INTELLECTUALIZING THE SPIRITUALITY

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Everybody ends up in the zone of assumptions when people try to intellectualize God, thus I would try to make sense of the things we do. One thing is driving me to write is the injustice to the innocent human individuals sufferings,  whom get caught in the conflicts of their belonging groups thus pay the ultimate price to be part of the certain group by birth not by choice. That leaves them to have no say in being labeled to their belonging groups even if they don’t agree what their belonging group is standing for.

Every society has people live with vast differences of opinions but when it comes to conflicts bombs fall on everyone regardless of guilt. It means the politics of the groups over ride the individuals, I fundamentally disagree, where are the human rights we preach so passionately about.This innocent life loss and sufferings, is driving me to complain and blame the world super powers and even united nations. You should not be killed or suffer just because you belong to certain group or have certain color of skin. I here the talk of the carpet bombing or intensifying the killing of the bad people, do you really think everyone who lives in the area where the bad group of people live is bad. This is I call labeling, we came long way from that, yet we still fall back in the mentality of the past civilization, when people fought with the swords. I stand for the innocent life loss whether it be from the terrorist attacks or the bombing, if I can’t stop the world events I can speak against what I think is unjust. Back to the religious extreme and the politics.

When a religious person tries to enforce his/her religion on the others simply and immediately it religion turns into politics. In reality the popularity of the religions has been because of the spiritual component and spirituality does not need to be enforced. If it is then it is politics. Religions have been trying to intellectualize spirituality but in the process people have lost out to the politics of the sense of belonging. If the religion loses the spiritual content then it is nothing more than the political system. Spirituality is spirituality, the best way to intellectualize it to let it help you, let go of the judgments and reap the benefits of it.

A belief system should have the ability to help the individual, not harm. Whenever we try to intellectualize the unknown with our incomplete knowledge, we are bound to fall into assumptions. There is nothing wrong with that until we start to believe in it  passionately, to the point that we are willing to kill and die over it. Then there are people who disregard religions and spirituality altogether that is another version of passionately extreme intellectualization.

The real intellect is to live this temporary life with wisdom that reduces stress not only for the individual but for his/her belonging people as well, so we can put some quality in our living years. If a belief system can help the individual to live this life with hope, love and contentment then why not? Who are we to tell what is right for the others. If we don’t even know what is right for ourselves. Problem is not the belief or disbelief it is the ego, pride and honor born out of the sense of belonging.

If you feel you are right one hundred percent think again and look into your history, we have been killing each other over the right and wrong since the awareness, and before that it was just for the domination. Could it be that we just have the illusions of being intellectual entity, aren’t we doing the same. If that is not the case then why can’t we get rid of our social ills? Our animalistic nature still rules, it is a shame because we still kill and dominate each other, especially when the religions promote the killings and go to wars passionately. We have been trying to kill the animalistic urges for thousands of years but the dominations still goes on, the nature of the beast has not changed regardless of our intellect. It has not worked because we have been denying to understand our nature. We go from one extreme to another just to go in circles.

Our understanding starts with accepting our nature, if we can learn more about our animal side we can actually find an inner peace as an individual and if the individual is at peace from within he/she can spread that peace all around.

Whether God exists or not, who is right, who is wrong, are we going to hell or heaven? These are fundamental questions, and an evolving organism does not have the capacity to understand the whole thing yet. Thus no one should choose extreme, especially if our right and wrong have been changing. We should not assume about being right or wrong. Sure we need to live with some kind of law and order, but our law and order should be subjected to change as we evolve with our higher level of understanding. Our daily living requires intellectual approaches and God and spirituality should be part of it as well even if we  can’t understand everything to intellectualize them, but as an individual we can benefit to  from being spiritual.

Whether you are an atheist or religious  regardless you need spirituality, because you are part of humanity, when it comes to conflicts who is right or wrong, you both are wrong because you both are assuming you are right. All you need is a little spirituality to put things in perspective. If you learn everyday new things, your knowledge is still not complete and if you are arguing, fighting or killing each other, your assumptions and ego is ruling your life. You need to accept a little spirituality in your heart so you can understand yourself better.

If you are religious and an extremist always remember, your fundamental religious teachings, universally the spiritual side of every religion teaches us about the compassion, forgiveness,  sacrifice and love. If you are an atheist, remember the humanity needs your input, you can help others just as well as the religious individual. It’s all about the spirituality and spirituality is not bound by any one ideology, it’s a universal connection just like the internet, you get what you put into it. It’s not about the hell or heaven or after life, it’s about this life on earth while you are alive and reciprocating. This is not a written exam it’s a practical. How you live your life it’s going to be judged not by any external entity but by you because you are attached with God and humanity as a whole, so it does matter how you live this life. Abiding by the law of the land is not enough there is an internal order we don’t really understand yet, so making a counter assumption against an assumption may be driven by the sense of belonging or retaliation, which breeds ego and pride with passion.

You have to learn to be a CEO in order to create balance in not only everyday life, the important stuff like spirituality and science needs balancing for the individual to be able to fit in today’s fast moving and changing life. Getting a balance between science and spirituality becomes a lot easier if the religious extreme and politics have been removed. If God is consisted of us then anything which works to help humanity becomes spirituality. Whether it be a spiritual help for the individual or saving his/her life by the means of science. It’s all spiritual, but a well- established religious leader can label science to the Devil because it is coming from a scientist who proudly claims himself as an atheist. It has been very easy and smart way to live by taking yourself out of the equation and blame the God and the Devil, so be honest with yourself and take your responsibilities because you have been using your free will for everything else, then why not in this area. Be nice and blame whoever is responsible, don’t hide behind the God or the Devil.

A religious individual can judge the scientist as a Devil’s follower , but could be alive him/herself because of the insulin, The actions of the judging and condemning is unspiritual, if there is no complete knowledge about the both sides, both sides are under the influence of strong sense of belonging or the sub levels of it like ego, pride and honor.

The pride religious people feel in being a follower of any one particular organized religion comes from the education of the belonging religion. Just like some people can have a social drink, but some out of them, can become alcoholics, some people can listen to music and say oh that is a good melody but some get up and start to dance depending upon the level of liking. The question is why people have different way of expressing themselves? You can enjoy a smoke or a drink or you can become addicted to the substances, either way you have to know your tolerance to avoid the harms to yourself and others around you. If you can see or feel that your religion has the same effects on you, you need to become a CEO to protect yourself and others from your out of control behaviors.   

How when and where did the rules of prayers and sacrifice come from? Whenever there is a call of gathering, I gather it is coming from the political side of the group. Whether it’s a Sunday or Friday prayers these are the orders of the organized religions. They have nothing to do with spirituality and everything to do with the politics, especially if there is a call for donations and contributions to help out for the management of the large enterprises. Just look around the majestic buildings of all religions they will tell you where did the money go.

If it is collected for the hungry weak and vulnerable and used for the majestic architect monuments, that is down right against the ethics and spirituality. The start of religions were spouse to bring spiritual medicine to the needy instead they turn recruiting to gain more man power, thus to become a political entities and sometime war machines, which has not stopped yet.

Imperialists did it, religions did it, and now modern day governments are doing it, they all make decisions to play the same game. People like me migrate for personal and individual reasons some to run for life, some to escape poverty, and some to find a peaceful place to raise families. The missionary workers travel to help the poor in far lands but the politics of recruiting still goes on.

Man needs, gives and practices spirituality as an individual regardless of any denomination or the religion but the politics of the religions go on and spirituality takes a back seat, yet it should be the other way around.

We have lots of holidays or I should say holy days to celebrate, yet the need for holy days should be to eradicate poverty, hunger and disease from the world. The real spirituality is to do something which is clean and pure of politics of any government, ism or religion. These days with the help of internet and becoming a CEO you can help to help humanity and God, so God can be healthy and strong. A strong man makes God stronger, but the insecurities related to the politics of the man and his belonging group would keep the God weak and sicken with the auto immune disorder like arthritis, we being the cells of God kill each other causing pain to God.

Just like the human cells innately work for the body, we are all programed to work for the humanity. That is spirituality one-o-one, which we bring along as we come to experience this life on earth, this is where I end up in assuming that there is something before life and after death.

Deep inside we all innately know that we are connected to God, this is the reason we try to help others in need and find the real happiness, for instance you can put yourself in a dangerous situation for saving some one’s life, give money, to the charity, feed the poor or take part in volunteering to help out. We see our survival and the continuum of humanity just like our cells are aware of the survival connection between the body and cells.

Live this life as you are in heaven, because living in constant sacrifice mode creates desire and expectation of a perfect life, even if it is promised in after life. Most religions want the individual to be subservient, so they can be controlled. The promised perfect life after death has never been, is or ever will be clear in individual’s living life, so the politics of control behind the promise of a perfect life should be recognized by the individual. Just think from another angle, if you are forever young, eat and drink whatever you want, it would be perfect if that is what you are looking as perfection. As an individual our satisfaction is never the same, if you are the one who is looking for perfection all your life, you have lived your life in future or on the horizon, that means your life would always lack contentment. If you have a habit to seek a perfect life, and you think God will have a perfectly satisfying life after you are dead, aren’t you worried that God is going to ask you the value and the reason of the free will and the real gift of this life you were blessed with. If you choose to live as perfect as you could be, have satisfaction in all kind of circumstances, you create heaven in both lives.

Living this life as in heaven needs some basic understanding.

First of all you have to accept your mortality and form a habit of living in the moment.

Reduce the importance of future and especially the past, because you can’t go back to change anything and the future is not a reality yet and it may not be a reality for you.

Always compare yourself with both sides, better than yourself,  so you can work harder to get better, then with the worse off than you, so you can appreciate your life as it is.

Have a belief system which provides spirituality and hope, so you can think positive regardless of hardship or the  circumstances.

If you feel sorry for yourself, it’s a clear sign of spiritual flaw, because you aren’t able to compare with someone worse off than you.

Being alive should be appreciated, ask anybody who has just survive a near death experience, they can tell you that they can appreciate and look at life differently.

We forget our fragility and mortality because of our attachments and occupation of this life, for instance you want to have control so you can live your life with your plan.

Life can be fulfilling if it’s lived as a tour gift. If you are provided with the opportunity to live at a higher level and you choose not to, it is because of your education, which creates insecurities, so you save and hoard, you sacrifice your present for the unknown fears of future, and these fears are created by the religious people for a reason. There is a business aspect hiding behind their spirituality, it is you who has to put things in perspective. You have to know that if you help others you actually feel good about yourself, but giving money to build the monumental architectural wonders for God is not necessary. If you look for the real God, God does not live there God literally lives in people’s heart as a soul because that is what we carry inside yet we seek allover