“Then why are we here?”

“To remember, and re-create, Who You Are. … The soul—your soul—knows all there is to know all the time. There’s nothing hidden to it, nothing unknown. Yet knowing is not enough. The soul seeks to experience.” ¹

Neale Donald Walsch, Conversations with God, 1991

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To comprehend the state of the primordial God and the difference between “knowing experientially” and “knowing conceptually,” additional effort may be necessary.

In prior discussions, we glimpsed the cosmic dilemma of the Creator: Firstly, the agony of All That Is in actualizing infinite probabilities of individual consciousnesses within Itself. ² Secondly, the state where ‘All That Is… was not.’

Having only one reference point within, All That Is could not know Itself from an external reference point because, in the absence of something else, All That Is is not. ³

The motivation of All That Is was to know Itself experientially from multiple reference points looking back at Itself. It knew It was all there was, yet conceptual knowledge of Its magnificence wasn’t enough; It needed experiential understanding. This was impossible without ‘that which is not.’ ⁴

Understanding the above-mentioned cosmic dilemma and the necessity to have the external reference points as ‘that which is not’ to experience ‘that which is’ is crucial for us to grasp our true place in this vast universe. 

Everything exists within the body of All That Is. As souls, we are the reference points It divided Itself to be. Our true place within It as well as our relation to It, therefore, have to be understood in this context. 

Born into this world, we forget our true nature. The perceived world is experienced through the outer garment known as personality, which doesn’t recall the soul’s knowledge. However, as part of God, the soul knows everything all the time, seeking to experience through its outer personality. We are here to remember Who We Are through experience.

As All That Is could only experience Its magnificence when ‘that which is not’ appears, so we as souls can only know ourselves through experiencing ‘that which is not’. We know generosity by displaying it, and kindness by practicing it. ⁵ Like All That Is, our soul’s sole desire is to turn its grandest concept into its greatest experience.

In Conversations with God, it’s revealed the Creator has speculated about Himself for longer than we and He could collectively remember–Longer than the age of this universe times the age of the universe. ⁶ In this revelation, we can sense the Creator’s agony as well as His joy in the experiences finally made possible. Our time on Earth in this regard is precious, as exhilarating as the Creator’s experience.

We have much to learn about ourselves. Why we come to this world of relativity – the world of opposites – holds significance. Through every experience, we remember and reshape Who We Are in this plane of existence.

Jay

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Note:

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Neale Donald Walsche, Conversations with God Book 1, 1995

published by Hodder & Stoughton

p21-22

2.

Essay: The Birth Throes of the Creator

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Essay: Unveiling Cosmic Origins: Contemplations on Creation Preceding the Big Bang