This is my personal and individual way to describe what I think about God. To me, it has never been about “What is?” but rather “What is it all about?” You may not agree with me, and that’s perfectly fine. We can agree to disagree.
I believe we are part of the body of God, just like our cells are part of our bodies. Our cells have no eyes, understanding, or mental capabilities to see the body from the outside. Some might argue that a human cell can see a whole human being from an experimental petri dish, but a scientist would disagree because cells lack such capabilities. I’m not talking about experiments; I’m referring to real-life living cells within a functioning body. These cells are encased within, without the ability to see physically, go out, and still stay alive while looking back at the body as a whole. That can’t be done, so their knowledge about the body is limited. They are there, assigned a job to do, and their feelings of being fed, kept alive, and nurtured by the body are pronounced enough for them to be emotionally attached.
We take pride in our knowledge and have always used shameless and egotistic assumptions, claiming to know everything. But can a cell within the body claim to know how our body looks from the outside? Our ability to see everything is clearly limited because we are still in the process of evolution. We may be knowledgeable about different physical aspects of life, like science, medicine, politics, and technology, but when it comes to our origin, God, and the afterlife, we have nothing but assumptions. Unfortunately, we tend to view life as black and white and have not learned to accept that we don’t know everything. If we don’t know something, we rely on vivid imagination and assumption-based belief systems.
When you are born and grow up in your belonging group, you are bombarded with politics of belonging, from loyalties and guilt to nationalism and religious beliefs as a way of life—your first education. Hormonal connections from within also play a role, and normally, you wouldn’t question anything because you are not yet aware of yourself as an atom of autonomy. Regardless of what I have learned and what I say, we are like cells encased within the body. As cells working to make the body function, if you are part of the arm or leg, you are told to lift or relax the arm or leg or walk the body in a certain direction, which you are not aware of. You only know you are supposed to move the arm or leg.
Assume you believe everything your part says is the truth. In reality, you are moving an arm or leg but have no idea what is involved in that movement. You believe what your part says is true, but you do not completely understand it. Yet, you are aware enough to talk to your buddy about whether the body exists. Your limited knowledge insists that the arm or leg is the whole body, yet you think there is more to life than just moving an arm or leg. Assuming you are smart enough to start questioning how the arm or leg works, what it is attached to, and how the life system works—oxygen, brain, heart, lungs, liver, kidneys, colon, skin, and brain—you wonder how it looks as a whole from the outside.
Personally, I believe our intelligence in other areas compels us to find out, but unfortunately, the more we dig into it, the more we realize there is a lot to learn. Meaning, we don’t know everything. The most uncomfortable feeling for cells claiming to know everything is accepting that we don’t know anything about our origin or even what we are, why we are, and what happens when we die.
Our problem is not related to what it is but what it’s all about. So, I don’t try to talk about what it is. I may give an example here and there, but my main focus is on what it’s all about. I have no problem accepting my limitations and not knowing, but I try my best not to use assumptions. This example of the body and cells should be acknowledged as a metaphor, not as an assumption. I know and believe I have limited time, and my life calls me to attend to all my other departments. Since I consider myself the CEO of my life, I must attend to it as needed. I simply can’t afford to spend my whole life trying to figure out what God is and why I am here. Sure, if you have time and energy, knock yourself out. I’ve got bigger fish to fry. My mortality calls me not only to fulfill my duty of reciprocation but also to accumulate some enjoyment and happiness along the way. I personally don’t believe God made us to be monks, and I disagree with spending a lifetime with a blank sheet.
To me, we are all born with a sheet that has music written on it. God is an empty space, and we are the musical notes. If we don’t speak when it’s our turn, we have a blank sheet, but if we don’t believe in empty space or leave room for God in our lives, we will live and die in constant stressful noise. So, I believe in a balanced, rhythmic, and melodious life. No monking or stressful monkeying around for me—just plain and simple living of equal partner reciprocation. I don’t have time to figure out God while I’m running out of time. All I know is that I am inside the body because I can feel the spirituality touching my physicality and vice versa. I am receiving oxygenated and nutrient-rich blood to experience life, functioning to do my daily job, which is reciprocation.
If my buddy asks me if the body exists, I can’t say no because my own functioning is not my own doing, yet it is still happening. I believe that I have been helped and instinctively know I need to do something in return. That something is my reciprocation, which gives me deep and personal spiritual satisfaction. Should I buy into everything my arm or leg buddies are selling? No, I believe they have politically manifested and constructed assumption-based ideologies of belonging to the arm or leg instead of understanding how the whole body functions. I can’t follow traditional, customary, ritualistic, and belief-based rules of the arm and leg. I am for understanding the body and its functioning. Remember, I said I am for what it’s all about, not what it is. If their way of living is to politically use and control people and use even God in the process, that is what I am talking about and what it is all about. When people follow the masses over the individual, it is political and an unjust practice. Whether it comes from socialism or even our religions, they are spiritually incorrect because it’s not coming from our groups of people. Rather, it’s God who supplies oxygenated blood to us equally, a clear example of equal justice. There is no injustice in the spiritual world. If religion says everyone has to follow religious rules, I have a problem with that. To really find out about God, one has to die first, so no one can claim to know everything about God. Creating rules of God and religions has no connection and nothing to do with God or the body. So, as I said before, I am not for what it is but for what it is all about. If it is about politics, which always stands on injustice, prejudice, and discrimination, it’s not related to the entity which supplies oxygenated blood to the cells indiscriminately. It’s about the group of cells or people belonging to each other as political organizations claiming to have good intentions for the individual yet using cells and the body for their political agendas. If you follow what it’s all about, you will discover politics at the base of all our disputes. As they say, follow the money; in this case, follow the politics of control and power to discover what it’s all about. You will discover your incomplete knowledge-related personal insecurities compelling you to follow to the point of reaching your personal and self-destruction, spiritually that is. Depending on how high you put God on the scale and how low you put yourself, your behaviors can threaten the very existence of the body and God. Don’t believe me? Simply imagine the world without people or a body without physical cells.
Spiritually, things are not usually logical, but since we are born mortals, we individually have to understand everything about our realities. Our physical realities may be different from our metaphoric and virtual realities, but that doesn’t mean they should not mean anything. For instance, if you only believe in your physical realities, you may not understand a lot about our mortal life. God, love, compassion, bravery, sacrifice, and a sense of justice are a few of our metaphoric realities. Sure, they are not physical, but they all have a place in our mortal life. You may not be able to see or touch them physically, but that does not mean they don’t exist. Just look at history and even present days and see how many books, movies, and plays have talked about love, yet it’s not our physical reality. People sacrifice their lives for their loved ones, for their communities, nations, and religions all the time. We have holy books, and we still swear by them even in our modern-day court systems simply because they are part of our everyday life. They may not be our physical realities, but our metaphoric realities can’t be denied. They have undeniable benefits for us mortal beings, from placebo effects to counseling to hypnosis, and now even spiritual awareness can play a legitimate role in our healing systems. Sure, you can’t say a belief system is founded on clear-cut truth, but it still benefits us in known and not yet known ways. Meaning we may learn later with our evolving knowledge, so everything is not proven until it’s proven. We can live and die or carry on living even after a proven fact, so why not believe in both our physical and metaphoric realities, even if they are not connected? I am not here to confuse you or you to confuse me, so let’s agree to disagree, and that’s my personal and individual way to describe what I think about God.
To achieve equal human rights, we must individually understand spirituality, live, and let live. If you are conservative, be conservative, but don’t try to hold everyone down with you, as you might lose even your loved ones. Forced beliefs are not spiritual; they are based on political insecurities. People who don’t put their own two and two together allow others to do it for them, following the political whims of belonging groups. In the era of equal human rights, anything forced doesn’t work, let alone a belief system. Don’t let politics ruin your relationships or tarnish your belief system. The simple truth is that oppression has never worked, so people need to meet in the middle to eradicate extremes. With today’s freedom, information technology, and equal individual rights, suppressing human nature has become a black mark on societies. Remember, nations with lower crime rates and happier people successfully use spirituality, while so-called religious societies have spiritually nothing to show in real-world results.
Politically, our sense of belonging influences nationalism and religious identity problems, which cannot be eradicated unless we all seek to understand our individual and personal truths. We are still evolving both personally and collectively, yet we oscillate in solving our worldly issues. The shifting political powers between conservatives and liberals prove that humanity is transitioning to a new paradigm. The formation of the European Union and Brexit are examples of this back-and-forth. Eventually, we will hopefully learn that we all have to survive as one humanity. Global warming, wars, refugee crises, infectious diseases like the coronavirus, and internet-related crimes constantly point to the need for humanity to work together.
When you see a cat or a dog, regardless of their color, gender, breed, or size, you distinguish them as cats or dogs. Interestingly, when it comes to humans, we often fail to acknowledge this simple truth. We bury our primary identity as human beings so deep in politics that it becomes difficult to recognize ourselves as such. Our actions shame us. Our color, race, gender, nation, and even our belief systems speak louder than our humanity. Logically, if we are born as human beings, regardless of our color, race, gender, size, nationality, or religious beliefs, we all belong to humanity as a whole. Spiritually, we should take pride in being spiritual beings, but our belonging groups discourage us. They fear that if all individuals believe in one humanity, their group’s political power would be threatened. The politics of belonging to our groups has done immeasurable damage to humanity and continues to do so. We need to take the next step in our evolution. Our spiritual growth calls for individuals to understand the power of political belonging to groups.
When someone says to put your two and two together, they mean to figure things out for the better. The purpose of religious beliefs should be to help individuals find internal peace with their mortal nature during their living years. When it comes to God or religion, they have nothing to do with the afterlife but everything to do with our living years. We need hope and optimism to survive mortality while seeking happiness and contentment. God’s work needs to be done while we are alive, so it’s all about our living years. The logical motive of religious beliefs is to prevent spiritual crimes against each other and stop us from acting like other animals. Whether there is heaven or hell is not the question; it’s about controlling living people to maintain social peace. The carrot and stick philosophy is good for training animals, but as human beings, we bring our spiritual side along and shouldn’t be treated as animals. This is disrespectful to God and the creator. Nations that achieve low crime rates and happy populations have spiritual policies and don’t treat humans as animals.
Interestingly, in the religious world, most people emphasize life after death and neglect to focus on the meaningful life they have. They are so obsessed with the afterlife that they don’t put their personal two and two together to understand what it’s all about, as if they know exactly what happens after death. The real problem is that everyone personally has to die to find out. Questioning all that can become an issue. The bottom line should be to live this life with spiritual decency. Looking back at history and even today, there are many solved and unsolved mysteries of life, meaning we are constantly learning and evolving. What was once accepted as God’s territory is not anymore, so we are advancing despite its uncharted status. We still need to evolve further to solve our personal mysteries. People have their ways to figure things out, some through science and technology, and some through metaphoric stories. Unfortunately, as groups, we still follow the politics of belonging, resulting in the killing of innocent individuals. We cleverly twist everything to blame God for our actions.
To me, it’s absurd to kill or get killed in the name of group politics and connect it to God. Politically, your group might say you’ll go to heaven, while the opposing group says you’ll go to hell. As if human beings have no free will, choice, compassion, or personal sense of justice. Remember, we all have our own atom of autonomy within, so going against it means you create your own hell. This clearly shows that your two and two are not spiritually together because it reeks of politics. If you kill someone, you’re taking away God’s helping hands, robbing someone of love, and if you see God isn’t doing anything about it, you become entrenched in your version of two and two. How can you believe that your actions are spiritually related? If God were pulling our strings, we would be genetically programmed like bees and ants, not responsible for our actions. Since that’s not the case, we all have personal autonomy and can use our free will, sense of justice, compassion, love, and hate responsibly. Now, my question to you is, do you have your spiritual two and two together, or is your belonging group doing that for you? If your belonging group’s politics is powerful enough to pull your strings and make you dance like a puppet, you don’t even have your two and two, let alone put it together. Prejudice, discrimination, and believing that even God is prejudiced and discriminatory is a spiritual crime. That means, politically maybe, but your two and two are not spiritually together. Remember, if you are against equal human rights, both you and God are used politically by your belonging groups, whether you acknowledge it or not.
Instilling beliefs that people are born sinners creates individual insecurities and related issues. Politically, it robs followers of their self-respect and self-esteem, making them easier to control. Promoting prayers and fasting as a duty, with non-compliance punishable by God, is another tool for control. Corporal punishment for children and brutal penalties for social crimes send political messages of fear and compliance. If it’s not politically instilling fear, what is? These punishments create a fearful environment that stunts all kinds of growth, brainwashing followers so no one can question authorities and everyone becomes like creatures genetically programmed. Strict rules loudly declare that it’s all about political control, not about what is. Poor God, spirituality, and humanity have nothing to do with this. Political rules have nothing to do with justice, compassion, or spirituality; it’s all about ruling the population at all costs. Fear-based politics has been a typical human tool for training animals, but using it on humans doesn’t work. The proof is clear: religious societies don’t have lower crime rates, nor do their populations score high on happiness and contentment. Human beings are not in the same class as other animals because we have a spiritual side. Religions are full of people hungry for power and control, who don’t hesitate to use God and people politically. In their quest, they have caused people to lose respect for religious beliefs. I don’t have to prove it; what could have gotten them killed in the past, today’s world gives people the power to openly challenge or take religions to court, never mind defying their rules.
What has happened to our religions? Why are things changing everywhere, regardless of any particular religion? Roman Catholics have been involved in all kinds of scandals: first with sexual abuse, then with residential schools, and now with thousands of children’s unmarked mass graves on residential school grounds. Interestingly, they are not even in a position to defend themselves or explain why they did it. In Afghanistan, Muslims are desperately trying to escape Muslim religious rules. The Taliban-style Islamic government may even cause more disrespect for the religion. Where is the love for our belief systems? What went wrong with our religious beliefs in this modern era? We used to have a lot of respect for our religious beliefs, but in modern days, humanity has lost that respect for our belief systems across the board. Interestingly, this issue is not limited to any particular religion. Personally, I believe our belief systems and justice systems should be above any kind of politics. If there is no spiritual purity in beliefs or justice systems, or if they are not based on nothing but the truth, they are politically tainted. Regular people can’t respect politically twisted truths or politically tainted belief systems.
As autonomous human beings, we naturally respect truth and honesty. Therefore, I believe our spirituality and justice system should both be based on nothing but the truth. Anything less than that should lose respect because of its political taint. In our group politics, there is a lot of room for open lies and twisted truths. So, our religious beliefs and justice systems should simply be pure of those influences. Our religions have glorified God and the Devil just to rob individuals of their importance, which I find impure and political. In the process, they promoted education that made individuals seem irrelevant and even born sinners, to the point that individuals lost their importance even in their own eyes. This led to self-respect and self-esteem issues, giving more power to the governing authorities but not to God.
The popularity of equal human rights and internet-connected humanity is changing the world and changing it fast. Even the most conservative societies are having trouble keeping their populations in political control. Recently, even Saudi Arabia is allowing casinos to open for business. Personally, I believe Saudi Arabia is one of the most conservative nations around the world because they just recently allowed women to drive.
Remember, equal human rights are not just limited to individuals. They extend to individuals, corporations, nations, and even religions. Those times have passed when religions could push people around without being questioned out of respect. Today, if an individual has a dispute with a religion, they can take the religion to court and win if they have a legitimate case.
Directly acknowledging the importance of the individual in the grand scheme of life can open the doors to reality. Regardless of our religion or the number of religions, the main and functional character is the living, breathing human individual. One might say we can’t even breathe on our own, so how can we not believe in God? Sure, I believe in God as well, but how does God work physically? If everyone is out to rob individuals of their importance and make them feel inferior, insecure, unimportant, and irrelevant, I have a problem with that. Simply because it’s a spiritual injustice and God can’t be on the side of injustice. So mark my words, number one, it’s not from God, it’s related to the group politics of control. It’s designed to make individuals lose their self-respect and self-esteem so they can easily be controlled. Meaning it’s doubly political. If everything spiritual is physically done by the individual, that means they all individually have a direct connection to God. The need for middlemen has been created because we all are under the influence of political belonging to our groups. Most of our religions say that we all have to become good, spiritual, and decent individuals to succeed in achieving a spot in heaven. Following a group of people is directly connected with human politics of the sense of belonging to our groups. If you mix human politics with your personal spirituality, you personally lose out. Sure, we need rules to live in a human society where people are at different levels of evolution. For instance, alpha and strong people would fight to comply with those rule-makers, but weak or beta people would love to comply effortlessly. Of course, our alpha and beta traits belong to our animal side, spiritually we are above our animal traits. Now the question is, should we carry on living like animals or should we evolve to override our animal instincts? Most human societies are pluralistic, but not all people agree on everything. Even our religions, believing in the same God and Prophets, have several sects simply because of the political belonging to a group of people.
Foundational themes of our popular religions are based on God and the Devil as the main characters, and the human individual is openly believed to be an irrelevant part of the holy picture. Simply dissect this problem with logic and see how God’s and even the Devil’s work gets done and what happens if we remove human individuals’ physical contributions. To prove my point, I just want you to picture the world without human beings. Would any good or bad physically happen? Who would perform for whom? Or against whom? Would that matter and to whom? See, if things don’t add up or get done physically, everything starts to fall like dominoes. So the bottom line is if our religions are based on God and the Devil, both are not completely understood to be physical entities unless human beings lend them their physicality. Removing human importance would be completely political for power and control hungry individuals, and who is that hungry entity? It’s easy to see the flaw in this holy picture. So connecting or mixing God and the Devil to gain political control would be using even God politically, which can and should be a spiritual crime because God does not come to defend the almighty. It’s up to us as individuals to speak against the political use of God. If it does not make sense to you, why are you letting it happen in broad daylight and even participating in it? Simply think without any bias and defend God and yourself as well. Spiritually, learn to put yourself on the receiving end of your actions before committing them, even if they are in the name of your belonging group and yes, even in the name of God. If you feel they are unjust, they actually are.
I don’t intend to create doubts in anyone’s belief system, but if you personally are willing to go and kill someone, including innocent people, in the name of your religious beliefs, I will try to discourage you by pointing out the politics of the sense of belonging hidden in plain sight for you to see. The politics of the sense of belonging to our groups has been and still is the most dangerous thing in humanity because it compels people to take extreme measures against other human beings and yes, even the innocent ones. If you are going to defeat the whole purpose of having a spiritual belief system, you have to look at your personal behavior critically. Spirituality’s fundamentals are not to do to anyone what you don’t like done to you or to your loved ones. Compassion and your personal sense of justice should be the foundation of your religious beliefs, but unfortunately, politically organized religions have sold their souls to the Devil of the political sense of belonging. They have sacrificed their spiritual principles in the name of power and control.
I consider myself reasonably spiritual, but I draw the line at worshiping stones, kissing stones, or throwing stones in the name of my belief system. Even though I don’t personally believe in graveyards, I would visit the grave of someone who attracts hungry stomachs and feeds souls. Not because of who is buried there, but to see how spirituality is converted into physical actions by individuals at the grave of someone long gone. Controversial as it may be, in my opinion, if spirituality is being converted into physical actions, it is real spirituality, and wherever it is happening, it is good enough for me. You can believe whatever your belonging group says, but I personally believe every human knowledge must deliver physical results. If your religion or sect is unable to deliver spiritual results, you don’t have the right to say others are wrong, so my vote is not for you. But I would have a lot of respect for that dead saint, simply because I want to see real results-oriented actions of spirituality. There is no preaching of any religion by the saint because the saint is long gone, so if spirituality is being converted into physical actions, it has its merits.
Individual happiness and contentment, whether from feeling secure within or from spiritual fulfillment, matter the most for the mortal being. If people are running from the fear of being killed because of religious extremism or, in general, are not happy and content, there is a problem with our belief system. That problem is related to the absence of spirituality. Interestingly, if you Google the lowest crime rates in the world, the nations that come out on top are not even religious. To me, that is, and should be, a real slap on the face of our belief systems, simply because they are unable to deliver the results they claim to provide. Not only have they failed to show the lowest crime rate, but they also fail to produce happy and content people. So if religious societies perform poorly in even providing the basics of spirituality, where is the disconnect? To me, the nations that are delivering results have adopted spiritual principles as rules and rejected politically tainted religious beliefs. Now put your politics of sense of belonging aside and look at it with your open spiritual eyes without bias. Use your God-given personal sense of justice to really see where humanity is today. How can so-called godless people deliver spiritual results while organized religious societies can’t even come in the top six? You might say I am just Googling and making my decisions accordingly, but not at all—just look around and see how religious people have been and are still treating each other, never mind killing each other. Interestingly, they still claim they are doing it all in the name of God. The question is, which God—the political one or the spiritual God?
Watching the desperation of people wanting to flee from the Taliban makes me think not about the spirituality of the individual but their fear of a religious government. It’s unbelievable to see that even the reputation of religion has suffered due to politicization. When we follow and believe in any human knowledge blindly, it can help us even jump into a sure-death situation, meaning we will be willing to die for a cause. We will be considered brave believers and praised by the belonging group. If our sense of belonging is out of control, we will be willing to commit spiritual crimes for that group. Now the question is, where is our God-given personal sense of justice? Are we even able to see that we may be committing spiritual crimes? Every religion preaches compassion, justice, and forgiveness, yet they end up getting caught going to crusades, killing children in the name of conformation, or simply going to wars and killing each other for political supremacy, not spirituality.
Since human beings convert spirituality into physical actions or do the devil’s deeds physically, they simply can’t be marginalized. So if you kill or get killed, either way, it’s God who is the loser. We all are the physical helping hands of God. Depending on how you personally look at life or are taught to believe, being born into our belonging groups is out of our control. So it’s inevitable to avoid the politics of belonging, but as we grow and become adults, things can change for us individually. Being born with a personal atom of autonomy, with all its fringe benefits and responsibilities, can transform us from within. Our ability to think independently, use free will to make decisions, be compassionate, and use our personal sense of justice to override the politics of belonging all help us grow spiritually. As human beings, we are not just physical creatures compelled by nature exclusively. Remember, we can think and act individually above the orders of belonging groups. Our traditions, customs, rituals, and rules have been and are always there, but a percentage of people would follow them and a percentage would not, simply because we all individually have the ability to see and judge the hidden political agendas of our groups and decide what we choose to follow or not.
Our ability to balance our sense of belonging and sense of freedom has been there for all of us, but some of us are under the spells of political belonging, and some of us always question authority. If everyone complied or defied, there would be chaos in human societies. Interestingly, we all can see when God and people get used politically, but our level of sense of belonging has the power to keep us quiet or make us speak against it. Unfortunately or fortunately, our atom of autonomy has the power to wreak havoc within us as well, so ignoring it can be disastrous derailment for us individually.
Our age-old problem is the powerful sense of belonging to our groups and the weakness of human individuals. Recently, things are changing, and groups are having internal problems. Present political turmoil around the world is not because of religious beliefs or lack thereof; our problems are stemming from clashing old-style conservatism and new-style liberalism. People are struggling to gain and keep political power because equal human individual rights are becoming popular by the day. Even highly educated people can’t speak against political injustices simply because their sense of belonging to the group overrules their personal views. Whether it’s fear of being shunned or fear of death, either way, people are trying to survive. If your religion is feared, its days are numbered because politically, humanity is not where it was even fifty years ago.
Sure, we are all connected to each other as social creatures, but to me, we are above all that. We are not our installed knowledge, nor are we the data; we are not even the body or a computer. Since we run the body and brain, we are the logical computer runners. We call the shots to mix and match the data to create new knowledge and make decisions to suit our mortal life. Since we are the ones who run the body, brain, and all the installed data, we should be able to override our politically installed views as well. Do you feel that you are that person? If not, simply try to be honest with yourself so you can get in touch with your potential real self. Being free will allow you to see the political influences of your belonging groups. If you are taught to believe that life beyond your race, color, gender, nation, or religion is all evil, it doesn’t only mean you and your belonging group are limited in present-day knowledge; it means you are prejudicial and discriminatory beings as well. Unfortunately, you actually believe even God is not beyond those boundaries and is a prejudicial and discriminatory entity. Simply looking at it this way should open up your spiritual horizons to see the politics your belonging group is playing. We can prevent ourselves from committing the spiritual crime of making God a prejudicial and discriminatory entity if we start to question our politics of belonging. If God were limited, there would not be thousands of religious beliefs, nor would there be any gender, race, nation, religion, or sect-related crimes. God left it all up to us to have a desire to evolve from our animal desires and insecurities to become mini-gods ourselves. I know it’s a little far-fetched to say as a single human being, but if you look at our makeup, we are as complex as anything can be. We are the phenomenon God uses to make everything good happen physically, so if you choose to think that you are inferior, irrelevant, unimportant, and even a born sinner, it’s up to you. But the reality is, if you think beyond the politics of your belonging, you would be able to see your real importance. Look around; everything you see, regardless of its sophistication, a single human individual’s imagination started all that to bring it all into physical reality.
Other than the stories you have heard or read in your holy books, have you ever personally seen any good or bad thing physically being done on its own, like magic or a miracle? If someone gets killed by an animal or in an accident, you can’t count that either because you can’t really prove that it’s God’s or the devil’s doing. The idea of separating God, the devil, and human beings is like life, death, and mortality. They are all intertwined in such a way that physicality and spirituality can’t work unless they are together. You simply can’t make this spiritual clap make any sound, whether it’s for good or bad. So good and bad can’t exist physically if there is no one to create or experience it physically. Since we have free will at our disposal, we choose to act and make things happen physically. If you believe in God and the devil, believe so, but simply don’t ignore or underestimate the importance of the human individual. Remember, the physicality card is held by human individuals yet with a free choice, so learn to respect yourself and take pride in being a spiritual entity as well as a creator of physicality. Sure, you have help to do all that, but if you choose to do good, to me, you are superior to metaphoric angels because they don’t choose to do good; they are designed to do so without choice.
When a bunch of us does good, we can create heaven on earth. When a bunch of us does bad, we can create hell on earth. Have you heard of God or the devil doing all that alone? Sure, your preacher tells you to live a certain way, but does he or she tell you about the importance of your human individual as well? Most probably not; instead, you will be told to follow the preacher’s ways to be saved. Nothing wrong with listening and learning, but the preacher has no idea of your internal connection with your God and the devil. Since you are the one to run your show, listen to everyone, but follow your internal individual God’s connection and free will to balance your life and afterlife, if there is any. Never mind trying to create heaven on earth; all you should do is be a good person and let everyone else experience you physically to get the benefits of your spirituality. In return, you will get the same benefits without even trying hard because the good you experience is a direct result of your free will and the positive energy you produce. If you create a political hell on earth, you will get the same benefits as well, but a life of spirituality with positive energy can’t be converted into bad deeds; it’s impossible. The idea of self-spirituality is an antidote to political belonging if practiced correctly.
So feel free to live your belonging group’s life but keep your personal sense of justice with you. Look out for the signs of the politics of belonging and always remember, God has given you free will to be a free thinker and make your own spiritual decisions, so use it. If you think that it’s all making sense to you, think about the idea of spiritual crime; that is a real crime that you commit by killing your free will and ignoring your sense of justice. As a result, you can easily let your belonging group’s political views overshadow your real individual spirituality. As a result, you will be living a belonging group’s life without even knowing it. Sure, you will get the praises and fringe benefits of your group’s politics, but is it worth it? Maybe for a short while, but your inner self will eventually rebel and start showing the results of your spiritual crimes. Interestingly, the more you try to keep it under wraps, the more your spirituality will be disoriented and suffer the consequences. Remember, your spirituality is a double-edged sword. It’s your individual spiritual knowledge and actions that will eventually change the physical world around you. In doing so, you will be delivering physical results for yourself and everyone else.
The popularity of equal human individual rights is not limited to one area of the world. Today’s era is challenging not one, not two, but all politically organized religions, often by their own young followers. Things are changing rapidly, and oppressive forces are struggling to maintain power. Just look around—even in Canada, traditional physical, individual, and sexual abuse and cover-ups were bad enough. Now, mass graves of children on residential school grounds have become a grim symbol of the failures of politically organized religion. Ideally, religious ideologies should exclusively focus on spirituality if they want to avoid collective derailment by their own followers.
In modern society, traditional approaches can’t keep up with internet-era advancements. They simply don’t work with rapidly evolving humanity. You can take religion online, but you can’t keep everyone in line anymore. Unless you remove the politics of division, exclusivity, prejudice, and discrimination, your days are numbered, and your survival is in question. The popularity of equal human individual rights is growing, and you are not adapting to these changes. You are standing in the way of a wave that will sweep you away like a relic of the past. Today, people understand the importance of blood transfusions and vaccinations because they save lives. In contrast, religions can’t wash away the indelible black marks of their history of taking lives indiscriminately. Bloodshed runs so deep and so far that our history can’t even account for all the religious disputes and the extreme death tolls. Yet, interestingly, religions claim it was and still is in the name of spirituality and God.
We can believe in all our religious stories, like parting the ocean and the moon, but the real powers of human individuals are just now becoming evident. Never mind parting the ocean—modern humans can dry up entire oceans by blocking their sources. Remember, the ocean does not part in our daily lives, the moon does not split into two pieces, nor are we regularly bombarded by birds. Today’s realities can’t be denied: we are in the midst of a real miracle. We are burning up the planet and drying up the oceans in the name of progress. People die every day, but these deaths are not counted as the price of global warming because some preach there is no global warming, and others believe them, thinking it’s all God’s doing and that human beings are just not relevant enough.
Human individuals are valued by both sides of the equation. The devil’s work is not done physically if human individuals do not become a helping hand. Similarly, God’s work is not done unless human beings contribute. So placing God and the devil at the top corner of this holy triangle is simply wrong. If human beings do not lend their hands, backs, and shoulders, neither God’s nor the devil’s work can become physical realities. Unless it’s an obvious miracle, and tell me, how often do you see miracles in this day and age? A mullah and a priest can tell you whatever they want, but denying human individuals their legitimate position is clearly connected to politics. In the holy and spiritual picture, humans play an essential role in converting spirituality into physical actions, yet they get robbed politically. This is not only wrong, but it’s also unholy and a spiritual crime committed by politically tainted religions.
If you start to look at our physical or animal side, we are all very territorial, just like other animals. When we are constantly exposed to and preached about the sense of belonging to our groups, we naturally fall for it. We believe every word and place our natural identity below our installed identities. We belong to family, group, race, color, nation, and even our belief systems before considering ourselves human beings. Our globe is not physically divided by God or nature but by the political lines created by our sense of belonging to our groups. We are taught to believe that our divisions are for peace and security, but despite nearly two hundred nations, humanity has been longing for that peace since forever. That security is an illusion as well because most crimes are committed against each other by our own kind. Despite our evolution and religion after religion, we still can’t overcome our animal instincts. Our spiritual side has been undermined politically, even by our religions, which have given us the carrot-and-stick philosophy to live by. They even say God has heaven and hell for us. So regardless of the number of our religions, we simply can’t overcome our animal or barbaric behaviors. This is because we are not taught that we carry our own atom of autonomy within us. We don’t nurture our spiritual side and accept ourselves as one of the breeds of primates. If we are like other primates, then why don’t other primates evolve like us? If we are living in megacities, at the very least, they should be living in some kind of villages. Our problem is that we keep reinforcing the beliefs of Darwin’s theory, which denies our spiritual side, personal God particle, or our exclusive atom of autonomy. To me, it simply does not make sense. If there is evolution in everything, why is humanity flying higher than all other species? We literally fly higher than birds, yet we don’t have wings. We can dig deeper than all creatures with claws. We even swim deep in the ocean without gills. Our evolution is not due to our animal side; we are evolving because of our spiritual side. Sure, we still kill each other, but we are trying to save other species from extinction as well. We believe in things because things require different kinds of knowledge. To mention a few, we need compassion, love, justice, and sacrifice for social living, but there is no way we can break these down and explain them with our scientific knowledge. So we need our belief systems as essentials for our social and mortal living. Just as we are evolving in our scientific, medical, and technological knowledge, we need to evolve in our belief systems as well. But our religions have systematically ignored and discouraged the exploration of religious knowledge. Our political religions have shot themselves in the foot by saying that God’s knowledge is not going to change or evolve. Interestingly, nowadays they have to go online to reach and find followers just to preach them the same old prejudicial and discriminatory rhetoric-based knowledge. They still preach their group superiority and exclusivity. They simply can’t come out and preach spirituality-based equal human rights.
If you have inner balance as a human being, unlike other animals, you have the ability to override your hormonal influences. Otherwise, your dominating animal side will dictate your actions. Our ability to understand and overcome hormonal influences comes from our spiritual side. That atom of autonomy is a powerful and influential entity within all of us. Today, we are discovering that we are a lot more spiritual than we were taught to believe. Our old-school carrot-and-stick philosophy does not work because we are able to self-regulate without the fear of hell or the greed of heaven. We still have nearly two hundred countries, further divided by territorial, religious, and even sectarian differences. They still kill each other because of their politics of belonging to their groups. If you want to see and understand Godly truth, you simply need to see the world beyond your installed data or politically preached knowledge. Proof is that today we have people living peacefully in melting-pot societies regardless of their different backgrounds. Equal human individual rights in the constitutions of modern-day nations are changing the picture of humanity. Refugees from disputing nations find peaceful lives in foreign lands, living together while still fighting and killing each other in their respective homelands.
From rainbow-colored humanity to sexual identities to biracial and ethnic children, these are prime examples of today’s humanity’s ability to override the politics of the sense of belonging. We have come a long way, and we still have a long way to go in our evolution and civilization. Our consistent and main problem is political belonging and clinging to our conservative old ideologies versus growing liberalism, which divides humanity. It’s divided on whether to follow Godly-installed evolution or politically tainted religious conservatism. Our resistance to change has always been around; it is natural and feels right, but exclusively to our animal side. As independent, yet physically evolving human beings holding an atom of autonomy, we can use our free will and personal sense of justice to give and receive equal human individual rights. That’s why the popularity of equal human rights is growing throughout humanity. Changing times are showing our progress, but conservative populations are fighting for their survival, trying to slow the process down. This means humanity still has a long way to go. Overcoming the politics of the sense of belonging to our groups has not been easy because it relates to our animal side. Just like our hormonal influences, everything seems real. So it’s an internal, personal, and individual battle for us all. Since the sense of belonging has its roots deep enough to disrupt even our endocrine system, progress is very slow, especially regarding our social evolution. We can’t see or judge the legitimacy of our animal side unless we can sit outside of ourselves spiritually. Fortunately, as human entities, we are all able to do that just by thinking and nurturing our spiritual side. If we all consider ourselves as spiritual entities, we can understand and overcome our hormonal responses.
I disagree that our evolution is exclusively physical like other creatures; we have been outgrowing everything, both physically and spiritually. Today, we experience both kinds of evolution. Physically, we live in megacities with people from all over the world simultaneously. We are building high-rises and discovering and breaking down genetic codes, not only of bugs and viruses but of ourselves as well. We are making progress both internally and externally. Sure, we still exhibit animal-like behaviors, but unlike our past, we can now live in peace and harmony, giving and receiving equal human rights. We still have wars and related spiritual crimes, but nowadays, they are looked down upon instead of being glorified. We used to admire conquering nations; today, we view them as occupiers. That’s why the Russians couldn’t stay, and now the Americans are leaving Afghanistan. Not because they are weak, but because they are looked down upon by the whole world. Their war is not lost militarily but politically. Reputation matters even to a nation’s own population. The American public stood against the Vietnam War and didn’t let it continue because they were concerned about their reputation in the world’s eyes. Humanity no longer tolerates human rights violations. The tide is turning, so if you are not on the right side of history or evolution, you may win the present election by using fear and bogeyman politics, but it won’t work in the long run. The new era does not favor prejudice, discrimination, racism, nationalism, or religious superiority. Equal human individual rights are accepted as a modern-day religion, so learn to change with the times or be left behind. No human population is immune to evolution and progress. Your new generations will make you hollow from within if you keep oppressive policies in place. Unrest around the world shows that the number of conservative people is dwindling, and religious extremism is losing its luster compared to twenty years ago. Conservative nations can’t control their populations because you can’t close the can of worms like you could in the past. Today, everyone holds a cell phone connected to the world. That police officer who killed George Floyd has gone to jail for a long time, like a common criminal.
Simply looking at our present-day problems shows that you can’t build walls for security anymore. Our war weaponry is different. Global warming-related extreme weather and infectious diseases are not communal problems anymore, so the solutions can’t be communal or involve building walls against our universal problems. The burning desire for equal human rights is sweeping societies worldwide. You can’t scare people with your heaven and hell philosophy anymore. They won’t believe in what happens later if they keep learning and solving their immediate problems with science and technology. They know global warming isn’t there because God is mad at them, and the coronavirus wasn’t sent because we haven’t been listening to our mullahs and priests. Everyone knows they have to survive with vaccination, global initiatives, and equal human rights, so we must join humanity as a whole. Our problems are bigger than the walls we can build, and we already know we can’t solve our problems by being exclusive.
If you fight over religious or territorial disputes, that lack of peace will create refugees leaving your land to become assets to other communities. Remember, it’s the people who make the land valuable. A town becomes a ghost town without people. Even God Almighty can become physically irrelevant and powerless without people. If individuals do not convert spirituality into physical actions, what would spirituality mean and to whom? Understand that your actions harm not only the people you are fighting but also your community. Losing people means losing the value of everything you hold dear.
The power of political belonging is the demon humanity has struggled to overcome since the beginning of civilization. Humanity needs to put its two and two together spiritually before it’s too late. Personally, I believe killing is not related to spirituality or God’s will. It’s our personal and individual inability to put our spiritual two and two together. Since all our religions claim to be the spiritual path to God, why have they failed to help us in our spiritual quest to lead fulfilling lives? Instead, they have converted us into politically biased, prejudiced, and discriminatory extremists, killing each other in the name of God.
Logically, we have been blessed with our exclusive atom of autonomy, allowing us to use our free will and personal sense of justice to become honest, compassionate, just, and loving human beings. The responsibility of becoming political or being used politically falls directly on our shoulders. Unlike other creatures, we can use our free will to make choices. Solving the puzzle related to the sense of belonging is our responsibility. You are an atom of autonomy, or a mini-God yourself, so why can’t you put this spiritual two and two together for yourself?
Sure, you can be born into a certain race, color, nation, religion, or sect. Having or not having a belief system is your personal prerogative, but don’t be a political mini-God; be a spiritual one. That is the purpose of our exclusive atom of autonomy, so seek help from it to put your spiritual and logical two and two together.
A story of cells I wrote a few years back comes to mind. The brain cell says to the other cells of the body, “If I am not here, you all will die.” Immediately, the heart cell responds, “I supply you with oxygenated blood. If I don’t pump the blood, you will die without the oxygen.” The lung says, “But I am the one who gives you all the oxygen. If I am not there, you all will die.” The liver says, “But I am cleaning up your mess all day long to help you live.” The kidney cell adds, “Don’t forget me; I am doing that all day long as well.” The skin cell says, “I protect you from infections all the time, so if I am not there, you will die of infections.” Eventually, the colon cell says, “You are full of it. If I don’t give you nutrients and clean your mess, there is no way you can survive.” Then God speaks, “If you have a chaotic situation in the body and don’t work together, I simply can’t live here. If I leave, regardless of how young and strong you are or how well you function, you can’t survive.” We all need each other to live and function physically and spiritually. It’s not about who is more important; it’s about the harmonious melody that keeps us functioning rhythmically. Our God particle, or atom of autonomy, can depart when our cells can’t function in harmony, whether due to aging, an accident, or disease. If harmony is lost, we know it because our physical eyes can see what is happening around us. We know our mortality and physical capabilities, but there is still a lot to grasp spiritually. As evolving entities, we can’t know everything because we are still in the process of evolution.
American conservatives may even start something to lose more political power. Abortion is an issue I have struggled with. I am conflicted because human beings are the spirituality-converting Godly entities, so opposing it is problematic for me. However, an undoubted belief system says that even a leaf on a tree can’t move without God’s will, so how can a whole human child be born or aborted by human beings? This question creates doubts in belief systems and confuses people. If you believe in God, and I mean totally believe, spiritually you can’t punish human beings for their actions. It’s not about what God is but what God is all about. If abortion becomes a political hot potato, it’s related to our deeply confusing belief systems. First, our religions are against sex outside of marriage. They allow it if done according to religious rules. If you look at it that way, children born into other religions would be called bastards. Since there are thousands of religious beliefs, if everyone calls each other’s generations bastards out of disputed belief systems, we have a major, even God-confusing, spiritual problem. Second, they believe God does everything and humans are irrelevant, so they punish and kill for non-compliance. The problem is not God but how God is used for political purposes. Imagine if you can’t use your installed data or develop a brain disorder to lose your memory. God, the world, space, and loved ones still exist, but you lose it all. Not because they aren’t there, but because you lose comprehension. This should explain that it’s not about what is but what it’s all about. Things may not exist or have meaning for you, but if you are cared for, that is what God is all about. If people use God for political purposes, that’s again what it’s all about but not what God is. If you want to work against abortion, first understand why. If it’s about politics of control and power, you have the wrong reason because we are not living in the era of religious governments. Today’s questioning population can’t be contained, and conservatives may lose more power to liberals. If you are against abortion for spiritual reasons, stop calling each other’s children bastards. Set up a reasonable system of adoption where biological and adoptive parents become a spiritual team and care for those who can’t care for their offspring. That is what a spiritual religion should do, but we are too busy abusing God for political purposes and still stuck in the era of calling each other bastards. If you want a smaller government, who will care for those who can’t care for themselves? If you preach a dog-eat-dog philosophy yet expect people to live with law and order, you are dreaming because people in survival mode can’t respect law and order. Back to God, whether God exists or not, with our evolving knowledge, we can’t make ultimate decisions.
It’s like those cell buddies discussing whether the body exists. We are curious to know it all. Even if we don’t have the eyes to see beyond the skin or the mind to comprehend, we know there is more to life than what we can comprehend. Our atom of autonomy doesn’t make us a complete deity. In fact, we are very small, insignificant, and irrelevant in the whole universe. We need to grasp a lot more to come closer to God, so don’t fall for the name of God but be what God is all about. Remember, it’s not about who is more important, but about the harmonious melody that keeps us functioning rhythmically.