What's Your Earliest Memory of God?

While I was getting my Cancer infusion I heard...

What's Your First Memory of God?

As I was getting my chemo dripping into me, I was listening to a podcast where the speakers were talking about the images of God they were taught that were totally different from their first encounters with God. It gave me pause to reflect.

I thought about my first encounters with God.

As kids, we’re little mystics because our brains are generally in the mystic brain states of Alpha and Theta.

I was 3 1/2, and as I was a preacher’s kid, the parish was my playground. So I walked into the empty church next door. There, In the stillness, I could feel a warm, peaceful presence enveloping me in love. I was a little startled but settled into the comfort. Through the dusty shadows and filtered light, that Presence enveloped me in one eternal moment that is still with me.

Oh, Here’s a picture of me at one and a half as I reflect on what I remember then.

What’s Your Earliest Memory of God?

I’d love it if you respond in the comments. Your experience is your story.

Foot Notes: As Babies, we’re born fresh from eternity into this time-space world. As kids, until we’re 6 or 7, we’re little mystics because our brains are generally in the mystic brain states of Alpha and Theta because we’re downloading a lifetime of information and can’t take the time to disseminate all the modalities of information we’re being encoded with. Trama generally kicks us into our normal dualistic brain state, Beta, which develops our Ego.

Then there’s this:

And Jesus said: “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.

Note: We can live in Heaven on Earth. It’s a return to Eden. Most folks wait until they die. But we can die to our egos now and start living in heaven now. It’s how Jesus lived as Christ on earth. If our lives are hidden in Christ, we can live in heaven, too. It’s a consciousness shift beyond our egos and will. To live in Heaven is to live a life of grace and gratitude.

Note: Anytime you hear: change, repentance, or conversion in Scripture, just think, ‘Loosing the Ego…dying to self, turning away from ourselves toward the Eternal, that’s what repentance literally means. 

To put on the mind of Christ is a consciousness shift from time to eternity. We are born into this world as little mystics, and we are called to be born again from heaven with our mystic minds predominating over our dualistic or divided minds. 

This is the main purpose of spiritual practices. We die to our egoic, or false selves, so that we might live out of our true transcendent selves connected to source. 
 
Paul wrote about this when he says that the first Adam was a human being, while the last Adam (Jesus) was a life-giving spirit. In Christ we are life-giving spirits. It's a consciousness shift. 

Abide in me, and I abide in you, for apart from me you can do nothing. Ie as we're connected into the vast creative consciousness of God.  In our egoic mind, all is dust and ashes.  

\(https://www.amazon.com/Biology-Belief-10th-Anniversary-Consciousness/dp/140195247X\)