The Spiritualist View of Getting to Grips With God.

This is an excerpt from my award-winning book "The Quest of the Radical Spiritualist" which takes the reader on a quest to find the Journey Home  through Meditation, Metaphysics, Sacred Energies, Spirits and the Universal Mind.

The Yogis talk of “Union with God” which is the meaning of Yoga. So, at what point does an ascended teacher merge with the Universal Mind or Infinite Intelligence?   

While my spirit guide Paul, the entity who got me to start this book at St. Just, knows many things, he hesitates to discuss “Union with God.”

At one point while I was conducting a class, he came through and suggested that at the “higher levels, beyond all understanding” there is a Universal Consortium, a collection of “spiritual academics” who observe and influence the Universes (plural) and the various spiritual developments occurring there.

“These spiritual academics,” I asked. “What are they gods, goddesses, gurus, saints…?”

Paul laughed. “Yes, you might call them that. They are not inclined towards labels. Like God, they are. God is.”

“Are some of these the sons of God mentioned in Genesis (Genesis 6:2),” I asked. “What about the 2,500 gods said to be in Hinduism? What about the Greek and Roman gods?”

Paul’s energy shuddered under the barrage of questions. “You still have your journalistic inclinations towards asking questions. Let me share a story. It will help you understand.”

He paused. “You once compared a spirit to an atom living in the body of God, remember that?”

I nodded. It was a quote I had picked up years before in a book called “Mysticism” by Robert Chaney.

Paul continued. “Imagine an ocean, a vast ocean. It is made up of many drops of water. All substances are made up of millions and millions of tiny atoms. In water, for example, each molecule is made up of two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom. So let us take one drop of water.

“One day our drop of water is plucked up from the ocean into the clouds. It is carried a great distance before it is dropped in a rainstorm over some mountains. First, our drop of water helps irrigate the vegetation on the mountain. Then it slips away and joins a stream.  Some miles away, a woman collects water that includes our drop. She uses it to boil potatoes for her family. She uses the water then to make soup, and our drop finds its way into her son’s body, and a day later is ejected.

“The water drop soon finds itself back in the stream. It joins a large river flowing  along a valley. A plantation is on fire. The villagers dowse the blaze with river water. Our water drop is there. Eventually, it seeps back into the river and soon after reaches the ocean from where it started. It is still a drop of water, a molecule made up of three atoms, but it has returned to its mother, its father, the Source of its Being.”

Paul paused. “Do you understand that?”

I nodded easily.

“Well, that’s how Jesus must have felt when he was trying to explain God, Infinite Intelligence or the Universal Mind to a crowd of lovable but ignorant fishermen,” he declared. “There are so many complex shades, so many veils, so many differences between your physical world and ours, that even spirit teachers frequently find it difficult to explain.”

“Why?”

“Because of the ego, the False Self. It blocks or taints all true information between the Spirit World and Earth. As a Quester, you need to continue working on yourself, and help other Questers walk the path. Give classes, talks, and write a book,” he said. “Tell people about metaphysics, working with energy, dissolving the negative ego, living in the present, spirit communications, loving unconditionally, and the Spirit World. And don’t forget the silence. You humans talk too much.”

“Thanks, Paul,” I said, then added: “I’m a spirit renting a human body.”

“There you go,” Paul laughed. “Come over and see us some time.”

“Permanently?”

“Not on your life. Not yet, anyway,” he said.


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