by Ben Gilberti, H.W.,M.
 
Chapter 8 ~  Face the Bully Eye to Eye
 
God is our very own being. It's not just that we can reason out to ourselves that Truth is all there can possibly be. God is our very own being. The infinite, perfect manifestation of infinite consciousness is our very own being. Yet we say, "I know God is all that I can be, but I am not yet enlightened, I am not experiencing myself as God."
 
What do we do about that? Do we work harder at spiritual studies and disciplines so that we can "fix" the problem of not experiencing ourselves as God? Unquestionably we all do. But what is all that study and discipline trying to get us to realize? Isn't it that ANY experience other than God is nothing, and should be treated as nothing?
 
Any experience we have of ourselves appearing to be less than or other than God should be treated as what it is -- nothing -- and worthy of no attention whatsoever. What then do we turn our attention towards? What's left? I being God. "But I don't experience myself as being God." Well, the experience is nothing, so why are you putting attention to it? "I can't help it, I can't climb out of it, I feel like I'm stuck inside of it." Well, OK, but is that an experience of Truth or an experience of a lie about Truth? And what is the Truth that it is a lie about? I being God. "Yes, I know that I being God is the Truth, and that anything else is not the Truth and not so, I know that, but I still don't experience myself as God." What makes you say that? Whatever it is, you already know it is an illusion, you already know it is not of God and has no life or reality whatsoever, you already know it is a phantom resting on nothing, you already know it IS nothing, in contrast to which you already know YOU are God, so no matter how vivid your experience of the illusion may be, there clearly cannot be any doubt that an illusion that you already know is nothing is no match for YOU who you already know is God.
 
Inotherwords, so what if you experience yourself as less than or other than God. So what!? You already know that the experience is an illusion that is nothing, and that nothing is hardly anything of any consequence to God. So what if you experience yourself as less than God?! It certainly isn't anything to feel powerless in the face of! After all it is NOTHING, and YOU are God! How could God feel powerless in the face of nothing? How could nothing be an obstacle to you?
 
Don't let it bully you. It's nothing. Turn right around and face the bully eye to eye. Answer the question, "What's giving me the impression that I am less than or other than God?" Make a list. And then nothingize each item on the list. You've put a lot of hard work into creating those impressions, and you are right now trussing them up in place with effort. They're not standing up by virtue of any other effort but your own anyway, so all you have to do is get your reality thinking up enough to prove they're nothing and the effort that's been trussing them up (your own) will collapse, and with it the impression it was creating the illusion of. Then you'll be left alone with what you already are -- God.
 
If you find that you aren't then left all alone with yourself (God), but that there are yet still other impressions remaining of being less than God, well, so what!? They aren't real either. When you feel like it, make a list of them too, and pull the rug out from under them as well..

 

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