Misidentification

Humans have become used to creating ideas with the mind so that they could believe in them without question. Some examples are the idea of God, of heaven, of angels- anything sacred and divine. We observe the world and we find no light in it. So, we start to have faith in heavenly things, in hope of something greater than the human condition.

We get a feeling that there's something we're missing. The world is dark and unforgiving. The only support we think we have comes from God, Christ Jesus, or some other "divine" being. So we reach out and try to contact the heavenly kingdom- we try to feel God. We let God embrace us in a sense, to the point that we are having a blissful experience. Yet inside of that, we think about God and how he is choosing to share this joyful moment with Him.

Then we feel completely sure that God exists. How could you experience bliss if he didn't exist, right? But we also get the feeling that God has control over us- he can choose what to do with us, he can take anything away from us, and he can leave us at anytime. Peace is not granted to us whenever we want. We realize that God can manipulate us.

Then we no longer experience bliss and power and peace and love. It is restricted. God chooses when you can experience Him. You are nothing without Him. You still call to the Masters and the Angels for guidance. They have power, so they can share it with you. But then we become dependent on them. You are a powerless, weak human, pleading for some guidance on how to become powerful.

You might use affirmations, saying "that which is above is that which is below," or "I am all powerful, perfect, heavenly, and divine." You have to repeat it so that you become what you are affirming. You are not the lower self, but the higher self. There is no way that you can truly be a sinful, clumsy, dark entity.

There is so much struggle, so much doubt, so much mind activity. You are fed up with yourself, but you want to ascend and become someone greater so that you can show the world that you are great. You ask for "divine" beings to help you ascend. You use visualizations to protect and clean yourself.

Then you realize something. Is everything that is heavenly the truth? Does God really exist? If we keep on telling ourselves to become one with God or that we really are one with God, then can't we just be? Wouldn't that show that we are one with God? Not only that, since you are one with God, why bother thinking about God? Thinking about God would make God exist separate from you. So you might try entering a blissful experience without the thought of God, and when it happens, it becomes more intense than it has ever been. Then you realize that the thought of God is just an illusion. There is no God. The bliss of unity is still there, stronger than ever.

Saying "that which above is that which is above" is useless. It sparks an image of the divine, and you apply it to yourself. If you use the affirmations, you wear the thought that you created, covering the awareness of who you are. If you really are divine, then you don't need to even think of divinity! You exist, there's no doubt about that! The only doubt is about who you are. Do not define yourself through images and thoughts! Then you will know who you are. Do not apply ideas like "you are a child of God" or "the Son of God" or "Christ" or "Atman"- leave it be. If you are using these ideas, you are running away from who you think you are.

You are misidentifying who you are with God. Expression of yourself is hindered by the thought that God exists or that angels exist or that anyone or anything exists other than you. It is all thoughts. You are lying to yourself twice - by believing that you are the lower self and by affirming that you are the higher self. Let it all go! Let it dissolve into the awareness of being. Misidentification has been supported by the ideas of religion, separating worldly and heavenly into two different things. Everyone is afraid to confront what is here instead of constantly making a false, illusory, weak "reality."

There is no God! There is no world! There is no thing!