*Religion & Faith*



Q:  I'm having some confusion with the religion subject.

 B:  All right, in what way?

Q:  Well, the fact that there is a God...

B:  Yes.

Q:  ...and there are so many different religions out there.

B:  "Out there," yes. [Audience laughter]

 Q:  Well, I feel like I have to choose a religion.

 B:  Why?

Q:  Umm...

B:  The only thing you need to know is your relationship to All That Is.
That, in a sense, is a religion.

Q:  But I have children.  I want to raise them with respect for the Lord.

B:  Well, what's stopping you?

Q:  I don't know where to start.

 B:  Start in your home.

Q:  With the bible, or what?

B:  It doesn't matter.  The idea is to understand this: what you normally
call "religions" on your planet, the ones that you recognize as mainstream
religions, have generally been structured to take your power away from you.
 They have been structured to de-connect you from your natural relationship
to All That Is and to get you to hand over the responsibility of that
connection to someone else.

Q:  Well, I don't agree with those kinds of religions.

B:  Then there is no reason for you to teach your children those
structures.  All you need to do /is/ put them in touch with the fact that
they are aspects of the Infinite.  /That/ is their relationship and that is
where it all began anyway.  The "ritualization" of that understanding of
that connection is up to each and every individual.

Each person is their own religion in the sense of how they wish to
represent their connection to the Infinite.  As long as you instill within
them that they are /already/ aspects of the Infinite.  And if you instill
within them that they know they are already as powerful as they need to be
to create whatever reality they want -- without having to hurt themselves
or anyone else in order to do it -- there's nothing else you need to teach
them.  Let them manifest their relationship to the Infinite in whatever way
feels right for them, because whatever way feels correct for them will be
the way that the Infinite wishes to express itself as that person.

You are, as you say in your biblical references, "made in the image of
God."  Now, the idea of what you in your society may call God and what we
may call God may vary here and there in semantics and terminology, but it
is basically the same concept: it is All That Is... One Infinite Creation
that diversifies itself into many multitudinous transformational
manifestations.

If you are made in the image of a multi-dimensional Infinite Being, that
means you are multi-dimensional infinite beings as well, at least that is
what the phrase means to us.  So when you say you are made in the image of
God, understand what that actually means.
You are co-creators with the Infinite; the creators of your immediate
reality.  /And as you design the filters of you senses to be, so you/
/experience the reality you believe you are in./

But do understand something, just out of interest, if you wish, All That Is
-- our label for, what you call, "The Creator" -- to us is perhaps a little
more technically precise a term.  Because the idea of creation or the
notion of a "crea-tor," to use your language, implies that there was a
"beginning," that there was something "crea-ted."  And that implies that
there was nothing before that.  There has always been, is now and always
shall be ALL THAT IS.  Therefore, understand there really is no beginning;
there really is no ending.  What you term the Universe or God is All That
Is.

God, as you call it, didn't so much "create" the Universe and then stood
apart from it in the sense of not interacting with it.  God is IT and
therefore /is everything in it/  -- our civilization, your civilization, all
civilizations, all things are a part of All That Is.  Reflections if you
wish, the "Is" of All That Is; the "eyes" of All That Is.  So that through
you, through us, All That Is can express itself in all the ways it possibly
can.

Understand that Creation, as you term it, is not static.  It is not/, "Well,/
/it was created and now it is simply unfolding as it was created to be."/  It
is BEING right NOW, new, every moment.  In a sense created... but again, it
is BEING right now, always, at every moment something NEW that it /can/ be.

So keep it simple.  Keep it very simple.  Let your children be self-
realized beings and decide how they wish to express their connection that
already exists.  You don't need religion to give you the connection... the
connection is already there.  Religion is just a way of expressing the
connection that is already there.  And the less ritual a person needs, the
less religion they need.  Does this help or is there something else you
wish to discuss about the idea you call "religion"?

Q:  Yes.  I've listened to quite a few of your audio tapes and it seems to
me, from what I understood, that we both believe in a creator.  And perhaps
it's the same creator but your civilization is operating in a different
dimension than we are operating in.  So, how do you perceive your Creator
versus how we on our planet perceive our Creator?

B:  Thank you.  The main difference is that we believe, as we have labeled
it, that the Creator is... is... IS... literally, All That Is.  We see no
distinction or separation between the Creator from its creations. The
Creator /is/ its creations, the creations /are/ the Creator; collectively
speaking, the creator expressing itself as ALL the creations the creations
perceive themselves individually to be.

Overall, the idea is that your planetary civilization, as we perceive your
relationship to the concept of a Creator, is you generally see the Creator
as something beyond you, outside of you that you are subject to, in a
sense, distinct from or separate from Creation, whereas we really see no
separation.  We recognize that there are different manifestations of
different levels.

We understand that the ONE knows itself as THE ONE and knows itself as ALL
that makes up THE ONE.  And we recognize that there may seem to be a
difference between all the individual components and THE ONE.  And the
individual components may, in a sense, not be as "great" as the ONE, or, I
should say, as expanded as the ONE. But each component holographically
contains ALL of the ONE, and the ONE is the ALL.  It is all one thing.  Do
you understand the concept of the hologram?

Q: Uh, maybe, in general terms.


*Indra's Net*


B:  All right.  I will explain in its archaic form, as it was understood
hundreds or thousands of years ago on your planet, known as  "Indra's Net."
 Indra's net was like a net made of many pearls, each pearl being perfectly
round and each perfectly reflected the image of every other pearl in the
net.  If you can imagine this, if you can envision this, you will
understand that in order to understand or access the information of all the
pearls in the net, all you really need to do is to go to any one pearl,
look at the reflections of all the pearls, and you will have al the
information right there in one pearl.

The existence of All That Is, in physical terms, is structured that way,
holographically.  Each component - you, me, all beings, all individualized
consciousness - contains the whole, but is also distinct from the whole, in
that it is a particular perspective that the whole has of itself.  It is a
reflection, your reflection, of the Infinite from a particular point of
view.  I am a reflection of the Infinite from a particular point of view.
We are all the different ways that All That Is has of looking at itself, of
experiencing itself, of knowing itself and of expressing itself.  That is
why we say, "We are All That Is, All That Is is us."

The idea also is that there is no separation in the sense of empowerment.
We have and are directly related to the concept of All That Is.  What is
meant by all the structures that have labeled themselves as religions...
they have a tendency to say to individuals that they must act as an
intermediary between the individual and the concept of God -- as if there
were not a direct link already.  This is the main difference as to how we
express our relationship to what you call Creator and how your planet
generally expresses its relationship to what you call Creator.  Does this
help clarify the situation sufficiently?


*Guilt & Deservability*


Q:  Well, I'd like to briefly explore the issue of "deservability" and how
that relates to issues of guilt, because guilt seems to be strongly
associated with many religions.

B:  Yes, the idea of guilt.

Q:  And many, many people experience guilt, similar to, what's referred to
as, "original sin."

B:  We understand the concept.

Q:  The separation from the Father or from God; the taking or doing things
of one's own volition and the guilt for doing that.

B:  We have a definition of guilt.  May I share it with all of you?

Q:  Please do.

B:  Guilt, not hate, is the true opposite of love.  Hate is a polarized
expression of love but still implies deservability, even if it is only self-
deservability.  Guilt, being the lack of deservability, is truly the
opposite of love, which is absolute validity and equality of all.
Therefore, yes, the idea, the vibration you call guilt is a self-cutting-
off from the source of Infinite Creation.  Now, you're never really cut-off
from it.  You can't be.  But you can create the illusion, as you have
pointed out, that it is so.  When an individual learns that unconditional
love of self, of All That Is is the most positive direction they can flow
in, they then recognize there is no need for guilt, because guilt is only a
denial of one's own existence.

Q:  I get a very strange feeling this will be my last time here.

B: Maybe so, yes.  For many of you this is true.  This is the
transformational life where you can come to full consciousness, and thus,
can choose consciously to reincarnate or not.

Q:  But I find myself now looking at the flowers and the birds and all
physicality as if it was for the last time.

B:  No, not really in the ultimate sense, because physicality is you.  It
is you.  And when you become non-physical you can project whatever you
want.  It will still seem as solid or real as you wish it to be, except the
difference is you will understand that you are consciously that thing - it
will not be separate from you.

Q:  So it will be even more precious that it has become?

B:  Well, it will be better understand for what it is.  It is all-precious.