Most people, when they think of God, think of a higher power, higher than their own ego. Some people do better; they think of God not only as a higher power, but also as a creative power. Unfortunately, they also think of this power as outside of them, separate from them. Then there are, of course, influences of the so-called monotheistic religions, many of which popularly portray God as transcendent and as being separate from the imminent world. So how we conceive God depends a lot on where we are in our spiritual evolution. A turning about begins when we intuit that God is our own creative power; God may be the answer to the question, Who am I? At this point we may become interesting in mystical teachings- God is everything, both transcendent and imminent, the one ground of all being. At this point it is a matter of exploring and finding it out for ourselves. Part of the problem is also language: God sounds like a person, so it is hard to overcome that tendency of thinking. When we convert the question
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