and our guest tonight is the one and only, the ineffable, the indescribable god. er... sorry for the uncapitalised "g" god - please don't take it personally - this blog doesn't seem to accept capital letters.
no worries Miles.
oh wow - how did you do that?
do whAt?
capitalise the m in miles.
oh You know - one of the perks of the job.
so that's how you see it, is it - a job?
well it's a job like any other. it has its ups and downs but I can't complain - I chose it after all and there's no other job I'd rather be doing right now.
you mean you can change jobs if you feel like it?
of course I can. ultimately we are all free to choose.
but if you decide you want to change - who takes over?
I have no idea. I haven't got round to changing yet.
but doesn't that bother you - not knowing the procedure - not knowing if you can just quit without causing havoc.
not in the least.
but why not? surely you care...
care about what?
about your work.
yes, of course I do, but I don't care about the future because I know it has nothing to do with me, and I don't care about what might happen because I know that things have an uncanny knack of working out for the best.
they do?
sure they do.
but supposing you quit and the universe just collapsed into chaos.
it's not unreasonable to suppose that might happen. I do seem to play a fairly major role in keeping things going.
well there you go - doesn't it bother you that your good work might not be preserved.
no, Miles. it bothers you, and I know why, but I don't think it's my job to tell you the reason. half the fun of being alive is working things out for yourself. now, if instead of wondering why I don't see things the way you do, you could direct your energies to allowing yourself to see things the way I do, you and your readers would get more from this conversation.
yes, but how can we? that would put us on a par with god.
well, you have the choice - either to rise to the occasion and put yourself on a par with me, or to insist on dragging me down to the level that you currently think at - no disrespect intended. you see, if instead of wondering why I don't think the way you do, you allow yourself to start seeing how I see and thinking as I think, you'll get a fresh perspective. it doesn't mean you can't go back to seeing and thinking the usual way after this conversation - but give yourself a break from the usual routine - try visiting my perspective. travel broadens the mind.
ok god - thanks for the invitation. I always assumed it was wrong to presume to put myself in your shoes.
and why would that be? children always try to emulate their parents, to be like them, talk like them, walk like them, think and act like them. it doesn't stop them from being children but it does help their development.
ok, point taken. well, being god you know that whatever you do will be for the highest good - so if you decide to quit your job as god of this universe, either someone else will replace you, or this universe is no longer required and can fold itself back into the cosmic void.
oh how refreshing to hear you thinking like me. say a little more, if you would, I think I'm learning something.
and being god you don't have our human hang ups about death and destruction. you see the whole picture and that nothing is truly created or destroyed - so whatever happens is only really happening from a limited human perspective. fundamentally all is one - even the universe and humanity.
wow. the "nothing is created or destroyed" that you said - doesn't that fly in the face of what you guys say about me creating the universe.
it does rather. I don't know why I said it. it must be wrong.
don't be so hasty. you spoke your truth and you did so in my presence, so it's technically impossible for you to be wrong.
it is?
yes - which means that there must be truth in what you said. so, although I'm referred to as "the creator" as indeed I am, from another perspective indeed you are right - nothing is created or destroyed - everything is as I am - for we are two sides of one coin - two aspects of that which cannot be described.
but surely not.
surely not what?
oh, it's so complicated.
then allow it to be simple.
well, how?
you already did. you spoke your mind without thinking too hard, and what you said was what you needed to hear at that moment. instead of emphasising my role in the creation process, you emphasised the isness - that all simply is - and I am part of the all.
just a part?
well yes - unless you feel that I am you.
no, I feel that I'm separate - but I like to imagine that you're in me and I'm a part of you.
then so be it. whatever you imagine is always... you know what I'm getting at. I don't want to stray too far from what you just said, so as regards me being a part - consider me the essence. everything is derived from the essence. every table is recognisable as table, every lion as lion every mouse as mouse because they all grow from their essence. should the lion, the mouse, the table or you choose to reconnect with me - reality is a two way mirror - you are free to do so by looking inwards, by feeling my presence in your essence. feeling it is knowing and knowing is experiencing... it helps you to feel one with me, and also one with yourself, your life, your purpose - and all of creation. in doing so you become that which I am.
no, surely not! how on earth could I become what you are? that's preposterous.
yes, isn't it just - but you know - speaking as god - I love the preposterous. I can't think of anything else I'd rather be. give me the preposterous any day.
but how can a limited being like me become what you are? it's inconceivable.
yes, you've hit the nail on the head - it's certainly inconceivable as long as you consider it preposterous, but as soon as you're willing to accept my logic then it makes perfect sense - no matter how.
go on, if you would.
well, as soon as you allow yourself to sense what you truly are, you cease to be what you are not.
how so?
because what you are not is weak and meaningless compared to what you truly are. so tuning into your isness, your true nature, you lose your fascination for what you are not - and you revert to your natural state - your true nature.
and that's it?
yep, more or less. reverting to your true nature you are more or less instantaneously one with all that is. it's a kind of chain reaction. everything clicks back into place.
is that what they call enlightenment.
kind of, but no. enlightenment is what the remainder see.
what do you mean?
well, when someone becomes what I am, this immediately extends throughout the whole of creation, reconnecting everyone and everything together in a single unity, a single body, an isness of be.
and?
the remainder - the individuals who haven't yet made the connection are given a kind of hologram to fill the gap - to avoid losing their version of reality.
you mean that the whole of creation collapses when I become what you are?
either collapses, or comes together - essentially the entire universe becomes your body as it always was - just you weren't aware of it. now, in order to avoid disruption - your place down below in the hurly burly is filled with a zero, as in maths when you add two numbers together. the zero is needed to prevent space and time collapsing for the remainder - to keep the sum in place.
so I'm substituted by zero because I become whole or complete.
yes - because you become 1, and your zero fills the gap reflecting what you'd naturally do in any given situation.
ok, I can just about handle the mathematics. but still, doesn't it seem terribly presumptuous of me to aspire to be what you are?
for the son to aspire to be what his father is, for the daughter to be what her mother is? on the contrary - it seems quite natural.
but these are just figurative terms.
they are? you could have fooled me.
we're not really your children - we already have our biological parents.
yes - and they have their parents in an endless spiral, and yet, unless you are quite literally my son or daughter, and I am quite literally your father or mother, you are no one or no thing. that's all there is to it.
but why?
because that is the nature of creation. I did not create the rules. I had no need. the rules flow naturally like a golden harmony.
a golden harmony. I like that. but surely you created everything - including the rules.
I had no need. I do as I do. when children are playing it happens naturally. when people start dancing - it's quite natural. when animals rut and mate - likewise. there is such a thing as nature - and it is wonderful. you don't need to fear it or hate it just because it seems to exist independent of what I am - for ultimately all is one. but in order to appreciate this you need to let go of your proud and stubborn insistence that you're not really what I am. you may like to think it's humility, but if you look a little deeper it's because you tried to carve out a niche for yourself that you can call your own - however small - a niche of your own uniqueness and individualism. that uniqueness and individualism which you are secretly so attached to will give you no rest, no peace, no joy, because you had to push yourself off centre in order to achieve it. defending it you are cutting your nose to spite your face and, without realising it, preventing yourself from being what I am.
oh. I never saw it that way.
no - you made sure you never saw it that way by never looking at it. but now you're ready to face the truth, and it's not going to destroy you, so dance with it, play with it, be gay and merry with it, callooh callay with it and chortle in your joy.
no worries Miles.
oh wow - how did you do that?
do whAt?
capitalise the m in miles.
oh You know - one of the perks of the job.
so that's how you see it, is it - a job?
well it's a job like any other. it has its ups and downs but I can't complain - I chose it after all and there's no other job I'd rather be doing right now.
you mean you can change jobs if you feel like it?
of course I can. ultimately we are all free to choose.
but if you decide you want to change - who takes over?
I have no idea. I haven't got round to changing yet.
but doesn't that bother you - not knowing the procedure - not knowing if you can just quit without causing havoc.
not in the least.
but why not? surely you care...
care about what?
about your work.
yes, of course I do, but I don't care about the future because I know it has nothing to do with me, and I don't care about what might happen because I know that things have an uncanny knack of working out for the best.
they do?
sure they do.
but supposing you quit and the universe just collapsed into chaos.
it's not unreasonable to suppose that might happen. I do seem to play a fairly major role in keeping things going.
well there you go - doesn't it bother you that your good work might not be preserved.
no, Miles. it bothers you, and I know why, but I don't think it's my job to tell you the reason. half the fun of being alive is working things out for yourself. now, if instead of wondering why I don't see things the way you do, you could direct your energies to allowing yourself to see things the way I do, you and your readers would get more from this conversation.
yes, but how can we? that would put us on a par with god.
well, you have the choice - either to rise to the occasion and put yourself on a par with me, or to insist on dragging me down to the level that you currently think at - no disrespect intended. you see, if instead of wondering why I don't think the way you do, you allow yourself to start seeing how I see and thinking as I think, you'll get a fresh perspective. it doesn't mean you can't go back to seeing and thinking the usual way after this conversation - but give yourself a break from the usual routine - try visiting my perspective. travel broadens the mind.
ok god - thanks for the invitation. I always assumed it was wrong to presume to put myself in your shoes.
and why would that be? children always try to emulate their parents, to be like them, talk like them, walk like them, think and act like them. it doesn't stop them from being children but it does help their development.
ok, point taken. well, being god you know that whatever you do will be for the highest good - so if you decide to quit your job as god of this universe, either someone else will replace you, or this universe is no longer required and can fold itself back into the cosmic void.
oh how refreshing to hear you thinking like me. say a little more, if you would, I think I'm learning something.
and being god you don't have our human hang ups about death and destruction. you see the whole picture and that nothing is truly created or destroyed - so whatever happens is only really happening from a limited human perspective. fundamentally all is one - even the universe and humanity.
wow. the "nothing is created or destroyed" that you said - doesn't that fly in the face of what you guys say about me creating the universe.
it does rather. I don't know why I said it. it must be wrong.
don't be so hasty. you spoke your truth and you did so in my presence, so it's technically impossible for you to be wrong.
it is?
yes - which means that there must be truth in what you said. so, although I'm referred to as "the creator" as indeed I am, from another perspective indeed you are right - nothing is created or destroyed - everything is as I am - for we are two sides of one coin - two aspects of that which cannot be described.
but surely not.
surely not what?
oh, it's so complicated.
then allow it to be simple.
well, how?
you already did. you spoke your mind without thinking too hard, and what you said was what you needed to hear at that moment. instead of emphasising my role in the creation process, you emphasised the isness - that all simply is - and I am part of the all.
just a part?
well yes - unless you feel that I am you.
no, I feel that I'm separate - but I like to imagine that you're in me and I'm a part of you.
then so be it. whatever you imagine is always... you know what I'm getting at. I don't want to stray too far from what you just said, so as regards me being a part - consider me the essence. everything is derived from the essence. every table is recognisable as table, every lion as lion every mouse as mouse because they all grow from their essence. should the lion, the mouse, the table or you choose to reconnect with me - reality is a two way mirror - you are free to do so by looking inwards, by feeling my presence in your essence. feeling it is knowing and knowing is experiencing... it helps you to feel one with me, and also one with yourself, your life, your purpose - and all of creation. in doing so you become that which I am.
no, surely not! how on earth could I become what you are? that's preposterous.
yes, isn't it just - but you know - speaking as god - I love the preposterous. I can't think of anything else I'd rather be. give me the preposterous any day.
but how can a limited being like me become what you are? it's inconceivable.
yes, you've hit the nail on the head - it's certainly inconceivable as long as you consider it preposterous, but as soon as you're willing to accept my logic then it makes perfect sense - no matter how.
go on, if you would.
well, as soon as you allow yourself to sense what you truly are, you cease to be what you are not.
how so?
because what you are not is weak and meaningless compared to what you truly are. so tuning into your isness, your true nature, you lose your fascination for what you are not - and you revert to your natural state - your true nature.
and that's it?
yep, more or less. reverting to your true nature you are more or less instantaneously one with all that is. it's a kind of chain reaction. everything clicks back into place.
is that what they call enlightenment.
kind of, but no. enlightenment is what the remainder see.
what do you mean?
well, when someone becomes what I am, this immediately extends throughout the whole of creation, reconnecting everyone and everything together in a single unity, a single body, an isness of be.
and?
the remainder - the individuals who haven't yet made the connection are given a kind of hologram to fill the gap - to avoid losing their version of reality.
you mean that the whole of creation collapses when I become what you are?
either collapses, or comes together - essentially the entire universe becomes your body as it always was - just you weren't aware of it. now, in order to avoid disruption - your place down below in the hurly burly is filled with a zero, as in maths when you add two numbers together. the zero is needed to prevent space and time collapsing for the remainder - to keep the sum in place.
so I'm substituted by zero because I become whole or complete.
yes - because you become 1, and your zero fills the gap reflecting what you'd naturally do in any given situation.
ok, I can just about handle the mathematics. but still, doesn't it seem terribly presumptuous of me to aspire to be what you are?
for the son to aspire to be what his father is, for the daughter to be what her mother is? on the contrary - it seems quite natural.
but these are just figurative terms.
they are? you could have fooled me.
we're not really your children - we already have our biological parents.
yes - and they have their parents in an endless spiral, and yet, unless you are quite literally my son or daughter, and I am quite literally your father or mother, you are no one or no thing. that's all there is to it.
but why?
because that is the nature of creation. I did not create the rules. I had no need. the rules flow naturally like a golden harmony.
a golden harmony. I like that. but surely you created everything - including the rules.
I had no need. I do as I do. when children are playing it happens naturally. when people start dancing - it's quite natural. when animals rut and mate - likewise. there is such a thing as nature - and it is wonderful. you don't need to fear it or hate it just because it seems to exist independent of what I am - for ultimately all is one. but in order to appreciate this you need to let go of your proud and stubborn insistence that you're not really what I am. you may like to think it's humility, but if you look a little deeper it's because you tried to carve out a niche for yourself that you can call your own - however small - a niche of your own uniqueness and individualism. that uniqueness and individualism which you are secretly so attached to will give you no rest, no peace, no joy, because you had to push yourself off centre in order to achieve it. defending it you are cutting your nose to spite your face and, without realising it, preventing yourself from being what I am.
oh. I never saw it that way.
no - you made sure you never saw it that way by never looking at it. but now you're ready to face the truth, and it's not going to destroy you, so dance with it, play with it, be gay and merry with it, callooh callay with it and chortle in your joy.
