Many people think that the concept of holy trinity is originally Christian but it was not present in the time of Jesus, and was only formulated four centuries after his death. Christianity as we know it developed gradually, and many of its ideas were taken from Greek and Roman philosophers. Such as the idea of thought, will, and reason being so called ‘logos’, which is translated as the ‘word’. John the Evangelist wrote in his gospel, ‘In the beginning there was the word, and the word was with God, and God was the word’. From this comes also the term ‘Jesus is the word of God’. In the council of Nicaea the main ideas of Christianity were formulated, such as the trinity of God, Holy Spirit and Christ. The trinity of the Son and Holy Ghost and the Father. Some translate this as three flames of God, where Jesus was supposed to be the only Son of God.
While we can feel the meaning of the terms Father and Son, the idea of the Holy Spirit is harder to grasp. How did the Christians come up with it? This idea comes actually from Judaism, as the Hebrew translation ‘the Spirit of God’. In Genesis it is written that during creation, the Spirit of God was hovering over the earth’. But it seems that unlike in Christianity that spirit was not seen as a distinct person, but as an active presence of God on the earth.
Anyways, thinking of Christianity and Judaism is tiresome, because it is like entering the strange mind of a disturbed person. This is what religions are, they are minds, strange minds, and nothing more. It is not that the mind is a negative thing, because as we know without the thinking faculty we could not exist. But if the mind is just the mind and nothing more, or if the mind is dominating our existence and locking us in the terrible prisn of religious dogmas, this is hell.
Trinity of Identity
What is the real trinity? It is the Trinity of Identity of the personal me, the universal me and I Am. I understand that for some this is just a concept because they do not experience even the personal me. And some of you do experience the personal me, but not the universal me, so the universal me is just a concept for you. And some experience the universal me, but not I Am, so I Am is just a concept for you.
Everything is just a concept unless you experience it. But it does not mean that the concept disappears after what it points to have been experienced. At times, it can be indeed forgotten when it has fulfilled its purpose, but most often it remains as a name for the experience. Such as when you see a chair and you say ‘this is a chair’, you are describing what you clearly see. Spiritual concepts are either pointing to an experience that needs to be attained, or they describe reality that has been already attained. But for the seekers, the spiritual concepts are most often intangible; they are more like promises and beliefs in realities that may or may not exist. In this sense, ungrounded spirituality which is orientated towards achieving ‘enlightenment’ is similar to religion, even though the ideas differ. Here, instead of believing in a higher deity, one believes in the mysterious and intangible self-realization.
Initially, as you follow our teaching, you merely ‘believe’ that there is Me. However, when you are more mature and intuitive, you are not just believing, but are able to sense the reality of it. Me is not yet fully part of your present, but you have a connection to the future of it hidden in the present. The very purpose of the concept of Me is not to create another belief, but to give you a direction so that you know it as yourself. Me is such a simple concept, and you can experience it in an instant. As a teacher, my role is not only to give you conceptual understanding of the spiritual dimension, but help you to move as fast as possible to the reality of it.
We have already established that there is only Me, and that you are that Me. However, Me can be realized with different degrees of depth. The deeper you enter Me the deeper you know who you really are. There are three levels to this realization, the personal me, the universal me, and I Am
Compared to the holy trinity, the Son would be the personal me. The Holy Ghost, the universal me. And the Father would be I Am. The personal me is our individual incarnation, but if we fail to awaken it, it remains unconscious. So the Son needs to awaken to become really the Son of God, otherwise he is not known by God. The true Son is the awakened personal me. Seeing Jesus as the only Son of God as it was established in by the Church is diminishing us, a strategy of inferiority designed to control and enslave the believers. Anyways, following this metaphor, when you realize the personal me, you become ‘Christ’.
Now, the Holy Ghost represents the universal me. This one is more difficult to grasp due to its mysterious nature. It is just beyond anything that people can imagine; and this includes those who are versed in spiritual teachings. The universal me is the original emanation of I Am that contains the whole creation and the spontaneous intelligence of the universe. It is not aware of itself. The universal me can become conscious only through us, through our surrender to Me.
Spiritual evolution
Spiritual evolution is not just a linear movement forward, but it is also about retracing our steps and remembering our origin. From the unconscious me, the awakened me is born, the personal me. The personal me is conscious of itself, but it still remains unconscious of the universal me. Initially, it cannot feel the universal me because it is not in its field of recognition, it has no access to it. Even though it is everywhere, the universal me is also nowhere as long as it is not realized. At the start, for us it simply does not exist. It comes into existence by becoming our Me.
To awaken the universal me, the personal me has to surrender, but into what? Remember, the universal me is purely theoretical for the personal me at this point. To enter the reality of the universal me, the personal me has to surrender into itself. Through surrender to itself, Me is entering a deeper, transpersonal, and non-psychological dimension of itself, the universal me. The personal me itself can be seen as a portal to the universal me. The paradoxical nature of the awakening of the universal me is that it is both awakening of it and to it. Through our surrender, the universal me which is containing and permeating all the universe, becomes conscious of itself.
The personal me is surrendering to itself, but seen from the higher perspective it is surrendering to I Am which is hidden in its innermost existence. Similar to the universal me, I Am is not conscious. It gets conscious through the feedback from its creation, namely through Me that is able to recognize it by the act of its surrender. I Am is hidden within me, and becomes realized through even deeper surrender than to the universal me. To know it, one has to pass the gateway within the universal me. I Am is God, the primordial singularity and source of creation.
It is all Me
We could say that the personal me is the child, the universal me is the mother, and I Am is the father. This is the holy trinity within us. It is all Me, and there is no other God than Me. It is true that I Am is not Me, it is deeper than Me. However, when it is realized by us, from the standpoint of the personal me, it also is experienced as Me. When the child returns to his Father, that return transforms the Father. I Am in its divine singularity is not self-aware. This is why it needs Me to recognize itself. We could call this new level of realization the Primordial Me. Primordial Me is the I Am woken up through the personal me.
In our teaching, of course I will not use the term ‘holy trinity’, because this concept originates in the objectification of God and ignorance of Me. However, we will use the term the trinity of identity. It is really amazing to know that we exist on three levels at the same time, and they are all Me. To get to know yourself, you need to simply be Me, and surrender to Me, so that you can access the final depth of your precious self.
Religions and the Sinful Objectification of God
Some of you may say that you are not religious or even that you don’t believe in God. But keep in mind that we are all unconsciously influenced by the collective mind and our cultures in which religions left a deep imprint. Even if you don’t believe in God, your disbelief is a mere refusal to identify with religious beliefs, not really understanding why they are wrong. Even us, and so many spiritual seekers, share certain beliefs in God or gods outside of them. They may assume that the Self is inside, but they still pray to God outside of them. There are many seekers like that. You could say that prayer has some therapeutic value, and you speak to your own unconscious mind, but still the religious concept of prayer is fundamentally born out of human ignorance. There is a right and wrong prayer. If you pray to God outside of you, this is wrong because God is not there. God is in Me. The direction of prayer is into Me. The personal me prays to the universal me. If you pray to gods outside of you, no one hears you, because your prayer is misdirected into nothing. To know what prayer is, is to know oneself.
Religions are like stories, and people need stories as children need fairy tales to expand their imagination. And it is true. But the problem is that religions are not just innocent stories. They are dogmatic constructs designed to enslave the human mind. The so-called ‘believers’, are people committed to living in religious delusion, in a religious mental asylum. Religions are dangerous, because they make us mindless, and create guilt terrorizing poor people with the threat of final judgment and eternal damnation looming over them; after all no one can be good enough for their God, and everyone feels guilty, afraid and ashamed. In Christianity we are even supposingly born into sin; guilty as charged. But all religions are in many ways similar. The vision of terrible hells is present even in Buddhism. It is all rather sadomasochistic.
This brainwashing starts with indoctrination of innocent children. Children have no defenses against the ignorance and religious entitlement of adults and absorb everything that is given to them. Later on, as they grow up they may begin to question their beliefs, but the majority keep living in the prison of their religious convictions. If you believe in Jesus, Christian god, Hindu god, what are you really? To believe in god outside of you belittles the dignity of being a human being, disempowering us. The fact that it is still happening all around us is telling us how primitive, highly unintelligent and fundamentally dishonest human beings are. It is just so sad.
True education
True parents would never impose religious beliefs on the child. Rather they would gently guide the child towards Me. This is the meaning of true education. In an ideal and conscious society, children would learn from a very early age how to honour Me. They would grow into the fundamental appreciation of being Me. Imagine a child that discovers his ultimate worthiness by knowing his precious Me. This would be so beautiful. Everyone would be beautiful, because Me is beautiful.
Freeing Spirituality from Religion
Sadly, the spiritual path is often confused with religions. We know that even the Buddha teaching has become a religion in many countries. One can think, oh this is just to make the spiritual teaching simpler for the masses. But in reality it is just a terrible distortion of Buddha teaching, which goes against everything that he stood for. A spiritual seeker is meant to rise from religious dogmatism as a true individual in the search of truth.
Believing in God outside of us is blasphemy because it dishonours our very Me. Praying to God outside of us is the very epitome of human ignorance. Religions are guilty of misdirection of the very meaning of God. Human ignorance has no bounds, is infinite. It is actually terrifying. And the only remedy for it is to break the shackles, to wake up and come back to Me. Me is God, Me is salvation, Me is the heaven on earth. So let’s pray to the God within us, which is Me, that this very Me will come into our world and bring light, peace and love to all living beings. Lets pray that human beings come back to Me. It is the only salvation of this world.
Why god does not answer our prayers
If you pray to God outside of you, your prayers will not be answered for the very simple reason that God is not there; here you pray to nothing, to the absence of God. So of course, nobody can answer your prayers because there is nobody to answer them. Some swear that God is answering their prayers but living in denial is one of the main coping strategies of human beings. There is also an argument that this physical dimension is too dense for the divine to really enter; this is why the help that comes our way is so limited. Limited or none? Why for God who is omnipresent and omnipotent the density of our reality should constitute a limiting factor? He created it after all. Well, we could look for some rationalizations here, but it is in vain because it is the initial premise that is off, our concept of God is skewed, such as seeing God as an object outside of us. The reason he does not answer our prayers is because no one is praying to him, people pray to wrong gods. It is like posting a letter with a wrong mailing address and then being surprised that no response ever comes.
What is the real prayer?
What is the real prayer? Don’t look into the sky, look into yourself. But know that we cannot pray to God within us unless we enter our Me, unless we surrender to the universal me. If we do not enter his realm, he cannot enter our realm. He can only enter here through us. What does it tell us? It shows us that prayer is part of our spiritual awakening, because unless we awaken our true self, our prayers are futile, no one is listening, and we only pray to our own mind. The mind does not know what prayer is – only our true self, only Me, can pray. Prayer and surrender must be one, because communication with God within us happens in the space of highest intimacy and the sublime embrace by the universal me.
True God lives in your Me. True prayer is the devotion to Me, surrender to Me. But in that surrender there is communication with the universal me, which is the innermost Me. You can speak to it, and ask for help. And it will answer because after all it is Me. Not always in a way you expect because universal intelligence sees reality from a higher perspective, overseeing everything, and knowing better than you your highest good. True prayer is the direct communication with the innermost Me. You are praying to your own self that is living within you. So do you know who is praying? It is you, as the personal me that is praying to the universal me, by loving it and speaking to it, as you speak to the beloved mother within you. Prayer is love for Me, love within Me, and love that is Me.