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| I concede, Max - you're right. You are God!!
Max, you are right. In your subjective reality, you are God, and in my subjective reality, I am God.
Just to validate what you've been saying, and to add a little extra spin, here's what I make of it all.
In the beginning, now and forever, is All-Knowingness, the great "I Am".
"I Am" wished to experience (I don't know why) as other "I Am"s, other versions of itself, which are us.
In order to maintain a sense of individuality and separateness amongst us "I Am"s, the world of mind, time and space came into being.
So, to use an analogy, the big "I Am" is like the sun, from which sprout other "I Am"s, i.e. us, created in it's image and likeness. Some great mystics and saints of the past have sussed out this problem of ego/mind/space and time and have merged again with big momma "I Am".
Some are very close, so close that you could hardly get a cigarette paper between them.
However, most of us are drifting further away from the source of "I Am", having become embroiled in the traps of ego/mind/space and time, etc.
Some of us blame our pain and suffering on "I Am", while others have totally forgotten that they originate from "I Am". Some have experimented with the no-no rules, like killing, stealing, lying,etc. and have drifted even further from "I Am".
I appear to be a little "I Am", but actually, I am the great "I Am" as well. If I can clear out the clogged up conduit between myself and the great "I Am", an incredible two way flow of love and power takes place: the great "I Am" becoming more fulfilled and self-realized in experiencing itself as the little "I Am" and the little "I Am" becoming more fulfilled and self-realized in experiencing itself as the great "I Am".
In fact, the little "I Am" is the great "I Am" and vice versa. It's a bit like the mystery of the Christian doctrine of the Trinity: there are three persons in one God. Each person is separate and distinct, but each person is God. So it is with us.
So, when you say you are God (as long as you are not saying it from the ego self), you are God.
The Jews originally had it right, when they sensed the "I Am" was present. They said the name could not be spoken and referred to it as three letters : JWH. Then they started calling it Jahweh. Soon they had scaled it down to accommodate their human whims and gave "I Am" a masculine, misogynistic personality, prone to fits of jealousy, anger and revenge, which reflected the time and culture in which they lived. That's where traditional religion went wrong.
However, there is a danger - trying to get too much of "I Am" too quickly. It would be like pumping 1 million volts of electricity into a device capable of handling only 220 volts. There are recorded case of people, whilst meditating deeply on their chakras, have opened them up too quickly and allowed such a great influx of energy that they have had heart attacks and died.
As we exist withing a mind/body/ego framework we need to bring this into ourselves calmly and gradually. We are all connected with same "I Am" stuff, so the more united we are and the closer we get to the source of "I Am", the happier amd more fulfilled we will be.
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