Most people in the world claim to believe in this thing called God. If not during their lives then at least at the end when they are gasping for one more breath. Does the God we trust in so much really exist? Or, is it a creation of the human mind out of a state of insecurity?

This God idea has a history, a beginning. Oh yes, I hear you saying that God has always been and will be forever. But look at the facts, they will show a very different picture. It has not been that many years ago when humans believed in many gods. Nowadays we say they were just ideas, beliefs and concepts of ignorant, superstitious, primitive people. Are we any different? So a hand full of people come along and says, "No there is only one God and His name is Jehovah". But is that any more real than the earlier versions of the concept?

We say we love God, yet God is unknowable. So who or what do you love? Do you love the idea of God? You haven't seen God, so how do you know he is there? Oh yes, you see signs of God everywhere, but is that God or just life? You really don't know God, do you? You just believe in the idea of God. It is more of a hope than a fact. Yet, that hope has kept most of us blind and in control of those who claim to know God better than we do. They know nothing. They are as clueless as you are as to what this idea of God really is.

So, what do you know? Do you know yourself? Do you know anything for sure? What is the process of knowing? Is knowing the same as believing? Is belief ever real? Or is it just something that makes us feel comfortable in a world that is clearly insane. Do you think about things very deeply? If so, what is it that does the thinking? Better yet, who is it that does the thinking?

Most of us do not really think. We accept according to our conditioning and then we say we believe. You are born, your parents tell you who and what you are. You go to school and they tell you the history, according to the cultural beliefs of your society. You go to Sunday school and they tell you about God and all the history of your belief system. Most of you never really stop to think if any of this true. Just because people have believed something for a long time does not make it true. Yet, we go through our lives thinking these things must be true. "It is written!" So what? Find out for sure who wrote all that you believe and did they really know anything more than you do? Think! Let your mind be free and deeply look at all of this. Don't worry, God will not do anything to you for questioning everything.

Isn't it all a lot like Santa Claus? As children, we are lied to about this old fellow who will give us gifts if we are good and he knows if you are or are not good. Therefore, you had better be good. Where is the difference in your God and Santa Claus?

God is a concept created by the ego to make it feel more secure. The ego is a concept, belief, that you are somehow separate from the rest of life. This causes a deep-seated state of insecurity. Therefore, out of that state of insecurity we create a super being that will protect and love us. A god who has a home waiting for us when we die if we believe in him. If there is no ego, then there is no need for god. And there is no ego. It too is just a dream, concept, belief. Yet, it is our sense of identity. We identify with our conditioned beliefs and then project them into life as though they are real. They are not real, nor is your god.

Now, some of us have a broader view of what God is. We see that It, God, is the totality of creation, both manifest, and in potential. This is far more subtle and more accurate. It comes from a much freer level of insight. If one has gone beyond the ego dream then the words used to try to express this higher state of being can be as accurate as words can be. But if it is just a more subtle level of belief then it isn't much better than the old concept of God. Reality needs no god. Truth needs no god. We don't need a god to be good. If we are awake we are good by nature, not by god.

When one goes deeply into what they are, and come to the abyss of not knowing, and then let go, they will fall into Life. You not only won't need words to express it, you will clearly see that It, Life, cannot be expressed in any way at all. There is no need to express what you are. You just are, not as a concept of who you are, but just what is taking place as this living being called you. This is freedom. This is Life. This is Love. It is here right this moment, right where you are, as you.

God, the idea of god, has killed millions of people throughout history. If it wasn't so tragic, it would be down right funny. All these people dying for an idea, a dream, created by another dream, the ego. How much longer will we go on being blind? How many more will die before we wake up? How many cultures will be destroyed in the name of GOD? How much more of the environment will be destroyed by people who believe it really does not matter because we will all be going to Heaven when it is all over? Is this not insane? Only an ego mind could have created such a distortion of reality and call it The Love of God.

You have it in you, without the help of god, to awaken. Beyond the dream of ego is wisdom. It is your true being. You can go on dreaming and living in denial or you can face the facts and start asking yourself some real questions. If your intent is to find the truth then you will. But not if you are just looking for some comfort from the madness we call our lives today, then you won't find anything but more dreams.

It doesn't take much looking around this world to see we are indeed insane. This can only be changed by people who deeply care for life and truth doing what they can to awaken. One at a time we can awaken and help awaken others. If we don't do it, there is little hope for life on this wonderful planet.