There are four steps to your enlightenment of your at-one-ment, or Self-Consciousness Unity with Omnipresence
One – The sacrifice of whatever you hold most dear in this Earthly life you are experiencing.
Two – The cleansing of any impurities of your body and mind.
Three – The eating and drinking of only pure thoughts and pure foods. Not going back to the unclean things.
Four – Your Atonement – your existential experience of your oneness with the Universal Self, the Omnipresence of God.
The first step is the sacrifice of whatever you hold most dear in this life other than your relationship with the Omnipresent Spirit you call God.. Be it mother, father, brother, sister, son, daughter, dog, cat, hair, even what you think is life itself – your physical body.
This is the most visceral sacrifice you can imaging. Visceral meaning as close as the blood of your body coursing through your veins.
This does not mean that you HAVE to sacrifice what is most dear to you. This just means that you must be willing to sacrifice what is most dear to you.
One example is the story of Abraham being told by God that he must kill his most beloved son in order to prove he did not love his son more than he loved God. With a heavy heart, he led his son onto a mountain, tied him to a sacrificial alter and raised his hand with a dagger in it to kill his son. I am sure his eyes were flowing with tears at that moment. Right as he was going to kill his son, an angel of God stopped him and told him that he was not to harm his son. God just wanted to know that he truly loved God more than his son.
Another example is the story of Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane when Jesus was struggling with the desire of god that he willingly give up his earthly life and die on the cross. Jesus is written to have had the power to heal the sick and the maimed. He is written to have had the power to raise the dead. He is written to have had the power to change water into wine. He is written to have the power to calm the “angry” sea. Even when he was arrested, he had the power to put the ear back on of the arresting soldiers when one of the followers of Jesus raised his sword and cut it off.
He had all this power and yet God was asking him to willingly submit to being arrested, tortured and be killed by being nailed on a cross. This was really asking a lot of him. However, he showed what true commitment to the will of God means. He showed that he did not put any of the powers and gifts God had given him in front of his love of God. He is written to have said, “God, if you are willing, take this cup from me. However, if it is your will, then it is your will, not my will, but your will that will be done.” “I will do whatever you desire and I will do it wherever you desire I do it.”
We also have to be willing to sacrifice even our earthly life for the Glory of God. This does not mean that we HAVE to sacrifice our life – We just have to be willing to do it. Be careful however, because once we say we are willing to sacrifice all we hold dear to us for the Glory of God, you have made a date with Lucifer, God’s purity tester. When you least expect it, desire it or want it, Lucifer will definitely come and pay you a visit. Lucifer will say, “Oh Yeah? What about this? What about that? Are you truly willing to sacrifice it for the glory of God?” ‘Let’s see what we shall see.’
This is one time that the second step might help us in achieving the first step. This is because most of our attachments to what we call the physical are mental, sexual and food related.
The second step is the cleansing of any impurities of your body and mind. For you, the spirit, to truly see and hear the voice and will of god, your vehicle of perception, your body, needs to be a clean vehicle of spiritual communication.
This is accomplished through prayer and fasting. Fasting to cleanse the years and years of bad foods you have eaten from your body. Prayer to let go of the old dirty mental habits that are clouding your clear perception of spiritual communications of the Universal Spirit.
The third step is the eating and drinking of only pure thoughts and pure foods.
Once you have cleansed, have purified your vehicle of perception, your mind and your body of unclean thoughts and substances, then you must not going back to the unclean things. You must continually feed your mind and your body with thoughts and foods that will glorify the Divine Omnipresent reality of God. You must be motivated by the all-consuming hunger and thirst for Knowledge of the Will of God and the awareness of how to express God’s Will at each and every moment of your existence.
The fourth step is your actual Atonement, your actual experience of your Oneness with the Universal Self and the Omnipresence of God.
The time frame for achieving your Atonement is as different for different spirit-humans as there are, ever was and ever will be, different spirit-humans.
However, once you have sacrificed, fasted, prayed and walked the path of spiritual purity for a while, the time will come when you will cross the threshold of what seems to divide the finite from the Infinite. You will not even be aware that the next moment will be your At-One-Ment experience. You will all of a sudden find yourself experiencing what some religions have called Atonement, Enlightenment, Samadhi, Satori, the Christ Consciousness, or any of many other names for the same experience - Your self-realization of your Oneness with the Universal Self.
Whatever you wish to call it, your at-one-ment experience is your realization of the non-dualistic nature of Omnipresence. It is a state of awareness in which you become aware of your oneness with the Universal Self as though you just woke up from sleeping and you awakened into being the consciousness of God looking through you - as you. You are, at that moment of your at-one-ment, aware that you are truly the ONE BEING, who is EXISTING THROUGH you, BEING you, AS you. AT THE SAME MOMENT, you are aware of BEING the one, who is being lived through, by the BEING who is living through all that are BEING lived through.
Another way to understand your relationship with God is to think of you as Being the Middle, the Interface, between God Infinite and God Finite, God the Source and Manifested God the Flesh. Sort of like you have your arms stretched straight out from each side of you. It is like the Energy of God, the Source, is coming into your body through your outstretched right arm and hand, traveling through the center of your body and the center of you, and leaving your body through your outstretched left arm and hand. The Energy of God comes in as energy and leaves as Light.
We are like electrical wires and God is the electrical current flowing though us. We are intelligent electrical wires that can influence the direction of the electricity as it leaves us.
We are like a fire hose directing water from the fire hydrant to whatever place God desires the water to go. The difference is we do not need the fireman because we are an intelligent hose that can influence the direction the water is going when it leaves us.
The wires and the hose mentioned in the paragraph above are part of the Universal Body of God, therefore God is the essence of the wires and the hose that we are.
That is about the closest I can come, right now, to explaining the NON-DUALISTIC DUALITY of the Eternal Nature of our BEINGNESS.
If you are totally confused with the above two paragraphs, then let me remind you that words can never fully express the nature of God. They will lead you to the doorway of the Infinite. However, to cross the threshold of the doorway of the Infinite to experience your Oneness with God, words, by their very nature of being by-products and tools of consciousness, cannot enter with you. All words, thoughts and ideas must be left, dropped, and released at the doorway, without any thought that they are even being released. It will be as if words never existed in the first place. If you are “thinking” about Oneness, then you are not experiencing the Oneness. You are either one in consciousness with the Universal Self or you are not. Words are by-products of consciousness, they are not consciousness.
Once, when I was living this atonement experience, I remember that the moment I said to myself, “This is incredible. I must check this out more”, that the experience went away like it had never been real. But when I was living it, it was more real than anything around me seems to be real as I write these words. When I lived it, I was the experience. As soon as I thought about it, the experience would disappear. It has always been the same. I live the experience. After living it, I have a memory of an experience so incredible that it still almost takes my breath away to think about it.
The Atonement is the Realization of the Universal Self as Your Self.
You are the middle of God Infinite and God Finite
The Universal Self – the Oneness of US.
The Union of God and You
