There is an individual in the highest position of authority and respect today who planned the killing of countless thousands of innocent children, including the tearing apart of forty of them by bears, who advocated genocide and the selling of people into slavery, was implicated in the rape of virgins and wives, counseled pederasty, and who – among many other atrocities - advocated wife beating, the mutilation of corpses and human sacrifice.

To this very day these actions are part of the official picture of the God of the three great western religions, Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

This is not an attack on those religions, and certainly not an attack on God; it is actually an attack on those who would demean God by promulgating such an image of God. These, and many other descriptions, are officially and unashamedly espoused as part of the inspired written word of God, especially in the Old Testament. One may very well ask what such pictures have to do with the vastly different type of God that Jesus described?

Quantum physics is now 107 years old. Over the last half century it has spawned a wave of information about the human potential of creating the kind of realty we wish to experience. This empowering information has swept the world. In the face of this new and marvelous understanding about our capacities, it is important to realize what holding on to these Old Testament images does in the context of the quantum world and affecting reality.

People still hold doggedly to those beliefs about God, even though many are becoming aware of the negative impact they must have on our spiritual evolution. They have an addiction to the fear generated by such ideas of God because it keeps them dependent, giving responsibility for their lives up to the Great Parent In The Sky who will replace the role their human parents fulfilled when they were children.

If what Jesus referred to as "the Kingdom of Heaven" really is inside us, then there is nothing outside of us that could ever afford greater care and protection than the abilities we all have within. Unfortunately these abilities have become dormant through lack of use, and it seems their resuscitation demands going against the tide of what is customarily retailed as spirituality.

If we believe God has atrocities in his resume, and if we further believe such a being has told us we will burn for all eternity if we don't love and serve him, then we have a major anguish buried deep in our subconscious minds that is affecting the quantum field and thus our lives. Much of this inner turmoil is caused by the ranting so many preachers indulge in about inculcating "a God-fearing" mentality as the solution for all the problems of the day.

We may not admit it, but we know in our heart of hearts that the type of being whom we have been commanded to love is, in fact, hateful. But, since he holds all the chips, the best we can do is try to make the best of it, and set about the impossible task of unconditionally loving a profoundly hateful being.

The fear of the Lord is not the beginning of wisdom; it is the root of spiritual disaster. Trying to love a fearful God inculcates nothing but disempowerment. For it generates spiritual schizophrenia as two aspects of the self war with each other: the common sense, thoughtful, loving self vs. the trapped, fearful, dependent self.

Such fear and disempowerment is in direct contrast to the real goal of this life's journey, which is probably best described as a mastery. Whatever mastery means, it must at least start with complete ability and skill in something. In mastery there is no place for struggle, difficulty, heroic effort, or trying to control. Such manipulation is instinctive in us, but it is the very antithesis of mastery.

As I've pointed out in previous columns, if we are threatened or intimidated by something, the last thing we want to do is judge it negatively or try to get rid of it, for such an effort only keeps it more firmly in place.

There is a great skill involved in removing negative or threatening mental programs, a great skill which deals with learning to manipulate the infinitely subtle realities of the quantum world. The serenity of mastery may look like passivity, but it is the farthest thing away imaginable. Certainly mastery contains no vestige of subconscious schizophrenia and the burden of a secret hatred of an omnipotent and vengeful God.

For a longer version of this article, go to Miceal Ledwith's website at hamburgeruniverse.com

Dr. Miceal Ledwith, L.Ph., L.D., D.D., LL.D. (h.c.) has been a Professor of Theology and University President of Maynooth College in Ireland, a member of the Vatican’s International Theological Commission, and has lectured extensively throughout Europe and North America. He has been a long-time member of the Ramtha School of Ancient Wisdom.