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Key Finding 118 - The biggest influence the past loved ones on earth have upon spirits who are crossed over occurs when those that remain on earth hold on with such grief and to such a degree that it does not allow the person on earth to move forward and it keeps the spirit on the other side too earthbound to move forward in their life as well--into their new spirit life.

Afterlife 101 Section, Chapter 4: Communication from earthlings

Question: How are spirits in heaven affected by the thoughts of their past loved ones on earth?

Spirit Guide: The biggest influence the past loved ones on earth have upon spirits who are crossed over is those that remain on earth holding on with such grief and to such a degree that it does not allow neither the person on earth to move forward and it keeps the spirit on the other side too earthbound to move forward in their life as well--into their new spirit life. We would say that this is the greatest effect those left on earth have on the spirits. Many times such spirits who have crossed over who have been in the public eye and people on earth have a sense of worshiping these spirits for whoever they were, whether they were great leaders, or entertainers, or just personalities. Or whether it's private citizens and just family members who build a shrine.

These are ways that do not allow the spirit to be as free as it could be. There comes a point in time when the spirit itself will talk to its loved ones and ask them to let them be free or a message will be directed to the loved ones of something that would help release that earthly bond. To individuals who have had monuments built in their names and fans continue to go and worship these individuals, there will be some who were so connected to earth that it will take them in earth terms a much longer time to be released. But, generally speaking, all spirits will realize that it is not the fans who are keeping them earthbound but their need to continue to feel that worship towards them. And they will too eventually realize that it is no longer a need as a spirit being as it was as an earth being.

Question: Are there good thoughts from humans on earth that can have good results for spirits in heaven?

Spirit Guide: Most definitely. As you know, as you have experienced in the love and the forgiveness that you sent to your mother, it helped her move from a place that was where she entered because of committing suicide. And her guilt and shame that was still connected to earth did not release her into her full spirit being and your love and your forgiveness and your desire to let her know what she meant to you on this life on earth helped release her to move on into her full spirit being. The understanding that you have come to know about life after life on earth has been a way of giving your late wife a way of moving forward instead of how it might have been for you had you not understood about the continuance of spirit moving on. So what oftentimes a loved one feels will help move the spirit or it can hinder the spirit.

Question: Can a human make contact with a spirit thought to be in heaven even though that spirit has already reincarnated back into human form?

Spirit Guide: Most definitely, because what you are connecting with is the essence of the person that you knew in human life and that essence will always remain in the spirit world even though it will come back to earth in another human form. When a spirit returns to earth in a human form the essence of all of its past personalities remain in the spirit world, and will occasionally come back in a deja vu form once in a while. But in essence when you wish to contact a loved one that you knew in the form it was in the past life on earth you are still connecting to the entire being of that personality.

Question: Can a human cause thoughts to be transmitted to an individual in the spirit world that they never knew on earth?

Spirit Guide: Not without the agreement of the spirit on the other side. Communication is very easy but just as you living on earth, if anybody wanted to contact you for any reason that you did not know it could become very complicated and very time-consuming. So in the same manner it is very similar to that with the spirit on the other side. If you lived on earth and loved Walt Disney and you wanted to communicate a thought to him, though you had never met him, you could communicate the thought of thankfulness for what this individual has created on earth but it is not something that you are awaiting a reply for. You are just telling that individual thank you. But as far as carrying a full conversation on, that without the approval of the spirit does not happen.

Question: Why has it been designed for communication with the afterlife to be so hard? Why are we not able to communicate daily with clarity to them?

Spirit Guide: We are able to communicate daily with clarity with the other side and the spirit world. But for humans we have not been allowed to come into your consciousness as openly and freely as we now can for it has taken you so long to evolve and because there have been so many humans upon your earth who have done everything they can to shut the doors of any communication, of any understanding, of any experiences other than the third-dimensional world. Not all of this has been bad, for again we say you have not been evolved of a spiritual consciousness to accept that. But as you become evolved now and more independent there is not any individual who does not have the ability to communicate with those on the other side, and as you begin to observe events and experiences that are taking place on your earth, you see that more and more individuals are seeing the signs, are seeing the messages, are hearing the words and knowing that yes they are communicating with loved ones on the other side.

Question: From the point of view of those on the other side, what are the best techniques that humans can use or practice in order to improve their own ability to communicate with the other side?

Spirit Guide: We would say that that's a multi-answer question.

First there are those who have come to your earth who just have the ability, they have been able to retain a connection from the other side that's just as natural for them as it is for you humans to breathe. You all have this ability, you all just don't retain that connection to be able to communicate with the other side. The path to connecting as a human to the spiritual side of life is to be willing to open up your heart, to be willing to let go of all restrictions you have been told from life-time to life-time to life-time, of there not being anything but earthlings and that you are the highest form there is. This is a rather ridiculous thought when you look at all you have on your earth and you look beyond your earth and know that there are many connections that can be made with your spirituality connecting to the other side. You all have that ability, you all can tap into that and open the door to walk that path. For each individual there are different ways of doing this.

There are those of you that are comfortable with groups and with teachers who bring you together to be able to share, to help you learn to close down your earth world, to go into your spiritual world through meditation, and to help you open up the other dimensions of your life that you have kept the door shut on. It is your responsibility to determine the teachers that you will use, and, as we say, it is your responsibility though you feel like you may not be getting answers from your earth angels or from your spirit guides. Always ask--"Please help guide and direct me to the right teachers. Help me to be able to discern the energy that is there."--as you are working with spirit teachers on earth and becoming involved with various support groups who have already begun or who want to begin this spiritual journey. You have a responsibility and your responsibility is again to ask for the correct guidance and direction to follow as you begin searching for teachers and mentors on earth.

Then there are those of you who are not comfortable with groups, who feel your journey as a solitary journey at this point in your life. Again, ask your spirit guides for the right direction in finding the proper literature that is written to help guide you on your journey through a totally spiritual connection and to have the right books, the right tapes, the right messages, and the right individuals to walk into your life. Once you say you are ready for this and you are willing to accept as you talk to your spirit angels, messages are coming to you in ways that you would never anticipate. It could be a radio talk show, it could be something on television, it could be a book that landed on your lap, it could be a message from someone you're sitting next to at a lunch counter. Just be open to receiving these messages and also know that you are receiving them even if you don't feel like it's been a bolt of lightning that has hit you. These messages come in very subtle ways. But if this is your choice, go into your meditative state, ask that your heart be opened, ask that you be protected by the light and love of our Creator, ask that you have the right spirit guides and earth angel guides, and then ask that the right people on earth and the right messages come into your life. It may take some of you longer than others but you will be able, if it is your heart's desire, to open the doors that have been closed.

Question: What is it about some people that makes them extraordinary in their ability to communicate with the other side?

They are no more extraordinary than the next person but they have been willing to open their hearts, to accept their other dimensions to life beyond those that you see on earth, and to accept that life does continue after earth. They make a strong spiritual connection with their own spirit guides, with their love and thankfulness to God the Creator. What makes them, as you might say, more exceptional is the fact that they are willing to accept this knowledge, not as a belief but as a knowing and are willing to walk that path, take that journey. Again, we will say there are many of you on earth who have not lost the connection as you reincarnated in this life and so it is a natural thing for you. And then there are those of you who ask to take the journey and open your heart up and let go of all restraints and restrictions that you in the three-dimensional world put on yourself.

Agreement: 118

The Spirits Book-Modern English Edition by Kardec

Spirits are touched by the sustained memory and deep regret of their loved ones. However, persistent and excessive grief causes them considerable distress. They see in it a lack of faith in the future and confidence in God. The survivors' grief could even prevent the departed spirit from a peaceful adaptation to its new reality.

Here and Hereafter by Borgia

The spirit world disapproves of mourning in every shape and form. Genuine, heartfelt sorrow is a human emotion that none of us is secure from, but so much mourning is spurious. Here we can see just what is taking place in the minds of the mourners. Mourning as a rule is utterly selfish, because people are not sorry for the soul who has passed on except in so far as it is thought that he is now infinitely worse off 'dead'. The great majority of people are sorry for themselves at the physical separation, not happy and glad that their friend has gone to a greater, grander, more beautiful life. Of course, I am now speaking of those who are destined for the realms of light. With those whose destination here is in the realms of darkness we are not treating at the moment. Even where the sorrow is perfectly genuine and inspired by true affection, every effort should be made to curb it. The soul newly arrived in spirit lands will feel the determined drag of the thoughts of those who are left behind, unless those thoughts are constructive thoughts for the present and future well-being of the friend who has gone. Thoughts of the wrong kind will draw the soul back like a magnet and prevent it from making a steady and natural transition into its proper sphere. It is no exaggeration to say that it would be immeasurably better, things being what they are upon earth, if mourners on earth were to pass into a complete state of physical insensibility for some days after the passing of a friend into the spirit world. There would then be no danger of the thoughts of others circumscribing the actions of the newly-departed soul.

Here and Hereafter by Borgia

The spirit body may take some days of your time before it becomes completely separated from the earthly body, and it may be hindered very much by the combined thoughts of the sorrowers who are participants in the dismal rites. Instead of departing from the earthly sphere, the discarnate one will be attracted to the scene of obsequial activities, and more than likely will be saddened himself by what he is witnessing and by the sorrow of those he has left behind. He will feel a heavy weight within him of the separation that has come about, and perhaps being ignorant of what has befallen him, he will be doubly distressed, and even trebly distressed by the fact that he speaks to his friends but they cannot hear him. And how great a difference a little knowledge would make!

Here and Hereafter by Borgia

Let the prayers be addressed to the Father of us all, that help may be sent to the soul who has passed on, and that the Father will also aid those who are offering their ministrations to the newly-arrived one. We need divine assistance in our work just as do you upon earth, and often are our powers taxed to their utmost when we come to aid those who are making their advent into spirit lands as permanent residents. Long recitations from the psalmists, however beautiful may be their theme, are perfectly useless to us and to the newcomer we are helping. They produce no effect whatever upon the endeavors we are making. A short prayer, efficiently directed, asking for help, will bring an instantaneous answer. That response will be invisible to you on earth, but to us here it means a downpouring of light and power that we most need for the case in hand. Pray that the soul may soon receive the light of understanding of the new situation in which he finds himself, if he is entirely ignorant of spirit truths, and that he may be happy and contented in the life upon which he has just embarked.

Here and Hereafter by Borgia

From the fact that a mourner is spending time at the grave, indulging in melancholy thoughts of the soul who has passed on, and contemplating that a few feet of earth are now separating them, and so on, you will infer, in such a case, that the mourner has no acquaintance with spirit truths, or else he would never think that the departed one really lies there himself. We in the spirit world know that a soul who gradually yields to such melancholy importunities of thought as are being sent out from the earth, knows very little of spirit truths. And being in such case, when a soul returns to the earth and stands in the presence of the mourner and tries to talk to and comfort the one who is left behind, he becomes acutely disturbed in mind when he discovers that his voice cannot be heard on the earth. His words are falling unheeded upon the air. The thoughts of sorrow and despair pass and re-pass in a constant stream until at last both persons become exhausted with the emotional strain. The mourner will eventually leave the graveside, the newly-arrived spirit will return whence he came, and both are filled with inconsolable sadness. The whole performance has done no good whatever on the contrary, it has had a very bad effect upon both parties. And what is still worse, the episode will be repeated and repeated until we on our side can instil some reason into our distracted friend, and show him the futility of the proceedings. Better counsels will eventually prevail, and the visitations to the resting place of the physical body will cease. In the meantime, the soul has passed through a period of untold misery that could have been avoided if only those who were left behind upon earth had possessed themselves of the necessary knowledge of spirit truths.

Disagreement: 118

Here and Hereafter by Borgia

From the moment of passing until the physical body is finally committed to the earth, and frequently for some time afterwards, the thoughts of the mourners are concentrated in sorrow upon the departed one. The various performances that comprise the 'last rites' add force to this sorrow, enhance it, and give it greater directive power. Where this feeling of sorrow is genuine it will unfailingly reach the recently departed soul.

{STILL IN PLANNING: At a later date still to be determined as discussion will ensue as to whether this is really an issue and whether the disagreement really constitutes a disagreement. No prospective questions have been formulated.}

Key Finding 140 - God is each and every item, each and every animal, each and every rock and tree, each and every individual being. God is in everything and everyone. The Creator has always been and always will be.

Afterlife 101 Section, Chapter 4

Question: Who or what is God?

Spirit Guide: You are asking the question that every person upon their journeys who ever encounters the word God will ask. God is each and every item, each and every animal, each and every rock and tree, each and every individual being. God is in everything and everyone. The connection and the journey of you as humans is to begin to understand that God is this force of energy that is in everything and that you all are. As you move in your spiritual connection, you move closer and closer to this energy of totalness of everybody. Everything on earth is just an individualized expression of who God is but the actions that individuals take are not who God is. That is the actions of the ego and personality of the individuals. As an individual crosses over once again into the spirit world they are part of the oneness that they feel more and more. It can be just the connection with the oneness of their spirit family that they have and as a group that is often the case. There is a non-individual but a oneness within.

Question: What is the origin of our Creator/God?

Spirit Guide: If any of us both in spirit form or human form knew that answer, then we would be higher than God. We do not have an answer for you, just to know in your heart that the Creator has always been and always will be.

Question: Can one visualize God?

Spirit Guide: One can visualize God every second of their life for you are a living individualized form of God. You can see God in babies, in children, in flowers, in the beauty of your worlds, in the love of two people together. All you have to be willing to do is to look and use your eyes from love and compassion and you will see the passion with which God has created all things. And you are one of all those things, being an extension of God.

Question: Does God evolve as events take place in the universe and the spiritual world and as highly-evolved spirits are integrated into the oneness?

Spirit Guide: Spirits are already part of the oneness just as every human being on your earth and every being from other home base planets. Does God evolve? Again it is the question--where did the Creator come from? If we knew if God evolved, He/She/It is always pleased with the raising of consciousness of each individual upon your planet earth. But know that as you evolve you are moving closer to the Creator and as you evolve you see the evolution in your own consciousness and know that you are moving closer to the Creator. We know as individual beings that when we do things as children to please our parents the love evolves into another level. We know that every time we receive love, we receive understanding, we receive support at a level of raising our consciousness that we are being more God-like and we continue that evolution throughout all lifetimes.

Question: Will the entire creation of God--including all the spirits, all the heavenly realms, all the physical worlds--ultimately be replaced by a new Creator and creation, just as new leaves replace old?

Spirit Guide: No. There is one Creator and one Creator only. The souls will stay. There will be no change that we know of as you are talking about.

Question: What is the evidence for the existence of God?

Spirit Guide: We would say that you are the evidence for the existence of God. Everything around you is the evidence of the existence of God the Creator. The evidence of the love, of the generosity, of the compassion, of the forgiveness--all of these are evidence that there is God and that you are God. For as you begin to experience this compassion, as you begin to experience this love, as you begin to experience this forgiveness, you are moving in with the energies of the Creator and as you begin to experience this and understand this more in your life you then move more and more into the knowingness of the Creator and understand that all is evidence of the Creator.

Question: When a spirit reaches a high state of oneness with God, is its personality equivalent to being dissolved into a common pool?

Spirit Guide: We tend to want to chuckle with this statement for you on earth are all so afraid of losing your own individuality and your own personality and feel that if you move into this oneness you are no longer you. But you are the oneness and in the spirit world you do not have the ego personality that you have on earth. You are a vibrating form of energy that moves more into the knowingness of what your oneness means, into knowing that you too are all that is.

Key Finding 142 - Every living thing and every living thought is a manifestation of the Creator of everything. When you become aware that you are connected to everyone and everything, you become aware that you and the Creator are one. That is how your spiritual evolution evolves.

Afterlife 101 Section, Chapter 4: Oneness

Question: What does "oneness" mean, as you use it?

Spirit Guide: Oneness means that you become knowing that you are part of one of everything. You are a manifestatation of the Creator's thought process. Every living thing and every living thought is a manifestation of the Creator of everything. When you become aware that you are connected to everyone and everything, you become aware that you and the Creator are one. That God is not the supreme being that sits up in heaven and watches over you, but that you and God are one and the same. And that is how your spiritual evolution evolves.

Agreements

The Seth Material by Roberts

You are cocreators. What you call God is the sum of all consciousness, and yet the whole is more than the sum of Its parts. God is more than the sum of all personalities, and yet all personalities are what He is. There is constant creation. There is within you a force that knew how to grow you from a fetus to a grown adult. This force is part of the innate knowledge within all consciousness, and it is a part of the God within you.

The Seth Material by Roberts

There is no personal God-individual in Christian terms...and yet you do have access to a portion of All That Is, a portion highly attuned to you...There is a portion of All That Is directed and focused within each individual, residing within each consciousness. Each consciousness is, therefore, cherished and individually protected. This portion of overall consciousness is individualized within you. The personality of God as generally conceived is a one-dimensional concept based upon man's small knowledge of his own psychology. What you prefer to think of as God is, again, an energy gestalt or pyramid consciousness. It is aware of itself as being, for instance, you, Joseph. It is aware of itself as the smallest seed...This portion of All That Is that is aware of itself as you, that is focused within your existence, can be called upon for help when necessary. This portion is also aware of itself as something more than you. This portion that knows itself as you, and as more than you, is the personal God, you see. Again: this gestalt, this portion of All That Is, looks out for your interests and may be called upon in a personal manner. Prayer contains its own answer, and if there is no white-haired kind old father-God to hear, then there is instead the initial and ever expanding energy that forms everything that is and of which each human being is a part. This psychic gestalt may sound impersonal to you, but since its energy forms your person, how can this be? If you prefer to call this supreme psychic gestalt God, then you must not attempt to objectify him, for he is the nuclei of your cells and more intimate than your breath.

The Seth Material by Roberts

Consciousness, seeking to know itself, therefore knows you. You as a consciousness, seek to know yourself and become aware of yourself as a distinct portion of All That Is. You not only draw upon this overall energy but you do so automatically since your existence is dependent upon it.

The Seth Material by Roberts

Seth's Concept of God: He is not human in your terms, though he passed through human stages and here the Buddhist myth comes closest to approximating reality. He is not individual, but an energy gestalt...the way in which the universe expands, that it has nothing to do with space...a psychic pyramid of interrelated, ever-expanding consciousness that creates, simultaneously and instantaneously, universes and individuals that are given-through the gifts of personal perspective-duration, psychic comprehension, intelligence, and eternal validity. This absolute, ever-expanding, instantaneous psychic gestalt, which you may call God if you prefer, is so secure in its existence that it can constantly break itself down and rebuild itself. Its energy is so unbelievable that it does indeed form all universes and because its energy is within and behind all universes, systems, and fields, it is indeed aware of each sparrow that falls, for it is each sparrow that falls.

Seth Speaks by Roberts

If you think, however, that the self as you know it is the end or summation of yourself, then you also imagine your soul to be a limited entity bounded by its present ventures in one life alone, to be judged accordingly after death on the performance of a few paltry years. The soul stands both within and without the fabric of physical life as you know it. You are not separated from the animals and the rest of existence by virtue of possessing an eternal inner consciousness. Such a consciousness is present within all living beings, and in all forms.

Seth Speaks by Roberts

The soul is open-ended, therefore. It is not a closed spiritual or psychic system. I have tried to show you that the soul is not a separate, apart-from-you thing. It is no more divorced from you than - capital - God is. There is no need to create a separate god who exists outside of your universe and separate from it, nor is there any need to think of a soul as some distant entity. God, or All That Is, is intimately a part of you. 'His' energy forms your identity, and your soul is a part of you in the same manner.

Seth Speaks by Roberts

... the fact that beneath these developments there are the eternal aspects and creative characteristics of a force that is both undeniable and intimate. All That Is, in other words, represents the reality from which all of us spring. All That Is, by its nature transcends all dimensions of activity, consciousness, or reality, while being a part of each...The journeys of the gods, therefore, represent the journeys of man's own consciousness projected outward. All That Is, however, within each such adventure. Its consciousness, and its reality, is within each man, and within the gods he has created. That last is in small letters, and gods shall always be in small letters. All That Is is capitalized.

Seth Speaks by Roberts

God is more than the sum of all the probable systems of reality he has created, and yet he is within each one of these, without exception. He is therefore within each man and woman. He is also within each spider, shadow, and frog, and this is what man does not like to admit. God can only be experienced, and you experience him whether or not you realize it, through your own existence. He is not male or female, however, and I use the terms only for convenience's sake. In the most inescapable truth, he is not human in your terms at all, nor in your terms is he a personality. Your ideas of personality are too limited to contain the multitudinous facets of his multidimensional existence. On the other hand, he is human, in that he is a portion of each individual and within the vastness of his experience he holds an 'idea-shape' of himself as human, to which you can relate. He literally was made flesh to dwell among you, for he forms your flesh in that he is responsible for the energy that give vitality and validity to your private multidimensional self which in turn forms your image in accordance with your own ideas. This private multidimensional self, or the soul, has then an eternal validity. It is upheld, supported, maintained by the energy, the inconceivable vitality, of All That Is. It cannot be destroyed then, this inner self of yours, nor can it be diminished. It shares in those abilities that are inherent within All That Is. It must, therefore, create as it is created, for this is the great giving that is behind all dimensions of existence, the spilling-over from the fountain of All That Is.

Seth Speaks by Roberts

To say that physical life is not real is to deny that reality pervades all appearance, and is a part of all appearance. In the same manner, God does not exist apart from or separate from physical reality, but exists within it and as a part of it, as he exists within and as a part of all other systems of existence.

Seth Speaks by Roberts

All That Is simultaneously and unendingly creates itself...All That Is is a source of infinite and unending simultaneous action. Everything happens at once, and yet there is no beginning and end to it in your terms, so it is not completed in your terms at any given point...Ultimately a completed or finished God, or All That Is, would end up smothering his creation. For perfection presupposes that point beyond which development is impossible, and creativity at an end. There is order, but within this order there is freedom - the freedom of creativity, that characteristic of All That Is, that guarantees its infinite becoming. Now in that infinite becoming, there are states that you would call perfected, but had creativity rested within them, all of experience would be destined to grind to a halt...All That Is is inexhaustible. Infinity rests within simultaneous action...

Seth Speaks by Roberts

All That Is is alive within the least of itself, aware within for example the molecule. It endows all of its parts - or its creations - with its own abilities that then act as inspiration, impetus, guiding lines and principles, by which these parts then seek to further create themselves, their own worlds and systems. This is freely given.

Seth Speaks by Roberts

There is no such simple end to the life that you know, [such] as the story of heaven. There is the freedom to understand your own reality, to develop your abilities further, and to feel more deeply the nature of your own existence as a part of All That Is.

Seth Speaks by Roberts

...we are all thought-forms...

The Seth Material by Roberts

Each part of the self, while independent to some considerable degree, is nevertheless responsible to every other portion of the self and each whole self [entity] is responsible to all others, while it is largely independent as to activity and decision.

The Seth Material by Roberts

He [Seth] describes reincarnation as only a small part of our entire development. Other equally important existences occur in other non-physical dimensions.

The Seth Material by Roberts

Learning to some extent is passed on through the genes, biochemically, but this is a physical materialization of inner knowledge achieved and retained from past lives...The human being does not...erupt into existence at birth and laboriously then begins its first attempt to gain experience. If this were the case, you would still be back in the Stone Age. There are waves of energy, and waves of reincarnational patterns, for there have been many Stone Ages on your planet, where new identities did begin their 'first' experience with physical existence, and changed the face of the earth as they progressed.

The Seth Material by Roberts

Now Jane Roberts writing: In other words, the whole frame of reality according to Seth includes far more than reincarnation and development within the physical system that we know. We have many sessions dealing with the nature of other realities, and sessions on cosmology ... One of the most important points, I think, is that God is not static Himself... as Seth says, Even this overall pyramid gestalt is not static. Most of your God concepts deal with a static God, and here is one of your main theological difficulties. The awareness and experience of this gestalt constantly changes and grows. There is no static God. When you say, 'This is God,' the God is already something else. I am using the term 'God' for simplicity's sake. All portions of All That Is are constantly changing, enfolding and unfolding. All That Is, seeking to know Itself, constantly creates new versions of Itself. For this seeking Itself is a creative activity and the core of all action.

The Wisdom of the Soul by Ian Lawton

Soul consciousness is holographic.  We are both individual aspects of the Source, and full holographic representations of it, all at the same time.  However this does not mean that soul individuality is in itself an illusion.  The definition of a hologram is that the part contains the whole, and yet at the same time is clearly distinguishable from it.  The Source's primary aim, in diversifying into all the billions of holographic soul aspects of itself that operate in the various realms throughout the universe, is to experience all that is and can be.  As individualized aspects of the Source who have chosen to reincarnate on this planet, we are merely fulfilling a small part of that objective by gaining a balance of all the experiences available via this route.

Between Death & Life by Dolores Cannon

Spirit:  We would ask that you visualize this scene.  In all creation from the very edges of every universe to the center and back, there is a force, unseen but there nonetheless, which is an invisible structure holding everything together.  In concrete there is rebarb (reinforcing bars), invisible to the naked eye but holding the concrete together nonetheless...Then this is the God concept.  It is the rebarb of the universe which holds all together, unseen but there nonetheless.  For were this to phase out for even a fraction of a second there would be total, utter, complete destruction. This is the God concept which has been given personality status on your world.

The Spirits' Book by Allan Kardec

Question: Can any individual understand the essential nature of God? 

Spirit:  No, human beings lack the capability for such understanding...

Discussion:  God is infinite and eternal...God is unchangeable...God is immaterial and by nature differs from everything we call matter...God is unique...God is all-powerful...God is sovereignly just and good.

Between Death & Life by Dolores Cannon

Spirit: ...God simply is.  God is, period...The concept of God is the sum of all, of everything.  We are God.  We are collectively God, we are individual pieces of God.  God is not one, but God is all.

Disagreements

The Spirits Book-Modern English Edition by Kardec

Humanity, unable to become God, is eager to become at least a part of God

The Spirits Book-Modern English Edition by Kardec

Commentary by Kardec - The intelligence of God is revealed in the work of God, just as the painter's appears through the picture on a canvas. The works of God are no more God than the picture is the artist who conceived and painted it.

{STILL IN PLANNING: No prospective questions have been formulated yet because there is an issue yet to be resolved at a date to be determined as to whether there is really an issue involved here and whether the disagreements are strong enough to constitute such an issue. Recent updates from published sources may have resolved this which is what our prospective discussion will be about.}