Here’s a three-part series on God and religion.
Me: What does God look like and how was He or She created? I think we’ve asked this before, but a blog member wants to know or maybe just needs clarification.
Erik: What does God look like? God is energy and can present itself to you anyway that YOU feel that you want to identify with God. If you’re thinking omnipresent and full of energy, that’s what you’re going to get. If you’re thinking white guy with a beard, that’s what you’re going to get. If you identify with God as a woman, that’s what you’re getting.
Me: Well, what does God look like when He or She or It looks into the mirror?
Jamie and Erik laugh.
Me: No seriously! What does God see in the mirror?
Erik: Mom! The mirror? The mirror is US.
Me: Oh, whoa!
Erik: You know, God divided God’s energy to know God’s self by going through us. We’re the many, many mirrors.
Me: So God isn’t inherently a white ball of light or anything, right? Unless I want to identify with him that way.
Erik: Right. God is us and we are God, part and whole.
Me: So, how was God created then? I’m guessing that since linear time is an illusion, that God always “was.” But we want you, the expert, to intervene here.
Erik (laughing) Did you just call me an expert?
Jamie (giggling): He thinks that’s funny. He’s repeating what you were saying about God always being there, but humans can’t understand that there is there is no beginning or end. You know, we’re not getting born, then getting older, then dying and disappearing, but that’s what most people tend to think. That’s their frame of mind.
Erik: God Source or God Energy has always existed. It was not created with the Big Bang. It didn’t grow with evolution. We’re the ones—humans—who were created by the Big Bang and evolution. We can’t compare ourselves to God Energy, and that’s what humans will automatically try to do.
Me: Okay.
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Me: So, is there any one correct or “right” religion?
Erik steps back to let the angel answer this one.
Angel: No there is not. All religions hold some elements of truth in them and some element of untruth. So when one chooses to go into a particular religion, one should choose the one that most fits with their soul and their highest belief. There is no one religion that right and there never will be until one crosses over to the other side.
Me: I suppose the truths lie somewhere in the commonalities.
Angel: Yes, the communalities when choosing one that is of the highest and holds the most truth are the ones that believe that there is a God, that there is Love, that God does not punish and send people to Hell, as some religions believe. As long as it is filled with Love and does not involve harming other people—that religion holds the most truth.
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Me: Okay, let’s ask this one again. Is there any “right” religion, Erik? I know the angel answered that when I asked it during a session with Jeannie, but let’s see if you have anything to add.
Jamie: God, he like leans back, and he throws his arm out wide like to slice something in half.
Erik: NO! There is no right one.
Me: Yeah, that’s what your angel instructor said.
Erik: And there’s no “wrong” one either. Don’t forget that. There’s no wrong one, cuz even all those cults that people create—
Me: Um hm.
Erik: Those people needed that type of structure or that type of control to feel safe.
Me: Yes, and I’m sure that with some religions, even the negative aspects are teaching models for the collective consciousness, too.
Erik: Yes. The only thing that really gets my goat, personally, is when one religion starts pointing fingers at another one and says, “You’re not right! You’re not right!” (He says this in a really whiny voice.)
Me: I know, and they all have threads of commonality that they can and should embrace.
Erik: Oh, easily they could.
Me: It just all seems to break apart when mankind massages a religion into a tool for oppression, control, or the satisfaction of greed.
Erik: We’re getting there; we’re getting there! Humankind is coming together to save the place where we live—the earth. And in learning how to save the place where we live, we’re going to have to find out who people are instead of what they believe in. Then, those belief systems are gonna broaden, and we’re gonna embrace each other.
Me: That’s a beautiful thought.
Erik: Now, we’ll never dance under one same sun.
Jamie: One same sun. Like the sun in the solar system. I think that’s what he means.
Me: Yeah, sure.
Erik: We’ll all view it so differently, but at least we’ll be able to keep our individuality. Those differences will be respected. Finally, we’ll stop pointing fingers.
Me: Well, it’s about time!
Erik: Of course there’ll always be groups who enjoy pointing fingers, but at least the balance will be healthier. The pointers will be at a lower ratio.
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Me: In 2012, what it the role of organized religion?
Jamie: In this year, what is the role of organized religion?
Me: Yes.
Jamie (laughing hard): He gave me the image of a baby pacifier, like lots of them.
Me: Oh, no!
Jamie: On street corners—really big ones.
Erik: Just to help people pacify and find a connection. A wiser question would be to ask what kind of role it will play in 2015, 2020, 2025 and more in the future, because they are going to dwindle out. They’re going to be more places where we learn how to be better people. Rather than learning how to connect to a god that’s been defined by them, they’ll be learning how to connect to the god that’s inside of us.
Me: Ah, I love that idea!
Erik: That’s way out, but we’ll get there.
Me: Yeah. The same guy asks this: Two of the major religions believe that people outside their faith are either infidels or are going to hell for not accepting Jesus. That doesn’t come across as inclusive or loving. How do the people of those faiths reconcile that duality? How can they say that and turn around and say that God is merciful and embraces everybody? That’s such a great question!
Erik laughs hard.
Erik: That’s the glitch in the system that we’ve all been talking about. Clearly, this reader has been able to identify it himself, but the people who are in it can’t see it. They can’t see, you know, that in—
Jamie (to Erik): What is that? The tree for the forest? You mean the forest for the trees, Erik!
Erik: Yeah! Oops. And that’s where we, the people who do comprehend, extend compassion and just let them be who they need to be and wait for the day when they want to wake up.
Me: Okay. So, in other words, they don’t reconcile that duality.
Erik: No, it’s not even on their marker. That’s like—
Jamie (laughing, to Erik): What? Between Hell and Heaven? Why is that funny?
Me: Because that’s duality, I guess.
Erik: Because they say God is omnipresent; God is omni-being—
Jamie: Omni-something.
Erik: Omniscient. But Hell is supposed to be the absence of God? How do you reconcile that duality, Baby?
Me: Yeah, really!
Erik: It’s that human need to measure, compare and contrast, and it does NOT work in the spiritual realm. But religion is that place in between being human and being spiritual, so they hold onto both concepts, and it doesn’t roll well.
Me: Ah, interesting.
Jamie (a bit stunned): Okay. Brilliant!
Me: You’re really doing well today, Erik! I’m very impressed with you, today. Of course I’m impressed every time we talk.
Jamie (giggling): He scruffs his hair up when you gave him the complement.
Me: Aw!
