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Jennifer
Dear Jennifer,
Can you elaborate on the phrase “God realized” in the context of raising our consciousness to the highest level possible while being physical? There are many people that talk about this term referring to poet’s like Hafez, or even Jesus Christ as being “God Realized” or being at “God Consciousness” I have also read that it requires working with a guru to teach how to obtain this state. If we are created in the image and likeness of our source how might we get to this state, if it is even an actual thing that can be experienced. Thank you for offering such a wonderful resource of information as yourself.Curtis
Hi Curtis,
You’ve asked an age-old question! This is a subject that many books have been written about, and the complexities can give even the most diligently aware person a severe headache, LOL.
When I think of what it means to be “God realized”, I think of becoming aware of 1. How we all create our experiences, whether consciously, unconsciously or at a Soul level and 2. Reaching the place where your entire consciousness has realized that it is Love/God. This kind of realization is not the same as intellectually (consciously) understanding that “we are all ‘God’”, but it involves the rest of your consciousness making that REAL in your life.
If you accept that you are responsible for everything in your life/world, move into an understanding how you create as well as release limitations in your consciousness, you will realize that you are a very powerful creator and will move forward creating from a place of compassion, love and understanding. Creating instead of reacting.
Yes, I believe that people can achieve a very “God realized” state of consciousness while in the physical. When you look at the many different ideas and definitions of “God”, you will notice that most of these ideas are extremely limiting (giving power over to another Source instead of becoming “self” empowered) and can create the experience of separation between you and the rest of your consciousness. For example, if part of your consciousness is God, and your Soul and Unconscious have decided to experience itself as not being God, until you recognize those choices and actively express a different choice, you will likely experience that you are not God (For a more detailed breakdown of this, you might want to attend a Soul Balancing lecture in Traverse City). This sounds very complex and may overwhelm people, and consequently people may find it easier to not even try to engage in this kind of theory. Everyone can, but some people do not know it yet. Blaming someone or something else for something in your life is often easier than taking full responsibility and learning how to take responsibility.
When I refer to us being “God”, I am doing so in the understanding that my consciousness is much grander than I walk around aware of and although parts of my consciousness are called my Soul, Higher Self, God, etc. they are experienced as separate from me. The unconscious part of me has been experienced as separate from me for a long time too, and so has my “Soul”. Beyond the Soul is where the part of my consciousness is that is “God”, and when I can expand my understanding of myself, I begin to see that the Soul part of my consciousness as well as the God part of my consciousness are me! We are the same! Not realizing and experiencing all of my consciousness is considered being “unconscious” and realizing and experiencing all of my consciousness is considered being “fully conscious”, which is also referred to as being fully realized.
To me it is reaching a place where my entire consciousness is understood to some degree, accepted and appreciated. This is what I also consider being completely self-loving, because when you realize your true self, you naturally appreciate yourself, so becoming “God realized”, fully conscious and self-loving are the same.
People use different modalities to try to obtain a “higher state of consciousness”, such as meditations, hypnosis, energy work, self help practices, etc. The most common hang-up that I have seen with those kinds of modalities is that, although in the moment and for a short time after a person may realize themselves at a higher level, after engaging in everyday life, the less-realized self that is the default on an unconscious level returns to take precedence. So working with the dynamics of how your consciousness actually creates, to me, is the most powerful and effective way to achieve a higher natural state. Many people will not choose this, however, because part of their consciousness (that they do not see or understand yet) has chosen to experience something other than being fully realized. Anyone can engage in this practice, in my opinion, if given the proper guidance. That is probably why you have read that you need a guru to obtain a God realized state. A guru is supposed to have a broader understanding of consciousness (also known as “Spirit”) and might be able to help you share in that understanding. All that a guru is really doing though is helping you recognize your truth, helping you to “awaken” to whatever part of you that knows that you are God.
Becoming fully realized is also what is addressed with SOUL BALANCING, with the main focus improving and enhancing your life by providing you with a broader frame of reference of consciousness (spirit) and how it works as well as techniques to guide you to becoming more self-loving and ultimately (if you stick with it), fully realized.
I hope this brings some clarity for you, but remember that whatever is happening, even if you are driven by a strong internal drive for discovery, you have chosen on some level.
