This is a monologue-style transcript (Paul Chek) exploring definitions of God, the nature of consciousness, meditation, and spiritual practice. Chek argues that divinity is self-referential (a sphere with no circumference and a center everywhere), emphasizes personal direct experience over scripture or doctrine, and links meditation, relationships, and chaos to spiritual growth and co-creation with God.
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The definitions of God. That's very good. God is a sphere whose circumference is nowhere and a center whose location is everywhere. Meditate on that. God is a sphere whose circumference is nowhere. It goes infinitely forever, and a center whose location is everywhere. So if God is a sphere whose circumference is nowhere and center is everywhere, and you know you're a center, then no matter what you put out into the world, guess where, it has to come back to you. Because you're the center of the universe. Because you're a point of consciousness with self reference. Because without you, there is no universe and there is no Paul, and there is no table, and there is no day, there's no night, there's no life, there's nothing. You are the epicenter of everything. One of the most important functions of meditation is it organizes the mind because it creates space for things. If you have no space between the notes and music, you don't have music, you have noise. And if we don't take advantage of this time and be brave enough, instead of running around like chickens with our head cut off and drugging ourselves and being all scared and getting fanatical about it, if we say, okay, you know, let's sit in a circle with friends and people that are really concerned and let's chant, let's sing spiritual songs or gospel songs or anything that brings you to a state of calm. And then just let's practice being with silence. And then that creates space inside of ourselves that allows creativity to rise up. And if we hold the intention of holding hands, caring for each other and caring for the planet so that we can evolve to the point where we can handle another 5 billion people on the planet without destroying it, and we know how to live together, we know how to take care of the planet, then I think that we can be really proud of what we created. And our spiritual evolution will become meaningful and religion will become meaningful. You have to explore God from yourself, from your own heart. Rumi says no man can get to God until he becomes a heretic. And what he's saying is, you will never find God in pages with words written on them. Jung says intellectualism is a common cover up for fear of direct experience. And you can see this. Usually there's a correlation between the number of references any author uses and how little they actually know of the subject themselves. Someone like Einstein didn't need a long list of references to validate E MC squared because nobody could reference a concept that he himself developed. So many academians would look at Einstein's paper in this analogy and say, well, we can't trust that because there's no references. But other geniuses would look at it and say, oh my God, this guy's a genius. Because they would recognize authentic wisdom when they saw it. But what do we have? Most people's concepts of God start right in Sunday school where they're being read to them out of the book. And you know, the philosopher Hindu sage Shankara, who was really amazing and deep, who wrote the crest jewel of discrimination by Shankara, said something very profound. No man can understand scripture until he's enlightened. And when he's enlightened, he does not need scripture. Okay, well, anybody that's spent time doing the research and the practices that I have knows that's very true. So the question I have for you is what percentage of Sunday school teachers and church leaders of any religion worldwide are enlightened? I would say probably 0.001. And that would be probably a gross overestimate. Yeah, Osho says it takes 6 billion people to produce one truly enlightened human being. Now I'm not saying that's factual. I'm just saying the truth is 99.9999999 to some decimal point of people have been taught what God is by people that themselves are just regurgitating someone else's confusion. And they don't actually enter the quest to find God. They believe what they've been told and what they read as though it was an actual fact. If you want to actually find out what God is, then you have to, you have to do what's necessary to create the environment that's supportive of that. Sports. Sex isn't how you find God. That's how you find pussy. If you want to find God, then you need somebody that you love enough to. To die into metaphorically. And they have to be capable of the same with you. And when the two of you realize that there's only one thing breathing you and have this dissolve of the ego into each other, you, you have profound experiences. Which is why when you look at the top of that chart up there, the Rivers of Life and Fates of All Men by Major General Forlong shows the history of all religious ideas and concepts from the beginning of recorded time. And the first thing we thought was God was trees because we noticed that trees were very important to life and there was food in them and animals lived in them. And it seemed that without trees we couldn't exist. But the second thing was the lingam and the yoni. The lingam is the penis, and the yoni is the vagina. Whenever those two get together, new life happens. So we figured that the only thing that could make a living, breathing human being would be something so grand and vast that we called it God. There, you see that? When you bring the sex organs together, it's powerful enough to create an entire human being. So all I'm saying is there's another path to God having a peak experience, like being out hiking or sleeping under the stars and laying under the stars and just realizing in a moment of, oh, my God, that somehow you're part of all that and it's part of you and there's a connection going on. What people don't realize about chaos is it's not something you should run from. It's something you should look into, because there's information in chaos. And in fact, if you look at almost all the creation stories and the myths of tribes all over the world, they say the world began in chaos. Well, when they see the world, that means life itself. So you have to say, well, if it all began in chaos and countless cultures wrote that in their myths, then doesn't that tell you right up front that what looks like chaos is actually full of order in an occult form, which means invisible or hidden. Right. So the real question is, what's inside the evil? And what's it trying to tell us to help us learn to live and love more fully? Which is the truth of God? The truth of God is good, beauty, truth and harmony. Evil is a necessary illusion that allows you to be aware that you can choose disharmony or harmony, love or hate, love or indifference, etc. God says yes to all of it. Because ultimately, if God is love, then the highest form of love is unconditional love. And by definition, the answer to every prayer is yes. And every thought is a prayer. So the answer from God is always yes. And we are co creators with God. We are not under God's control. Like God's not an old man, a Gestapo in the sky, a prison warden. We are God, experiencing itself as Josh, as Paul, as insects, as birds, as bees, flowers, trees, planets, and stars. And the answer is always yes. Because whatever Joss chooses to create, to love or to not love, to cut someone off in traffic and. And give him the finger or to say, wow, that guy's having a bad day. I'll just let him in. To listen to your partner's honest needs and share yours. Or not. To priests raping children in Catholic churches all over the world to this very day or not, right? So God gives us unconditional love and we become co creators. And it's only through the choices that we make that God experiences the truth of itself. God's obviously capable of rape, murder, pillage. The difference is God's not worried about it because God can't die. And God knows the truth of itself because God is the sum total of all consciousness, known and unknown beyond our conception. So do you see what I'm saying? What Josh creates is an experience that God's having. But nobody else can have that experience with God but Josh, because God's making those choices.
