Today’s episode is all about why is ‘God’ a bad word. And those of you in the spiritual space, and the space, in the religious space, what … It is so remarkable to me that we’ve gotten to a space where somehow, some way God is different than spirit. And God is different than creator. And God is different than source. And it’s fine. Like, there is real value in kind of separating archetypal aspects in order to develop relationship with each one of those. It’s a technique that we teach in our coaching, in the inside out kind of protocol. It really assists in keeping things from being this huge insurmountable thing to comprehend.

And at the same time, inevitably, it’s all got to come back together. That is the integration component. That is what makes the difference or determines whether or not somebody is going to be able to break out of that evolved consciousness space that, “I’ve got to do my work. I’m doing my journey. Dah, dah, dah, dah,” kind of dialogue into that full embrace with the divine into that abstract frequency. If we can’t move out of that place and move into that fully integrated, embodied existence, then we don’t get to experience what it is that we keep seeking what we say we want.

I wrote an article called ‘Stepping into the Abstract: The Next Phase of Human Potential.’ And within it, this was the first paragraph that came out. I think it’s so important given today’s conversation. Why do we hold a perception that the Christian God feels different than the spiritual creator, or the God of Abraham, or the composite gods and goddesses of Hinduism, or the harmonious energy that flows through Buddhism, or the miraculous universal awareness we touch when we seek to discover through constructive thoughts? How is it that the vantage point of seeing the various layers we’ve created in our human attempts to comprehend ourselves, and the world, continues to evade us?

We can only see the world as we are, so why would how we see spirit be any different? God is. Period. But our understanding of source is always constructed. The creator beyond, who exists beyond the reaches of words or thoughts, defies all encapsulation. Nothing can be held, or contained, or examined by the mechanisms it both created and encompasses. The second we can even comprehend it, it has been bastardized, watered down, filtered through the limited layers of interpretation we possess, made possible by the very thing we’re attempting to comprehend. It’s incredibly egotistical to think we know.

And yet, we do actually know. But perhaps know isn’t the closest we can get to describing the experience. It’s more like getting absorbed into spirit and releasing all conscious control. But to be clear, we don’t have to lose awareness. Our ability to hold both the enormity of the power and the intensity of the frequency leads us to go away, drop down, or lose the conscious connection. Connection remains. Spirit is relentless. God’s will will be done, right? We’re just limited in our ability to comprehend more in that moment. As confidence in that relationship grows, so does our ability strengthen and our systems fortify, but only through establishing trust and pursuing deeper intimacy.

From there, the article goes on to compare the difference between personal and spiritual growth, and it’s really important that we look at it in that light. We’ll make sure to put a link to that article on this episode page. We’re going to take a quick break, and when we come back we’ll dive more deeply into this idea of why is the concept of God a bad word. Is ‘God’ a bad word? And how do we reconcile this and start moving into the integrative phases?