Month: November 2017

As a young boy, I read a story called “The Golden Egg,” which conveyed the idea that we humans could use this tale to learn about greed and stupidity. The story was one of many that are part of Aesop’s Fables, numbered 87 in the Perry Index.

A man discovered a chicken that laid a golden egg every day, making him increasingly wealthy. One day, someone asked him, “Do you know where those eggs are coming from? Why not find out so you can get them all at once instead of one by one?” The chicken was killed, and consequently, he received no more eggs.

Whether out of curiosity, greed, or stupidity, he lost all the golden eggs by killing the chicken.

Looking at today’s world, nothing has changed from the past because we continue to kill each other and fight over whose God is the true God of all humanity. Where is God? Does God reside somewhere in space or within each human individual?

Did God create the universe, or did human beings and all creatures create God? Did human beings invent God merely to control their fellow humans? Does anyone possess enough brainpower to answer these questions?

Could it be that many, if not most, issues concerning God remain unresolved due to our limited use of brainpower? We refuse and are unwilling to attempt to comprehend why we have been and continue to kill each other in the name of the God we worship. We are told that God exists, but we have no evidence, as we have never seen God, hell, or heaven in our lives. There are countless versions of religious stories about “God,” and humans have made movies attempting to persuade us of what they want us to believe. The real realities are our animalistic or egotistical wars with so-called evidence. Footage can be seen, but it cannot explain in concrete terms what we are fighting over.

As we delve into these answers with our limited brainpower, are we finding facts or succumbing to egotistical extremes? Should we keep the basic fundamentals in view?

Just because you are born into a family with specific religious beliefs does not mean you cease to be a human being first. All humans are human beings first. Individually, it also does not mean you lack free will to be an autonomous individual. If you are uncertain about yourself, it is your responsibility to learn about yourself and your religious beliefs before being willing to kill someone you do not even know. If you do not know God or the person you are willing to kill, why are you prepared to do so in God’s name? Where do you stand as a human being, and where does your free will fit in?

We must remember that the human individual is capable of expressing themselves as possessing spiritual and physical knowledge. Physically, we function to perform God’s spiritual work while alive. We cannot expect to live or survive without the spirit within us.

This free-spirited entity can be disastrous for socialism and communism if fully liberated. Many, though not all, of our governing systems, including religions, socialism, or communism, call for our governing systems to regulate and control their citizens. This begins to clash with individual free will, and extremists exploit individuals’ weaknesses for political gain. This resulted in certain societies where so-called religious leaders became leaders of both the religious groups and government. These leaders then had their own agendas. Their political interests superseded humanity’s interests and became the foundation of our wars. The core conflict lies between individualism and communism, socialism, and religions. It seems easier and simpler to control individuals and compel them to sacrifice their lives for the groups they follow. Is this a just system? If not, it is closer to politics and far from spirituality.

Not only is it extreme, but it also violates individual human rights. It is the individual who is mortal. They have a temporary life with reciprocal responsibilities and thus deserve a decent life for themselves and others. Genetically, we are not like bees or ants, yet the groups we choose to follow expect us to live that way. If you start living for yourself, you are told it is wrong, so what is right? Equal human rights, even against the masses, is the right path. The politics of religion or any idea used by a group to divert us from our core beliefs should be avoided. The mortality of the individual is a reality, so leaning towards either extreme is wrong for the individual. Balance is necessary for individuals to do the right thing. Living with reciprocity relates to this balance, even with God.

Simply put, a person with personal interests would prioritize their group’s politics over humanity’s interests as a whole. Look at our political party agendas, catering to specific segments of populations. Interestingly, opposing parties come into power and out again, yet things do not seem to change for the individual.

Delving deeper and finding the truth could help find solutions, but we never seem to reach them due to the politics of the groups we belong to. From childhood, we are taught to identify ourselves by our religion, nationality, race, or any other group. However, we fail to relate to humanity as a whole. This may be why we remain stuck in group politics, even though by nature, we are constantly called to be human and unite as humanity.

All the recent issues humanity faces are related to human suffering and the problems facing humanity. Issues like global warming and the immediate news and solutions to our problems are being addressed. This information is so readily available that it transcends the political lines drawn by global society.

The International Space Station and the internet are products of new technologies, all pointing to humanity’s need to collaborate.

If one believes they can live quietly in a corner safely guarded by their group, they are mistaken. You must evolve with others and adapt to changing times because everyone will be affected, regardless of where they live. Weather extremes, rising oceans, and floods do not recognize political boundaries.

Scientists still lack clear answers as they continue learning new things daily. Therefore, they should not claim to know everything.

Most religious people still ignore scientific discoveries. Some religions cannot even agree on lunar-related holidays, despite space station research disproving these beliefs for many years. Many religions refuse to accept scientific findings agreed upon by most nations. The problem lies in our unwillingness to blend science and religion while openly combining politics and religion to sway public opinion for political gain.

We have drugs like insulin that can save lives or water connections for drylands to increase crop yields. Should we allow these to be used, or do we declare them forbidden by our God and let those who follow other beliefs die? Whether food, water for the starving, animals, plants, or modern technology and scientific inventions, all contribute to spirituality if they help humanity evolve, regardless of origin.

One Islamic teaching says, “If your neighbor sleeps hungry, your food is not kosher or halal for you to eat.” This example illustrates the spiritual essence, yet consider it differently. You can drop a nuclear bomb and kill hundreds of thousands instantly, with millions more affected by the aftermath. This is our scientific knowledge, coupled with ongoing religious wars whose death toll due to religious differences is immeasurable. If you live on Earth, all humans are your neighbors. We even refer to distant planets as neighboring planets but not the humans beyond our self-imposed political boundaries.

Both science and religion claim they are beneficial for humanity, but I disagree unless they acknowledge the harm caused to individuals. Drug interactions kill, and we blame disease or aging. We use scientifically advanced conventional and chemical weapons in wars to kill other humans. There is no way to determine the number of individual victims of science and religion.

In my opinion, all human knowledge should advance humanity’s well-being, benefiting individuals and society as a whole. Our group’s politics cause our knowledge to harm some and benefit others, so it is not spiritual. We struggle to advance in social aspects, but our group politics distract us from personal justice. This means we may progress in certain areas of life but regress in others. By now, we should coexist without discrimination and prejudice, yet it is not yet a reality. Since religions do not allow us to evolve and respect individual human life to resolve our differences, we continue to act like animals but in the name of God.

Personally, I believe God physically resides within humanity, allowing each of us to perform God’s physical work. Should we still believe in God and commit spiritual crimes against innocent individuals?

Returning to the chicken, I see the human individual as the chicken laying a golden egg every day. Seeking the egg and egotistically killing the chicken mirrors this scenario. If we persist in killing human individuals despite our scientific discoveries, we will end up with a ghost town called “Earth.” In this ghost town, even God would be meaningless to anyone. This is not curiosity or greed but a spiritual crime.

If you kill a human individual in the name of science or religion, you are killing the chicken laying golden eggs. Ask yourself, “Are you driven by greed or plain stupidity? You have the power to help humanity, yet you choose to kill each other instead. Have you ever wondered why? What does this mean to you? Would you like to know as an individual or group? Seek answers and you will reach the politics of your group’s sense of belonging.

Ego, pride, and honor stem from here, so you can remain ensnared in religious and nationalistic discrimination and prejudice. Choose your political extreme and commit spiritual crimes against human individuals, or exercise your free will to seek personal justice and promote equal human rights.

Do not kill the chicken to discover where the golden eggs come from. Whether you are a scientist or religious fanatic, if you assume you know everything, why are you learning new things every day? Why is humanity advancing in all other areas of life?

If you seek proof, observe everyone today holding an ever-evolving cell phone.

Whether or not there is a God, it is the human individual laying a new golden egg every day through evolving knowledge.

Killing this chicken results in emotional loss, hindering our internal evolution towards becoming loving human beings. You may possess vast knowledge in other aspects of life, but succumbing to group politics robs you of personal justice—you must take control. If you allow this, your knowledge lacks wisdom and spirituality. You are merely an extension of an ideology, yet blessed with free will, like everyone else.

If a scientist or religious scholar removes the politics of belonging, they can become humble and respect others. The deeper you dig to find the origin of the eggs, the more you realize how little you know.

All our wars stem from group politics, so assuming the role of CEO of your life and belonging to humanity as a whole reveals why you were blessed with free will and its associated responsibilities.

Our religious scholars and scientists argue within their limited knowledge. Emotions and passion blind them to their limited use of brainpower.

These religious scholars strive to kill the chicken to find the golden egg. When they fail, they resort to egotistical assumptions and opinions. These egotistical opinions have stripped spirituality from religions, while science has lost its purpose of benefiting humanity, using knowledge to dominate less advanced nations.

All human knowledge should serve humanity’s betterment and benefit individuals and society as a whole. Our individual weaknesses have empowered group politics, resulting in our knowledge harming some and benefiting others—it is not spiritual. We struggle to progress socially, yet our group politics divert us from personal justice. As we become aware, we see social regression alongside technological progress and weapons of mass destruction. Consider where we are heading—you can draw your own conclusions. There are many paths; it is up to you to choose.

I know the direction I will choose.

The most important thing behind what you say or do is the intention. For instance, hundreds of thousands of messengers have come from God, including the prophets of major religions. This indicates that God’s holy knowledge has been shared with us for a long time. While this knowledge may have been codified within particular religions, new insights and advancements continue to reach people from all walks of life. This knowledge may come to musical geniuses, inspirational poets, and those in science, technology, and medicine. These advancements often come from a select few, as not everyone can contribute like the chosen ones.

There has always been, and will always be, resistance to adopting new knowledge, especially when it presents new paradigms. If God’s knowledge trickled and then gushed through major religions, what does it mean for you and your way of life? Do you think God’s knowledge of evolution has ceased? This brings me to two questions: why did it stop, and does God want humans to remain stuck in the knowledge of their holy books?

If it were God’s will, we would not have many of the following: space stations, the internet, cell phones, self-flying machines, or advanced land vehicles. We wouldn’t know that blood transfusions save lives. Medicine has the potential to extend life expectancy and enhance the quality of life.

I believe God’s intention in blessing humans with free will was for us to take charge and evolve to our potential. So, how far will we go? Will we evolve to understand the wisdom of having God in our lives, or will we abandon God and become imbalanced human beings? Our lack of complete knowledge has caused us much grief in the past and continues to do so. We’ve created nuclear bombs through science and conducted extensive research and experimentation. We have life-saving drugs that combat the negative interactions and side effects of many diseases that once killed people. These drugs are now used to save lives and cure diseases. Most religions have fueled passion and violence for thousands of years. No one can know the true death toll when religion or science is used to justify killing. Religion and science create imbalances, which is what I am addressing.

The resistance within a group can be so strong that members lack the foresight to stop their evolving human direction. Depending on how you view yourself, each of us has the potential to contain an ocean in a drop. If you are influenced by the politics of your sense of belonging, whether related to religion or nationalism, it can compromise your potential for free thinking.

Consider the following: according to my religious beliefs, I cannot have a blood transfusion. I am expected to dress a certain way. I am expected to kill those who do not believe in God as my group teaches. In today’s world, this is called extreme thinking. If you are influenced by your religion or nationalism, you must examine God’s intentions as your group professes. Do you ask questions, or do you blindly follow what your group teaches? Do you understand that you have been blessed with free will as an individual? If you use this free will, you have the potential to be the CEO of your life. If you are not allowed to be the CEO of your life, will you question the direction or politics of your group? If everyone has the potential to be a CEO, will this cause great concern and a nightmare scenario for the leaders and higher authorities of any faith system? Have you been told to avoid evolving with time and to live and worship as people did in the era of the prophets of old? I call this being “frozen in time.”

Your free will and all the advancements humans have made in the last two thousand years are living examples that God’s will or intention is for you to seek your potential and evolve. If God wanted you to stay in the past, believe me, you would be. God’s intention is for all humans to be the CEO of their lives.

If you become the CEO of your life and understand that life needs to be lived as a mortal, no one should be able to teach you about a religion that robs you of your happiness and contentment with promises of life after death. It is my belief that if you live a good life in this world, you will go to the afterlife without guilt or regrets. One should not worry about the afterlife but live their life to the fullest while on Earth. Live your life as your God wants you to while you are here. God’s work is done through all living human beings, from answering prayers to helping humanity in times of need. If you ignore everything in your living years, how do you think you will fare after you are dead?

Most religions preach that one must do certain things to get to heaven, using fear and bribery to force adherence to their system. If you fear going to hell if you do not follow your leader’s rules to go to heaven, how can you reconcile this if some or all of their ideas feel wrong to you? Does this seem logical? The idea is to do good for humanity so God can continue to exist in physical form, and you are the working horse who does the real work of God. As an individual, you should never forget this. Don’t let anyone tell you that you are inferior or unworthy of connecting directly to God. God is not a political system; it’s a spiritual system that you give physicality to. Without you being alive, the business of life, spiritual or physical, cannot go on. You are not born a sinner, nor are you disconnected from God. God lives through humanity, one individual at a time.

Religious authorities never want individuals to question their authority, so they have become political systems. Any entity in the business of control is against individual empowerment because it threatens their authority. They will distract you by making you feel stronger in different ways. For example, they will tell you that you will be stronger because you belong to this group and that this group gives you a greater sense of belonging, ego, pride, and honor.

Throughout the history of our evolution, the culture that encouraged us to be strong, powerful, brave, and aggressive has left room for human rights violations and abuses of power. Ego is a double-edged sword that can be both beneficial and destructive. For example, if a father curses his son by calling him a loser, the son may take it as a challenge to succeed. This shows that having an ego can be beneficial, but it can also destroy relationships.

Sports competitions and war stories also illustrate how we derive pleasure from defeating opponents. Despite our level of evolution, many people are still drawn to violence, as evidenced by popular movies and video games. What does this say about us as human beings? Are we just physical beings or spiritual entities? We are individuals who are the CEOs of our lives, controlling both sides. By establishing our identity, we help ourselves and others understand their true value.

With personal value in mind, we can create peace from within. We can choose to remain stuck at any level, but according to Dr. Wayne Dyer, we need to prove ourselves better than others. This level requires a fighting spirit and aggression to dominate, but changing social values are rapidly evolving. Actions against fellow human beings are punishable, and the speed of change is causing confusion.

Raising boys to be spiritually evolved gentlemen and then giving them guns to fight for nationalism or religious beliefs impacts their psychological state. If we suppress and change the hormonal status of sports, armies, or freedom fighters, it causes mental health issues. We can’t stop rewarding testosterone-influenced culture without addressing the spiritual crime culture. Watching violent sports and movies tells us that balance is needed to function in changing times.

Everyone wants to fit in, impress, or be admired by their group, but this sense of belonging can lead to spiritual crimes. Social crimes, war crimes, and human rights violations committed by religions to conform others show the politics of well-being or superiority. Individual spirituality is crucial, as it leads to asking, “What can I do for you?” This mindset can change personal and collective lives and start reciprocation with God.

Life’s purpose is reciprocation with God and others. If everyone honestly pulls their share, peace can be created domestically, socially, and globally. The individual power struggle is internal, and solutions come from the individual. Encouragement from belonging groups conflicts with personal ethics of spirituality, but individual responsibility is key to understanding personal rights and wrongs.

As a group, we are political entities, but as humanity, we are a spiritual entity. Recognizing this can change our thinking and behavior. It is harder for a group to go against the politics of belonging, but individuals must grow to be CEOs with a personal sense of justice. Following the rule of spirituality, “Don’t do to anyone what you don’t like done to yourself,” can change larger life schemes, from protectionism wars to global warming.

The individual spiritual awareness is rising, but sense-of-belonging wars continue with passion. You can choose to live in a dog-eat-dog community or a spiritually aware society. The welfare state system debate is long-standing, but it is always about the individual’s spiritual awareness. Fourteen hundred years ago, one of Prophet Muhammad’s disciples enforced a welfare system law. Resistance to welfare states persists, with some arguing it weakens individuals, but intention matters more than action. A story about a man who put a nail in the ground to help others and another who removed it for safety shows that intention is key.

Differences of opinion will always be part of human life, but if humanity evolves spiritually, wars can cease, and miracles can happen. “If a community can’t take care of its sick and vulnerable, it is not healthy to live in.” Have the intention to help humanity evolve. If you help humanity, you will see the politics and wrongdoings of all groups, including your own.

Global warming arguments are about business and power for belonging groups, but they go against humanity. My intentions are for humanity as a whole, not limited by group politics. Appreciate living and do something meaningful while you can. Reciprocation is consistent.

The events, situations, and circumstances in an individual’s life are often linked to the second and third circles, deeply affecting and influencing the person. However, free will comes to the rescue. Even minor things in the second and third circles can significantly impact a person’s already short and mortal life. Mastering the wisdom of making big things smaller and small things even smaller is essential in a mortal life. Since our life itself falls within the third circle, we have no control over it. Understanding our mortality means recognizing that fearing and trying to control it can be stressful. The stress from things beyond our control should be taken seriously because it can rob us of happiness and bring the inevitable even sooner. A mortal life should be lived fearlessly; otherwise, accumulating happy moments becomes impossible. Regardless of what it means to others, you can break boundaries, set or break records, and contribute to humanity’s progress and evolution. If you try to secure yourself by isolating yourself in a metaphorical glass or iron dome, mortality will still come from within. Don’t stress about being mortal; otherwise, you risk an early death from the stress of knowing you are mortal. Education is supposed to benefit us, not harm us, yet we often harm ourselves and others with our education. The knowledge of mortality is a good teacher and a peacemaker if you accept it.

If an individual achieves this understanding, even a mortal journey can be enjoyable. The greatest benefit or logic of being blessed with free will is the ability to live in all kinds of circumstances. This can only be done successfully if the individual assumes the duties of a CEO. By becoming the CEO of your life, you will be able to see beyond the political boundaries of belonging groups.

Since the first circle is your personal teacup, you need to understand the real effects of trying to control the second and third circles. As a mortal being, you have bigger fish to fry. Instead of trying to get someone to read tea leaves, become the CEO of your life so you can see how your personal desires to control the second and third circles rob you of the very treasure you need to value—your happiness and contentment. These should be valued most by a mortal individual.

Becoming a CEO involves using the God-given gift of free will to avoid the storms in your personal teacup by knowing when to control and when not to. From a small amount of money to millions, trillions, or any other large number, perspective can make a small amount seem insignificant. When you feel that your education is designed to make you feel inferior, you need to critically evaluate it to connect the dots and realize that you are the foundation of humanity and God himself.

As a group, contributing can be a sign of strength, but it is still a small number compared to larger groups or humanity as a whole, so every group wants to grow stronger. Some do this through old-style politics of numbers, while others use weapons of mass destruction. Many religions even claim you will go to heaven if you bring someone into your belief system. What does this mean? It means that if you have a larger group, you have more power, and if it’s about power, it’s no more than political strength and has nothing to do with spirituality. If it’s not spiritual, how can it be rewarded by God?

Should we really believe that God wants us to follow one particular belief system? If that’s the case, why are there multiple yet legitimate holy books? Why do they leave things in them that cause religious people to fight for thousands of years over their differences?

I don’t care what someone thinks about me; if it stinks like politics, I’m not going to buy it as a spiritual thing. Too many human beings have been, are, and will be killed over religious differences. Who is right? Everyone is dug into their trenches or pigeonholes with the politics of belonging to show strength in numbers.

Personally, I believe it’s all about politics, and everyone is stuck in their pigeonholes, believing that God or the belief in God belongs exclusively to them, justifying killing others over it. Hopefully, equal human rights will help people understand the reality of one God, one human being at a time, not as groups with political agendas. Labels like Muslim, Christian, Jewish, Hindu, or Sikh come before being human. We are made to feel weak and worthless by the politics of our belonging groups, allowing these groups to continue long after we are gone as individuals.

If I ask you to join me in enjoying things religions prohibit, instead of constantly praying, fasting, and sacrificing, what would your response be? It’s obvious you will claim I am on the wrong path. Sure, I can be, but for argument’s sake, if I say I am the one with a mortal lifetime, my personal gift directly from God, I choose to live as I want to, and so should you.

If I insist you follow my way of thinking, you would rightly say I am wrong. Now, if I ask you to explain logically why I am wrong, the core issue is individualism versus communism. Religion may claim not to follow communism or socialism, but if you look closely at their rules, you will find similarities that can blow your mind. If a group wants you to live just for them, they want you to be their slave. This gets further twisted by mixing spirituality and politics. If you want to examine politics and spirituality, look at them separately because spirituality is nothing but the truth. As a CEO, you want to do spiritual justice to others, including yourself, because you are your responsibility as well.

Since I know I am a mortal being with free will, I need to understand where I stand in the big scheme of life. I can’t really know unless I become the CEO of my life. We are all created as CEOs by nature, but we are pushed down by the politics of belonging groups. Whoever uses free will makes choices about how to live their personal life as a personal project. If you insist I follow whatever religion preaches, I have the right to ask why. If you say I don’t have a choice, where should I fit my free will, which I got from God from the get-go?

It’s said that where human logic fails, religious beliefs start. That’s great; at least they admit we are evolving organisms. Religiously speaking, it’s not to be refuted by the individual because the individual is insignificant and has no direct connection with God; they must go to God through the prophets. Personally, I can’t believe a human being is insignificant unless a group treats them politically. Spiritually, it’s another story.

Let me explain the significance of the human individual. If you put all the good things together and relate them to God, and all the bad things to the Devil, the only way to judge good and bad is to bring in the human individual with free will as a third equation. If that judge is not there, both good and bad become meaningless and insignificant. If the human individual is taken out, both sides would disappear. For instance, if you kill everyone in the world, would God really matter, and to whom? Would anyone pray, fast, or sacrifice for God for security and comfort? I don’t think so. The whole concept of a belief system fails if you take out the human individual.

If you still feel that God and the Devil are the main characters, think again. All good deeds and bad deeds are done through human individuals. All bombs are dropped by humans, and all help to the needy is provided by humans. Take the human individual out and see what’s left. Just picture a ghost town with all the buildings, roads, bridges, water, and electrical supply systems becoming valueless if there’s no one to live there.

If I don’t have free will, then and only then, I would say I don’t have a say. Since that’s not the case, it comes down to personal security and the politics of it. A group can say, “We provide you security, so you can’t question our authority.” As an independent creature with free will, I must see what I need to pay for the services provided by the belonging group.

My first question to myself would be, “Is it true that a group is providing me security?” A group is in the second circle, dependent on the security from the third circle itself, so it can’t provide me security from death, illness, or natural disasters. They can’t even ensure me my oxygen, or in other words, my mortality. Nationalism or religion can’t provide what they claim to.

If I have to pay for their security, it must be carefully examined for its legitimacy. Is it worth living in an obedient and subservient position to some people who are just like me? Remember, it’s all about the reciprocation between God and yourself. If my belonging group wants me to pay more than it provides, it’s not reciprocating fairly.

When it comes to justice, religious extremism and God are not regarded in courtrooms worldwide, but our ethics, morals, traditions, and customs are heavily influenced by our belonging religions, so our right and wrong are stuck in the past. It’s time to bring everything up to today’s standards.

Equal human rights are a good spiritual start, so embrace them. If you feel it’s okay to be prejudiced against someone outside your belonging group, you are not following the spiritual rule of not doing to others what you don’t want done to yourself. You might believe your group’s knowledge is superior, so you must follow it to be right. Remember, we are evolving constantly, learning new things daily. Our knowledge is not complete. Our brain, like our muscles, can grow. If everything is growing, how can we claim our knowledge is complete? We don’t have to be extremists to be intellectual, religious, or spiritual. We need to be all of the above at the same time.

I believe that either extreme is wrong. We need to look at our spiritual lives as well, so instead of picking one over the other, we need to zigzag through it all with our evolving knowledge to have a personal yet successful mortal life.

No one can be 100% sure about before birth or after death because we have not reached our potential to use our full brain power. Our problem is that individually and collectively, we use assumptions. Sometimes, we even ask computers to help us predict what will happen in the future, as if everything is according to our numbers. Just look at your outer and inner spaces; see how complex you can be.

We are born into our groups, so all we know is whatever we have been taught. Therefore, we need to look at our upbringing critically as well. If you look at a living human being, they are not only a living creature but also a spiritual being. We are a bundle of both, so real balance is needed to live a complicated mortal life.

As human beings, we are all social creatures and cannot live alone. Therefore, we all willingly pay the price to be with our belonging groups. The trouble is that we all know we are mortal, so we must have the right to a pleasant journey. If, for some reason, happiness and contentment have been robbed from us, we all have the responsibility to know the reasons.

As a mortal individual with free will and a “fiver,” you have to live within your first and personal circle, yet you must relate and reciprocate with the second and third circles. The second circle relates to the community. The community or a group may have a say in the rules and laws of the land for the individual to follow, but a community may not have a say in how the third circle works. People die and get sick regardless of the support from the community.

As communities, we have been trying to control and influence our belonging individuals and even other communities of the world, just like we have been trying to control and influence the human individual residing within a belonging community.

One of our problems is that, as individuals, we think our community thinks like us. As a community, we think God thinks like us, as if everything is and should be in control. We even try to control God by worshiping and sacrificing, as if our bribery would make God give us more control in our living years and even reserve a spot in heaven for the afterlife. There is nothing wrong with having a belief system, but prayers and worship should come after using all the efforts we can. Practical living and helping each other in difficult times are much more valuable as practical prayers to God than just banging our heads against walls or the ground while committing spiritual crimes at the same time. We must do our best before asking for God’s help because we have been blessed with the “fiver” from God. This “fiver” is the foundation of all the progress humanity has made, is making, and will make.

Sure, God is involved all the way by providing individual security from external and internal chaotic spaces, but the progress comes from the lofty goals of the human individual. This visionary creature is the central reason for today’s good, bad, and ugly aspects of humanity. Interestingly and strangely, humans achieve all this regardless of their awareness of mortality.

From conquering to slavery to equal human rights and everything in between, it has been a long journey. We have come a long way. How we got here is a clear sign of human evolution. All the people for or against it will be judged by our coming generations. As communities, we should understand which side we stand on in an evolving world’s revolving door.

Controlling or trying to control everything as an individual or community is quite taxing. How far are you willing to go? If you go too far, you may self-destruct as an individual and ruin your temporary journey. Are you willing to evolve with the demands of time? The best way to be more effective is to educate, educate, and educate—not only as individuals but as communities as well.

As human beings with a “fiver,” free will, and continuously evolving brains and bodies, we have outsmarted all other creatures. Yet, we have been and still are killing each other, not even for food. So what does it really mean to be a human being? Well, with free will, we pursue and evolve to become stronger and smarter. There is one glitch: our awareness of our mortality, which stokes the fire of curiosity. It does not only ask us where we came from and where we are going; it also gives birth to the thirst for other knowledge.

From daily survival to fighting disease to understanding the disease process to science and technology to social and spiritual knowledge and everything in between, our curiosity goes well beyond our mortality. Our second circle reaps the benefits of our efforts during our living years. This should be for humanity as a whole as well, but the politics of our sense of belonging to our groups takes over, and we stay stuck in our belonging groups. This politics spawns our nationalism and religions, which we cannot question because of the politics. The sense of belonging teaches us to sacrifice even our lives for the belonging groups. They reward and even promise to secure a spot for us in heaven after our death. True or not is not the question, but the politics of the sense of belonging passionately speaks loudly enough to shut down questioning individuals.

Regardless of all the oppression, human individuals have always been able to question authorities and evolve. This desire to evolve has not been controlled by any ism or religion. We have been told that we will go to hell for our sins, but sins were never stopped, and especially these days, with equal human rights, even the past sins have been transforming to not only be acceptable but become rights.

From condemnation of other religious beliefs to slavery, to homosexuality, to abortion, to the right to die with dignity, to children out of wedlock—the list is long enough to spin the heads of conservatives or religious fanatics. Even the Pope had to change his tune to bow down to the spiritual law of equal human rights.

Canada and some other countries were chosen to be the best places to live and raise children. I don’t think it is the money; there is plenty of money in the Arab countries. Regardless of the taxes, it is the equal human rights and individual freedom that make people flock and migrate to countries like Canada. Everyone has the freedom to worship the way they want, yet they all live under the same law of the land. My question is, why can’t we live like this as humanity?

The government had to apologize and pay for the past sins of spiritual crimes committed by religious people who thought they were superior to others just because of their religion. Even today, the government has to pay for recent cases of human rights violations. Even a person who thinks they are doing God’s work can become a sinner with changing times.

What does our future hold? No one really knows. Just like the past powers thought they were right yet were proven wrong with time, let’s keep ourselves away from the politics that inspire us to commit the sins of spirituality by not doing to anyone what we don’t like done to ourselves.

The politics of the sense of belonging is everywhere, so we need to evolve to the next level—to be human beings before being Muslim, Christian, or Jewish. Regardless of the politics of the sense of belonging, personal mortality is a fact, so our journey should be a pleasant one. You can bring God, hell, and heaven into the mix, but if you are not spiritual, nothing really matters. You cannot go to heaven or hell just because you belong to a certain group of people. What really matters is whether you are reciprocating.

If you live in a country where “dog eat dog” or individualistic philosophy is preached, you personally need to create balance for yourself by looking into equal human rights with universal health care, welfare, unemployment insurance, and taxes—not as socialism but as spiritualism. It is as spiritual as it can be to help the needy in a difficult time of life. There is a very thin line between religious rules and socialism, depending on how you look at it.

You can worship all you want in the mosque or church, but the real thing is helping someone in need. That will not only make you feel good about yourself; it will also make the person helped feel good as well during their living years. You don’t have to die to reap the rewards of a good deed. If you are for the individual or for the community exclusively, it is an extreme, so respect needs to be considered from both sides.

So-called sins are based on group politics to make the individual feel inferior, guilty, and worthless so they can be controlled. If you go too far against individualism, people who are usually individuals will leave and go somewhere where they can find equal human rights and freedom.

One of humanity’s big problems is that we even collectively think as insecure individuals, so our politics revolves around security. Yet, being mortal as individuals, the word security sounds far-fetched because of our mortality.

The security rhetoric or related education or thinking comes from the politics of the sense of belonging to our groups. All groups preach that they look after their individuals, yet most people are hurt most by their own belonging groups.

Belonging groups usually preach that others are not really human beings or part of humanity, or are inferior to their group. They should not have what you have, so they should stay weaker and defeatable. This is wrong thinking because human nature comes into play, and this is related to level two.

A while back, I was watching Dr. Wayne Dyer explaining the levels of awareness on TV. He explained that, first of all, we learn owning. For instance, this is my mom, my dad, my toy, or my best friend. The second level is where we think mine or ours is better. The third is, “What is in it for me?” The fourth level is where a human being asks others, “What can I do for you?” So the second level, where mine is better, is a competition with others.

This competitive environment has its advantages, like excelling and advancing, but the drawbacks are much more dangerous because it needs to be looked at as against whom? Human beings against human beings. Our conflicts, whether territory-related or religion-related, have been and are still taking a heavy toll on humanity as a whole. Killing each other becomes easier and cheaper, yet it stokes the fire of hatred and animosity. That is why we cannot evolve out of this perpetual spiritual crime-spawning politics of our sense of belonging to our groups. It is like an autoimmune disease humanity cannot cure or overcome. The only way it will be controlled is if we all, as individuals, become CEOs of our lives and do not participate in the politics of divisions, learning to belong to humanity as a whole.

We are an organism like a coral reef—colorful, connected, and the same, yet being robbed of our potential by an autoimmune disease. We may not reach our potential if we stay stuck at level two.

Trying to prevent someone from gaining strength is not the way to go because our sense of belonging to our groups will always keep us fighting against each other regardless of the time. Just look around at all the religions; they have not resolved their differences by going to war against each other for thousands of years.

If we start to learn as individuals that we belong to humanity as a whole, which we do, we can address the cause of this autoimmune disease.

If a passionate creature like a human being gets hurt, regardless of being very smart, they are not only an emotional bundle of revenge but also carry the pain of love lost throughout their living years. With that pain, personal life becomes meaningless for them, so they want the people who caused their pain to feel the same pain at all costs. This perpetual love loss has to be understood not only by the first circle, the individual, but also by our second circle, the community, so we can start to create healing and become part of humanity instead of just our belonging groups. If there is a storm in an individual’s teacup because of the community, it is damaging for both at the same time because the community consists of individuals. The awareness of the individual is important so they do not let the politics of the belonging group ruin their temporary visit. The belonging group should understand that an unhappy and unhealthy individual is dangerous for the integrity of the group as well.