There is No One That Isn’t
By Steve Beckow
Do you notice that – awake or sleeping, in good times or bad – you are always there? If you stayed awake through the process of death, our informants tell us, you’d see you’re still there even then. (1) And happily so.
The discipline that pursues the question. “who am I” I call the awareness path. Its basic agreement is always to remain aware of one’s self.
The “you” that’s always there is of course the Self. If the Self were anything else than “always there,” it’d not be eternal. Not eternal is part of creation. Anything created is not the Self and hence not what we’re looking for. (2)
Not what we’re looking for? What do you mean? What are we looking for and why?
Long-time readers will know where I’m going. What we’re looking for is in fact that very Self. At whatever level you’re looking at and whatever you want to call it – the Self, No-Self, All Self, the One, they all point at and to the same phenomenon: God.
So to rephrase: We are God. All of us? Yes.
It turns out that everything conscious that’s been created seeks to know who it is. There’s a built in longing for the goal of that quest. (3) We call that longing “desire.”
I say “desire” as if it covers all desires. We find, in the higher dimensions, that the real object of all our desires is in fact God, or Love, or Truth and that living in the love that exists there satisfies all our bodily and worldly desires.
I imagine that our desires for anything but the answer to our need to know who we are subsides and eventually vanishes until we succeed in our quest.
Until then, we only want more love; i.e., “more” God. We continue moving through the dimensions, “closer” and “closer,” we believe, to the omnipresent One.
Why all this? Why was life designed this way?
As I learned on March 13, 1987, when I was given a vision while driving my car, God wanted to know Itself, to meet Itself. (4) And that’s no easy matter when you’re the only thing that is. No one to sit down and have coffee or play tennis with.
And so God created life – specifically, life forms – from Itself, from Its own consciousness. God gave them all the mission of discovering who they really are. When one of them discovers that they are God, in that moment of their enlightenment, God meets God.
So that God could meet God, so that God could talk with God, so that God could create with God – in the same way a parent does a child, I suspect – was the reason that all of this, seen and unseen, was created.
We are given the one and only mission of finding out who we truly are. Not just knowing it. You are God. There. What difference did “knowing” that make?
We have to rise up through the intellectual level, through the experiential level to the realizational level. We have to realize that we are God. That moment of realization is when God meets God.
For me, this is the starting point of anything I do, think, or say: Who am I? Who am I really? Who is it that speaks, acts, feels? I look out on others now and see that they too are embarked on the same quest, lifetime after lifetime.
We are united in who we are (God) – and in seeking That, behind every desire. We’re united in where we’re journeying to (“Reunion” with God). We’re united in being thoroughly constructed, in our created parts, from Love, held together by the Laws of Love, and freed from any bondage by the Truth.
There is no one that isn’t God incarnated. We are not simply children of God. We are the One Itself.
Footnotes
(1) See “The Darkness of Death is a Path of Light to Us” at http://goldengaiadb.com/index.php?title=Coming_Home#The_Darkness_of_Death_is_a_Path_of_Light_to_Us
(2) Hindu sages practice the discipline of acknowledgeing “neti, neti.” Not this, not this. When everything created is acknowledged and let go of, what one is left with is God.
This process does not have to take a lifetime. In my view, the practice of neti, neti creates an attitude that invites enlightenment.
On Self-Enquiry generally, see anything by Sri Ramana Maharshi. Perhaps start with the booklet, Anon., Who am I? The Teachings of Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi. Sarasota, FL: Ramana Publications, 1990.
(3) See The Longing for Liberation at https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Longing-for-Liberation-3.pdf
(4) See The Purpose of Life is Enlightenment at https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Purpose-of-Life-is-Enlightenment-3.pdf
