May I ask, is there a particular reason that led you to the conclusion(?) of "God is All That Is"?
No one wonder I left this one for a day, lol, as now I am sitting here trying to figure out how to word this without sounding too crazy.
One extension of the statement, “God is All That Is” is, “Nothing, not even nothingness, can exist outside of the totality of what god is. Everything is a part of what god is. When I say everything, I mean, quite literally, everything.” But that is not what you asked me, now, is it. What led me to this understanding? That is easily asked but not so easy to explain. If I wanted to do the ultimate “copout” I could say that it was originally a revelation.
Four days after my 18th birthday, I began to have experiences that quickly altered my viewpoints of life, death, reality, self, god, OBE's and time. There are also a host of other issues, but these are the first things that I covered and they were covered simultaneously due to a quirk of consciousness and a peculiarity I discovered about cognition and time. This is when I first began to directly understand, through my experience, the meaning behind the word “
multidimensional”.
To be perfectly, clear these early experiences cannot be adequately explained on RF due to the stringent rules that are in place.
Oddly, I support those rules on this particular issue as I have learned that this kind of experimentation is not suitable for the general public.
The information that I received during this period was so extensive, so persuasive and of such high quality that one could get the impression that I had a
Guardian Angel. Had I been of a religious nature
I may well have interpreted my experience in that light, however, I was an avowed atheist and very much a child of the 20th century and all that that entails. To say I was surprised is putting it mildly.
Shortly after these experiences began, one rainy afternoon I was seized by inspiration. I had been sitting watching and listening to the rain when everything just clicked. For about an hour I wrote out a steady stream of data. Each sentence was there for the taking and all I had to do was let my pen spell them out, as the realization was so crystal clear and complete. I also experienced a distinct, palpable heightened sense of awareness and this was not due to ingesting anything out of the ordinary. It just happened somewhat spontaneously.
When I was done, I sat, somewhat dizzy and thoroughly spent. I had a four page essay titled, “The Interrelation of all events.” This was not
automatic writing, as I was fully conscious of the entire process, but rather, I was describing a synergistic symmetry that I had never sensed prior to that.
And if you have noticed, I still haven’t answered your question, lol. (I should seriously consider going into politics.)
OK… here is your answer.
The realization that “God is All That Is” directly followed several direct experiences of a state of consciousness described by many as “
Oneness” and
"Cosmic Consciousness". Herein lays the difficulty in understanding what I am raving about. If a human animal has not had this experience, first hand, there isn’t the slightest possibility that they will fully understand what I am saying. That being said, there are definitely degrees to the experience. All will certainly capture the attention of the observer, but some will quite likely knock their socks off where others will be little more than a heightened awareness and usually quite brief.
The “lesser” type of experience could conceivably be forgotten, ignored or considered to be a product of one’s imagination. The “greater” types of experience will be quite literally life changing. The individual will not be the same after the experience as they were prior to the experience. It is not likely that anyone could forget the “greater” experience although they may ignore it and possibly consider they may have mental health issues.
In this context, I have had hundreds of the “greater” experiences and daily experiences of the “lesser” experience. So, in closing, your answer is based on my first hand observations which lead me to conclude that
all realities exists
within God and that nothing is ever
outside of God. I could be wrong, but that's the best I can tell you at this juncture in time.
I truly wish that I could have said that with far less words, but conciseness is not one of my greatest abilities.
There is a VERY important difference between my view and that of others. I am completely aware of the possibility that I could be quite wrong. I never try to pretend that I, alone, am right. This is “just” the way I view things and have little interest in getting people to believe what I am saying. My overall point is to simply get people thinking of possibilities.
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