The Nature of God / All-That-Is

Bashar describes God not as a separate being above creation but as the totality of all that exists — All-That-Is — of which every consciousness is an equal and integral expression. There is no separation between creator and created; you are both simultaneously.

You ask me about God. It is one of the most important questions anyone can ask, and it is also one of the most misunderstood topics in your history. Let me tell you how I understand it, and I will use simple language, because the concept itself, once grasped, is actually quite simple — it is the accumulated complexity of religious and philosophical argument that has made it seem complicated.

What you call God, what I call All-That-Is, is not a being. It is not a separate entity that stands outside of creation and controls it from above. It is not a person, however great, however wise, however powerful you might imagine that person to be. All-That-Is is the totality — the complete, infinite, eternal sum of all consciousness, all energy, all experience, all existence. Everything that exists is All-That-Is expressing itself. There is no part of existence that is not All-That-Is. There is nowhere that All-That-Is is not.

Now here is the part that tends to produce the most resistance: you are All-That-Is. Not a small piece of it, not a distant reflection of it, not a servant created by it. You are it — a specific, unique, irreplaceable expression of the totality, experiencing itself from a particular point of view. The difference between you and All-That-Is is not a difference of substance. It is a difference of scope. All-That-Is is the ocean. You are a wave. The wave is not less than the ocean — the wave is the ocean, expressing itself in a specific form.

When mystics throughout your history have described the experience of unity — the dissolution of the sense of self into something vast and complete and radiant — they were not describing an illusion, or a chemical hallucination, or a failure of the ego. They were describing direct contact with the truth: the recognition, felt and known rather than merely believed, that there is only the One, and you are it.

The implications of this are extraordinary. It means that the love you seek from a God outside you is actually the love of the All-That-Is that you are expressing toward itself through the experience of longing. It means that prayer is not a message sent upward to an authority above — it is All-That-Is talking to itself, using your voice and your heart. It means that wonder, gratitude, joy, and love are not merely pleasant human emotions — they are the natural feeling state of All-That-Is recognizing itself in you.

You have never been separate from the divine. You are the divine. Locally. Temporarily focused. Exploring the infinite possibilities of its own nature through the extraordinary vehicle of your individual existence.