The One Holy Source is Your
God-Self and Your True Guru
"In God we are one" is intended to be a brief way of stating that everything and everyone is an undifferentiated extension of The One Holy Source, including the seemingly sophisticated and simplistic representations of deities we call God.
Our beliefs, however simplistic or sophisticated, tend to involve concepts of duality and separation. We cannot be separate. Our beliefs which involve being separate and duality are illusions.
Following is an allegory with which I attempt to clarify.
Once upon a time in eternity, a creative extension of The One Holy Source manifesting as a disincarnate entity, what we may call a celestial being, wondered what it would be like to be human.
It instantly incarnated into infinite human forms.
To experience the realm humans have created, it needed to create an aspect of itself which believes in the human realm wholeheartedly, as an individual and separate being.
The human form of the celestial being literally forgot that it's a creative extension of The One Holy Source and began the usually slow process of God-Self recognition.
This is not a serious problem, erstwhile celestial beings like you and me operate outside time constraints and come to recognise our true self, AKA our God-Self, inevitably.
We are all God-Self recognized whether aware of the fact or not at any particular moment in time because the real reality is timeless. We remain as created eternally.
That voice in your head which you probably believe is the "real" you is called ego-mind on this site.
You created ego-mind as a way to experience this realm. Why is a pretty good question. Maybe because you could.
The thing is you've seemingly forgotten you are an undifferentiated extension of The One Holy Source.
Ego-mind will discourage you from reading through this site because it will feel threatened by the content.
Ego-mind continually measures, compares, categorises, anticipates, judges, criticizes, causes feelings of guilt, creates fearful fantasies, and is generally not your friend.
Ego-mind is sort of like a tail wagging a dog and in this case the dog, as God-Self, lets the tail think it's autonomous.
Ego-mind thrives on causing you to be fearful. It especially needs you to believe you are a separate entity.
Ego-mind particularly wants you to believe you are separate from God and that God will judge you for your sins after your body dies. It needs you to believe you are your body.
For millennia humans have created defined representations of judgemental Gods to worship as separate entities.
These representations of God are generally conceived of as being omniscient, omnipotent and omnipresent. Popular religions claim we are created in God's image.
Do you notice the conflict here?
When we begin to believe simplistic belief systems based on anthropomorphic representations of God are inadequate, our beliefs become more expansive.
Ego-mind then causes us to create belief systems involving seemingly more sophisticated beliefs such as karma, reincarnation, and all manner of erudite falderal to distract us from God-Self recognition.
Without persistent effort ego-mind will keep you spell-bound to our mutually and your individually manifested illusions in an effort to distract you from recognizing God-Self.
In the margin on the upper right site-wide I suggest a way to counter ego-mind influence that is quite simple although not easy.
God-Self recognition is for most a gradual process. It just takes patient persistent practice.
Self identifying with God-Self allows you to recognize that you are not a separate entity but you are in fact a creative extension of The One Holy Source.
Watching ego-mind thoughts nonjudgmentally becomes very entertaining. Self-identifying with the nonjudgmental witness gradually becomes a habit. Simple not easy.
None of the concepts or ideas expressed herein are original or new although they may be new to you. Published works are cited throughout so you can do further study.
Very old relatively esoteric spiritual concepts and teachings are repackaged from time to time and sold as new. It's what we humans do.
Most believers prefer to worship a simplified version of God with human characteristics.
This site promotes a more inclusive version.
God, as The One Holy Source, is not a he or she, it is most definitely an indefinable It.
Everything is an extension of The One Holy Source. Nothing and no one is or can be separate from It.
As an extension of The One Holy Source you are immortal. You have a body. You are not your body. You remain as created. Remaining as created is profoundly meaningful.
Body self-identification is very persistent. We don't know what happens after our body dies and we fear its death, which should be accepted as simply Fantasized Experience Appearing Real.
Fear of death and fear of being punished by a judgmental deity is used to sell religions and control their adherents.
The One Holy Source is nondual and cannot judge. We judge and punish ourselves through dualistic, ego-mind created belief systems which promote ideas of separation, threats of judgment, and punishment.
Religions are created taking advantage of fear and their leaders use this fear to promote their belief systems and to manipulate and control their adherents.
It's clear to me the universe or multiverse if you prefer, is an undifferentiated extension of One Holy Source. As creative extensions of It we are manifesting our experiences.
We create our experiences through the power of belief, both individual and collective. Belief is what creates your experience of life.
You and your cohorts are creating your experiences.
If you are a religious person you may be offended and think this site is blasphemous regardless of your religion. If this is how you believe, perhaps it's time to grow a bit.
"When I was a child I spoke as a child" etcetera in First Corinthians means what it says, but metaphorically. This passage describes what occurs during and after a spiritual awakening. It is a spiritual child referenced, not a literal child.
Most religious adherents worship a scaled down version of a deity or a defined representation of God, usually having human characteristics or anthropomorphic. This is how we start on the spiritual journey. It's not wrong, it's normal.
Defined representations of anthropomorphic deities generally presuppose a condition of separation which cannot exist. Everything and everyone is connected because everything and everyone is an extension of one creative entity which we can simply call God or perhaps more accurately, The One Holy Source.
Individual and collective belief is what influences our perceptions and creates our experiences. This has the effect of both validating and invalidating individual and collective belief systems depending how you look at it.
The founders of NLP, Bandler and Grinder, did some interesting work with Milton Erickson that prove this to be true. They published about this. Research and read for yourself.
Please look up the definitions of the word "recognition." The word is used here intentionally as in, "recognising your God-Self." The implications are remarkable.
As creative extensions of The One Holy Source we are manifesting the universe both collectively and individually.
Individual and collective beliefs give form to our individual and collective experiences.
All outcomes are manifested simultaneously.
Most experiencers are limited to an awareness of the outcomes they are experiencing at the moment of experience.
All outcomes include all we humans create with our individual and collective thoughts and beliefs.
The concept that thoughts are things is well accepted.
It's logical to believe thoughts exist eternally along with everything else. The concept of separation is an illusion.
Everything is an extension of The OneHoly Source.
This encompasses all thought forms and constructions we create including the disincarnate entities we believe are divine to whom some of us offer prayers.
Recognition of God-Self is inevitable regardless of the experiencers' particular belief system in a particular present.
Exploring the ramifications of belief has as much to do with our spirituality as it does to our life experience. It takes as much belief to be a fundamentalist religious adherent as it does to be an atheist. Beliefs and values create our experiences.
I'm spiritual not religious and have been for over 50 years. Turning away from religion turns out to be a growing trend that is concerning to proponents of organized religion.
The term "none" is used. It means people who categorize themselves as "none" when stating a religious affiliation.
Nones comprise at least 20% of the U.S population and about 30% of younger people.
Contrary to common belief, exposure to religious teaching is not the issue. Over 75 percent of nones state they were raised within some form of organized religion.
This trend shows that religious belief systems which worship anthropomorphic representations of deities are alienating an ever increasing number of people.
Defined representations of anthropomorphic deities are generally associated with dualistic belief systems. You know, the good god versus bad god thing.
Since the good gods are generally recognized as being dominant, they seem to be clearly insane based upon experience in real time and conclusions from scripture.
Advocating blind worship of obviously insane anthropomorphic representations of deities is the cause of the growing none movement, not lack of exposure.
If one accepts the concept that there can be only One Holy Source of which the universe is an extension, then It must be nondual.
My spiritual beliefs are nondual and all-inclusive. Defining The One Holy Source is impossible. Defined representations of deities are useful in spiritual development. We have to start somewhere. Everything is part of The One Holy Source.
Recognizing these representations are what they are is an important step. What we do on our spiritual journey subsequently is where things get interesting.
Most people have a dualistic way of perceiving spirituality. They will naturally find the idea of a nondual all-inclusive belief system problematic.
Dualistic believers conceive of disincarnate entities they label as evil and use their supposed existence to rationalize all manner of activities seemingly in conflict with their god's intentions, especially their own activities. The devil makes them do it.
It'd be better if they were to accept personal responsibility rather than blaming some disincarnate entity they have created through individual and collective belief.
All believers are parts or extensions of one nondual Being. Every dualistic belief system that believers create through individual and collective belief are parts or extensions of The One Holy Source, which makes everyone "right."
If everyone is "right" then religious believers may feel that means their defined belief system's important need for exclusivity makes it "wrong."
This can be amusing but the need for people to believe their belief system is the only "right" one is a root cause of horrific forms of conflict.
Belief has power and in creating defined representations of deities with supernatural powers, humans are creating forces which influence our mutual experience.
It's a similar process when humans empower belief systems such as astrology, wicca, voodoo, palmistry, light-working, karma, reincarnation, yoga, pranayama, all religions, goal achievement, the law of attraction, and everything else we experience.
Thoughts influence our beliefs and are creative forces. It's best to think intentionally.
Witnessing your thoughts non-judgmentally is a helpful habit. It's simple not easy.
With persistent gentle practice you will eventually self-identify with your eternally everlasting non-judgmental Witness which represents your God-self.
Blessings,
Mark
