so let's now directly address the question of what is God, and the way I want to approach this is the way that they might in an introductory philosophy class in a university. Like, if you took Philosophy 101, then they would introduce you to all sorts of philosophical concepts, and of course, one of them would have been God. In the Western intellectual tradition, in Western philosophy, God is defined in a sort of classical standard way, which I want to present to you right here. And then let's take a look at these different facets of God that are described. Let's take a look at how many of them are correct, which ones are correct, which ones are false. That's going to be interesting to do. So here's how it's classically defined: God is the supreme being, the first cause. God is the source of all creation, and by creation, we mean creation with a capital C. We mean the entire universe and all the multiverses, everything, anything that is real. God is also said to be infinite, boundless, the all, the one, the absolute.

God is also omniscient or all-knowing, all-intelligent. God is also omnipotent, having unlimited power and the ability to create anything that it wants. God is omnipresent, which means that it's present everywhere. There's nowhere in the universe that God is not, which of course is interesting because that ties in with that point about God being, you see, if God is omnipresent, He would have to be inside of you as well. Sometimes I say God is a He, but you have to understand that God is not a He. If I say that, that's just, you know, in the parlance of sort of colloquial speaking. But um, God is not a He, more properly is to call it an It. Also, God is said to be benevolent or all-loving and good with a capital G. God is said to be incorporeal, eternal, and immortal, and perfect and complete. So that's basically the classic western definition. Now the question is how much of those are correct, and the answer is all of them. This is precisely the correct

definition of god. The problem is accepting it and understanding how this can possibly be so. The reason that I'm saying that all of these are correct is because over the last three years, through my consciousness work, I have directly validated in my direct experience all of these facets. So I'm not just telling you because I've read this stuff someplace, but I have validated for myself that god is the supreme being, the first cause, the source of creation, infinite, boundless, the all, the one, the absolute, that god is omniscient and all-knowing and intelligent to the infinite degree, omnipotent with unlimited power, omnipresent. I've verified that as well. I verified that god is benevolent and all-loving and good with a capital G. I verified that god is incorporeal, eternal, immortal, perfect, and complete. But how can that be? How is it possible to verify such things, you might wonder. Well, we'll get to that, so hold on. Now let's go a little bit deeper into this definition and explain more of these sorts of facets of god.

so god is a radical state of consciousness, but also at the same time, god is all states of consciousness. So, don't think that you need to be in a particular state of consciousness in order to experience god or that god exists only in one state of consciousness. God exists everywhere, including this state of consciousness you're in right now. The only problem is that this present state of consciousness you're right now, you're not conscious that this state of consciousness is a facet of god. Imagine if your consciousness expanded and exploded by a thousand-fold. That's what god is. God is also the absence of self or you. Now, this seems to contradict what I said earlier because earlier I just said you are god. So, Leo, how is it possible that god is the absence of me but also me? Well, that's exactly right. That's the paradox. Both are the case. The way we explain this is god is the absence of you as your limited egoic identity, that thing you identify with, that you tell yourself was born, that has a life story.

the personal you, the biological you, the you that you think is a creature that you is a false conceptual self. So, God is the absence of that. If you get rid of that thing, you will experience yourself as God. But then, what remains of you? Well, nothing really. You experience yourself as pure emptiness. When we strip all qualities away from you, all that remains is just a state of pure empty consciousness or awareness, and that's what God is. So, this is you with a capital Y. You have to distinguish that from the conventional you that we normally talk about, the biological you, the biographical you. That's the false you. That thing has to die. In fact, that is the greatest obstacle to you realizing God. You are the obstacle, you see. And that's why this topic is so tricky, because how do you get rid of you? You want to see God, and yet the thing that's in the way of you seeing God is yourself. God is also synonymous with reality, existence, and truth. So, in a sense, the atheist and the rationalists and the

scientists, they do subscribe to God, but they call their God reality. They call their God nature or existence. But of course, they object when I say this because a rationalist will say, But Leo, I mean sure, yeah, I believe in reality and in nature, but that's not what God is. Now see, Leo, you're redefining things. See, Leo, you're playing a word game here because if God refers to reality, then why do we even need the word God? Why bring in religious connotations and spiritual stuff when we can just say reality is just like this machine. It's got no God-like qualities. It's just a machine. So stop calling it God. But you see, that's not what I mean. The word God does refer to reality, existence, and nature, but the problem is that you as a rationalist, as an atheist, as a scientist, are not conscious of what reality or nature or existence actually are. If you were really conscious, you would realize that they are God. Now why do we call it God? Because that's the most

appropriate word when you become conscious of what reality is. It's conscious and it's divine, and these are inherently baked into reality. And this is the thing that the atheist, the rationalist, and the scientist doesn't understand. Because the atheist, the rationalist, and the scientist treats reality, like I said before, as a mechanical system. And God is not a mechanical system. Reality is not a mechanical system. It's a giant mind. That is what you're missing as an atheist. So really, you have as an atheist created a sort of false god for yourself that you believe in and take completely on blind faith. And which that is what that is, is that that's mechanical reality, an external objective reality that human beings can study with science. That thing doesn't exist. You invented that, and that is your god. And that is the thing that you cling to, just like the religious fundamentalist clings to their notions of god as the bearded man in the clouds. God is consciousness, pure consciousness, the thing in you right now which is

conscious of anything, conscious of existence, that's God. The problem is that for the rationalist, for the materialist, for the atheist, they think of consciousness in a very weak way. They think of consciousness as something that the brain does, as consciousness being something that exists within a physical, mechanical universe. That's not what consciousness is. There is only consciousness. There is no physical, mechanical universe. All of that is content within consciousness. Consciousness is disembodied. Consciousness is not a computer simulation running somewhere. Consciousness is not happening in a brain. All of those things—your computer simulations, and brains, and big bangs, and universes, and signs, and rationality—all of that is content within consciousness. Now, you might say, But how does the consciousness occur? Well, exactly. See, you don't understand yet. You haven't awoken yet. If you were awake and you were conscious of what consciousness is, you would realize that consciousness is singular and has no opposite, and that it is pure magic, pure irreducible magic. And that's the thing that you're avoiding as a

scientist from acknowledging, and that's why you deny this. See, because there's no rational explanation for it, and you're looking for a rational explanation. You're looking to demystify reality, and, uh, as it turns out, that is impossible. You

What Is God?

What Is God?