Image of God in the Mind – prayer
I forgive myself that, while manifesting in different cultures and environments, I shaped within myself an image of God according to prevailing trends and information drawn from external sources. I forgive all those who, already from early childhood, imposed upon me a certain image of God that engraved itself into my consciousness, then continued to form in the process of socialization and became modified on the basis of my own cognitive activities and emotional experiences, connected above all with the structure of family and social life, as well as my patterns, intentions, entanglements, vows, missions, or needs.
I accept that the concept of God was not innate within me, but gradually arose in my psyche and mind. I forgive myself that both my parents and peer environment, accepted trends, catechization, social pressures and expectations, and sometimes even fashion influenced the concept of God that I possessed.
I forgive myself that at times a special influence on shaping my image of God came from my parents, above all the dominant person in the family, often the father and sometimes the mother. I forgive myself that, as a child, already in the first years of my life, I transferred all the traits I noticed in my parents onto God, causing the image of God to become a multilayered synthesis and sublimation of the image of parents or of all other beings. I apologize to You, God, that the traits I noticed in other beings, both positive and negative, influenced the image of God in my eyes and in my understanding.
I accept that, when I was about two or three years old, the idea of God began to sprout in my consciousness for the first time, exactly as it had been conveyed to me by my parents and other caretakers, and that this image of God continued to shape itself within me through processes of imitation, identification, generalization, and projection, all according to my intentions, patterns, unconsciousness, and delusions.
I forgive myself that, as a human being, I attributed human traits to God, and in doing so almost wanted to limit God and imprison Him within the framework of human reasoning, in a human form familiar to me and in anthropomorphic traits, and at times adapt the image of God to my own needs and deficiencies. I accept that God may, if He wishes, manifest as a figure, which many Souls also use to promote themselves or others as an astral or living god and living goddess.
I also forgive all those who believed that man invented and created God, rather than God creating man. Through God, I now dismiss all these and similarly confused beings.
I forgive myself that I then shaped my image of God throughout my development, when new contents were added to the childhood foundations, whose source was mainly my closest environment, including adopted religion (for example biblical contents) and religiosity, channelings, and even possessions together with all their forms, as well as the surrounding culture.
I forgive all so-called religious leaders and all promoting individuals who influenced my perception of God and the image of God that I had and still have.
I now ask You, God, for verification and correction of all my knowledge and beliefs concerning God, all these divine images and imaginings, and even all that I consider certain and confirmed.
I now surrender to You, God, all my beliefs concerning the image and appearance of God, divine visage, form, shape, presence, garments, wealth, profiles, beauty, appearance, gender, what God does, thinks, feels, likes, intends, and all that other beings have told me about God, all that I myself have learned and all the conclusions I have reached concerning God. I forgive all those who created for me and for others a kitschy, fairground-like image of God, divine relatives and intermediaries, as well as the image of a severe divine figure, for example with lightning bolts in hand.
I now surrender to You, God, all descriptions of God, all ways of perceiving God, all portraits and characteristics of God, all stereotypes, beliefs, assumptions, conjectures, and thought patterns of myself and others concerning God, and I ask You, God, to transform all this into innocent truth about God for the highest good of myself and others.
I forgive myself that I once believed and promoted that God has paranoia and together with it is excessively sensitive to rejection and failure, remembers experienced harms and wrongs longer than I do, and reinterprets all our and others’ actions as threatening, hostile, and contemptuous toward God. I forgive all those who promoted the belief that God provokes rivalry and struggle in defense of the supposed threat to His rights and even strongly manifests paranoid attitudes, constantly seeking confirmation of suspected “conspiracies” concerning His own person and the world. I forgive all those who promoted the idea that God has obsessions and constantly recurring unjustified suspicions concerning infidelity, betrayal, and rejection.
I forgive all those who convinced me that God is selfish, that only He matters, that everything must be for God, and that He is irritable, fault-finding, and suspicious. I forgive myself that I once believed God wants to enslave everyone and subordinate them to His laws as the only rightful commands.
I forgive myself that I accused God of commanding everyone to fulfill His will while I, in my understanding, could not have my own desires, plans, or especially any pleasures because supposedly that would harm God. I forgive myself that I believed everyone may rejoice, but only moderately and only when doing what God desires, and not necessarily what they themselves desire. I forgive myself that I once believed I was on Earth only to fulfill God’s whims, which in my understanding did not necessarily align with my concept of happiness, love, and forgiveness.
I apologize to You, God, that I accused You of remembering every act of disobedience precisely and settling accounts accordingly, even when I completely did not understand my own mistakes. God, please allow me now to understand all my mistakes and all manifestations of my insubordination together with their causes and consequences.
I forgive all those who promote the idea that even small deviations and things that would not seem to be offenses are interpreted by God as serious transgressions or even grave crimes against Him, for which He severely punishes at the proper time, most often unexpectedly, so that we would not anticipate the divine blow.
I forgive myself that I accused God of leading the Israelites into the desert and giving them food and drink only when He wished, rather than when they needed it. I forgive myself that I believed God used hunger and thirst in the wilderness to teach the Israelites obedience, and when they wanted to return to Egypt, where they had already somehow settled themselves, He decimated them with venomous serpents.
I forgive myself that I believed whenever peoples became somewhat independent, wars, deportations, exiles, hunger, and suffering immediately followed, and that it is God who kills those who do not obey His laws.
I forgive myself that I accused God of cruelty when He did not help Jesus crying out for help and that it was God who forced Jesus into obedience unto death on the cross. I apologize to You, God, for suspecting You of lacking mercy and responsiveness to the requests and pleas of various beings.
I forgive myself that I once believed God is characterized by little or no concern for actions serving our pleasure and additionally by emotional shallowness, emotional coldness, preference for solitude, and little interest in close relationships with people. I forgive myself that I believed God is characterized by intense concentration on fantasizing and devising His own far-reaching plans unknown and incomprehensible to anyone, as well as indifference toward others, including praise and criticism alike, lack of close friends, lack of need for relationships and bonds, and insensitivity to social norms and conventions.
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• s_majda writes:
20/03/2019 at 13:49 (Edit)
I now forgive God, who caused various actions for the benefit of overly sluggish people, such as:
- ordering Isaiah to walk naked and barefoot
- ordering Jeremiah to gird his loins and thus proclaim prophecies to unbelievers, and another time to put a yoke on his neck, first wooden and later iron
- ordering Hosea to take a harlot as his wife and once again love a woman of bad conduct and an adulteress
- ordering Ezekiel to sleep on his right side for 40 days and on his left for 150 days (based on the Bible and the book The Story of Divine Love)
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• s_majda writes:
25/03/2019 at 10:12 (Edit)
I am doing the whole above text in the prayer technique of Intentions and I see that these are very much my own views. At the same time, however, I see grotesque contexts and the manipulative background of Souls, as well as the karmic effects of a given burden “that God has,” or that are also attributed to God. I understand that, with the distortions of Souls and their manipulations, God must have tools for disciplining each one individually. It is enough for God to be the same as a given individual for some time, so that the rumor spreads that He “is like that” permanently.
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• Małgorzata Krata writes:
28/03/2019 at 21:47 (Edit)
I forgive myself my belief, and I apologize for promoting it, that people and their Souls are so corrupted, sinful and fallen that they deserve only severe punishment and God’s righteous wrath. I forgive myself that I expected God to impose punishments on sinners, and that with whips and blows He would teach obedience to His “stiff-necked people”. I forgive myself that I believed the best form of teaching was the infliction of punishment by God, rather than pampering, indulgence and leniency toward us and other unruly beings. I forgive myself that I expected God to send various unpleasant beings, various sociopaths, to hell forever, irrevocably. I forgive myself that I expected God, among other things, to hurl lightning bolts and place in hell various beings who reject the chances given by God and divine generosity, or who simply got under my skin, and all those who were disobedient toward me. I forgive myself that I expected God to have a heavy hand of divine justice. I forgive myself that I believed God Himself sometimes curses and condemns for eternity various evildoers and sinners, of course excluding those righteous ones from our village and our religion. I forgive myself that I believed God Himself created hells for us and governs them in order to punish the disobedient there without mercy, and likewise that God Himself hands rebellious Souls over to the rulers of hells so that they, on God’s command, may deal with vile evildoers.
I forgive myself that I saw only faint traces of beauty in the existence of the world God created, and even that God’s works were smaller than the works, constructions, inventions and ideas of people, brilliant minds, or the achievements of aliens and foreign civilizations. I forgive myself that I believed God Himself finally saw what great, lofty deeds man or some superhero was capable of, so that God Himself became amazed by their greatness and magnificence, and then, frightened, hid in the shadow of man, a superhero, a Goa’uld or some living god. I forgive myself my belief in a withdrawn, passive God who does not want to get in the way of those who have already surpassed Him. I forgive myself that I believed God was left only to communicate with a rabble of dull weaklings, because spiritual giants are “too great” for God. I forgive myself that I believed all divine Anointed Ones and Messiahs were hopeless figures who shone a little, appeared for a while, yet as usual ended without major successes, and even provoked their own death in order to honorably exit the deadlocked situation they had created.
I forgive myself that I believed God allows and even encourages us to take responsibility for His own divine deeds, that He shifts important decisions onto us, thereby throwing off the burden of divine responsibility. I forgive myself the belief that God Himself shows helplessness, powerlessness and unwillingness to take responsibility upon Himself, and therefore left us free will so that everything would later be on us. I apologize for promoting the opinion that God is a helpless bungler.
I forgive all those who promoted the idea that God attached Himself to people and their Souls, that God Himself, not knowing what to do with the world, left it at the disposal of, among others, people, trees, goats, rats, mold, parasites. I forgive all those who promote the idea that if God were perfect and wonderful, He would be enough for Himself and would not constantly interfere in the lives of people and their Souls. I now forgive God that He constantly interfered in my affairs, leaving behind the belief that I am a divine puppet, which leads many toward agnosticism or idolatry.
• Małgorzata Krata writes:
23/06/2019 at 13:39 (Edit)
The subject of different perceptions of God and distortions about Him is partially discussed in the talk below.
Opublikowano: 13/05/2026
Autor: Sławomir Majda
Kateogrie: God
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