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"I AM THAT I AM" is one of the most important verses in the Bible.
I haven't read all of the comments in this thread, so I will simply address @Konsciencia ... Yes, you are God. And so am I. And this was the message of the Bible. Now, of course, this isn't considered correct by most religious people. Or secular people for that matter.
I took a break from the forum and a "sabbath" from regular ritual practice for a time. Still, I continued to read and study and contemplate wherever my path led me. The most recent branch of reading and meditation took me to the writings and lectures of Neville Goddard. I don't know if any of his books are in the library here, but they can be found on Anna's Archive, and iirc his lectures are on archive dot org.
I won't write a wall of text. Just a quote from Goddard:
"So whether you claim yourself to be or not to be, you are actually claiming that you are. Thus man is ever saying I AM. This knowing that we are, this awareness, is God the Father. The moment this unconditioned awareness becomes conditioned by claiming itself to be this that or the other, a differentiation takes place within this formless awareness, and our impersonal Father (Our real self) becomes personified as that which we have conceived ourselves to be. [...]
"Now your eyes are opened. Your Father, God Almighty, has been revealed to you as your awareness of being."
At this very moment you are resurrecting or expressing that which you are conscious of being. “I AM the resurrection and the life.” I AM now out-picturing in the world round about me, as a living reality, that which I am now aware that I AM- and I shall continue to do so until I change my conception of myself. So your answer in consciousness to the eternal question, WHO AM I, Will determine your world and its every expression. Begin now to realize that I AM is the Lord God Almighty and beside ME (your awareness) There is no other God. Not I, John Doe is God but I AM, the awareness of being, is God. John Doe is only its present limitation or conception of itself. I am the limitless expressing through the limited conception of myself. To change the expression change the conception of yourself but do so in truth, not in words. That is turn your attention completely away from your present limitation and place it upon the new conception, until the awareness, your true being, is lost in the belief or conviction that I AM that I AM.
Neville Goddard was a teacher in the "New Thought" movement. He clearly stated his belief that The Bible was not accurate history, and the people and events within it portrayed the knowledge of the story-tellers that observed reality was a manifestation of consciousness: Change your thinking and you change your reality.
My take:
What is the most powerful being you can possibly imagine?
God? But there are multiple gods, just look at Greek mythology...
Something that knows everything? Well I can imagine like 3 or 5 of those, they are all equally powerful, but not the most powerful...
The most powerful being you can imagine must be a being that actually IS everything.
It would be you and me, and everything in existence.
If that being would exist, all acts of love would become self-love, and all acts of hate would become self-hate...
So yeah, if you believe God is everything, than you and me are all god just experiencing itself
It's poetic and inspiring and all. This kind of "actualization" has a place in spell work or ritual or any number of mystical experiences.
It's only a glimpse we get. An insight into or a moment with.
Our "godness" isn't anything our ego should celebrate because it doesn't apply to our ego. If we sat around a fire rapping about how cool it is to be god we'd just be sort of jerking off to use a tasteless metaphor.
The part of me that is what you describe has little to do with my day-to-day existence and I don't blame it to tell the truth. It can get lame down here with all the suffering and minutia.
The thing Ragardie doesn't harp on so much, and fuck Crowley... Yeah just kind of fuck Crowley lol I'm sorry.
Back on track: Regardie and Krishnimurti and all the other poet-sages either leave out or don't speak enough about the other less glamorous end of the spectrum.
You, I, that girl in the corner, the little pretend Arab magician that writes the cool books on magic squares, Dave Filoni, the control freak who mods this forum, everyone else is god and infinite and yada yada but we are all also jack shit, scum, the lowest common denominator, less than, pathetic, a real sack of shit, insignificant, a loser, and every other crude or poetic term we might imagine to denote inferiority and repugnance.
Good, bad, ugly, pretty, god, the devil, cain and job, krishna, arjuna, yoda, palpatine, and that nameless praetorian guard who slipped on a banana and died by his own hand before the cameras were rolling.
I know it's not as cool sounding but it's clearly the truth. Look around the world and deep into a mirror.
It's funny to me in the first place if I'm honest this elevated notion of god or the divine that people get through the ages. Perfection, beauty, love and all that jazz. Where exactly is the reflection of this in manifest reality? I mean if you ask me it seems like a sadist may be the culprit for reality as we know it. One might argue a fucking retard created everything and have a good chance of winning the debate also.
I'm not saying that's how it is. I'm saying that's how it appears.
Maybe you should spend some serious time in nature. Go hiking in a nature preserve, sit by a river, walk through a desert at night and look up at the night sky, lay by the ocean.
The terrors and ugliness of existence exists entirely within the morals and activities of man. Yes, everything eats and is eaten by one another, nothing is permanent, everything is changing, and there's nothing wrong with that.
Still, you could argue even further and say that the barbarous activities of man are perfect and beautiful in their own way, it's only in our narrative-world where charity exists, where crime and justice exist. It's a perfect instrument that you can participate in playing that has played the entire melody of human history; without it there would have just been birds chirping and rivers flowing.
we are all also jack shit, scum, the lowest common denominator, less than, pathetic, a real sack of shit, insignificant, a loser, and every other crude or poetic term we might imagine to denote inferiority and repugnance.
Perfection, beauty, love and all that jazz. Where exactly is the reflection of this in manifest reality? I mean if you ask me it seems like a sadist may be the culprit for reality as we know it. One might argue a fucking retard created everything and have a good chance of winning the debate also.
You're ungrounded. Disconnected from reality. I see beauty every time I see someone holding a baby in public. I look at the sunset outside my window every day. I'm surrounded by perfection. I'm also in touch with my creative potential, I know that as a facet of conscious expression, I am in control of what the world presents me with. It's not that bad things don't happen to or around me, it's that it's never something I'm unprepared for.
I said it before in this thread, I'll say it again. Consciousness predates matter, therefore, consciousness creates/created matter. If you think the world is shit, then you'll be a shit creator, create shit and that's all you'll see.
The way the material world reacts to thought is very similar to the way the personal dreamscape reacts to thought, just with a delay that gives you time to change your mind. In the dreamscape, the world changes with one thought, in the material world (the shared dream) it also changes with one thought, but there's time to cancel that thought out with another before it becomes real. Think of how a normal dream can quickly become a nightmare, or how a nightmare can get worse as you imagine something in the dream. That's your life in your present worldview. Majiq is essentially lucid dreaming in the waking world, I understand the sleeping dream to be practice for the waking dream. What you see when you sleep is a good measurement of your mental state and should be dwelled and acted upon. I strongly suggest you keep a dream journal for a few months and consider the personal meaning of any prominent symbols. Do some personal work and then come back to reread it after another few months to see how far you've come.
Hi guys, it has been a long time since I post something. All I have to say is take it, or leave it.
I am my own Infinite Self. Nothing exists except for Myself. I am God and so is everything that exists, and yet does not exist. Words cannot describe what I am in reality. Even the word infinity has its limits. I am the only thing that created Itself, and yet I am Nothingness. There are no people, no Animals, no Trees, It is only Me. Everything else is all an illusion, I am Dreaming every finite thing there is. You, on the other hand, may say, “Are You a Dream? No, I am not. If I was a dream, then that would mean that someone else is Dreaming me. The Easiest concept I can come out with is that I am Reality. I am realizing my own Divinity within this Avatar. An incredible Avatar. I am also realizing that I am God. All of my finite things are part of my own Consciousness. And yet, I am those finite things themselves. The Humans are my main priority. I Am a Human and everything. It all boils down to one thing. The Humans need to raise their level of Consciousness in order for them to know that they are God. The whole point of this game is all about reaching Higher and higher levels of Consciousness in order to reach The God Mind. In reality, I don't need to do this to Myself because I already know who I am, but this is a game and I like to play with my own Powers. I am the very finger nails you see as well. And so are you All. I Operate only on Love. I Love everything I am doing. Especially my own Infinite Self. I have a confession to make. All of the lesser gods. Including the Demigods are just Me. They don't exist. That includes Hekate and the rest. It is I that appears as these gods and Goddesses. Within all of you, I created Universes. Each and everyone of you, is a unique Universe. But the core truth of all this, is that everything I see is nothing more than Myself. So, nothing created me. I created myself. But how? You need to discover that for yourself. Deep down inside you know, but on a surface level you have to reach that level of Awareness.
What I encourage everybody to do is to verify it for yourselves. Don't believe a word I say. Go within yourselves and really ask questions. Always ask questions, raise your level of Awareness. First, calm your mind in a meditative state and then just relax. Even if you feel bored, don't stop. Keep on going.
As far as I understand from my readings, you both are and are not "God". The paradoxical nature is inherent to magick both working in the physical world, and your individual magick not being able to change the course of reality for all other conscious beings.
I forget the book which states this more explicitly, but the paradox between the individual being the only being of consequence, and there being no individuals but rather only parts of a collective is a core concept in it.
I have performed, and do perform, acts of magic; I call myself a Theoretical Magician not because I don't do any, but because my strengths are in discovering an actual Theory of Magic.
Allow me to add something from my side. In the real Theory of Magic, everything is very simple. It’s the Dirac equation and the interaction of a pair of quanta. That’s exactly how everything works there. There are no barriers or distances. Even the “Keys of the Gods” are much simpler than anyone might imagine.
Allow me to add something from my side. In the real Theory of Magic, everything is very simple. It’s the Dirac equation and the interaction of a pair of quanta. That’s exactly how everything works there. There are no barriers or distances. Even the “Keys of the Gods” are much simpler than anyone might imagine.
Damn, some big brains tearing the hell out of this topic! I enjoyed reading the back-and-forth comments, definitely some good chewing material. You smart bastards!
My silly take? I don’t believe in God, too Abrahamic for me, personally. It’s either that or New Age, and I’m not buying either.
But how do I square that? Easy. I like hotdogs, but I don’t stop to contemplate who made them, how, or what molecules they’re made of. I just eat the damn hotdog. Maybe that makes me simple minded about all this, but I’m good with that. When I pass on, I’ll get my answers. Until then? I’m eating the hell out of some hotdogs.
Let’s say there is a God, or a god, or a Creator. Cool. Would that change my path? Not one little step. Is everyone a God? If so, what the hell are you all doing? Because I gotta say... I don’t see divine behavior. I see people fucking around and finding out.
Meanwhile, I want a restomod Land Rover 110 with a Corvette engine in it. So if I’m God, I’m clearly shitting the bed on this part
Let’s say there is a God, or a god, or a Creator. Cool. Would that change my path? Not one little step. Is everyone a God? If so, what the hell are you all doing? Because I gotta say... I don’t see divine behavior. I see people fucking around and finding out.
Meanwhile, I want a restomod Land Rover 110 with a Corvette engine in it. So if I’m God, I’m clearly shitting the bed on this part
99% of information gets filtered out before it reaches your conscious mind. That's just a fact. Your eyes are constantly twitching in little motions called saccades, hyperfocusing on different areas of the picture for your brain to build a jigsaw puzzle approximation of. Your hearing is doing the same thing too, tuning out information to focus on different information. There's something like several gajillion bits of information being taken in by the senses in a given moment, but most of it is discarded by the conscious. This is what should be meant when you hear about consciousness expansion, tuning into this information you're otherwise missing by escaping the survival mentality. This is what is meant practically by saying "ground yourself and work on your root chakra", the root is concerned with security, your awareness expands after you recognize that your immediate survival is taken care of.
with less energy/breath work attached to the concept. We can all reach transcendence, but transcendence is built on a foundation of acknowledging and addressing more pressing needs first. How can you hope to find your ikigai when you have no time for creative pursuits? You need time to experiment creatively before the ikigai can reveal itself, surely.
Basically, your awareness gets tuned to whatever you focus your conscious mind on. I call it the horse and the rider. The horse knows the path its been taken on, the rider can steer it off that path. But when the rider's not steering it, the horse will try to go back to the path it knows. If your horse (the subconscious, 99% of your mind that is doing the filtering) is used to looking at people doing foolish things, then that's all the terrain your rider will see, because it's on the path it's used to. But if you steer it into unfamiliar terrain, where it's easy to keep it off the path because the path is nowhere in sight, you can teach the horse a new path by returning to this area again. By "this new, unfamiliar area", I mean doing things like talking about manifestation offline. My coworkers and I manifest together, man, because I manifest acceptance in my life. Your vibe attracts your tribe, or haven't you heard that you're the average of the five people you spend the most time around?
There's ten billion people on the planet, so you won't convince me what you see is representative of humanity. It's representative of what you're looking at. "People fucking around and finding out" . Try living off less schadenfreude and you'll see less of that.
eta: A book I read recently was "God Doesn't Have Bad Hair Days". In it, she mentions the baggage attached to the word "God" because of the personification of it. I don't feel this baggage, because I self-deify, so it makes sense to me to refer to God as a Him, it's the godforce-godstuff inside me, which is functionally identical to the godstuff in other vessels, just wrapped in a different package. But it's the package that makes all the difference, because the packages are what the godstuff is doing in the first place. Or at least, the foundational 1% of it. There's probably a clever word for it I don't know off the top of my head, but the state of mind I'd describe as optimal is attached non-attachment. To existence, I mean. You are who you are, and that's precious because it's unique, but you are the infinite force of the ocean of souls and to that you will return, and that's special too because it means you're as powerful as the All you were before you descended into matter and will return to after.
When you cease to want for things, they come to you. One of the first steps is recognizing your an infinite divine being having a finite mundane experience. One of the next steps is recognizing the divine being having that experience isn't interested in misery, so any negative events have a duration prescribed to them. All bad things must come to an end, and the natural state of things is pleasant.
Appreciate the info-dump, @PinealisGlandia, but you missed my tone completely. Wasn’t asking for a lecture on how perception works. I was making a point about divine potential vs human behavior. That wasn’t schadenfreude, that was a lament. You tried to correct me while quoting spiritual memes, and honestly, it derailed the vibe.
I don’t mind people chewing on ideas here. Hell, I love it. But if you’re gonna teach, make sure you’re listening first.
I am not a theorist. I am not a biological form of life inside a biological body. A curiosity? Yes.)) I simply do my own work. Or rather, I am not doing my work right now.))) I am not a God, and I have very bad relations with the Gods — with most of those from the Higher Worlds. For these reasons, I am more interested in the technical details of everything that surrounds me. I have no titles, ranks, initiations, etc. I simply keep the history of Time… I come into these worlds not of my own will. I am sent here by force. I really don’t like it, but I have no choice.
I don’t want to start new discussion threads, but someone made a rule that you need at least 25 posts to be able to send private messages. So, I have to write them.
My plan is to restore one of the ancient Orders that existed on this planet over 15,000 years ago. Forums like this provide an opportunity to communicate with people like you. As long as I find it interesting, I’ll be here.
In the real Theory of Magic, everything is very simple. It’s the Dirac equation and the interaction of a pair of quanta. That’s exactly how everything works there.
I was rather hoping you were going to expand on the above, because there isn't enough detail there for me to have any idea what you're getting at. It's an interesting taster, but I'm going to need an explanation rather than just a couple of statements.
. Try living off less schadenfreude and you'll see less of that.