When I talk about the Holy Experience I am talking about meeting God. It is a face-to-face meeting, too, not something that exists only in conceptual constructs.
I am talking about looking at Divinity directly, seeing it right there in front of us, knowing it as part of us, experiencing it as integral to us, and merging into this experience as our felt reality.
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This is another in a series of blogs on The Holy Experience.
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This is precisely the experience that we have following our death, and God has made it clear to us that we are not required to wait until death in order to have it. We may embrace—and, indeed, create—this experience at any time. But we must feel that it is possible, and that we are worthy, to do so.
How, then, to shake off our own thoughts of unworthiness?
The first step is to re-identify ourselves. We must decide again—and for many decide anew—who we are. So long as we imagine that we are other than who we really are, thoughts of our unworthiness will be possible. The moment that we re-identify ourselves, assuming our true and real identity, the idea of unworthiness as it relates to us becomes impossible to conceive.
Currently, most people imagine themselves to be separate from God, from each other, and from everything else that is. In truth, we are all intrinsically connected with everything—including that which we call Divinity. When we drop our idea of Separation—which is part of what I have called the Earth’s “Separation Theology”—any thoughts of our unworthiness drop with it.
Robert Heinlein, the famous science-fiction writer, included a line, said many times by many characters, in his novel, Stranger in a Strange Land. The line was, “Thou art God.” In his book, Heinlein had many people greeting and saying goodbye to each other in this way. The line, and the book itself, though meant to be “fiction,” offers a powerful statement of what is really so.
On the day that you embrace your True Identity as Divinity Demonstrated you will abandon forever your thought that you are somehow not “up to” the Holy Experience, or of being included in God’s Kingdom.
Many people have a very difficult time with this idea of their Oneness with God, however, and this makes it virtually impossible for them to drop their idea of separation from God and embrace their true worthiness at last.
In Home with God this matter is addressed head on. Here’s a sampling of what the dialogue with God in that book reveals…
I’ve often heard the analogy that I am, to God, as a wave is to the ocean. The same stuff, exactly. Just smaller in size.
That analogy has indeed been used many times, and it is not inappropriate. So now, let us define this “ocean.” Let us propose here that God is The Creator. Very few people who believe in a God at all have an argument with that.
If it is true that God is The Creator, this means that you, too, are a creator. God creates all of life, and you create all of your life. It’s that simple.
If you think of it that way you can hold it in your consciousness.
You and God are creating all the time—you on the micro level, God on the macro. Are you clear?
Yes, I see! There is no separation between the wave and the ocean. None. The wave is one part of the ocean, acting in a certain way. The wave does the same thing the ocean does, in smaller degree.
That is exactly correct. You are me, acting the way you are acting. I give you the power to act as you are acting. Your power comes from me. Without the ocean, the wave does not have the power to be a wave. Without me, you do not have the power to be you. And without you, my power is not made manifest. Your joy is to make me manifest. The joy of humanity is to manifest God.
Now there’s a statement.
Here’s another…
Life is God, made physical.
What is important to understand is that there is no single way in which life makes God physical. Some waves are small, barely a ripple, while other waves are huge, thunderous in their sweep. Yet, whether minuscule or monstrous, there is always a wave. There is no time when there is not a wave on the ocean. And while every wave is different, not a single one is divided from the ocean itself.
Difference does not mean division. Those words are not interchangeable.
You are different from God, but you are not divided from God. The fact that you are not divided from God is why you can never die.
The wave lands on the beach, but it does not cease to be. It merely changes form, receding back into the ocean.
The ocean does not get “smaller” every time a wave hits the sand. Indeed, the incoming wave demonstrates, and therefore reveals, the ocean’s majesty. Then, by receding into the ocean, it restores the ocean’s glory.
The presence of the wave is evidence of the existence of the ocean.
Your presence is evidence of the existence of God.
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