God's Atheist

Chapter 9: The Meaning

Let's reason together to understand what this all means to humanity in 2024. There is a vast difference between being spiritual and religious. Spirituality is for those who have experienced hell, the religious are those afraid of going there. I'm the former. As I reflected on my thoughts, it became clear to me that we are destined to become Co-Creators with God. This insight came despite my ego's persistent claims that such a belief is perfectly insane. We'll awaken from our dream in the Heaven we've never left after we have achieved perfection in forgiveness. Jesus explained to Helen in ACIM that he is not to be worshiped, just highly respected. The only difference between him and us is what is potential for us is his Reality. He has God and nothing else. Jesus explained in the Course that he set in motion over 2000 years ago the principle of the Atonement. This is the knowing that the one problem that ever existed was perfectly solved. We are not separate from God in any way, never have been and never will be. This is impossible for we are One with Source and have simply forgotten.

Let's say you and I are strangers and enjoying a cold beer on a hot summer afternoon in a quiet little bar. We strike up a conversation and after an hour the alcohol is mildly kicking in. I say, "Our discussions are quite enjoyable, I'd like you to know something about me.""What's that?" "I'm perfect." Suddenly you remember you have an errand to run for your wife and can't miss dinner. While driving home your thinking, "Wow does that guy have issues, he needs professional therapy." However, perhaps you happen to be God. The response would be, "Thank you my Son, I know, because this is how I created you." If God made anything imperfect, He/She would no longer be perfect, therefore we are perfect. Yes, we make mistakes in our dreams, but this doesn't negate our perfection in Heaven.

A bit of trivia, Jesus had been married to Mary. Under Jewish law, only the wife could anoint the body. As I mentioned earlier, eventually we will evolve into a Co-Creator God Consciousness Being. It is a natural process to unfold into this state. There is so much we can learn by observing nature and all her teaching lessons. In all of nature, there is never a hurry to quicken a process as everything is always perfect in every moment and when the time is right, the rose will bloom. The Universal Christ Mind is constantly communicating with all creation in every moment. For the kingdoms without free will, this connection is called innate intelligence when the guidance comes directly from the Universal Mind. The guidance for a beaver to build a dam, a bird to build a nest, a flock of birds to fly in a V Formation, the spider to spin her web, or the hibernation of animals in the winter. The timing always comes perfectly. All these life forms are always in Christ's presence in every moment. This guidance is perfect, and it represents harmony, balance, order, and unity for the good of all. Nature comes together to represent the synchronicity of the Oneness as life unfolds. These kingdoms, mineral, plant, insect, animal, and angelic, do not have free will and are directly connected to the Christ Mind and stay consciously aware at every moment. Everyone on Earth is also directly connected to this Mind but have not yet learned to stay consciously aware. Before coming to Earth, we were also connected to the Son's Mind through Innate Intelligence, but when we came to Earth, we were gifted with free will, the ability to manifest using a conscious mind and learning to discern using the five senses and reasoning. Once understanding we are always connected to the Universal Mind and never separated from the Oneness of life, we'll learn to trust our feelings and reconnect to understand our perfection.

Gary Renard is also the author of Your Immortal Reality. In his writing, Gary explains, "Imagine you're watching TV, and you forgive a news story you see. The Holy Spirit then spreads your forgiveness throughout the mind that projects the universe, and through the projection itself. This act cuts through unconscious guilt and its karmic projections like a laser beam, affecting all your past and future lives, every dimension of time, and every parallel universe that seems to exist. As you practice forgiveness, the Holy Spirit collapses time, erasing the lessons you would have needed to learn. Although you might think, "This is boring, nothing's happening," something extraordinary is happening. Our ego is like an onion, peel away a layer, and it still looks and smells like an onion. The more you forgive vast layers of the ego are being peeled away, and your ego is disappearing. If you persist in practicing forgiveness, you'll eventually reach the final layer of the onion. Once that layer is gone, the onion and the ego vanish completely. After your final forgiveness lesson, the ego is gone; it's been undone, and there's nothing left to interfere with your experience of Who You Are. There's no reason for you to reincarnate in your dream. Practicing forgiveness, the way I'll continue to instruct you is how to break the cycle of birth and death. Perhaps a close friend was planning on stealing from you tomorrow, but this does not happen. The reason being you had already forgiven a closer friend who had stolen in the past. A lesson learned does not need repeating." Your Immortal Reality.

Each time a baby appears to be born into this world, it is merely reliving the time when it seemed to leave its perfect environment in God, where all was Nirvana, and it was completely taken care of and provided for, and then suddenly found itself slapped in the face by a seeming reality that was a living hell by comparison. We may consider birth to be a miracle, but babies don't come into this world smiling, do they? They come in crying and screaming. The mind that is reliving the seeming separation has actually fallen asleep and is dreaming an idle, insignificant dream, or nightmare because anything that seemed to be apart from Heaven would have to be symbolic of an opposite to Heaven. It would thus seem to include opposite characteristics. There's no doubt we believe we're experiencing reality here. We must be shown the way out of this experience. Our "asleep at the wheel mind" doesn't know it, but it's going to wake up in the equivalent of a cosmic instant. That is because the Voice for God and Heaven, which we now understand is the Holy Spirit, is always with us to remind us of the truth and call us to return. This fail-safe memory of who we really are can never be lost, making an awakening to the Reality of Heaven completely inevitable. We have the power to choose the memory and strength of God or something else instead. That is what the part of our mind that decides did immediately after the seeming separation. Out of shock, fear, and confusion, it made a series of unwise choices that resulted in us appearing to be here. We still don't realize that, given the remarkable power of the mind, certain choices made by us could end the seeming separation, and could have at any time. This means that we are capable of accomplishing it, with beautiful help from The Holy Spirit. God could not have created this world. It would not be in His nature for He is not cruel. If this were the real world, God would be cruel, for no Father could subject His children to this as the price of salvation and be loving.