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What God Wants
What does God want? NOTHING! Absolutely nothing at all.
Please think about this. Even if you disagree with this vehemently, think about it. Especially if you disagree, please think about it deeply.
What makes you disagree? Who told you that this statement could not be true? What makes them right? How do you know that they know what is true, because they read it in a book? Fair enough. But then, what makes the book right? Because God said it was right? Which God? Which book?
Think about this deeply, if only for the intellectual, emotional, and spiritual exercise.
Let’s pretend just for the moment that it’s true that God wants nothing from humanity. If that is so, then virtually all of life’s apple carts are upended. Ancient myths are upended. Cultural stories are upended. Ethnic customs are upended. Familial traditions are upended. Religions doctrines are upended. Legal systems and educational systems are upended. Political, economic and social constructions of every kind are upended.
Could this be the reason that the idea of a God who wants something has been perpetuated?
Think about this. Why would God want anything? What is it that God could possibly want or need? What would cause God to want or need anything? What could cause God to become unhappy if He did not get it?
Now think about this. What could cause God to make humans responsible for His getting what He wants? Would you make your children responsible for your happiness?
We have been told of a God who wants humans to love Him, to worship Him, to adore Him, to surrender to Him, to be grateful to Him, and to pay Him homage. Why? Why would God want this? Why would God care?
We have been told of a God who want humans to keep His commandments, and if they do not, and if they fail to seek and obtain forgiveness in the proper and prescribed manner, He then wants them to go to Hell, there to suffer intolerable anguish. But think about this. Why would God punish humans so horribly for their confusion and weakness?
If we wanted someone to understand us better and to obey us always and in everything, and if we just could not get them to do it, would we make it their fault?
We have been told of a God whose justice is perfect. Yet why would a God who is vulnerable to nothing and cannot be hurt or damaged in any way need to punish anyone for anything, much less sentence then to torture?
We have been told of a God who wants and invites humans to go to battle for Him, to kill others for Him, just as He has been recorded in the Scriptures as having killed thousands who incurred His wrath, but why? Why would God kill anybody, or ask others to kill in His name?
Does God really want humans to massacre others while fighting for His Cause? What is His Cause anyway? What is God up to? What is “God’s Cause”?
Is it to get everybody on earth to join a single religion? Is that it? Is that What God Wants? Why? Why would God want that? Why would God care?
Does it rally matter to God whether you are a Muslim or Jew, a Hindu or a Christian, a Buddhist or a Baha’i? What if you are a good person, a kind, caring, compassionate, and loving individual, but are a member of no organized religion at all?
What if you actually speak out against organized religions and their extremes? Does that make you an apostate? Does that mean you are doomed? Does that make you an infidel and render you eligible to be killed by a True Believer? Is this What God Wants?
Why? Why does it matter? Who told you that it mattered? Was it the organized religion that wants you to be its member?
Think about this. Is this the purpose of religion on the earth? Is this the Cause of God?
What happens to all of this, what becomes of this entire thought system, if it’s declared that God wants nothing, nothing at all, from human beings?
Can you believe in a God who wants nothing? Is it possible to hold such a thought in your reality?
Can you imagine it?
If God is not the highest point in a pyramid that passes authority down the line but is, rather the power that exists in the whole line, and is therefore, in a sense, the line itself, what does that do to the Top Down, Power Over structures upon which so much of human society is built?
It disrupts them, that’s what. It denies them their borrowed authority.
For this reason, powerful people and organizations, religions not the least among them, are not likely to encourage the teaching of a God who is One with Everything – a “Power With” rather than a “Power Over” kind of God.
What if the "The One God's One Rule is Self-Rule."
This is the antithesis of everything that the world’s largest religions teach. It’s the thought that traditional religion says will be the cause of humanity’s downfall. Wouldn’t it be interesting if it turned out to be the thought that saved humanity?
There are those who say that putting oneself in the role of self-ruler - that is, in the role of God - is the worst insult to God. It’s aggrandizement. It’s ego run amok. It’s the highest arrogance and the lowest blow. Human beings are not to attempt to rule themselves, but are to submit to God’s rule. That is the preeminent doctrine of the major faiths, whatever else their differences might be.
And so, this new revelation comes as a shock. It feels like a theological convulsion. Believers in almost any kind of God are repelled. Yet it is important for thinking people to ask. What if it were true? What if God gave humans the power and the authority to rule over themselves, without any other power above them? What if this is what was meant by Free Will?
If the words “God” and “life” are interchangeable, the implications are - if it’s possible to imagine this – more than enormous. They’re staggering, earthshaking, and paradigm-shattering. This is because everyone knows what is true about life. Everyone may not know what is true about God, but everyone knows what is true about life.
What is true about life is that nothing stands outside life. Nothing exists without life, and life does not exist if nothing exists.
Not only does everyone know these things, everyone agrees with these things. What makes what is being said here so dangerous is what happens when the word “God” is inserted where the word “life” appears. That produces this result.
Nothing stands outside God. Nothing exists without God, and God does not exist if nothing exists. You are the expression of God Itself. So, is everything around you. Even so-called inanimate objects are found, when examined under a microscope, to consist of particles constantly in motion. These particles and their movements are all part of God. Indeed, everything in the observable universe is God, in some form.
The existence of God is confirmed by God Itself. God is self-referencing, self-confirming, self-sustaining, and self-evident. God is the evidence of the existence of God.
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If the words “God” and “life” are describing the same thing, we have some major, major theological implications here.
Do we need more evidence of the existence of life that life itself? No, and what does life want? Nothing. Life simply is.
Life is energy, a power to be used. And it is being used, freely by all. It has no expectations, no desires, no demands, no requirements, no need to be worshipped, and no need to punish those who fail to worship it. Life is a singular and unemotional reality. Life is the creator and it’s that which has been created.
Life is the source of life, and it’s That Which Has been Sourced. Life produces life, and life informs life about life through the process of life itself.
Life is in a few words, the Alpha and the Omega, the All in All. There is nothing that IS that It is not. If this is not the definition of God, then what is?
God is life, and life is God. Nothing stands outside God, and therefore there is no separation between God and anything at all.
Humanity’s understanding of this will mark the End of Separation. That, in turn, will conclude the cycle that began when Separation was first taught.
If the words “God” and “life” are interchangeable, if this is not simply an interesting thought but the truth, then the greatest mystery of all – who or what is God? – would finally be solved.
Even traditional religion says that God is the All in All. If that is true, then there is nothing that exists except God, in its varying Forms. God cannot be separated from God, and so is separate from nothing at all. God can differentiate Itself in countless ways, which It does as a means of Self-Expression, through which It becomes Self-Conscious. Yet differentiation is not division. Separation does not exist.
Given this reality; all that you could possibly give God, God already has received from you, because God IS you, doing the giving and the receiving. Therefore, God wants nothing from you, needs nothing from you , demands nothing from the individuated aspect of Itself that you think of as “you.”
Likewise, all that God could possibly give you. God has already given you. It exists in you, as you. Therefore, you want for nothing. You need ask God for nothing. For it IS as it has been written. “Even before you ask, I will have answered.”
If this is true, the only prayer to ever say is a prayer of gratitude. And that is, in fact, the only prayer that any master has ever uttered. Here is the most powerful prayer I know of. “Thank you, God, for helping me to understand that this problem has already been solved for me.”
There are prayers of gratitude, and there are prayers of supplication. Masters know – and now it’s time for you to know – that a prayer of supplication simply denies the truth. By asking for something, you are announcing that you do not now have it. This makes it very difficult for you to experience it, because you cannot experience what you deny.
All that you could need from God is now in you. Do you feel you need more love? This is now in you. Do you feel you need more compassion? That is now in you. Do you feel you need more patience, understanding, kindness, mercy, forgiveness? That is now in you.
Once you know this, you’ll never feel a need for things again. All you’ll feel is a desire to call them forth. Desire replaces need in the experience of the master.
Desires and needs are not the same thing, (although many of us have made them so in our lives). To have desire for something is not at all the same as having a need for them.
A desire is a preference. A need is a requirement. You can know whether you think you have a need for something or a desire for it by watching the amount of happiness you feel ebbing from you if you do not get it.
You would prefer to have chocolate ice cream, but it’s okay to have vanilla. It’s also okay to have none at all. You would prefer to have a lover with dark brown hair, but blond hair is all right, too. You would prefer to have no pain or reduced function in your body but it’s okay to have some. You can live with it. You can even be happy under such circumstances.
The human potential writer Ken Keyes Jr. proposed in his million selling book Handbook to Higher Consciousness that if you feel your happiness is at stake in any given situation, you have probably created an addiction to a particular condition or circumstance. The key to inner peace, he said, is to elevate one’s addictions from addictions to preferences.
This is the first step on the road to mastery. Each moment is a step along that road. Each moment is a process. Have you ever thought about it that way? Each moment in life is a process. It is in the moment to moment of your life that you decide who you are and who you choose to be. And you do not have to be who you used to be. That’s a great liberation. That is the great miracle. That is the great victory.
Yet you cannot win that victory if you think that you are fighting, Someone Else’s battle. If you imagine that you are fighting God’s battle with Satan, that you are God’s front line against the Devil, and that it is up to you to give God What God wants in spite of the Devil’s every attempt to get you to do otherwise, you will be caught up in the Great War that Cannot Be Won It cannot be won because it does not exist.
What does God want? Nothing. Who is God’s opponent? No One.
While God has no needs, God does have desires. Desire is the beginning of all creation. It is first thought. It is a grand feeling within the soul. And what is God’s desire? If God were here now, talking to us today, I believe God would say:
“I desire first to know and experience Myself, in all My glory. Second, I desire that you shall know and experience Who You Really Are, through the power I have given you to create and experience yourself in whatever way you choose. Third, I desire for the whole life process to be an experience of constant joy, continuous creation, never-ending expansion, and total fulfillment in each moment of now.
I have established a perfect system whereby these desires may be realized. They are being realized now, in this very moment. The only difference between you and Me is that I know this. In the moment of your own Total Knowing (which moment could come upon you at any time), you, too, will feel as I do always, totally joyful, loving, accepting, blessing, and grateful.
“These are the five attitudes of Godliness. You will notice that there is nothing said about being fearful, angry, violent, judgmental, or condemning. These are not attitudes of Godliness, although others have told you that they are. You are free now to let go of these ideas. You have always been free to do so. I want nothing from you, least of all your forced allegiance or your demanded love.”
Here is God’s greatest gift! If God wanted something, you would have to spend your whole life trying to figure out what it is, and then trying to give it to Him. Yet if god wants nothing, then, you have total freedom to create the life you wish to experience.
That is, in fact, the definition of perfect love, in two words, Total freedom. It is also another definition of God. For God is the essence of total freedom. It is also a description of the soul. Your soul is the expression of total freedom. The pity is that most humans believe just the opposite.
Most humans believe that the soul is “imprisoned” in the body, that it is in some kind of temporary holding place, or some sort of “school,” where tragedy and suffering and learning the hard way are the order of the day. Indeed, many religions teach us some version of this. But those teachings are mistaken. They are erroneous. They run precisely counter to the true nature of things.
The essence of life and God and love and YOU is freedom!
You are free to call forth any reality that you wish. And the fastest way to call anything forth is to give it to another. You cannot give to another something that you do not have, yet it is the giving of it that produces the having of it. Now isn’t that a wonderfully simple formula?
Let us use an example to provide a little more clarity on this. Let’s say that what you seek is the experience of abundance. You can have that experience even if all you have in the world is a dollar. The experience of abundance is yours the moment you find someone who has even less and then give to that person a portion of what you have. And this is where the rest of the world comes in. Here’s how the new idea that will change your inner world will change your outer world. This is how the belief in a God without separation can create a society where people, like God, want nothing.
If it’s true that the fastest way to experience that you have something is to give it away, then if you want to experience having something, you’ll immediately cause another to experience having it. This works with everything in life, not just money. It works especially well with love.
If you want to experience that you have power, cause another to experience that they have power. If you want to experience compassion in your life, cause another to experience compassion in theirs. If you want to experience that you have more companionship, cause another to be companioned. If you want more humor in your life, bring more humor to the life of another. Try it with anything! Try it with everything! It works.
This teaching can be summed up n three words. BE THE SOURCE. For some this is a role reversal of enormous magnitude. Most people place themselves in the role of recipient of life’s gifts. First they play the supplicant, then the recipient. First they ask, and then they wait to receive. You should give what you wish to receive. That which you wish to experience, cause another to experience. This simple message has been delivered before by others. One of those others said it in a way that has never been forgotten. “Do unto others as you would have it done unto you.”
Humans are encouraged to do this not because this is a good and noble way to act, but because this is how the universe works. This is the mechanism. This is the process. What you do unto others IS being done unto you, because there is no one else BUT you, in differentiated form.
Now you see how a Theology of Oneness can create lack of want. Not just with God, but in the experience of that part of God known as human beings. If all of us saw ourselves as One, it would create a new ethic for our species and a new way of life on our planet. Virtually all of our behaviors would change.
What I know is that for behaviors to change, another change will have to take place first. A change in the basic way that we understand God. An enlargement and an expansion of the theologies of humanity.
A new kind of spirituality will have to be born. A spirituality built around two new and totally reconstructive core concepts: God wants nothing at all/God is separate from nothing at all. This new spirituality is a spirituality that speaks not of What God wants but of what God is.
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It disrupts them, that’s what. It denies them their borrowed authority.
For this reason, powerful people and organizations, religions not the least among them, are not likely to encourage the teaching of a God who is One with Everything – a “Power With” rather than a “Power Over” kind of God.
What if the "The One God's One Rule is Self-Rule."
This is the antithesis of everything that the world’s largest religions teach. It’s the thought that traditional religion says will be the cause of humanity’s downfall. Wouldn’t it be interesting if it turned out to be the thought that saved humanity?
There are those who say that putting oneself in the role of self-ruler - that is, in the role of God - is the worst insult to God. It’s aggrandizement. It’s ego run amok. It’s the highest arrogance and the lowest blow. Human beings are not to attempt to rule themselves, but are to submit to God’s rule. That is the preeminent doctrine of the major faiths, whatever else their differences might be.
And so, this new revelation comes as a shock. It feels like a theological convulsion. Believers in almost any kind of God are repelled. Yet it is important for thinking people to ask. What if it were true? What if God gave humans the power and the authority to rule over themselves, without any other power above them? What if this is what was meant by Free Will?
If the words “God” and “life” are interchangeable, the implications are - if it’s possible to imagine this – more than enormous. They’re staggering, earthshaking, and paradigm-shattering. This is because everyone knows what is true about life. Everyone may not know what is true about God, but everyone knows what is true about life.
What is true about life is that nothing stands outside life. Nothing exists without life, and life does not exist if nothing exists.
Not only does everyone know these things, everyone agrees with these things. What makes what is being said here so dangerous is what happens when the word “God” is inserted where the word “life” appears. That produces this result.
Nothing stands outside God. Nothing exists without God, and God does not exist if nothing exists. You are the expression of God Itself. So, is everything around you. Even so-called inanimate objects are found, when examined under a microscope, to consist of particles constantly in motion. These particles and their movements are all part of God. Indeed, everything in the observable universe is God, in some form.
The existence of God is confirmed by God Itself. God is self-referencing, self-confirming, self-sustaining, and self-evident. God is the evidence of the existence of God.
.
If the words “God” and “life” are describing the same thing, we have some major, major theological implications here.
Do we need more evidence of the existence of life that life itself? No, and what does life want? Nothing. Life simply is.
Life is energy, a power to be used. And it is being used, freely by all. It has no expectations, no desires, no demands, no requirements, no need to be worshipped, and no need to punish those who fail to worship it. Life is a singular and unemotional reality. Life is the creator and it’s that which has been created.
Life is the source of life, and it’s That Which Has been Sourced. Life produces life, and life informs life about life through the process of life itself.
Life is in a few words, the Alpha and the Omega, the All in All. There is nothing that IS that It is not. If this is not the definition of God, then what is?
God is life, and life is God. Nothing stands outside God, and therefore there is no separation between God and anything at all.
Humanity’s understanding of this will mark the End of Separation. That, in turn, will conclude the cycle that began when Separation was first taught.
If the words “God” and “life” are interchangeable, if this is not simply an interesting thought but the truth, then the greatest mystery of all – who or what is God? – would finally be solved.
Even traditional religion says that God is the All in All. If that is true, then there is nothing that exists except God, in its varying Forms. God cannot be separated from God, and so is separate from nothing at all. God can differentiate Itself in countless ways, which It does as a means of Self-Expression, through which It becomes Self-Conscious. Yet differentiation is not division. Separation does not exist.
Given this reality; all that you could possibly give God, God already has received from you, because God IS you, doing the giving and the receiving. Therefore, God wants nothing from you, needs nothing from you , demands nothing from the individuated aspect of Itself that you think of as “you.”
Likewise, all that God could possibly give you. God has already given you. It exists in you, as you. Therefore, you want for nothing. You need ask God for nothing. For it IS as it has been written. “Even before you ask, I will have answered.”
If this is true, the only prayer to ever say is a prayer of gratitude. And that is, in fact, the only prayer that any master has ever uttered. Here is the most powerful prayer I know of. “Thank you, God, for helping me to understand that this problem has already been solved for me.”
There are prayers of gratitude, and there are prayers of supplication. Masters know – and now it’s time for you to know – that a prayer of supplication simply denies the truth. By asking for something, you are announcing that you do not now have it. This makes it very difficult for you to experience it, because you cannot experience what you deny.
All that you could need from God is now in you. Do you feel you need more love? This is now in you. Do you feel you need more compassion? That is now in you. Do you feel you need more patience, understanding, kindness, mercy, forgiveness? That is now in you.
Once you know this, you’ll never feel a need for things again. All you’ll feel is a desire to call them forth. Desire replaces need in the experience of the master.
Desires and needs are not the same thing, (although many of us have made them so in our lives). To have desire for something is not at all the same as having a need for them.
A desire is a preference. A need is a requirement. You can know whether you think you have a need for something or a desire for it by watching the amount of happiness you feel ebbing from you if you do not get it.
You would prefer to have chocolate ice cream, but it’s okay to have vanilla. It’s also okay to have none at all. You would prefer to have a lover with dark brown hair, but blond hair is all right, too. You would prefer to have no pain or reduced function in your body but it’s okay to have some. You can live with it. You can even be happy under such circumstances.
The human potential writer Ken Keyes Jr. proposed in his million selling book Handbook to Higher Consciousness that if you feel your happiness is at stake in any given situation, you have probably created an addiction to a particular condition or circumstance. The key to inner peace, he said, is to elevate one’s addictions from addictions to preferences.
This is the first step on the road to mastery. Each moment is a step along that road. Each moment is a process. Have you ever thought about it that way? Each moment in life is a process. It is in the moment to moment of your life that you decide who you are and who you choose to be. And you do not have to be who you used to be. That’s a great liberation. That is the great miracle. That is the great victory.
Yet you cannot win that victory if you think that you are fighting, Someone Else’s battle. If you imagine that you are fighting God’s battle with Satan, that you are God’s front line against the Devil, and that it is up to you to give God What God wants in spite of the Devil’s every attempt to get you to do otherwise, you will be caught up in the Great War that Cannot Be Won It cannot be won because it does not exist.
What does God want? Nothing. Who is God’s opponent? No One.
While God has no needs, God does have desires. Desire is the beginning of all creation. It is first thought. It is a grand feeling within the soul. And what is God’s desire? If God were here now, talking to us today, I believe God would say:
“I desire first to know and experience Myself, in all My glory. Second, I desire that you shall know and experience Who You Really Are, through the power I have given you to create and experience yourself in whatever way you choose. Third, I desire for the whole life process to be an experience of constant joy, continuous creation, never-ending expansion, and total fulfillment in each moment of now.
I have established a perfect system whereby these desires may be realized. They are being realized now, in this very moment. The only difference between you and Me is that I know this. In the moment of your own Total Knowing (which moment could come upon you at any time), you, too, will feel as I do always, totally joyful, loving, accepting, blessing, and grateful.
“These are the five attitudes of Godliness. You will notice that there is nothing said about being fearful, angry, violent, judgmental, or condemning. These are not attitudes of Godliness, although others have told you that they are. You are free now to let go of these ideas. You have always been free to do so. I want nothing from you, least of all your forced allegiance or your demanded love.”
Here is God’s greatest gift! If God wanted something, you would have to spend your whole life trying to figure out what it is, and then trying to give it to Him. Yet if god wants nothing, then, you have total freedom to create the life you wish to experience.
That is, in fact, the definition of perfect love, in two words, Total freedom. It is also another definition of God. For God is the essence of total freedom. It is also a description of the soul. Your soul is the expression of total freedom. The pity is that most humans believe just the opposite.
Most humans believe that the soul is “imprisoned” in the body, that it is in some kind of temporary holding place, or some sort of “school,” where tragedy and suffering and learning the hard way are the order of the day. Indeed, many religions teach us some version of this. But those teachings are mistaken. They are erroneous. They run precisely counter to the true nature of things.
The essence of life and God and love and YOU is freedom!
You are free to call forth any reality that you wish. And the fastest way to call anything forth is to give it to another. You cannot give to another something that you do not have, yet it is the giving of it that produces the having of it. Now isn’t that a wonderfully simple formula?
Let us use an example to provide a little more clarity on this. Let’s say that what you seek is the experience of abundance. You can have that experience even if all you have in the world is a dollar. The experience of abundance is yours the moment you find someone who has even less and then give to that person a portion of what you have. And this is where the rest of the world comes in. Here’s how the new idea that will change your inner world will change your outer world. This is how the belief in a God without separation can create a society where people, like God, want nothing.
If it’s true that the fastest way to experience that you have something is to give it away, then if you want to experience having something, you’ll immediately cause another to experience having it. This works with everything in life, not just money. It works especially well with love.
If you want to experience that you have power, cause another to experience that they have power. If you want to experience compassion in your life, cause another to experience compassion in theirs. If you want to experience that you have more companionship, cause another to be companioned. If you want more humor in your life, bring more humor to the life of another. Try it with anything! Try it with everything! It works.
This teaching can be summed up n three words. BE THE SOURCE. For some this is a role reversal of enormous magnitude. Most people place themselves in the role of recipient of life’s gifts. First they play the supplicant, then the recipient. First they ask, and then they wait to receive. You should give what you wish to receive. That which you wish to experience, cause another to experience. This simple message has been delivered before by others. One of those others said it in a way that has never been forgotten. “Do unto others as you would have it done unto you.”
Humans are encouraged to do this not because this is a good and noble way to act, but because this is how the universe works. This is the mechanism. This is the process. What you do unto others IS being done unto you, because there is no one else BUT you, in differentiated form.
Now you see how a Theology of Oneness can create lack of want. Not just with God, but in the experience of that part of God known as human beings. If all of us saw ourselves as One, it would create a new ethic for our species and a new way of life on our planet. Virtually all of our behaviors would change.
What I know is that for behaviors to change, another change will have to take place first. A change in the basic way that we understand God. An enlargement and an expansion of the theologies of humanity.
A new kind of spirituality will have to be born. A spirituality built around two new and totally reconstructive core concepts: God wants nothing at all/God is separate from nothing at all. This new spirituality is a spirituality that speaks not of What God wants but of what God is.
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