Why does everyone believe that they're a God?

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I like this question because it brings to mind some very interesting thoughts I’ve been having recently. Most people getting into spirituality go one of two ways with it. They either develop personal spirituality, in which they seek to know, understand, and interact with a deity, or they develop impersonal spirituality, which focuses on meditation, magick, and insight.

What’s interesting to me about impersonal spirituality is how soon people move from exploring spirituality, to seeking to master it. Meditation and prayer are similar in that you forget about the outside world and all those people in it for a short while, but they differ in that while prayer invites something else in, meditation leaves you alone with yourself. You don’t encounter anything else unless you want to.

I’ve meditated for years, and I’ve had a spiritual awakening, meaning that I don’t need to “go under” in order to have spiritually-meaningful experiences on command. There’s just something about the mind and spirit that blocks you from meeting entities that are greater than you unless you specifically go out of your way to contact them.

This dynamic slots seekers into two categories, those that regularly seek out other entities to learn from or just interact with, or those who never do. The first have what I call a personal spirituality, the latter an impersonal one.

And without fail, every single time I hear delusions of divine grandeur from someone, it’s from someone practicing impersonal spirituality. Meditation is a hall of mirrors, it reflects you back on yourself in all sorts of ways, and you can pay attention to whichever of those reflections you want.

I practice impersonal spirituality far more than personal spirituality, for… reasons I’m still investigating and may get to the bottom of in like 10 years or so. And I’m not gonna lie, seeing those grandiose reflections is pretty nice. One of the more interesting topics for insight I get.

And probably the coolest and best resolution I get from these insight sessions is that, absolutely, I’m a god. But in fact, we’re all gods. Every last one of us has had untold numbers of incarnations, eternities of existence under our belt. When we are born here, it’s a very special case of an incarnation where we are stripped of our memories. Perhaps like in The Good Place we get them back later.

And we all have worlds of spirits that surround us, comparable in number to the population of the planet, billions. They suffuse us like bacteria cells suffuse our material bodies. Your body is an ecosystem in far more ways than you realize. As our consciousness evolves, countless spirits learn to act in concert and you enjoy the benefits of a sound mind and conscience.

The story of life is one of aggregation. Atoms aggregate to become molecules, molecules to chemicals, chemicals to systems, systems to self-replication to cells to eukaryotes and then comes the process of evolution, where beings arise over and over again and the best examples stick around.

We aggregate to form God. God made us in His image, God is intimately concerned with us, without us, God is meaningless. God’s purpose is us, we inherited the world He left us. And we all get to experience that in our own way.

For existence itself, in a human, is godly.