Humanity is in the middle of a massive awakening of consciousness. I grew up in a politically and spiritually confusing environment. This catalyzed a search for truth which led me much deeper much earlier than I realized. In college, I discovered that I could no longer sustain the theology I grew up learning. I had to let it go. I abandoned my religious faith. I prayed one last time, with every bit of intention, that if God was real, that He would never let me go, he would somehow prove Himself to me because I could no longer prove Him to myself. And with that prayer, I found myself talking blankly to the wall. For the first time in my life, it was just me, in a room, staring at the ceiling. It felt simultaneously exhilarating and crushing, relieving and disorienting.

Around the same time, I learned a curious truth that stuck with me like glue. I couldn’t ignore it.

In my last semester of Christian college, I signed up for a philosophy class wherein the professor successfully disproved the nonexistence of ‘God’ using—very strictly—nothing but the current state-of-the-art in secular philosophy. He tested his arguments tirelessly online in philosophical forums. No one could challenge his version of the Cosmological argument, even thinkers respected in their community.

Each week at the beginning of class, he would have had some new, vivid dream stories to share with us. They seemed to have mystical meanings and it was not something I was used to in the Christian field where these kinds of things were simply not present or discussed. It tickled my forgotten but intense itch to experience spiritual phenomena, which had gone unscratched my entire life. The class was clearly some kind of level-up, and I got that even at the time.

While I don’t remember the exact formulation of his argument (I wish I did), and it would have to be very precise for me to share, here is the Cosmological argument in layman’s terms. If we trace back the cause of everything, across and axis like, say, time; we eventually get to a Big Bang event (in this universe). There is a chain of causation. Somewhere, it makes sense that there must be a starting point; a first cause. Makes sense, right? Beach, sand, rocks, lava, planetary formation, star formation, hot gas expansion, first moments, Big Bang, ???. What next? What made the Big Bang? Now if you’re smart you’ll just say “remnants from a previous universe” and I don’t have time to counter you here, but he did for us. What I’ll say is that it was not based in time, so it became a foundation or ‘ground’ of being, which means it underlays the being of every particle in the universe right now. Now, if we examine this ‘First Cause’, (or Ground) which is not itself an object and itself has no defining traits or qualities, we find that must simultaneously contain all of the traits, qualities and characteristics we find surrounding us today, including us. This actually includes things like intelligence, personality, and emotion. It would also be omniscient, omnipresent, and transcendent; simultaneously complete and incomplete, perfect and imperfect, ever still an always in motion. Sounds a lot like the idea of God doesn’t it? Except we didn’t read about it in a scripture, we just figured it out, equipped with nothin’ but cold, hard, reason. Boom.

What he had discovered was the truth at the heart of every wisdom tradition on the planet. While he advocated (for lack of a better word) that this was the final vindication of Christianity in the postmodern era; this was -quite obviously at the time- much bigger than the evangelical bubble in which he was teaching. It is interesting that those evangelicals weren’t chomping on the bit to get at his work. I’m not sure if things have changed since.

It’s not hard to see how proving “GOD” full-stop is of benefit not only to every sect of Christianity, but to every religion or spiritual tradition on the globe. Yet, if we delve into the ‘practical’ implications of this discovery, it destroys every religion or system of belief because it is actually beyond all of them.

It frees the mind from every fetter. You go beyond, and into pure being; a place where you are beyond everything you’ve learned. Reality as it is: ineffable, numinous, and boundless. This is not a passage for the faint of heart or the unprepared.

It cuts through every moral and ethical problem, every political duality, every conflict in the universe. You are totally transformed simply by knowing this truth. No other practice or system is necessary, no attendance at any meetings or gatherings, no donations, no special music or special books. You can do any of these things if you desire, of course.

This is where this truth leads you: beyond all other ‘truths’ and straight to Totality.

Have a beautiful time.

-It.