Don't Make God as Small As You

 Your consciousness is the highest thing there is.  It is God.

Michael A. Singer

To a great being, consciousness is everything. God is consciousness or "conscious energy", what the yogis refer to as "chit shakti." Consciousness, then, is omnipresent (everywhere), omnipotent (all-powerful ), and omniscient (all-knowing). Singer reminds us, in the below linked podcast, that there is just as much consciousness/God in your little finger as there is in the farthest galaxy, and it is all connected, all one. 

Narrowing the Focus to the Dot

We are pretty high beings in these tiny, finite forms with these tiny, insignificant psyches that we call "me".   Yet, instead of recognizing and living in our omnipresent, omnipotent and  omniscient nature...we take this powerful consciousness and narrow it down,  focus it down on these tiny little specks we call "me"with all their self made problems and dramas. We, as "me", are tiny little dots on a speck of dust, here for such a short time. We, as awareness,  get pulled down from the higher state of being that we are and become  so lost in the drama, we identify with it, we become it and fail to see all else. We fail to see who we are.

Getting Lost in the Objects of Consciousness

Now, it is taught that there is only one consciousness (God) but a multitude of objects of consciousness. When we are lost in this "me", we focus more on the objects than we do on consciousness itself.  Heck, we are not even aware of consciousness, for the most part, or our true nature.  We see ourselves as that nurse, or doctor, or teacher, or plumber, or patient, or student, or daughter, or father etc  gathering  people, things and experiences that we hope will make us feel good inside, and cursing at or pushing away people, things, or experiences we fear will make us feel bad inside. We spend most of our time, then, clinging to or  resisting what life is unfolding in front of us.  It is like we are in a tug of war contest clinging to one end of the rope as we are pulled forward a few feet  and then as we are able to pull back a few feet...It is exhausting and a challenging way to live.  Yet, all our attention goes to this tiny little insignificant "person" holding onto the rope. All of our attention goes to this object of consciousness and its struggles to hang on. 

Making God as Small as Us

In the midst of our struggle we may look for some relief, some reprieve...a way to "get what we want so we can win this tug of war with life" .  We look for salvation from God.  What we want this omnipresent, omnipotent, and omniscient God to do is come down into the mud with us and give us what we want so we, as these little  dots on this speck of dust (earth in the infinite universe), feel okay inside. We want God to contract and shrink down into a limited human version we can relate.  We have this need, from this "me" focus, to humanize the holy relationship. God then becomes a concept, a belief, an idea that suits the psyche, not the soul, not the consciousness we actually are. We limit God and we limit ourselves when we do that. This just increases our sense of suffering as we get farther and farther away from who we actually are.

The Other Alternative: Moving Up

We don't have to do this.  We do not need to limit  God or consciousness by pulling It down into these problematic selves.  We can instead move up to where God is. We can  lift our gazes up and away from the person holding the tug a war rope.  We can begin  the  process of Objective  Observation...seeing ourselves as the Witness...observing the psyche and the form struggling in this game it doesn't have to struggle in. We can begin to observe how distracted we have been, looking at and resisting throughout  this drama. And though we will still feel the pull of it for some time, we can make the conscious choice to look away from "me", to look upward and behind us as we settle into the Seat of Conscious Awareness. 

We practice becoming awareness once again.  We practice relaxing instead of resisting what Life is unfolding in front of us.  We will still have internal reactions with what we deem as pleasant and unpleasant.  We will still feel a mixture of different emotions and have a mixture of different thoughts...but instead of feeling the urge to pull back and away as we tighten our grip...or feel ourselves  being pulled down into the mud because of them...we just watch them from a distance. We drop our end of the rope and the struggle eventually ends.

 Be willing to not know yourself  as you know yourself now, so you can know who you really are.

Then as we settle here, in awareness, we begin to make awareness itself our object of consciousness.  We become aware that we are aware. We become aware of Self as awareness.  If God is awareness then, we must be pieces of God? With our focus here, instead of on the  resistant "me", Singer tells us, we naturally get pulled upward away from the tug of war pit...away from our objects of consciousness. We move up to God. 

We merge back into the ocean of consciousness, back into the quantum field, back into the spaciousness and back into the omnipresent, omnipotent, and omniscient nature of who we really are. We live from here. We are free.

Nothing that you are doing here has any meaning, except for your liberation. Use everything to go to God.

All is well! 

Michael A. Singer/ Temple of the Universe. (December 10,2023) The Journey from Finite to Infinite https://tou.org/talks/