A clap of Spirituality and Physicality. Why it can not be one or the other? We have been taught that God is a charity runner and we are nothing more than being receivers and beggars of that charity. We have been fed this wrong information for eons. We have been accepting it without questioning and we gladly get used politically. Especially when it comes to following extreme religious rhetoric or politics of our sense of belonging to our groups.
I am going to start this one with us being a physical part of a complete and spiritual picture. As a physical entity or as a human being we have a whole lot of brainpower compare to other same size creatures yet with the potential to grow more even further. The question is why? If you start to look at it, there are several reasons that come to mind.
The first one is not only factual its an undeniable reality that we have been, are and will be continuously evolving until we reach our potential. Since we are still learning new things every day no one can deny that as human beings we are still in the process of evolution. Now the main question is, evolving to what and who? That actually leads to even more questions. If that is the case then why and by whom? Why weren’t we or still are unable to use full brain powers? If we are always learning new things, it’s a clear sign that we are not using the full capacity of our brainpower so where does our ignorance come from? We always have been and still fight and kill each other over our knowledge? Why do we have genetically matched individuals making, breaking, following or questioning the rules of all kinds? Why God and the politics of belonging to our groups affect people differently? Is it because of differences in genetics what is not discovered yet by us or its related to acquired education?. How far are we and how much more to go to reach our potential? Would we ever stop fighting or killing each other over our differences even if we have reached our potential?
Regardless of desires our inability to know everything can be frustrating but luckily spirituality can make things easier and simpler for us as individuals while we are still in the process of evolution BUT. Unfortunately, we start to use ego related assumptions to fill the gap and interestingly ego is born from the politics of sense of belonging to our groups so it would be an assumption to say that with evolution we will become peace-loving people.
Speaking egotistically, passionately and forcefully about God is not new and to me, it has not been, is not and will not be close to spirituality because it is related to our physical emotions like loyalty to our belonging groups. Even if they stem from thoughts, human emotions are uniquely blended and are attached to the physical or animal side of our bodies. Since the body is emotionally connected to the politics of sense of belonging of the groups, we try to not only install our knowledge in everyone within the belonging group, we try to spread it to opposing and confronting groups as well.
Just like religions and democracy. We like to believe our religious books and constitutions are unquestionably ultimate for human benefits. We have been trying to recruit and sometimes forcefully to make others join our groups. Even our religions actively send missionaries to recruit others into our belief systems by helping them with the strings attached. Our religions openly say we would be rewarded by God in heaven if we bring others into our faith. Knowing our knowledge has been, is and will always be evolving we should be flexible as individuals and groups to adopt to the changes.
When we come to our inconclusive knowledge related problems. We usually start to rely on thousands of years old religious texts with wide verity or interpretations. We fight to maintain or change our hundreds of years old imperfect constitutions as guidelines regardless of how modern our problems are. If we can’t find answers we make up the answers along the way and enforce them passionately.
Logically if you have a computer and or internet-related problems you have to find someone who knows about computers. If you end up going to mullah or a priest they would not know the solutions of your problems but they will egotistically say that it’s not a path of God so it is questionable and wrong. If you still decide to seek solutions from the past, you would not be able to evolve or keep up according to the demands of time. It would be like you are riding a horse buggy in today’s cities. It may look good as a vintage novelty or may be best for the environment or better than walking. For sure it would not be faster than a car, so no it would not be competitive or efficient enough to save your time to spare your time to evolving further. Knowing today’s world there would be some people who would be against you using an animal for transportation as well. The point is that we have had and will always have a difference of opinion. A past story comes to mind. Since its old, I can’t tell you who is the author. And I quote,
“ A man thinks as he was entering the mosque that if I put a nail in the ground, people who come with their horses they can tie their horses for the time they spend in the mosque without worrying about them, so he does nail a big enough nail in the ground. Yet another man sees it and says what a stupid idea someone can trip over it and hurt themselves so he takes it out now the question is who is right. Our history is full of these kinds of incidences. It is not about right or wrong it is all about their intentions, so give each other a break and learn to discuss the reasoning behind. If you are able to talk about the good intentions you most likely will not fight over it.
If we don’t evolve with time we are left behind literally. Our things get done in timely fashion, we can’t help humanity to evolve, can’t go to space or produce medicine to save lives, can’t give blood, can’t abort an unhealthy fetus which can eventually kill the mother. From horses to horse buggies to cars to planes to space station and beyond is not happening by following our past education. Its all happening because of our liberalism and most of our evolution related advances came from the religious rule breakers.
We use to live an average age of thirty-eight for God’s sake. Just look at it with an open mind and see all the effects our evolution has brought us. To a degree, we all have had and still do some barbaric traits so the job is not done yet but things are better than past. Chopping heads is not that common anymore other than few examples of present most of humanity has evolved and things are happening. We are able to give or receive equal human rights or at least they are becoming popular in all human societies.
Remember we all individually have a need for spiritual health that is why our societies around the world still have all these religions. Sure politics has messed things up for them but religions do talk about spirituality. As human individuals we have the need to have a drink of Godly alcohol to attain spiritual fulfillment or in other words intoxication. Whether the alcohol is name brand or not it still serves the purpose to intoxicate the individual so we are drawn to that high and most of the time our politics laced religious drink is name brand.
Our problem is that some of us can’t differentiate between a social drink of spirituality or politics of sense of belonging tainted intoxication of religious extremism.
In reality a social drink is the essence of spiritual fulfillment or intoxication, not the most advertised name brand of it. With name-brand politics related intoxication we create double standers for competing groups and become divisive. We become prejudiced and discriminatory against each other and even towards the group of people who don’t follow religious rules within the same religion.
Let’s look at this factual reality, we expect and actually have different standers for a child and grown up adults in our every day social settings yet interestingly we put God and a human individual in the same boat. I am all for giving a break to children so they are not punished or treated like adults but I am against metaphorically putting God and a human individual in the same boat. Even I myself am guilty of doing that, sometime I use this to prove my point for us to be responsible for our actions and assuming our standing in the grand scheme of life.
We say God punishes and puts people in a metaphoric living hell in living years if they don’t comply with religious rules and even after death non believers or rule breakers would be punished. If they worship God only then they would be rewarded. This is where I take a stand against this philosophy because of two reasons. First of all, no one can prove that with repeatable factual studies or with any video evidence second if all God’s work is done by someone physically working. By physically working we are helping God to fulfill someone’s prayers. Since as human beings we are already doing God’s work, why would God punish them. So to me, it just does not make any sense other than that to install fear in the hearts of followers. That not only makes the individual’s life measurable it gives a bad name to God I believe. We want strength from God if we are weak we want security if we feel insecure and so on. Question is why God does not show up for everyone again as a repeatable fact? There will be a lot of people to attest that God did not show up when we needed God the most. Does that mean I am questioning God’s existence, Not at all? I am trying to prove my point that God is above the human traits so bringing God to the human level is like trying to get that fully grown tree back into the seed form it grew from. It may give you billions of seeds but it can’t be brought back into the seed form.
We are taught that God is vengeful and forgiving at the same time just like a human individual can be. As if God has some form of human illnesses as well. We understand human individual life but we assume everything about God as if God is a human being. When and if it comes to human understanding, we will recognize our placing as well. So far an advanced or higher level of life form is beyond our understanding so we assume and assume shamelessly and egotistically to the point that we get mad at each other if we don’t agree.
Assuming about God is not an understanding like we understand our scientific facts it’s an assumption related guess, so fighting or killing each other over assumptions is unfortunate but is an absurdity. We simply can’t assume God has human traits, to me seeds do not look like a tree or a tree does not look like its seed. Just like a human cell does not look like a human body and that is a scientifically proven fact.
Why do we assume that God is like a human being? Can it be possible that humanity as a whole is God if so humanity is evolving with the help of human individual and human individual is evolving with humanity simultaneously? If we can get over that God is out there somewhere in the space, we actually can learn the value of a human individual as well, especially the to see God in all of us regardless of our differences.
With our evolution, we now know that harsher punishments are barbaric and can’t work in the long run especially with the popularity of today’s equal human rights. The death penalty is being debated and is removed from the justice systems of most civilized societies. Most Muslim societies don’t chop off hands for stealing anymore. Stoning to death for having sex out of wedlock is not practical anymore. Question is why it was okay in the past but not in the present days? This is what I call evolution, we don’t grow bigger head with horns or grow wings, we grow in our knowledge and transform our world around and within us. Now the question is, is this evolution coming from our spiritual side related imagination related to God or are we physically helping God to evolve with us from an assumed barbaric entity?I strongly believe that both sides whether its spiritual side or physical side can’t work alone so you can come up with your personal conclusion as a human individual. If you put God on the pa-distal and consider yourself insignificant you would be or are following religious preaching, if you don’t believe in any entity involved other than your self you still would be using your assumptions and that would be short of reality because if you don’t have even your next breath in your control your assumptions are related to an egotistic behavior of human individual.
These days our misguided perceptions are falling like dominoes, we don’t believe God is angry at us with every crack of thunder or whenever we go through a natural disaster as we did in the past. We don’t believe earth is flat. We actually are using our scientific knowledge and are literally able to see what is going on in the space or other planets. We are not only learning about the space we are trying to and are able to learn more and do something about the environment. We are now connecting the dots of global warming, Ozone and even learning more about earthquakes and constructing according to the zone related issues. We have been, are and will be opening the doors for humanity to evolve further in all departments as the time allows us.
Lots of people believe, somewhat believe or don’t believe at all in God, regardless of our differences we have the ability to live together in civilized societies. With information technology or internet things are spreading fast so in the cultures where there prejudice and discrimination still rules, equal rights will eventually wipe out the differences because equal rights are founded on the spiritual rules like don’t do to anyone what you don’t like done to you or your loved ones.
I believe in God not that God is out there somewhere, it is because I can see things happening with or without human interventions, and on their own to keep me alive without my input. Especially when it comes to personal survival without personal interventions. We need to look at life with curiosity and have respect for it, not only for ourselves but for others as well. To understand this a little further we need to, not only respect life itself, we need to take responsibility to act as a spiritually evolved human individual as well so we can over ride the politics of our belonging groups. Since we are not just a random happening we are the entity like a coral reef with all the differences yet the same organism, if it can’t recognize self, it may play part in self-destruction. Humanity has been doing that since the beginging its about time to evolve to the next level.
Let’s look at life, starting with mathematically and scientifically correct order and the ac curacies of our living world around us. To me personally it points towards the existence of God, to some it may not be proven like scientific facts but again we are learning new things all the time. Our knowledge is still in the process of evolution so religion or not, science or not its the wisdom needed to live a mortal life as an individual for self by creating balances in every department of life.
My factual understanding is that we have several departments of life with a mortal nature so attending all departments like a CEO is a personal duty to self.
Being a CEO we need to understand that if a belief system can fulfill our spiritual needs or provide emotional satisfaction. Essence of spirituality is that, it feeds our souls to keep ourselves happy and content regardless of knowing our mortal nature or ending. We have to reach for all sorts of knowledge to have a fulfilled mortal life. If you feel that you don’t need anything other than the scientific facts it is your prerogative but to me, fulfillment is not limited to just one department it reduces the vastness of being a human being. If we shut down some departments and pick and follow a cause to spend whole mortal life without any fulfillment, happiness or discontentment it is a personal loss so it would be a life of a department head, not a CEO.
Since we all are blessed with a free will our differences in making choices is a right, so if one wants to those rights they automatically should be giving others the same rights. Unfortunately human societies have not even learnt that till now, we still have problems with certain groups who think they are some how superior to others just because of their color of skin, gender, race, nation or religion or even education. That is why even this day and age of internet we just can’t get rid of prejudice and discrimination based politics.
Living or wasting a mortal life without any kind of satisfaction is a personal prerogative because it is our personal gift and we all have a right to live the way we want to so I would rather keep my mind open and believe in God to fulfill or quench the thirst of my soul yet at the same time follow where our repeatable facts of science take us as well so I am not starving or behind in any area of my life by choice.
Lets put it this way. These days you can scientifically understand and see plants growing, and in the process of survival producing chemicals to protect themselves from being eaten by the bugs. A wise thing to do to survive but has anyone seen the brain of a plant?. We have a lot of understanding of the plants now. To the point that spraying chemicals is not even a good option anymore. We can enhance plants’ ability to produce more of those chemicals by genetically changing it. This process is economically wise to gain higher yields but would that be good for us in the long run? This is where the nail in front of the mosque comes into play.
That is how I look at the science. Doctors use to prescribe Mercury and today its a proven poison and don’t forget the drugs and their side effects. Doctors are very and I mean very adamant to promote scientifically repeatable facts yet. Today’s overdoes problems have roots into the prescription drugs prescribed by our medical community who really believe in science, it is a well-known fact that people die without the drugs and even with the drugs, just like the nail in the ground is good and bad at the same time depending how you look at it or which side you choose to join.
My point is clear, we have to look at our practices whether they are science-related or belief system related. What kind of effects they have in the long run? I don’t put any human knowledge down but I get all worked up when people egotistically claim that they know everything there is to know yet they are based on assumptions.
Extreme of our belief systems has been and is clearly related to an unaccountable death tole and these days we are learning that our science skills as well. Interestingly we can’t put a number on that as well. Remember I say it, again and again, we can’t put a number on the killings related to our extreme beliefs of all kind and that is all related to the politics of our sense of belonging to our groups. From scientifically correct war weaponry to our factual drug side effects and their interactions all scientifically researched yet still in the long run involved in the death as well.
Looking up at the space, it is not falling like it used to does not mean it is because of our scientifically correct control and matter of fact we have no control at all, so who is keeping the earth as a living planet? It sure is not us. We actually are learning that we maybe causing global warming by the use of fossil fuel. Our living planet just can’t be a random trick of nature it is related with our incomplete knowledge, we may will learn more as we evolve.
Lets not go that far and look at the human individual’s inner space which has ten trillion cells of its own and then a hundred trillion good and bad Bactria encased within the body. Do we have total control over that? If yes then why do we get sick and die? Are we still learning to understand? Yes, we are, so should we assume that we have all the knowledge to claim whether we are in control or God exists or not? Do we know what is there to know? It sounds like both sides of extreme passionately claim that they know what is there to know. Interestingly it has been going on since the beginning of our awareness. After all the learning, awareness and advancements we still are unable to know about ourselves enough to stop killing each other over what we know or don’t know yet.
Looking at ourselves critically can not only help us in learning about the realities of mortal life. It teaches us how to believe or reap the benefits of that belief system by really believing in God. Not only it opens the doors of politics-free spirituality, it points towards learning the importance of all departments of life.
Since our life is not only about following the religious rules we need to understand why they are there for. We need to take responsibility for living in the present where we need to use our scientific knowledge as well. Remember regardless of our false confidence related self-esteem we actually have to learn about ego-free functioning. That should help us to learn about the knowledge other than just religions, nationalism, science and technology, we need to learn why human rob love of each other by killing each other’s loved ones.
Our understanding to become aware that as human beings we don’t just function on our own. It takes physicality and spirituality to merge and create an entity like us. An independent creature, a creature who is neither an animal nor a spirit. A living breathing Godly human being with the free will, personal sense of justice and compassion all ingrained within.
There is still a lot of unknowns involved in human living, sure we assume a lot because of our imagination. Interestingly our imagination has been and is a must for us like oxygen because it helps us to evolve. Most of our developments in all of our fields of knowledge start from someone’s imagination. Imagination becomes a physical reality as we put our backs, shoulders, and hands-on it. We can see its work in our everyday life yet it is not that simple because it may be cause of our emotions related personal problems as well. Sure our thought process is dependent on our well being. Not only on our internal and external influences but on the balance of everything, which we have no control over.
Our internal and external harmony has to be running accurately and perfectly to allow us to live. Every little change can throw us off of our health and even life. Since each and every one of his free will, we can get lost into our powerful yet full of assumptions ignorance and can become self-destructive to ourselves.
This ignorance does not allow us, or at least hinder in the process what makes or help us to see all the components, and yes even our own placing in the larger scheme of life. Especially if the individual is controlling, our individual confusions can be clearer with the understanding of our mortal nature. Not knowing everything in all departments of life equally may cause spiritual problems but by accepting our being incomplete can help to reduce the stress of our daily existence.
Logically Godly hand does not make physical sound so mankind with free will is needed. All spiritual things including thoughts are not physically effective until human individuals put their backs, shoulders, and metaphoric hands into it to create realities of living including our modern day living.
Let’s look at it this way. Since you don’t make any profit from it and or even if it runs like a business you have to call it a charity. If it outgrows your two hands, as it grows you need to hire help to get the job done. The people you have hired what should be their job? It’s kind of obvious that they should help you to run the charity to help people. You would not have them around to kiss your ass. Logically you need people who work if they just bow down to you but don’t do their physical job, would you be happy with them? Would you be satisfied with them and for how long? Especially if they are not pulling their share?
Just like that God is running the world like a charity because God doesn’t need any profit from it, but has to help any and everyone who ask help. The job is to answer and fulfills help people’s prayers. To fulfill those prayers God needs physical action and a spiritual entity just can’t be performing physical actions all the time. It would be a miracle.
God would rather have human beings working physically to help God to fulfill other’s prayers instead of praising and worshiping God.
This is an example of the very thing I said earlier we should not assume that God thinks like human beings. If in human societies kissing ass can take you further may not work in God or spiritual world. Just like the other assumptions of humanity I am guilty of assuming in this subject just to prove my point.
If God is providing the individual with all the circumstances to live and sustain life a question comes to mind, why would God do that? This question is not for the nonbelievers but to the believers who worship God vigorously and follow for the following sake yet put less value or ignore action base spirituality altogether.
Every one of us is alive without personal interventions and is alive for a reason and to me, that reason is not kissing ass, nor it is bribery. It is simply all about equal partner deal and reciprocation meaning it is all about action-based spiritual duties. From where, when and why prayers and worshiping came is a question we should openly ask our mullahs and pries. Organized religions have certain practices in common and that are rituals related to customs and traditions to get like-minded together to make them feel a sense of connection. To demonstrate an absolute political strength of a group and to make an individual feel insignificant to join and contribute to the group strength instead of standing on their own.
Being a good person to all others is not just related to religious preaching, its a responsibility and a duty for all equally, religion or not.
Now, where did the heaven and hell come from? Do we still consider or our elders still consider that we are just like other creatures like cats or dogs to be trained? If so why are we still using the carrot and stick philosophy? Why haven’t we evolve to the point that we individually can self regulate, and especially why aren’t we evolved enough to know spiritual rules? Like, don’t do to anyone what you don’t like done to you or your loved ones or fit in their shoes instead of making everyone else fit into yours? Are we brainwashed to the point that we ourselves consider ourselves as unworthy sinners to the point that we need to have the greed of heaven or fear of hell to keep ourselves in line?
Human genetics related nature is one thing but interestingly we have strong influences in our education as well. Then we have issues of individual health of all kinds. From physical to mental to spiritual health can dictate our abilities and disabilities related to internal feelings and related actions.
Life circumstances can make you stand in the line for a soup kitchen or sit into the chair of a CEO. The differences are made by all the above. Most of us land somewhere in the middle, so we do have a somewhat say into our everyday living but if you are told you mean nothing, you yourself take your personal responsibilities off of your shoulders and become an easy picking for the groups to politically manipulate you.
If you have an able body, mind, and spirit you just can’t be standing in line for food, worshiping and banging your head over and over for the better things or security in life. Reciprocation is the responsibility of all of us. I am not trying to put someone down for the way they believe, nor I am undermining or disrespecting human circumstances. I am stating an opinion shared by a lot of people but it has been and is stated differently. I am still in the process of making my point so be patient and try to understand.
I am all for the responsibility for reciprocation but as an equal partner of God. Let’s look at it this way, if you have a partner who does not pull his/her share, would you stay in serving position for the rest of your life? Ask yourself this question and then honestly look at your belief system and your personal relationship with God. If you worship and pray to God as you are told along with your duty of reciprocation, it is your prerogative but if you just worship and pray with the expectations that everything is done for you by God and others around. You may not have religious deficiencies because you are encouraged to be subservient and obedient. On the other hand, you sure would have spiritual deficiencies because in spite of having an able body you expect others even God to pull your share.
You may think that you are using smart strategy by using God and others because your social education preaches openly to get more with less. Remember its a strategy for personal and inner disasters because it is you who you have to answer. You yourself are the God who is assessing and judging everything you do. You may be prudent and productive according to your financial or material issues for a living but as a human being, we have a lot of different kinds of bills to pay. You may be are successful in one area but you could go bankrupt in the other so knowing yourself helps.
Try to know yourself, not only physically or mentally but spiritually as well. Overall well being as a being is crucial because of your mortal nature. Whether you believe in God almighty or not, you have to know the one living within you. If you don’t, you are going to lose health of some sort one way or the other. If you know that you are reciprocating, meaning you are pulling your share. You can be happier and satisfied with your skin without the greed of heaven or fear of hell. That is the most important thing a mortal being can do for living years and beyond because at the end of the day happiness and contentment matters the most everything else becomes irrelevant.
Belief system or not God needs human physicality if you don’t work and depend on God or others or use others regardless of having all the blessings of life. Like a healthy body, mind, and spirit you are not spiritually fulfilling your duties. Remember reciprocation is your soul food and if you think you are being smart by using God and even people it may keep your stomach full but it will keep your soul starving. In the long run, the starving soul can wreak havoc in the otherwise healthy body. So feeding your soul is just as important as feeding your body and mind. It can be the missing link or the medicine can be added to fix the unknown health issues including mental health which can make one dissatisfied with life regardless of what they have.
God, government, human and human cells of the body are similar in this context. They have the ability and powers to help the individual yet they draw it from the individual as well, so we should never forget how important we are in the larger scheme of life.
Should one give a different name to God, sure it can be done but facts stay the same? Since our actions make or break even the character of God for us, we should learn more about ourselves to understand God. Does that mean God has human traits? This question has been, is and will remain until we evolve to reach our potential. For now, it is us who is in evolving mode, so we are the one who needs Godly traits to become an evolved entity.
Let’s start this understanding by becoming aware of the politics of our sense of belonging to our groups. Our actions are influenced to the point that we use politics to even use God to dismiss our insecurities related Devilish actions. From acceptance to denial to then acceptance. This has been going on since we were introduced with the awareness of things happening not only by us exclusively. This spiritual clap only sounds and especially for the individual by the individual’s understanding of self placing in the larger scheme of life.
Politics of our sense of belonging has ruled us as individuals and has played a major role in our physical actions. Regardless of our politics individually we all have to understand that we as groups have been a living breathing tool for God and the Devil simultaneously, so questioning the politics of our groups before acting is a must to be comfortable in our skins.
As I mentioned before, our politics of sense of belonging is so powerful that we as an individual can be easily talked into sacrificing our comfort and even life knowingly. To me its all related to personal and individual strength or weakness of belief system. If you believe in God and I mean really believe in God you will be able to see your value as well. If you know your value, you will climb up the metaphoric ladder and you will be able to not only see but have your personal not communal connection to God.
If you can connect these dots you will discover that even God directly depends on you to perform God’s spiritual work. Discovering that should make you gain some self-respect from yourself to be comfortable especially in your skin.
Nations and religions as ruling authorities can not let this happen because if you feel weak and vulnerable you will seek and become dependent on the community. Your loyalties to nation and religions as your rocks would be unquestionable. That co-dependency is related to pure politics of power but exclusively for the group. This spiritual injustice has not been looked at critically because the common thinking is that if an individual gets stronger the group will lose its powers and fall apart so for the others individual or individual rights are sacrificed.
Politically it may be acceptable and correct but spiritually an injustice is an injustice whether it is between groups or between a group or an individual. If you have injustice it is not spiritual, if it’s not spiritual it is political. Politics belongs to human beings animal side so it connects them to their insecurities related group strength and our spiritual side connect us directly even individually with God. It’s not about loving or being obedient to God, its all about being fair to God and yourself simultaneously. We need using all our abilities by recognizing what we are made off. Recognizing being a human being is a task for the individual to be a CEO yet the politics of belonging groups usually calls for an individual to be controlled and stick to their agendas.
Our groups are political so regardless of nationalism or religion, they are all tainted with hidden political agendas. That is why in traditional religions even God is not reachable directly by the individual, we are told to be clean even before prayers as if we are not worthy of God. To me, if God can’t help God’s people without the help of human individual there should be equal respect for the human individual as well. Why organized religions have to have middlemen and no direct connection for the human individual? That makes it look like a kingdom a commoner can’t meet the king himself so someone has to talk on their behalf.
Politics of groups taints spirituality so religions can’t be pure that is why they just can’t get rid of prejudice and discrimination even they claim religion is a path to God. That prejudice and discrimination not only set them up against other groups it sets them up against each other as well. When it comes to religions somehow human beings become very passionate so having prejudice and discrimination in the foundation yet with the passion can be deadly and it can be seen in the religious disputes all over history. In Christianity and Islam sects have been killing each other for hundreds or even thousands of years. Even they happen to belong to the same religions and when it comes to opposing religions this can and does go on indefinitely.
If you are told to believe that God is for some and not for the others, in straight forward or without the politically tainted words you are told God is not for all. That means according to our exclusive religions God is not a spiritual entity so it makes God a political entity. When and if the individual achieves enough knowledge to sort out politics and spirituality they will enter the most logical yet real spiritual paradigm to see the reality of our politically tainted religions. Only then we would be able to clean our religions from the politics of prejudice and discrimination.
Individual weakness and community strength go hand in hand and play a crucial role in the promotions of prejudice and discrimination. Our humanity has been and is divided, not only in race, gender and religions it has hundreds of nations and they have their divisions and so on and it is all related to our politics of security period. Is it in the name of peace? Each and every one of us should ask this question to ourselves before looking for the path to God because when we mix our political differences and God it just can’t be peaceful. It has not taken us to that place for the last two thousand years where humanity should be by now and the way things are around the world may not happen for another two thousand years.
Sure we need politics for our communities but our reality is our evolution and we should evolve beyond our community mentality. It can happen if we start to look for a spiritual path instead of a political one. To educate and arm ourselves with spirituality related hope and optimism so we can go through life’s ups and downs without falling apart. A weak and vulnerable individual will seek security in group settings like nations and religions and that is why humanity can’t get together yet, in reality, there is no security for us mortals, so we need to find strength by reaching out for spirituality.
Our political religions do start with spirituality based education but end up teaching us arrogance related politics of ignorance, prejudice, and discrimination. That is why they preach about God being almighty and human individual as a valueless or born sinner, they preach it is mankind who needs God, not God needs human beings. They neglect to preach the real self-esteem boosting reality, and yes God needs the human individuals just like our body needs our cells to function and live God lives within humanity. As a human individual, it may seem that we are insignificant but our body starts with cells and ends up in death because cells can’t replicate anymore.
This clap can’t make any sound if spirituality and physicality do not merge. The relationship between God and human individual is above and beyond all and any man-made political governing systems. Spirituality related sound is not possible or even meaningful without taking a physical form and human individual is that link or physical form. If you make that meaningless, the whole belief system would collapse. Religious beliefs are standing on shaky ground but human individual’s insecurities and desire to control, keep stoking that fire of insecurity regardless of logic.
Prayers, fasting, and charitable giving are physical forms of spiritual intoxication to feel good. What does it do for others is the question? Do you do it to fit in, impress or want to be admired? If so that means you think God can be fooled? Yet you are making fool of yourself because by looking within you will find God, so you can’t be separated.
Your actions and all your sacrifice are under the influence of the politics of a sense of belonging. You may think or are taught that God is an entity living somewhere outside of you. Now ask yourself how does God know your deep secrets? The answer would come to you because God resides within you otherwise feelings of guilt would not exist for human beings. It’s you who is looking at you with Godly eyes and trust me you would not want to be torn apart from within. Live with Godly eyes on you so you can self regulate and live a guilt-free life. So self-regulation is in order for you. If you can self regulate you would not need philosophy of carrot and stick, if you have reached this far you don’t have to have greed of heaven or fear of hell or God.
Our religions took a path to guide human beings as just the spiritual entity and have been trying to kill that animal side of us just to fail measurably. You as an individual are a human being so living as a human being is right for you so instead of trying to kill your animal side try to make deals with your animal side to create inner peace. Being torn apart is not a good place to be. This the battle you can’t win because it had not happened in millions of years regardless of all the strict rules or our religious carrot and stick philosophy. Our animal side can be very strong because it has its legitimacy. If not dealt with respect you can individually and personally suffer.
This is the clap of spirituality and physicality I am talking about and if you want to be at peace from within you have to understand, your animal side, above and beyond what your religion says. Your peaceful living is more important to you than your preacher thinks so.
As I said your animal side holds very important cards but it can’t live without the spiritual side. Spirit can’t live without a physical home and that card is held by the animal side. For human beings, it is not one or the other it is the balance of both. That is what keeps the human being and God means to each other and the world goes around for you until the end of your days. What happens to you after death is any one’s guess so become a CEO to understand your nature and be responsible like a human being not as a spirit nor like an animal. One thing is clear that in order to make spiritual thought a reality you have to be living and breathing physically. What are you going to do in heaven or hell? It would be an assumption so arguing, fighting or killing over it would be absolutely wrong.
It can’t happen if you personally and individually are unable to think about your value. If you understand that in the depth of your heart and soul that you are part of God almighty, you will develop strength of the spiritual side to balance everything to build your charter as well. Not only you would not be hiding behind God and Devil for your shortcomings. You will be able to challenge the politics of your sense of belonging to your belonging groups with your free will and personal sense of justice to be comfortable in your mortal skin.
Being unable to look beyond the politics of your sense of belonging is possible only if you develop your sense of being, who is independent with a Godly free will not because of people around but by Godly nature. If you keep digging within, you will be able to meet the human CEO who’s umbilical cord has been cut at birth. A clear sign of us to be free and independent right from the birth so to be an independent entity who has brought along free will, personal sense of justice and compassion from before birth.
Use these gifts during your living yet mortal years, if you understand your duties of reciprocation you can’t go wrong. Heaven and hell is related to the carrot and sticks philosophy and you are a human being with the ability to self regulate. Religion or not you can be a good person for God, people and yes even for yourself.
(Read Love triangle) A long time ago I wrote about this animal and spiritual side as the core of the love triangle. The love triangle was divided into three corners. Passionate love, instinctive love, and universal love. If you divide it into three equal parts a triangle emerges in the center which has to be divided into two and those two sides of you make all the noise of this clap. I can call it animal and spirit in the core. We all are a product of love and are encased with the love of our belonging people when we come to life. Anyway today it is the center of that triangle we are talking about. Spirit and animal side are an integral part of the human individual’s life. Both are sacred and make the sound of a spiritual and physical clap.
We have had it wrong all along because we have been blaming, trying to control and even killing our animal side without realizing its importance. If it’s not there, its complete silence, it’s impotent and dead or not living and a living breathing human needs a physical body.
God, spirituality even humanity needs to be physical to have meanings. If a human does not act physically to make things happen humanity and God’s work comes to screeching halt.
Imagine an aged body, if there is no new cell reproduction yet there are constant degeneration and cell death, what would the future hold for that body. It is kind of inevitable and we all understand our mortality. Our towns become ghost towns without people and everything loses its value, just like our body can’t go on without new cells so respect should be at cellular level.
Now get this straight physical is just as important as spiritual so choosing or even preaching about life after death is questionably political. Religion or not scientific reality or not, living years of human individuals are the most important not only for the individual but for God and humanity as well.
Religious people preach submission and believe that God and Devil are doing everything. Unfortunately or fortunately as human beings we are the one who is dealt with the physical body which puts life into the actions of God and Devil. That means without the human individual’s input both God and Devil become impotent and useless because there is no physicality.
Human beings have the body to create realities of good and bad so it comes with the responsibilities because we have been blessed with free will. That is where we choose to act and our action can be judged as good and bad by us so being good means you are a Godly individual. If you happen to choose Devilish action still you are responsible because you choose with your free will. If you say God or Devil made me do it you are not only just undermining your free will, in today’s court system you would be considered insane.
Sure we have a physical body with its needs so spirituality alone does not cut it. In order to live, we have to eat, and in the process, we have to even kill other animals to survive. To some, it may be wrong and animal behavior related so they would like to evolve and kill the animal within, but the reality is. All our spiritual actions are related to our full stomach. Going all out an animal or all-out spiritual or total silence is not for human beings.
We have examples set by the religious leaders and we all try to follow to become just like them. Trouble is that they preach about killing the animal inside to become an evolved one but an ordinary individual falls short of meditating or finding God in the cave for forty years or become like Buddha.
To me, if you seek total silence it may be good for you individually but for the general population its an empty sheet. Meaning we all have a sheet with the music written on it with a musical note followed by the empty space. If you don’t speak when it is your turn you come and go with a blank sheet and as a human being we can’t do that. Since you add physicality and speak to create that meaningful music for the soul you have to live according to your provided sheet. Seeking total silence is not for you because God did not mean it for you. Your job is to speak when there is a note and stay silent when there is an empty space.
Voice of your life is needed to create the sound of the spiritual clap to keep the world going. You are here to reciprocate and your reciprocation is your practical prayers. Meaning physically working and reproducing so the body of God carries on living. Does that mean I believe our prophets were wrong? Not at all they have helped us to evolve from a barbaric animal to a social being of today, their job may be done but as an individual, ours is not done. They did bring us to this level and now its our duty and responsibility to carry on evolving to the next level. That next level , unfortunately, is not to go back and seek what they have preached. The next level is to understand the need to live in this era where equal human rights, global warming, internet, space exploration, stem cell to medical, to emotional well being and technological advancements etc are facts of our living today.
Today we need to cross the boundaries related to the politics of our sense of belonging meaning we have to overcome our prejudiced and discrimination and join humanity as a whole. The balance between spirit and animal side is our personal issue so creating balance is the wisdom we need. Otherwise, ,if we stay quite someone else will be pulling our strings and that would be totally political not spiritual.
Human trouble is the extreme, if our leaders would have put themselves in ordinary individual’s shoes instead of making them to fit into theirs we would not have so many torn people who reach for extreme.
If you look at pedophilia and priests scandals I would blame religious extreme, attempted and committed by the ordinary but torn individuals. There comes blaming the Devil to remove personal shortcomings and lack of individual responsibilities.
Religion or no religion individually we need to know our rights and wrongs. Interestingly our wrongs can become rights and our rights can become wrongs as humanity evolves. Examples are all around us from gay marriage to equal human rights to blood transfusion to stem cell research to cloning and everything in between are a few to mention.
Are you fully devoted to spreading equal human rights in all humanity? If not you are seeking answers from the past for the present issues. Remember if you keep looking back you will run into something not pleasant. Prejudice and discrimination are in the foundation of our past ways of living and yes even our religions could not be immune from the politics regardless of their preaching of spirituality. If you are questioning yourself but are still following your religious traditions and customs and somewhat believe being superior by being into that religion. You still have work to do to evolve. Try to follow only the basics of spirituality by not doing to someone what you don’t like done to you or your loved ones. Try to fit in other shoes instead of telling everyone else to fit into yours.
If your preacher preaches that you as an individual can’t go or reach God without the help of your mullah, priest or rabbi they have chosen the path of prejudice and discrimination. Not only against the nonbelievers but against even the people born into the same religion. If prejudice and discrimination are in the foundation of nationalism and religion they simply would be against equal human rights.
Any ism, democracy, religion or way of governing will be political if it is treating people differently. In politics, it can be acceptable, tolerable encouraged and preached but it is a spiritual crime to even think or feel superior.
We all come in life the same way without any control to be born into any group. We live the same way, eat, get sick and die the same way. If your belonging group believes and preaches that they are better because of their beliefs and whatever they are doing it is from God and is spiritual then why everything is the same as human beings like others, other than the thinking.
From physicality, and spirituality in the core to genetic makeup to the real God-given identity, it is all the same for all human beings. Our given identities like name, last name, gender, color, place of birth, community, nation, religion even education are heavily used but our real identity of being a human should be the one on top of the list.
At the beginning and the end of the day we get and lose our identity with birth and death, so its all about living days. Regardless of being wrapped up with the education of prejudice and discrimination its still our individual duty to evolve and ask why?
You being prejudiced or discriminatory is not the fault of politics of sense of belonging or belonging group. It is all you because you have come to your living years and brought your free will and personal sense of justice along. Sure you can not be responsible for your actions as a child but as you become an adult and don’t use your free will because of the politics of your sense of belonging. You are at fault and are responsible for your actions and even thoughts you process and bring to reality.
Politics or not religion or not its an individual responsibility to live this life as a human being. Not as a pure animal nor as a pure spiritual entity but just as a human being. Who evolves with time, is flexible, is compassionate, is forgiving and sacrificing for all including for self.
You need to be knowledgeable enough to question and choose when mass dictates how you live your life. If you want to create balance reach for the two spiritual rules I mentioned earlier before acting on your taught knowledge to make it a reality.