What or Who is God?

Saturday, February 11, 2023

Dear Readers,


Many people wonder about “what or who is God?” I have posted this   before. It is  from RAJ, who comes through Paul Tuttle. I find it very clarifying and I hope you do to. Right now Paul has a “go fund me”  page open. https://gofund.me/f8032e7b.  Please donate to him if you are able. He is in great need at this time, and he is genuiney worthy.  Thank you, dear readers.  


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 Could you Tell us A Little Bit about God, the Father?
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COULD YOU TELL US JUST A LITTLE BIT ABOUT GOD, THE FATHER?
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ANSWER: ....About God, the Father. [pause] Just anything? [audience laughter]
QUESTION:  Yes, anything...
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ANSWER:  Well, I will say that unlike you, He does not have glorious gray locks, nor is He sitting on a throne.  Your question elicits an answer that must necessarily be in more absolute terms. God is not a person, not a personage. God is, for lack of better terms, Mind--intelligence, infinite, indivisible. And the Movement of this Mind is called Creation. And every idea that is formed in this Mind is recognizable to the Mind which formed it. And the Movement of ideas, which is the Movement of Mind, is what God is.
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Mind moved, and experienced Its Movement as recognizable ideas. And the recognition of the Movement of Mind by the Mind that moved, is what you would call Consciousness--the recognition of Self, you might say. "And God saw everything that He had made, and behold it was, verily, God." The Bible says, "...and behold, it was very good." Its meaning is that God recognized Himself in the Movement.
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Now, God is not just Mind, but God is Love. The Movement of God is Life. The essence of all that God is, is--because it is indivisible--utterly True. God is therefore the essential Truth of All That Is. Because God is not physical in the sense that you think of physicality, and yet everything has substance, there must be a way to identify what substance is, and that is Spirit.  God's capacity to experience and recognize the infinite Movement that He is, is not just a mindful or intellectual experience. It feels like something--and here is a word I cannot translate to you better than to call it an experience of feeling. The capacity to feel the Meaning of the essential Truth of all that God is, is called Soul.  Now, thus God constitutes an infinite and, we could say, spaceless and timeless experience of Presence--Presence that can be recognized and felt as what It is: God, Life, Truth, Soul, Spirit, et cetera.
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Now, when I look at each of you, I see this Presence that is God. When I look at anything that is present available to see, I see this present that is God, that is timeless, spaceless, and nonphysical. All that you call "physical" is nonphysical. And every stone in these walls, every reed in the ceiling, embodies the totality of what God is, and embodies Meaning, with a capital "M"--the Meaning set into motion by the Movement of Mind that God is.  What you are going to find as you practice this curiosity that I've been talking about to see "the more of what's Really here" than what you're currently seeing and "the more to you that you Are" than what you are currently experiencing, you will find that you will not lose your body.
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It will not disappear and the world will not disappear, but you will begin to identify more with the "Presence of Mind" that you are, which is God.  And in shifting from the specific visibility and tangibility of your presence to the Presence of Mind that you Are, you will find yourself having a more infinite experience in which there is no division between you and your Brothers and Sisters, no division between you and your perceived world and this conscious experience of unity in which there is incredible infinite intimacy. You will allow your body to be what it is without being preoccupied with it any more. Your frame of reference, as it were, will no longer be your body, but the Conscious Experience of Being that you are.
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When that happens, wherever you give your attention is where you will find your body will be. You would call it "teleportation." You will shift your attention, and the specific identification of you will be there. All of you who might have imagined what it would be like to teleport have imagined that by moving [teleporting] your body, you would move yourself. But as this shift of frame of reference occurs, you will find that your Mind is everywhere at once, and you can give specific attention to any place in the infinite Movement of God, and the specific identification of you will move there. But it will follow you instead of taking you there.
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Because God is indivisible, He is undivided, and therefore there is no conflict, and therefore the infinity of Creation is utterly harmonious. But it is not harmony that is the result of the purity of one single element. Harmony, like music, is the result of many tones. And the infinite expression of God called "the Kingdom of Heaven," or "Creation," is an infinite expression or conscious experience of specifics that are always in utter harmony with each other.  And although there are an infinite variety of specifics, God is never minimized or confined to them. An idea in the Mind of God is like a hologram that embodies all that God is. And so whether you take the Whole or whether you take one straw from this ceiling, you will find the Whole there. And so there is no such thing as competition.  But for the sake of sounding a little ridiculous, I will say that the conscious experience of Reality is very interesting, far from dull, fuller of real Meaning than you can imagine.
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Now, what good does it do for me to tell you something like all of this? Not much, unless there is a way for you to access it. I've already said today that there needs to be a curiosity as to what Truth is, and to not look for It outside of yourself in some, I will say, "infallible" source, because it needs to be sought within yourself, which brings into play your inherent capacity to recognize Truth--which none of you solidly believes in yet. And so there's this little element of risk as you open up to It and are willing to make commitment to what you find being revealed.  That is part of the way to promote or facilitate this shift of frame of reference that I've just been speaking about. There is another aspect that really is the one that most rapidly facilitates your experiencing this shift of perception, and that is literally to begin to express Love.
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Most of the time, your concepts about love are based upon your need to have a pleasant experience. And so love becomes a series of techniques that you employ to manipulate each other to be nice. "So I love you so that you will be nice to me. And in order for me to find out what love is, I have to get to know you so that I can find out what you like so that I can do the things you like and not do the things you don't like. And that makes you feel good, which makes me feel good.  Ah, we're in love!"
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Now, I'm going to suggest to you that in spite of wonderful loving relationships that you have had, that many of you have had, that maybe you don't know yet what Love really is. And the reason you don't know is because you haven't yet experienced "being loved"--being loved by one whose Love is impulsed by the purity of what God is as Love. What I am saying here is not being said to minimize any degree of harmony and sweetness and affection you have all brought into your lives so far, but I want for you to have a more complete experience of what Love is so that that can be shared.
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~excerpt from Gathering with Raj, Leiston Abby England 1996
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Edited by Trish 2014-04-02 7:59 AM




Now, when I look at each of you, I see this Presence that is God. When I look at anything that is present available to see, I see this present that is God, that is timeless, spaceless, and nonphysical. All that you call "physical" is nonphysical. And every stone in these walls, every reed in the ceiling, embodies the totality of what God is, and embodies Meaning, with a capital "M"--the Meaning set into motion by the Movement of Mind that God is.  What you are going to find as you practice this curiosity that I've been talking about to see "the more of what's Really here" than what you're currently seeing and "the more to you that you Are" than what you are currently experiencing, you will find that you will not lose your body.

It will not disappear and the world will not disappear, but you will begin to identify more with the "Presence of Mind" that you are, which is God.  And in shifting from the specific visibility and tangibility of your presence to the Presence of Mind that you Are, you will find yourself having a more infinite experience in which there is no division between you and your Brothers and Sisters, no division between you and your perceived world and this conscious experience of unity in which there is incredible infinite intimacy. You will allow your body to be what it is without being preoccupied with it any more. Your frame of reference, as it were, will no longer be your body, but the Conscious Experience of Being that you are.

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When that happens, wherever you give your attention is where you will find your body will be. You would call it "teleportation." You will shift your attention, and the specific identification of you will be there. All of you who might have imagined what it would be like to teleport have imagined that by moving [teleporting] your body, you would move yourself. But as this shift of frame of reference occurs, you will find that your Mind is everywhere at once, and you can give specific attention to any place in the infinite Movement of God, and the specific identification of you will move there. But it will follow you instead of taking you there.

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Because God is indivisible, He is undivided, and therefore there is no conflict, and therefore the infinity of Creation is utterly harmonious. But it is not harmony that is the result of the purity of one single element. Harmony, like music, is the result of many tones. And the infinite expression of God called "the Kingdom of Heaven," or "Creation," is an infinite expression or conscious experience of specifics that are always in utter harmony with each other.  And although there are an infinite variety of specifics, God is never minimized or confined to them. An idea in the Mind of God is like a hologram that embodies all that God is. And so whether you take the Whole or whether you take one straw from this ceiling, you will find the Whole there. And so there is no such thing as competition.  But for the sake of sounding a little ridiculous, I will say that the conscious experience of Reality is very interesting, far from dull, fuller of real Meaning than you can imagine.

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Now, what good does it do for me to tell you something like all of this? Not much, unless there is a way for you to access it. I've already said today that there needs to be a curiosity as to what Truth is, and to not look for It outside of yourself in some, I will say, "infallible" source, because it needs to be sought within yourself, which brings into play your inherent capacity to recognize Truth--which none of you solidly believes in yet. And so there's this little element of risk as you open up to It and are willing to make commitment to what you find being revealed.  That is part of the way to promote or facilitate this shift of frame of reference that I've just been speaking about. There is another aspect that really is the one that most rapidly facilitates your experiencing this shift of perception, and that is literally to begin to express Love.

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 Posted 2014-03-28 9:18 AM (#194882)
Subject: Could you Tell us A Little Bit about God, the Father?