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Who or what is God?
I have come to realise that the main problem facing any 'religious' or would-be spiritual person is that the traditional concept of God is so WRONG!

Does a God of some sort exist? Well, if the purpose of our life is to progress spiritually, what or who are we progressing towards? Therefore does it follow that 'God' or the 'Source' must exist? Or are we progressing towards the ultimate perfection of ourselves? And is this perfect version of ourselves actually part of the Source? I have, certainly in the past, found that believing in an afterlife is easier than believing in a God, but that's because my concept of God was wrong.

What God is NOT!
However, of this I am certain: it is easier to say what God is not than what God is, since words are inadequate to describe something as infinte as God. I'm not intending to offend anyone, but the more I think of it, the more ridiculous some concepts of God appear. Problems come as soon as we start to think of God as a person: has God got a long white beard? Does God sit on a throne? This is ridiculous nonsense - has he got buttocks then?! Does God have human weaknesses - does he get angry or vengeful? Does he punish people? Or perhaps 'he' is a 'she'? All this is nonsense. It is because humans have needed to 'reduce' God to something understandable that God has become a superhuman human being, along with many of our human faults!! It is high time that we jettisoned these old, limiting ideas. If some people need to think of God as a loving person, then make sure that that love is truly unconditional, and doesn't ever, ever stop, no matter what you do. However, the idea is still limiting. I quote - "we have made God in our own image".

It is important not to think of God as a kind old man looking after his world, because then you might blame God for 'tragedies' and other 'acts of God' - see below under Does God interfere...? And is there such a thing as God's will anyway?

Actually, problems come as soon as we use the word 'God', because that word instantly conjures up traditional images of a person as described above! However, since I am trying to relate what I think 'God' is, I will have to use the word to a certain extent anyway.

I do not believe that 'God' has a particular physical appearance. Spirits who are highly progressed no longer need a physical appearance. (And when I say physical here, I include the finer physicality that is in the spirit world, as our loved ones who have passed on tell us that they seem to have just a solid a body as they did on earth, only a much better one!)

Some people (on earth) say we shall 'meet' God when we die. Well, if so, we won't be shaking hands with 'him'. That meeting will be on the deepest soul level possible, like meeting our true selves. You might say "but if he wanted to, being God, couldn't he appear in human or any other form?" I would reply that as we and all creation are part of God, then he has/does in a sense - but not as an all-powerful, fearful God - that would not be right at all. Spirits, and many people who have had a Near Death Experience (NDE) say that they can sense God all around them as the most amazing and complete feeling of love and acceptance. We are also told that there are manifestations or representations of God in the 'next' world.

I also believe that after death it will still be 'almost' an eternity before we are ready for that most final of re-connections. BUT, we shall nevertheless feel so much closer to the source of infinite love (aka God), than we can ever understand in this physical body, so do not get me wrong: we will not feel separated from God unless we are so full of hatred and unkindness that we cannot bear to be in a place where Love is. If so, that is our choice, not God's punishment. There is a big difference between feeling connected with God and actually re-joining with God as part of 'him'. If we feel separated from God now, it is only an illusion caused by the grossness (ie. low vibration) of our earthly bodies and this earthly existence. We all need to be more aware of that connection. Meditation is one of the best ways to begin to achieve this.

Incidentally, God does not have to be worshipped. Why would 'he'? That would imply that he is egotistical and needy. And no, you do not need to go to a church - the universe is the church! (Actually this was the first and a very strong message that I remember receiving at about the age of 12: I was just sitting alone quietly on my grandparents' sofa and I asked the question in my head "Do we have to go to church to pray?" and immediately I got the answer "No, anywhere can be a church." It was such a clear answer that I went all hot and cold. I wasn't even expecting an answer, but I knew that someone had spoken to me inside my head and that it was not my own mind. It must have been one of my spiritual guides. Looking back, that was one of the clearest communications I have ever had.)
This makes interesting reading:
HuffingtonPost-Who or What is God?
Seth
When I first came across the phenomenon of Seth, the spiritual being brought through in trance be Jane Roberts, I was - naturally - cautious, and wanted to get a broader picture of how this enormous body of teaching was regarded. So I read this: The Problem of Seth's Origin
So what is God?

1. A 'Super-Soul'? (sometimes called an 'oversoul'?)  Like us, but unimaginably greater.

2. The Creative Force behind the universe?  Something that created everything.*(see footnote 1) Some people think of a force rather than a being, others say God has a personality more like a being. Some, including spirits, call God The Source.

3. The Universe (Multiverse?) Itself - including all of us and everything we see/can't see, hear etc. So God may not be a separate entity but God is All That Is, and so we and all creation are God split into infinte pieces, a 'collective god' rather than an individual or single one.

4. God is the Zero Point Field of quantum physics! Huh? The ZPF connects everything to everything: it is the field by which any atomic particle knows about any other atomic particle, (and by implication, matter - including us - that is made up of these particles) irrespective of time and space. Perhaps a slightly more 'friendly' title is The Eternal, Universal Field of Consciousness.

5. God is pure energy or light.

6. The figment of mankind's imagination?   It is in our nature to look up to something greater than ourselves, and mankind has therefore created something to worship. So there is no god and nothing beyond what we can see, hear, touch, taste or smell, or what science can prove or at least point to by solid evidence. And Quantum theory is not mainstream science, yet...
So what do I think God is?
I have had to revise this answer several times since I first wrote it, and what you read now may not be the final version, although I don't think I will be changing it too radically from now on. As I said above, I think God is the hardest concept of all to grasp.
I believe the answers that make the most sense are nos.3 and 4 of the above - that God is not only the creator of all that is, seen and unseen, but he/she/it (none of these really apply) is actually ALL THAT IS. (see the Seth Speaks books.) And if no.4 is correct then WOW, science has already discovered God without realising it!! Haha, rotfl.
5 can be applied to both 3 and 4 and 2 is also worth some thought. See the paragraphs below.
Some people would give a slight variant to this concept by saying that a part of God is in everything that is. Ok, but what is a part of, say, a table - an atom? a sub-atomic particle? If God is in each atom, then each atom might as well be part of God.

Re. No.5 - God is pure energy - this gets complicated, and I'm not a physicist, but I think it depends of whether everything around us is pure energy or whether it is energy transformed into matter. And is light pure energy? As I said, complicated. I'm kind of leaving this definition aside because it doesn't actually help very much as it doesn't explain enough. But it's worth thinking about, so I've left it in the list of 'options'.

Is God more than a force? Does the Source have personality and is God Love Itself'? Perfection of being, perfection of love, perfection of existence and more than that; more than any soul, living or in spirit can yet understand? Yes, that sounds like a God who is the source of everything, or actually IS everything. If what people call 'evil' or 'wickedness' is really the result of fear and ignorance, then since God/The Source/The Universal Field of Consciousness knows everything, God must be perfect unconditional love, and that love is not conditional on us loving God. (Perfect Knowledge = Perfect Love: it's the same thing.)  That's why all this hellfire and damnation stuff is nonsense. Otherwise God would be ignorant and fearful, which is impossible since by any name or definition God is all knowing. Even the Bible says “perfect love casts out fear” and fear is the result of a lack of love.

If God is everything, it is easy to understand that each of us has at least the spark of God within us. In what scientists call the Big Bang (which can't have actually been the 'beginning', if time has no beginning and no end) God created - if you like - an 'extension' of Godself, in a multi-dimensional drama to unfold across the eons of time and space. Thus all creation has its individuality but does not have to be separated from the Source. So we can have free will but can also experience some of the oneness with God through meditation and inner thought. This is easier in spirit than in the body. It is said that the presence of God is so much more apparent in the spirit world than here, but what do they mean by 'God'? They mean that the presence of love is all around them, which could either flow from a separate God entity or from everything that is around them. I mean All That Is is that which is around them! Spirits**(see footnote 2) do often talk about God - the presence of God, trusting in God, following God's truth, uniting with God at the 'end of eternity'. (Yes, I know that's an oxymoron!) Personally, I think they use the 'god' word because the majority of people on earth are familiar with the term.

Does God 'interfere' in our lives, or is the Creator more of a watcher? And does God answer prayers?
I believe The Creator does not/can not interfere in our lives because (a) The Source respects our free will, and (b) the overall course of our journey from The Source back to The Source (ie. from ourselves back to ourselves) has been planned from the beginning of creation. That's not to say everything is fixed, pre-destined and unchangeable, because we ourselves have free will, but the overall outline of the journey of experience was The Big Plan itself. And Prayer can be 'answered' by spirits, including our loved ones, as The Source's intermediaries. They can certainly hear us and our thoughts, and since they love us, would they not try to help us, without actually interfering? Are they not thus doing 'God's will'. Or put another way, is not God answering our prayers through these intermediaries? In the series of books by the Rev. Vale Owen, received through automatic writing, he is told that through this process each spiritual being receives a 'blessing' (ie. spiritual advancement) by carrying out these loving actions. It is also in the Roman Catholic tradition to pray directly to the saints as well as God, for help.

Is there such a thing as God's will?
Isn't God's will our will? Individual and collective wills?
However, it is important to understand that we have more control over our lives than most people think. Our attitude can change things. Rather than always praying for God or someone to help us, we should be helping ourselves when we can. There's that old saying: "God helps those who help themselves." It's easier said than done, I know. But people who always think negatively will tend to draw negative things to them and vice versa. However, the major events in our lives, both pleasant and unpleasant, may well have been decided by our own soul before we came here. Those who have particularly difficult lives may in fact be advanced spirits who have set themselves a tough task in order to make further great spiritual progress as a result of this incarnation. Those severely addicted to drugs may be included here - read The Afterlife of Billy Fingers and see my page on the Purpose of Life.
I would like to include a page on 'how to change your life'(!) but for the moment, I will just have to link you to the Seth literature and/or Peter Baksa's book The Point of Power.

Summary/Conclusion?
Continuing with the idea that there may be no separate god as such, but that God (aagh, I can't make up my mind whether to use a capital or not!) is the sum of all that is, and that the Source was, in the 'beginning' before the The Big Bang, a unified whole, but is now separated into all that is, including each one of us. (Cue for a song! What if God was One of Us? The irony makes me smile every time I hear this song!) I think the main difference in this concept is that whereas most people believe that the 'core' or 'centre' of God exists separately, this concept suggests that God is literally all of us and every atom etc. This is exemplified by the Zero Point Field of quantum physics, as outlined above and as explained well in the Huffington Post article linked to in definition No.4. I don't know if I can describe this any better, but I hope you can understand the concept.

So, if this last theory were true, could 'God' still be said to be Love itself? Yes, because personality and love are essential parts of us, and therefore the most complete form of these attributes would be a part of the collective God, just the same as a single God. And I would say perfect love, because a lack of love is caused by ignorance and fear, and because a collective, or indeed an individual God, would have neither of these, then the theory holds true. The opposite of gross ignorance - perfect knowledge - is perfect love. And does this mean that God has no individual identity? Well, we have our own identity, and if we are all connected, (through the ZPF) then if you combine all our individual identities, plus everything that has ever existed and will ever exist (using the earthly concept of time for the moment), you have a super, amazing, all-knowing, enormously un-imaginable identity. Sounds like 'God' again!!

P.S. Sorry - one more mind boggling question...
Does God have a God?!
In both the books Conversations with God (Neale Donald Walsch) and Journey of Souls (Dr Michael Newton) there is a suggestion that 'our' God might 'defer' to a higher God. The theory is (I think!) that each universe has (or is?) a God and maybe there is an ultimate God who is in charge of 'everything'...
Now, I'm not saying that I accept this, yet, but I'm just bearing it in mind for future exploration... ;)

*Ok, so what created God, you might ask?
Can you imagine a beginning and an end to time? No? So if there is no beginning, then God, The Source, does not have to have been created, The Source just is.  When I was a teenager in the 1970's I was a Star Trek fan and I spent a lot of time thinking about the ideas and concepts explored in the stories. These were influenced by the New Age type movements emerging at the time, though I knew nothing about New Age philosophy then. I tried to imagine things like time not beginning or ending and therefore things existing for ever and ever. I also tried to imagine the opposite - nothingness. I mean the idea that nothing, not even time and space 'ever' existed. My mind nearly exploded!! (Or was it imploded? lol) I suppose on a simpler level, it's that chicken and egg question...

** When I say 'spirit says' I mean a communication from any person from 'the other side', through automatic writing and other mediumistic methods. For example, I attend a circle where we all try to connect with spirit and bring messages through for each other and humanity in general. I have noticed that often messages talk about God's love and the connectedness of everything.