Another my take on God post . . .

[J. Stew]

When you realize that you are already the Self that religion is pointing to, you see that the point of religion is to throw yourself back upon yourself. Not outside you, but the thing that you already are. And the thing that you already are is the awareness that sees your thoughts and emotions rise and dissipate in your mentality. Like if you sit for a minute and just observe the thoughts swimming in your head. What is that which observes the thoughts without commentating on them? The basic conciousness or awareness. It seems simple but because our minds get conditioned over time to discriminate between good and bad, we believe that our thoughts are what we are, when really we are the awareness from which the thoughts/emotions manifest. An example of automatic discrimination would be like if you're at a Lakers game, and you like the Lakers, and they score and you jump up out your seat and yell "I love Kobe" (which would be hard to believe, but anyways). Your action, jumping and yelling, was caused by some discrimination of the mind saying "Good! I'm excited." There's nothing wrong with getting excited, but the problem is that we go through life on that auto-pilot without knowing we're on auto-pilot. Seeing that you are not your thoughts, but some basic awareness from which the thoughts/emotions emerge puts a different spin on things, which is to say it puts no spin on things, or puts no bias on things. Things are how they are, your basic awareness doesn't discriminate, the ego-mind does, but when the realization occurs that the thoughts are just a manifestation from this basic awareness, that the basic awareness is really all that is there, then the ego-mind/thinking-mind sort of lines up with this inner Truth that is the God that is inherent in everyone. When that happens, as I said in the O.P. a more 'divine personality', if you could call it that, emerges and you feel as though you are being more of who you really are, which is to say you are just being this awareness that you already are but which you forgot that you were because you indulged in egoistic fears and desires and got lost in the repetitious conditioning of the mind's chatter, the auto-pilot thing. Hope that helps. -Stew