Historically, people have looked to sources far and wide, external
from themselves for an explanation of God that provides some
sort of meaning to life. Religions have traditionally steered
people’s attention to a saintly figure, whether actual
or metaphorical as a central focus of worship. Even when God
is the central issue, the focus for worship is somewhere out
there. Since religion has diverted the attention of the masses
to worshiping some sort of fictional entity out there, this
has also given rise to the worshiping of materialistic idols.
Since God is out there somewhere and cannot be perceived tangibly,
the central focus for most was and continues to be concentrated
on idols such as a picture or actual model of Jesus hanging
on the cross or some other stone sculpture. In more recent times,
astrology has risen to speak the language of God and has opened
up opportunities for a whole new group of experts to exert their
influence on those willing to listen. The discovery of the ascended
masters and their communication with earthlings has become so
popular they are considered the new age gods of worship. In
nearly every thought of today, the focus of worship is still
primarily directed toward an external source and in nearly every
case such practices have been purposely misdirected to benefit,
in one way or another, the individual(s), group, religion or
new age movement in what we might call a flavorful blend and
often very creative conspiracy of deception. In some cases,
the conspirators are consciously aware of their deception and
in other cases, they are not, earnestly believing that what
they are doing is honest and truthful.
Not to get off the subject of trying to find God, but deceptive
practices such as these are not limited to religions or other
new age groups seeking to exploit God, but in all walks of
life. In other words, it is the exploitation of the weak individual
by the strong or should we say the gullible by the cunning
that has been the traditional practice since the advent of
humanity. These unethical practices continue today with even
more sophistically developed techniques, thereby compounding
the problem and making it more difficult to recognize. We
might also view this disparity as ‘sheep being led by
a shepherd.’ The sales pitch flashed by the modern day
shepherd amounts to little more than a case of the blind leading
the blind and in the end, both shall fall into the same ditch.
Today, the mega-corporation controls, either directly or indirectly,
whatever chunk of the economy it claims business interest.
This means that whether you work directly for the mega-corporation
itself or the corporation owns the smaller company you work
for, your life is basically dictated to and under the governing
control of the way the business operates. In most corporate
environments, the attention of the employee is directed toward
facilitating the sound operation of the business, insuring
little more than generating mega-profits with an extremely
small chunk of that profit awarded to the employee in the
form of a paycheck. When you give away your attention, you
give away your energy. Most corporations could care less about
individual employee potential and creativity and advancement
is squashed at every level of management.
This kind of tight control produces a negative barrier that
reflects unfavorably on the spirit of the individual and results
in the employee going about his or her routine in a repetitive,
even robotic fashion and is the most obvious reason for low
self-esteem and morale in the work place. Corporate CEO’s
and upper level management are therefore gods because they
provide life, belonging and the ever most essential paychecks
to the employees. Most governments operate in similar fashion
and are closely linked with the corporation. Most governments,
including most infamous politicians, are highly skilled in
paying lip service, telling voters just what they want to
hear. Whether the average citizen realizes it or not, neither
government nor the corporation, at least the higher echelons,
could care less about the health and welfare of its citizens.
The only real concern is that you continue in a self-devouring
fashion of consumption. It doesn’t matter what you consume
or if it’s self-destructive, only that you continue
consuming and the more and better. The realistic picture of
today is that the corporation is god and the government is
goddess. If government fails to adhere to corporate ideals,
which amounts to establishing laws to protect and further
the profit making interest of the corporation, the government
pays the price. The government then passes the price to its
citizens through higher taxes. The priority in today’s
world is the stimulation of the economy. Nothing else matters.
Most religions fall into the category of exploiting people
as consumers as well. Even though religions don’t sell
a tangible product, they sell their deceptive view of God
to those who would consume it and readily open up their pockets.
There is a continual orgy between corporations, government
and religions that gives birth to the same recycled children
who grow up learning through their recycled parents and schools
being dictated to on what and how much to eat, drink, study
and watch, thereby creating a perfectly conditioned consumer
who in turn passes these self-destructive and unenlightened
habits onto the next generation.
In short, the greater majority of people in the world “follow”
whatever or whomever they designate as a leader. The ‘leader,’
so to speak, can be anything from a beer, cigarettes, miracle
pills, new cars, steak dinner, to that hell fire and brimstone
speech from the local preacher or a seriously deranged politician
blaming some other country for all the worlds’ problems
and generating great hatred in those who follow such deception.
Every aspect of this world is extremely notorious for diverting
the attention of people away from the one place that can bring
individual freedom, within the individual. Speaking of which,
independence and freedom is largely an illusion because we
have given away our energy to the greater authority of the
leader. Independent thinking is also not only discouraged,
but illusion as well because although we practice independent
thinking or we think that we do, it is really only exercised
along limited or deceptive lines because we are programed
to think, perceive and react based on the way the media paints
the picture of the world.
Where are we going with this under the heading of God, the
source and principle of this school? We wish to stimulate
in you a first and very realistic impression of the world
in which we live. It doesn’t matter in which country
you live because all political systems operate basically the
same way. That fact is neither here nor there. It is simply
the way it is. We also hope we didn’t generate an unfavorable
impression on you, the consumer, because we are all consumers
to some extent. We are making you aware of what you consume,
how much you consume and how the digestion process affects
you based on how poisonous the goods are, regardless of the
tangible or intangible nature of the goods. We want you to
evaluate your position in this world. Where do you stand amongst
the issues we have just raised?
We have, in a realistic sense, just provided an introductory
lesson on that all too important issue of human relations.
Based on the premise of what we have just shared, this is
the way in which people relate to each other. We are talking
about the governments and businesses that create the flow
of interactive community relations in the world. Let’s
bring this down to a more manageable level. If you wish to
learn more about God, it is wise to understand the interactive
relations between humans because it is something that we do
every day.
If you earnestly desire to learn about the true nature of
God, you must learn about yourself. Trying to understand the
true nature of God is an enormously broad topic to explore.
Aside from that, even when we think we begin to understand
the true nature of God, understanding God from the big picture
can only be understood in concept, imagination and the way
in which we project our perception into the big picture. Understanding
God from the big picture entails conjecture and biased opinion
by those who think they know based on a single deluded ego.
There is the big picture in life and there is the little picture.
We humans, from an individual perspective, are the little
picture(s), but that does not make us insignificant. We are
all twigs of a branch that is one of the zillions of branches
making up a tree that is of virtually infinite per portion.
Since your individual perception is much closer, realistic
and practical in the trek of learning about God, the individual
approach should be the starting point. We will say that the
true nature of God, in is basic or raw essence, is ENERGY.
The only way to truly understand the nature of God energy
is to access it from the perspective of your own individual
energy system. Coming to know yourself entails a great myriad
of learning that begins with a basic understanding of what
makes you tick. We would add here that understanding this
energy and what makes you tick will happen, all of its own
accord. You merely have to open your mind and allow yourself
to ‘experience.’
First and foremost is having faith in yourself. Second is
having faith in the unseen and unrealized force of light energy
or love that permeates all life. Since you may not acknowledge
the existence of this force initially because it is invisible
and intangible, faith completely in yourself comes first.
Along your trek of spiritual development, you will first sense,
then feel, then experience this delicate blanket of energy
rising, slowly building a heightened fortress of awareness
within you. In other words, since the blanket of energy is
invisible and for intents and purposes, intangible, it is
presently unrealized because you are unaware of it. Again
your senses will slowly begin to become keener and more aware
of this hidden magic. The energy, from our limited perspective,
is extremely silent and subtle, to say the least.
The energy of God is the infinite principle governing all
life. Therefore, it is the principle that governs you and
your energy field. What you do with it and how you experience
it is completely up to you. There is a handful of references
to the God energy principle, one of which is Kundalini and
a growing number of folks are becoming familiar with it from
a practicing perspective. There is a world of difference between
‘energy’ at its purest vibration in the frequency
of the Holy Spirit and ‘Kundalini’ energy. Kundalini
energy is nothing compared to a jolt of energy emanating from
the Holy Spirit. In other words, there is simply no comparison.
Kundalini energy is highly diffused in vibratory frequencies
in relation to those energies of the Holy Spirit or the realm
of the utmost high otherwise referred to as The Kingdom of
Heaven. In other words, Kundalini is extremely stepped down,
but it is so for good reason which we’ll get into later.
Bringing the University of Spirituality into the picture,
did you ever get sent to the principle’s office in school?
Most likely, the reason you went there was because you got
into trouble. Well, in the University of Spirituality, visits
to the principle’s office are common and encouraged.
Traditionally speaking, a visit to the principle’s office
following a bout with trouble resulted in counseling and possible
disciplinary action. Attending the University of Spirituality,
God does not want to see you because you got into trouble,
but rather to counsel you on forgiving yourself. God cares
not about the trouble you’ve had because, as we have
learned, God is a blanket of energy of which you are a thread.
In other words, God is not a separate entity external from
you who slaps your hand every time you break the rules of
life. The rules of life are universal rules of exercising
goodness and compassion to all of life which applies, most
important, to you. When violating these rules, while sometimes
not experience it right away, sooner or later, you will experience
the sting of the error. The rules we are referring to are
the universal laws of cause and effect. Whatever you do constitutes
cause and every cause has its effect. Though it may be difficult
at times, always keep in mind that while the law of cause
and effect is perfect in justice, it is also perfect in love
and forgiveness. Forgiveness is something you work out for
yourself through yourself utilizing God’s blanket of
love. God also wants you to reestablish communications with
Him and come to know Her more fully. He also teaches you that
coming to know God more fully really means to come to know
yourself more fully. “Know Thyself” is Her motto
and should be made your own motto. All this amounts to, quite
simply, is teaching yourself. Teaching yourself means looking
in the right direction for instruction. That direction is
none other than internally through the inspirational educational
system of universal energy we mention so prominently throughout
the context of this course. Upon first introduction, this
concept may seem difficult, at least for some. Faith on things
unseen and unrealized is a mystery and will remain a mystery
nearly every step of the journey. But, like anything else
in life, the more one pursues, practices and does their homework,
the easier and clearer things become. A mystery is for the
most part, some sort of phenomenon that is, for the most part,
relatively unknown. There are usually varying degrees of fear
associated with most unknowns and therefore, most mysteries
are investigated with caution.
Conspiracy is a hot topic these days. There is growing concern
that the secret governments, particularly the United States
government, may not have the best interest of the common people
in mind at the head of its agenda. There is also mounting
tension between some sects of Christianity to wipe out the
Muslim religion. There are probably some sects of the Muslim
religion wanting to do the same with the Christian religion.
There is also a similar desire among some of the Jewish population,
leaving all three in a heated battle for domination. Here
is a word to the wise. If you are part of a religious belief
system that entire cultures can be exterminated in the name
of God. If you are highly self-centered, believing that you
and your particular culture or race are better than others,
than your first lesson in Individual Spirituality is going
to be a difficult one. The truth of the matter is those of
such a self-centered and disillusioned position understand
very little about themselves in a spiritual context and understand
even less about the true nature of God. Such self-centered
idealistic beliefs come from a long, hard nosed conditioning
of fear, hatred and being fed erroneous interpretations of
sacred scripts.
This is where learning about individual
spirituality is so very important.
Our apologies for carrying on with a seemingly ‘ungodly
subject,’ so let’s turn it around. A conspiracy
might be defined as a group of people working together in
secret for the purposes of deceiving and manipulate others
to achieve a goal. Consider this idea as an alternative to
digest. We also wish to stimulate a new conspiracy, but in
a much more positive way. Instead of conspiring to coax people
into some diabolical scheme that results in absolutely nothing
positive or beneficial to the people as a whole, let’s
conspire, or should we say ‘inspire’ people to
learn about their greater potential. Let’s inspire people
to learn about their spiritual independence and their ability
to create a fresh new life when aligned with the universal
flow of creative energy. In short, let’s inspire each
other in a positive, loving and unified manner.
Another key aspect of learning about God is awakening to
a little mystery known as the source. There is a source from
which all life springs and we can come to learn about the
nature of the ‘God Source’ by looking at the sun.
Sun worshipers? In a manner of speaking, yes. The sun is the
source of physical life and serves as excellent subject matter
in our basic approach to learning about God. It is highly
beneficial to understand how the sun or ‘source’
supports the life of your physical body because it serves
as a starting point for learning about our individual spirituality.
You see, we have our own individual source from which our
individual energy field springs. We’ll tackle more of
that as we progress.
We can ‘talk’ all we want about what we think
the nature of God is. We can speculate, project, imagine,
assert our opinion and hold fast to our beliefs and values.
It is not until you open your mind through the valve of the
heart and allow the energy of God to surface will you truly
begin to know what God is all about. Unless you are a rare
individual imbedded with a prearranged destiny, most individuals
awaken to the God Energy through this means. Awakening of
conscious awareness through internal stimulation.
Spirituality is found and built upon from within the individual.
The education and development of Spirituality is rooted in
the expression of the individual spirit. You learn about yourself
through a deep and everlasting connection with yourself. Spirit
will have you know yourself through a deep friendship with
your soul. This process entails learning acceptance, compassion
and respect for your self. Spirit will also have you know
your fellow brothers and sisters through the mode of acceptance,
compassion and respect for each other just as they are. It
is a unified effort of collaboration and cooperation based
on mutual understanding. The spirit does not label people
in the jar of religion, politics, color, family or occupation.
The spirit is as the joyous, playful and creative child who
sees no illusions and knows not barriers.
Have you ever heard the expression, ‘God will have
you know him through people?’ This translates to knowing
God through your friends, family, coworkers and with whomever
you interact. The point is, if you can’t get along with
your fellow man or woman due to some ill conceived perception
of that person, you are going to have problems getting to
know God. Such is a barrier in ‘coming to know yourself
more fully’ and we would emphasize that ‘coming
to know yourself more fully is the first step’ in the
process. It all begins with spirituality.