(The childish God-idea — religion as an extension of the parent-bond)
The greatest longing of the human heart is to know Truth Itself. Not the mere “facts” of any given situation, but the ultimate Truth, the truth of our very being and existence, the truth that liberates us from all ignorance and suffering. Such is Truth for Real.
Thus, He appeared for a time in a human body to Reveal to all the nature of Reality and Truth as Conscious Light.
There is a common notion people have which they associate with “God” (or the Divine), and which they commonly identify as a basic “religious” feeling or concept. It may be described as a feeling that, even when you are alone, there is “Somebody Else” in the room. This is just the opposite (or the antithesis) of the Disposition of Real Transcendental Spiritual2 life. I Speak about God all the time—but I am Speaking from a Disposition that is entirely different from the “point of view”3 of conventional “religion”. Perhaps, by contrast, you could say that the Disposition of Real Transcendental Spiritual life is summarized in the notion that, no matter how many people are in the room, there is still only One Person there!
to be naively associated with the idea of the Power that is “Other”, or the One Who is “Other”. This “God”-idea corresponds to a rather childish (or even infantile) sense of Reality. Children are not, in general, great metaphysicians or great mystics!
The parent-child relationship—in which the parent is a great, “experienced” person there to protect the smaller, vulnerable person—provides the naive basis for childish “religious” views and for what are commonly called “religious” views in general. In other words, the notion that people have of “God”—apart from Real-God-Realization Itself—tends to be a carryover, an extension of the childish situation. Therefore, “religion” tends to be regarded as a “solution” for a rather infantile “problem”: the need to be protected, sustained, and made to feel that everything is all right and that everything is going to be all right, the need to feel that there is a superior “Other” in charge of everything. When people communicate to their children about “God”, they commonly speak of “God” as a kind of super-version of mommy-and-daddy.
That One, it is presumed, sees everything you do, and represents a “Parental Will” relative to what you do. That One wants you to do certain things, wants you not to do other things, and will presumably reward you if you do the things that It wants you to do and will punish you in various ways if you do not do those things.
It is a development of the original parent-bond of your childhood, and it is complicated by the dissociative individuation that develops in adolescence, and that tends to characterize your adulthood as well.
(Real Acausal God — not Other, but the single Self-Condition of all that arises)
When I Speak of Real (Acausal5) God (and I also use other terms than “Real Acausal God”, but that is one of the forms of reference I use), I am not speaking of a Parental Deity.
Rather, I Describe the basis of the True Transcendental Spiritual Process as a mysterious intuition that—no matter how many others are present, no matter how many people are present, including yourself, no matter what is arising—There Is Only One Reality, One Self-Nature, One Self-Condition, One Source-Condition, One Self-State. That One is not “Other”.
Rather, That One Is the Acausal Divine Self-Nature, Self-Condition, Source-Condition, and Self-State of all phenomenal conditions—including all opposites, even all contradictions. Thus, you cannot account for That One in childish terms.
It is simply not true to the facts of existence altogether that there is a Great Omniscient, Omnipresent, Omnipotent Being making everything happen—in charge of everything happening, and making things turn out well for those who acknowledge That One and obey certain moral principles.
The Acausal Divine, or Real (Acausal) God, the One to be Realized, is not other than Reality Itself.
All of this conditionally arising “world” is a modification of That One, a “play” upon That One. To Realize That One, you must enter profoundly into the Intrinsically egoless Self-Position—but not by means of the traditional “method” of introversion, or turning attention “inward”.
That Which must be Realized is in the Perfectly Subjective7 Self-Position—and It is Realized not by appeal to Something “outside” yourself nor by entering into childish dependence in relation to some great Principle, but by transcending your own separative (and “self”-contracting) activity, and (thereby, ultimately, by Means of My Divine Avataric Transcendental Spiritual Grace8) Realizing Most Perfect Identification with That in Which you Always Already Inhere.
Nevertheless, the “God” you believed in as a child does not exist—not as It was then described to you, nor as you then believed.
Beyond what you can do for one another as human beings cooperating with each other, there is very little protection in this “world” for anyone.
There is no reason to invent a “Santa Claus Parent-God” to make them feel protected.
(Realization through egoless self-position — transcending separative self-contraction)
Really, children should understand that becoming a positive social personality is not supposed to be a way of getting the goods from “God” or getting love from “the Parent”. In that syndrome, love is different from your own social activity, and your social activity is a way of getting love. What you should be teaching your children is that to become a relational personality means that you become love. You must become love.
There Is the Great Being, the Great Divine Reality. There Is That Truth.
Nor is That One to be identified with any subtle “object” in cosmic Nature, or with any of the lights observable via mystical consciousness. That One Is Real (Acausal) God. You Realize—and, thereby (ultimately), prove the Existence of—That One only by entering most profoundly into the Intrinsically egoless Self-Domain (or Self-Position), the Domain of Prior Existence (or Is-ness), the Tacit Self-Apprehension of Being (Itself).9