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I Believe That We Are All God
(Or, "God Is Who You Are")
I believe that we can all
experience our very own
"Conversations with God."
I believe that we can all
experience our very own
"Friendship with God."
I believe that we can all
experience our very own
"Communion with God."
I believe that we can all live
our very own experience of
"The New Revelations."
I believe that we can all live
our very own experience of
"Tomorrow's God."
I believe that we can all live
our very own experience of
"What God Wants."
I believe that we can all live
our very own experience of
being at "Home With God."
Thus, I believe that we are
all God—because God is who
I am and God is who you are.
-Paul Whiting
(a.k.a., Poet, Artist and Philosopher)
"I am the poet who thinks that he knows it!"
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My Writing About How We Can All Experience Our Very Own 'Conversation With God': I believe that we can all experience our very own "Conversations with God." I believe that we can all experience our very own "Friendship with God." I believe that we can all experience our very own "Communion with God." I believe that we can all live our very own experience of "The New Revelations." I believe that we can all live our very own experience of "Tomorrow's God." I believe that we can all live our very own experience of "What God Wants." I believe that we can all live our very own experience of being at "Home With God." Thus, I believe that we are all God—because God is who I am and God is who you are. –Paul Whiting (written August 24th, 2016 and revised October 16th, 2022)
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My Philosophical Notes:
The reason that I wrote this poem can be summed up with the following statement: I am rereading the "Conversations with God" series of books [which I reread from just shortly after June 5th, 2016 to exactly September 12th, 2016]... And I was rereading "Tomorrow's God: Our Greatest Spiritual Challenge," when I read the quote below on pages 206 to 208, which inspired me to write the poem above:
"So the New Spirituality is not just turning of the Conversations with God books into a 'new religion.'
"It is anything and everything BUT that. If that's what it was, I would tell you to burn those books and forget them forever. These books have great value—but only as the individual experience of one human being. Taken in that context, their value in inestimable. Turned into the 'official text' or the 'sacred source' of some new form of spiritual expression, they could be dangerous. And so could you.
"I have not intention of becoming dangerous.
"Then you will make it clear wherever you go that the experience you have had, everyone can have, and many have had. You will cause the world to understand that everyone is having 'conversations with God' all the time, and that the question is not To whom does God talk? but Who listens? You will resist every temptation to allow others to place you, or the material you have brought through, into some kind of special category, or to call you or it the 'source' of their spiritual path.
"Believe me, I will resist that. I have been, and I will continue to.
"Good. Because nothing will kill the New Spirituality faster than the idea or impression that it is coming from One Individual Human Source. It IS coming from One Source, but not from one INDIVIDUAL HUMAN source. It is coming from the Single Source that flows through all humans—and indeed, through all of life—everywhere. Because this is true, it will not look exactly the same from person to person. As it emanates through each individual Life Form and is expressed by that Form, it will contain the specific reflection of that Form. It may look and sound and feel very similar, but it will never look and sound and feel identical. If it does, beware. That is a sure sign that dogma has been created.
"I am always reminded that 'dogma' spelled backward is 'am god.' When people get things backward, that's what can happen. They begin to make their dogma their god. Yet it is not dogma which is god, but every living thing.
"Be on guard, then, lest others turn this writing or any other message into dogma—and then that dogma into their god. Look no to one source, but to all sources, and even to all of life, for your definition and experience of the Divine. Reject nothing, but also include everything. Do not say that the truth is exclusively 'here' of exclusively 'there,' but, rather, that the truth is 'neither here nor there,' but every where. It is in the Qur'an and it is in the Upanishads. It is in the Bhagavad Gita, and it is in the Bible. It is in the portions of the Bible called the Torah and called the Psalms and called the New Testament. It is in the Book of Mormon and the Book of Hidden Words. Yet know this: It is found in Whole nowhere, and in Part everywhere. All of those sources, taken singularly, contain incomplete understandings. Therefore, entreat those who would live the New Spirituality to consider every book sacred and every messenger holy, even as they, themselves, are holy, and as the living of their own lives writes the book of their most sacred truth. Remember that always. The living of your own life writes the book of you most sacred truth, and offers evidence of it."
And this poem was formerly published on my "Three Dark Horses" and "Small All White in the Forest" blogs, but I decided to only publish "The 'Conversations with God' books-Inspired Posts" on my "Poet, Artist and Philosopher" blog, because these posts are more about philosophy and so is this blog.
Thus, this poem was only published on my "Poet, Artist and Philosopher" blog.
This poem was written in Portland, Oregon.
-Paulee
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"Conversations with God" from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia—which is funded primarily through donations from millions of individuals around the world, including this blogger (I make a totally affordable monthly donation):
"Conversations with God (CwG) is a sequence of books written by Neale Donald Walsch. It was written as a dialogue in which Walsch asks questions and God answers. The first book of the Conversations with God series, Conversations with God, Book 1: An Uncommon Dialogue, was published in 1995 and became a publishing phenomenon, staying on the New York Times Best-Sellers List for 137 weeks. The succeeding volumes in the nine book series also appeared prominently on the List.
In an interview with Larry King, Walsch described the inception of the books as follows: at a low period in his life, Walsch wrote an angry letter to God asking questions about why his life wasn't working. After writing down all of his questions, he heard a voice over his right shoulder say: 'Do you really want an answer to all these questions or are you just venting?' Though when he turned around he saw no one there, Walsch felt answers to his questions filling his mind and decided to write them down. The ensuing dialogue became the Conversations with God books. When asked in a recent interview how does he 'open up' to God these days, Neale stated 'I am reaching out to touch others with this information. When I reach out and touch others with this information I reconnect immediately with the divine presence.'"
CwG's basic messages:
"In Friendship with God, Walsch writes that God presents four concepts which are central to the entire dialogue:
1. We are all one.
2. There's enough.
3. There's nothing we have to do.
4. Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way.
Existence is essentially non dual in nature. At the highest level there is no separation between anything and there is only one of us; there is only God, and everything is God. The second statement, following from the first, means that we, in this seeming existence, lack nothing and if we choose to realize it, we have enough of whatever we think we need (or the means to create it) within us. The third statement combines the first two to conclude that God, being all there is and is thus always sufficient unto Itself, has no need of anything and therefore has no requirements of humanity. The final concept puts an end to our need to always be right. Given that we have and are everything, and there's nothing we have to do, there are an infinite number of ways to experience this, not just the one way we may have chosen so far..."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversations_with_God
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This "Poet, Artist and Philosopher" Post No. 133 was edited on April 15th, 2024.
"Poetry is using the fewest words possible in order to describe all that is possible to describe." –Paul Whiting [June 1st, 2022]
