THE GOD CONCEPT
Can we include a god in a book about extraterrestrials?
The term 'extraterrestrial' means not of
our planet; thus since god is supposed to be everywhere it would
strictly not be appropriate. To a lesser degree we might also
question whether the members of the spiritual government or the
creators can be regarded as extraterrestrials.
The point is that there is really no
separation between anything, atoms or people, at the most
fundamental level.
There is no more separation than there
is of, say, the mountain peaks rising above the surface of the
ocean. They are apparently separate but beyond the barrier of the
surface of the water (compare dimensional barriers) all the
mountains are one within the body of the Earth and are merely
projections from it.
(The key is context: all separation is
apparently absolute separation but only because the context of the
separation is hidden or unconscious. When the context is known the
separateness is seen as only relative - but wholeness will be found
to be absolute.)
Our consciousness projects 'back' (or 'upwards') or more correctly
'inwards' through the spiritual government and creators to the
Source. Clearly God is not an ET, though this definition that he is,
would be corroborated by most current viewpoints.
The ego sees God as separate - the
'large mountain' somewhere cross the ocean.
Let us take a look at this model of mountains and ocean in a little
more detail since it gives us an insight into the understanding of 'withinness'
as opposed to the external-world reality. This also gives us a
relationship between the whole and parts and the role the barriers
play. Again, imagine an ocean with mountain peaks above the surface,
all separate.
Let these peaks represent any thing,
such as particles, atoms, people, objects, etc. Now, if we go below
the surface (of the ocean) barrier we would see all the mountains
connected in the body of the Earth.
More accurately we should imagine many
surfaces of the ocean, one on top of another. We go below (into
slightly higher dimensions) the first surface and see the mountains
are a little more connected or closer (some peaks in close proximity
would be connected at this level). Then further down through more
barriers, would be revealed increasing degrees of connectivity until
it was found that all separation merged into the body of the Earth,
the One.
In this analogy the religious population have been brainwashed with
the idea that God is a very large mountain peak somewhere across the
(first) surface of the ocean. Thus on this basis atheists are
correct; there is no such God. We see, however, that the real God
is, in this analogy, the body of the Earth. It is internal, within,
and of inner space; each particle, person, etc. (mountain peak) is
an extension of God.
Even in terms of theory, that we are all One is logical. (The
concept of One has simplicity, perfection, symmetry, consistency,
and generalization.) Note that all the advanced ETs we have referred
to acknowledge the Law of One.
It appears that this One is fundamentally impersonal - no right or
wrong - and we might use the term unmanifest to describe it: a state
of infinite potential, creativity and absolute subjectivity,
containing all possibilities.
We might reference the Urantia book that
is stated to be written by 196 spiritual authors.
'Touching the Infinite, we cannot
find him out... the divine footsteps are not known. His
understanding is infinite and his greatness is unsearchable...
the blinding light of the Father's presence appears as thick
darkness to the unevolved'.
We receive some idea of the mystery of
this condition from studying these viewpoints of the spiritual
authors, clearly of very high intelligence.
Let us continue with the
mechanics of the Infinite becoming finite.
It learns about Itself by projecting out images of Itself: what we
might call objectified fragments - initially large, which in turn
fragment further, endlessly. Thus quality is turned into quantity
but the subjectivity is still within each fragment with reducing
degrees of freedom (reducing probabilities) as we go towards greater
fragmentation (and lower frequencies).
Each level of fragmentation has a
barrier (in the lower levels, where we are, it is called the veil of
forgetfulness). Without this barrier it would be all pointless since
each fragment would know it was the source and just go back to it
(automatically use it). The barrier hides the context and holds the
separation in place.
The quantitative fragments interact with each other creating new
qualities, new aspects of consciousness, new expressions of the
infinite possibilities within. All this information 'passes' back
into the One which is forever becoming and qualifying Itself.
Now it must be very difficult for people to arrive at an
understanding or perception of the idea of God being everywhere, and
in and of everything, although what we have stated covers this to
some degree.
This is not surprising considering that almost the
entirety of our education is directed at utilizing and developing
left-brain thinking, which is fragmented and insists that the final
analysis of all understanding is in the part, the particle, the
smallest pieces of information (put together as a composite to form
'wholeness') - all manipulated by (3D) logic.
The right brain is suppressed and also
its relationship with the heart, of which the latter is apparently
the equivalent of a vast information centre in that it connects to
probably just about all knowledge. This right- brain ability is
required to understand true unity or wholeness (same root as holy).
Let us describe a model for demonstrating the property of the God
essence as being everywhere.
We could begin with the idea of a uniform consciousness spread out
everywhere, like an ocean. There is nothing outside it. It is
energy. It has a frequency spectrum (which could be regarded as in a
virtual state - capable of being manifested).
This ocean of consciousness could be the
first energy manifestation of the unmanifest, the undefined, the
Absolute, unqualified creativity of infinite potential and
possibilities.
We now consider that this consciousness (which is function)
condenses into structures; separate regions. An analogy for this
would be to think of steam instead of consciousness but to ignore
anything to do with temperature. We know that steam can condense
into water, and water can freeze into ice. Thus we can imagine an
ice structure, say, hollow inside and patterned so that it acts like
a template when the steam flows through it.
Now let it be emphasized that the purpose of using these ingredients
in the analogy is to show that the steam, in effect, created the ice
structure, but the steam, which is infinitely flexible, is now
formatted by its own structure - the ice mould.
Let us now return to the real situation of consciousness condensing
structures. The importance is to recognize the rigidity of structure
which enforces its shape on the infinitely flexible energy of
consciousness flowing into it.
Now nature's computer system, or in other words, the universe,
operates on geometrical intelligence. It is a frequency-coded
universe. Shape of energy plus frequency (and dimension) is
information.
This applies to all manifestations.
Everything is or is represented
by information in the form of packets of energy with shape,
frequency and dimension.
We might wish to imagine a very complex structure - a system of
geometric hollows and tubes. This could be the human body or brain.
The purpose of structure is to cause consciousness to be formatted
(focused, limited, defined, etc.) in a manner to express appropriate
information.
The structure will extract (mould,
focus, distribute, absorb, elicit) from consciousness the
appropriate energy patterns, frequencies, according to the structure
that consciousness created in the first place.
A learning pattern in skills is a structure, which when the input
(consciousness) activates it, it selects a preset focus (governed by
the learning pattern) of energy from consciousness so that
consciousness does not have to concentrate hard and struggle to make
accurate movements as in learning a skill, endeavoring to find the
correct positions of limbs, etc.
Thus we can imagine a complex structure within this ocean of
consciousness to be a personality, and at a distance, another
somewhat different structure for another personality, etc.
We can include all other forms, objects,
atoms, etc. Hence consciousness is being formatted, defined,
qualified by these structures that are enforcing their pattern. And
a pattern means information, knowledge, memory, programs. An atom is
a structure condensed by consciousness according to certain rules or
programs, which in turn is a coded package of frequencies.
Consciousness is function and its creations are structure. A rough
guide to this process would be that an ideation of consciousness
creates a template (mould or format) which is
a morphogenic field (a form-holding
pattern). This pattern then attracts by resonance appropriate energy
frequencies of consciousness to form the entity.
We can imagine now an ego structure developing around the
personality, causing less consciousness to freely flow through the
structure (the person). What happens now is that the consciousness
begins to think it is the structure since it is being the same shape
and frequency - the medium poured into the template becomes the
template.
This is the state of man today - he thinks he is a brain and a body.
Note also how this can apply to more subtle areas such as when a
learning pattern is activated. We think we are the learning pattern
and don't realize there is actually an interface between the
learning pattern structure and the input function.
We identify with the learning pattern -
actually think we are creating at that moment complex movements when
in fact we are using the machinery to do it for us.
The next step is to envisage one of these structured personalities
as becoming enlightened and breaking through the ego structure. The
consciousness energy now flows freely and the individual realizes he
or she is not the structure but consciousness.
Now since this consciousness is everywhere, it can be another's
viewpoint while simultaneously retaining the information in its own
structure. Note that this gives a reality on the spiritual notion
that God is everywhere and everything; it is all one thing - one
type of energy that is basically whole.
This model is very simplified. It is not ideal in terms of tests of
truth in physics. There is an apparent strange disparagement between
the consciousness energy and the abrupt change to a rigid structure,
such as the brain or body.
We have to imagine a potential range of structures from the heavy 3D
one, such as the physical body, through other structures for memory,
programs, mind, and also etheric, emotional, spiritual structures (
bodies), etc. ranging up through dimensional structures of greater
expansiveness, probabilities, more flexibility, greater dimensions
and back to the infinite form of the energy of consciousness
(capable of being any information).
That is, a complete range of structures
will be inherent from low frequency, heavy density, to high
frequency finer structures (containing many more probabilities)
merging back to the characteristics of whole.
Now, in addition, one should imagine the
larger structures housing the smaller ones - that is, the smaller
ones are inside, within, the larger ones; consciousness is within
consciousness.
For example, the lower-self or soul
extension is within the soul, which in turn is within the
higher-self or oversoul, going back to the One.
All is a focus, however; a framework or format of consciousness.
Thus all forms of consciousness are equivalent to hypnotic states.
We are hypnotized within the third dimension. A learning pattern
hypnotizes one to focus energies in a certain way. A fixed belief
system is a hypnotic trance-like condition.
On this basis, it means that one can only know what the
consciousness energy can be. One can't know what is outside the
focus or framework unless the consciousness expands into it. And the
focus itself is achieved and held by resonance of frequencies within
the template. If we change our frequencies the third dimension will
change, just as one changes channel on the television.
We see that at the level of the Source there is no separation of
anything.
The projection from that 'Oneness' is
nonlinear but by putting in barriers (veils of forgetfulness) we
create the appearance of linearity and separateness. For example, if
only the ground-floor workers in a company were visible, then the
information from the president, executive and managers, etc. would
be nonlinear as received by the workers.
The behavior of the workers at the
ground-floor level wouldn't make sense with respect to an observer
of them only (except during a break), since they are receiving
'invisible' information acting on whole groups. During work time
they are all controlled by wholeness, that is, organized by
managers, executives, president, regarding the development of the
company products.
These separate fragments (the Trinity, the Elohim, any spiritual
being, humans, particles, etc.) are in a constant state of learning
from this objective ('projected out') representation of Itself,
which activates, extracts and discovers (inherent within Its
subjectivity) new states of consciousness.
This 'knowledge' is 'returned' to the
One, developing a Personal God which is forever becoming. It won't
mind if its fragments learn all about negativity in the process. But
as a safeguard it apparently has designed into life the property of
duality. This type of duality only occurs on the lower levels since
negativity can exist only at this level.
The two poles of the duality allow one
pole to express the negativity, and the other to act as a debt (it
is a fourth-to-third dimensional mirror-image of the other). Thus
the person will have to pay it back - the negative action returns to
one and the two poles come together seeking wholeness and unity. And
all negativity of this kind is cancelled.
Note that everything that is projected out, that is, all energy, can
be considered to be structure. Only the God essence, the unmanifest,
non-energy aspect, the Oneness within this structure, is function.
The Trinity is probably the first 'fragmentation' or projection from
the One. (There could be many such projections for different
universes - which don't concern us.)
The next projected level would
be nine entities - or seven, according to
the Urantia book. Both are
mathematical. The nine (say) then projects further, and so on, down
a hierarchy of decreasing frequencies, dimensions, and increasing
fragmentation.
We see that in effect the Infinite reflects outwards Its inner
condition in order to know Itself. Each of the fragments will
similarly reflect out the inner-condition for further fragmentation.
When, however, we come down to the third dimension - the bottom rung
of the 'ladder' - where energies are out of phase, that is, flows
are not in phase with the Infinite, then the reflection will include
expressions of misaligned energies.
Thus problems are reflected out
in the third dimension, in addition to harmonic inner-states.
If everyone carefully observed the extraordinary synchronicities
throughout each day (mainly negative for humans' present condition)
it would become apparent that only a whole, one condition with the
ability to think infinite things simultaneously could bring about
coincidental events, even of a mundane nature, at a moment's notice.
Everything is in fact synchronistic
(even when negative).
And everything 'begins' with a whole, or
the One.
Almost magically we are selecting from
this wholeness (of infinite probabilities), data and experience
according to our inner-condition. This would be the true meaning of
the statement that all knowledge and energy is contextual - what one
observes is influenced by the observer.
Thus the God concept gives us the
final interrelationship of all things.
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