Chapter 7 - Defining God

 I do not think of God as a person or a single entity.  The idea of God as the king or ruler of the universe came from a human mentality of a male dominated world in which each country had a king or ruler with ultimate power.  So it is no wonder that when man was wrestling with understanding the universe that we would assume the whole universe operated as our countries did.  We also feel safer if we think there is a single supreme being who is our father and protector.  A father takes care of his children and it makes us feel good to believe a father is ruling the universe, keeping evil away with his supreme powers.

In the U.S. today, we do not accept the idea of one supreme leader of our country because we don't want to give anyone too much power over the rest of us.  We want to have some say in things.  We want our freedom.  We have fought enemies who want to enslave us and we continue to fight terrorists and dictators who want to control other nations.  So why would we want to hang on to the idea of a God who is a dictator and we are completely at his mercy?

Some people think God is the creator of the entire universe, has ultimate control of all of creation, makes all the rules for mankind, and passes judgment on every one of us.  God decides who will get rewards in Heaven for all of eternity or who will be punished in Hell forever.  They believe that we live one very short life and God makes the decision for us as to how we spend eternity.  Wow!  What power this one man has over us.  No wonder that many people fear God.  You certainly would not want to get on this man's bad side.  If you believe God has so much power over us, I can see that you would do anything he says for you to do to avoid going to Hell.

But do you really want there to be one person with this kind of power over you and everyone else?  Does it even make sense that one person should or could have ultimate power over us?  Wouldn't we be God's slave and we wouldn't he be like a dictator?  Some people have accepted the idea of a king who we were to obey and we had to be submissive or we would be imprisoned or killed.  So they accept a God who we have to obey and he will punish us if we don't.  

So, over the centuries we have been conditioned to be submissive to a ruler, then it makes sense that we would transfer this belief system to the order of the universe.  A king can reward us for being obedient or he can kill us for breaking any of his laws.  So a God who can offer use reward or punishment fit into our paradigm.

As I said earlier, I cannot accept the idea that God is a single entity with dictatorial power over our destiny, but I do believe in God.  My concept of God is not new and it has been around for centuries, so I am not claiming to have an understanding of God that no one else has.  So I will make statements about God as if they are facts although they are my opinions and I do not have verifiable evidence.  But these ideas are based on what many others throughout history have believed and they are based on the evidence I have presented so far in these writings and evidence I will present later.

God is an infinite, loving consciousness that permeates and resides in everything.  This all pervasive consciousness is an energy force of which everything is made.  

Energy cannot be created or destroyed.  But energy can be converted to physical matter.  God is the energy of the universe and this energy is conscious.  Centuries ago, the Hindus taught that everything, including matter such as rocks, were made up of consciousness, even if the consciousness was mostly dormant.

Every single physical and non-physical element in the universe is made of this universal consciousness, which is an energy and it is God.  Every piece of matter, no matter how small, has a God particle in it that represents and contains the entire universe.  Some people call this God particle a hologram.  A hologram contains the whole in the smallest piece.  We are living in a holographic universe, in a sense.  So God is literally in everything and everything is connected to God and to everything else.  We are one and we are not separate.  

So God, in a sense, did create the universe and God does have ultimate power over creation because God is the one and only conscious energy that exists.  God is everything.  God is all that is.  God is love.  God gives us freedom to follow our dreams.  We need to discover how we can tap into the loving energy of God and transform ourselves so that we can create a Heaven on Earth.  This will be when we manifest the will and love of God in humanity, and we will transform the world for the next stage of our evolution.  

If you consider yourself a Christian and think this idea of God is blasphemy, don't quit reading.  I would like to explain why this concept of God does not contradict the teachings of Christ, but it enhances Christianity.    

Chapter 6 - Who or What is God?

 Notice that I didn't just say who is God, but also what is God.  Most people assume that God is a person and is like us.  Most of the early religions said that there were many gods, not just one.  As I said earlier, the Hindus believed there were many gods, not just Krishna.  And there were all of the Greek and Roman gods plus the Egyptian gods.

The idea that there is only one God of the universe came later with the three major world religions, Christianity, Judaism, and Islam.  These religions depict God as a man who looks and acts like us.  But God is all powerful in such a way that he personally created the entire universe and all of life  in the universe and judges us all to such a degree that he could sentence us to an eternity of punishment in a place called Hell or he could reward us with eternal peace and happiness. This judgment is supposedly done in a very short time frame - you get one lifetime no matter how long or short.  You could die at age  20 or 100.  God will judge you and pass sentence on you that will last forever.

Just think about how old the universe is and then how short a time we live.  In universal time, our short few years of our lives are but a blink of the eye, but in this blink, God judges us and determines our destiny for billions of years to come.  

Personally, I cannot believe that such a God exists.  Just think how cruel and unjust such a God would be.  Would any parent tell a child he had one day to prove himself and after that one day the parent would let the child live with them or the kid would be kicked out of the house and could never come back?

I also have trouble with the concept of one super-powerful person who controls the entire universe.  Does this make the rest of us his slaves?  How could one person be so powerful and the rest of us have hardly any power or say in the matter.  This seems like the ultimate dictator.  Wouldn't it be great to be the ruler of the universe?  

So, I can't believe such a dictator exists no matter how loving this one person is.  He couldn't be too loving if he casts millions of people into Hell for eternity.  I would never sentence anyone to such horrible punishment for such a long time, so why would a loving God do this?

All of this does not tell us who or what God is.  I said that God does exist but do we understand what the term God means?  With all the religions of the world trying to put their own spin on God, we could debate this term forever and not agree.  So, in the next chapter I will discuss options for the definition of God and you might not agree but it might make you think. 

Chapter 5 - If aliens were our gods, does God exist?

 Aliens might have been considered to be gods but that does not explain all the mysteries of the universe and all the things that have happened throughout our history.  There has been a lot of alien interactions that were attributed to gods but there have been many more unexplained things that were not related to aliens.

Where did aliens come from initially?  I don't mean what planet or solar system but how did they come to exist?  The bigger question is "did life in the universe arise from matter or from a spiritual non-physical element" and this leads to the other big question, "is there nothing after our physical deaths or do we continue to exist after physical death" and yet another big question "is there a God"?  

After reading hundreds of books and a life of experiences and contemplation, I think there is no doubt that the universe is not only full of alien physical life forms but there are many spiritual life forms as well.  The spiritual world is where all physical matter comes from.  This means humankind and aliens.  It is not logical that such a fascinating and complex universe full of life could possibly be an accident.  With all of our scientific knowledge to date, we know enough to know that there are many, many aspects of the universe and life that we cannot explain.

So I would say that the universe is not simply physical matter, and life did not just appear from matter alone, but a spiritual element of the universe is responsible for life.  As far as life after physical death, there is a ton of evidence to say that yes life does continue after death.

This issue is similar to the issue about the existence of aliens.  Many people are reluctant to think there is really life after death because they don't think there is proof of it.  But actually there is more proof of life after death than about anything else.  

There are thousands of books and writings about people throughout history who have had spiritual experiences, who have seen ghosts or spiritual beings, who had had mystical experiences, who had had out-of-body travels, and who have had communication with the spirit world.  If the spiritual world did not exist, science would easily show that there was no evidence.  But science and real-world experiences continue to give us overwhelming evidence. 

Personally, I have seen a spirit and I have had two out-of-body experiences in which my spirit left my physical body and I looked down upon myself.  I have no doubt that when this physical body dies, our spiritual body or consciousness continues to exist.

Another set of evidence for life existing after death is reincarnation.  This is another phenomenon that is supported by thousands of writing and millions of people who have had experiences and memories of past lives.  You can read dozens of books or view videos that describe accounts of evidence for reincarnation so I will not repeat all of this information here.  Some of the most interesting accounts of reincarnation are from writings by the psychic, Edgar Cayce.

In Edgar Cayce's book, "The Story of Jesus," he described some of his own past lives in the continents of Lemuria and Atlantis.  He also talked about the many past lives of Jesus and how Jesus was also on these two ancient continents in past lives.  Cayce said that Jesus had many lives on Earth beginning as Adam, Moses, Abraham, and others until Jesus he became fully enlightened.  He then was born as Jesus to fulfill the purpose of bringing the Way to God through love.  Jesus said that we should do as he did and we could be god as he became god.  I think that too many people misinterpreted Jesus'message.

Jesus wanted us to live in his example of being a kind and loving person and with unconditional love, and then we could become enlightened as well.  And we could be god, like him.  We don't need to believe Jesus is the Way.  We need to be like Jesus.  We need to be the Way.  What would Jesus do?  That's what we should do to find the Way.  

There have been several enlightened beings throughout history and they all have provided very similar messages and several religions have been created around these enlightened people and their teachings.

Christians want to convince us that Jesus is the One and only God, while Muslims want us to believe their version of Mohammad.  But Mohammad was supposed to be a prophet in support of the lineage of Jesus.  Jews believe in basically the same thing with their lineage going through the same leaders.  Buddhist think that we should listen to Buddha.  Buddhists believe in a path of enlightenment requiring suffering to learn compassion and understanding.  Hindus believe there are many spiritual leaders or gods throughout history and we can learn from each of them.  

If one or more of these enlightened people of our past are God or prophet, it does not matter.  We do not need to argue about who is specifically right?  We are all one.  We don't need to argue about God.  Every time we argue for our side, we separate ourselves from others.  If you think the path to Heaven requires complete acceptance to one religion, then you put yourself superior to others and separate from them.

So, the question, does God exist can be answered as yes, but who and/or what is God?  What can we believe about God if there are so many different religions, all claiming to know who God is but none of them agree. 

Chapter 4 - Aliens and religion

 It seems to me that there is no question that the universe is populated by many intelligent, physical life forms who I will refer to as aliens because they are alien to this planet.  But how alien are they really?

I propose that aliens came to Earth tens of thousands of years ago and they had a huge hand in human growth and development.  Aliens intermingled with humans and the story of Adam and Eve is a story about aliens mating with Earth humans to help create a new, more advanced human.  Humans made an enormous leap in evolution thanks to the aliens and they have continued to visit Earth to monitor what happens in human development. 

Some of our religious stories have been an account of the alien involvement on our planet.  Early man could not understand the concept of an alien race who has a vastly superior intelligence.  To primitive man, aliens seemed to have powers and abilities that were magic so the aliens were considered to be gods. 

Just think about humans today going back in time to visit early man.  We would be able to fly around in airplanes.  We would have gadgets, such as phones, computers, flashlights, cameras, radios, etc.  They would not be able to explain all these things so they would think we were gods.  There are many books about theories and evidence of alien contact and influence on our cultures and religions so I will not repeat this information here.  

It is not very clear as to how long aliens have been involved on Earth.  Most people have heard of the possibility of an ancient civilization on Earth known as Atlantis.  If so, aliens would have been involved with helping the Atlantis civilization with their technology.  Some people think that the story of Noah could have been connected with Atlantis going underwater and maybe the aliens helped humanity with a major Earth change.

Another lesser known civilization that existed before Atlantis is called Lemuria. This advanced civilization was also influenced by aliens.  Again, there are many books and writings about these two ancient civilizations that seemed to have disappeared.  We also do not know if there were civilizations living on our planet before any of these.  We have not fully explored all the Earth's surface and we have only begun to explore what is hidden in our oceans.  

So aliens are really not so alien because they mated with humans and have intermingled with us over thousands of years to the point that we are as much Earth humans as we are aliens ourselves.  

Chapter 3 -Take me to your leader

 Other than landing on the White House lawn, aliens have let themselves be known in multiple ways.  They have been seen by thousands of people, including military and private pilots throughout the U.S. and other countries.  There are hundreds of reports of alien abduction and a lot of verification of a wide range of alien activity.

It is not my intention of going through the literature on alien encounters and sightings as there are a few hundred books and videos on this subject.  If this issue was something not so controversial our leaders and scientists would have confirmed aliens on our planet years ago because the evidence is overwhelming.

But, the question that we should be asking is why are they here and what are they going to do in the future?  There are tons of theories about their influence in our past, such as providing scientific knowledge to humans at several points in our history in which we have made quantum leaps in human thought.  There are some who have suggested that aliens mated with early humans to create  homo sapiens.  Perhaps, they were responsible for the first humans mentioned in the Bible - Adam and Eve.  Maybe they have invested a lot in the whole development of the human race.

Aliens obviously have a great interest in Earth and human development.  There are likely several races of aliens who are interested and involved with Earth and not from just one planet.  Again, think about Star Trek and how they investigated dozens of planets but they did not interfere with the freewill of other life forms.  They might assist them and give some guidance but they would not do anything to make a drastic change for them.

Think about the primitive human and their lifestyle.  They lived very simple lives, hunting and gathering.  They were relatively happy and unless there was a climatic event, such as a major drought or other catastrophe, they lived quite well.  But, what would happen to their lives if more advanced humans, like ones of today, tried to educate them and teach them about our modern technologies, like computers, cars, phones, etc?  Their simple lifestyle would be completely changed.  Would this be good for them or bad?  We shouldn't judge what is good or bad for others so it would be best to leave them alone and let them live out their lives in their own way.

This is why aliens only dole out little bits of knowledge and assistance at a time.  They can help but they don't want to completely change the way we live and think.  They also have orders to not interfere.  They understand that we must continue on our own path of growth and development.  When we progress to a certain level, they can give us more help.  They have been more active in the last several years as our technology has advanced.  We might be close to another quantum leap in technology in the near future with the assistance of aliens.  

Chapter 2 - Who is in the Universe?

 Our universe is literally packed with a billion trillion stars within 100 billion galaxies.  It is really unimaginable as to how massive the universe is and how many planets there are with intelligent life forms.  As the father in the movie Contact said when his daughter asked if he thought there was intelligent life in the universe, "If there isn't, it would be a great waste of space."

The only logical conclusion is that there has to not only be intelligent life but intelligent life in the universe is very abundant.  Think about Star Trek and how the Enterprise traveled from one star system to the next and they encountered all types of life forms.  Perhaps that idea is not so much science fiction but it is rather close to reality.  Reality might be more unbelievable than any science fiction ever written.

Go back to when humans on Earth were living in small tribes, say 10,000 years ago.  This is a very short time in our world history of 4.5 billion years.  What did the average person believe about the size of the Earth or how many other people existed on Earth?  They usually lived in a relatively small area of land and were not aware of anything more than a few miles from them.  They might be aware of another tribe or two but that was it.  They had no concept of being on a continent and how large their continent was.  They had no idea that there were hundreds of tribes throughout the continent.  They had no idea there were several continents with hundreds of other tribes.  They could not conceive that they were on a large planet and it was round.  So, they obviously had no concept of our solar system or our galaxy.  

Relative to universal time, 10,000 years is a blink of the eye, but in that short amount of time, we have realized that there is a whole planet full of humans and those people 10,000 years ago would have never believed us if we told them how many people were on Earth and how large the Earth was.

As you know, it was as recent as 500 years ago that humans thought the Earth was flat.  We didn't know there were two very large continents with people, and this was such a short time ago.  We still were unaware of what a planet actually was or much at all about the stars we saw in the night sky.  People could come up with theories about the stars, but the theories were not reality.  We just made guesses based on very limited knowledge.  When you have such limited knowledge, it is nearly impossible to make up a valid theory.

Over the next two to three hundred years, we traveled and learned a lot about our planet and then telescopes finally provided us a glimpse of the skies.  But, we still had a limited understanding of what we found.  It has only been in the last 100 years that we have gained our knowledge of the size of the universe and we still have a lot of questions.  Is this the only universe?  Are there multiple universes co-existing simultaneously?  We still have very limited knowledge of consciousness, time, and space.  

Today, we think we are so advanced, but we are still in our infancy with our knowledge of the universe.  Again, we try to develop theories to explain things but our knowledge is still too limited so our theories are far from reality.  

Just like the primitive tribal humans who were so unaware of other humans on Earth or the size of the Earth, we are also unaware of the tremendous population or size of our universe.  We continue to live in our own limited space while there are billions of life forms and around us.

Most people today are aware of the many cases of UFOs and theories of how aliens from other planets have been visiting and influencing humans on Earth for centuries.  Skeptics say, "If there are aliens, why don't they just land and show themselves?"  Actually, they have. 

Chapter 1 - In the Beginning

 In the beginning, there was darkness and void.  Then came a big bang that changed everything.  Out of seemingly nothing, the stuff that made galaxies came spewing out, expanding, and forming stars and eventually planets.  

Supposedly, this happened around 14 billion years ago.  As many as 100 billion galaxies were created and each with about 100 billion stars.  Our own Milky Way galaxy has 100 billion stars.  If you multiply 100 billion stars times 100 billion galaxies you get 10 to the 22nd power.  All of these stars came from one explosion 14 billion years ago.  

Our own planet Earth is about 4.5 billion years old, which means there are billions of galaxies that are billions of years older than our planet.  So, the likelihood that we are the only intelligence beings in the universe is practically zero.  Assuming there are at least millions of planets with intelligent life, then we also have to assume that there are also a few million planets that are at least a billion years older than our planet and this means that there are many life forms who are a billion years more advanced than we are.

Just imagine how much we have advanced in the last 100 years.  Now imagine how much more we will be advanced another 100 years from now.  Next, imagine how advanced we will be 1,000 years from now.  In a thousand years will we have found the cure to all diseases?  Will we have found unlimited, free energy?  Would we have discovered how to stop aging and live for hundreds of years?   Will we be able to travel to other planets?  Just think about all the secrets of life we will discover in one thousand years.

Now - imagine what we will learn in 10,000 years or what about 100,000 years.  Will we have discovered what life itself is and how to create life?  Will we know how to travel to other galaxies instantaneously through frequencies?  Will we, that is, our consciousness, even need physical bodies?

Let's jump ahead to a million years from now.  It is impossible to even imagine how advanced we will be.  Will we be able to exist as pure consciousness and be as gods?  Would there be anything that we couldn't do?  

Ok, now imagine a billion years from now.  That is 1,000 million years.  How advanced would we be?  Impossible to imagine.  But as I said earlier, there is a very high likelihood that there are perhaps millions of civilizations that are a billion years older and more advanced than we are.  We cannot even imagine how advanced they are or what they know or what they can do.  It would be very difficult for us to even communicate with them.  They would be talking about concepts of life and science that we have no idea about.

Just imagine meeting someone from our past, say around the early 1880's.  We try to tell them about the Internet, but they don't even know about electricity.  They also have no knowledge of TV, radio, telephone, etc. so they would be completely baffled if we showed them a Smart phone.  If we tried to explain how it worked, they would not understand at all and would think we were god-like.  This would be the same if we exposed them to cars, trains, or airplanes.  Or, if we tried to explain modern medicine, such as our understanding of surgery, cellular structure, DNA, and other new medical advances.  

So, if we would have so much trouble communicating our knowledge to people from our own planet just 200 years ago, think about how difficult it would be for beings who are thousands, millions, or even a billion years more advanced to communicate with us or for us to understand them.  We would try to put their communication in terms that we can understand, but we would fail to fully understand them.