Hi Rich,
I don't agree that we are God, at least not the God that is referred to in ACIM. But we are one with God
How and when did you arrive at the conclusion that you are one with God?
Is this a belief or your direct realisation of what is?
And if, as you say, that you are not God, yet are one with God, how and in what way are you separate, other than in your thinking/beliefs?
Some awakened beings claim they are God, even Nisragadatta had the audacity to say he was above God... he said something like; he is the root and god is the tree, so obviously he didn't mean THE God.
Q: Is there no God apart from you?
M: How can there be? 'I am' is the root, God is the tree. Whom am I to worship, and what for? – p.58 Ch 15 “I am That”
You are still perceiving from the relative mind, so you conclude Nisargadatta is speaking from the same place, he is not. He was not saying that he, as an individual, was above God, but that the true “I am” or Self is the foundation of all appearances and apparent manifestations, which includes the separate imagined God of the seeker. So, he was not being audacious nor egotistical, he was simply stating a fact, and attempting to provide guidance to one still caught up in the mind and it’s imaginations. Nisargadatta was responding to a seeker whose opening statement was;
Questioner: Without God's power nothing can be done. Even you would not be sitting here and talking to us without Him.
I do not believe I am in a place, the concept of place is an idea in the mind.
You understand that places and time are creations of the mind, yet don’t see that your (and any) concept of God (including that of a God whom you are somehow separate from, and yet one with) may also be a creation of the mind.
Rich, you are making the mistake Sosan refers to above, you are trying to arrive at the Absolute by using the very thing that obscures it, the mind.
Are you undertaking the lessons in the course in miracles? Or undertaking any other spiritual practice ie meditation at present?
With Love/Namaste
tim