Lets look at our life critically by keeping our mortal nature in front of us meaning we need not to only fulfill it physically but we need to nurture our spiritual side to feed our soul as well. Remember we have so many fields of knowledge that we can’t afford to be the jack of all trade especially because of our limited time. When we are born and growing up in certain environment we are effected by it so if the people around believe that we should be just like them it is a short sighted philosophy. For instance if you are a religious person you simply can’t dictate how a medical doctor should believe because you may be are against blood transfusion a doctor should believe and see the life saving benefits of it. Same way if a musician feels and enjoys music no one should be able to tell them not to because it is their rights to enjoy a mortal life as they want to that same rights make a religious individual practice their belief system just like gays can enjoy their freedom. Problem has been and still is that religious people have been trying to enforce religious traditions, customs, rituals as rules on other people as well. When it comes to our knowledge we should understand everything is in evolution so if our ancestors rode horses does not mean we should as well. Our cars help us live faster and more efficiently so why should we stay behind in time? If you are religious be it but you can’t be standing in the way of medical or other advancements because it is absolutely different field so interfering would be against human nature related progress and evolution.
Everybody should be allowed to operate freely in whatever field they choose, simply everyone should have freedom of choice. If you choose to stay behind you can’t keep everyone around with you, so whether its science, technology, medicine or religion, no one should be able to impose their will on others or suppress other fields of knowledge. Sure there are limitations in every human knowledge because we are constantly evolving. Unfortunately it has been and stills happening in our some societies and consequentially our progress has suffered. If we can’t learn balancing our fields of knowledge we can stay stuck in the past. Believing one field of knowledge is enough to progress is false thing for us mortals because if you are scientifically advanced but are not happy in life there are some imbalances you may find in spirituality but your scientific knowledge can be questioned. Same goes the other way around if you are religious and follow all the rules but spiritually are unfulfilled you need to find that imbalance related problem. Missing out on happiness and contentment in a mortal life regardless of resources and comfort is deficiency and should be looked at as such seriously because you may find help in creating balancing in the fields of your knowledge.
First thing to find that balance is to accept our knowledge is still evolving. If you believe your knowledge is somehow complete and better than all others, not only you are being prejudicial and discriminatory, you would not be able to see others knowledge as helpful to you and humanity. Logically if you can’t see your own evolving potential you could be stuck in the locked knowledge of past by choice. Meaning you choose to stay behind and knowing peoples conservative nature they try to keep everyone around behind as well. To me even if it is religious beliefs they are against God’s will because if it was God’s will we will have religions ruling human populations.
Religious people don’t believe in individual freedom, similar to communism they both believe in mass over the individual meaning automatic injustice to the individual yet openly. Their efforts can be seen in the oppression of their populations or at the least standing up against the equal human individual rights. The proof is in the pudding if you look at the migration of people, facts are clear because if every one was religiously inclined they would be flocking towards religious nations. Since there are three main reasons like peace, finance and freedom for the people to migrate. Financial reasons can make people to leave their nations and if they are given chances they may leave permanently. Oil producing nations were financial magnet but things are changing, it would be interesting if people start to leave back to their nations or migrate to western nations. Facts are showing from the news of boat load of people taking life threatening chances and trying to enter secular societies for batter life. Why such a problem for the religious nations. Other than the oil producing nations most religious nations are losing people all the time and where are they ending up and why? As I said there are several fields of knowledge and our communities, nations or religions have to provide freedom to choose so they can excel in whatever field they choose. If everyone is enforced upon religious beliefs and they feel that they are stuck in poverty yet they know they have potential to change everything for them but feel they can’t get anywhere by staying stuck. We all should look at the success of our societies critically to find the reasons of our poverty. Our religious belief systems don’t fulfill a physical reality like a full stomach so one has to fill their and their family’s stomachs first. If you want a proof of this what I just said. Keep people hungry and see after a while they will hallucinate to the point that our metaphoric realities like love and even God will disappear from our existence the only one thing will be left behind is our physical reality of survival.
Freedom of speech is one of the rights given to us by God and no human individual or entity should be able to take it. Since we are born with our free will from before birth we simply can’t be comfortable giving it up to our groups. That is why there is always unrest when people are not happy. I can picture and see it clearly, if people were allowed to move freely regardless of strong sense of belonging most nations would lose their individuals to the nation where equal human individual rights are the law. Even these days where there are so many restrictions have been placed still people die trying to reach to western nations. As the news say boat loads of people drowning and extremely suffering trying to escape from their native nations. Who are these people and why they leave? Why their nations can’t keep them happy and secure? Shouldn’t this be a matter of concern for them?
Always remember an individual makes a group, nation or religion. It is not the other way around, sure we are born into the groups but we stay in it by choice. Strength and meaningfulness of the group is dependent on the number of individuals. If you produce more members than you lose strength grows but if you lose more than you can produce things are going in the wrong direction. A while back there was a news that an Italian community was paying and providing housing for the young coups to move in because more people were moving away and dying than were born. You can be religious or political but if you lose people a town potentially can become a ghost town. Anyway in simple words if the individuals leave it is a loss for the community they leave behind and gain for the nations they go to join. As community if you can’t provide peace and security of food, don’t oppress as well because the strength of community is a lot more fragile than it appears. For centuries people have been migrating and interesting facts have been emerging for you all to see. Progress and prosperity of the nations receiving migrants and poverty of the nations of losing people is as clear as it can be. If you are a losing community look at the causes of your loss so you can see and address the problems. As I said before if knowledge has so many different fields why should one knowledge be able to oppress and rob community’s individual and collective potential. If you can’t address the cause of emotions related religious extreme at least bring out and let your thinkers explain you the long term effects of the loss. Remember a ship full of feelers can be saved by one thinker.
These days if you are buying technology, medicine and every other modern gadgets from advanced nations there is a good chance that could be invented or produced by the individual you have lost because of oppression, personal freedom or poverty. By no means I belittle religious knowledge because I believe in its spiritual value but that field of knowledge is one exclusive department of individual’s life. As individuals if we are taught that religion would do and provide everything, simply it has not been proven historically nor its showing any success in present days. I feel I always repeat a political religion phrase because I believe that religious politics robs individual from seeking their potential. As I said people move away and benefit other nations because of politicization of our religions. Shooting and killing girls just because they want to be educated is nothing more than politics because our spirituality teaches us all about God’s will. Question is how did our religions become political systems that is an other story. My question is about the first thing and that is if God’s physical hands are human individuals how does cutting God’s helping hands help God? If you remove human politics you will find God is not crazy to be happy by losing God’s helping hands. Spirituality teaches us all about our free will and rights of freedom, personal sense of justice, compassion and love. Sure you can be proud of any field of knowledge including religious one as long as it is purely spiritual. To me God is pure and innocent so using God politically would be a spiritual sin. As soon as it becomes politically tainted human insecurities related rules pop up. Now let’s see how our religions fair about spirituality. Logically religious beliefs related knowledge suppose to help and benefit individual not the group because whenever you bring group interest you bring politics and when you bring politics you bring in prejudice and discrimination. When you bring prejudice and discrimination you stray from spirituality and give even a bad name to God of being prejudicial and discriminatory entity. If you are committing a spiritual crime yet in the name of God it becomes even a bigger crime.
If you are one of those people who wants to live in a certain era of evolution, you personally have the rights to do so but you individually are not aloud to have control on other people around. No not even on your own kids as they become adults so remember we all come to life as an individual. We breath our own quota of oxygen provided to us by God individually. We come with our own and personal life story as well so even if you mean well you simply are not given control of others. Just look at your limitations you can’t even help them to keep breathing and alive if they are in trouble, so you need to learn to let things happen and let others choose their way how to live. If someone chooses to follow science and does not want to be religious like you they have the rights just like you to be religious. Our problems start with our individual and personal extremes, prejudice and discrimination and it has nothing to do with God nor these political traits come with us from before birth. Its all related with our individual insecurities. Openly created by our belonging groups because they are fearful of losing their political powers. To me especially religions should be pure of these fears and insecurities but they demonstrate all these fear based political rhetoric and show it all in their punishments for the individual. Yet they preach strength of God’s will simultaneously. Question is a big Why? To me either you believe in God’s will wholeheartedly to be spiritual or you use God’s fear politically to control people either way you are being political. Remember speaking from both sides of the mouth has been, still is and always be a political thing because spiritually you don’t get caught with the foot in your mouth. That is why I believe in our versatility, ability to use and run all departments of life like a CEO. You can believe and follow whatever you want to but never to forget that we all have an evolving nature. We can’t just pick and choose a department of life and evolve in it as a group. We need to know that if we don’t evolve in all departments in balance we can end up becoming extremists in certain areas of life and totally ignorant in others. Bottom line is that you simply can’t put boundaries around any field of knowledge and evolve with imbalance. Remember you have individual to do all that. As communities we should have clear understanding of providing individuals with reasons to stay within the community including freedom. Imbalanced evolution is not a win win philosophy especially politically for a group because if you are behind in certain departments. That can potentially keep individuals behind so community would literally lose them to migration and get exactly the opposite results of losing political powers.
MMA fighter named Jon Jones was just talking normally while was filmed. I don’t remember the event nor the date, but his words got stuck in my mind. Since my blog is about this subject. I wanted to go a little further to explain what I believe and think about his words. So I am going to use what he said as a quote.
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“If you believe that you have something that is special, even a gift from your higher power then stop questioning because its insulting to your creator that you believe that he will put limitations on what he has given to you” End quote.
To me the words from a thinking fighter who casually and easily talked about a spiritual truth were better and easily understood than the most of our religious scholars. To me if one clearly believes that way, they can easily see through the politics hidden behind our religious requirements of individual obedience. General population of religious believers clearly undermines human individual’s importance. Knowing human individual’s spiritual relevance, placing and the reasons of why humans have free will is important especially when it comes to the understanding of our holy picture of spirituality.
Individual’s abilities should not be discouraged by any authority or entity by any means because in reality God gets glorified by human evolution as well. Logically in our actions and our decision making God is all along with us because we simply can’t function without the help from the things we depend on and have absolutely no control over. Especially in the Corona times you can see the importance of free oxygen. Sure we are being helped by our nature or God to provide us oxygen but that knowledge of knowing the importance of oxygen came from the people who really respected God to use that gift to discover everything what helped us to be where we are today.
Belittling human individual has been and still is used as a political agenda by the religious or non religious politicians to control populations, so simply it is not God nor its God’s will to limit human beings. If that was the case people would succeed without the hard work and there would not be any value of human efforts. Why would anyone put their time and efforts to succeed, achieve goals and set the bar higher for coming generations? Why we would we want to progress further to keep the evolution going? Because our evolving nature came from God. If our limitations did not come from God why our religious leaders are hell bent to enforce them? It has to be related to some political agenda so they are connected to the people who wanted to have political control over their ordinary people, but wait we should not rush to make a judgement.
Politics aside personally I believe these hurdles carry an unintentional hidden wisdom of adaptation. Came along to slow the speed down so no I am not going to credit religious people because they don’t believe in this business of adaptation. They honestly and literally want us to be locked into the time and era when our prophets were around. I agree with Jon Jones but partially because our evolution comes from study and constant pursuit to adopt higher levels a bit by bit at a time. Meaning there is a wisdom in adopting and continually pursuing. For instance if you lift a ten pound dumbbell and stay with that, your body will adopt to that level of stress and will not progress any further. You not only will have to lift heavier, dig deeper within and have a strong desire to push yourself to higher levels so your body can response and grow higher muscle mass to make everything easy for itself. This adaptation process has been ingrained in our DNA from our nature meaning God meant it for us to have no limits but our problem is our extreme.
If you believe God is doing everything you are half right because you will have to understand the whole picture to see how God and humans are getting the things done. If you believe simply God is doing it, or human is doing it, you are stuck with half knowledge and would not use that gift to evolve further. On the other extreme if you rush and lift the heaviest without the process of adaptation you are not only going to get hurt but you would not progress either. If that is the case the answer would be not to follow extreme? Believe that God did not and I repeat did not put any limitations so it is our DNA related desires what makes human progress and evolve. Our hazards and hurdles are there to set the rhythm to adapt gradually. Personally I believe our politics has its place but undermining human individual’s potential is absolutely against God’s will so Jon Jones is right it would be a disrespect to blame God for limitations. Knowingly disrespecting God is a political thing so know and respect God’s real will by doing the best you can regardless of your awareness of mortality. We suppose to set examples for the coming generations so they can continue evolving further and further to really glorify God. I say that because we can’t even breath and function with our will, so with out help our progress is impossible. If we acknowledge that help of God and progress metaphorically that makes our progress God’s progress.
Unfortunately or fortunately we all come from different schools of thoughts so our knowledge sometime clashes especially with the politics of sense of belonging in the foundation of our conflicts. Our competing helps us to evolve but it damages us spiritually simultaneously so we really have to dig in and know what is this all about. Our real duty of evolving in balance especially in all departments of life comes from God so we keep progressing yet with peace. If we are growing and evolving in our war weaponry we need to equally pay attention to evolve spiritually as well. Political identities are not what we are, we are human beings, our real identity is spiritual entity having a physical experience. We are not exclusively animals so living in such manors is not meant for us from God. Our evolution and evolving knowledge is our ticket to become spiritually aware to the point that we can over come our differences. We can understand and realize our potential if we pursue and follow our nature of being spiritual and physical at the same time.
Our evolving nature has brought us out of the bush and caves and we are not on the food chain anymore. Since we are not done yet, are still in the process of evolution and still are suffering from a political disease which makes us kill each other. Looking at the human evolution one thing stands out and that is our thoughts overlapping, dictating and even manifesting our own physicality realities. A long time ago while watching Discovery Chanel, I saw someone put a small stingray fish in a swimming pool with checkered floor. You could clearly see the fish in the pool until they splashed the water. Fish had changed its color according to the pool surface and blended itself to become invisible. I am no expert in zoology but I assume that evolution is not exclusive, other creatures have evolved with their strong desires. They can acquire their fangs, claws, venom and other characteristics to help them survive in the wild world of physical living. Sure we don’t grow horns or wings but we sure are able to create comfort and evolve.
Our lives are not same and stuck in the past either, with every innovation we are stepping further and further into create our new physical realities. Regardless of our evolution to create an easy life for us one thing has been and is consistent for us and that is our awareness of individual mortality. Being mortal certain things like happiness and contentment should become our priorities but that is not possible with the constantly nagging nature to evolve so contentment is quite rare for us human beings. Easiest way to keep the happiness and contentment along side our evolving yet mortal nature is to believe and believe wholeheartedly. That if I achieve and get something, its a blessing and if I don’t get it, its not meant to be so the sooner I accept that, the faster I put guards against unhappiness and discontentment. Sooner you move on from the failures the better because your happiness and contentment is an ultimate prize of life a mortal life. Especially when it comes to understanding the reasons of mortality. I personally think the secret of deep and spiritual happiness is hiding in our direct reciprocation to God. So remember if you get what you need and want it is a blessing, if you don’t it was not meant to be. Sooner you adopt to it the better because we simply can’t afford to accumulate disappointments, unhappiness, frustrations, stress, mental health and related physical illnesses because the time is literally running out.
If we can understand spiritual reciprocation with God and what is it all about, we may succeed in our all kind of relationships. Including with, kids, other loved ones, relatives and friends can understand there placing and part to give and receive love. If they understand and go a little further they would respect parents for providing them security of food and shelter. If men and women learn about spiritual reciprocation they may have successful and loving relationships. When we try to live our life exclusively as a physical creature we would end up in the fights of domination and personal gains and losses. Same goes for our group relationships, by simply taking a next step into our evolution, we may overcome our animal behaviors related politics of sense of belonging related divisions and wars. If you try to ignore physical behavior like domination we can’t learn anything about our spiritual side so we fail to achieve peace. Just like we behave in our personal relationships we can carry one behaving as groups that means we are not respecting our evolution. Our problem is that as human individual and even collectively we are not there yet, so balancing spiritual side with being physical is not matching. If you can learn and honestly look at yourself as a creature in the process of becoming a spiritual entity, you will be able to see clearly where things are going wrong for you. If you are unhappy in your life especially in your relationships, you may start with the understanding of spiritual understanding between you and God. For instance if you are alive because of oxygen and other favorable circumstances where you have no control or a say in your being alive. What have you been doing for God? Since God does not need anything from you, you should know your duty would be to help the people around because they are the physical and helping hands of God. Your physical help is creating and manifesting spirituality into physicality. If you can learn that your reciprocation as a duty, you would learn that all relationships depend on the reciprocation. If you believe and are stuck into the physicality of life you are limiting yourself as a physical creature and would not be able to understand spiritual side of yourself. Deep happiness and contentment is related with us being spiritual. The proof is in the pudding simply look around and see why people find satisfaction in giving and being helpful. Bring all that into your personal relationships and see how it goes? Main problem in this area is that both sides would have to learn to reciprocate at the same time to have a successful relationship. If you are simply trying to dominate each other you are living an exclusively physical life.
If money and love comes they should be considered blessings, if not we should look at it as its not meant to be. Simply believing that way can remove a whole lot of pain and stress from mortal living. This spiritual approach is not easy because we have different messages coming from the education we receive from our care takers and life experiences within the society we belong to. Our education has a lot to do with our attitude so learning and believing in total and blind belief system is not enough for us human beings nor totally being responsible for our failures. That does not mean we should say everything is meant to be because we need to do our best first. Remember our time on this earth is limited and we actually have the understanding of it. We need to use the combination of taught beliefs and the ability to use free will, which is a God like ability for us to live a successful mortal life.
Even this day and age most of the human population is still identified by race, gender, nation and religious, which means before even we are born we are labeled with our identities. To me our first and real identity is a human being a spiritual entity with a physical twist. Everything else is related to the politics of our belonging groups. If we all are born, breath oxygen, eat food, get old, sick and die exactly the same way regardless of our race, color, gender, nation or religion. Then why all the differences? Why politics of our belonging is able to override every thing? If we all have free will then why can’t we use it to become an independent entity? As we are meant to be. The simple answer is that we individually feel insecure so we find refuge in our belonging groups and complex answer is that we don’t really believe in our being a spiritual being. Now the question is why do we feel insecure without our belonging groups? Why can’t we feel secure being a part of humanity as a whole? Answer would be being politically brain washed at early age. We individually have accepted that our group identities matter to us more than us being an independent human being. With all the evolution in our belt by now as individuals we should know that politics is a part of our belonging to groups but not as a human being who is a spiritual entity as well. We can be born in a group by no choice but living within is a choice. Since our real security comes from within us individually, our belonging to a group or humanity as a whole should not matter as much. When we individually put things in perspective we should be careful because as a human being we have a tendency to take things to heart to become extremist. Our political realities can become everything and we start to think them as our physical realities. If a whole chunk of population takes things literally and make them essential part of their belief system politics of belonging can make things murky. For instance one can make a statue of metaphoric God and start to worship or make an imaginary Devil and throw stones at it. That can become an accepted and respected reality but with the freedom of speech law. If people start to kill each other over their metaphoric realities, it has gone too far because when you kill someone, there is nothing metaphoric about it because it has become physical.
That killing is robing someone’s love which can be a start of perpetual business of robbing love. A physical reality for us physical creatures because we feel deeply about our love loss. Don’t forget love is in the foundation of our being and it feels so deeply that we react violently and ignore all our insecurities. It is like God we simply can’t see it but feel to the point that we have been killing each other over God, since our awareness. Unfortunately our evolution has not done very much for us especially in the department of emotions.
We have made advances in every thing else including acquiring weapons of mass destruction yet still we kill each other over love. World is a lot more dangerous today because of our out of control emotions with today’s weaponry. We can’t deny love its power to become scientifically correct but emotionally impotent so experiencing our life with richness of love becomes essential especially because of our mortality. A successful mortal life is not and should not be empty of physical experiences. Even though our societies have been discouraging us to act emotionally and under the influences of our hormones to become an evolved human being. Hormones are our reality and they may take us to extreme physicality but if you go to the opposite extreme. Like some religious rituals of celibacy and mutation to live in a monk life style, that should not be considered a successful mortal life. So understanding mortality, spirituality and physicality is as important as breathing. If you suppress your physicality to impress the people around remember you are doing it for other people. Other people may be important to impress for some but as a mortal human being in general life with any kind of suppression can’t be completely happy and content. As a mortal being if you ignore your individual happiness and contentment, even if it is in the name of God, people around or a cause. Your philosophy is flawed because as a mortal being it is your personal responsibility to accumulate the treasure of happiness and contentment along the way. At the same time don’t forget that we achieve deeper level of happiness and contentment with spiritual fulfillment so choosing one over the other is not the game for us mortals its the wisdom of balancing physicality and spirituality.
Regardless of the era, nation or the religion you are born into, you are born as a CEO of your life so you can create balance in all departments of your life. Sure it feels natural to have desire to fit in, impress or want to be admired by the people around but being mortal with the capacity of being a CEO. Responsibilities land on your shoulders so living a deprived life means you are not standing up for yourself. Here I should make one thing clear that I don’t preach selfishness. I am trying to say that God created you as a CEO, gave you free will for a reason so assume your duties and treat yourself as you treat others and even God. If you are not happy and content regardless of following religious traditions, customs, rituals as duty. You have not understood the wisdom of you being blessed with the free will. Whether God is in there somewhere or out there somewhere is not as important. What really matters is that individually you are spiritual and just so following your group politics can work against you in your individual and mortal journey. So know yourself, your potential CEO status and do the justice to everyone and yourself because politics of belonging is a phenomenon that has deep roots into all of us. Finding personal spiritual satisfaction can’t come to you you will have to go and dig it out from the depths of political layers. Sure you can do it you are the one who has the gift given to you personally and directly from God. Yes your atom of autonomy is there to guide you, you just have to dig and listen from within.
If you are spiritual you would use your personal sense of justice and would not do others what you would not like done to you or to your loved ones. You would not let your politics of belonging to your groups override your spiritual sense of justice. Since we carry our memory and imagination yet are a mortal being our life should be lived in the moment with the larger context or larger context within the moment.