Excerpt from Conversations with G-d

So ‘G-d’ is a ‘collective’?

by Neale Donald Walsch
December 5, 2012

G-D: There is only One Soul, One Being, One Essence. Some of you call this
“G-d.” This Single Essence “individuates” Itself as Everything In The Universe—in other words, All That Is. This includes all the sentient beings, or what you have chosen to call souls.

Neale: So “G-d” is every soul that “is”?

G-D: Every soul that is now, ever was, and ever will be.

Neale: So G-d is a “collective?”

G-D: That’s the word I chose, because it comes closest in your language to describing how things are.

Neale: Not a single awesome being, but a collective?

G-D:  It doesn’t have to be one or the other. Think “outside the box”!

Neale: G-d is both? A single Awesome Being which is a collective of individualized parts?

G-D: Good! Very good!

Neale:  And why did the collective come to Earth?

G-D: To express itself in physicality. To know itself in its own experience. To be G-d. As I’ve already explained in detail in Book 1.

Neale:  You created us to be You?

G-D: We did, indeed. That is exactly why you were created.

Neale:  And humans were created by a collective?

G-D: Your own Bible said, “Let Us create man in Our image, and after Our likeness” before the translation was changed.

Life is the process through which G-d creates their self, and then experiences the creation. This process of creation is ongoing and eternal. It is happening all the “time.” Relativity and physicality are the tools with which G-d works. Pure energy (what you call spirit) is What G-d Is. This Essence is truly the Holy Spirit.

By a process through which energy becomes matter, spirit is embodied in physicality. This is done by the energy literally slowing itself down—changing its oscillation, or what you would call vibration.

That Which Is All does this in parts. That is, parts of the whole do this. These individuations of spirit are what you have chosen to call souls.

In truth, there is only One Soul, reshaping and reforming Itself. This might be called The Reformation. You are all G-ds In Formation. (G-d’s information! )

That is your contribution, and it is sufficient unto itself.

To put this simply, by taking physical form you have already done enough. I want, I need, nothing more. You have contributed to the common good. You have made it possible for that which is common—the One Common Element—to experience that which is good. Even you have written that G-d created the heavens and the Earth, and the animals who walk upon the land, and the birds of the air, and the fishes of the sea, and it was very good.

“Good” does not—cannot—exist experientially without its opposite. Therefore have you also created evil, which is the backward motion, or opposite direction, of good. It is the opposite of life—and so have you created what you call death.

Yet death does not exist in ultimate reality, but is merely a concoction, an invention, an imagined experience, through which life becomes more valued by you. Thus, “evil” is “live” spelled backward! So clever you are with language. You fold into it secret wisdoms that you do not even know are there.

Now when you understand this entire cosmology, you comprehend the great truth. You could then never demand of another being that it give you something in return for your sharing the resources and necessities of physical life.

Neale: As beautiful as that is, there are still some people who would call it communism.

G-D: If they wish to do so, then so be it. Yet I tell you this: Until your community of beings knows about being in community, you will never experience Holy Communion, and cannot know Who I Am.

The highly evolved cultures of the universe understand deeply all that I have explained here. In those cultures it would not be possible to fail to share. Nor would it be possible to think of “charging” increasingly exorbitant “prices” the more rare a necessity became. Only extremely primitive societies would do this. Only very primitive beings would see scarcity of that which is commonly needed as an opportunity for greater profits. “Supply and demand” does not drive the system of Highly Evolved Beings.

This is part of a system that humans claim contributes to their quality of life and to the common good. Yet, from the vantage point of a Highly Evolved Being, your system violates the common good, for it does not allow that which is good to be experienced in common.

Another distinguishing and fascinating feature of Highly Evolved Cultures is that within them there is no word or sound for, nor any way to communicate the meaning of, the concept of “yours” and “mine.” Personal possessives do not exist in their language, and, if one were to speak in earthly tongues, one could only use articles to describe things. Employing that convention, “my car” becomes “the car I am now with.” “My partner” or “my children” becomes “the partner” or “the children I am now with.”

The term “now with,” or “in the presence of,” is as close as your languages can come to describing what you would call “ownership,” or “possession.”

That which you are “in the presence of” becomes the Gift. These are the true “presents” of life.

Thus, in the language of highly evolved cultures, one could not even speak in terms of “my life,” but could only communicate “the life I am in the presence of.”

This is something akin to your speaking of being “in the presence of G-d.”

When you are in the presence of G-d (which you are, any time you are in the presence of each other), you would never think of keeping from G-d that which is G-d’s—meaning, any part of That Which Is. You would naturally share, and share equally, that which is G-d’s with any part of that which is G-d.

This is the spiritual understanding which undergirds the entire social, political, economic, and religious structures of all highly evolved cultures. This is the cosmology of all of life, and it is merely failure to observe this cosmology, to understand it and to live within it, which creates all of the discord of your experience on Earth.

 

We are ingenious at finding ways to separate ourselves from each other. We’ve  developed a highly complex system of judgment.

How’s that working for us?
I’m better, richer, more educated, fatter, skinnier, dependent, independent, spiritual, religious, than you are. I’m more evolved than you are. I have lighter skin than you do. I have darker skin than you do. My ancestry is better than yours. My culture is more artistic, civilized, peaceful, war-like, than yours.

Really?
If we are all G-d, how exactly are we better than one another? Or worse? Most of the conflicts we have with each other are based upon some idea of betterness, or correctness. My belief, or truth, is always more correct, and therefore better, than yours.

Really?
My argument here can be turned around, or even inside out: why is my concept of G-d, or of equality, better? Maybe these judgments’, these ways of separating ourselves, are good things. They make us feel good certainly. It’s always good to be better, right?

Really?
Isn’t just being G-d better than anything else could be? Or, is that just a lip service we have acquired that we don’t really believe? If thou art G-d than our personal and collective concepts of what is better, or what is worse, are washed out. Well, not completely. We believe that our belief, that being God, is better than their not being G-d. In fact, we believe that their belief is the root cause of all suffering.

Really?

REALLY!

Namaste!

— Stephan

A pantheist believes that everyone and everything is G-d. That means that you and I and your neighbors and friends: all of the inhabitants of Earth and the Universes, plus Nature, are G-d. How do the Ten Commandments stand in this environment?

1: I am the Lord your G-d: you will not have other G-ds before me.
There is only one G-d. Ourselves and Nature are expressions of that G-d, as indeed are the archetypal G-ds of all human cultures. So, the later half of the commandment is irrelevant: there are no other G-ds, there is only one.

2: You shall not take the name of the Lord your G-d in vain.
Which one? G-d has millions of names, depending on which aspect you are focusing on. So? You should not take anyone’s name in vain.

3: Remember to keep holy the Lord’s Day.
This is easy since all days are holy and sacred to G-d.

4: Honor your Father and your Mother.
Indeed, you should do this. Your physical body was created from your Father’s seed and your Mother’s egg.

5: You will not kill.
This goes without saying. If you kill another person, or for that matter, commit violence toward another person, or an animal, you are killing yourself. You are killing G-d. This commandment also forbids the death penalty and war. Contrary to what some falsely believe, this commandment does not (and never has) applied to fetuses, embryos, blogospheres, blastulas, or anything else that is dependent upon it’s host, it’s Mother, for life.  All of the worlds holy books teach that the soul (or spirit, or Atman) inhabits the physical body when a newborn child takes it’s first breath outside the womb. The idea that a fetus is a person is a belief promoted by misogynists’ in order to take control of women’s bodies. Believing this is a gross sin.  

6: You will not commit adultery.
Adultery is defined as sex outside of marriage.  It doesn’t matter how many people you are married to, just don’t stray outside of your marital group. Monogamy is an unnatural condition. It is good and right for humans to gather in collectives of as many men and women as possible, and bear children and raise those children as progeny of the collective. 

7: You will not steal.
No argument here, but refusing to pay your taxes is stealing from the government that you have instituted to organize society.

8: You will not bear false witness against your neighbor.
This means that telling a lie (a falsehood) about your neighbor is the same as lying about G-d,  for G-d is you and your neighbor. It is telling a lie about yourself.

9: You will not desire your neighbor’s wife.
What about “You shall not desire your neighbor’s husband?”  This makes your wife/spouse a possession. But your wife/spouse is not your possession.  She/he is a free individual who is owned by his/her self. He/she is G-d just as you are G-d. G-d is not a misogynist, but this commandment makes him/her one.

10: You will not desire your neighbor’s possessions.
In other words, you shall never be jealous. That is what jealousy is: the desire for another persons stuff. Kabbalists wear a red string around their left hand to ward off such jealousy, which also known as the “evil eye.”

Namaste!

— Stephan Gabriel

It’s not a new idea you know.
Jesus himself said that “I and the Father are One,” and if he, a Rabbi
from a (then) obscure religion in a backward country is, then we all
are or can be. George Fox (one of the founders of the Religious
Society of Friends (Quakers)) said, ” Go out into the world and answer
to that of G-d in everyman.” Hindu’s greet one another with the word,
“Namaste,” which means something like “G-d within me greets
G-d within you..”

Someone in Satsung suggested that divinity is an energy field
— like the Force. It surrounds us; it’s inside of us; we breathe
and drink and eat it.

Someone else said that “G-d is perfect.”
Sorry, no G-d’s or G-ddesses are perfect. The Judeo-Christian
G-d is supposed to be (and believers in Him are required to
believe that), but no, even a casual reading of the  Tenach (what
Christians refer to as the Old Testament) reveals a G-d of many,
many faults, many listed as forbidden behavior in His own laws
(He’s a “do as I say, not as I do” sort of G-d). I won’t go into that
in detail. As you read further into SiaSL, you’ll encounter Jubal’s
commentary on this.

The Greco-Roman deities are great examples.
They’re always breaking the rules. The Celtic pantheons are
no better. Hindu deities do things a mink breeder wouldn’t
tolerate. 🙂 In every mythos it’s the same: the deities are the
mirror images of ourselves. Or we can say that G-d is made
in our own image (and then the opposite is true to – if we are
made in the image of G-d, then that’s why we act like him).

We’re all fledgling G-ds here.
We’re learning how to be G-ds, and unlearning how not to
be. It’s, as Pappaji said, a lifetime learning experience. We
will make mistakes. That’s part of the learning process. Hopefully,
we’ll learn from each other, and grow in perfect love and
perfect trust If we just grok that small part, we are half way there.

Ok, so let’s say that one or more of you
are thinking: “No, I could never believe that. I’m not a G-d and can
never be one and none of these folks are either.”  Well, that’s your
choice. Just as a Cancer cell chooses to follow the ways of Cancer,
then you too are choosing to serve the dark side. That’s your choice.

We all have free will after all.

Namaste!

— Stephan

That’s it. That is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.  The whole of reality, the whole of existence, is summed up in this simple phrase:

Thou art G-d.

That is not to say that you, by yourself, are G-d. You and your sister, and mother, and neighbor, and wife and the President and every other sentient being in the universe, together, communally, you are G-d. You might say the collective of G-d.

But you have been brain washed.  You believe that G-d is an entity outside of yourself. He’s this big guy up in the sky with a big club who looks down on the world; down on you, and judges.  What a puny, tiny, insignificant being you have made of yourself.

They say, G-d is love.  “G-d is love, and he who abides in G-d, abides in love, and love is in you.” In other words, G-d is in you. Thou art G-d.  This makes you and me equal to each other, and to all other sentient beings.

Science tells us that there is no darkness, that darkness is simply the absence of light. The truth is that you are G-d, and G-d  is the LIGHT.  EMBRACE THE LIGHT!  “You are the LIGHT of the WORLD!”  “The Kingdom of G-d is within YOU!”  “You are the alpha and omega, the beginning and the end.”  All the words attributed to Christ, and to Krishna, and to Buddha and to all the other great teachers of the world, say the exact same thing “THOU ART G-D!”

G-d is like the ocean.  If you take a glass, and dip it into the ocean, that glass contains all of the essence of the ocean.  If you turn the glass over, the water it contains returns to the ocean. As individuals, Our bodies are all glasses of water, each of which contains all of the essence of the ocean. The ocean is
G-d.  We are G-d. When our physical body finally runs out of steam; when our body dies, the spirit, or soul, or atman, is released and returns to G-d.  The soul, or spirit, or atman, is Self.  The Self is composed of energy, and science teaches us that energy cannot be destroyed. It lives forever. It is the essence of G-d.

We see that in the microcosm, each cell in your body contains your DNA, and is specialized to perform specific tasks. You have eye cells, brain cells, muscle cells, etc. Yet in the all together, they make up you. So it is, that each of us embodies certain traits, certain skills, and all together we make up G-d.

What about people we don’t like? They are  G-d as well, just as cancer cells or other diseased cells are part of you. But cancer cells do not act right. They do not know, or refuse to know, that they are part of the body. They act as individuals, and bring harm to themselves and to the whole of the body.

That, denial of self – denial that you are G-d, is sin.  It’s the ultimate sin, the sin that all other sin comes from.  Salvation?  Salvation come from acknowledging that you are G-d. Salvation comes from the realization that when you harm another person, you are harming yourself;  you are harming G-d. Matthew 25:35-40

There is a song I remember from a Roman Catholic “Folk Mass.”  It goes like this:

Where do I see G-d? Where do I see G-d?
I see G-d in you,
in the things you do,
in the way you see,
all the things in me and in you.

I see G-d in you.
I see G-d in me.

Did you know?  Not one culture contains the truth of G-d. Not one. But many cultures, understood together contain this truth.

The Jewish mystic discipline, known as Kabbalah, seeks to find the name of
G-d.  The Hindu’s already know it.  The name of G-d is OM. G-d has other names as well. Some of them are familiar to us: Christ, Krishna, Yahweh, Shiva, Vishnu, Brahma, Buddha, Elohim, Adonai, Leon, Ganesha, Kali …. etc.  Others, are not so familiar: Cernunnos,  Danu, Morrigan …. There are billions of names, but there is only one G-d.  G-d is neither male nor female, yet G-d expresses his self through all of us, and everyone; through Nature and the Cosmos.  Some call G-d “the Universe.”  “The universe is YOU – so share!”

Do you want to see G-d? Look in the mirror. See your self. THOU ART G-D!

You don’t believe this? Some of you will reject this teaching only because I am the one making it. Some of you will reject this because, and I hate to say it, “Thou art G-d”  means that everyone is equal. I’m not better, or worse, than you; you are no better nor worse than me, or than anyone else. You are not better. You are equal. Some people want to be better, so they come up with an elaborate scenario where they start out as, for example, sinners, and then “accept” a savior.  This is nonsense.  Get past yourself. The universe is much bigger than you. You can choose to embrace it – G-d – or not. Your choice.

Namaste!

— Stephan

 

What do I mean when I speak of “G-d”? I’m talking about an omnipresent, omniscient, universal gender less entity, who possibly pushed the button that created the Big Bang.

I’m talking about US: you and me, and the neighbor next door, and the President of France and everyone else who lives or has ever lived (because the soul is energy and energy is never lost) on Earth or anywhere else in the known and unknown Universe(s). In your present state (being an Earthling) you can’t see it.

You see that there are different people of different races and ethnicity, who speak different languages and practice different customs and you think we are all different. But the reality is, we are all the same. We are all one and same entity

Namaste!

— Stephan

“Thou art G-d’. It’s not a message of cheer and hope. It’s a defiance – and an unafraid, unabashed assumption of personal responsibility.”
– Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

As mentioned elsewhere on this blog, this is not a new idea. My interpretation of it may be new, but not the basic idea. “Thou art G-d”, is the greeting that Hindus and Yoga students make to one another upon meeting  (That’s what “Namaste” means). Typically, we do not say “I am G-d.” This is because my
G-dishness is dependent upon yours. WE are G-d. Collectively. Every single sentient being in the universe comprises G-d. No one is G-d by themselves. We are all in this together. You could say that we are the atoms that make up G-d.

If you are a fan of the television series, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, you might remember The Founders, who were the protagonists in the story . The Founders, as individuals, were shape shifters. In their natural state they were like thick water and able to assume the appearance of anything. Their greatest joy was when they could all come together and form an ocean, co-mingling (mixing) with each other in what they called “the Great Link.”

I think this is what happens to us, when we are “between the worlds.” When our physical body is no longer viable, we become one with everyone else in the Great Link.

What about the people we don’t like? What about the President? Or the GOP members of Congress? They don’t know that they are G-d. It’s their ignorance that causes them (and due to their actions, us) trouble. Do the best you can to work around them and otherwise ignore them. They’ll discover their G-d-ness soon enough. In the meantime we have to keep them from doing from doing as much harm as we can. This applies to terrorists, criminals and other misinformed folks as well. It means you have to love them in spite of themselves. That’s really hard.

What if, say, 90% of the worlds population adopted this idea? What if a significant percentage of the Earths population came to this realization? PEACE ON EARTH. Total equality. Total liberty. Total fraternity. No rich, no poor. Everyone has housing. Everyone is fed. Everyone has healthcare. No one is competing with anyone. Everyone takes care of everyone else and is in turn taken care of.

IMAGINE!

Namaste!

— Stephan

If we are one with the “All Mother,” then we are one with the G-ddess, the G-ds the planet, the Universe (“the Universe is YOU”) and with our fellow Earthlings. These are the “G-ds” we serve, and by doing so, we also serve ourselves; the collective (G-d); the “All Mother,” “The People” (or cymru). Have you seen the movie Avatar. Funny how these concepts are dovetailed into this particular modern mythos, even down to some of the terminology.

The G-ds, whether Celtic, Roman, Greek, Indian, Norse, etc., were originally made up by someone. Early literature; novels; stories, were spun around fictional characters who later became deified. In some cases (and this seems especially true of the Celts), some of these heroes actually lived, and the stories glorified their deeds. As these heroes became entrenched in human consciousness, supernatural elements or powers became attached to them, and new myths emerged.

Are they real? You betch’a they are! The Earth Mother is a G-ddess. She is very real. Did we create her? Yes – gazillions of years ago, in a force we unleashed called “the big bang.” But we forgot. Over time, we forgot who we are, what we are. Lost in the illusion of our separateness, we see our fellow gods as something bigger/better than we are. We’ve fallen into a deep sleep of individuality, a denial of both our humanity and our deity. The old ones and the archetypes call unto us: wake up, brothers and sisters, wake up! Join us once again, as you did many ages past. Join us in the great link (‘mahaan kadee).

Namaste!

— Stephan Gabriel

Some of us believe that there are 3 kinds of deities.

The “Old Ones“ or ancestors, are first in honor and in consultation. They are those who are now discorporate. They at one time inhabited physical bodies, but their bodies died, and only their soul – spirit – Atman, remains, or they have been reincarnated.

The archetypes are largely made up, as all deities are and always have been, but there are valuable lessons to be learned from their myths, and they are largely our role models. These consist of the pantheons of Hinduism, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, the Greek, Roman, Celtic, Native American etc. In other words, all of the deities from all cultures in the Universe.

Then there is the final class: US. You, me, and everyone else. “Thou art G-d,” we say, but really we are just learning how. When we “die,” we join the “old ones,” and the cycle continues. But Nature is G-d as well, deserving of our worship and reverence.

I sometimes think that the archetypal deities are simply anthropomorphous thought forms about Nature. Nature IS. The Earth Mother, or Gaia, is one entity. Though parts of Nature seem to our limited vision to be separate things (like the plant kingdom, the animal kingdom, minerals, humankind etc.,) everything works together as a whole. So Nature is G-d, and since we are also Nature, we are G-d as well. We believe that most of the harm caused by humankind to the Earth Mother and to each other is the direct result of our lack of knowledge, our denial, of our own divinity and the false belief that we are individuals, unconnected to anything or anyone else. This idea of separateness is the cancer that has infected the planet. It is our mission as humans to eradicate this cancer.

Of course, all of the above is simply my not so humble opinion. Your mileage may vary.

Namaste:

— Stephan

 

… to live, to learn, and to realize that each and every one of us, regardless of race, creed, ethnicity, gender, physical ability, or species, is G-d.  In coming posts I will expound on this theme, but I offer you this as a kind of head start.

YOU ARE G-D!!!  Stand in front of the mirror and repeat this over and over and over again. And, most importantly, BELIEVE!

Namaste!

— Stephen Gabriel