have embarked on a journey into duality. It is a journey of consciousness, where we have created, even temporarily, the ability to not know in contrast to being all knowing. Within this reality we do not know our oneness in Spirit with not only all of humanity, but with all of existence. We do not know that the power to heal is within us, and is activated by, and through conscious loving beingness toward ourselves and others. When we believe in limited supply because it appears to be real, then we do not know that there is unlimited supply. We believe in a dangerous world and universe, and so we experience danger everywhere.

When we believe in death, we do not know that our bodies are here for our bidding in this world, and its passing does not represent “the end” of who we are. We also do not know that our physical body need not age, hold weight, or store and hold dis-ease in the way that the mass social consciousness has come to believe. As such, we are actually creating our life experiences in perfect order to how we have chosen to express our beingness, and use our tools of perception and interaction, within this reality.

Yes, in perfect order. And let me add here that the entire list of factors that we do not know, are things that we can. Jesus and other mystics learned and embodied these truths, and so can we… so will we, each in our own time.

Nonetheless, the already existing perfect order of things is a hard pill for some people to take. But even that is perfect, for there will always be someone present and willing to play the game of life with us, no matter what game we choose to play. Isn’t that how you might expect a loving God to be? One that will provide us with the experiential environment and conditions, along with the perfect co-creators that will challenge us and allow us to form and then uncover the diamond within that we are made of?

Each one of us is a sparkling jewel of God… but denying or shying away from this truth only serves to dilute and cloak the power contained within it. Nonetheless, although “death” appears to be real, we will discover at the time of our passage, that it is not; that we exist, and are everlasting. We may also discover that we know far more about our oneness than we “knew” while experiencing the physical realm.

On the other hand, we can see and feel the effects of our choices made from a state of not knowing, and when we allowed fear to guide us, rather than love. And perhaps we’ll be grateful to all who answered our call during our journey into the realm of The Not Known, for we will see that saint and sinner, consoler and tormentor, perpetrator and victim, are all expressions of Divinity, meaning, of God.

We live in a Universe that sometimes defies words. As such, we can sometimes use too many or too few in getting ideas across. But then, that’s a judgment. We are obliged to express what there is to say, and allow others to take in what they will. Words are one of the tools that we have available to us in this world to interact with others, mind-to-mind, and heart-to-heart.

Thought and beliefs are integral components that go into the formation and reformation of our personal and collective reality. If we compare ourselves to the Jesus of Nazareth, who is believed by many to have been the “Official Son of God,” and the only real Superstar, then it’s a tall order to think that we can, like Jesus, walk on water, heal the sick, raise the dead, and walk among people again a scant three days after being crucified. On the other hand, if we could do such things, perhaps there’s a fear that we would be crucified. One’s inability to do such things now, in this moment, does not mean that one is any less (or more) an aspect of God than Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed, or anyone else. Jesus’ ability to perform such feats does not make him any more “of God” than you or me. If you listen to what he said and taught while accepting the idea of oneness, it might be crystal clear.

Although it’s apparent that he experienced fear (like you and me), Jesus certainly didn’t teach it, nor did he give in to it. He taught love. He didn’t teach judgment. He taught oneness. Referring to the feats he performed, he said that you (and I) could do likewise, and even greater. How could a statement like that come from one who sees himself as being fundamentally different than you and me? Sounds instead like encouragement from a kindred one who actually knew what he was talking about.

It took me over 50 years of living, study, and observation, to acknowledge and accept that… no matter what I do or how I choose to be, I am one with God, and that God is one with me. This means that I am one with you too, as you are one with God. You don’t have to agree with this point of view, as our earthly experience continues to be dominated by what is not known by those who do not know or accept their oneness with God, even while expressing a belief therein. However, if you allow the idea of your own inalienable, intrinsic, irrevocable, always expressing God-ness to sit with you, and see life from the possibility of its truth, a whole new world will reveal itself. A knowing, abundant, and loving one that was present all along.

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