Given what is going on in the world, small nations are feeling insecure, much like an individual would. When individuals feel weak and insecure, they seek belonging, which usually comes at a cost. For a freedom lover, it may involve some sort of compromise. Historically, we have experimented with strongmen or kings, then larger armies and powerful empires. As we evolved, we brought in religions, socialism, communism, and democracies. Yet, we are still going back and forth and have not been satisfied with any of our governing systems. Our problem is and will always be individual insecurity, which demands belonging to a stronger entity. Logically, only two effective solutions are available, but not everyone is seeking them: individual strength and uniting humanity as a whole.
Throughout history, people have sought to belong to stronger races, nations, or religions. Interestingly, this has not changed things significantly but has put us in more danger than ever. Since small and weak nations have been overrun by powerful nations, people want to join NATO simply because of insecurity. The question is, why do we still follow the same politics? Belonging to a stronger group remains the same. We want stronger governments when we feel violated or vulnerable, but when we are comfortable, we want freedom, a tax-free life, and weaker governing authorities.
Today, humanity does not need more conflicts or stronger groups, nations, and religions because the stakes are much higher. We need to address what our nature is asking. Global warming and extreme weather-related issues are creating the same insecurity. Infectious diseases like the coronavirus and internet-related crimes suggest humanity should work together. Do you really think the Great Wall of China is effective against today’s issues? With all the biological and nuclear weapons, we don’t need groups fighting each other. The solutions are not in our group politics anymore. Just like joining a larger, more powerful group can’t guarantee us safety against our modern-day problems, joining powerful groups won’t work simply because it remains political and group-oriented. Today should belong to equal human individual rights, not to those with their hands tied behind their backs and shot in the head. We are still entangled in our past brutalities because we are stuck in our past politics of belonging to groups.
Look at the disrespect shown by our sitting members of the Security Council. We have top nations not committing to the international justice system. Russia bombed while a United Nations representative was visiting Ukraine. This is a clear sign of disrespect for an international organization, especially by a permanent member of the Security Council. If we don’t even respect top organizations like the United Nations or international justice, logically, we can’t evolve to the level where we would like to join humanity as a whole. The biggest problem is that even the United Nations has a veto system, which is a clear violation of democratic principles and signifies the politics of belonging to groups. You simply can’t be an international organization if a few nations run the show. Equal human individual rights mean equal human rights. What is so difficult to understand about that?
Educating and preparing people for equal justice may not be easy, but we are human beings—we have always done difficult things. Look where we are today. We have melting pot societies all over the world that speak the truth and legitimacy of one humanity. We are overcoming our differences related to gender, race, color, nationality, and religious beliefs, yet there is still a segment of the population hell-bent on maintaining our differences. That is why I believe in individual education that helps create personal security, allowing for better decision-making.
Sure, we have always done things as groups and nations, but what kind of results have we gotten from it? It’s a shame that humanity can’t count its dead who died in the name of group politics. Remember, today’s weaponry is entirely different. We don’t kill each other with swords, spears, and arrows anymore. Our fields of war are not fields anymore. Just look at Syria and Ukrainian cities. We need to change our allegiance to humanity as a whole, and we need a United Nations with some teeth and an international system of equal justice. You can’t have an organization with a justice system if you can’t enforce it.
To be clear, my views are not for political purposes. Whatever I write is for the purpose of humanity evolving spiritually so we don’t have to deal with mass graves and hands tied behind the back and shot in the head anymore. If our wars have been taking a toll on innocent people, our politics of belonging to groups has to change. Our spiritual matters should be between the individual and God, and politically, it should be between humanity and individuals. Middlemen or subcontractors should pack up and leave so humanity can create peace.
When an individual feels weak and vulnerable, they automatically seek their traditional belonging to groups. When groups feel weak and vulnerable, they seek higher authority like God, religion, greater nations, or organizations like NATO. Unfortunately, we have not evolved enough to provide that kind of security to individuals or smaller groups, so we continue committing spiritual crimes against each other in the name of belonging to groups. Our collective disputes bring individual sufferings and love losses, which become perpetual fuel because they are enraged and blinded by the pain of loss. If an individual gains spiritual strength, they would be able to uphold moral and ethical values. Otherwise, mass graves and war-related atrocities will always be part of being human. Our evolution has to be in balance. You can’t evolve with biological and nuclear weaponry but not emotionally and spiritually.
Interestingly, our religions have been predicting the day of destruction. If we continue on the same path, we are potentially heading toward the same destination. Whether it’s our top organization like the United Nations or down to the individual, we all have to understand that real security, whether individual or collective, is in the unity of humanity as a whole, not as a group. If we understand ourselves individually, we can envision and see everything clearly. We can read everything, whether it’s written in books, in our holy books, or even between the lines of our traditional and communal knowledge. If you start to look at yourself as a fair human being, you would not think exclusively for yourself. In this case, if you don’t like lice in your head, a leech on your skin, or a parasite in your body, how can you think other creatures or even God would like that?
All those who believe in worshiping and praying without practical help to others are not pulling their share. Those who think taking help from others without helping others is good business are not pulling their share either. The bottom line of our life is give and take, or in other words, reciprocation. Since the infrastructure is already there, you can go to your worshiping places like mosques, churches, and temples to feed the hungry or help the needy in physical form. People should get together to help each other because God puts the responsibility of dependents on our physical shoulders. If you don’t fulfill your spiritual duty of reciprocation, just praying, worshiping, getting together, and socializing is nothing but political. If you are worshiping, do it practically. If you can pull your share, let the needy be served. If you think saving your money by cutting help to those who really deserve it is good business, think again because you are as bad as those who don’t believe in practical prayers but go to worship regularly. If everyone did that, how would God’s work get done? Remember, you are the one who converts spirituality into physical actions; otherwise, everything stays suspended in the air. People pray and worship for show, to fit in, impress, or be admired by the belonging group of people. Do it as an honest reciprocation so you can be spiritually fulfilled.
The real benefits of being spiritually fulfilled are during our living years because it takes away the fears of daily living and makes you comfortable in your mortal skin. This is regardless of your belief system or knowledge of mortal nature. You can hope for heaven, but that still belongs to our metaphorical reality. If you reciprocate and live fearlessly, you are creating a physical heaven in your living years.
Remember, no other creature can come close to human beings when it comes to our spirituality. Even our so-called 98% genetically related primate cousins, chimps, don’t make it. That 2% difference puts us in a class of our own; otherwise, by now, they should at least be living in their self-made mud houses. Our 2% not only makes us spiritually aware, but it also puts us in a process of evolution. So, nothing is ever going to be enough for us collectively, and if, as mortal individuals, we don’t pay attention to our personal mortality, we may end up spending all our living time in discontentment. Logically, however short it is, as mortals, we are personally and individually responsible for a satisfied and content life. With that genetic pull, it is highly likely for a human individual to spend their life disregarding their mortality, so potentially spending it in dissatisfaction and discontentment is our individual and personal choice—or I should say, problem.
As an individual, if you are disturbed by the conflicting messages between your common sense-related personal knowledge and your belonging group’s political demands, you have to become a CEO so you can create a balance between the two. You have to look at your limited time, free will, and the power of political belonging without any bias. If you look at yourself as an independent entity with all the blessed abilities, you will have the power to change your personal opinions. Otherwise, you may end up spending life as a genetically programmed creature. Let’s look at it this way: if the world and the universe were always there for you, looking, seeing, and understanding has nothing to do with the things around but what you carry within matters the most. For instance, if everything is functioning, we can use our brain and body with all their abilities. If, for whatever reason, our brain does not function as it should, yet we are still alive, that means things literally will fall apart for us individually. Concepts of our living years, life after death, and even metaphoric realities like God and love can collapse. So it’s not what is out there, even in our metaphoric world beyond the cliff of faith, but rather what is within us. Remember, as human beings, life is mostly about our living years because we need our metaphoric realities to realize our full potential. The concept of the afterlife has its importance because we attain hope, among other important things, to utilize within our living years. Since hope is one of our metaphoric realities, just like God and love, to benefit us in our living years, we should look at it as such. So remember not to commit spiritual or even social crimes over it. Most crimes, directly or indirectly, are committed in the form of physical realities, like against other human individuals. When it comes to hope, that means you are simply hoping but are not sure, like a physical reality. One human reality is that you are always in the court of your own autonomy, so you are still responsible for your actions. You can’t kill someone because you were hoping to go to heaven after you die. Life is not about what happens after you die but rather how you live and get to the cliff of faith. If you look at religious paths and their related education critically, you will discover that most of their rules are designed to keep you in line while you are alive. The condition is that you will have to look at them logically.
Sure, we don’t individually grow wings or horns as a sign of evolution, but our evolution shows up in our knowledge. We can grow physically, emotionally, and spiritually, which helps us to overcome our physical urges, meaning we can use our free will and think to become spiritually aware creatures who know all the good things related to our spiritual side. For instance, we are capable of having compassion, forgiveness, and sacrifice and even are able to die for our loved ones. Becoming spiritually stronger is easier said than done, especially when someone robs you of your love. Raging animal instincts break through the spiritual shell grown over the years, so we are ready to kill and get killed. Human beings have been living in a world of conflicts where love is robbed as a fashionable tradition, most of the time for political belonging. Since each and every one of us is able to think with free will, but not everyone does, conflicts are bound to happen. Now the question is, how can we overcome our animalistic urges to kill each other? By now, we should have evolved enough to understand that robbing love can trigger something in all of us equally. Our evolutionary progress, and even our related spiritual progress, gets blown to bits when one gets hurt emotionally. So why do we still do that? Look back in history and see. This one thing has been and still is consistent: when we are outraged, we rob each other of love. The simple answer would be because it hurts so bad that you want the same pain to be felt by the one who caused you that pain. The desire is so powerful that even all the spiritual wisdom goes out the window. So what to do with this problem? Understanding self and evolving nature can help. For instance, if you look at our history, it appears that there is no right or wrong for us individually. Most of the time, it’s related to our deeply entrenched and politically influenced group opinions.
Since we are an evolving entity, all our rights and wrongs are subject to change and can even exchange places with time. Then why kill each other over differences of opinion? Remember, the politics of the sense of belonging forms our opinions, so our groups usually brainwash their belonging individuals simply to have a collective opinion instead of personal and individual ones. So the politics of belonging and collective opinions are at the heart and soul of our conflicts. Become a CEO of your individual life because you are simply designed for that by your nature. You can personally form an opinion that can be spiritually solid enough to even override the politics of belonging. As I said, right and wrong have been changing with time and evolution, so if you can individually see the politics of belonging behind your opinion, you can avoid being used politically. Spiritual evolution is not connected to a group; rather, it is your personal journey, so you have the power to override your political influences. Understanding that would bring you to be honest with yourself. That alone can bring you the power to not only become aware but also rid yourself of the powerful influences of your belonging groups over you. Individually being weak creates personal insecurities related to desires to belong. You potentially can suppress your spiritual duties and follow the political influences of belonging groups, even at the great price of going against your own autonomy. The education we receive from our societies usually is the culprit that makes us have extreme personal views, which means our politics of belonging has the power to override our personal opinions. If you are able to see and distinguish political influences, your personal spirituality can lead you to the shore of your personal ocean, which you carry within. You can only jump into it if you are spiritually strong enough; otherwise, you would feel safe within the stream of belonging. If you jump into your God-given ocean, you would find your free will, your personal sense of justice, compassion, real bravery, and everything that makes you a spiritually evolved human being. Otherwise, you would stay stuck in the stream of your political knowledge and would not be able to know even your own personal ocean. If you are taught to believe it’s wrong to think or have opinions of your own beyond the approved and prescribed knowledge, in a nutshell, you are told not to follow God’s orders and become a genetically programmed creature. If you are told to kill in the name of your belonging group, you would not question it simply because you have not tried jumping into your ocean to find your personal self. By committing spiritual crimes in the name of your belonging group, you end up going against your autonomy, being a spiritually evolved human being, and even against God’s orders.
We are supposed to think personally and individually to become spiritually aware beings, but our politically twisted religious knowledge has us fooled. It has been able to use us like genetically programmed puppets. If you believe everything your belonging group says as the ultimate truth, your dilemma is that you are not using your ocean-related knowledge. Not only would you go against your autonomy, but you would also end up feeling the common-sense related waves of your personal ocean from within. Your guilt and disliking yourself would be a clear sign of you being a human being. If you ignore it all, you would pay the price in your living years. Yes, losing and living without your happiness and contentment is a steep price to pay, especially if you know you are a mortal being. A powerful sense of political belonging has the power to hypnotize you, so it’s your duty to understand what and who you really are. You may feel the hypnotizing power of political belonging, but at the same time, you can feel the waves of your personal ocean reminding you that you are not a genetically programmed creature. You are a natural-born CEO, but you can’t jump into your ocean simply because you have been brainwashed at an early age, so there is an internal battle going on. If you do jump into your ocean, you would break all the political barriers and would be able to use your free will and personal sense of justice, which potentially would lead you to become a CEO. Meaning you become what you were supposed to be by your intended creation. You would become one of those who take responsibility to help humanity evolve.
If you believe God is on either your side or the opposing group’s side, you simply are making God a politically influenced entity. Yet, you have an idea what God is. Your judgment is not only making you assume, but you are also assuming God is like another human being. Maybe more powerful than you but nonetheless a human being who uses other people politically. Using God and other people may be good politics, but it can clearly be classified as a spiritual crime, simply because it leads to conflicts, wars, and not only the loss of innocent lives. It robs love and brings us all down to our animal level, where we lose our spirituality and the level of evolution. Whether you go to hell or heaven after you die is no one else’s business, but how you live among others is. Always remember, what you do in your living years, when you are able to contribute physically, matters the most. If you are giving life to good, you are following Godly orders, but if your group dictates what is good for you, you may be used politically. So, regardless of your good intention, following something that can create devilish results or suffering for innocents, you are responsible for your personal actions. If good and bad happen without your physical contribution, then and only then can you claim your innocence. In today’s era, even if it’s something big like global warming, we simply can’t blame God or the Devil because all the Devil is in detail. Our scientific advancements are clearly debunking and pointing towards our modern-day truths, and yes, they are different than even fifty years ago, never mind centuries ago. With a human decision, an ocean can dry and a lifeless land can be turned into a life-giving and sustaining one. We simply have to start digging within ourselves, because it’s our duty to discover and solve our problems. If we simply start with what and who we are, why we are the way we are, how we can achieve where we are supposed to be, and why and when we should individually be asking these questions to ourselves honestly?
There were two present-day videos on YouTube that affected me enough to talk about this topic. One showed someone blocking a river, causing an entire ocean to dry up. The other depicted people in India digging permaculture retention ponds to transform barren lands into green fields. In old times, such events would be attributed to God’s doing, but today we can trace these outcomes to human decisions, including those that align with divine progress. Instead of praying and depending on God for rain, these people took matters into their own hands, figured things out, and changed the course of their lives.
As human beings, our religious beliefs are essential for our understanding, but they belong to a different stream of knowledge, much like science. This is where our ocean-like brain plays a crucial role, as every stream of knowledge has its place and is useful in daily living. Our religions can provide comfort individually, helping us live successfully within our mortal bodies. However, we need to dive into our ocean of knowledge to appreciate this perspective fully and to utilize other streams of knowledge like science and medicine effectively. You cannot achieve this if you are stuck in one stream of knowledge as the ultimate truth.
Failing to explore our personal ocean of knowledge has political implications, so we must break free from these chains by looking beyond politically installed data. It’s similar to being confined to a localized computer without accessing the vast resources of the internet. You can either adhere to the boundaries set by your belonging groups or trust that God will guide you through your choices—the choice is yours. Remember, making decisions has consequences, such as drying an entire ocean or creating life in a lifeless land. The related sufferings or comforts might lead you to question God’s existence. It’s not about right or wrong; it’s about the loud cries for you to change your perspective. You must decide whether to stay within your streams of knowledge or jump into your ocean to find solutions.
If human decisions can dry an ocean or convert dry land into a green, life-giving one, we must also consider the odds we overcome in human reproduction. We are creating alternative energy sources, developing vaccination technologies to survive deadly bugs, and even using poisons to save lives. We create rules to protect other creatures from extinction, yet we still kill each other with passion. We save lives that would have been sacrificed to please God or gods.
Why would we want to return to the glory days of our religions, when we were solely dependent on prayer? At that time, everything we didn’t understand was attributed to God or the Devil. Today, we are discovering that it is up to us to make efforts to improve our fellow human beings’ lives. Do you want to go back to a time when people died because they needed insulin, or when religious restrictions prevented life-saving blood transfusions?
When it comes to our personal reciprocation, we must be honest with ourselves. God may have a divine place in our lives, but we should also appreciate the human individuals who continue to help millions even after they are gone. These individuals provide us with comforts and life-saving technologies. Our past should be seen as history, not something to return to. You can still be spiritually fulfilled in today’s era by reciprocating honestly. If God gives you oxygen and a functioning body, be a human being and help those praying for assistance. Appreciate everything that helps you live a better and healthier life, even if that help comes from other human beings. Cross the lines of political belonging to become a modern, reciprocating, and capable CEO of your life.
The Pope finally apologized today, and when Justin Trudeau apologized, I wrote that it wasn’t the Canadian government at the time but the British and Roman Catholics who were responsible for those atrocities. They should apologize for the spiritual crimes committed against the natives. While we’re at it, we should consider Genghis Khan, who rode his horse over the skulls of resisting forces, and the church made of human remains in Portugal. Are we evolved enough to critically examine our past history? Maybe we are getting there. The present-day Russian and Ukrainian conflict shows that things are still the same because we have not learned to prioritize humanity over our groups.
Looking back should not be about keeping conflicts alive but for evolutionary purposes. We should all be able to read our history and understand it deeply. Although we grow up under political influences, we must learn to call a spade a spade with our spiritual awareness. We are not just animals; we carry our own individual atom of autonomy. We are responsible for what we think, do, or follow politically. Racism, bigotry, sexual bias, prejudice, and discrimination were part of our past and even present. With our evolving knowledge, we should have outgrown these urges. The Russia-Ukraine conflict highlights our failure to evolve beyond political belonging.
The more we rob love, the more revenge-related emotions flare up, making politics a foundation of perpetual conflict. Our belonging groups try to brainwash us, putting political hurdles in the way of our spiritual evolution. Only by valuing the loss of love caused by politics can we take the next step into a new paradigm of evolution.
In today’s world, everything we learn from society and our groups is politically influenced and collective opinion-based. We are often taught to do less and gain more, using others to gain power and control, and being considered successful. This can be good if we didn’t have our atom of autonomy and spiritual side within us. Things become tricky when we consider mortality. Why do we feel the need to climb higher or use others for power?
Life is often viewed as a mountain to climb, where higher is better. But regardless of how you feel inside, you must follow the trends of your era. You must understand your genetic makeup and ingrained desire to evolve and know that as a spiritual entity, we all have free will. We can override our genetic urges, even those influenced by politics or endorphins from climbing.
Regardless of how high you climb, you must confront your mortality. Life is still the same for all of us individually, despite thousands of years of evolution. We are still mortal, we age, and we get sick just like our ancestors. With modern-day comforts, we should be happier than our ancestors, but are we?
You must decide how to live this life to attain what you want or need. Life is different for humans than for other creatures. We are supposed to be at the top of the chain, the most sophisticated beings. So why are we always compared to other creatures? We compare ourselves to lions for bravery and eagles for vision, but these comparisons are traditional. We keep majestic creatures in cages or help them survive, but that doesn’t make humans inferior.
Why would humans want to be compared to these creatures? If it’s for their traits, why are they inferior? If we compare ourselves to lions or eagles, we must also consider those living like lice, leeches, or parasites. This mindset comes from social or religious education, which promotes human beings as irrelevant and meaningless. If we lose self-respect and self-esteem, we depend on something more powerful. Living like lice or leeches, sucking the life out of others, is contrary to God’s will and politically manipulative. We are created as human beings, and living like inferior creatures is disrespectful to ourselves and our creator.
We can pray but still be human beings. Remember, God helps those who help themselves. Taking pride in being human and helping others is our reciprocation for our free oxygen and functioning body. You can say there is no God, heaven, or hell, and that life is a fluke, so live as you please. But ask yourself why you feel good when helping others. Why do people risk their lives to save others?
Many people complain about paying taxes. I could be one of them, but I see life differently. Being appreciative can change your mindset, especially if you feel the tax system is robbing you. If you view taxes as helping others, you may change your perspective. We have no control over life-sustaining blessings like oxygen and a functioning body. We are totally blessed. Not appreciating life and doing nothing in return is a personal and spiritual flaw that can lead to a place where you go against your atom of autonomy.
Happiness and contentment depend on inner peace. Without these, life can be a living hell. Start looking at life from broader perspectives. Don’t buy into politically tainted spirituality. It’s mind-boggling that most religious people vote for conservative parties, knowing they oppose helping the poor. This is how politics robs spirituality from belief systems. Spirituality, God, and justice systems must be pure and free from political influences.
If you are worried about heaven or hell after you die, start digging into these beliefs, especially if you want to take charge of your living years as a responsible human being. Reciprocating in all areas of life should make you spiritually worry-free. Without fear of hell or greed for heaven, who benefits from your spiritual discomfort or comfort? If it’s not you or God, then who? You owe it to yourself to know.
Life is not about what science or religion says about the past or future. It’s about what you do in your living years before you reach the cliff of faith. This is the only time you can reciprocate, and if you have been reciprocating, you are practically praying. No amount of praying, fasting, or sacrificing can match the value of your reciprocation or practical prayers. Reciprocation and practical prayers nourish your soul, so don’t starve in this area. Satisfaction at a spiritual level helps you win spiritually and lose politically influenced beliefs because you are no longer insecure. Be prepared for criticism and shunning. Today, we seek equal human rights, and any belief or governing system promoting prejudice and discrimination can be challenged in the court of justice, especially in the court of your atom of autonomy.
At the end of the day, you personally and individually must not only address your physical needs but also seek spiritual fulfillment. If your belief system promotes prejudice, bigotry, and discrimination, you have the right to question it all to achieve spiritual fulfillment. Remember, with prejudice, discrimination, and bigotry, all belief systems become political, and when politics is introduced into a spiritual belief system, it loses its purity. If you critically examine the carrot and stick philosophy heavily promoted by most religions, it’s important to clarify that I don’t believe God and spirituality involve any form of politics because I personally believe they are pure and free from the political taints of human emotions. Therefore, whatever politics is used by our religions comes from our belonging groups, making it clearly political.
Since your spirituality must be pure to benefit you, your prayers must be practical. REMEMBER, YOUR TAXES ARE TAXING, BUT ARE YOUR PRACTICAL PRAYERS AND RECIPROCATION. Practical life and governing systems may involve all kinds of politics, but you personally must never forget that your atom of autonomy resides within you, demanding you to be just. You would be deceiving yourself if you use politics in your belief system, which can backfire from within.
Creating balance is essential for beings like us because we are aware of our mortality. You can achieve this by becoming the CEO of your life, which requires individual education related to personal strength. You may experience conflicting senses from within and be influenced by both extremes, but ultimately, you are responsible for your action-based spirituality. It’s not easy to deal with the political sense of belonging because it can overwhelm individuals who have been brainwashed from the beginning. Remember, each of us is blessed with an equally strong sense of freedom. This is what makes you unique because, in your mind or imagination, you are in charge; you can create a whole universe of your own. If you don’t trust yourself, start digging for the dead dog or the dogs of your personal distrust. You will find that the biggest dead dog is your political belonging to your groups. That is the toughest hurdle in your way, and only you can overcome it. Liberate yourself because this is the era of equal human individual rights, and you happen to be born into it. If you are weak, your belonging group may call the shots for you, reducing you to a genetically programmed creature like worker bees or warrior ants. I can’t help but compare ourselves to other creatures. Fortunately, I am writing for human beings with the hope to influence our groups instead of groups influencing the individual. Remember, we are nothing like other creatures; otherwise, we would still be in the bush and caves. It’s all because God did not create us as genetically programmed creatures. We are the mini gods who help physically create spiritual realities into physical action. If you complain about the injustice done to you, do something about it; become a CEO.
The only explanation for human irrelevance is political and nothing more. Spiritually, it simply does not make sense because I personally believe God is not unjust. If you break it down to a microscopic level, things become easier to understand. If, as a human being, you feel small within the universe, you must put things into perspective. It becomes relevant if you see yourself as a cell in the human body. We have ten trillion cells of our own and a hundred trillion bacteria, so being one of the trillions can make you feel really small. If you imagine being a cell in the body, it would make you feel that the body is like space itself. Regardless of how big the body looks or feels to a cell, it is a universe. As human beings, we may be a small part of the universe, but understanding our internal universe makes the universe. Things may seem big and majestic, but they are made small by us simply because we carry our own atom of autonomy. This allows us to understand that it’s not about how big or what is out there but rather what is within us, which is logically bigger because it gives us the understanding of everything. As I say, if you lose your brain function, the whole universe, including God, the Devil, and love, disappears. You can climb a mountain, get dropped off by a helicopter, or fly in space where no other bird can fly. It’s not because of the height of the mountain or the vastness of space but because of what you have within you. Looking at ourselves exclusively as physical creatures reduces us from being human beings. We would be without inhibitions and unable to control or understand ourselves as spiritual entities. In today’s world, lines are blurred, and in some cases, our concepts of good and bad have exchanged places. Most of the time, we follow our nature, like to belong to our groups and their political whims, but still, there are people who stand for equal human individual rights. If we are socially compelled, we would be unable to restrain ourselves, fall victim to our urges, and spend our whole mortal lives under those influences. For instance, if your nature calls you to evolve and you are unhappy, dissatisfied, and discontent, there is an internal imbalance and disconnection. The reason you can’t fix this problem is that you are under the political influences of your belonging groups. If your spiritual side is not strong enough to remind you of your mortal nature, chances are you will spend your whole mortal life in that mode, where you are unhappy and discontent. Now the question is, would you blame God and your belonging group for your nature and political conformation or become the CEO of your life so you can own your duty to use free will? Remember, you are a human being, not some other creature that simply dances along with its nature. You have been created differently, so use your atom of autonomy and related gifts.
First of all, you have free will to choose. Second, you are free because your umbilical cord was cut at birth. Third, you are the creature who knows about personal mortality. Now let’s see how your evolving nature and the politics of belonging have been robbing you of your happiness and contentment, yet you personally are a willing participant in hurting yourself. If it says evolve, do so, but keep your mortality in mind so you don’t sacrifice your happiness and contentment. If the politics of belonging says you have to fit in, impress, and strive to be admired by the belonging group, it’s all good until you start to harm yourself. Remember, you are responsible for all departments of your life. So anything you do for your group is fine, but your mortality says you have bigger fish to fry. Simply put, you can’t sacrifice your happiness and contentment for the people around you. You can’t blame God or the people because you are blessed with free will, so choose wisely.
Looking at our ability to accumulate and absorb knowledge, I believe we all carry a metaphorical ocean within. Every piece of knowledge we receive pours into us and adds up as data. Interestingly, even our brain neurons grow to take on more and more, so there is no natural cap or limit, similar to an ocean or space. For us to live a successful individual mortal life, we must dive into our data, memory bank, or ocean to pick, choose, mix, and match to function. Functioning as a decently evolved human being while keeping our mortal nature in mind is crucial. Our atom of autonomy and free will, along with our personal sense of justice, teach us that we should not do to others what we don’t want done to ourselves or our loved ones. No matter how much you believe in your streams of knowledge as correct or ultimate, never forget that for an evolving entity like us, it is simply a stream of knowledge. It flows into our ocean, where there is a whole lot to be considered.
From racism and nationalism to religious extremism and the popularity of team sports and related fan fights, prejudice of all kinds is deeply entrenched and is the root cause of our social, spiritual, individual, and collective problems. Many people are bogged down or drunk with the alcohol of an out-of-control sense of belonging. If there are no footprints or tracks for you to follow, you may be stressed because of invisible sinkholes covered by snow. That is why people follow the footprints left by their ancestors, but sooner or later, we must learn to walk, take chances, and evolve. There is common knowledge, then there is knowledge written between the lines of our knowledge, and then there is knowledge coming from our evolution. Our brain is an ocean, and all kinds of knowledge pour into it from all directions like rivers; it is data or junk mail, or whatever you want to call it. Remember, it is your duty to pick and choose or mix and match to make your mortal life a journey of reciprocation. IF YOU TAKE SOME, YOU HAVE TO GIVE SOME. PLAIN AND SIMPLE.
It may not be commonly accepted in settings of political belonging to our groups, but it makes sense to me that sharing my knowledge is a form of reciprocation. If anyone disagrees with me, which is highly possible, we can agree to disagree like civilized human beings. Our problem is that we can be passionate about our knowledge due to our out-of-control sense of belonging. If you dispute my knowledge, remember we learn something new every day, proving that our knowledge is not complete. Just look around at history and even today—people kill each other just because they don’t agree with what others believe in. Most of the time, it is related to the sense of belonging, political ego, and sometimes territory and love-related rage. Externally, we fight over God, yet internally, we don’t really know God because of our incomplete knowledge. Fighting over our metaphorical realities has been and still is a physical reality. So, remember most of our fights are related to our insecurity and political control. A real belief in God should make the individual humble and helpful to humanity as a whole. A politically charged religious knowledge has twisted our spirituality in such a way that every religion claims to know God better than others, and their followers, depending on their passion, genuinely believe they are right, making it hard for humanity to unite.
Individuals are brainwashed to the point that they not only passionately believe whatever their religions say but are also willing to kill and die for it. I am going to quote a verse of poetry by Baba Buley Shah. Somehow, my thoughts often align with his more than with others. Since he writes in Punjabi, I will write the words and then translate them:
“Rub rub karday budhay ho gay mullah pundit saary, Rub thaa khoj khraa na labhya sajday kar kar haary. Rub tay tary andar wasdaa vich Quraan ishaary. Buley Shah rub onhu milsy, jehra apaney naffus noo maary.”
Translation:
“All the Mullahs and pundits got old saying and repeating God’s name, No one clearly found the real God even though they spent their whole life bowing down. God lives inside of you, points the Qur’an, God is found by those who can control their worldly desires.”
Whether you consider yourself a godly or godless human being, as long as you consider yourself a human being and are alive physically, God exists through you. So, you personally have some responsibilities. First, you have to learn about yourself as an individual. What and who do you really think you are? I have written this before: when a baby is born, they are like a brand-new computer with all the apps and perks. Then everybody around starts to install data. What is human data? Remember, all traditional clothing, and yes, turbans or crosses, are data. All religions, nationalism, race, gender, ways of worshiping, and fasting belong to installed data. Unfortunately, our belonging groups make us believe our data is our identity before being a human being. So if you think you are the data or simply a computer, you would believe your body is it, and you are nothing more than the body. Think again, because you would be wrong. If you use your God-given free will as an individual, you are above both computer and data. So I would call you a computer runner. If you think that somehow you become better than others because of your installed data, you are not looking at things spiritually. You don’t even look at yourself deeply enough to understand yourself. Think about God, genetics, carbon, humanity, spirituality, and practical prayers. Then, and only then, will you find your real self.
There is no Muslim state, Jewish or Christian states, no United States, or European Union because they all exist only because we live there. We all pass the genetic test of being human beings. We are all able to use free will and come with a personally ingrained sense of justice and are able to override all of our installed data. That personal sense of justice teaches us that if you want to receive rights, you will have to give the same to others as well. Since this is liked by most of us, we are making equal human rights a new religion for humanity. Most people around the world want equal human rights, so they are spreading like wildfire throughout the world. So whenever the politics of your sense of belonging confuses you, always remember that you are born with more than what you are led to believe. You are a born CEO; your identity is being a human being, and God himself consists of you. You are the thread of the holy fabric that God is made of.
Your nationalism and religions are out to rob you of your spirituality and humanity. Remember, they are your real identity, so understand who you are. It may seem overwhelming to stand against your traditional knowledge, but you are designed to be a human being. Sure, you have gone through some brainwashing by your political data of belonging, making you believe you are nothing as an individual. Yet, being in the whole scheme of life with God-given free will, you are designed to stand and fly solo. Just look at yourself critically, but first make sure to remove your political influences.
Your umbilical cord was cut the day you were born. You still breathe oxygen solo, which is not provided to you by your parents, not by your community, not by your nation, nor by your religion. So think about what and who you are. Sure, your parents brought you into life but not without the will of God. Bringing you in and up is their reciprocation to God. So as you grow up, it is your duty to do the same. Since you have been blessed with free will individually, it is your duty to enjoy your journey as well. If you have to walk on a path no one has walked before, get your confidence in the same entity that provided you with oxygen and a functioning body. Remember, you are not and cannot be alive by your will. If that were the case, human beings would be immortal.
Should we really believe that God wants us to follow one particular belief system? If that is the case, then why are there legitimate yet multiple holy books? And why leave something in them so all the religious people constantly fight for being right over the differences and have done so for thousands of years? If it stinks like politics, I am not going to buy it as a spiritual thing because only God knows how many human individuals have been killed over religious differences and disputes, so even our history can’t put a number on it. Who is right? Since everyone has been and still is entrenched in their beliefs, or I should say are stuck in their pigeonholes with the politics of belonging to show strength in numbers. Personally, I believe it is all about politics, and everyone is stuck in their pigeonholes believing God and their belief of God belong to them exclusively, so they are entitled to kill others over it. Hopefully, equal human rights will bring them out to smell the reality of one God, one humanity, and one human being at a time, not as groups with political agendas.
The labels of Muslim, Christian, Jewish, Hindu, or Sikh come before being human beings. We are made to feel weak and worthless by the politics of our belonging groups so that the groups carry on living even long after we are gone as individuals.
If I ask you to join me in enjoying the things religions prohibit, instead of praying, fasting, and sacrificing all the time, what would your response be? It is obvious that you will claim that I am on the wrong path. Sure, I can be, but for argument’s sake, if I say I am the one with a mortal lifetime, which is my personal gift directly from God, so I choose to live the way I want to, and so should you. If I insist you follow my way of thinking, according to you, I would be really wrong. Now, if I ask you to explain to me logically why I am wrong, when you go into the logic, it will take you to the core of the issue or the problem. The real issue is individualism vs. communism. Religion may say we are not following communism or socialism, but start to look at their rules closely, and you will find the similarities—they can blow your mind. If a group of people wants you to live just for them, they want you to be their slave. This gets twisted even further with the mixing of spirituality and the politics of a sense of belonging. If you want to look at politics and spirituality, look at them separately because spirituality is nothing but the truth. As a CEO, you want to do spiritual justice to others, including yourself, because you are your responsibility as well.
Since I know I am a mortal being with free will, I need to know where I stand in the big picture or spiritual scheme of life. I can’t really stand to know unless I become a CEO of my life. We are all created as CEOs by nature or God, but politically we have been and still are pushed down by our own belonging groups. Whoever uses free will makes choices about how to live a personal life. If you insist that I should follow whatever the belonging religion preaches, I have the right to ask why. If you say I don’t have a choice, where should I fit my free will, which I got from God right from the start? Now the question is, why are we stuck when it comes to our religious knowledge? Why can’t we overcome prejudice and discrimination? Why is this religious limbo of evolution still making us kill each other in the name of prejudice and discrimination? If I start to look at it honestly, it takes me to a zone where politics and spirituality merge, and that is where I draw my line because, to me, politics may be needed, but it does not belong in our spiritual and justice systems.
If a nation wants to survive and keep its justice system untouched by politics, they have to follow physical realities based on clearly defined and written constitutions that are relevant to the present era. The major problem is that we are going through an era still influenced by the mixture of religious beliefs and the politics of belonging to our groups. This clearly can’t be based on justice and spirituality because if it’s not for all, it simply can’t be spiritual nor just. Religious leaders meddling with the politics of governing base their politics on human metaphoric realities, which throws a wrench in governing with justice. Remember, Lady Justice is supposed to be blind to everything, so if one’s belief system, race, color, gender, or nation receives different justice than others, it simply can’t be called justice, especially if it’s founded on one’s metaphoric reality. No matter how deeply you believe in your religion or belief system, you can’t really explain it physically, so it becomes a handicap as you dig further to prove it as a physical fact. If our religions are founded on our metaphoric realities, we simply can’t enforce them as justice systems.
It’s like setting your emotions, such as love, as the foundation of a high-rise building without concrete and steel as physical realities. Regardless of the building’s height, it could collapse at any moment or wildly sway with the waves of emotions. In essence, what I’m saying is that you cannot establish a true justice system—one that is impartial and free from politics—based solely on a belief system. The first problem you will encounter is that even among people who share the same belief system, there is not a uniform level of individual belief. Consider how many sects and religions exist around the world. True justice is not for a specific group of people or political entities; it is universal, like spirituality, God, and humanity as a whole. Since God and spirituality are meant for all, not just for some, you cannot have them for a few but not for everyone. If you do, you are deviating from the spiritual path or God’s intention, simply because you are applying and labeling them with injustice. Look back and see what religions have done to humanity and individuals in the name of God. Can they erase their dark history and still claim to be the path to God or provide spiritual satisfaction to those they have harmed? I highly doubt it. When politics and religious beliefs mix, you end up with politics because spirituality will take a backseat. A spiritual belief system cannot remain intact without universal justice. When politics get involved, certain groups become priorities, leading to political prejudice and discrimination. Therefore, if you want a successfully functioning governing system, you need to establish a solid, spiritually-based justice system. Plain and simple: no one is above the law—not nations, religious beliefs, or any other metaphorical realities. Physical reality must override all metaphorical realities, including God. Equal human rights are a good place to start. You cannot claim equal rights in your nation or religion, nor can you limit it to your race or gender. Each and every one of us has the right to be counted as equal. Not only against each other but against every group, corporation, race, gender, nation, or religion as well. Would that be difficult? Absolutely, because we are still entangled with the politics of group belonging. Unfortunately, our wars never cease because we are still evolving. The politics of belonging to our groups have robbed us of our personal and individual spirituality, making it hard to stand against political belonging. Equal human rights are progressing, but too slowly, so the best way to make progress is to evolve individually. Break free from the chains of political belonging and join humanity as a whole, especially if you want to contribute to achieving peace. I may be one of the distant voices right now, but everything from global warming to our weapons of war is telling us to wise up and speak out. We can do that; if you need convincing, just look around and see what humans have done to each other.
Now, let’s look at it from another angle. In an ideal situation, 400 million sperm are released, but only one fertilizes an egg. That’s odds of 400 million to one. Today, however, a doctor can bypass that process, making praying for a child less common. Instead of praying for rain, people are turning barren, waste, and dry land into green, life-giving, and sustaining areas. How and why is this happening? You need to ask yourself that question. Not too long ago, it was considered God’s work; today, people are taking action. It didn’t happen on its own—remember, God helps those who help themselves. We are designed to evolve, and that is the real order of God for human beings, so it’s time to evolve. Evolve for God’s sake; believe in God but also in yourself. Don’t let personal insecurities rob you of your spirituality or let politicians, hiding behind your religious beliefs, use you. As I mentioned earlier, personal and spiritual beliefs cannot be mixed with politics. Attempting to do so not only robs you of your spirituality but also stands against your personal atom of autonomy, which has the power to tear you apart from within.
To be blunt, if you believe that prayers, fasting, pilgrimage, and worship are sufficient to secure you a spot in heaven, you need to consider another perspective. By believing this, you are essentially implying that God is accepting bribes. Don’t you think labeling God in this way is a spiritual crime? Your practical or physical prayers are your reciprocation, and that reciprocation is the purpose and duty of your life. This is the foundation of God’s world. Want proof? Try removing human beings from that holy picture and see what happens. If you remove those who benefit from or are harmed by the concept of God and the Devil, the whole holy world collapses. Spirituality remains abstract if no one converts it into physical actions. You should understand my point by now. God’s world evolves with the interaction of physicality and spirituality; otherwise, it remains silent. God and our world continue to move and evolve because of your work, your taxes, your discoveries, your advancements in technology, science, medicine, and reproduction. These are your reciprocations or practical and physical prayers. In other words, if you don’t do your part, God’s world comes to a screeching halt, making your efforts in worshiping and following traditions, customs, rituals, and rules potentially useless to God and humanity. Now it’s up to you to decide what to believe. Without human individuals, spirituality, reciprocation, and practical and physical prayers, a belief system becomes impotent. I would rather believe in an effective belief system and God.
If the concept of God is even corrupt, how can you be spiritually brave? Have self-esteem or confidence as a true human being—the one who rules over all other creatures. You place them in cages and decide to help them in the wild to prevent extinction. Whenever you see bravery in a lion or envy the flight of an eagle, look at yourself critically. You may not have wings, but you soar in space where no other creature can reach, regardless of wingspan. You can dig deeper into the earth than any clawed creature and explore the ocean depths without gills. So what is your problem? Why live like a louse, leech, or parasite? You don’t need to look far for the answers; just examine yourself critically and dig within. You will see lice, leeches, and parasites everywhere because our religions have been infected by politics, robbing individuals of their importance and relevance. Yet, you are the most relevant being in the universe. If you don’t reciprocate, you simply take, take, and take. What does that make you? Your politics of belonging have been heavily promoted since the start of your life, so it’s not your fault, but you can fix it. All you have to do is become a CEO because only then will you have the vision to see. You have been blinded by the politics of belonging because you took your eyes off your God-given fiber. (Read “Five Bucks”). Always remember, regardless of your gender, race, nation, or religion, you are born with your personal fiber. It gives you the ability to imagine and think, using your physical body to achieve your desires—not just for your day-to-day life but for concepts that will endure long after you’re gone, leaving benefits for future generations. Remember, you are the one who converts spirituality into physical actions, so even God depends on you. Otherwise, things would be suspended in the air without anyone to benefit or be harmed. If you’ve reached this level of understanding, you would not compare yourself with other creatures, nor would you view yourself as a louse, leech, or parasite to God. You would reciprocate to fulfill your role in the third equation.
Now, examine your personal and individual life, and assess what is happening or what you are doing. You, your cat, or your dog wouldn’t be happy with lice, fleas, ticks, or parasites living on you. Sure, God is not like a human, but we are cells in the divine body, and our relationship with God reflects this. If every single one of us were just worshiping, what would happen to humanity? Spiritually, it would be a disaster because we work to help each other and maintain the divine world. If we only take and never give, it would not be a reciprocal relationship. One-sided relationships don’t work, so how can God be happy and proud of people who act exclusively as takers? If the fundamentals of life, such as oxygen and a healthy, functioning body, are provided to us, we should be God’s helpers, not like lice, fleas, ticks, leeches, or parasites. Ask yourself why you want everything done by God for you without your input. Are you doing everything in your power before asking for help, or do you simply want everything done for you? Don’t you think God has done enough for you? You showed up perfectly functioning and healthy with free oxygen; what more is needed is your effort. If you are not appreciative and comfortable in your mortal skin, you need to start thinking and seeking what is in your personal ocean. Try to understand all about honest reciprocation so you know what spiritual burdens are and how they affect your happiness and contentment. The business of real and spiritual life is urging us to learn everything about reciprocation so you owe nothing to anyone, including God. If your parents helped you when you needed to survive, help them when they cannot help themselves. If your spouse provides for the household, they deserve respect and assistance to ease their burden. If your wife makes your life easier, acknowledge and respect the help you receive. If your children bring you happiness, provide what they need to be happy. This honest living sets you free and makes you a mini-God yourself. If you take, take, and take without giving because you were taught or learned that it’s good business to use people and God, think again. We are not just physical creatures; our spiritual needs must be met during our lives, not just after death. Honest reciprocation should become an essential part of our lives, not to gain a spot in heaven but to find inner peace with our atom of autonomy. It not only adds deep happiness to our lives but also frees us from the fears of death and the afterlife. Our physical business teaches us to spend less and gain more to run a profitable enterprise. Most of us are preached to and preach to future generations as if life is just a physical business. Ironically, applying this to our everyday lives makes us metaphorical lice, ticks, fleas, or parasites. So if you look like a human being, be one. We try to rid ourselves and our pets of these parasites so they can be comfortable. Under the influence of physical living, we all end up trying to live like everyone else, following political belonging. As groups, we attempt to dominate others and exploit their resources like less evolved physical creatures. Our history and present-day realities show that we not only rob each other of resources but also perpetuate teachings of superiority, leading to racism, bigotry, prejudice, and discrimination. Although we no longer have slavery or sati, these less evolved traits stem from the weakness of our individual spirituality. Since individual and personal spirituality is crucial for happiness and contentment, we need to understand this aspect of being human. Remember, it all starts at home. As Dr. Wayne Dyer says, don’t rip the cocoon. If you rip the cocoon of your child, they may remain dependent and unable to fly solo. Help them, but don’t rip their cocoon. The same goes for religions that preach women should stay dependent. This politics has been, and continues to be, a limitation on humanity, regardless of gender, nation, or religion. So let’s not be like lice, ticks, leeches, and parasites to God or other people. Taking charge of our lives and becoming CEOs can help us become what we were meant to be—equal partners in reciprocation.