GOD

Brushing the surface on the concept of God.

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Speaker 1: 0:05

Welcome to a place where we're thinking together and thinking deeper about who we are. Welcome to the podcast.

Speaker 2: 0:19

Hello, I'm William fortune. And this is[inaudible] today. God, according to dictionary.com God, the one Supreme being the creator and ruler of the universe, the Supreme being considered with reference to a particular attribute. God, this is my seventh episode, my seventh podcast, and using the number seven it's symbolism to godliness from the medium maria.com. Every day we come across the number seven. We even sometimes don't realize it, but it is part of our everyday life. The seven days of the week, the seven colors of the rainbow. This number is also a particularly strong symbol. In many cultures, it is considered beneficial and protective it's mystical aspects, opened the door to many beliefs and superstitions often considered a sacred number. The number seven bears within it, something spiritual eternal, the number seven in religious beliefs. This mystical number can be found in many sacred books, such as the Bible, the Torah, or the Kabbalah. Here are a few examples. The seven capital sins and the seven Catholic sacraments, the seven days resulting in the creation of the world, mentioned in the Bible. The seven chakras in Hinduism from Bible study.org seven is the number of completeness and perfection, both physical and spiritual. It derives much of its meaning from being tied directly to God's creation of all things. According to some Jewish traditions, the creation of Adam occurred on September six, 37, 60 BC, or the first day of Tishri, which is the seventh month of the Hebrew calendar. Today. As I delve into God, I will bring to it my opinions, which I also encourage each of you to comment and add in your opinions and create a, a conversation about God. In my opinion, God, capital G is not a noun for it is not a person place or thing. It is all in trying to explain God or my idea of an explanation of God. Uh, I have a few different metaphorical descriptions of God. One that I like to use when people say, well, prove that there is a God or prove that there isn't a God. Um, you have to do either one or the other. And I use the example of radio waves. There are radio waves around us all the time and without the use of a receiver, a radio receiver, we would never recognize those. And so to say that it's absolutely quiet in a very quiet space would be incorrect because there are radio waves. There are multiple many different long wave short wave am, FM radio waves around us, almost everywhere. There are very few places that those radio waves are not being transmitted to. And yet without the receiver, we're not aware of them that also takes into account. I do believe that by not being aware of them, we also consider that we're not affected by them, but we are. Those radio waves are out there. And the same for God, if God was to be used metaphorically as a radio wave, if we don't have the receiver to receive, or if our receiver is not tuned to a frequency to, uh, to make sense of that radio transmission, then it would seem that God does not exist. Or if we shut ourselves off to that, that God does not exist. But as we know with the rate, same as with the radio, when we shut off the radio, it doesn't mean that the radio station no longer exists or that the radio station is no longer broadcasting. It's still there. We have just closed the means of receiving the information that's being put out there, or that is out there. That being said is that, that same transmission, that same transmission, that is God that's putting, being put out at all times, is that the, the radio signal, the radio wave that causes our heart to beat when we're inside in the womb, is that what gets the rhythm for our breath going? And our hearts, is that what causes flowers to bloom? Is that what gives the impulse for

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Life?

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Is there a transmission taking that same analogy? If there is then somewhere out there is a transmitter? Well, yes and no. What if the universe itself was the transmitter? I know it gets really complicated and complex just as imagining that something that vast or that huge or taking a simple idea and put it into the scope and depth of God turns it from simplicity to absolute complexness, uh, or complexity. And, uh, it would, it boggles the mind. It absolutely boggles the mind. In 2005, I rode my motorcycle from Los Angeles, California to Atlantic city, New Jersey, uh, cross country trip of a few thousand miles. And as I was leaving the West cutting through the canyons of California and then into Nevada, and as I rode my motorcycle through one of these canyons, um, or cut in the rock two mountains, it seemed on either side. I looked up ahead on the road and there was a dot coming down, uh, what at first I thought, wow, another motorcycle coming down. But then I realized how the distance at which it was coming this little dot. And as I got closer, it got larger, of course. And when I recognize what it was, it was still a great distance off. And I realized it was a bus, a Greyhound bus coming through that cut. And when I first noticed it, that tiny little dot on this black ribbon, that's laid across the face of our earth. It made me think of cells in a being or cells in an organism. And that each of us were these little cells. We were tiny in the grand scheme of things on that stretch of road, stretch of highway. We were these tiny little specs and my brain exploded with the idea that we are these specs on this larger thing earth, which was really just a speck in the universe or in the galaxy really. And then that galaxy is a speck in something larger. And that's something larger is a speck in the grand scheme of things in this universe or multiverse, or however you look at that. And it constantly, as I got bigger and bigger, everything just got smaller and smaller. And I also realized that we are made up that each of these things, us, me on the motorcycle, the bus full of people, we are also made of, of other component parts, the bus buses, all the components that make up the bus. So each of those things are made up of molecules of atoms, of tiny little things. And I just, as I expanded out to this on a universal scale or a multi-vessel scale, I shrunk it down on a atomic scale and realized that as far out as we can go, we can also go in. And what does that have to do with God? It's the same mind boggling, genus, that that is that, you know, we, I mentioned that God, the idea that God could be a radio wave and being transmitted throughout, or God could be an organism and each planet possibly a cell in that organism or each galaxy, a cell in that organism and each planet I particle making up that cell. And once again, brain boggle, uh, to think of the, the idea of, of godliness of the enormity of that. And, uh, I don't even know where to go from there. Um, both outward and inward. I also use the analogy of God being like an ocean and that God energy is the water of this vast, vast ocean. That vast ocean, that is the universe. That is the multiverse. That is all that is out there. And that being made up of just pure energy. And then I take ourselves, us humans, animals as living creatures. And then each of us is a portion of that ocean. Imagine that you are a vessel, a glass, a jar, and the life that is you, that is in you, your soul, your energy is as if that glass was scooped into that ocean and filled up with the water, the life force. That is God. When I use that analogy, uh, I also, it helps me and it also, it helps me with the concept of reincarnation, um, that if we are scoops from that, that God ocean, we are dipped out and filled up into the vessel that we are. And we are just the jar, the water balloon, we are the baggage that holds that energy. And we dip, we pour that energy back in, at the end of our lives, back into the ocean that has God. We can take that same jar and scoop again. And just like you would in any body of water, if you scoop again, you're not going to get the same exact, that is exactly the same particles that were in that first one. Some will be the same and some will be different if each of those particles is charged with a life and experiences, as we dip back out, we will get other experiences. So there are many of us have these things where we go, huh? I recognize you. And I've never met you before. Or I remember a moment or I can, I feel like I've lived this life before, or I've had this experience before, or I know something that I am really, I've never learned, uh, intuition, deja, VU, many of these things, there are quite a few of us. Who've experienced them. What if those are memories in that life force that was scooped out of the ocean that has God, then there will be many people, thousands, millions of people who will say that they are the reincarnation of George Washington or Napoleon Bonaparte or Gandhi. And they could be correct. They may be correct. They may have portions of that memory, that energy of that vibration, that was George Washington, Frederick Douglass, Napoleon Bonaparte in the world that we live in. If in our godliest state, we are a vast ocean of interconnectedness and we get scooped out and poured into the vessel. That is our bodies, our human life. That existence becomes a separation from that, which is the divine space of godliness of connectedness, which creates that longing to connect, to reconnect. It also opens that door of, of kindredness, of where you feel connected to someone, for whatever reasons. There are some people that go, this is my opposite. This is my, this is the person that makes me whole, or these are the people that make me hold. This is my tribe. Could it be that in that you are simply remembering the connectedness in that godly divine state? Yes. I've diverged a bit from God to godliness, to the idea or to a metaphor analogy of what God is from the ocean to the radio wave. And I know that there are many other explanations that are out there on that. And there are many more, if you put your mind to it and think on it, you can go much deeper and find so many other things. And I encourage you to engage, uh, engage in discussion on this with others. And in that engagement of discussion, do it in a godly way and a connected way. What is that? Openness? I throw out my opinion, not as the opinion or the one way, but as an idea, as a prompt to get us started in a conversation, because I want to open that door to hear back from you, this idea that I throw out there, or this opinion that I throw out on God, which is huge, which is enormous. And that's capital G God, this is his harebrained, really a hair in my brain, uh, stirred this up. And, and I worked, I went with it. I let myself meditate on it. I let myself ponder on it. I let myself engage you on that. And I ask that if this so moves you, whether it fires you up and you go, William, you are completely off base, William, you haven't, you don't even have a clue. I say, of course you are correct. I don't have a clue. I am firmly in the center of, I don't know, Ville and looking for anything. It's a path that I'm willing to take in any direction, um, of enlightenment that you have to offer. I am don't know that I am offering enlightenment. I'm shutting a light in my pocket of awareness or my pocket of concern, or my pocket of unknowing in this God's space. And I ask that you turn on your light and aluminate, what's in your mind to show us some of that. Really. I see that in another way that God is a puzzle and it's a puzzle that we are all pieces of. And only when we connect, do we actually get the bigger picture? Will we ever get the big picture? I don't think that we're actually going to get a few billion people to connect, to come up with the big, the full big picture, but we can get closer and we can start to see some things, similarities and differences in my search for answers for my search for more information, because I don't know that there is any one definitive answer. I know there are portions to the answer and in my search for more, I have sought out religious teachings on God, in references in the Koran, the Torah, the Bible, of course, in miracles, I have brought in a lot of that thinking to help shape a bigger picture, to help open a door for a bigger picture. So on God, I don't believe that I am a puppet of God that I am without my own will that I am just following a path of destiny. I see myself more like a windup car that I was wound up at birth and set out or set down. My wheels are spinning. I keep I've bumped into many things. I've fallen in some potholes. I've come out of them. I've been lifted up in many times, not knowing how to different places and I'm still running, seeking. I'm not seeking the divine answer to the meaning of life, the universe and everything, which I know is 42. And I'm not even asking the question, cause I can't have the question in the answer at the same time. Right? And I think that's, that's brilliant. You can have the question or you can have the answer, but when you get them both together, all things cease to exist. That to me is absolute brilliance. And that is the answer to what is God. We can have many different opinions on God and each of those will be apportioned. And each of those will be a correct portion or puzzle piece to the big picture of what is God. And what I am saying is if you seek comfort in that godly space, through religion, if it gives you a place and a home, then that's your path. If you seek it outside of religion, then that's your path. Which path is, is the correct path. Both of them, all of them, which path will get you to where you need to go. Both of them, all of them. That is the conundrum of God. God is end of sentence. God is what you put after. That is correct. God is this laptop in front of me? God is the shoes that I put on God is the ocean. God is the sky. God is the cloud. God is God is person place thing. Animal mineral. God is earth, wind fire, air space, particles, atoms. As you can hear, as you can in listening to this, this discussion of God, hopefully from reading the comments that are put up there, hopefully from your engagement, this becomes a much larger conversation. I ask that as you put up your comments, respond with open heart and open mind. One of my, the things I I do with my children is the test of the three Gates as it comes out, whether it's written spoken, is it kind, is it necessary? Is it helpful in the idea of God and godliness, which I do believe will be another episode of our, another podcast of bill RCFE on godliness? What is godliness? Um, it is impossible to be perfect and understanding where the need or the necessity for godliness comes from in each of us, I think is important to discover for self does not necessarily something that needs to be shared process might be shared. Uh, but the idea of that perfection, the idea of the perfect Knicks, the perfectness of God, the all knowing the all, seeing the all being the all thinking. And for me, my awareness of God has taken me in the other direction. Oh, I sought perfection because I knew how imperfect I was and I know how imperfect I am yet. I also know that my imperfection makes me the perfect me. So in my imperfection, I become perfect. Once again, that the duality of God in going in both directions, God being perfectly balanced, God is light. God is dark. God is balance equilibrium. God is all one of the things I didn't say about this was how deep this is, how deep the concept of God is. Of course, if there is duality, it also has to be unbelievably shallow as well, mind boggling in my studies and my spiritual studies, um, in studying of God and searching for clues in reading the Bible would read God, speaking directly to people in the Bible and wanting to hear the voice of God. What is the voice of God? What does it sound like? And one of the things I discovered is that the voice of God sounds like your voice at times. Oh, that's not the general. You I'm speaking directly to you. The one whose ears, this sound is going into and knowing that sometimes the voice of God sounds like me. There are times when I find myself speaking and I'm saying words, and I'm hearing the words that I'm not thinking about. And afterwards, I, I wonder was that God speaking through me, or there are things, questions that I'll have in my mind. And I'll be having a conversation with someone and not ask the question and yet get the answer directly spoken to me. And I wonder was that the voice of God, I also in hearing the voice of God in others, and sometimes in myself, I also hear the voice of God in silence, sitting quietly, walking quietly, hearing nothing and everything at the same time, the pattern of which I'm speaking right now is intentional for in my voice, you hear the silence is between the words in that pattern of silence lies. God stands, God exists. God, pardon my soft voice. There are times as I speak as I work, as I move through this life, that I am completely awed to silence, to listen and experience that, which is out of my control. The sounds of birds, wind leaves footsteps in the leaves, animals, humans, car tires on the ground, airplanes, far off vehicles, cars, trucks, a dog barking crickets, the hum of energy. And as I listen to that, it takes me to a place of knowing and unknowing that there is God out there. The God that is orchestrating that symphony of sound that we might call nature. We might call environmental the sounds of the blood pumping through our planet, the blood or the cells on the surface, but there's other blood pumping in the core underneath. And to me, that is magnificent and beautiful. And it, me a glimpse

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Of what looking into the face of God might be as I close out this episode of bill ossify on God, I'm grateful for the ear spoon for giving me a platform to be heard. I'm grateful for you for listening. I am William fortune, and this is bill[inaudible] go forward with passion and purpose. Thanks for listening.[inaudible]

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