“You can be closer to God than ever before when you realize that every part of your body, mind and spirit is God. Even in this strange world where we appear to be separate from everyone else, the conscious awareness of the presence of God is a mere thought away.” O K Waters
Through the interaction of these two aspects of original consciousness – Intent and Love, or Thought and Feeling – the universe was formed and, along with it, the capability for Infinite Being to observe itself from an infinite number of viewpoints in time and space.
The human race today represents approximately seven billion different viewpoints of the one Source. According to the rules of the human adventure, we were born with spiritual amnesia. In other words, we have forgotten our inner connection. The challenge of the game of human life is to discover and consciously reconnect with that to which, in reality, we are and always were connected. Self-awareness and free will are included in the rules of the game. The illusion of separateness from each other is created by an intense focus upon life in an outer, physical world, as viewed by the five senses. In this outer world, people are free to choose to interact with other people in the ways that they see best.
People can even choose to believe that they are separate from that ultimate Source to which they are connected. For instance, atheists claim to lack belief, but atheism is really a belief in something that isn’t so. If people have an inbuilt connection to God, yet believe that they don’t, then they are actually expressing a belief, not a lack of one.
Mystics talk of experiencing a sense of oneness with the infinite while in deep meditation. Those who can go still deeper into the realms of consciousness report that there is more to it than just a feeling of oneness. Deep within, you aren’t so much an individual who is as one with Infinite Being. Deep within, you are Infinite Being!
You are Infinite Being observing itself through the one viewpoint that is you. You aren’t a part of Infinite Being. You are Infinite Being, acting from one specific point of view. Likewise, all sentient beings are also Infinite Being, observing themselves from their own unique points of view.
It seems strange to live in a world where everything appears separate and then discover that, beneath all of the surface appearances, we really are One. If you suspend the sense of strangeness that this concept brings long enough to reach some conclusions, you can see that:
1. Friends, acquaintances and strangers alike are all aspects of the One, just as you are. Whatever you do to others upon the stage of this theater of life, you really are doing to yourself!
2. You can never fail to become one with God because you always were God. How could you fail to become yourself? How could God ever reject you or judge you when you are the eyes and ears of God itself, walking through life in this world of manifestation, learning from what you were sent here to experience? The only way that God could reject you is if God decided to stop loving itself, and that’s just not going to happen!
The solution to the Paradox of Infinite Being is that while we are a part of an immense universe of almost unlimited proportions, we are also Infinite Being itself. As you experience life through your eyes and ears and senses, you are Infinite Being, acting through yet another viewpoint of the infinite variety of life. Every fiber of your body is Infinite Being, every dream that you manifest is Infinite Being in action, every tear of joy that you shed is a tear shed by Infinite Being in its form as you.
You can be closer to God than ever before when you realize that every part of your body, mind and spirit is God. Even in this strange world where we appear to be separate from everyone else, the conscious awareness of the presence of God is a mere thought away.