Q: As a truth realized person, can you answer yes or no, is there a god?

A: This isn’t a yes or no question; it’s a yes and no question. And neither answer matters in the slightest.

The question itself is the problem. Not because it’s “bad,” but because it’s misplaced. It’s a question asked by a character inside the dream, hoping the dream contains something that will justify or stabilize the dreamer.

The concept of God can be thought of as a psychological load-bearing beam. Take it away and the whole inner architecture threatens to collapse, so the mind keeps circling it like a worried engineer. You’re probably familiar with this feeling.

From the perspective of Truth, nothing external exists to be believed in. No overseer, no cosmic parent, no higher power watching, judging, guiding, or saving. But, that doesn’t mean there is “nothing.” This is where people get tripped up.

What you actually are is prior to gods, universes, meaning, and belief. Prior to existence itself. God, if you insist on the word, is not an entity in reality; it is reality before it’s been reduced to concepts.

Religions aren’t wrong because they talk about God; they’re wrong because they turn what is unknowable into something believable. Belief is a child’s tool. Adults don’t believe, they see.

So the honest answer is that if by God you mean a being, force, consciousness, intelligence, or presence, then no. If by God you mean that which is prior to identity, prior to self, prior to meaning, then the question dissolves, because there’s no “you” there to ask it.

Look, truth realization isn’t discovering God, it’s discovering that the one asking about God was never real to begin with. When that’s seen, the God question ends forever. Not with an answer, but with irrelevance.

But let’s look closer and acknowledge that you’re not really asking about God here. You’re asking whether there is a final authority you can stand on while everything you’ve relied on is starting to wobble.

On the surface, “Is there a god?” sounds like a metaphysical inquiry, but this is really a request for orientation; a way to resolve uncertainty. A way to anchor meaning before the floor fully drops out.

From the perspective of dismantling the false self, (which is what this place is all about,) “God” is not a thing that exists or doesn’t exist. It’s a concept the false self uses when it needs permanence, hierarchy, reassurance, or cosmic supervision. Belief in God and disbelief in God are the same move, okay?  Both keep the questioner intact. The moment you accept or reject God, inquiry stops and the self survives.

This type of question most commonly arises in Phase Two: Disruption, (sometimes brushing up against early Phase Three: Deconstruction.) Something has already cracked and old beliefs don’t hold. Certainty is leaking out and now the mind is scrambling to install a new load-bearing structure before the collapse becomes total. Things like religion, atheism, spirituality, non-duality, are all waiting at this phase, eager to help you rebuild too soon. These things promise answers when what’s actually required is endurance.

Here’s the uncomfortable truth you’re circling: If there were a God you could believe in, it wouldn’t help. And if there isn’t one, that won’t help either. Because what’s being threatened right now isn’t your theology, it’s the one asking the question.

So instead of asking whether God exists, try sitting with the questions you’re avoiding:

What happens if nothing is ultimately in charge? What happens if there is no cosmic parent, no final authority? What remains if no answer is allowed to rescue you?

That pressure you feel, and the need for a yes or no isn’t a spiritual dilemma. That’s the false self realizing it may not survive inquiry.

And that’s where this turns real.