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From the fear of being reincarnated as an inferior form of life like a rat or a bug, to burning in hell or punished in the grave have been used by the different schools of thoughts but with the same intentions. Fasting, giving money or sacrificing have been the acts of the individual to secure a spot in the heaven. It works great but it is all related with the carrot and stick philosophy, thus it is fear and greed based worshiping. If you look at the reasons of this philosophy, they all suggest to the individual to live in restraint and be good for the society. The motive and the intentions are good but the philosophy itself is fear based, thus it is not fit for the spirituality where there is no room for the politics. If you want something to say, say it straight, if you can’t or don’t because of the outcome, you are using politics.
As the individual evolves he/she starts to ask questions and stray, legally and ethically he/she should not be forced to obey the rules of religions because religion is faith based. There was a time when law of the land was it, but these days the world has shrunk everything is out there within seconds, there are always people whom follow the justice systems of the nations which often find itself at odds with the religious rules. Human rights have been prevailing in the supreme courts all over the world above and beyond the religious rules.
As the number of questioning and challenging people rises that angers the extremists of all religions, thus this is, one of the main reasons, why we are going through such a turmoil in the world. The believers usually put down such behavior and claim that everyone is going to hell because of the sins, yet themselves are willing to go as far as killing innocents, which in my opinion, is an ultimate spiritual crime because of the love loss. When someone robs someone of love, it has the pain which is beyond the surface and since God lives through us killing someone would be robing God of cells as well so that are the reasons why I call it a spiritual crime.
Since there has never been and still so far is not proven with the evidence, what happens after we die or before we are born, everything solely depends on the belief systems of the belonging groups. Since belief system starts when the human intellect fails, its importance can’t be denied, but still it means we don’t really know, so this don’t really know should not be a foundation to kill some one or even punish some one who challenges or questions the belief systems.
Human intellect and belief systems are two powerful facts and they often collide, passionate people go to the length to remove the com from the passion which I believe is the foundation of all the religious beliefs and much bigger part of the spirituality. I don’t disregard anyone’s belief system until someone is ready to kill or die over it, I feel I have to create a reasonable doubt to make my case against the extreme. I want to point out that God, grave, reincarnation, hell or heaven are not the physical realities but when you kill an other human being over it, it causes pain and sufferings to someone who’s love you have robbed, is a physical reality. This reality is an individually controllable action thus robing someone of love whether it be out of revenge or for the strong sense of belonging either way it is an individual action thus the individual personally can control it and choose not to commit spiritual crime on the name of their religions and nations.
A reason or the purpose of the belief system is and should be to benefit the individual and the society simultaneously, when it becomes harmful in any way to anyone, it is the individual’s duty to rectify the problems of the belief system by becoming a CEO of his/her mortal life. The knowledge of the mortality can and does have the potential to rob quality of one’s life yet it should be the other way around so every moment of the mortal life should be lived as a precious visit for self and respected for the others.
If you let the fears related control take over, you personally rob your own happiness thus quality of the temporary experience. Religions try to sooth and comfort the individual’s fears of mortality by giving hopeful scenarios like heaven, but in the same breath, they try to keep you in control by scaring you about the hell as well. This carrot and stick is a philosophy which does not sound kosher or spiritual to me because it stinks like politics, and in the spiritual world there is no politics, its nothing but the truth. The concept of heaven and hell has the potential to make one live in fear and stress. They want to use the individual to be subservient in living years so he/she can be controlled. If God wanted to control, number one we would not have free will, two our oxygen supply would be terminated the moment we strayed. Since this not the case and to boot we are even given a free will thus individual knowledge dictates how one should live, and if you believe in God and does that belief system make you live a better life or makes you a better person? How do you measure yourself that you are a good person? It will always come to the people around you if you service the humanity over the belonging group then and only then you are talking God otherwise you are using the knowledge which is tainted with the sense of belonging which makes even your God different than others. Do you really think God is for some and not for the others, if you do you need to become a CEO of your life so you can see beyond the political boundaries created by your belonging groups to keep you as a sheep.
The whole concept of hell and heaven is and should be to live this life better, now what is better? It may vary in different groups of humanity because of the popular politics yet it is highly individual, you can be happy living selfishly or unselfishly but both of these are extremes. Extreme is and can be harmful to the individual and society, there is s deeper satisfaction and happiness, which I call a spiritual happiness and you can only attain it, if you understand the importance of reciprocation. This reciprocation is not a chore nor its fear based politically charged religious duty. Each and everyone of us is alive, not because of personal efforts alone, so we are all blessed to physically experience God’s bounties thus we are responsible to reciprocate. Since God is having a physical experience living through us as well, so doing something for the humanity out of fear of hell or the greed of heaven is plain wrong for the individual because God is right with him/her every step of the way. This can help the individual to have a good self-esteem and respect for self because he/she is directly connected to God. Understanding your standing in the bigger picture can help to understand the importance of reciprocation.
God is not just to be worshiped, God needs to be nurtured and helped so our prayers can be fulfilled and that can only happen when the human individual reciprocate it as a duty. Its like a tax you pay, it is not an ethical or moral issue, its a real business of give and take.
If you are working to pay the bills, raise children or just even bare children you are reciprocating. The example of a ghost town comes to mind. If a town has a job for the individual, he/she will live there to keep the town alive, otherwise regardless of the buildings, roads and all the installations, there is no value for the individual to stay, so it becomes a ghost town. If you look for the examples they are allover the world the reasons may not be the same but one thing is common for sure, and it is the individual one person at a time, if the individual decides to leave, even God can collapse. It all comes down to understanding reciprocation, the standing and importance of the individual in the triangle. You can worship, bow down and bang your head all you want without your practical reciprocation your are not doing or pulling your share of the load. Its like a cart which has two wheels if one is rolling but the other one is stuck when pulled cart goes in the circles and unfortunately that is what I see regardless of our progress emotionally we are still the beasts. just look around, you will know what I am talking about.
If you feel you are not getting spiritual fulfillment out of your religion or the sects of it, you don’t have to change your religion or the sect of your religions, because they would all be the same for you, unless you choose to change and understand reciprocation as a duty and or a purpose of your life without the fear of hell or greed of heaven. As an individual you are it, you are the big kahuna, you are the CEO who calls the shots, but after you have taken the breath of oxygen provided to you by the unknown you can call God.
Cell connection to the body and with each other require the individual to become wise enough to be able to balance. It is not one or the other, its the combination which is called by the nature. Cell connection with each other is strongly related with the chemicals or I should say hormones by the nature. There may be more to learn about our behavior and hormones, but when it comes to the connection to the body as a whole I call it soul connection. If you reduce yourself to just the physicality alone, you are disregarding spiritual side of the human being. Interestingly you just can’t pick spirituality alone either, as an individual you have to zigzag through both sides.You have love the other cell to reproduce, thus you help God to carry on experience physical life, and God helps you to be spiritual.
There is a powerful physical pull, which relates with the emotions and these emotions are related with the hormones. If we are not drawn towards each other, there would be a flaw in our make up, so naturally there is a powerful nature behind our attraction. If you ignore the nature or the spirituality and try to live on sheer intellect you will face the imbalance related physical, emotional and spiritual problems.
Personally I believe this powerful attraction is beyond the world of human intellect and that is the order, we as human beings and the other creatures follow regardless of our intellect. That’s why there are people running around to find a mate even if they live their life with so much intellect that they fear to even get in the relationship yet become ill. My understanding is that the order is from with in, to love, so the reproduction of the cells go on to make God exist. We are just under the impression that we have a choice, regardless of our sense of belonging related wars and social power disputes, human population even mixed human population keeps growing. Love is not just a physical emotion it is an order by our nature, thus I believe it is spiritual as well, you can choose not to follow but your happiness and health is connected to it. We may have to evolve to the next level of healing to understand the power of this medicine. Remember I just mention that we are the CEO and as a CEO it is our duty to individually live this mortal life with balance and attend all the departments so disregarding this department out of fear may have big loss and regrets for you later in life, not experiencing love of children and family is a loss, and robing someone of that love is a crime in all the human courts as well as a spiritual crime.
Since love is the powerful emotion behind the reasons why we are drawn to each other and loving an other cell of the body is not just a chemical reaction, it is a spiritual order as well. Main stream political religions don’t buy that because they are the victims of the powerful politics of control. Since there is no reproduction in homosexual relationships most religions are against the homosexuality but these days even pope has been changing his tune to bow down to the force of the equal human rights which I think is political. Homosexuality did God do it, if yes why?
We need to evolve above and beyond our traditional and conventional wisdom and see each and everyone’s importance and usefulness in living years. Ultimately a functioning individual is needed to run God’s affairs, we should worry more about the infectious diseases like Ebola and Zikka and our political wars, they have the potential to kill by the millions so they are more dangerous to humanity than someone who is reciprocating but not in conventional ways.You can fear and stress about the wrong or you can believe with hope and optimism and remember the real wisdom of God is in the progress with the free will. The extreme of any belief system is wrong and yes even if it is good. Don’t even take my words as written in the stone even if they make perfect sense to you today, they may change as we evolve, just use them until they are useful and beneficial to you.
We have to do the best with our evolving knowledge, going to extreme, kill and get killed over an evolving knowledge is like believing that you know everything there is to know. If we are learning new things all the time, human knowledge is not and I mean not completely done yet, and yes even if it is the religious knowledge, as long as you don’t take com out of compassion you are doing good, because all the religions preach compassion as a foundational social theme. Living in an imperfect world helps us to reach for the solutions to solve our problems and hardship by evolving, fighting over who is right even robs a loving couple and families never mind the religious and political wars.
You can choose to limit and falsely feel secure in a loving relationship with an other cell or get lost and surrender to the whole body but both would be extremes. For instance picking a tree in the forest to make life smaller or choosing the whole forest for your personal consumption is a choice. Since its always a matter of security, you have to believe in the forest, or be part of the whole humanity, or being a cell of God because if you choose the other individual he/she is just as vulnerable as yourself. This can just accelerate the insecurities and control related problems. From personal relationship problems to all the way to our wars, our behaviors have one reason, and that is trying to secure ourselves with the insecure individual or a group of people whom are just as insecure as yourself.
Picture a tree which has fallen by the storm, you jump on the trunk and start to walk towards all the branches, soon you will find yourself standing on a cross road. Life is just like that, if you are insecure you will try to walk on the path which is already carved and safe but if you are born as a path carver you will not hesitate to carve new path for the others. Trends, friends and family would want you to choose what they think is right for you, if you want to fit in, impress others, and be admired by the belonging society you would ignore the dotted picture of your personal life. (Read dotted picture). If you ignore your personal dotted picture you eventually would ignore your happiness and contentment of your mortal life thus choose to spend a mortal life as immortal which is a big mistake.