Month: December 2017

Disposal of the human bodies has always been connected with our religious rituals, traditions and customs. Some bury in cloth, in casket, some burn some may even go to the mountains to get eaten by the wild life. Why such a difference yet we all are human beings with the same carbon, genetics and connection to the humanity and God?

As child when we are born universally we are given a name and when we die the person who has the name dies. Does this mean as a living being we have a name and after we die a dead body is not called that name any more, it is called corpse or a dead body. It is because the soul is not there anymore. What happens to it or where does it go, is not the question to discus but what happens to the body is the question.
There is no creature on the face of the earth other than the human beings, which is not recycled. As human we not only, don’t recycle we actually own a piece of land long after we are dead. Yet we have living human homeless. Don’t you think there is a disconnect somewhere in our systems of living.

I believe we have to evolve as we face our modern problems, regardless of our traditions, customs or rituals we need to evolve with our changing times.
If you bury a dead body deep under the farmer’s land or deep into the forests we would be recycled by the nature.

Cremation may be easier and faster solution, but what about benefiting the coming generations and the earth by recycling, remember the fossil fuel we are still using to go around. Where do you think it came from? it is from the oil of plants and dead creatures recycling.

Having a grave to go to visit a loved one or keeping up with the religious rituals is one thing, but the fast changing realities of the world are an other. Emotional satisfaction for the immediate loved one is one thing yet a tomb stone dating few hundred or thousands of years old is an other. Should we stay and keep doing everything the way we have been doing for thousands of years or should we change with the needs of evolving times.

I believe in respecting our past, but I believe in evolving with the changing times even more. Sure talking about the dead loved one is a touchy and emotional subject but if you have living homeless yet a dead one who died hundreds of years ago have a piece of land is not a good situation for the society, nor it is ethical. Then what about our dead religious leaders and their tombs, should we change and destroy all that?
World has been evolving with certain speed, for some that speed is not fast enough and for some it is evolving too fast. It is not one or the other it is we just have to keep evolving in respectful manners. When something does not make sense and causing problem in our modern day life, it is time to move forward.

We have people fighting over the monuments erected in the past or changing streets or even team names because they are or have become  offensive to some. We have inappropriate sexual behaviors out in the open and the standers have changed, the clear sign of social changes adopted by the mass population and fast enough to spin one’s head.
Living homelessness is a worse problem than our all kind of burial systems. Am I against the respect of the dead ones, absolutely not, but I would rather remember my loved one and give some money to the poor or feed the hungry in the name of my dead loved ones every year instead of going to the grave yard thinking and believing that they are there.  This thinking and believing is related with our past knowledge yet the disintegrated dead body does not contain my loved one’s soul.
If you complain that dead bodies should not be buried under the farmers fields because of the fear of diseases. Just think where does our sewer system end up?. Our waste and God know what is in our real fertilizers.
People use to live thirty eight yeas of average age, today regardless of our wars and drug interactions average age has more than doubled. Our food is grown over our waste yet we are still evolving. If it is not clear enough to you listen to the scientists, they are predicting that average age is going to even rise further in the near future.
All this not happening  on its own, without the human interventions we still be living in the caves and bush. The ideas of age extension are related to the human individual imagination. Sure God’s will is with the humanity but religions alone just can’t change your mortality, they can’t provide you the oxygen, they can’t stop the natural disasters other than praying for you nothing is done by any belief system.

From throwing virgins over the cliffs to standing against the life saving blood transfusion to sending young people to kill and get killed in the name of God, is not adding years but going against it.  Don’t get me wrong their teachings have brought us up from a savage animal to human beings. My hats off to the spiritual side of every religion and what I have learned from my religion, but they have brought us back and forth with their politics. Their politics related damages out weighs all the good they have done to the humanity by putting cap on the human evolution or standing against it.
Scientific community has the similar history as well, drugs save lives, my hats off to them but they have been and still are killing us as well.
You can not go too far either way to count the knowledge as the most important aspect of humanity and put the importance of the living individual lower than the dead one. All religions are related with the human knowledge  and non of them is as important as a living human individual who is a working hand of God, who gives physicality to spirituality.

Why our traditions, customs and religious rituals matter more than living beings? Hippocratic policies of religions and our scientific communities are so immanence that they put even God as non existent from both sides. Scientific community does not believe in God in spite of the knowledge, that the human brain is not used at full capacity yet.
Religious people play God’s role yet in the name of God. They punish, shun and kill others as well as their own. When you believe in God you, need to learn more not only about God’s will, your personal free will as well as your belonging groups politically tainted will. That is the only way you will be able to see the importance of love of humanity and other human individuals as yourself.
All human knowledge, whether it is scientific or religious is a guideline for us to be a good human being, but our sense of belonging has us believed otherwise. Always remember data is a data it can never become a computer or a computer runner and human being is not a data.  

Personal sense of justice, the need for the equal human rights, love, compassion, forgiveness and the desire and ability to help the needy are the hard facts for the human individual.
They are your personal jewels to wear. If your guidelines take you away from your jewellery or forces you to strip off your God given  jewellery, you have to learn more about the politics of the sense of belonging. Even if they promise you the world or heaven or scare you to death from hell, without your jewellery you may end up in hell in your living years for sure and after death, well it is your personal call to know what would God appreciate or not. Politics of your belonging groups or your personal spirituality.
Following your guidelines is okay as long as you are wearing your jewellery to make your choices.
Personally I believe our evolution with time is imperative, if any group hinders, blocks or stands against it, it is standing against God’s will, regardless of the belief system. Your personal spirituality should help you to be a good person regardless of your belonging groups. Whether you are a scientist or a religious fanatic, you have to know that your jewellery is related with the spiritual side of you. In the end of the day it is the politics of sense of belonging tells you, that your good is bad and their bad is good.
A scientist can believe in the knowledge and kill millions of people for his belonging group is political, or a religious extremist can kill or gets killed has nothing to do with the spirituality regardless of the heavenly promises of the belonging groups. Politics of the sense of belonging is the main culprit of our wars related killings. Not only it is non spiritual it goes against the personal justice related ethics as well, because you should not do to anyone what you don’t like done to yourself.
As human beings we all come with a built in personal free will and sense of justice but we are nurtured or installed with the politically discriminatory data of our belonging groups. If you use your God given free will and sense of justice, you will automatically learn to belong to humanity as a whole otherwise I am going this far to use the religious term you have sold your soul to the Devil yet in the name of God.

If you don’t follow what is natural for you, its not intellectual, because as human beings we are intertwined with physical nature like other creatures and at the same time we are blessed with God like spirituality. Having the ability to bring spirituality in the physical form makes human beings to stand in a class of their own. Doing good things comes natural to the human beings because of the spiritual entity residing within. The trouble is the mortality as an individual so having the knowledge of being temporary throws one off balance. Some of us can find the wisdom and still find happiness and contentment regardless of mortality yet others just ignore it all and start to live as a permanent being. When the time comes to go or as the age creeps up the anxiety sets in. If you learn to get old before you get old, you would be able to accumulate happiness regardless of  mortality. Urges from both sides may pull but there is enough wisdom provided that one can create balance.

If you only follow intellect, you may end up losing more than you should as a mortal. It will be a bitter sweet pill to swallow if you follow todays trends, friends or  the cause you choose, knowing that you may have a limited time to make a choice or live.

Today’s trends of sexual abuse stories are filling the news slots, a bad apple is a bad apple regardless of the gender, so it should be about the human rights issues. When one speaks about  aggressive males and the desire to tame down their actions can lead to or compel the western cultures to rethink the old eastern ways of arranged marriage system. I am no fan of one or the other. I go along with the changing times. I look at the changes and embrace them as human evolution. I view them as a good thing rather than sticking to the past. Religious values with loads of prejudice and discrimination related problems are in the past.

If a male feels he must suppress how he has acted in the past and this is not his nature, what role does he take? Would the female have to become the aggressor and approach the males to carry out the act we all are compelled to follow by our nature role?

The population will adopt to the changes. We have been evolving from the beginning of time. As a cave man or when people lived in the bush a strong alpha male have had a harem of females yet the beta would go without.  One male and  one female came along as we became aware of our intellectual side and started to think that creating a family is good for the community.  It has always been accepted and considered a civilized way of living in all over the world. Some but not all Religions have made some concessions to allow the males to have more than one female, and no I am not talking about any organized religion exclusively. A Christian religious sect leader is in jail right now for having multiple wives and hundreds of children. We have been and will always be changing while we experiment with the evolution of our species. The question is, is it the right thing to do? What are the side effects of these social experiments and who is going to pay the price?
I am always for spirituality and evolution but when it comes to equal human rights I am one hundred percent in favour of it regardless of the price one has to pay.

When you look at the make up of the human being, there is a body and it is run by the brain. Who or what is running the brain? I state that “You” who is running both the body and the brain. Since the brain is full of data installed by the society we have chosen to belong to, our social group automatically expects it to run according to the rules of the society. This  third entity is not male or female. This person runs the brain body and everything in between. It makes the decisions to choose and assume an identity according to the installed knowledge. Since male and female is a data, not the being itself, the identity is largely dependent on the stereo type by the group were have chosen to follow in our society.  Some confusion often comes to the weaker individuals who depend on the society to make the rules they must follow.  This entity is the chief executive officer of his/her life, whom has a name of male, female or in today’s world which may include some gender neutral name.  If you want some proof of the third entity, just ask a stroke suffer or extremely old person. He/she can tell you all about the experiences of life living with all three. When the coordination between brain and body is not equally functioning, the individual entity has to create balance in order to be happy. If this does not happen ones life becomes difficult and it can increasingly become very unhappy.

If you happen to be a human being but labeled as male or female, it is not because of the entity residing inside of you. It is because of the body developed by the genetics and related hormones we all possess in our human body. These hormones dictate or compel the individual to follow certain natural inclinations.It has been said that males are aggressive and are the pursuers and females like to be pursued. If you change the natural order as perceived in the where males are the aggressive ones and females like to be pursued, it could cause some inner turmoil in the individual regardless of the gender.

I personally feel that I can see the side effects in the males that return from fighting in wars. They may return to their family with mental health issues. These stress issues were caused by the war but they can affect anxiety and depression for the females of the most cultures.

If you are a beta male or a female and if you are expected to drive your car of life, you would need some alpha help if not your stress levels are going to rise. Being a social creature that human beings are, we live together. If we are forced to follow the trends of society we can end up facing the side effects that comes with living as society expects to live. These side effects are not only harmful to the individual, they are costly to the group we have chosen to follow  in our society. We as societies, should care about these issues just as much as an individual should. We need to understand and be proactive to providing positive solutions for our chosen group.

These are the interesting times for me. I would like to see what kind of future are we facing with the rift in the genders.
Abstinent pushed by the religions have not brought something better to social settings, never mind the general population. It has been reported and confirmed that some ordained priests abused boys and attempted to hide their spiritual crimes in the religious group that they chose to be a part of in their chosen society. With time these changes will have an affect on society with many side effects to follow, only time will tell who pays the price for the changes. In today’s case I see both sexes are already paying the price. They are paying the price by suppressing nature in favour to evolving time. We need to understand the nature that we call, our nature,  as well as how we  evolve. A mortal nature puts a lot of responsibilities on the individual’s shoulders. Males or female are things living a temporary life as a chief executive officer of a mortal life.

Human desires are related to powerful nature. As a male or female we all are human beings first and being a human being we are social creatures and as a mortal creature going against the nature is not wise. Adopting social changes has always been an optional thing for the individual, so it is highly individual. This is why we still have religious people following the old rules of religions. Some present day governments try to stay with evolving social needs. Sometimes when they clash but the equal human rights win in the courts of the law because of the religious freedom. Since religious freedom is connected to the equal human rights, it can be difficult for the governments to navigate around and about these issues. The change is still in the air and I see there is a lot more attention on the sexual abuse these days, but the trend against the religious people whom became abusers seems to have lost its punch as time has passed. Would this trend pass or it is here to stay? If it is here to stay it will bring the side effects both sexes will pay. Lack of trust amongst genders can not be a good thing for the society.

Unlike individual society, as an entity carries on living well beyond the individual’s living days, the individual human rights have to be respected. If you force your rules on a mortal being, in the end of the day they will choose to follow or break the rules. When individuals have nothing to lose,  deviance and disobedience may result. This is one of the the reasons why we don’t have crime-free societies, regardless of the level of freedom. If you blindly follow the social trends  you individually may have to pay the price. Remember you are the chief executive officer or the one in charge of your life so the responsibilities  of a mortal life are yours.

Eastern cultures have family settings to set the young couples up to get married. They don’t have to go out to look for the mate, but western culture down grades it both individually and socially. My question would be that which one is right for the people as an individual and collectively? In the western society you go out to find yourself a mate, so in the process you may no be successful in meeting the person you would like to have as a mate.Would you rather have your family pick your mate for you?  What does it mean to you? What if everyone out there is somewhat emotionally injured including yourself? Would you play with the full deck of cards, and if no one is playing with full deck of cards who is honest and trust worthy about everything? Is it healthy? You may think I would say its not healthy but I am an eternal optimist so I take it as a life story unfolds. We have to go through it, if you are born in this era or a select culture, you have to make your decisions according to the social trends. I would always remind you to keep your mortality in front of you as a fact. Social trends, friends and the causes should not have the power to ruin your mortal life experience.

Exercise routines and religions are full of common things. We follow them similarly. For instance we want a structure to believe in and follow so we can feel the feelings to belong. That means someone has to be a guide and give you a structure because you are made to feel inadequate by not only your belonging groups but by yourself as well.  You don’t believe in yourself to be directly connected to the source. You have been told that you are not worthy to God directly yet you are the one with the free will whom decides and chooses.  Your belonging groups normally don’t have a say in the business of the person whom is the chief executive officer of his/her life unless he/she has whole heartedly bought into the politics of the belonging group. It is you  who decides  or feels the need to change according to the changing times. Your belonging groups would always follow the agendas for the political powers.

If you believe that your exercise routine is the best there is, automatically you start to believe that other people’s routines are not good regardless of their progress as exercisers. This bias is related to the politics of sense of belonging which is related to the personal loyalties to certain knowledge based ego, pride and honor. You would not know anything about if you are not taught from your belonging groups.  I like to keep my eyes open to see the progress of others to recognize the politics of my sense of belonging if I see unfairness within myself so their is end to learning for me regardless of my accumulation of logical knowledge. Logic says we only evolve if we seek otherwise we get stuck into a state of mind, where you think my way of living is better than others thus it breads prejudice and discrimination.

There is nothing wrong in following a set of rules to reach your goals. For instance, all sports have some teachers, they create a routine for the individual to follow and progress. They insist on whatever has had helped them in past it is best for everyone.  They start to believe that they can help the others as well by making them follow the same. Regardless of the methods of the routine, people or athletes develop, compete and win from all over the world. When you look at the fundamentals of development there are some basics. It will always come down to desire, drive and genetics.
Even though becoming good or achieving excellence requires further details like repeated and exhausting exercise or practice sessions, relative nutrition and enough recuperation. I  just can’t go in the details because I am not writing about the athletics. Since this blog is about the spirituality so I am going back to it, even metaphorically it still does relates.
Lets look at the religions, isms, democracy and all kind of governing systems, they all require people and my logic says that a group of people can not be without the politics. When you mix politics with the governing systems anything goes. From a character assassination to physical assassination and everything in between is a fair game to achieve political powers. Ethical or not false promises and using peoples emotions is all acceptable in politics. Usually an educated but emotional individual can be persuaded into voting even against their personal beliefs.

Do you really think in the spiritual world of God or even in your personal sense of justice world, it should be acceptable?
Personally I believe all religions should be pure of politics and yes, even if it is related with the sense of belonging. Since religions are and should be related to our spirituality they should stay focused on the spirituality and let the politicians deal with the political issues of governing because with the changing times we need to evolve to meet the challenges of evolving world. By staying in the past glorious days we can be disconnected with the realities of present.  
When you bring the politics with a religious twist you hurt them both. You may achieve power but it would come with the price.

Injustice, prejudice and discrimination are extensively found in most if not all religions without discrimination. How can these imperfect and insecurity related things infiltrate into our spiritual world?

It all depends on the individual strength, if we are weak individually, we always will not only let it happen but willingly participate in it.
Any system which tramples on the equal human rights, it is based on all three mentioned above. Religion or no religion, spiritually aware individual, who has personal sense of justice as well, would always go for the equal human rights. A religious system or matter of fact any justice system without the equal justice, is an impotent justice system especially if you start to think our routine of exercise is better than others yet others can still perform better than you in the field. This ignorance can’t be dealt collective because we all have politics of sense of belonging to our groups so this related with the individual sense of justice.
Since every human, regardless of color, gender, nationality or religion is equal into the God’s world I believe in. I would always stand for equal human rights because I believe in the spiritual rule number one.
“Don’t do to anyone what you don’t like done to you”. This spiritual rule should not only be at the personal level but it should be fundamental to all religions, isms, democracies or any other governing systems. Above and beyond of the personal politics of sense of belonging to belonging groups. If you keep that in front of you personally and collectively, you will be blessed with the internal and external peace.
Sense of justice for all depends on how you feel inside or how you are taught to feel. If you are taught to feel superior to others, you have to look at your personal mortality as a mortal. Things should automatically make you humble. If you still feel that way, you need to find spirituality related personal sense of justice. If you still can’t achieve that, you are a victim of a out of control politics of sense of belonging to your belonging group.  To the point  that you have lost the meanings of having God given free will and personal sense of justice. Not only you are not able to use your free will you are denying your direct connection to even God. It is time for you to look for belonging to humanity as a whole.
We all are equally blessed with a fiver or our free will directly from God( read five bucks). If you follow the politics of your belonging group without looking at it with your personal sense of justice, you are undermining God himself. You have given your powers to your belonging groups instead.

Always remember we are human beings, not worker bees or warrior ants, they are genetically programed. We are better than cats and dogs as well because we can self regulate without the carrot and stick control related philosophy. Human beings are able to use free will and always have a choice. If you choose to follow certain routine do so, you may benefit but remember there are several routines to follow. If you think your routine is the best and you are the best, it may give you politically false self-esteem, but spiritually you are not getting it.
If you harm others by following your routine or set of rules, you have got it wrong. Worshiping and killing the same entity just does not make sense to me. It would be like a Hindu killing the cow. Every spiritual part of most if not all religions, notice I said spiritual part not political part, states that you help the needy to be a good being in God’s books. Look around, religions are not helping the needy but instead they are creating the need. Trying to find spirituality in today’s political religions is like looking a needle in a hay stack. All I see is the politics even now a days they are still trying to scare the hell out of you by promising the day of judgment hell and heaven to control you.

A mortal should never be fearful of mortality because it does not change the facts of mortality. Fear related politics has been and is used even today to control the general population. Politics is politics whether it is coming from the religions or any other governing system. From terror tactics to heavy handed response to the terror had not changed or is not changing anything and it will not change anything in the future either. The spiritual and social crimes have been part of all societies regardless of the governing systems. Religious societies are not crime free either so what to do? Education helps the individual to self regulate, percentage wise may be but it is still better than the fear based political control.

If you individually feel superior to others because you follow or belong to certain race, nation, religion or just because you follow your religion by the book. Ask yourself why do you still live just like everyone else? You need oxygen, water and food, you get sick, old and die just like everyone else, so what makes you superior? Your worshiping to God, well God needs your spirituality related intentions and help to get God’s work done not your worshiping without actions. If you are killing a working hand of God instead, what are you really doing? Should God reserve a spot in the heaven for you?

You have got to think for yourself with your personal sense of justice because your belonging group has a political agenda to achieve power in this living world not after death. Unfortunately it is you, who as an individual rob someone of life, or you give your life for the political powers of your belonging religion.

The political religion is impotent of spirituality because our perpetual killing of each other over who is right is the a physical proof of our ignorance and the dismissal of believing in God’s will. A spiritual being believes in God’s will yet most religious people believe in strict punishments, death penalty and killing of someone who does not agree with our belief system. Where do you fit the God’s will, does it only apply to the natural disasters, we are very quick to believe as it is God’s will but when it comes to the people it is not. Remember it was the religious people whom through virgins over the cliffs whenever there was a natural disaster.

At personal level with personal free will related personal sense of justice, where you individually are connected to God himself, you should know the politics of your belonging groups. If you do, you will know that your routine to get to God needs some of the fundamentals and again they are desire, drive and genetics.
1) Desire to help because it is based on the reciprocation which is the meaning of a mortal human being’s life and no it is not prayers to God but helping God to fulfill the prayers of other human beings.
2) Drive to use free will with the sense of justice and yes even if it is for yourself to stand against your own belonging groups if they are committing spiritual crimes.

3) Recognize your genetics that you are not a worker bee or a warrior ant nor you are cat or a dog whom dance with the carrot and stick philosophy.

This philosophy has been the cause of the declining religious popularity because human beings are not like other creatures. Training an animal is one thing dealing with a problem solving brain is an other, so if you keep dealing with the human being as an animal sooner or later you will have the reaction. Religious powers have been declining in all over the world and democracy with the equal human rights is the choice of governing today.