Before we discuss becoming the CEO of your life, let’s consider the triangle of a sense of belonging and a sense of freedom. If we exclusively choose either the sense of freedom or the sense of belonging, we end up at extremes. It’s not one or the other; it’s about balancing the two. Remember, if you choose one over the other, the pendulum can swing you to the opposite direction, where you don’t want to be. If you resist this, you might be torn apart emotionally or become so stressed that you lose your health in various ways.
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Sense of freedom Sense of belonging
To balance these two powerful human senses, you must become the CEO of your life, managing your own show. Otherwise, your belonging groups will call the shots, dictating how you should think and live. If you comply without questioning, believing they know better than you, you fall into a trap of insignificance, inadequacy, and meaninglessness. Worse, you may feel like a born sinner. They succeed in robbing your self-esteem, making you act against your genetic makeup. This can rob you of your own happiness and contentment. As mortals, we cannot afford this because the most crucial aspect of being mortal is to be happy and content. If your nature calls for you to be a free spirit, but the politics of your sense of belonging overrides this, you end up in internal conflict. This is not a healthy place, especially for a mortal.
Belonging groups have always discouraged individual strength because an educated individual is difficult to control. In some conservative societies, questioning authorities, especially religious ones, is still punishable. Your ability to question is suppressed due to governing politics, which goes against nature’s call.
This has nothing to do with God and the Devil. We must learn to use our free will to balance everything in life to survive hostile situations. At the end of the day, we bear the responsibility for our actions. Committing spiritual crimes in the name of belonging groups or religions still falls on our individual shoulders because we must live with the external and internal consequences.
When you ask yourself who and what you are, the straightforward answer is that you are the third equation, equal to God and the Devil. Nothing takes physical form unless you put your effort into it. God can do good with your help, and the Devil cannot do bad without your assistance. My question to you is, how many times have you seen God perform a miracle for you, or the Devil come to you exclusively and cause harm without human intervention? Don’t think about movies and their special effects when answering this.
If scientists say you evolved from monkeys, ask why monkeys are still around and why they didn’t evolve with you. Physically, there might not be much difference, but the differences we have are unbelievable. How many monkeys can do what a human child can, from talking to solving problems? I saw a video of a toddler who threw pillows on the floor to make his landing soft. This little difference shows the ability to think, plan, and achieve. Remember the title of this blog, “The Atom of Autonomy.” That’s the difference between monkeys and humans. Sure, evolution is happening for us all, but not without the differences we brought from our unknowns. Whether you believe it’s from God or not, I think that atom of autonomy is a God particle we all carry within. If you’re not aware, you’re used to seeing yourself as just a physical entity. I believe we have an equally strong spiritual side that came with us before birth.
Did we take a physical form of a primate, or did we evolve from monkeys enough to understand our godly nature? If that’s not true, why aren’t miracles from God happening all the time? Why is human physicality required for all good and bad to happen?
Did God create the world, its residents, the universe, and galaxies? Or did our awareness of God evolve with us and become part of humanity? Or was it always there, and we became aware by exploring our brain’s capacity, just like muscles grow with use, to see what we are capable of.
If we don’t know, what is wrong with accepting the unknown? Why do we kill each other over assumptions or what we don’t know? If we don’t know what was or what will be tomorrow, why do our assumptions become our facts? The answer lies in our loyalties to the politics of our belonging groups and the politics of our sense of belonging.
Ask why we have an evolutionary nature and why some resist while others explore. Who is right in following God’s will, the explorers or the obedient? I believe evolution is in our genes, so anything we brought with us in our nature is godly. Everything else is created by humans for political purposes, whether out of love or control.
What is God to you as a mortal individual? Why do some human groups give all the power to God, even if God needs your help to perform good deeds physically? Where do you think you stand in the larger scheme of life as a human individual?
You are an entity who converts spirituality into physical actions, so have some respect for yourself. You bring free will, the ability to evolve, a personal sense of justice, compassion, and the ability to sacrifice and love one another. These are ingrained in us from before birth, so why do you still feel inferior, insignificant, or sinful? This means you are a spiritual entity before you take physical form. Your troubles start with politically tainted installed knowledge.
By now, you understand being a CEO of your life and have learned about the flipped triangle. You have learned about the powerful politics of your sense of belonging and have become aware of your sense of freedom. Now you need to understand why we become raging monsters when our love is robbed.
Becoming aware of the rules, traditions, customs, and rituals of our belonging groups, like nations and religions, is crucial to functioning peacefully within society. Remember, there is a world within you where it matters what you do and how you act outwardly. Everything has its consequences, and as mortals, we must be careful with our choices, whether for ourselves or our belonging group.
Our conflicts have nothing to do with the spiritual side of our religions. There is no spirituality in killing each other in the name of religion, even if it is called for by religious leaders. It is all about the politics of a sense of belonging, power over others, revenge for love loss, or plain and simple territorial disputes.
Love loss is a significant cause of our conflicts. Contributing to the fire of hatred and killings has nothing to do with the spiritual side of humanity. It won’t stop with political or religious leaders because they fuel our passionate religious wars. It has to come from individuals, from the bottom up, not the top down. If each of us starts questioning the politics of our belonging groups and stops feeding the conflicts with personal emotional fire, there is a chance for peace. But before that happens, the individual has to evolve to be a computer runner instead of believing they are just the data or the computer itself.
Every one of us is born as a computer runner with the gift of a brand new computer. Our families, communities, nations, and religions start to install data in us as our education and expect us to take the identity of that installed data. For instance, if you are born as a Sikh, the elders want you to grow a beard, not cut your hair, and become a Sikh. If you are born into a Muslim family, you are expected to go to the mosque, pray five times a day, believe in God and Prophet Mohammad, and follow everything said fifteen hundred years ago. If you are born Christian, you are taught you are a born sinner and told to believe in Jesus as the son of God and follow what he said two thousand years ago. If you are born into an atheist family, you are taught there is no God, and having a belief system is foolish. This is all education, and for an evolving human being, education is nothing more than data and not a real identity.
The real identity is not even the computer itself, even if it is your body. It’s just a physical body and brain, like today’s smart car that can run itself but is still your car. Even if you say, “I love my car,” can you say that car is your real identity? In reality, the person who gets a name right after birth is the computer runner. This human being who lives in a physical body, accepts knowledge as data, is more than the computer and the data combined. This spiritual entity that takes physical form at birth can be called a human being.
The question is, what is that spiritual entity? As an individual with a single body that has limitations and mortality attached from birth, we don’t feel strong and able, so we gather together and feel strength in numbers.
Our logic is twisted by our politics of a sense of belonging to groups. Yet it is one whole big entity or organism that you can call God, source, or even humanity as a whole. Depending on how you look at God, your expectations and how high you place God in your life, your actions can be tainted with the knowledge you received, especially if it was installed at a tender age when you looked at your elders with childlike disabilities and accepted it as the ultimate truth. That is why religions and armed forces seek people of a certain age. Today, it is a crime to have child soldiers.
Just as our cells die and are produced in our body, we as individuals go through the same process to become part of the body of God. That is the real identity of the entity. When, why, and how did the individual lose that identity and become part of a group instead of humanity?
If you can leave your sense of belonging to a group and join humanity as a whole, you can easily feel the connection and understand who and what you are meant to be. But being part of a group limits you as an entity.
Human knowledge is evolving until we reach our potential. Science will give you answers about nature, and the spiritual side of us will give us happiness and satisfaction. Using either one of them exclusively, you miss out on a great deal. You need both. So if someone tells you religion is the only way, ask them if they take medicine or go to a doctor when they are ill. If someone tells you they don’t believe in religion, ask why they are passionate and loyal to a certain group.
Don’t let knowledge divide you. What you are, who you are, what your limitations are, and where you stand on your individual ground are vital to your happiness, growth, and evolution. The individuals who were born before you as adults and who came after you as children are all equals. Your teachers should always be questioned, so don’t take anyone’s word as gospel. Those before you did the same thing to their ancestors. We need to evolve further to have a more mature perspective.
Being the CEO of your life is a combination of accepting what you are and who you are meant to be. You are both the physical computer and the data installed in it. But more importantly, you are the computer runner who controls both. So be honest with yourself. When you say you believe in God, understand that your belief was built on data installed in you by your belonging groups. You are not just the data or the computer. You are beyond all that, so be respectful to yourself and see what you have done to yourself and others. Being happy and content is your right. Do what is needed to reach your true identity.