It's me, mike hillebrecht

Over the course of the next few weeks/months, I am going to be running an experiment with technology. I have been using AI to write music for a few months now and you can find a number of songs I’ve produced on the Grace-filled Music page. I’ve found this type of work rewarding in the sense that it is very difficult to capture in current music streams the fullness of truth which can come forth with lyrics that are focused on the goal ahead rather than the path already traveled.

What this project is going to entail is having AI assist me writing my next series of postings. Now some might consider this to be a futile attempt not to dig deep and do the work for myself. They may even feel that the product will be cheapened and not be “Spiritual” or “Biblical” enough. Everyone is entitled to an opinion and theirs doesn’t concern me – as usual.

The Model

To build this experiment properly I had the AI model evaluate all of my writings on this site for content, theme, structure, and style. This will form the appearance of each posting so that they can keep in alignment with my previous work.
Next, I fed it a sampling list of my personal reading and musical library. A cross section of over 250 books and over 60 albums gave the AI model an ability to determine what my preferences are in terms of categories and genres. These were then analyzed to develop a personality profile which is coupled with the assessment of the writing from this site.

The experiment will be to see just how well AI will be able to capture the essence of what I am attempting to put across to people who are on this spiritual journey. Ultimately, I am the final judge of what is put forth here and I will not lower the standard for content that doesn’t align with what I believe. To that end, AI has to pass all content through a model that clearly establishes what I believe. If it doesn’t align, it doesn’t appear.

One thing you will notice with these postings will be a better use of reference material. When you read as much as I do and subsequently write about some of the findings which have been uncovered, it becomes difficult to reference a past posting or a book title. So, I’ve instructed the AI model to insert more of these references first, to keep it true to the prior content and second, use the book list sampling as a tool for your personal discovery.

As this experiment runs its course, I hope that the prior postings will be remixed into newer content which creates a fresh revelation for each of us. I hope that you’ll stick around and see how this unfolds. I will keep you updated on new developments as they arise. I’m not yet certain how long this will take, but I will be faithfully working behind the scenes to assure all you tin-foil-hat folks that the end of the world will not come on my watch here.

So, as my favorite hero Buzz Lightyear is known to say, “To Infinity and beyond!”

At some point in your life, you are going to ask this question. It is possible that you’re going to ask it many times throughout your life. In each instance you will look at all that you have accomplished and endured and probably come up with an answer which is wholly based upon…you!

Many of you might think, “Well who else am I supposed to be if not me?” Don’t get me wrong here, you are exactly the one, however, your mindset might not be even aware of ONE as much as it’s focused on the Many. No, I’m not claiming how it’s possible that you may be suffering from a split personality disorder either. What I am saying is that your definition of who you are is tied to others, and how you interact with, and do for them.

What do you do when…

Case in point: I am a teacher. If there were no other person on this planet, would I be able to make this claim? Obviously not. The same can be said about any identity which is derived from any profession. This even applies to every parent who suddenly discovers how their identity as a father or mother radically changes once the last child has left the nest.

It’s interesting how when you attend a social gathering where there are new people who you have never met before, one of the first things they ask you after the introduction is, “What do you do?” This idea that “doing” somehow determines our identity permeates our entire social structure. Garbage men are not deemed highly success oriented in many social circles, but if they don’t pick up one day, their importance becomes very apparent.

Education also seems to be a priority in claiming an identity. We boast about graduating from some institution of higher learning with varying degrees awarded for our patronage. The hope is that we’ll be able to take the years of learning and implement them into a profession where we can move from an identity of student to a… Reality often crushes these hopes when the demand for repayment of loans to pay for the education force our identity to be lowered below our expectation.

You are who you hang with

The most insidious marker for identity is the beliefs of other people. Conformity to the masses is fraught with sudden shifts and nuances from a very early age in this life. Clothing styles, hair color and/or length, gender, speech patterns, dietary restrictions, scholastic performances, and a cavalcade of peer pressures wreck the identity of children more than build it up. Many find the pressure to great and prematurely end their lives, while others seclude themselves in their thoughts and disappear from sight contently staying on the fringes of society.

All of these items, and many more which I haven’t even touched upon, drive the quest for our identity, but they don’t truly answer it. If I ask most people who come from a western religious background who they are, the response typically is the mimic of some preacher from their past, “I’m a child of God.” While this “might” be a truthful response, there is always a bit of hesitation in its delivery possibly from a gut check to determine if what they are about to claim is a reality in their daily life.

Okay. Yes, I said “might.” The question, if you’re willing to ask it, is whether or not their response is merely a mimic from peer pressure or a revelation they have had. Chances are quite high that peer pressure has more to do with belief in a church environment than a personal revelation. The reason for this has more to do with intention than with a daily bible devotion and twice a week services.

Depth not breadth

Who am I? First, I am not anything which can be identified with this earth. This goes all the way down to even being called “mortal,” which means “being subject to death.” Immediately, that claim is going to cause many of you to buckle. You look around yourself, even within your own family, and this claim is blatantly false, right? Consider this: Do trees die in the autumn and winter of their lives? Is it possible what we think of as “death” of the body is only the winter display of an inner truth we can’t comprehend?

Who am I if I am not of this earth? I am a soul. “Child of God” people have trouble with this simply because most have been taught that our soul is corrupted. Actually, that teaching is corrupt. Our souls were placed inside a mortal shell by God. They are incorruptible and eternal, incapable of death. When the last mortal breath is offered, the soul returns to its point of origin – God.

When dealing with the religious class of his day, Jesus had to remind them of what their scriptures said when David claimed, “…You are gods.” The religious leaders were bent out of shape by what Jesus was proclaiming and accused him of claiming that He was God. Jesus’ rebuttal has opened up a portal, even up to this day, which the clergy will not accept and keep locked away from the congregation as a whole. You are gods!

Your soul came directly from the ground of all creation, God. Each soul is a fractal of God. Just as a drop of water from the ocean is the still the ocean, our soul, our identity, is God. No, we are not God, but our soul possesses all the attributes of God as His representative in this mortal shell within His creation.

There is a popular Christian song by Casting Crowns entitled, “Who am I.” Many years ago, when I first heard it, I could readily identify with the lyrics like millions of other believers could. It glorifies God’s magnificence and humbly asks who I am compared to such a being. The final lines of the song repeat the phrase,” I am yours.” Today, after revelation has poured out on my journey, I sing the last phrases as “I am you.”

Some of you will find this subject difficult to grasp. However, it does not negate its Truth. You will need to receive the revelation yourself and this only will come as you hold this before you in silent meditation. You will need to go within to see what you have been living without. You don’t need to make a big spectacle of this. Just be still and know He is God and you…

Allow this song be a reminder of your journey.

I Am Who I Am

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In my last posting I unpacked what it means to declare something to be before ”the foundations of the world.” I clearly defined that the term “world” in this matter represents one or two possible worlds: the world created by God, or the world created by humanity. Furthermore, I established how grace, when understood from the viewpoint of the world established by Cain, the first person to create a city, is grace which is founded on a sacred/judicial basis which minimizes the pleas of the victim over the sentence of the guilty. I declared this to be Killer Grace, a construct of humanity, not of God.

In that post I wrote the following:

Okay, what is Abel crying out for? He is the victim. Recognize that any answer you’re about to give has to be placed next to the comment which Paul made declaring how the blood of Jesus speaks greater than the blood of Abel. Both victims, both have blood spilled before the foundations of the “world,” both are crying out for us to hear…

We have no clue what Abel’s blood is crying out about. Almost anyone you talk to about this incident will claim that he was crying out for vengeance, restitution for the unprovoked taking of his life. They make this claim because our entire Judeo/Christian world of justice is founded on the concept of an “eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth.” Restitution is exacted from the guilty to compensate for the loss to the victim – even to the point of death of the guilty.

The Greater is Calling

Now we need to look at just what Paul was referring to when he claimed how the blood of Jesus speaks greater than Able. Jesus, too, was a victim, unjustly killed for political reasons. If you think otherwise, then you have been drinking the Kool-Aid of the deluded religious fanatics who shall remain nameless.

Unlike Abel, we have a number of clues of what the blood of Jesus speaks. The first clue can be found right at the cross when Jesus cries out, “Father forgive them, for they know not what they do.” Another clue occurs with the woman caught in the act of adultery. After Jesus has dispersed the crowd by telling them that only the person who is without sin can throw a rock at her, which leaves her with no accusers, Jesus looks at here and state, “I find nothing in you.” Clearly there are many clues, but the grandest of them all is the entire story of the prodigal son.

With just these clues we can deduce how the greater things that his blood speaks about is forgiveness, blamelessness, and restoration. These attributes are what kingdom grace looks like simply because in the Kingdom of God grace is the active power of His love.

Bewilderment at Victims

I don’t typically like to bring current events into this arena, but a recent episode is a prime example of Kingdom grace in action. The assassination of Charlie Kirk has shocked the world in many ways, both in the very act, but also in the diverse and ofttimes radical responses of so many. I have no comments to offer about any of these. My focus here is simply on the actions of his family which bewildered so many people.

It is clear that Charlie’s wife and children are victims in this drama. Yet, it was his wife who demonstrated, for the whole world to see, what Kingdom grace is like when she forgave the individual who took her husband’s life. At the memorial service for Charlie, this is what Erika Kirk said:

“My husband Charlie he wanted to save young men, just like the one who took his life…On the cross, our savior said, ‘Father, forgive them, for they not know what they do.’ That young man. I forgive him.”

While many who claim to be “believers” applauded her words and actions, it still caused a swirling ripple throughout the rest of the world. “How could she do such a thing?” was the most often asked question. When pressed as to why such a response was made about her actions, it became clear that the raw severity of the act placed upon the hearts of these people dealt a choice to either act in accordance with their familiar world dictated by restitution or be forced to recognize a higher power at work. For many, they still have not been able to come to terms with her actions.

Well, There You Go

There is a saying which goes, “There I go but by the grace of God.” There a some who adopt this as their final push into an area in their life where their own actions were unable to produce the results they were looking for. In essence, life is now a crapshoot, and God only knows the results. Unfortunately, these people never heard what Albert Einstein said on the subject, “God doesn’t play with dice.”

Our comings and goings are purely the grace of God. It is the activating force of His Love, His character. It is not ranked on a numerical hierarchy simply because there is no higher number in the Kingdom of God than one. It is never an afterthought simply because the entirety of the Kingdom operates NOW, hence there is no after. When you declare God IS, Grace IS too. But also, forgiveness IS, blamelessness IS, and restoration IS. This is a world you know not of even though it is the world you originated from. It just might be time to consider a homecoming.

Hopefully the following song will pique your interest in making that homecoming journey.

True Home in God

Grace has been with us from the “foundations of the world.“ What does that phrase “foundations of the world” mean to you? I recognize how many might take this question as being too simple, however, there is much to be considered in the simplest of matters.

To most people this phrase signifies the creation event described in Genesis 1 where out of God’s will, He expressed His desire to create ALL through the power of His voice. The question you need to ask yourself then becomes this: In this moment of creation, where, or how, is grace displayed? Go ahead, think about it? If you have difficulties come up with an answer it might be because your “foundation” is off.

I am going to continue exploring this but allow me to ask you a question. What does Paul mean when he says that we, “…are in the world, but not of the world…”? Does he mean that we are in creation but not of creation? Of course not, since this would be a ridiculous claim. We all understand that he means we are not of this worldly mindset, right? Right?

So then, Paul gives us an insight into the fact that there are actually two “worlds” being represented within the text of the bible. To claim something to be from the “foundations of the world” requires us as the reader to know which, if not both worlds, is being spoken about. So, let’s look at the foundation of Paul’s second world.

A World Apart

Cain made love to his wife, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Enoch. Cain was then building a city, and he named it after his son Enoch. Gen 4:17

This is the first record of the creation of a city in the bible. A city can be called “a world unto itself” and rightly so because those who inhabit it determine how it functions across a broad social stratosphere. To this end, we each live in a “world” outside of creation and this is the “world” which Paul is referencing to.

Let me ask you the same question from above: In this world (the one created by Cain in the form of a city), where, or how, is grace displayed? Most of you will find it difficult to answer this question too because you’ve never considered there even being another world, even one defined by a social structure.

Yet, you have lived the entirety of your life in this “world”, and it has openly defined what you believe grace is, what it looks like, how it operates and when is deserved. Regrettably, this is the lowest form of grace available to humanity and in many ways is more of a construct of the societal pressures in this world, than the divine measure of grace.

Let me call this type of grace what it truly is: Killer Grace. No, this is not a descriptive name of how awesome grace is but a factual representation of how this measure of grace functions throughout society. Allow me to explain.

Cain is one of the offspring of the man and women whose eyes were opened to the desires of their heart when they disobeyed the only commandment of creation. Cain, and his brother Abel, were the first farmer and rancher described in the bible. Farmer Cain killed his brother after an offering ceremony to God where the offering of Cain was not pleasing to the Lord.

When Cain is confronted by God about the whereabouts of Abel, and he denies know anything, the Lord tells him that the soil, that medium which allows you to grow and nourish your life, has the blood of Abel crying out for…

Okay, what is Abel crying out for? He is the victim. Recognize that any answer you’re about to give has to be placed next to the comment which Paul made declaring how the blood of Jesus speaks greater than the blood of Abel. Both victims, both have blood spilled before the foundations of the “world,” both are crying out for us to hear…

What Have You Done?

Let’s backup a moment. God asks Cain where his brother is, not why he did what he did. God knows what occurred. Yet it is Cain’s unwillingness to see the importance of familial relationships that exacts his punishment, which isn’t on him, but on the source of his identity – the soil. (There’s much more to unpack here, but that will have to be in another post.)

Grieved by the punishment he receives, Cain claims how he will die in the land by anyone who finds him. God rectifies this erroneous declaration by placing a “Do Not Disturb” sign upon him and issuing a curse upon anyone who takes Cain’s life. It is at this point where Genesis 4:17 kicks in.

We now come to where it’s time to look at what is the foundation to the world of Cain, and what Killer Grace looks like. Any city is a formation of many individuals who collectively adopt a system of governance to maintain peaceful constraints of the masses to insure prosperity. This is a basic description I acknowledge since it doesn’t include what or how restraint will be administrated or even who will be responsible for this administration.

Just the Facts, Mam…

Cain is a murderer. His punishment was placed upon the soil of not just a particular spot, but on all soil. He doesn’t need to worry if others will take his life because a greater punishment falls upon anyone who does kill him. Killer grace is fabricated on a false sense of justice. The guilty is reprieved by the judge to allow them to continue on their life while the victim is crying out for their justice in their pleas.

Cain’s shift of punishment to another who might take his life becomes a deterrent to future generations from repeating the same act believing there will be no repercussions. However, this only applied to Cain, not to a social structure as a whole. Grace in this world of Cain therefore becomes skewed to mean how much can I get away with to reduce or eliminate a just decision on my actions.

This form of grace isn’t concerned with the pleas of the victim since it recognizes how the victim is always demanding vengeance, an eye for an eye. Such restitution is prohibitive to peaceful restraint because it has the potential to turn the accused into a victim of the justice enacted. Grace then becomes more of a compromise with the harshness of judgment.

In order to keep grace from being touted as a compromise within the social order, it becomes sold as “divine grace” because it has a higher purpose, thereby elevating the judicial nature of the offense. Judges now become a component of a sacred institution acting not only on behalf of the community but of the shared gods in that community. Killer grace is therefore merely a perception of a higher good prevailing over a perception of evil.

Think about how you have been using grace throughout your life – even before you became “religious.” How much of it was focused from a judicial perspective, a reprieve from a lifetime sentence? How often were you at the receiving end of this form of grace or even the administrating end? How often were you the victim seeking grace as compensation for your injury? In either case, how often did you believe that what came about was divine grace? Killer, isn’t it?

If you got this far, you’re possibly wondering what then is true grace like. For the answer to this you’ll need to wait for the next posting. However, let this song give you some idea about what I’ve just spoken about and where we might be moving towards. This is called Reborn in Your Grace.

Reborn in Your Grace

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If you’ve been around the Western church franchise for any length of time you have probably heard the phrase, “…the dark night of the soul.” It is supposed to reflect the deep, intense longing for communion with the Divine during a time of perceived absence. These times are often when one is dealing with issues which are very overwhelming to the psyche.

I’m going to state this simply: This is a false statement.

To claim this as truth is to ignore what is the source of the soul and to ignore what darkness is really acting.

Beings of the Light

Let me start with this: You are, have always been, and will always be a child of the Light. The fourth gospel tells us that the darkness cannot comprehend the Light. This Light is encased within you; it is the spark which the Divine ignited in you and burns every moment of every day. We call this Light the Soul, the intimate connection, a fractal of the eternal God in a mortal shell.

Light is. Darkness is not. Enter a dark room, flip a switch, and darkness cannot comprehend what just happened. The Soul does not have a switch to turn itself on or off. It is always radiating The Light from the Source. You can’t turn off the sun, so why think you can do that to your Soul?

How Dark Are You?

This is going to mess with a lot of people’s theology but most, if not all, of the teachings within the Western church today are ego-driven. The egos of the “five-fold” ministry are feeding into the egos of the laity. You might disagree but the only darkness that can be claimed in the life of a believer is what they have accepted from “another” voice saying, “…this is what darkness is.”

You go to a leader and tell them how you’re experiencing a tremendous amount of pressure, and you’ve been seeking an answer from God but haven’t heard anything for weeks, if not months. Often this leader will claim that you’re possibly going through a “dark night of the soul.” You’ll be directed to stay the course, don’t lose your faith, it will soon be over.

This entire scenario is an exercise in ego management. First, your ego believes that it doesn’t have an ability to properly connect directly with the Divine, so it goes to an intermediary, whose ego has claimed them to be superior in just these types of matter. Since this intermediary does not possess the skills to guide you in how to connect with the Divine, they push away the pleas with some talk about how this is just the process of being a believer and everyone goes through it. Their ego is bolstered because you came to them in a time of need and reassurance and your ego is soothed knowing that others have endured this same trial and prevailed (somehow following the same method).

Understand this: Your ego is a survival mechanism of your mind. Don’t believe me? Consider this: in the midst of all the turmoil that you’re going through with everything and everyone bearing down on you, what is the worst thing that could happen? Some of you might say, “I could die!” So why not die? At least then you get to finally experience the heaven you’ve been singing about in church.

Now I recognize how this might seem a bit crass, even rude in some circles of influence. However, if you balk at this notion placed before you, could it be because you’re just trying to…survive? Your ego is not ready to give up. You think you can find some way to get over, across, through, or around this thing. Admit it: This is about YOU, not GOD!

Can you now see how the only part of you which has a dark night is your ego? Simply put, your ego doesn’t know it all, and any lack of knowledge is the darkness called ignorance, or incomprehension. The soul, on the other hand, has a direct connection with God who is all-knowing. Connect with your soul, God provides the answer. No delays like in the days of a dial-up internet connection.

The Remedy.

It’s my responsibility as a teacher to explain to you now what the ego-laden leaders can’t offer to you. Understand this: you are in a battle of your mind. No, this has nothing to do with the demonic. It has everything to do with what you’re focused upon. Your focus is on a continuum with distractions and chaos on the left, and peace that passes all understanding on the right. (Trust me, this is not a social/political observation.) You stand somewhere on this continuum, probably more left of center than in the middle.

Your Soul operates on the right side while your ego is trapped on the left. What you need to do is tap into your Soul, which is the easiest thing to do once you overcome the difficulties of allowing your ego to run your thoughts and mind. Welcome to the paradox of the spiritual life – being in this world, but not of it.

Your remedy is to meditate. Easy to say, difficult to do – in the beginning. It is a process, and you have to let the process do its work if you want to see results. Most people shy away from meditation because they have heard that you need to dedicate 20-30 minutes a day to it. Let’s face it, these days no one has that much time to devote to this. (In case you missed it, that claim is known as, “being in the world” and is dark-minded.)

Consider for moment, if you wanted to run a marathon, but have never even learned how to buy the proper shoes for such an endeavor, would you even consider running when your feet and ankles are all swelled up after running around the yard in that 15-year-old pair of tennis shoes you had stuck in a box in the back of your junk closet?

You’re a newbie. I get it. So, let’s start this off right. Your maximum meditation time to begin with is going to only be 60 seconds. Yup, one minute. You’re going to try on your mediation shoes. You’re going to get a feel for this and shortly you’ll get the nerve up to jog around a bit and maybe go for 90 seconds or two minutes. But for now, stick to the one-minute mark. Oh, yeah. Try doing this at least six times a day for your opening week. There are, however, some particulars you need to address.

The first thing you need is a quiet place to sit or stand. It can be a closet, your bedroom, heck, even the bathroom. You just need to keep the outside distractions away. Once you’ve found your quiet place, close your eyes, take a couple of deep breaths, and then…

Yeah, here is where the interior distractions kick in. Your mind is going to start racing with thoughts. The goal here is not to engage with the thought. Just let it pass by. When the next one comes by, rinse and repeat, over and over again. Yes, this is what is going to happen.

Most people can’t take this. They are so used to engaging with every thought they have that to disconnect from them is tantamount to abandoning their identity. Your thoughts are not who you are, your Soul is, and you’re trying to raise It on the intercom of silence.

Yes, SILENCE. There are far too many people, believers and nonbelievers alike, who have never experienced the phenomenon of interior silence. The Psalms states, “Be still and know that I am God.” This interior silence is where you will connect with your Soul and God. It won’t happen overnight. This, as I’ve stated, is a process. You have to learn how to quiet the inner thoughts and achieve inner silence.

This is what Jesus said is your, “…closet to pray in.” Don’t under any circumstance think that once you achieve this state that you can start talking to God in prayer! BE STILL! There is not one thing you can say or whine about that God did not know about before your got there. Just be still and listen. For 60 seconds, 90 seconds, 2 minutes, however long you need. If you get nothing but a sense of peace, you moved a little to the right. Do it again.

That’s it. Nothing hard or a multitude of steps to remember. All that is required of you is to keep doing it. If you forget to do it once or twice, it’s no big deal. Step right into where you left off.

Warning: This will change you. It won’t happen all at once, but over time there will come a distinct change that even those around you will notice. Realize that their darkness will have difficulty comprehending the light emanating from you. But it’s okay. What’s the worst thing that could happen?

Here is something to help you along the way:

Light of Silent Prayer

You can find more about this song here.

The journey of the spiritual life is one of revelation in who you truly are. Revelation is only valid when it smashes through the preconceptions of a deluded identity and forces us to accept a truth that has always been. Acceptance is not merely acknowledgement by the shaking of the head in agreement, but by the hard act of living the truth through actions.

In the beginnings of my writing on the subject of grace I was adamant in trying to find a way to get back to the original understanding of what the New Testament writers, particularly Paul, meant when they used the term “grace.” This meant finding out what the Greek word “charis” meant in all its various forms. There are plenty of writings herein, along with published books, I have made about what this means. In a nutshell, according to what I discovered throughout the original Greek writings which predate the biblical writings of the New Testament, “charis” boils down to reciprocal giving.

In later writings I became convinced that grace, as it was being offered in the writings of the apostles, is the activating power of God’s grace. This stemmed from an understanding of the principles of a kingdom and how it functions in relationship to the power of its throne. A throne of “grace” is an action of a divine being who IS love.

As my journey has expanded, my writings have become fewer due to difficulty of trying to put into words the unveiling which revelation presents. The importance of the clarity to Oneness with the Father, as described by Jesus, has led to many personal key insights which, when held up to the message the church has offered to the western world for two thousand years, can be and often has been declared heretical in nature. Attempting to blast through the calloused mindset of these past teachings is somewhat challenging since most people have adopted them as sacrosanct and cannot be challenged no matter who says differently – even Jesus!

So, with this as a foundation, what I am about to present is a clarification spurred on by a passage I recently read from a book entitled, “Liberating the Gospel from Christian Myth” by Michael Hardin. In this passage Michael speaks about the issue of charis falling under the banner of an “economy of exchange.” Whenever you place anything God has done in and through Jesus under this economic vehicle it defiles the truth of the gospel.

Consider the exchange we have all been indoctrinated in: God so loved the world that He gave… Do you see this giving as reciprocal? Charis, in its traditional rendering demands it of you. But what are we expected to give in return? This after all is a sacrifice of the highest order.

We have been taught that to meet such an exchange we must offer ourselves to God without reservation. He in turn will take our offering and…and what? This is the workings of what Michael calls the “Janus-faced God,” the pagan deity whose face was smiling on one side and scornful on the other. Under this god you never knew how he would look upon you or your actions. Regrettably, most of the Western teaching of the Father are directly employing just such a motif.

“I am God, there is no other,” is a most important passage to base your spiritual journey upon. Most reading this passage take the position that there are no other gods, which for starters is a good thing. However, “other” applies to ALL, not just a theological narrative. This is vital to our oneness. You can’t claim to be at one with the Father if “you” consider yourself to be “other.” There is no God and… There IS God, period. In oneness, there is no “you.”

That statement scares people. They have invested a lifetime believing in “themselves” and now in oneness, not only do they not exist, but they never have. All those therapy sessions dealing with “who am I and what is my purpose in the life” just went up in smoke. This is the delusion we have all been living. It is fostered by an ego that believes itself to be separate from God. Any such separation is merely a need to be “other” who knows how to function in this life according to its best interests. Those interests remarkably function on vast economies of exchange.

To fully embrace the nature of oneness with the Father, it demands knowing how the mortal shell seen in the mirror is not “you.” Within the interior of that shell resides a Soul which is truly, forever One with the Father. No exchange placed it there. The Soul is as God IS. When the mortal decays and expires, the Soul returns to the Father liberated from the confinement of the ego, whole and resplendent in the glory which has always possessed.

As the fullness of oneness reveals itself, suddenly comes the realization that there is no “other” who gives and takes. Exchanges which operate from a sense of lack disappear in the truth of abundance in the One who is ALL in ALL. Grace becomes the action of Love to those still living in the delusion of their ego who believe that they get only according to what they have giving. Sometimes the best answers and their revelation come when “you” finally give UP.