How to Live Out Your Godlike Nature

“People prefer to believe in and worship a god who is remote rather than live out the godlike nature which is their inherent being.” ~Henry Miller

The Big Bang is more your extended roots than it is an ancient event. The universe is less of a distant and separate structure and more of an interconnected cosmos. Picture the Big Bang and the proceeding universe like a cape stretching behind you through time and space. You are the superhero who is wearing that cape. We all are. It’s just that most of us are not aware of it.

Becoming aware of it is tapping into your godlike nature. Realizing that the interconnectedness of all things implies godhood is the first real step into Oneness (enlightenment, satori, nirvana, self-actualization, Zen). Let’s break it down in four mind-melting steps.

Step one: Realize that everything is connected to everything else

“The sucker’s trap is when you focus on what you know and what others don’t know, rather than the reverse.” ~Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Nothing is separate from anything else. Everything is connected. To the extent that it does seem disconnected is merely our brains bias to finitude. Our minds cannot “see” how everything is connected to everything else, so we trick ourselves into disconnection, deception, and dogma.

When it is truly understood (balls to bones; ovaries to marrow) that everything is connected to everything else, that’s when you will understand that you are the universe in human form. Other humans are also the universe in human form. True morality, compassion, and empathy is born from this understanding.

When you understand this, a sacred space is formed where you see how unwritten law defeats written law. You see how healthy and unhealthy are not matters of opinion. You see how Healthy must outflank Unhealthy lest corruption, deceit, entropy, and death rule the day.

Understanding this is profound because when you allow that everything is interconnected, then harm to any part affects the whole. This leads to a profound ethical shift towards sustainability, justice, and compassion, seeing all actions within a cosmic context. Harm to any part of existence could be seen as harm to the divine.

It could even alter spiritual practices. Rather than seeking divine favor or intervention, we would likely focus more on practices that enhance connection, mindfulness, and harmony with the universe.

Realizing that everything is connected to everything else is deciding to be in love with the whole thing—from trauma to drama to manna. It’s loving with curiosity and in an attempt to understand, to discover, and to co-create rather than to control.

Step two: Question your cultural conditioning

“A human searching for God is like a fish searching for water.” ~Alan Watts

Once you’ve embraced the power of interconnectedness, you must be responsible with that power and not flinch. Culture will try to make you flinch. It already has you by the throat. And as long as it does, your sense of everything being connected to everything else will fade. Don’t let it fade. It’s on you to turn the tide. Loosen its grip and then flip it. Nobody else can do it for you.

Recondition your cultural conditioning.

Reconditioning your cultural conditioning is the vital first leap of courage that must be taken to live out your Godlike nature.

Cultural conditioning is the first “beast” that must fall at the sword of your heroism. It either breaks against your courage, or it will break your ability to be courageous. This is because cultural conditioning is a phantom. It’s a cartoon in the brain. It’s the illusion of comfort, security, and truth. It’s a blinding light that is magnified and mirrored by the status quo.

It is your Godlike duty to diffract this blinding light. Otherwise, you will never see anything more than what society wants you to see. Otherwise, the “Plato’s Cave” of culture will have you constantly chasing shadows. The first step to outmaneuvering culture is recognizing when you’re acting to appease others’ delusions rather than honoring your own sacred values (the profound understanding that everything is connected to everything else).

Overcome yourself by overcoming your indoctrination. Get out of your own way. Humble yourself. Destroy your delusions. Unsettle your settled mind. Shock your chakras. Then shock the world with your Godlike nature.

Step three: Understand that you are the universe becoming aware of itself

“A physicist is a hydrogen atom’s way of learning about hydrogen atoms.” ~Carl Sagan

Understand that you are personified cosmos. You are Infinity in finite form. You are God playing peek-a-boo with itself. Sure, you may be just a speck in the cosmos, but you are also the entire cosmos in a speck.

God was only ever the infinite interconnectedness of all things. As a crucial aspect of this interconnectedness—indeed, as the only aspect of this interconnectedness that’s aware of itself as far as you know—you are the infinite cosmos individuated. You are the finite integration of an infinite expression. And it is your responsibility to become aware of it.

This is Godhood in action: taking responsibility for the power you have been given as an aspect of the universe becoming aware of itself. There’s no higher calling. Except maybe one: Honoring transformation.

There is no fixed self. Who you are today must overcome who you were yesterday. Living your Godlike nature is realizing that everything changes. Nothing is fixed. Nothing is final. Everything is in flux. Including the self. And especially including your Godlike nature. Therefore, you must ask yourself belief-wrecking questions. Interrogate your soul. Force your head over the abyss. Reconcile your inner demons. Integrate your shadow. Force yourself into your own Hero’s Journey.

Become a spearhead for a new way of being human in the world. Build a bridge from you to the Overman. Do as Nassim Nicholas Taleb suggested, “Transform fear into prudence, pain into information, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking.”

Learn how to rearrange the nightmare that outflanks you. Transform chaos into catharsis, wounds into wisdom, death into rebirth, and pain into purpose. Channel the pain into self-discipline. Reroute it through routine. Let the routine tear you down and build you back up again. Manifest resilience despite resistance.

Pain is kindling for a greater fire. Gather the kindling. Become your own crucible, your own dojo, your own whetstone. Practice death in favor of life. Practice life despite the inevitability of death.

Keep the cycle going. Iterate through the pain. Destroy your delusions. Break your own heart. Tear yourself down and then build yourself back up again. This is how mettle is sharpened, how character is forged, how antifragility is carved out of fragility, and how Gods are born.

Step four: Move with humor, nonattachment, and grace

“A sense of humor is the only divine quality of man.” ~Arthur Schopenhauer

A good sense of humor is your Godlike nature’s saving grace. It will keep humility ahead of hubris, curiosity ahead of certainty, and the Truth Quest ahead of the “truth”.

Having a good sense of humor is more than just slapstick comedy and punchlines. It’s more about flexibility and grace. It’s about elegance in the face of ignorance, and sometimes even at the expense of one’s own “knowledge”. It’s about maintaining an equilibrium between Mind and No Mind.

Picture a Shaolin monk balancing on a cattail, a snail navigating a razorblade’s edge, or even a mind surfing imaginative metaphors like a wave. When you move with nonattachment and grace, you are moving in flow with Metaphor itself.

It’s the ability to entertain a thought without accepting, see without weighing, listen without shaping, feel without forming. This is how truth begins to breathe. Between metaphor and play there is a sacred space: wisdom.

True wisdom can only arise in a space of nonattachment to the knowledge gained to achieve it.

Vibrate with vitality. Emanate eminence. Radiate reason. Receive infinity, gift infinity. Don’t cling to any given “truth.” Let it go. Breathe it out into cosmos. Be open to flux. Bend but don’t break, yield but don’t stop, surrender but don’t give up. Adapt and overcome. Practice rebirth.

Harmony emerges when the tension between opposites is held in sacred alignment. When awe and fascination are discovered between reciprocal dynamics, then you know that you are holding the tension. Balance is key. Poise is paramount. Nonattachment is the secret.

Through Nonattachment, you’re able to elevate yourself above the battlefield of the human condition. You see the big picture despite your small picture ego. From this strategic advantage, you’re able to utilize cognitive shifts in perspective. You’re able to move with grace, laugh readily, and think elegantly.

Nonattachment frees you from the need to defend a worldview, which often fuels blindness to alternative truths. By holding beliefs loosely (or not at all), you create space for empathy and a more holistic understanding, thus aligning with a vision of seeing through “indoctrinated blindness.”

By integrating No Mind, the Astronaut Overview Effect, and Buddhist Nonattachment, you can cultivate a perspective that’s as broad and impartial as nature itself. This approach will not only help you see through your own blind spots but also foster a deeper connection to others, embodying empathic metamorality. It’s a lifelong journey, but each step will bring you closer to seeing the world with holistic eyes.

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About the Author:

Gary Z McGee, a former Navy Intelligence Specialist turned philosopher, is the author of Birthday Suit of God and The Looking Glass Man. His works are inspired by the great philosophers of the ages and his wide-awake view of the modern world.

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