What is God? (Part 2)

God is invisible

Despite what most people believe, God did NOT create the world we perceive through our physical senses. Everything we see, hear, taste, touch, and smell is ego-conjured fantasy. It’s all samsara-maya, my dreaming brother, pure and simple. 

If this is news to you, take a moment to consider what this means. If God did NOT create anything with material form, He did NOT create trees, flowers, grass, rivers, oceans, mountains, or anything else in nature; He did NOT create the bodies we and other lifeforms appear to inhabit; and He did NOT create planets, stars, solar systems, galaxies, or universes.

All of these things are, in fact, elaborate hoaxes the Great Deceiver devised to replace God as the Creator of All That Exists. All of these oft-touted “miracles of creation” are no more than deceitful palls dreamed up by the Devil to hide God’s ONE True Creation: The eternal and perfect Divine Idea underneath the form.

That Divine Idea is the ONE HOLY SON God willed into being "in the beginning." That ONE HOLY SON is Creation -- and also God, as Jesus attempts to explain in the passage below from Workbook Lesson 169 (By grace I live. By grace I am released.):

Oneness is simply the idea God is. And in His Being, He encompasses all things. No mind holds anything but Him. We say "God is," and then we cease to speak, for in that knowledge words are meaningless. There are no lips to speak them and no part of the mind sufficiently distinct to feel that it is now aware of something not itself. It has united with its Source, and like its Source Itself, it merely is.

Are you getting the idea? I hope so, because this isn't easy stuff to wrap our heads around. To help with that, I want you to imagine God as an intelligent and invisible balloon or bubble encompassing the sum total of ALL THAT IS (in a space smaller than a subatomic particle). Nothing outside this God-Bubble exists, and inside it there is no separation or sense of “other.” Nothing begins or ends. There is only pure, perfect, joyful, all-inclusive, never-ending Perfect Love and Oneness. There is only ecstatic interconnectedness and cooperation. There is only Perfect Love, surrounding, enveloping, filling, sustaining, and harmonizing everything that exists.

Inside the God-Bubble, the Sonship creates like the Father, by extending or projecting the Creative Force of Perfect Love. Being the Creative Force of Divine Will, Perfect Love has no form or substance, nor does anything else inside the God-Bubble. God, being the Supreme Superconscious Causal Mind, has no form, nor, as I’ve explained, does He create form of any kind. God creates ONLY Eternal Thoughts and Ideas, fully and perfectly accomplished to completion the moment He thinks, "Let my will be done."

The concrete human intellect can’t fathom how God could create anew what has always been, with no beginning and no end. And yet, this is indeed the abstractly infinite, timeless, and spaceless nature of God and Creation, as Jesus affirms in the excerpt below from the Course's original dictations or URText (the purest and most complete form of the teachings):   

The Kingdom is forever extending, because it is in the Mind of God. YOU do not know your joy because you do not know your own [S]elf-fullness. Exclude ANY part of the Kingdom FROM your [S]elf, and you are NOT whole. A split mind CANNOT perceive its fullness, and needs the miracle OF its wholeness to dawn upon it and heal it. This reawakens its wholeness IN it and restores it to the Kingdom because of its ACCEPTANCE of wholeness. The full appreciation of its [S]elf-fullness makes selfishness impossible, and extension inevitable. That is why there is perfect peace in the Kingdom. Every Soul IS fulfilling its function, and ONLY complete fulfillment IS peace.

With Christ's permission, I have tweaked the above slightly to clarify the difference between the upper-case Self or God-Created Christ-Self and the lower-case self or ego-authored body-persona self. Clearly, Christ's scribe was unclear on the difference at the time he dictated the Course. Two millennia ago, the disciples of Jesus and/or their eventual scribes were equally confused about the important distinction between the terms "Son of Man" (the ego-authored, body-clad, or lower "self") and "Son of God" (the God-Created Higher-Self) Consequently, the two terms are erroneously (and confusingly) used interchangeably in some of the early "Christian" gospels, both canonical and non-canonical.

Time, space, and matter are Ego Mind constructions. In the God-Bubble, the only time is NOW (an ever-repeating present-moment), and the only place is HERE (an indefinable, non-spatial location where everything overlaps). Physicists and mathematicians call what I’ve described a “singularity.” And it was from just such a singularity, they hypothesize, that the visible universe emerged. I’ll explain what really happened in another post. 

While we’re on the subject of physics, I want to share something I came across AFTER I wrote my description of the God Mind as an ever-expanding (yet non-expanding) bubble. While searching the Internet one day, I was amazed to discover that a team of physicists at Uppsala University in Sweden recently came up with a remarkably similar model of the universe.

The original paper explaining their theory was published in December 2018 in Physical Review Letters (PRL), the American Physical Society’s flagship publication. By way of background, PRL publishes seminal research by Nobel Prize-winning and other distinguished researchers in all fields of physics. It is, therefore, a scholarly journal for physicists, rather than a homogenized popular-science periodical aimed at the general public.

This Uppsala team’s new “structural concept” conceived the material universe as riding on an expanding bubble in another dimension. A 2018 report on their research in Science Daily stated the following:

 

The whole Universe is accommodated on the edge of this expanding bubble. All existing matter in the Universe corresponds to the ends of strings that extend out into the extra dimension. The researchers also show that expanding bubbles of this kind can come into existence within the framework of string theory. It is conceivable that there are more bubbles than ours, corresponding to other universes.

The image above, which accompanied the Science Daily report, should help you visualize the universe's parent-bubble (as conceived by the Uppsala team). Basically, this is what God would look like, if He could be seen by us.

Okay, so ... I know squat about string theory -- or physics, for that matter. But I can tell you this: There are NOT more bubbles; but there ARE more dream-universes in dimensions overlapping ours. And even ours operates in multiple time-space dimensions. The "strings" shooting out of the bubble are, I believe, the Great Rays, reaching into those other universes we can't see.

 

How do I know this? I just do. How did I come up with the God-Bubble concept? It popped into my head one day while I was writing. Unlike the Swedish cosmogonists, I understood what the “expanding bubble” was. Typically, when I’m shown symbolic images, an abstract understanding of their meaning accompanies the vision.

 

In this particular case, I also understood why Jesus projected this "concept-packet" into my mind. His purpose was three-fold: First, the packet clarified how the dream-dimension coexists with the God-Bubble (which I’d asked about in prayer); second, it allowed me to explain the idea in simple terms to my readers; and third, it demonstrated that our minds are, in fact, joined at a higher level than we’re aware of in perceptual UNreality.

Did the Swedes also receive a concept-packet from Jesus, to help humankind understand that the dream-universe operated outside the God-Bubble? I wouldn't put it past him. 

In closing, I want to share something remarkably similar from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda (1893-1952), the  India-born guru who started Self-Realization Fellowship in Los Angeles in 1920. In the chapter titled “The Resurrection of Sri Yuktaswar,” Yogananda chronicles what he learned about Divine Reality when his recently deceased guru paid him a visit. Among many other fascinating facts about how things works, Sri Yuktaswar compared the material universe to a tiny basket hanging under the giant balloon of the rest of Creation.

 

In that tiny basket, we perceive everything upside-down. God sent the Holy Spirit into that "extra dimension" to help us turn our perception right-side-up again. How does the Holy Spirit turn our perception around? The short answer is: Through the Great Rays and the Aum vibration. For the longer answer, keep reading my posts. 

Up next, I'll explain the real meaning of the phrase "God is Love," discuss Perfect Creation in more detail, and also explore how Divine Love differs from fear-based egoic or "special" love.