God, now that's one heavily charged word of a 1001 meanings!  There's the implied understanding of an overarching Source that is our Beloved Creator, yet, this basic unifying thread of understanding the commonality of our creation into being is diversified into divergent sets of differences and details that are both dizzying and perplexing, is it not? 

The deviation range is as wide as a canyon with hatred for those "not like us" (whatever that really means??) to as narrow as a hairline crack between us with an undifferentiated love for everyone regardless of belief(s).

From the point of view of a Universal Creator and Source of all existence, expression, and experience, yes, I do very intimately understand a God to be our emanation and sole source of all that we dream of as a perfected type of life. 

We dream of idyllic possibilities because at our essential core of remembrance, such a state is what we KNOW to be our TRUE state, and of course, we long to return to that contended state of Be+in+thing (Being). 

Alas, we've largely forgotten that it is our response+ability to recreate that state here below as it is above since that harmonically resonates with our natural state. Most of us are so drunk with separation-as-real that we think such a way of Being is a dream, while nothing could be farther from the TRUTH. 

We are so deeply dreaming the separation state into existence, and we are suffering the consequences thereof, including wondering IF God/our Source/our Father is real enough to have a belief about, not a KNOWING even, rather a belief. 

Does this not strike a chord of affinity within you that this somehow "makes a lot of sense"?

I no longer believe in God, I know God is the life that breathes you and me, and beats the rhythm of our hearts in a unison of living, asking us to dance a Cosmic dance with our Spirit/Creator as our lead. 

Is it not time to be coherent friends co-creating rather than people divided by dogma that is YET creating beliefs of "better than and less than" keeping us arguing, fighting, and declaring our superior beliefs to be the way with some self-righteous indignation for those not so inclined to believe as we do?

Is not the absurdity of our deviations that are preventing us from coming into union seeming to be of questionable content and possible error??

I see GOD in your eyes...You bet I know GOD is real! Pinch yourself and start questioning yourself back into knowingness, too.  Essentially, we're beyond the belief stage;  time to catch-up with Who You Are.

All to Love,

Sharon

My original post to this question on the date it was posted to Zaadz in my archive at:

http://asimplegnosis.gaia.com/blog/2007/7/do_you_believe_in_god#comments

I'm working on several books, a beta class for SELFGnosis, preparing a demo disc for feedback from about 20 volunteers who have agreed to view the SELFGnosis Basics class for whatever gems they will be sharing, a parenting class, and a revision of the Great Me-Little Me concept worked into a non-violent method of disciplining without harm that fosters thinking skills, accountability, and logical consequences.  So far this has been a real success with the kids and parents!

Volunteering with CASA with a storytelling time for the children who are removed from their homes and going through the gruesome process of temporary placements.

Studying marketing, learning how to use some of my computer programs for writing and publishing, and acquainting myself with internet basics of creating a web page, and the like.  I would LOVE to off this part of the project to those more inclined to enjoy the computer end of things.  It is not my "cup of tea" and I discipline myself to its rigors because I must at this juncture.

I'm having the evolving experience of a blossoming relationship with a fine woman who is rising to the challenges of filling "Della Street" type shoes in advancing the idea of AKRNA non-profit into a viable entity.  I love this gal!  I'm beginning to see some wings sprouting for her and me, and that is great.  She's opened me to the idea of sweat equity and the joys thereof.  Ha ha, we both laugh...

I've been having the unexpected pleasure of meeting with another very creative early childhood teacher who is pondering the possibilities of joining our learning adventure of creating a replicatable educational system.  She brings a yin quality to our vision that is exciting.  Time will tell how this garden will grow or not, so much to consider and work out so that everyone wins and is fulfilled by their involvement.

I've been working with some souls weary of their ego's machinations and the painful scenarios of unconscious pattern repetition creating life yuk.  This has been going exceedingly well, in spite of a glob of whirlwind upsets coming at them…transitions, transitions, transitions can sure be consuming of time and energy with so many things pulling at the attention center.

In all, as I read through this,  I am amazed at how much WEi are getting done, how much we are knocking the snot out of some very trying challenges.  We are inspired and that is a saving grace as Wei keep choosing back to be "More God in us" taking care of business!  Any other way of going at this is surely folly, eh?

Oh, yeah, I forgot about the Sales Tax Reformation issue I have been giving time to by writing articles, letters to editors, visiting representatives at the Capital & at city governing levels, and calling people of interest to encourage their participation so we can get a serious TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION issue resolved at law with a long-term solution that is functional and not just some band-aide or appeasement measure that only gives the impression of "stopping an economic hemorrhage".

I guess one more project is before in the ever present NOW beckoning for me to take an action:  Go to bed and get some sleep -- all my atom, cells, and electrons are begging for a rejuvenate R&R!

Good Night, my friends.

All to Love,

Sharon

PPS> I could post some of the letters and such, I just figured, who would be interested in such things?

A Dialogue that takes a deep dive with fellow Gaians...

I could give sound bite answers, while likely hugely popular, I will not for that makes folly of the serious dialogue I think such questions are intended to open us up to having.  With that said, I shall dive in.  I hope you will take a swim with me and share your thoughts, too.  Dialogue deepens our communication and growth itself.

First off there is a question that must be asked to clarify that what is assumed is what the questioner is asking, even though the implication seems evident, it may not be the point of view (POV) of all those who answer - development of what aspect of personal exactly?  Psychological, mental, emotional, Spiritual, ego, cultural, or what?

I shall answer via an all inclusive POV since my POV recognizes that all development is inter-related albeit some are inimically tied together as a unit, such as ego~Spirit for as one waxes, the other wanes.  I choose to hone my growth toward a continual return to MAI Spirit SELF.  I feel the need to make this distinction since I am noticing many people are saying they are "working on their Spiritual development" while actualizing more and more of their ego structures with a "holy demeanor," yet their hearts are more and more judgmental of the holiness or not of others.  Nothing could be more self-deceptive than that.

I choose to be most accurately guided by God-TRUTH as juxtaposed to personal truth(s) which are belief dependent. God-TRUTH is infinitely What IS and universally applicable in a consistent, constant, and congruent way, and has no dependency on how we may feel about its veracity or not.

This all-inclusive nature, in and of itself, attests to the superior quality of God-TRUTH which  never changes and has the innate quality of stability funded from its eternal consistency and all-inclusiveness/Universality.

Also, from my POV, Spiritual overarches and is the all-inclusive growth, expect for the enhancements of separation which is ego aggrandizement development.  I love Wayne Dyer's breakdown making the word ego an acronym: EGO = Edging God Out. 

Personal or religious truth(s) are tainted and deviated from Original TRUTH by human understanding, motivations, or interpretations which inevitably cull out something unique from the Universal, making it "uniquely special," and this consequently amplifies separation over Oneness (loss of Universality)  making its assertion suspect at best, eh?

Now, that I've cleared the air of what could be a point of confusion, I shall address these questions:

1. What most helps your development?

SELFGnosis has done more for healing all the causes of what was ailing my life.  My patterns of self-destruction, my unawares of how I was attracting energies and experiences that were perpetuating pain behaviors, avoidances, misunderstandings, ad naseum, have been exposed and made clear to my outer conscious awareness so that I am no longer victim to my blindness. 

I am now forging skills, by the ever wise hand of my Higher SELF, to Pay Attention, discern with primal TAO clarity the choices I am making from moment-to-moment, making me a conscious co-creator of my life.

More & more, I am living empowered by knowing I am choosing and, thus, creating - therefore, recognizing & owning that I am response+able for all my experiences. 

Being a victim to the "vagrancies of life, fate, luck, "just way I am," "just happens," "punishment for past sins," ad naseum is not my delusional POV anymore.

1. What interferes with it?

The most trying interferences are those past inclinations responding to the accepted momentums plaguing humanity's sanity that I had a sickly endeared harmonic resonance with from my negative patterning and belief systems. 

I call these my Achilles Heel and they are anything that is a tender point of easy slippage into false ideations and fears that I know are false, yet, "hauntingly call to me" as having validity due to past momentums of affinity with them. 

These would include things like my mother's anguishing when dad was late coming home because it was triggering her fear of losing family security for 6 kids because dad was driving home drunk from the bar again. 

If my loved ones are late, I find a creeping sensation of this anguish trying to surface for me to fantasize with, thus entertaining this fear and loathing into a possible reality to contend with - the past trying to haunt my present IF I would only give it some of my time and attention. 

So, I am saying I must be a vigilant sentinel to whatever beckons me to create it into a reality of pain and suffering which is the antithesis of God-TRUTH informing  my creating realities. 

A conscious-willful-mindful-choice is the key of our ability in how we create our life realities, and this requires attention to all my thoughts, words, and deeds. 

It is not as tiresome or hard as it sounds because the process of SELFGnosis gifts you with ascending momentums of Being more God in you doing your thinking, doing, and actions.  Cool stuff.

1. What helps you truly be yourself?

To be myself can be interpreted two different ways-

1. One is to be more of my personality and my identifications which have  promulgated what makes me different from others and all the drives connected with that perspective of myself.

1. The other is to be more of MAI-SELF which is to be Who I AM as Sharon. This is allowing by free-will-choice the Divine Intention to manifest unique expressions as only our Beloved Creator can live, move, and have BE+in me/Being as me.

This is the elegant & simple understanding that WEi are a Unity of Oneness, and as such are like facets of a Cosmic Diamond.  TO be TRULY Who We Are is to shine as only our facet can shine adding unto the overall brilliancy of the Cosmic Diamond we are all integrally a part of as a wholism.

The more I heal into Who I Am and out of who I've been trying to be, the less I have need to express the patterns and pain behaviors that underlined the Sharon I grew up to be. 

Unwittingly, this was an adult who was seeking relief from her unrecognized pains, working hard responding to urges to be a productive "doing machine" for love and affection disguised as desires (sincere they truly were) to give & do my best in whatever endeavors I undertook, as well as driving my efforts to leave this world "a better place  than the one I was born into."

1. What supports your unfoldment?

SO, Consequently, SELFGnosis, which heals out our errors of POV, not with allegiances to theories, dogmas, rituals or practices, rather with transmutative forces tapped within from the Source of Indwelling Healing/HS, peels away our false identifications like an onion is peeled. 

This is the epitome of Love in action for it is not overwhelming because its step-by-step, or peeling one layer at a time away, allows for an inner awakening or regrouping of your shifted abilities and perceptions in a measured way, one that is paced by yourself. 

Since this is an Unfolding process of the highest order, it is experienced as an ease of dealing with and adjusting to Who We are without shock or a debilitating flooding of our sensibilities.  Step-by-step or peeling layer by layer is doable and amazing, at least from my experience and from those I've had the opportunity to share it with.

Unfolding is a revealing process.  We've heard the axiom, "TRUTH reveals."  We know that what is underneath a fold is revealed as it is unfolded, so the two are really an at-one process!  Simple and elegant at once is so Divine, would you not agree?

Healing out my miscreations, misunderstanding, and negative patterning while simultaneously replacing these with their diametric counterpoint energies of Universal understandings and harmonic resonant patterning is the essential action that defines transmute, transform, and transcend, and it is a pleasant process, indeed.

1. What do you find most regularly blocks your life path?

Anything deceptive, confusing, or "in my blind spot" is a block or detour I am alerting myself to pay attention to noticing and, more importantly, NOT ignoring, downplaying its importance to be dealt with, or "letting it slide." 

I've learned that such red flags are side stepped at my own peril of repeating or being "dragged into" whatever detour they are designed to distract or busy me with.

Thanks Siona  for asking this thoughtful set of questions for our sharing, pondering, and caring.

All to Love,

Sharon