Roger they are your words not mine, why do you post to another as separate from your self, who speaks of not existing outside of God? Why do you seek to debate with that which declares as you admit is NOthing? Would that not be futile? Being liberated from ego, what can one say? Dualistic language cannot give the real answers that you seek, they can only be found within in the silence.What I am is unknown and alone with the Unknown. Any other self would be an object, an object that can never be the Subject, and hence a riddle that can be debated ad nauseum. Find your true self Roger and your questions will cease. That is the whole point of all one's posts. The search is over, that is the universal benediction, unlimited bliss.
Love to Roger and all, from the all we all are.