What a creature we are! We often fail to understand ourselves individually because the politics of belonging to our groups can blind us to the point where we forget we are human beings. We are each a creature who holds an atom of autonomy—a god-like power to possess a personal sense of justice and decide whether to do good or ill. Examining ourselves critically reveals our progress and potential. Unfortunately, even in team sports, we can lose our personal sense of justice, unable to appreciate or enjoy a good play from an opposing player. If we become so swept away that we commit fouls or spiritual crimes against the opposing team or group, that reflects our individual weakness. We have the choice to use our free will and personal sense of justice to be the humans we are meant to be.
We must understand the power and influence of our political affiliations. Ask yourself why so many of us can’t stand against the wrongs committed by our own groups. If you can’t think for others, at least think for yourself. Be a well-rounded and spiritually evolved human being. To achieve this, you need to acknowledge your power and examine your makeup thoroughly. For instance, you spend most of your time with yourself—don’t you want to know who and what you are? Remember, you have no choice but to live with yourself. Thus, learning to understand yourself and being honest should be a personal quest for all of us, especially knowing that our lives are mortal.
While many prophets, sages, and gurus attempt to clarify what lies beyond or before life, I focus on our physical realities. I don’t venture into speculation; if I’m uncertain about something, I admit it rather than making assumptions. If I discuss the unknown, I refer to it as metaphorical realities. In my view, metaphorical realities should always be secondary to our physical realities. They are our realities but since they can’t be proven like our physical realities, we should refrain from using them as the foundation for our concepts of justice and spirituality.
Unfortunately, we are often hypnotized by the politics of our metaphorical world. Love and religion dominate our discussions, and we are ready to kill and be killed over them, despite lacking physical evidence for thousands of years. Egyptians believed they needed material possessions in the afterlife. Despite our mocking of their beliefs by robbing their tombs, we still cling to similar ideologies. There may be a world beyond our current beliefs, but it’s not the path we walk while alive. The emphasis on life after death is often a means of political control during our lifetime. Logically, life after death is not our ultimate destination since we are relevant only while alive. I prefer to focus on our living years and avoid assumptions about the unknown.
Shouldn’t you question why so much emphasis is placed on what is used to politically control you? Are you questioning everything, or just following blindly? Learning and evolving doesn’t mean you’re done. As human beings, we are constantly growing; even our brains develop new neurons as we learn. There is no cap on our knowledge, despite what we might be taught, especially regarding religion. The divine order of evolution is not tied to race, gender, nation, religion, or any group. Belief in or denial of God is your prerogative, but remember, we are created or evolved simply to learn more—not only to explore our personal potential but beyond ourselves. Since we are independent entities, it’s our responsibility to understand our abilities and potential while acknowledging our mortality.
Knowledge before birth and after death is usually based on metaphorical realities, which are riddled with assumptions and should not be treated as physical realities. Our belonging groups exploit our personal insecurities, manipulating us to make their political agendas seem like our own. We comply because we have been brainwashed by the politics of belonging. This has nothing to do with God. However, in today’s era, individual power has increased. EVERY INDIVIDUAL IS ENTITLED TO BELIEVE WHATEVER THEY WANT, INCLUDING RACISM, BIGOTRY, PREJUDICE, AND DISCRIMINATION. So before you choose, think about who and what you really are.
If you evolve a bit and claim there is no God, it may indicate a decision driven by ego, just as believing in God might. Merging metaphorical and physical realities can create problems, particularly for individuals, because physical reality should always take precedence over metaphorical ones. Understanding your realities is crucial if you want to become an effective leader of your life.
I often use the human body as an analogy for humanity and God. Our body consists of trillions of cells, each serving a purpose. Although they don’t have eyes to see or understanding to grasp the entire body, they have their wisdom. Similarly, we may be more sophisticated but still lack complete understanding. You may not see God, and you might not fully know yourself. All you know is what you’ve been taught by your belonging groups. If you’re learning something, it means you’re not a complete product but a work in progress. Assuming you know everything while still learning would be egotistical. If you don’t fully understand yourself, how can you claim to know everything? You have potential yet to be realized, and knowledge about what existed before your birth or what happens after death is elusive. Other than what we’ve been taught as physical reality, everything is speculative. Thus, I categorize that knowledge as metaphorical reality.
Our politics of belonging not only hinders our evolution but also contributes to violence against one another. While our science, technology, and medicine have advanced, spiritually we remain stuck because our religions have been corrupted by group politics. When we kill each other, even in the name of God, we inflict pain on the divine. If all cells in the body were to die, what would happen to us? Would God matter if we all perished in a nuclear war driven by politics? Our survival is essential for God’s existence. If you don’t even know yourself well, how can you claim to know everything? If someone believes in God but kills others in the name of God, it’s perplexing. On the other hand, people receive life-sustaining oxygen, favorable circumstances, and functioning bodies without their control, yet they deny a connection to God. If we over-intellectualize everything, we risk failing to enjoy our mortality healthily. For instance, if you view life exclusively as a physical journey, you might seek physical comforts while spiritually starving.
Our mortal nature demands a balanced life experience, integrating spirituality and physicality. In the realm of political belonging, achieving balanced living with honest reciprocation is challenging. Exclusively physical life preaches taking without giving, similar to business practices that invest less than they make. This can lead to internal conflicts with our atom of autonomy because of our mortality. We are physically separate but spiritually connected to God through our atom of autonomy. Our nature is to evolve, but that doesn’t mean we know everything with minimal progress. Some focus on physical growth over spiritual, so understanding the power of political influences is crucial, especially with modern weaponry. Science, technology, and medicine have advanced, yet many are taught not to explore religion and God but to accept them blindly. This limits our ability to see ourselves as sources of goodness.
Regarding books considered ultimate human knowledge or claimed to be God’s words, the problem arises when every group claims to have a divinely inspired text. This creates issues because these groups are politically motivated and use religion to further their agendas. The emotional charge from belief systems can lead to violence, with historical evidence of countless deaths in the name of God. Despite our progress, we can’t physically prove the existence of God, leaving it as a metaphorical reality. Metaphorical realities shouldn’t override physical realities like the murder of a human being in the name of religion.
The question of whether to have a strong government or not boils down to individual rights. Religious rights are now on par with scientific rights, so human individual rights must be protected from political or religious override. Justice must be equal; otherwise, it ceases to be justice and becomes political mass control, disconnected from God and spirituality.
Books are streams of knowledge. An individual should decide whether to live by one book or integrate streams of knowledge into their personal ocean of common sense. If your group emphasizes protecting group integrity, recognize it as a political issue. If you discover that following your group’s politics was wrong, it’s too late to change the past, but you can evolve and take charge of your life before committing spiritual or social crimes.
Consider the Pope’s apology to the natives of America. It’s not about what a book says, but how we individually act towards each other based on our beliefs. If all major religious books are God’s words, something is deceiving us into killing each other for political reasons. Spiritually, this can’t be God’s will, as humans are God’s hands. Why would God instruct us to kill each other by providing different books? Spiritual knowledge across books is universally consistent, yet we have been killing each other for thousands of years. It’s time to uncover the real culprit behind our problems: the politics of belonging. Whether based on race, color, gender, nation, or religion, the individual must use their common sense to decide.
Equal human rights should be a fundamental spiritual principle, representing a new religion. Failure to adopt a justice system based on common sense keeps us entrenched in prejudice, bigotry, and discrimination—sacrificing lives over metaphorical realities. While we may not call it human sacrifice, it is. Books are streams of knowledge, and claiming that all human knowledge can fit into one book is miraculous. Different groups believe their sacred texts contain all necessary knowledge, but today’s advancements in science and technology challenge outdated beliefs. For example, refusing blood transfusions today is inconceivable given the lives saved by them. As our knowledge evolves, we must reassess our beliefs and adapt to scientific progress, leaving behind unproven metaphorical realities.
Belief in God doesn’t mean sacrificing others for political or religious reasons. Every individual should examine their own purpose and knowledge without harming others. Although God may be beyond human understanding, our quest for divine truth should be personal and compassionate.
Final Thoughts
Justice should be our guiding principle, not metaphorical realities of life after death. We are not equipped to determine what’s beyond our mortal life, but we can shape our existence with fairness and compassion. Exploring human potential and evolving beyond our political and religious affiliations allows us to honor our humanity and our quest for divine understanding.
Given what is going on in the world, small nations are feeling insecure, much like an individual would. When individuals feel weak and insecure, they seek belonging, which usually comes at a cost. For a freedom lover, it may involve some sort of compromise. Historically, we have experimented with strongmen or kings, then larger armies and powerful empires. As we evolved, we brought in religions, socialism, communism, and democracies. Yet, we are still going back and forth and have not been satisfied with any of our governing systems. Our problem is and will always be individual insecurity, which demands belonging to a stronger entity. Logically, only two effective solutions are available, but not everyone is seeking them: individual strength and uniting humanity as a whole.
Throughout history, people have sought to belong to stronger races, nations, or religions. Interestingly, this has not changed things significantly but has put us in more danger than ever. Since small and weak nations have been overrun by powerful nations, people want to join NATO simply because of insecurity. The question is, why do we still follow the same politics? Belonging to a stronger group remains the same. We want stronger governments when we feel violated or vulnerable, but when we are comfortable, we want freedom, a tax-free life, and weaker governing authorities.
Today, humanity does not need more conflicts or stronger groups, nations, and religions because the stakes are much higher. We need to address what our nature is asking. Global warming and extreme weather-related issues are creating the same insecurity. Infectious diseases like the coronavirus and internet-related crimes suggest humanity should work together. Do you really think the Great Wall of China is effective against today’s issues? With all the biological and nuclear weapons, we don’t need groups fighting each other. The solutions are not in our group politics anymore. Just like joining a larger, more powerful group can’t guarantee us safety against our modern-day problems, joining powerful groups won’t work simply because it remains political and group-oriented. Today should belong to equal human individual rights, not to those with their hands tied behind their backs and shot in the head. We are still entangled in our past brutalities because we are stuck in our past politics of belonging to groups.
Look at the disrespect shown by our sitting members of the Security Council. We have top nations not committing to the international justice system. Russia bombed while a United Nations representative was visiting Ukraine. This is a clear sign of disrespect for an international organization, especially by a permanent member of the Security Council. If we don’t even respect top organizations like the United Nations or international justice, logically, we can’t evolve to the level where we would like to join humanity as a whole. The biggest problem is that even the United Nations has a veto system, which is a clear violation of democratic principles and signifies the politics of belonging to groups. You simply can’t be an international organization if a few nations run the show. Equal human individual rights mean equal human rights. What is so difficult to understand about that?
Educating and preparing people for equal justice may not be easy, but we are human beings—we have always done difficult things. Look where we are today. We have melting pot societies all over the world that speak the truth and legitimacy of one humanity. We are overcoming our differences related to gender, race, color, nationality, and religious beliefs, yet there is still a segment of the population hell-bent on maintaining our differences. That is why I believe in individual education that helps create personal security, allowing for better decision-making.
Sure, we have always done things as groups and nations, but what kind of results have we gotten from it? It’s a shame that humanity can’t count its dead who died in the name of group politics. Remember, today’s weaponry is entirely different. We don’t kill each other with swords, spears, and arrows anymore. Our fields of war are not fields anymore. Just look at Syria and Ukrainian cities. We need to change our allegiance to humanity as a whole, and we need a United Nations with some teeth and an international system of equal justice. You can’t have an organization with a justice system if you can’t enforce it.
To be clear, my views are not for political purposes. Whatever I write is for the purpose of humanity evolving spiritually so we don’t have to deal with mass graves and hands tied behind the back and shot in the head anymore. If our wars have been taking a toll on innocent people, our politics of belonging to groups has to change. Our spiritual matters should be between the individual and God, and politically, it should be between humanity and individuals. Middlemen or subcontractors should pack up and leave so humanity can create peace.
When an individual feels weak and vulnerable, they automatically seek their traditional belonging to groups. When groups feel weak and vulnerable, they seek higher authority like God, religion, greater nations, or organizations like NATO. Unfortunately, we have not evolved enough to provide that kind of security to individuals or smaller groups, so we continue committing spiritual crimes against each other in the name of belonging to groups. Our collective disputes bring individual sufferings and love losses, which become perpetual fuel because they are enraged and blinded by the pain of loss. If an individual gains spiritual strength, they would be able to uphold moral and ethical values. Otherwise, mass graves and war-related atrocities will always be part of being human. Our evolution has to be in balance. You can’t evolve with biological and nuclear weaponry but not emotionally and spiritually.
Interestingly, our religions have been predicting the day of destruction. If we continue on the same path, we are potentially heading toward the same destination. Whether it’s our top organization like the United Nations or down to the individual, we all have to understand that real security, whether individual or collective, is in the unity of humanity as a whole, not as a group. If we understand ourselves individually, we can envision and see everything clearly. We can read everything, whether it’s written in books, in our holy books, or even between the lines of our traditional and communal knowledge. If you start to look at yourself as a fair human being, you would not think exclusively for yourself. In this case, if you don’t like lice in your head, a leech on your skin, or a parasite in your body, how can you think other creatures or even God would like that?
All those who believe in worshiping and praying without practical help to others are not pulling their share. Those who think taking help from others without helping others is good business are not pulling their share either. The bottom line of our life is give and take, or in other words, reciprocation. Since the infrastructure is already there, you can go to your worshiping places like mosques, churches, and temples to feed the hungry or help the needy in physical form. People should get together to help each other because God puts the responsibility of dependents on our physical shoulders. If you don’t fulfill your spiritual duty of reciprocation, just praying, worshiping, getting together, and socializing is nothing but political. If you are worshiping, do it practically. If you can pull your share, let the needy be served. If you think saving your money by cutting help to those who really deserve it is good business, think again because you are as bad as those who don’t believe in practical prayers but go to worship regularly. If everyone did that, how would God’s work get done? Remember, you are the one who converts spirituality into physical actions; otherwise, everything stays suspended in the air. People pray and worship for show, to fit in, impress, or be admired by the belonging group of people. Do it as an honest reciprocation so you can be spiritually fulfilled.
The real benefits of being spiritually fulfilled are during our living years because it takes away the fears of daily living and makes you comfortable in your mortal skin. This is regardless of your belief system or knowledge of mortal nature. You can hope for heaven, but that still belongs to our metaphorical reality. If you reciprocate and live fearlessly, you are creating a physical heaven in your living years.
Remember, no other creature can come close to human beings when it comes to our spirituality. Even our so-called 98% genetically related primate cousins, chimps, don’t make it. That 2% difference puts us in a class of our own; otherwise, by now, they should at least be living in their self-made mud houses. Our 2% not only makes us spiritually aware, but it also puts us in a process of evolution. So, nothing is ever going to be enough for us collectively, and if, as mortal individuals, we don’t pay attention to our personal mortality, we may end up spending all our living time in discontentment. Logically, however short it is, as mortals, we are personally and individually responsible for a satisfied and content life. With that genetic pull, it is highly likely for a human individual to spend their life disregarding their mortality, so potentially spending it in dissatisfaction and discontentment is our individual and personal choice—or I should say, problem.
As an individual, if you are disturbed by the conflicting messages between your common sense-related personal knowledge and your belonging group’s political demands, you have to become a CEO so you can create a balance between the two. You have to look at your limited time, free will, and the power of political belonging without any bias. If you look at yourself as an independent entity with all the blessed abilities, you will have the power to change your personal opinions. Otherwise, you may end up spending life as a genetically programmed creature. Let’s look at it this way: if the world and the universe were always there for you, looking, seeing, and understanding has nothing to do with the things around but what you carry within matters the most. For instance, if everything is functioning, we can use our brain and body with all their abilities. If, for whatever reason, our brain does not function as it should, yet we are still alive, that means things literally will fall apart for us individually. Concepts of our living years, life after death, and even metaphoric realities like God and love can collapse. So it’s not what is out there, even in our metaphoric world beyond the cliff of faith, but rather what is within us. Remember, as human beings, life is mostly about our living years because we need our metaphoric realities to realize our full potential. The concept of the afterlife has its importance because we attain hope, among other important things, to utilize within our living years. Since hope is one of our metaphoric realities, just like God and love, to benefit us in our living years, we should look at it as such. So remember not to commit spiritual or even social crimes over it. Most crimes, directly or indirectly, are committed in the form of physical realities, like against other human individuals. When it comes to hope, that means you are simply hoping but are not sure, like a physical reality. One human reality is that you are always in the court of your own autonomy, so you are still responsible for your actions. You can’t kill someone because you were hoping to go to heaven after you die. Life is not about what happens after you die but rather how you live and get to the cliff of faith. If you look at religious paths and their related education critically, you will discover that most of their rules are designed to keep you in line while you are alive. The condition is that you will have to look at them logically.
Sure, we don’t individually grow wings or horns as a sign of evolution, but our evolution shows up in our knowledge. We can grow physically, emotionally, and spiritually, which helps us to overcome our physical urges, meaning we can use our free will and think to become spiritually aware creatures who know all the good things related to our spiritual side. For instance, we are capable of having compassion, forgiveness, and sacrifice and even are able to die for our loved ones. Becoming spiritually stronger is easier said than done, especially when someone robs you of your love. Raging animal instincts break through the spiritual shell grown over the years, so we are ready to kill and get killed. Human beings have been living in a world of conflicts where love is robbed as a fashionable tradition, most of the time for political belonging. Since each and every one of us is able to think with free will, but not everyone does, conflicts are bound to happen. Now the question is, how can we overcome our animalistic urges to kill each other? By now, we should have evolved enough to understand that robbing love can trigger something in all of us equally. Our evolutionary progress, and even our related spiritual progress, gets blown to bits when one gets hurt emotionally. So why do we still do that? Look back in history and see. This one thing has been and still is consistent: when we are outraged, we rob each other of love. The simple answer would be because it hurts so bad that you want the same pain to be felt by the one who caused you that pain. The desire is so powerful that even all the spiritual wisdom goes out the window. So what to do with this problem? Understanding self and evolving nature can help. For instance, if you look at our history, it appears that there is no right or wrong for us individually. Most of the time, it’s related to our deeply entrenched and politically influenced group opinions.
Since we are an evolving entity, all our rights and wrongs are subject to change and can even exchange places with time. Then why kill each other over differences of opinion? Remember, the politics of the sense of belonging forms our opinions, so our groups usually brainwash their belonging individuals simply to have a collective opinion instead of personal and individual ones. So the politics of belonging and collective opinions are at the heart and soul of our conflicts. Become a CEO of your individual life because you are simply designed for that by your nature. You can personally form an opinion that can be spiritually solid enough to even override the politics of belonging. As I said, right and wrong have been changing with time and evolution, so if you can individually see the politics of belonging behind your opinion, you can avoid being used politically. Spiritual evolution is not connected to a group; rather, it is your personal journey, so you have the power to override your political influences. Understanding that would bring you to be honest with yourself. That alone can bring you the power to not only become aware but also rid yourself of the powerful influences of your belonging groups over you. Individually being weak creates personal insecurities related to desires to belong. You potentially can suppress your spiritual duties and follow the political influences of belonging groups, even at the great price of going against your own autonomy. The education we receive from our societies usually is the culprit that makes us have extreme personal views, which means our politics of belonging has the power to override our personal opinions. If you are able to see and distinguish political influences, your personal spirituality can lead you to the shore of your personal ocean, which you carry within. You can only jump into it if you are spiritually strong enough; otherwise, you would feel safe within the stream of belonging. If you jump into your God-given ocean, you would find your free will, your personal sense of justice, compassion, real bravery, and everything that makes you a spiritually evolved human being. Otherwise, you would stay stuck in the stream of your political knowledge and would not be able to know even your own personal ocean. If you are taught to believe it’s wrong to think or have opinions of your own beyond the approved and prescribed knowledge, in a nutshell, you are told not to follow God’s orders and become a genetically programmed creature. If you are told to kill in the name of your belonging group, you would not question it simply because you have not tried jumping into your ocean to find your personal self. By committing spiritual crimes in the name of your belonging group, you end up going against your autonomy, being a spiritually evolved human being, and even against God’s orders.
We are supposed to think personally and individually to become spiritually aware beings, but our politically twisted religious knowledge has us fooled. It has been able to use us like genetically programmed puppets. If you believe everything your belonging group says as the ultimate truth, your dilemma is that you are not using your ocean-related knowledge. Not only would you go against your autonomy, but you would also end up feeling the common-sense related waves of your personal ocean from within. Your guilt and disliking yourself would be a clear sign of you being a human being. If you ignore it all, you would pay the price in your living years. Yes, losing and living without your happiness and contentment is a steep price to pay, especially if you know you are a mortal being. A powerful sense of political belonging has the power to hypnotize you, so it’s your duty to understand what and who you really are. You may feel the hypnotizing power of political belonging, but at the same time, you can feel the waves of your personal ocean reminding you that you are not a genetically programmed creature. You are a natural-born CEO, but you can’t jump into your ocean simply because you have been brainwashed at an early age, so there is an internal battle going on. If you do jump into your ocean, you would break all the political barriers and would be able to use your free will and personal sense of justice, which potentially would lead you to become a CEO. Meaning you become what you were supposed to be by your intended creation. You would become one of those who take responsibility to help humanity evolve.
If you believe God is on either your side or the opposing group’s side, you simply are making God a politically influenced entity. Yet, you have an idea what God is. Your judgment is not only making you assume, but you are also assuming God is like another human being. Maybe more powerful than you but nonetheless a human being who uses other people politically. Using God and other people may be good politics, but it can clearly be classified as a spiritual crime, simply because it leads to conflicts, wars, and not only the loss of innocent lives. It robs love and brings us all down to our animal level, where we lose our spirituality and the level of evolution. Whether you go to hell or heaven after you die is no one else’s business, but how you live among others is. Always remember, what you do in your living years, when you are able to contribute physically, matters the most. If you are giving life to good, you are following Godly orders, but if your group dictates what is good for you, you may be used politically. So, regardless of your good intention, following something that can create devilish results or suffering for innocents, you are responsible for your personal actions. If good and bad happen without your physical contribution, then and only then can you claim your innocence. In today’s era, even if it’s something big like global warming, we simply can’t blame God or the Devil because all the Devil is in detail. Our scientific advancements are clearly debunking and pointing towards our modern-day truths, and yes, they are different than even fifty years ago, never mind centuries ago. With a human decision, an ocean can dry and a lifeless land can be turned into a life-giving and sustaining one. We simply have to start digging within ourselves, because it’s our duty to discover and solve our problems. If we simply start with what and who we are, why we are the way we are, how we can achieve where we are supposed to be, and why and when we should individually be asking these questions to ourselves honestly?
There were two present-day videos on YouTube that affected me enough to talk about this topic. One showed someone blocking a river, causing an entire ocean to dry up. The other depicted people in India digging permaculture retention ponds to transform barren lands into green fields. In old times, such events would be attributed to God’s doing, but today we can trace these outcomes to human decisions, including those that align with divine progress. Instead of praying and depending on God for rain, these people took matters into their own hands, figured things out, and changed the course of their lives.
As human beings, our religious beliefs are essential for our understanding, but they belong to a different stream of knowledge, much like science. This is where our ocean-like brain plays a crucial role, as every stream of knowledge has its place and is useful in daily living. Our religions can provide comfort individually, helping us live successfully within our mortal bodies. However, we need to dive into our ocean of knowledge to appreciate this perspective fully and to utilize other streams of knowledge like science and medicine effectively. You cannot achieve this if you are stuck in one stream of knowledge as the ultimate truth.
Failing to explore our personal ocean of knowledge has political implications, so we must break free from these chains by looking beyond politically installed data. It’s similar to being confined to a localized computer without accessing the vast resources of the internet. You can either adhere to the boundaries set by your belonging groups or trust that God will guide you through your choices—the choice is yours. Remember, making decisions has consequences, such as drying an entire ocean or creating life in a lifeless land. The related sufferings or comforts might lead you to question God’s existence. It’s not about right or wrong; it’s about the loud cries for you to change your perspective. You must decide whether to stay within your streams of knowledge or jump into your ocean to find solutions.
If human decisions can dry an ocean or convert dry land into a green, life-giving one, we must also consider the odds we overcome in human reproduction. We are creating alternative energy sources, developing vaccination technologies to survive deadly bugs, and even using poisons to save lives. We create rules to protect other creatures from extinction, yet we still kill each other with passion. We save lives that would have been sacrificed to please God or gods.
Why would we want to return to the glory days of our religions, when we were solely dependent on prayer? At that time, everything we didn’t understand was attributed to God or the Devil. Today, we are discovering that it is up to us to make efforts to improve our fellow human beings’ lives. Do you want to go back to a time when people died because they needed insulin, or when religious restrictions prevented life-saving blood transfusions?
When it comes to our personal reciprocation, we must be honest with ourselves. God may have a divine place in our lives, but we should also appreciate the human individuals who continue to help millions even after they are gone. These individuals provide us with comforts and life-saving technologies. Our past should be seen as history, not something to return to. You can still be spiritually fulfilled in today’s era by reciprocating honestly. If God gives you oxygen and a functioning body, be a human being and help those praying for assistance. Appreciate everything that helps you live a better and healthier life, even if that help comes from other human beings. Cross the lines of political belonging to become a modern, reciprocating, and capable CEO of your life.
The Pope finally apologized today, and when Justin Trudeau apologized, I wrote that it wasn’t the Canadian government at the time but the British and Roman Catholics who were responsible for those atrocities. They should apologize for the spiritual crimes committed against the natives. While we’re at it, we should consider Genghis Khan, who rode his horse over the skulls of resisting forces, and the church made of human remains in Portugal. Are we evolved enough to critically examine our past history? Maybe we are getting there. The present-day Russian and Ukrainian conflict shows that things are still the same because we have not learned to prioritize humanity over our groups.
Looking back should not be about keeping conflicts alive but for evolutionary purposes. We should all be able to read our history and understand it deeply. Although we grow up under political influences, we must learn to call a spade a spade with our spiritual awareness. We are not just animals; we carry our own individual atom of autonomy. We are responsible for what we think, do, or follow politically. Racism, bigotry, sexual bias, prejudice, and discrimination were part of our past and even present. With our evolving knowledge, we should have outgrown these urges. The Russia-Ukraine conflict highlights our failure to evolve beyond political belonging.
The more we rob love, the more revenge-related emotions flare up, making politics a foundation of perpetual conflict. Our belonging groups try to brainwash us, putting political hurdles in the way of our spiritual evolution. Only by valuing the loss of love caused by politics can we take the next step into a new paradigm of evolution.
In today’s world, everything we learn from society and our groups is politically influenced and collective opinion-based. We are often taught to do less and gain more, using others to gain power and control, and being considered successful. This can be good if we didn’t have our atom of autonomy and spiritual side within us. Things become tricky when we consider mortality. Why do we feel the need to climb higher or use others for power?
Life is often viewed as a mountain to climb, where higher is better. But regardless of how you feel inside, you must follow the trends of your era. You must understand your genetic makeup and ingrained desire to evolve and know that as a spiritual entity, we all have free will. We can override our genetic urges, even those influenced by politics or endorphins from climbing.
Regardless of how high you climb, you must confront your mortality. Life is still the same for all of us individually, despite thousands of years of evolution. We are still mortal, we age, and we get sick just like our ancestors. With modern-day comforts, we should be happier than our ancestors, but are we?
You must decide how to live this life to attain what you want or need. Life is different for humans than for other creatures. We are supposed to be at the top of the chain, the most sophisticated beings. So why are we always compared to other creatures? We compare ourselves to lions for bravery and eagles for vision, but these comparisons are traditional. We keep majestic creatures in cages or help them survive, but that doesn’t make humans inferior.
Why would humans want to be compared to these creatures? If it’s for their traits, why are they inferior? If we compare ourselves to lions or eagles, we must also consider those living like lice, leeches, or parasites. This mindset comes from social or religious education, which promotes human beings as irrelevant and meaningless. If we lose self-respect and self-esteem, we depend on something more powerful. Living like lice or leeches, sucking the life out of others, is contrary to God’s will and politically manipulative. We are created as human beings, and living like inferior creatures is disrespectful to ourselves and our creator.
We can pray but still be human beings. Remember, God helps those who help themselves. Taking pride in being human and helping others is our reciprocation for our free oxygen and functioning body. You can say there is no God, heaven, or hell, and that life is a fluke, so live as you please. But ask yourself why you feel good when helping others. Why do people risk their lives to save others?
Many people complain about paying taxes. I could be one of them, but I see life differently. Being appreciative can change your mindset, especially if you feel the tax system is robbing you. If you view taxes as helping others, you may change your perspective. We have no control over life-sustaining blessings like oxygen and a functioning body. We are totally blessed. Not appreciating life and doing nothing in return is a personal and spiritual flaw that can lead to a place where you go against your atom of autonomy.
Happiness and contentment depend on inner peace. Without these, life can be a living hell. Start looking at life from broader perspectives. Don’t buy into politically tainted spirituality. It’s mind-boggling that most religious people vote for conservative parties, knowing they oppose helping the poor. This is how politics robs spirituality from belief systems. Spirituality, God, and justice systems must be pure and free from political influences.
If you are worried about heaven or hell after you die, start digging into these beliefs, especially if you want to take charge of your living years as a responsible human being. Reciprocating in all areas of life should make you spiritually worry-free. Without fear of hell or greed for heaven, who benefits from your spiritual discomfort or comfort? If it’s not you or God, then who? You owe it to yourself to know.
Life is not about what science or religion says about the past or future. It’s about what you do in your living years before you reach the cliff of faith. This is the only time you can reciprocate, and if you have been reciprocating, you are practically praying. No amount of praying, fasting, or sacrificing can match the value of your reciprocation or practical prayers. Reciprocation and practical prayers nourish your soul, so don’t starve in this area. Satisfaction at a spiritual level helps you win spiritually and lose politically influenced beliefs because you are no longer insecure. Be prepared for criticism and shunning. Today, we seek equal human rights, and any belief or governing system promoting prejudice and discrimination can be challenged in the court of justice, especially in the court of your atom of autonomy.
At the end of the day, you personally and individually must not only address your physical needs but also seek spiritual fulfillment. If your belief system promotes prejudice, bigotry, and discrimination, you have the right to question it all to achieve spiritual fulfillment. Remember, with prejudice, discrimination, and bigotry, all belief systems become political, and when politics is introduced into a spiritual belief system, it loses its purity. If you critically examine the carrot and stick philosophy heavily promoted by most religions, it’s important to clarify that I don’t believe God and spirituality involve any form of politics because I personally believe they are pure and free from the political taints of human emotions. Therefore, whatever politics is used by our religions comes from our belonging groups, making it clearly political.
Since your spirituality must be pure to benefit you, your prayers must be practical. REMEMBER, YOUR TAXES ARE TAXING, BUT ARE YOUR PRACTICAL PRAYERS AND RECIPROCATION. Practical life and governing systems may involve all kinds of politics, but you personally must never forget that your atom of autonomy resides within you, demanding you to be just. You would be deceiving yourself if you use politics in your belief system, which can backfire from within.
Creating balance is essential for beings like us because we are aware of our mortality. You can achieve this by becoming the CEO of your life, which requires individual education related to personal strength. You may experience conflicting senses from within and be influenced by both extremes, but ultimately, you are responsible for your action-based spirituality. It’s not easy to deal with the political sense of belonging because it can overwhelm individuals who have been brainwashed from the beginning. Remember, each of us is blessed with an equally strong sense of freedom. This is what makes you unique because, in your mind or imagination, you are in charge; you can create a whole universe of your own. If you don’t trust yourself, start digging for the dead dog or the dogs of your personal distrust. You will find that the biggest dead dog is your political belonging to your groups. That is the toughest hurdle in your way, and only you can overcome it. Liberate yourself because this is the era of equal human individual rights, and you happen to be born into it. If you are weak, your belonging group may call the shots for you, reducing you to a genetically programmed creature like worker bees or warrior ants. I can’t help but compare ourselves to other creatures. Fortunately, I am writing for human beings with the hope to influence our groups instead of groups influencing the individual. Remember, we are nothing like other creatures; otherwise, we would still be in the bush and caves. It’s all because God did not create us as genetically programmed creatures. We are the mini gods who help physically create spiritual realities into physical action. If you complain about the injustice done to you, do something about it; become a CEO.
The only explanation for human irrelevance is political and nothing more. Spiritually, it simply does not make sense because I personally believe God is not unjust. If you break it down to a microscopic level, things become easier to understand. If, as a human being, you feel small within the universe, you must put things into perspective. It becomes relevant if you see yourself as a cell in the human body. We have ten trillion cells of our own and a hundred trillion bacteria, so being one of the trillions can make you feel really small. If you imagine being a cell in the body, it would make you feel that the body is like space itself. Regardless of how big the body looks or feels to a cell, it is a universe. As human beings, we may be a small part of the universe, but understanding our internal universe makes the universe. Things may seem big and majestic, but they are made small by us simply because we carry our own atom of autonomy. This allows us to understand that it’s not about how big or what is out there but rather what is within us, which is logically bigger because it gives us the understanding of everything. As I say, if you lose your brain function, the whole universe, including God, the Devil, and love, disappears. You can climb a mountain, get dropped off by a helicopter, or fly in space where no other bird can fly. It’s not because of the height of the mountain or the vastness of space but because of what you have within you. Looking at ourselves exclusively as physical creatures reduces us from being human beings. We would be without inhibitions and unable to control or understand ourselves as spiritual entities. In today’s world, lines are blurred, and in some cases, our concepts of good and bad have exchanged places. Most of the time, we follow our nature, like to belong to our groups and their political whims, but still, there are people who stand for equal human individual rights. If we are socially compelled, we would be unable to restrain ourselves, fall victim to our urges, and spend our whole mortal lives under those influences. For instance, if your nature calls you to evolve and you are unhappy, dissatisfied, and discontent, there is an internal imbalance and disconnection. The reason you can’t fix this problem is that you are under the political influences of your belonging groups. If your spiritual side is not strong enough to remind you of your mortal nature, chances are you will spend your whole mortal life in that mode, where you are unhappy and discontent. Now the question is, would you blame God and your belonging group for your nature and political conformation or become the CEO of your life so you can own your duty to use free will? Remember, you are a human being, not some other creature that simply dances along with its nature. You have been created differently, so use your atom of autonomy and related gifts.
First of all, you have free will to choose. Second, you are free because your umbilical cord was cut at birth. Third, you are the creature who knows about personal mortality. Now let’s see how your evolving nature and the politics of belonging have been robbing you of your happiness and contentment, yet you personally are a willing participant in hurting yourself. If it says evolve, do so, but keep your mortality in mind so you don’t sacrifice your happiness and contentment. If the politics of belonging says you have to fit in, impress, and strive to be admired by the belonging group, it’s all good until you start to harm yourself. Remember, you are responsible for all departments of your life. So anything you do for your group is fine, but your mortality says you have bigger fish to fry. Simply put, you can’t sacrifice your happiness and contentment for the people around you. You can’t blame God or the people because you are blessed with free will, so choose wisely.
Looking at our ability to accumulate and absorb knowledge, I believe we all carry a metaphorical ocean within. Every piece of knowledge we receive pours into us and adds up as data. Interestingly, even our brain neurons grow to take on more and more, so there is no natural cap or limit, similar to an ocean or space. For us to live a successful individual mortal life, we must dive into our data, memory bank, or ocean to pick, choose, mix, and match to function. Functioning as a decently evolved human being while keeping our mortal nature in mind is crucial. Our atom of autonomy and free will, along with our personal sense of justice, teach us that we should not do to others what we don’t want done to ourselves or our loved ones. No matter how much you believe in your streams of knowledge as correct or ultimate, never forget that for an evolving entity like us, it is simply a stream of knowledge. It flows into our ocean, where there is a whole lot to be considered.
From racism and nationalism to religious extremism and the popularity of team sports and related fan fights, prejudice of all kinds is deeply entrenched and is the root cause of our social, spiritual, individual, and collective problems. Many people are bogged down or drunk with the alcohol of an out-of-control sense of belonging. If there are no footprints or tracks for you to follow, you may be stressed because of invisible sinkholes covered by snow. That is why people follow the footprints left by their ancestors, but sooner or later, we must learn to walk, take chances, and evolve. There is common knowledge, then there is knowledge written between the lines of our knowledge, and then there is knowledge coming from our evolution. Our brain is an ocean, and all kinds of knowledge pour into it from all directions like rivers; it is data or junk mail, or whatever you want to call it. Remember, it is your duty to pick and choose or mix and match to make your mortal life a journey of reciprocation. IF YOU TAKE SOME, YOU HAVE TO GIVE SOME. PLAIN AND SIMPLE.
It may not be commonly accepted in settings of political belonging to our groups, but it makes sense to me that sharing my knowledge is a form of reciprocation. If anyone disagrees with me, which is highly possible, we can agree to disagree like civilized human beings. Our problem is that we can be passionate about our knowledge due to our out-of-control sense of belonging. If you dispute my knowledge, remember we learn something new every day, proving that our knowledge is not complete. Just look around at history and even today—people kill each other just because they don’t agree with what others believe in. Most of the time, it is related to the sense of belonging, political ego, and sometimes territory and love-related rage. Externally, we fight over God, yet internally, we don’t really know God because of our incomplete knowledge. Fighting over our metaphorical realities has been and still is a physical reality. So, remember most of our fights are related to our insecurity and political control. A real belief in God should make the individual humble and helpful to humanity as a whole. A politically charged religious knowledge has twisted our spirituality in such a way that every religion claims to know God better than others, and their followers, depending on their passion, genuinely believe they are right, making it hard for humanity to unite.
Individuals are brainwashed to the point that they not only passionately believe whatever their religions say but are also willing to kill and die for it. I am going to quote a verse of poetry by Baba Buley Shah. Somehow, my thoughts often align with his more than with others. Since he writes in Punjabi, I will write the words and then translate them:
“Rub rub karday budhay ho gay mullah pundit saary, Rub thaa khoj khraa na labhya sajday kar kar haary. Rub tay tary andar wasdaa vich Quraan ishaary. Buley Shah rub onhu milsy, jehra apaney naffus noo maary.”
Translation:
“All the Mullahs and pundits got old saying and repeating God’s name, No one clearly found the real God even though they spent their whole life bowing down. God lives inside of you, points the Qur’an, God is found by those who can control their worldly desires.”
Whether you consider yourself a godly or godless human being, as long as you consider yourself a human being and are alive physically, God exists through you. So, you personally have some responsibilities. First, you have to learn about yourself as an individual. What and who do you really think you are? I have written this before: when a baby is born, they are like a brand-new computer with all the apps and perks. Then everybody around starts to install data. What is human data? Remember, all traditional clothing, and yes, turbans or crosses, are data. All religions, nationalism, race, gender, ways of worshiping, and fasting belong to installed data. Unfortunately, our belonging groups make us believe our data is our identity before being a human being. So if you think you are the data or simply a computer, you would believe your body is it, and you are nothing more than the body. Think again, because you would be wrong. If you use your God-given free will as an individual, you are above both computer and data. So I would call you a computer runner. If you think that somehow you become better than others because of your installed data, you are not looking at things spiritually. You don’t even look at yourself deeply enough to understand yourself. Think about God, genetics, carbon, humanity, spirituality, and practical prayers. Then, and only then, will you find your real self.
There is no Muslim state, Jewish or Christian states, no United States, or European Union because they all exist only because we live there. We all pass the genetic test of being human beings. We are all able to use free will and come with a personally ingrained sense of justice and are able to override all of our installed data. That personal sense of justice teaches us that if you want to receive rights, you will have to give the same to others as well. Since this is liked by most of us, we are making equal human rights a new religion for humanity. Most people around the world want equal human rights, so they are spreading like wildfire throughout the world. So whenever the politics of your sense of belonging confuses you, always remember that you are born with more than what you are led to believe. You are a born CEO; your identity is being a human being, and God himself consists of you. You are the thread of the holy fabric that God is made of.
Your nationalism and religions are out to rob you of your spirituality and humanity. Remember, they are your real identity, so understand who you are. It may seem overwhelming to stand against your traditional knowledge, but you are designed to be a human being. Sure, you have gone through some brainwashing by your political data of belonging, making you believe you are nothing as an individual. Yet, being in the whole scheme of life with God-given free will, you are designed to stand and fly solo. Just look at yourself critically, but first make sure to remove your political influences.
Your umbilical cord was cut the day you were born. You still breathe oxygen solo, which is not provided to you by your parents, not by your community, not by your nation, nor by your religion. So think about what and who you are. Sure, your parents brought you into life but not without the will of God. Bringing you in and up is their reciprocation to God. So as you grow up, it is your duty to do the same. Since you have been blessed with free will individually, it is your duty to enjoy your journey as well. If you have to walk on a path no one has walked before, get your confidence in the same entity that provided you with oxygen and a functioning body. Remember, you are not and cannot be alive by your will. If that were the case, human beings would be immortal.
Should we really believe that God wants us to follow one particular belief system? If that is the case, then why are there legitimate yet multiple holy books? And why leave something in them so all the religious people constantly fight for being right over the differences and have done so for thousands of years? If it stinks like politics, I am not going to buy it as a spiritual thing because only God knows how many human individuals have been killed over religious differences and disputes, so even our history can’t put a number on it. Who is right? Since everyone has been and still is entrenched in their beliefs, or I should say are stuck in their pigeonholes with the politics of belonging to show strength in numbers. Personally, I believe it is all about politics, and everyone is stuck in their pigeonholes believing God and their belief of God belong to them exclusively, so they are entitled to kill others over it. Hopefully, equal human rights will bring them out to smell the reality of one God, one humanity, and one human being at a time, not as groups with political agendas.
The labels of Muslim, Christian, Jewish, Hindu, or Sikh come before being human beings. We are made to feel weak and worthless by the politics of our belonging groups so that the groups carry on living even long after we are gone as individuals.
If I ask you to join me in enjoying the things religions prohibit, instead of praying, fasting, and sacrificing all the time, what would your response be? It is obvious that you will claim that I am on the wrong path. Sure, I can be, but for argument’s sake, if I say I am the one with a mortal lifetime, which is my personal gift directly from God, so I choose to live the way I want to, and so should you. If I insist you follow my way of thinking, according to you, I would be really wrong. Now, if I ask you to explain to me logically why I am wrong, when you go into the logic, it will take you to the core of the issue or the problem. The real issue is individualism vs. communism. Religion may say we are not following communism or socialism, but start to look at their rules closely, and you will find the similarities—they can blow your mind. If a group of people wants you to live just for them, they want you to be their slave. This gets twisted even further with the mixing of spirituality and the politics of a sense of belonging. If you want to look at politics and spirituality, look at them separately because spirituality is nothing but the truth. As a CEO, you want to do spiritual justice to others, including yourself, because you are your responsibility as well.
Since I know I am a mortal being with free will, I need to know where I stand in the big picture or spiritual scheme of life. I can’t really stand to know unless I become a CEO of my life. We are all created as CEOs by nature or God, but politically we have been and still are pushed down by our own belonging groups. Whoever uses free will makes choices about how to live a personal life. If you insist that I should follow whatever the belonging religion preaches, I have the right to ask why. If you say I don’t have a choice, where should I fit my free will, which I got from God right from the start? Now the question is, why are we stuck when it comes to our religious knowledge? Why can’t we overcome prejudice and discrimination? Why is this religious limbo of evolution still making us kill each other in the name of prejudice and discrimination? If I start to look at it honestly, it takes me to a zone where politics and spirituality merge, and that is where I draw my line because, to me, politics may be needed, but it does not belong in our spiritual and justice systems.
If a nation wants to survive and keep its justice system untouched by politics, they have to follow physical realities based on clearly defined and written constitutions that are relevant to the present era. The major problem is that we are going through an era still influenced by the mixture of religious beliefs and the politics of belonging to our groups. This clearly can’t be based on justice and spirituality because if it’s not for all, it simply can’t be spiritual nor just. Religious leaders meddling with the politics of governing base their politics on human metaphoric realities, which throws a wrench in governing with justice. Remember, Lady Justice is supposed to be blind to everything, so if one’s belief system, race, color, gender, or nation receives different justice than others, it simply can’t be called justice, especially if it’s founded on one’s metaphoric reality. No matter how deeply you believe in your religion or belief system, you can’t really explain it physically, so it becomes a handicap as you dig further to prove it as a physical fact. If our religions are founded on our metaphoric realities, we simply can’t enforce them as justice systems.
It’s like setting your emotions, such as love, as the foundation of a high-rise building without concrete and steel as physical realities. Regardless of the building’s height, it could collapse at any moment or wildly sway with the waves of emotions. In essence, what I’m saying is that you cannot establish a true justice system—one that is impartial and free from politics—based solely on a belief system. The first problem you will encounter is that even among people who share the same belief system, there is not a uniform level of individual belief. Consider how many sects and religions exist around the world. True justice is not for a specific group of people or political entities; it is universal, like spirituality, God, and humanity as a whole. Since God and spirituality are meant for all, not just for some, you cannot have them for a few but not for everyone. If you do, you are deviating from the spiritual path or God’s intention, simply because you are applying and labeling them with injustice. Look back and see what religions have done to humanity and individuals in the name of God. Can they erase their dark history and still claim to be the path to God or provide spiritual satisfaction to those they have harmed? I highly doubt it. When politics and religious beliefs mix, you end up with politics because spirituality will take a backseat. A spiritual belief system cannot remain intact without universal justice. When politics get involved, certain groups become priorities, leading to political prejudice and discrimination. Therefore, if you want a successfully functioning governing system, you need to establish a solid, spiritually-based justice system. Plain and simple: no one is above the law—not nations, religious beliefs, or any other metaphorical realities. Physical reality must override all metaphorical realities, including God. Equal human rights are a good place to start. You cannot claim equal rights in your nation or religion, nor can you limit it to your race or gender. Each and every one of us has the right to be counted as equal. Not only against each other but against every group, corporation, race, gender, nation, or religion as well. Would that be difficult? Absolutely, because we are still entangled with the politics of group belonging. Unfortunately, our wars never cease because we are still evolving. The politics of belonging to our groups have robbed us of our personal and individual spirituality, making it hard to stand against political belonging. Equal human rights are progressing, but too slowly, so the best way to make progress is to evolve individually. Break free from the chains of political belonging and join humanity as a whole, especially if you want to contribute to achieving peace. I may be one of the distant voices right now, but everything from global warming to our weapons of war is telling us to wise up and speak out. We can do that; if you need convincing, just look around and see what humans have done to each other.
Now, let’s look at it from another angle. In an ideal situation, 400 million sperm are released, but only one fertilizes an egg. That’s odds of 400 million to one. Today, however, a doctor can bypass that process, making praying for a child less common. Instead of praying for rain, people are turning barren, waste, and dry land into green, life-giving, and sustaining areas. How and why is this happening? You need to ask yourself that question. Not too long ago, it was considered God’s work; today, people are taking action. It didn’t happen on its own—remember, God helps those who help themselves. We are designed to evolve, and that is the real order of God for human beings, so it’s time to evolve. Evolve for God’s sake; believe in God but also in yourself. Don’t let personal insecurities rob you of your spirituality or let politicians, hiding behind your religious beliefs, use you. As I mentioned earlier, personal and spiritual beliefs cannot be mixed with politics. Attempting to do so not only robs you of your spirituality but also stands against your personal atom of autonomy, which has the power to tear you apart from within.
To be blunt, if you believe that prayers, fasting, pilgrimage, and worship are sufficient to secure you a spot in heaven, you need to consider another perspective. By believing this, you are essentially implying that God is accepting bribes. Don’t you think labeling God in this way is a spiritual crime? Your practical or physical prayers are your reciprocation, and that reciprocation is the purpose and duty of your life. This is the foundation of God’s world. Want proof? Try removing human beings from that holy picture and see what happens. If you remove those who benefit from or are harmed by the concept of God and the Devil, the whole holy world collapses. Spirituality remains abstract if no one converts it into physical actions. You should understand my point by now. God’s world evolves with the interaction of physicality and spirituality; otherwise, it remains silent. God and our world continue to move and evolve because of your work, your taxes, your discoveries, your advancements in technology, science, medicine, and reproduction. These are your reciprocations or practical and physical prayers. In other words, if you don’t do your part, God’s world comes to a screeching halt, making your efforts in worshiping and following traditions, customs, rituals, and rules potentially useless to God and humanity. Now it’s up to you to decide what to believe. Without human individuals, spirituality, reciprocation, and practical and physical prayers, a belief system becomes impotent. I would rather believe in an effective belief system and God.
If the concept of God is even corrupt, how can you be spiritually brave? Have self-esteem or confidence as a true human being—the one who rules over all other creatures. You place them in cages and decide to help them in the wild to prevent extinction. Whenever you see bravery in a lion or envy the flight of an eagle, look at yourself critically. You may not have wings, but you soar in space where no other creature can reach, regardless of wingspan. You can dig deeper into the earth than any clawed creature and explore the ocean depths without gills. So what is your problem? Why live like a louse, leech, or parasite? You don’t need to look far for the answers; just examine yourself critically and dig within. You will see lice, leeches, and parasites everywhere because our religions have been infected by politics, robbing individuals of their importance and relevance. Yet, you are the most relevant being in the universe. If you don’t reciprocate, you simply take, take, and take. What does that make you? Your politics of belonging have been heavily promoted since the start of your life, so it’s not your fault, but you can fix it. All you have to do is become a CEO because only then will you have the vision to see. You have been blinded by the politics of belonging because you took your eyes off your God-given fiber. (Read “Five Bucks”). Always remember, regardless of your gender, race, nation, or religion, you are born with your personal fiber. It gives you the ability to imagine and think, using your physical body to achieve your desires—not just for your day-to-day life but for concepts that will endure long after you’re gone, leaving benefits for future generations. Remember, you are the one who converts spirituality into physical actions, so even God depends on you. Otherwise, things would be suspended in the air without anyone to benefit or be harmed. If you’ve reached this level of understanding, you would not compare yourself with other creatures, nor would you view yourself as a louse, leech, or parasite to God. You would reciprocate to fulfill your role in the third equation.
Now, examine your personal and individual life, and assess what is happening or what you are doing. You, your cat, or your dog wouldn’t be happy with lice, fleas, ticks, or parasites living on you. Sure, God is not like a human, but we are cells in the divine body, and our relationship with God reflects this. If every single one of us were just worshiping, what would happen to humanity? Spiritually, it would be a disaster because we work to help each other and maintain the divine world. If we only take and never give, it would not be a reciprocal relationship. One-sided relationships don’t work, so how can God be happy and proud of people who act exclusively as takers? If the fundamentals of life, such as oxygen and a healthy, functioning body, are provided to us, we should be God’s helpers, not like lice, fleas, ticks, leeches, or parasites. Ask yourself why you want everything done by God for you without your input. Are you doing everything in your power before asking for help, or do you simply want everything done for you? Don’t you think God has done enough for you? You showed up perfectly functioning and healthy with free oxygen; what more is needed is your effort. If you are not appreciative and comfortable in your mortal skin, you need to start thinking and seeking what is in your personal ocean. Try to understand all about honest reciprocation so you know what spiritual burdens are and how they affect your happiness and contentment. The business of real and spiritual life is urging us to learn everything about reciprocation so you owe nothing to anyone, including God. If your parents helped you when you needed to survive, help them when they cannot help themselves. If your spouse provides for the household, they deserve respect and assistance to ease their burden. If your wife makes your life easier, acknowledge and respect the help you receive. If your children bring you happiness, provide what they need to be happy. This honest living sets you free and makes you a mini-God yourself. If you take, take, and take without giving because you were taught or learned that it’s good business to use people and God, think again. We are not just physical creatures; our spiritual needs must be met during our lives, not just after death. Honest reciprocation should become an essential part of our lives, not to gain a spot in heaven but to find inner peace with our atom of autonomy. It not only adds deep happiness to our lives but also frees us from the fears of death and the afterlife. Our physical business teaches us to spend less and gain more to run a profitable enterprise. Most of us are preached to and preach to future generations as if life is just a physical business. Ironically, applying this to our everyday lives makes us metaphorical lice, ticks, fleas, or parasites. So if you look like a human being, be one. We try to rid ourselves and our pets of these parasites so they can be comfortable. Under the influence of physical living, we all end up trying to live like everyone else, following political belonging. As groups, we attempt to dominate others and exploit their resources like less evolved physical creatures. Our history and present-day realities show that we not only rob each other of resources but also perpetuate teachings of superiority, leading to racism, bigotry, prejudice, and discrimination. Although we no longer have slavery or sati, these less evolved traits stem from the weakness of our individual spirituality. Since individual and personal spirituality is crucial for happiness and contentment, we need to understand this aspect of being human. Remember, it all starts at home. As Dr. Wayne Dyer says, don’t rip the cocoon. If you rip the cocoon of your child, they may remain dependent and unable to fly solo. Help them, but don’t rip their cocoon. The same goes for religions that preach women should stay dependent. This politics has been, and continues to be, a limitation on humanity, regardless of gender, nation, or religion. So let’s not be like lice, ticks, leeches, and parasites to God or other people. Taking charge of our lives and becoming CEOs can help us become what we were meant to be—equal partners in reciprocation.
First of all, the purpose of this writing is not to disrupt or create doubts in anyone’s personal and spiritual belief system. Note that I did not say religion because I believe that people’s present-day religion and personal spirituality are two different things. My attempt is to educate everyone individually so they can have a better understanding of their personal spirituality and cannot be used politically by their belonging groups. Remember, when we honestly question ourselves, only then can we truly learn who and what we are individually. This is especially important when we believe we are merely extensions of our belonging groups. It’s not easy to break free from the cocoons of belonging, particularly if we have been brainwashed since early childhood to avoid our individuality or even to know about it. The politics of belonging and its effects on an individual’s personal spirituality can internally make or break one’s perceptions of life. Just like God, we individually convert the wishes of our belonging groups into physical actions. Therefore, it’s crucial for us individually to know why. At the very least, we should know that we make things happen physically and are responsible for our actions. By doing so, at the most, we should stop killing each other, especially in the name of God. I believe that until we individually evolve to know who and what we really are, everything will remain the same as it has for thousands of years.
I want everyone to experience the importance of our metaphoric realities like God and love, but if you are unable to cleanse your spirituality from the religious politics of belonging, you will always be politically used. As human beings, we all have the power not only to make choices from our common sense and the collected knowledge we store as personal data, but also to use this data to come up with new ideas. When we make sense of this data and are able to use it, it becomes our personal wisdom. We can change the course of our personal lives and impact the world by making new discoveries.
Just like our modern-day cell phones, we have a lot of individual computing power, but without using it, it just sits there as an unused computer. You are the atom of autonomy who gets a name and responds to that name. As the computer operator or cell phone user, you have the responsibility to refer to your personal ocean of knowledge, which you have accumulated since before birth. If you develop a brain disorder, you may still be alive but unable to function properly or run at full capacity. This means that the computer and its data are not manageable or meaningful. As the atom of autonomy, if you are not present, the computer, regardless of its power, becomes useless because it cannot operate by itself. This is the story of you, your body, and your brain. You cannot be identified solely with the computer or its data; you are the human individual or atom of autonomy who is the CEO. As the CEO, you have to make decisions for everyone and everything. If you identify yourself only with the computer or the installed data, you are not the CEO. Simple logic tells us we are not merely extensions of an ideology nor are we genetically programmed creatures. We can choose to belong or not to belong. Either way, we are designed and designated to be the CEOs of our lives. If you find this absurd, you are identifying yourself as part of a group rather than as an individual. Just remember, your umbilical cord is severed at birth for a reason.
We can individually choose not to be prejudiced or discriminatory, even if our belonging groups’ data encourages us to be so. I want everyone to become the CEO of their life so they can avoid being used by elite politicians. Only a CEO can ask their religious leaders to remove the politics of belonging to groups to cleanse their spirituality. We can all find some internal and external peace by belonging to humanity as God intended. All we have to do is dive into our personal ocean of knowledge to experience our spiritual connection with God. Taking responsibility for being human means picking and choosing wisely. “Don’t do to anyone what you wouldn’t like done to you or your loved ones.” We can simultaneously make God, human individuality, and spirituality relevant, while making prejudicial and discriminatory groups and religions irrelevant. In the era of today’s equal human rights, we can achieve this easily. That is, if we individually want to, we are all capable of living in our own personal universe, even if we are oppressed.
Escaping our ancestral pigeonholes is much easier than ever before because today’s religions don’t hold the same power they did fifty years ago. Despite this, our ancestral insecurities and group politics still keep us confined, preaching prejudice and discrimination even against our own people. In the era of equal human individual rights, things are not working well for us as groups. It’s hard to break away from our ancestral chains of political belonging, yet today’s era demands that we all belong to humanity as a whole.
Before you follow and reduce yourself to a genetically programmed worker bee or warrior ant, look within to explore what you have truly been blessed with. If you are not a computer nor the data, don’t you want to know who and what you are? Simply look at your personal atom of autonomy by introspection. It tells you that you are a mini-God yourself. If you see yourself this way, you will recognize all the responsibilities that come with it. This perspective allows you to place the politics of belonging in its proper context and stand as a real, just human being. If you can do this, you will not make the politics of belonging bigger than it is or should be. You can control your personal responses to avoid committing spiritual crimes in the name of your belonging groups. By filtering the politics of belonging out of your beliefs, you will find plenty of spiritual satisfaction within the religious beliefs you were born into. Regardless of your religion, you can individually connect with your atom of autonomy and find your personal spirituality. You will reach spirituality and God as they are pure, untainted, honest, just, and universal for every single one of us.
Sure, we all have individual rights to survival, equal treatment, and freedom. This applies to every single one of us alike. If someone wants to follow their animal desires to conquer and dominate others, they should be treated like animals as well, simply because they have surrendered their spiritual side to their animal side. If we can educate everyone equally to evolve and become spiritual human beings, things can work; otherwise, we will have to keep killing each other until we are all forced to take a step into a new paradigm of our evolution, where we all belong to humanity as a whole with equal human rights and justice for all. This may sound far-fetched, but today’s reality is calling for this next step on the highway of our evolution. Just look around and see what is happening—from the internet to space stations, to global warming-related extreme weather, to equal human rights. Don’t you think humanity, spiritual nature, and God are calling?
The lowest crime rate in the world should be a good indicator of what works or does not work for human beings, especially regarding self-restraint. When you Google it, you will find that religious societies don’t do as well as secular societies. The question is, why? Logically, a religious individual should be more spiritually aware and self-restraining, thereby keeping the crime rate of their society down. Interestingly, where the human individual is respected as a human or spiritual being and taught to self-restrain instead of being forced to control themselves by fear and greed, the results are different. Self-restraint or self-regulation comes from taking responsibility for personal actions and acting as a CEO.
As I said, we are following our ancestral footprints to the cliff of faith. If you have been good, that path is useful, but if you have not been restraining yourself and committing crimes along the way, it does not matter what is beyond the cliff of faith. Your path has failed you, or you have failed your ancestors.
Now let’s look at the other side. Our scientists are saying that an explosion happened fourteen billion years ago and has been expanding ever since. What and why it exploded is not known; after all, it happened fourteen billion years ago. Sure, they have their reasons to believe in that, and I am not questioning them like I am questioning what is beyond the cliff of faith. Simply because our scientists are complying with our Godly orders to evolve. Constantly seeking, digging, and researching to discover and explore further to find answers is the game of human beings. On the other hand, our religions talk about God only to fulfill certain and present needs; they don’t even want you to question what is beyond the cliff of faith. I would respect anyone and everyone who is helping humanity to evolve so we can solve our problems by understanding the causes. Sure, religions provide us with knowledge of our metaphorical realities, but tainting spirituality with the politics of belonging takes them far from reality. Physically killing over our metaphorical realities can’t be a spiritual action. Even if our scientists are theorizing and believing, I would say they are following Godly orders to evolve because at least they are searching. I am all for theories, as long as their purpose is exploring and expanding human knowledge.
Unfortunately, history shows our religious people have been against any kind of exploration, so we have been forced to believe, and even blindly. Sure, there is a lot to stomach when it comes to science, but at least they are not only accepting and admitting their lack of understanding. On top of that, they actually have shown us a lot of physical progress, or I should say, practical evolution. Yet religions glorify the individual who kills and gets killed in the name of their belief system. Problems are not in the knowledge but rather in the politics of belonging. So if you are intolerant, prejudiced, and discriminatory because of your belief system, it’s all while you are alive and following your ancestral footprints. For you personally, it would be a matter of loyalty, or you are compelled by your personal insecurities to stay politically attached to belonging groups regardless of what is beyond the cliff of faith. In other words, it’s all political, whether driven by political belonging or personal insecurities. A sense of right or wrong would not be able to get through to an individual who is politically brainwashed unless we start to look at real spirituality where justice overrides politics.
If you don’t really know what is beyond the cliff of faith, then why not try to explore or question like our scientists are looking for the answers? Remember, our evolving nature is a Godly order for humanity. If you deny that simply because of your politics of belonging, you are putting your belonging groups ahead of even God, which can be quite confusing, especially if you are looking for real spiritual satisfaction. If we don’t even know about ourselves, how are we going to know everything about God or what is beyond the cliff of faith? We still kill each other over our knowledge, yet everyone knows we don’t know everything. It clearly says that we don’t know everything about ourselves. If we don’t know, then why do we kill each other over God and our belief systems? Is it our politics of belonging or our lack of individual knowledge or understanding about our endocrine system and its influences? Looking at it with a little bit of logic tells me we have to learn more about our animal side along with our atom of autonomy.
Being a CEO puts a whole lot of responsibility on our shoulders, so we have to know why our politics of belonging is so powerful. Being a CEO can help us individually understand why even our hormones get disrupted by our political influences. If you can’t find God out there or within you, you must carry on seeking but always remember to keep your mortal nature in front. Simply because potentially you can live your whole life in deprivation. So without fulfillment, happiness, contentment, and satisfaction, a mortal life can be a colossal failure. That kind of impotent life should not be a goal for a mortal human being. Whether you use God or science is not the question; it’s how you use your wisdom to live a successful mortal life while you are on the journey to the cliff of faith.
If you believe what you are taught to believe, that simply means God and the Devil are driving your car, and you automatically become irrelevant. As religions say, you are irrelevant and even a born sinner, so in a nutshell, you are told to lose your self-esteem. Modern-day atheist trends say exactly the opposite, so if you don’t want God even in your car and die of stress by taking everything on your shoulders, you have missed the whole point of why you have your personal atom of autonomy. Why are you able to use your free will? Why do you have an ocean-like brain within to take in all the streams and rivers of knowledge? The logical explanation is that you have to live your life as an independent entity, and you need a whole lot of wisdom to do that. No matter how religious you are or how much respect you have for the streams and rivers exclusively, they are not going to be enough to live a successful mortal life, plain and simple, especially in this era of equal human individual rights.
If you don’t acknowledge the help you have already received or are still receiving, you can’t even come close to understanding the meaning of reciprocation. Seek, appreciate, and fulfill your duties along the way to the cliff of faith. Don’t put all your eggs in the basket of the unknown and gamble. Remember, it has nothing to do with the carrot-and-stick philosophy; heaven or hell is not a matter to be discussed here. Life after death is secondary, but your reciprocation during your journey to the cliff of faith is primary. Simply because what you do in your living years matters to God and you simultaneously. Since you convert spiritual thoughts into physical actions, you are the workhorse for God. If God fulfills the prayers of others through you, shouldn’t you ask yourself how you can be irrelevant while you are alive? If you can understand that and question your politics of belonging, you can solve this spiritual riddle of relevance. Your relevance has been politically brought down by your belonging groups, so believing in that is your biggest loss. If you can’t see it as a loss, you will always be looking for God in man-made buildings.
If you view life as a scientist or mathematician, odds are that you will miss out on the spiritual side of your life. The chances would be higher to miss feelings related to emotional fulfillment because you would not be able to scientifically break down your metaphorical realities. Love would be hollow, compassion would be politically tainted, and sacrifice would be for show. Nothing personal, but either you believe in your metaphorical realities, or you break them down scientifically. If you discard them and lose their meaningfulness, your spiritual needs can’t be fulfilled. Personally, I believe that would be a loss for a mortal being because, at the end of the day, you are the CEO of your life. Just like your physical needs, you are responsible for spiritual fulfillment as well. You simply can’t live in a stream of your knowledge, nor can you live in extremes. Living life exclusively for the afterlife would be an extreme, just like living life without spiritual fulfillment during your living years. You can’t stay stuck in the streams of your knowledge or hide behind its politics. You have to go into your ocean to pick, choose, mix, and match to live a fair life, especially if you are born in an era of equal human individual rights. You can’t be prejudiced, discriminatory, or bigoted because you have to give equal rights to receive them. Living in today’s era with thousands of years old streams of knowledge is bound to cause problems. It’s you who suffers or gets relief from adjusting according to the demands of changing times. If you don’t change, you will be called a bigot, racist, prejudiced, and discriminatory. Remember, in today’s time, these words are not good labels, so you simply can’t be proud of them.
If we don’t step into a new paradigm of equal human rights and join humanity as a whole wholeheartedly, the peace we have been longing and seeking will never materialize. Sure, we have been evolving and will continue to evolve, but all the progress will be in our physical evolution. Regression in spirituality is directly related to the politics of belonging to our groups. Since our groups proudly preach prejudice and discrimination, staying on the same path is not going to change our destination. Our so-called contractors of God, religions, have been openly putting their foot in their mouth by saying that they are going to heaven and everyone else is going to hell. Regardless of how much they talk about spirituality, their actions speak for themselves. Spirituality and God are clearly universal and simply can’t be prejudicial or discriminatory, so in the presence of the politics of belonging to our group, they are the first to disappear. Disputing groups call each other Devil’s followers. With our emotional hatred and animal-like behaviors, we may blow ourselves up before even reaching our potential and blame God for a religiously predicted outcome.
Today’s reality calls for us all to learn everything about ourselves or at least become human beings at an individual and personal level. I would not want anyone to change their religious beliefs, but I would prefer them to become spiritual rather than religious. They should take their individual responsibilities to become CEOs of their lives so no one can use them as their warrior ants.
If we start to look at our education critically, dating back and even further back, one thing emerges as a reality. Yes, that is that we all got our five bucks from our nature. That atom of autonomy-related ability allows us to not only use our free will and personal sense of justice, but it also stands us apart from other genetically programmed creatures. Meaning our atom of autonomy makes us human beings who are the center of this holy picture and are at the top of our right-side-up triangle. Remember, the use of our free will not only allows us to physically materialize our individual imagination, it also allows us to convert spirituality into physical actions for God and belonging groups as well. This literally means we stand right beside God in making things happen. Unfortunately, we are tainted with the politics of belonging to our groups, doing Devilish things as well.
This cell phone comparison is easy yet crucial to understand, especially if you want to learn to use it to enhance your life in all areas, including spiritually. Let’s look at our abilities compared to our politically tainted and streams-related installed knowledge. Things would start to clear for you if you really seek to know why our belonging groups want ordinary individuals to be weak and vulnerable. Simply to keep them under political control. Groups promote and politically inspire people to stay within the clearly defined boundaries. A politically brainwashed individual would gladly, passionately, and willingly stay and even help in controlling others for the belonging groups. Dig a little deeper and see where our 1% elite class has come from and why the majority is always complaining about being behind regardless of hard work. The problem is not what we carry within us but what we don’t use. What’s coming from the education of our controlling streams of knowledge and what we have brought along from before birth? What we have had and what we do have today? How far did we come with our evolution? Let’s see what we have within from before our groups’ politically tainted education.
It’s a known fact that we have approximately ten trillion of our own cells and a hundred trillion non-human cells within us to function properly. We have built-in lungs to use freely available oxygen to live. We have a heart to pump oxygen and nutrient-enriched blood to all our cells, including all life forms within the body. We have a liver, kidneys, and colon to not only clean but also perform thousands of known and unknown tasks simply to keep us alive. We have skin to protect us from all kinds of infections. We have muscles and bones to move around like an athlete, and a continually evolving brain to think and plan, much better than any man-made computer because we evolve and fix ourselves. Our body and brain run in sync all because of our atom of autonomy, a God-like particle carried by each and every single one of us. To top all that, we are not exclusively a physical entity; we also carry our own and exclusive spiritual side.
Individually, we not only learn from the data installed by our belonging groups, but we also think and explore to understand our personalities, our drive, and even our genetic variations. Yet, regardless of all the differences, we are social creatures with the ability to function independently. Since we simultaneously function physically and spiritually, we are blessed with our own imagination to create and evolve, not only for ourselves individually but also for our belonging groups. Not only do we have our immune system, but we also have what I call nature’s overcompensation system, which allows us to learn new things, adapt, and evolve as well. Physically, we can grow to adapt to our environment, and spiritually, we can grow to love, use our abilities to become compassionate. We can forgive, become brave, generous, and even learn to sacrifice our most prized possession—life—for others. If you personally start to dig in, you may even find more untapped or unused abilities within you. If you underestimate all that, you simply are unable to use your phone according to its potential. Either you are afraid of the stress you would go through during the learning process about yourself, or your belonging groups have locked your phone, just like a parent would do for their kids. Always remember, logically, it does not mean your phone has fewer capabilities; it’s you who is limited by personal insecurities or compliance with the politics of belonging to your group.
From carvings in caves to modern-day high-rise buildings, from computers to the internet on one side, to the ability to create pathways like the Channel Tunnel and the space station program on the other. From artificial insemination to breaking down our genetic makeup to new ways of building muscles for structural health—these are just a few examples of our evolving nature. Doubling the average age from thirty-eight to ever-rising models of our cell phone-like abilities are the benefits of our evolving nature. If you still feel that the human individual is irrelevant and that God and the Devil are doing everything, it means you believe human beings have no autonomy, no control, or free will. That means you are placing us all in the lineup of creatures who are genetically programmed. If everything is done by God and the Devil, then you should be willing to believe all the good and bad are done by God’s will as well. So, where and why did the Devil show up, and why such harsh punishments for not following religious rules? After all, as human beings, we have no control over oxygen and life-giving circumstances. If it’s all God’s will, then why all the different religions? Now, the question is why God does not pull someone’s strings before they commit bad actions? If you go into this rabbit hole looking for answers, no doubt you would come out on the other side as a crazy person. Simply put, nothing would make any logical sense to you because a belief system is a belief system; you buy it as it comes or as it is sold to you by your belonging groups. The reason may not be your limited understanding but because you are still in the process of evolution or not yet evolved enough to understand everything. Understanding to discover further may not be easy because you have a bigger fish to fry. Yes, your mortality and related limited time is running out, and it should be a huge concern for you. Living according to your group’s preaching may not be enough to reduce your mortality-related stresses. So you may have to understand God not as you have been taught by your ancestors but by your personal logic as well. Using your logic while keeping your mortality in front can put a whole lot of demands on everybody to become the CEO of their life. Understanding and differentiating between realities can help. For instance, in order to experience physical realities, you simply have to be alive and functioning. After that, whether it’s for you or for your belonging group, things lose their physicality and importance. Meaning if you lose physical reality, your perceptions of life enter a zone where you and your belonging group have no physical or logical building to stand on. From there on, everything is standing on the foundation of assumptions, sort of like the flat earth theory. Never mind all that, remember your personal and physical reality is that you have got limited time, yet with all the responsibilities on your shoulders. You can live believing everything your belonging group says or use all your faculties, take charge, and become a CEO. Most probably, you would be told that you are living an egotistic life, but as long as your life is just, following or not following your belonging group’s wishes would not make any difference. Unfortunately, they can’t help you when it comes to our bigger or main issues like mortality. They may gather up, shed some tears, and say a prayer or two, but other than that, you can’t rely on them. The main reason is that they are just like you. Everyone is born like you, so mortality is the biggest fish to fry equally for everyone. If you ignore that, you may end up getting lost in your pond with boundaries instead of swimming like an expert in your personal ocean or flying in the space you personally carry within. I would rather believe that it’s my choice to discover whether the earth is flat or not. If I die in the process, I left something to ponder for my coming generations so the process of evolution can carry on.
It’s not important what lies beyond the cliff of faith or before our birth, but it is essential to live a just life while traveling towards the cliff of faith during our living years. That should be our main education, but most of our education is based on what happens after our living years, following a carrot-and-stick philosophy related to heaven and hell. Remember, the Egyptians believed they would need their material possessions in the afterlife, and they took them along to their tombs. They believed they would need them, while we have been robbing them. They may wake up to today’s realities or not, but at least we should. As I said, our education should be focused on our living years so we can be good people while we are alive. If everything is focused on our life after death, how can one learn what is important during the living years? If I am told everything is meaningful in eternal life, which is after death, that doesn’t sit well with me.
There are some questions I need answers to. First of all, if we live like worker bees, warrior ants, or monks, who benefits from our deprived living? For sure, it can’t be God, nor can it be you individually, since you have been told you would get a spot in heaven after you die. I repeat, after you die. Next, remember and never forget that even God needs your physicality to fulfill people’s prayers. So, you are more valuable to God alive, not dead. God can’t be unfair to take from you and not reciprocate by allowing you to enjoy physical things while you are alive—simple as that. If you are that important to God, where did this notion of human irrelevance start? You are irrelevant and meaningless only when you are dead, but while you are alive, you convert spirituality into physical actions, providing your hands, back, and shoulders for God’s work. How can you be irrelevant and meaningless?
As you ask this question to yourself, make sure to look within while you are already there. You carry an atom of autonomy that gives physical life to God—and unfortunately, to the Devil as well. So if someone says you don’t have free will, this is where they become wrong because it’s you who is making things happen. Sure, after you have inhaled oxygen and in a living, breathing, functioning body, but your output is a crucial part of spirituality and God simultaneously. You can believe anything you want, but if you don’t use the knowledge from your ocean, you will think what is beyond the cliff of faith is one hundred percent true. Meaning you will live as a believer who potentially commits spiritual crimes in the name of a belonging group, which is not only against God’s will but also against your personal atom of autonomy. Going against or having conflicts from within can make you suffer in your living years. Suffering from within, in your living years, can be a living hell. If you live in a living hell by choice, how can you expect to live in heaven after you die?
Remember, logically, you can only use your free will while you are alive. After that, you can’t even move physically—meaning lights out. All your physical experiences shut down, so whatever education you have can only be useful, applicable, or meaningful during your living years. I don’t like to assume, simply because life is life while it’s physical; after that, things change and enter a metaphoric zone. That does not mean we should not believe in our metaphoric realities, but they should never override our physical realities. Remember, you have to surrender your physical realities to cross the cliff of faith. What is beyond the cliff of faith is a journey into the unknown simply because you have to die first to find out. Remember, we don’t really have any physical evidence, so it’s all what you have been taught to believe on the path of your ancestral footprints. If you believe life is considered in two parts, what you do in your living years would earn you results in the afterlife. The intentions of this knowledge may be good because it wants individuals to live as better people, but unfortunately, it shifts the focus from living years to dead years.
If you believe in your belief system blindly, you may get some good results, but since not everyone believes at the same level and we have several conflicting belief systems, it can create social problems. If we can focus on our living years as decently evolved individuals who know the responsibilities of reciprocation, that may pan out better. Proof is in the pudding because the crime rate of society is not dictated by the carrot-and-stick philosophy. Since it’s created to train animals, it is for animals exclusively. Crime rates in religious societies are not lower than in secular societies, which indicates that the carrot-and-stick philosophy does not work for human beings. I believe human beings don’t stand in that lineup of regular animals and they function better if they are encouraged to be spiritual. If the purpose of belief systems is to keep individuals from crimes in living years, then why didn’t religious societies do better? The simple reason is that as human beings, we are all wired differently. Sure, genetics are powerful, but for human beings, it’s not the only thing. We can be affected by our education, our upbringing, and life circumstances, which can make people think differently. Our belief systems affect us differently, so the level of belief can vary. With various levels, we are bound to have differences of opinion, which lead to disputes even within families, communities, nations, and religions.
If you look for the causes of our problems, remember our differences kill. So we all should critically look at our stubborn belief systems. The question is, if we don’t know for sure, should we kill each other over it? As reasonably evolved human beings of the equal human rights era, we have to question our belief systems before we go for the kill. If it’s a territorial issue or dispute, still, killing belongs to our animal side. Since we are not genetically programmed, we can learn not to act like warrior ants. You can say we have to protect our territory and people, and I would not dispute that because, at the end of the day, we have to have equal human individual rights. If someone is trampling our rights, they have already surrendered their rights, so no, I don’t believe in turning the other cheek. If it’s for our belonging group, remember it’s political, so regardless of how you look at your life and its related knowledge, you individually will have to rise up and respect the life of each other and your loved ones because you are all working hands of God.
Whether you believe, don’t believe, or believe but not 100% in the afterlife is secondary; whether it’s belonging to the individual from the opposing group or our own, respecting life itself is primary. Simply because all human individuals are working hands of God. If we robbed Egyptian tombs believing they would not need all these material things in their afterlife anyway, why do we put so much emphasis on life after death for ourselves? When you start to question everything, you will come to an understanding that our living years are the crucial part of our human life. Yet we are asked to sacrifice that over what we don’t really know or simply can’t be explained. Don’t you think it is gambling for the individual? So to me, the individual and God are the losers here, and the winner is the house or politically ruling group of people.
Remember, you and God are not the beneficiaries. On top of all that, you are useful to God while you are alive. This may seem far-fetched to the politically brainwashed individual. Interestingly, we don’t only have several religions; each religion has its sects as well, which is a clear sign of differences in beliefs even within religions. We may not even believe in life after death equally, but nonetheless, we still believe. The trouble is if everything related to our metaphoric realities is accepted as facts without any solid or video proof. It’s a belief and not necessarily a fact. In this day and age of the internet, science, and equal human individual rights, killing each other over these beliefs founded on our unknowns should be questioned. Since religions were supposed to be our spiritual paths, they can’t be or at least shouldn’t be tainted with the politics of belonging and clearly should not be our governing systems.
If you win an election because you inspired people to vote for their religions, your failure to succeed in fulfilling their expectations would disrespect their religious beliefs, especially if they followed you blindly and you have tainted their religious beliefs politically. To me, bankrupting someone of their pure spirituality is an original sin because you have politically used not only the individual but God as well. Even a win can be a failure because sooner or later you, the individual, God, and the religion would be questioned and disrespected because of this political taint. Our politics of belonging has ruined people’s belief systems simply because it taints our spiritual world with prejudice and discrimination. Playing with someone’s belief system in the name of politics can bring you to another crossroad, where you find yourself lost. I remember a verse of a poem, it says, and I quote: “I could not meet God nor got my lover, now I am lost, not only on one side but the other as well.” End quote. Author unknown.
If you want to play it safe and be individually healthy in all aspects of life—spiritually, physically, mentally, and emotionally—then don’t mix the politics of your belonging with God and spirituality. Just like you want your justice system to be blind to politics, you personally need to keep your spirituality pure and clean. No matter how clearly you see or how blindly you believe, your belief system should be founded on the solid grounds of personal spirituality. Remember, you can’t get everyone else to see or believe exactly the way you do. If you force it, you lose your spirituality, and as I said, you lose others and even God as well. If you simply imagine yourself on the receiving end of your actions before committing them, you already know spirituality. If you would not like someone else enforcing you to change your belief system, then you should respect and restrain yourself to give and receive the same equal human individual rights. Regardless of how absurd it seems to you, if you picture yourself in the minority, you would grow respect for others’ belief systems. If we all respect each other and give and receive equal human individual rights, life would change for the better. Otherwise, we would never come out of our racism, sexual bias, prejudice, and discrimination. Today, all the above are not a matter of pride anymore; those times are long gone, so it’s important to live in the era we are born into.
Our past is riddled with divisive governing systems, so creating groups within groups has been the political game played by our ancestors to gain power. Conservatives and liberals have been switching hands for governing, bringing us back and forth. As long as we evolve, we can go further and learn not to kill each other over our political differences or our metaphoric realities. Everything can be safe until we mix politics into our religious beliefs. It can simply rip us all apart individually and collectively. Just look at our history; our religious dispute-related wars last the longest and are the bloodiest.
From Muslims teaching science, medicine, engineering, and space to bringing them down all by exchanging political hands is a sad story of mixing extreme politics and religion. Since we are human beings with evolution ingrained into our genes, going back and forth can be acceptable as long as we go forward in the end. Our evolution has brought us to the point where we are thinking and accepting equal human individual rights around the world. This means we are ready to step into our new paradigm or take our next step in evolution, where we are actually forced to understand the importance of working as one humanity, belonging to our original identity, and overcoming our installed identities.
In this day and age, except for a few of us, we simply can’t go ahead and kill someone in the name of God anymore because no one would want to be on the receiving end of that. I personally don’t prioritize metaphoric realities over physical realities. So in today’s time, killing and getting killed in the name of God would be like going to court and saying to the judge that God made me do it. Sure, we have the Qur’an and Bible in our courts for taking oaths, but asking the judge to free you simply because you committed a crime in the name of God would not be enough. All justice systems look at physical reality as a priority.
Most of our religious education is based on the carrot-and-stick philosophy, which simply does not suit human beings because we carry our spiritual side within. If you look around the world, proof is in the pudding. Since the lowest crime rate is not in our religious societies, I believe it’s rather a slap in the face of our so-called Godly people who think and believe human beings are animals. Remember, our religious education was designed to make us more evolved and humble human beings so we would not commit crimes against each other. What went wrong? If we all contemplate and learn to readjust our carrot-and-stick philosophy, things can change for us all. Since self-regulation comes from personal hope and spiritual evolution comes from our personal atom of autonomy. If politics is inserted into our belief systems, spirituality takes a hike. My question is, what is the reason why secular societies scored better than religious societies? It’s kind of obvious; if you treat a spiritual entity like a human being as an animal, you are not going to get much respect back from them. Things are going so badly in our religious world that they have not been getting a break from killing each other. As nations and religions, they can’t stand on solid ground to create a society where people would want to raise their children. Simply because they mixed the politics of belonging into their spiritual systems. Sure, the politics of belonging can ignite the religious passion to kill and get killed in individuals, but creating a society where people can self-regulate would be hard to do.
Just like other triangles, I believe this triangle has also been politically flipped, so the right side up is required not only by the individual but by our belonging groups as well.
Spiritually, hope should be the life and blood of our belief systems, especially because we are mortal beings. Logically, if you start to look at the cliff of faith, one thing emerges clearly: it’s not about what is after the cliff of faith but rather how we live while we are in the process of that journey. If you look at it from a political point of view, you need to be controlled. If you look at it spiritually, you have to convert spirituality into physical actions while you are on that journey. Thoughts about hell and heaven can fade, especially if you do things out of a sense of responsibility and for the love of God and humanity. God knows your intentions, so if you act out of greed or fear, God may not have the same respect for you. Now, the question is, would all that matter or not? To me, if you live as a good person, whether it’s out of greed and fear or your self-regulation stems from the duty of reciprocation, it has succeeded. But I would rather do it out of responsibility because it would be done consistently. If you have greed and fear involved, they are on shaky grounds because not everyone thinks alike. Remember, if you do it for others, even if it is for God, it would not be consistent. For instance, if God does not show up when you ask for help, you may end up losing faith altogether. SO DO IT FOR YOU, FROM YOU. If you look at it during our living years, fear can subside, and greed can be fulfilled. Now the question arises: then what? Would you stop doing good? For sure, after death, even that doing good would fall into our assumptions as well.
Looking into our past to see how human beings have been and some still are worshiping the sun and all kinds of gods, we have lots of romantic stories and songs about the moon as well, but in today’s societies, things have changed. We simply can’t worship everything under the literal sun. If anything is unknown to us, it does not mean it automatically gets the status of God. Scientifically, we have been discovering and debunking old theories of our unknowns. So if we still have our unknowns, it does not mean we should stop pursuing knowledge about them, and yes, even about God as well. Breaking down myths and solving mysteries is part of our being human, so if anyone or a group of people stands in the way of new discoveries, they should look back and see what was, is, and what will be. Standing in the way of evolution is not following God’s way; it actually goes against God’s will. Otherwise, we would not be able to debunk the flat Earth theory.
IF WE WERE SUPPOSED TO BE LOCKED INTO OUR PONDS, GOD WOULDN’T HAVE PUT AN OCEAN WITHIN US.
We simply can’t make a God out of everything we don’t know. Another thing to remind you, preaching human beings as insignificant, irrelevant, and born sinners is not from God but rather from the elites to politically benefit them. If anyone or any political policy of a group insists human beings are insignificant or irrelevant, it should be looked at critically because it’s nothing but political. We should be looking ahead on the highway of our evolution optimistically, discovering and marching further, not only to learn more about technological, medical, and scientific knowledge but also about the political influences mixed in our belief systems. If humans do not take charge, our discoveries and evolution get stuck at a certain milestone or, worse, get used to annihilate humanity. If we don’t carry on discovering, we would never know our potential. By simply understanding our atom of autonomy, we can restore a human individual’s spiritual relevance.
If we look at ourselves, just like we do at our cell phones today, we have had a lot of untapped potential right from the get-go. Unfortunately, our conservative political influences have been working against our desires to break down all our boundaries because they simply want to keep the status quo. For an individual who starts to learn about the new cell phone, it takes a lot more than just the effort to learn about new things, never mind political influences against individual progress as well. Politically, a party is strong if it’s not questioned, so there have been a lot of efforts put in to keep the ordinary individual down, or I should say, irrelevant. Unfortunately or fortunately, today things have been changing, and conservatives are facing a real threat of being left behind. So they are fighting back with everything they have got. Humanity has been outgrowing kingdoms, dictatorships, communism, and even socialism to join democracy. Yet still, we are in trouble simply because there is constant political unrest influencing individuals.
Humanity is at a crossroads because all our external forces are telling us to evolve and work together as one humanity or else. Individually, we have to gain some wisdom so we can see the politics hidden behind our group agendas. We simply can’t do that unless we start to learn about ourselves just like our phones. We all need to learn about our abilities and all about the ocean we carry within. Remember, we can pick, choose, mix, and match from all the knowledge pouring into our ocean. Otherwise, we will end up living a life that does not give us the fulfillment a mortal being needs. If you don’t care about that fulfillment, your sense of belonging is too powerful for you individually and has you under its spell. You have lost your real status and are unable to use your cell phone for everything it has within. Sure, our belief systems have their place in our lives, and so do science, medicine, and technology because they fulfill our spiritual and other needs. If we ignore our scientific knowledge, it is a big individual and collective loss or deficiency. If you are born in today’s time, you simply can’t go without your scientific knowledge. A whole lot of comfort and even life-saving strategies come from our scientific knowledge, so it has to be not only used but respected as well. We are all functioning differently and at a much higher level today, so our needs simply can’t be fulfilled with our religious or scientific knowledge exclusively. If we choose extremes, we end up choosing our stream-related knowledge as ultimate knowledge. We simply can’t do that because we can’t fulfill our emotional and spiritual needs by going scientific exclusively. Just like that, you can’t go religious exclusively and not use a blood transfusion to save the life of your loved one. You can be stuck in your extreme if you choose to stay in the streams of your knowledge. If you feel stressed out regardless of your knowledge, you have to know the reasons behind your unfulfilled life. Your reason can be simply connected to a lack of spirituality. Remember, you don’t have to pick or choose science or religion; rather, you have to learn how to create balance and use them both to live your mortal life successfully. If you have been brainwashed in your tender years, it does not mean you don’t have what is needed to function in today’s society. Undoing can happen if you start to learn all about your potential. Sure, sometimes we have to go through some discomfort to find comfort. If you feel spiritually unfulfilled, remember you are the one who makes choices. All you have to do is dive into your ocean to find your solutions. Instead of looking for the scientific or medical answers in your holy books or the other way around, take charge and become a CEO so you can be responsible for your life. You have to look in that direction even if it’s not comfortable. Politics of belonging has the power to rob you of your personal spirituality, so don’t become spiritually bankrupt and believe that you don’t have a choice and must comply with your belonging group. If scientific facts are changing things in the religious world, you may fall apart, especially if you don’t take charge of your personal spirituality. Simply look at your life as an evolved individual and find your comfort from within and for the love of it. I simply don’t know what my cell phone can do. I can use it as a phone, text, and video camera. Sure, I can see the time and temperature as well, but that is all I can do. I know learning more about it can be uncomfortable, so my limitations tell me that I am not using my cell phone for everything it’s capable of. Self-discomfort to discover more about my cell phone does not mean my phone has fewer abilities; it means it’s my inability to use it to its full potential. This is the main connection between a human individual and their cell phone. We all come into life with all the powers installed, but our politics of belonging keeps us from using our abilities. Why? There is no other reason but politics. Our politicians know this very well and take advantage of our personal discomfort, so they preach and discourage us from using our cell phones, never mind to their full capacity. Remember, God did a godly thing and gave us what we need to live and evolve progressively. Now it’s up to us how far we can take it. Our individual discomfort and political influences can dictate our backwardness or forwardness. If you can handle personal discomfort, you can build yourself bigger and stronger not only physically but spiritually as well. We sprout like a seed and become a tree; there is nothing similar to what we had, so our life should be a journey towards our evolved self.
Since we have a choice to do good or bad, even if it’s done in the name of our belonging groups, it’s still our responsibility to choose and be responsible for it. If you don’t use your cell phone to its capacity or refer to your ocean-like brain, you may end up doing bids for your belonging groups exclusively and living the life of a worker bee or a warrior ant. That can take you to a place where you end up going against your own atom of autonomy, and going against your atom of autonomy can make you accumulate guilt and related harmful effects. If you don’t use your cell phone because of your personal fears and discomfort, that is one thing, but if you think and believe it’s prohibited by your belonging group, you would never get to see your potential. Usually, your loyalties override what you think or do, so it’s your personal loss because time is running out for you individually. Your belonging groups stay behind simply because they stayed entrenched in their conservative and old political ways to govern. They don’t have an interest in their individual’s well-being or strength, so the individual gets sacrificed simply because they run out of time. Should you stand in your corner and dig into your personal ocean and strengthen your atom of autonomy? That is your personal matter because if you are a willing participant in the same politics as your belonging group, you are the group. Remember, without you, your belonging group loses its integrity and eventually its survival. So they would cunningly fight to keep their individuals from evolving. If you are not happy, remember as a mortal being your life needs happiness, contentment, and appreciation of the things that are important to you. Living with total control can lead us to live a substandard mortal life, so remember we have to fulfill not only our physical needs but our spiritual satisfactions as well. Mortal life does not just need absolute comfort; it needs happiness and contentment for the soul, so life without these two can’t be counted as a successful life.
Sure, we have a difficult time learning new things and going into uncharted waters of our unknowns, but that does not mean we don’t have those abilities. If I don’t know how to use things on my phone, it does not mean my phone does not have what I don’t know how to use. I may not know how to use my phone for everything, but I should be able to dig into my body, mind, and spirit for its potential. If I look at things with an open mind, I may even discover flaws causing me discomfort. Otherwise, I may stay stuck at the same level until I expire. So if we personally don’t dig into, cross, and break our so-called boundaries, we would never come out of our practiced and preached lines of our ancestors. Remember, all paths lead to the cliff of faith, but what goes on within you personally matters the most. Paying attention while you are on the journey is the game because you are converting spirituality into physical actions while you are alive. So whatever is before your birth or beyond the cliff of faith is none of your business; it’s Godly, so leave it at that and do your job of reciprocation because that is what keeps God physically relevant. Don’t put anyone in hell or promise them heaven to politically use them.
Our ancient fears and greed are not derived from our personal reservoirs of knowledge; they are politically installed within us by our belonging groups. While our religions may endlessly discuss hope, optimism, and faith, they often neglect that fear and greed simply do not mix with hope and faith. These negative emotions are closely tied to our political ponds, streams, and rivers of belonging.
When it comes to faith, its main purpose is to teach us about hope because they go hand in hand. Not only do they provide spiritual benefits during our lifetimes, but they also make logical sense. Greed and fear, on the other hand, are signs of a lack of faith, and they don’t mix unless there is a political twist involved. Logical knowledge doesn’t speak from both sides of the mouth, especially concerning spirituality. If you preach hope, fear and greed simply don’t fit together. It’s either hope and faith or greed and fear. Teaching something conflicting is not only confusing, but it also has the potential to taint one’s spirituality.
When fear and greed are used as motivators, hope is the first thing to go. Believing in God without hope is a spiritual problem with no solutions for the individual. For political religion, this isn’t a problem but rather a bonanza because a weaker, hopeless, fearful, and greedy individual is primed to be controlled and used as a worker bee or a warrior ant. Remember, no matter how religious you are, your belief system is questionable to you and, interestingly, by you.
If we start to examine our fear and greed, they were probably among the first pieces of human knowledge we became aware of. Sure, we will always have their opposites, so bravery and generosity have also been integral to human life. Interestingly, both sides are admired and glorified throughout our history since everyone felt and understood their importance and necessity. Societies across humanity, even without connections to each other, invented stories simply to politically control their individuals.
Our pursuit of control helped us evolve, and here we are, doing things to play God. Yet, at the same time, many people around the world prefer to remain stuck in their fear and greed philosophies rather than taking on the responsibilities of a CEO. To me, this is another politically flipped triangle: Hope, Fear, and Greed have been flipped along with God, Devil, and human individual, or a CEO and a CEO’s sense of belonging and sense of freedom. The right side up is Hope at the top corner, just like the CEO at the top in other triangles, making decisions and being responsible for personal actions.
People become rich and successful for different reasons, driven by various motivations. The discovery of these motivations has led to the creation of a class system. The elite class realized that humans are easily motivated by fear and greed, and they have used this understanding to control people, thereby reinforcing political power. Our sense of belonging is deeply rooted, even affecting our hormone levels, teaching us to live in groups. Unfortunately, this sense of belonging is founded on the politics of trust, giving rise to “trust politics.” However, trust based on political foundations cannot be genuinely trusted.
From parents to belonging groups, to nations and religions, all engage in the politics of trust, yet most crimes against individuals are committed by those within their belonging groups. We are taught not to trust others, leading us to stick together despite internal conflicts. Historically, religions and nationalism have divided us. Muslims have ten known sects, Christians have even more, and individual beliefs vary widely. Some people become extremists, others moderates, some abandon God altogether, and some believe by degrees.
Politicians and businesspeople alike cannot get enough of preaching control. The question is, does this apply to everyone? Not necessarily. You can look within yourself to discover what drives you. Some knowledge has worked for us for a long time, but if it is not based on truth or is spiritually incorrect, it should not be associated with God. If it is politically or business-motivated, it is against spirituality and truth. Business and politics may be essential for our communities, but if they are hidden behind spirituality and God to manipulate ordinary individuals, they should be considered spiritual crimes. At the very least, they are unethical, and mixing unethical practices with God and spirituality should be a crime at all levels because it denies personal free will and pins crimes on someone innocent.
If you want spirituality, try removing fear and greed from within you and see what happens. You will gain clarity about who you are. You will be able to see, pick, choose, mix, and match everything good about God, spirituality, and everything in between to enrich your mortal journey.
Regardless of race, gender, color, nation, or religion, every human individual has the ability to receive, pick, choose, mix, and match information from a vast ocean of knowledge. We use constantly incoming new data to run our lives successfully. If you believe life is preordained, it is for you to feel comfortable and thankful for your current situation. While this belief has its own wisdom, it is your prerogative to hold it. However, the reality of human life reveals many contradictions. Our evolving nature can challenge the concept of a preordained life. If hard work goes unrecognized because life is preordained, it discourages people from putting in effort. Reality shows that people worldwide, regardless of their background, work hard to succeed. Our evolving nature defies man-made political views and philosophies like preordained life. Being born into a royal family does not guarantee a lifetime of royalty, highlighting that our evolving nature disregards traditional systems of governance and religious beliefs.
Historically, religions held significant political power, but today they face consequences for spiritual crimes and must apologize for past atrocities. They even sell majestic buildings to pay bills. In our digitally connected world with a focus on equal human rights, the idea of preordained life struggles to hold ground.
We must determine the level of effort needed to create a balanced belief system. Human evolution shows that even the most conservative societies must change with the times. Our evolutionary nature is the only thing truly preordained for us. Discussing this honestly, without political influence, reveals that educated individuals know they are not confined to their political boundaries. Every day brings new knowledge, making it unnatural for us to remain stuck in political ponds, streams, or rivers. Staying within political boundaries makes you believe your life is preordained, but humanity around you keeps moving forward.
Logically and personally, no one should support these preached boundaries because they are political and not related to God. Knowledge should be seen as authority. While democracy is important, in terms of knowledge, the majority is not the authority—logical truth is.
If your emotions and the politics of belonging have taken over, and you follow your group’s beliefs without questioning, you have been robbed of self-respect and self-esteem. Losing relevance means politics has reduced you to a programmed creature. We are not created this way; each of us possesses an exclusive atom of autonomy, making us the CEOs of our lives. We must embrace this role. This does not undermine God or spirituality; it aligns with our preordained nature to be CEOs. I advocate for converting spirituality into physical actions, helping answer the prayers of those seeking divine assistance.
Our evolutionary nature is preordained, meaning no human or religious knowledge can stand in the way of God’s evolutionary plan. No book, including this blog, holds ultimate knowledge for evolving beings. Like me, you can pick, choose, mix, and match from your ocean of knowledge, as long as you are not politically brainwashed. I accept knowledge that is free from political bias and does not preach prejudice or discrimination. I question everything based on these principles. Prejudice and discrimination are neither spiritual nor from God. Believing you are superior because of your birth group or association messes up the whole picture of God, spirituality, humanity, and individuality.
We must control our animal desires because we are meant to evolve beyond them. True belief in God, who is above human politics, leads to belief in equal human rights. As CEOs, we recognize our responsibilities. Each of us is relevant, and spiritual thoughts must be converted into physical actions. We are important partners of God because good intentions must manifest physically. Without action, spirituality is useless. We self-regulate to function socially, following spiritual ethics even without religious paths. The question of metaphoric heaven or hell is moot since it is not a physical reality yet. Focus on your responsibilities in life; live honestly and spiritually reciprocate. If you treat others as you wish to be treated, you are on the right path. Imagine yourself on the receiving end of your actions before committing them. If you find them unacceptable, recognize them as spiritual crimes. This simple rule will guide you.
If you feel irrelevant, explore yourself to understand who you are. Your complexity and evolving potential will amaze you. By becoming the CEO of your life, you will have a peaceful relationship with your personal atom of autonomy or God within you, free from guilt. You will use your sense of justice and see beyond the politics of belonging.
Logically and spiritually, supporting justice means supporting equal human rights. You will evolve beyond programmed creatures and stand against political injustice. Equal human rights transcend racial, ethnic, gender, national, and religious boundaries, overcoming the prejudice and discrimination tied to politics of belonging.
I am a liberal to my core and believe that God does not need any protection, especially regarding His existence. Logically, no one needs to argue over the existence of God because He exists within us. Our good deeds and the act of helping one another are living examples of God within us. If you worry about the future generations, do practical things now. Remember, protecting your belief systems or God is merely a political issue. Life has existed for an unimaginable time, and yet we have been killing each other, which presents a bigger issue. We need to evolve to become true human beings. If we continue to succumb to our killing urges, we are not evolving. It is time for us to evolve to the point where we stop killing each other over things that are not clearly understood with our current level of knowledge.
The ancient Egyptians took their material possessions with them because they believed they would need them in the spiritual world. This was proven wrong when we robbed them. The Mayans predicted the world would end, yet here I am, writing this blog more than twenty years later. Why are we so occupied with the afterlife while we do terrible things to each other during our living years, often in the name of God and the afterlife? Whether the world ends or not, our politics continues to cause real damage. If you want proof, try counting the death toll caused by our belief systems about the afterlife. Unfortunately, we actively and willingly participate in this. The only provable reason is the politics of belonging to our groups.
We have just sent a major telescope into space. We are aware of global issues like global warming and infectious diseases. We have the United Nations and related global initiatives, and our technology and medicine are evolving. The benefits of our evolution are countless. Vaccination has probably saved more lives than the current world population, and it’s ongoing. Yet, some people dismiss all this progress. Remember, nothing physical is accomplished by those who only pray and worship for their loved ones. Why, then, do we have such a divided humanity? By removing the politics of group belonging and connecting to humanity as a whole, we can solve most of our political problems. The spread of equal human rights is a clear sign of our evolution. These rights are essential for humanity, but then things like Trump’s presidency happen. I don’t believe things happen exclusively due to human actions. The question is, how do we remove the politics of belonging from our belief systems so we can figure things out? Since our oxygen supply, functioning bodies, and life-sustaining circumstances are not under our control, we can’t take full credit for everything. Our progress and evolution happen because we collect knowledge from various sources. There is always an individual connection to our breakthroughs, and that individual has clearly been helped. We must learn to trust in nature because our lives only work after we take a breath. All our achievements, progress, and evolution relate to that one breath. We should all learn to acknowledge, appreciate, and believe in that help to be hopeful. Unfortunately, we often ignore this. On one hand, we say even a leaf on a tree can’t move without God’s will, yet we kill each other in God’s name. The real disconnections are not related to our spiritual belief systems but rather to the infections eroding humanity. YES, THEY ARE ALL BASED ON THE POLITICS OF BELONGING TO OUR GROUPS. If you can personally and individually figure this out, you will love to connect with humanity as a whole. If you belong to groups that kill people to enforce spiritual beliefs as a governing system, they are trying to meddle with God’s will, as if God is unable to manage His own affairs. The question is, are you personally giving God a good or bad name?
I am not going to claim to know or even try to Google how many people die and are born every day. I am discussing the subject of evolving life. God knows how many people have died since we started living as human beings. Our reality is like our personal living body. We start with a cell and end up with trillions of them, then we pass it on. The question is not the number but our evolution—our net gain and loss. Whether it’s our individual body, humanity, or God, things are moving quite similarly, so we need to look at it not only as individuals or groups but as humanity as well. Since we have been evolving constantly, we have a net gain, but some of us don’t see it that way. By looking at the scientific, medical, and technological advancements humanity has made in all our fields, we can see progress. Especially if not politically tainted, we are doing quite well. Life tells me that we should look at our lives positively and optimistically because of our individual mortal nature.
Our modern science helps save more lives than it takes, so there is a net gain for humanity. Regardless of its high death toll, if our religious, social, and economic growth has a net gain, we are ahead. I personally view this with optimism because our evolution is leading us to listen and evolve to the point where we are willing to give and receive equal human rights around the world, regardless of what our racism, religions, or nationalism say. This is happening because we prefer to use our ocean of knowledge rather than staying with stubbornness and following what our belonging groups have preached for thousands of years.
Depending on how you look at it, when you are in a difficult situation, things can seem big and overwhelming, making your belonging group seem like the only option against the injustice done to you by other groups. If you stay in that mindset, nothing will change. But if we all become individually aware and reject group politics, we can overcome our political problems. It may seem impossible and unattainable because we have been following an outdated political system. Look at our problems, and you will see the whole picture. Humanity has been calling for us all individually, but we never responded. Until recent history, today, many people are becoming aware of our global issues. From global warming to infectious diseases to equal individual human rights, things are changing rapidly, but the politics of belonging is still the greatest hurdle. If you find this overwhelming, you need to adapt to the demands of the time and era you are born into. If you think everything is bad, step outside your personal situation and look at the larger scale. Humanity has been and still is evolving and moving forward despite all the killing along the way. If you are an eternal pessimist, look around honestly. Do you see people riding horses and killing each other with swords, spears, and arrows, or do you see how many lives have been saved by our advancements? Do you see communication done by horse riders and pigeons or instant internet? Don’t you think you have to change accordingly and overcome your pessimism? If you can’t see any progress humanity has made simply because of your habit of seeking a perfect life, you need to look at your life from a broader perspective. Your pessimism, unhappiness, and discontentment indicate that you are living in a personal hell with no way out, not even after death. If you can’t be happy by choice during your living years, what makes you think God could make you happy and content as a spirit? If that were the case, our dead ancestors would come to make our living years better. This should tell you that as a dead person, without a physical body and choice, you can’t help your own loved ones. The problem is that we are preached things that make no logical sense, and then we are told that things are not supposed to make sense, so logic has no place, and we must blindly believe without questioning. This has its merits, but then why are there threats of shunning, punishing, and killing?
If you don’t have what you need in your living years, God will give it to you in heaven, making your life perfect in all manners. What does this mean to you if your desires are all related to a living body during your living years? They would not match the needs of a spiritual form. Are you willing to buy this hope and gamble everything? Remember, most religions say do not gamble. If you are still willing to put all your eggs in the basket of life after death, remember that you are useful to God as a living being. God has plenty of spirits but needs human physicality to be relevant. Remember, the Egyptians took their material things with them only for us to rob them all. Other than in movies, they simply could not do anything about it. Back to the progress humanity has made with the common sense of evolution. If someone could visit the past with a cell phone, what would that person be considered? At the very least, Godly, if not God. Remember, we can store all the knowledge from holy books on a chip and access it anytime. One can Google and ask questions about science and technology, putting our knowledge at our fingertips as if it were magic. Our libraries full of books can be online for anyone who wants them. In a nutshell, all books—holy, unholy, or otherwise—can be available for use at any time.
If you become unhappy and discontented, you need to know because it is you who suffers or benefits from your frame of mind. If life is never perfect and you are never happy and satisfied, your problems reach deeper, spiritually bankrupting you as well. Being spiritually bankrupt prevents you from appreciating your blessings, like the oxygen supply and a functioning body, so you stop playing your physical role of reciprocation. Your autonomy witnesses this, and your soul starves from your animal behavior, perpetuating unhappiness and dissatisfaction. A starving soul can’t be happy and content within a one-sided, exclusively animal lifespan. Your life becomes like a hamster on a wheel in a cage until you are freed from it. Dissatisfaction and discontentment are one thing, but being unhappy in mortal life is a major problem because you have been blessed with powerful tools like autonomy and spirituality. Since it is a lifestyle you adapted to and choose, you need to know that you can’t blame anyone for it. After all, you do have a living body and a mind with free will to choose your lifestyle. Life, from birth to death, is full of the same needs. All you have to do is change your perception. After all, life is a journey, and you must learn to adapt and evolve as you move through it. Only then will you find contentment, happiness, and fulfillment in the opportunities and blessings of life.
Personally, I believe that if we remain confined to our small ponds, streams, and rivers, we are effectively endorsing and perpetuating racism, prejudice, and discrimination. Despite the vast ocean of possibilities available to us, we intentionally choose to live like animals rather than embracing our potential as human beings. As humans, we have the capacity to give and receive equal human rights, a luxury that animals do not possess. Politically, we are often manipulated by those who benefit from keeping us at the level of other animals. While our loyalties to political groups might seem significant, individual logic dictates that we should support equal human rights. Unfortunately, our race, gender, religion, and nationalism frequently hinder this spirituality-based understanding due to political influences.
To function effectively in modern society, one must use personal logic to make sense of it all. Failing to do so, and instead adhering strictly to political loyalties, can result in internal conflict and spiritual turmoil. If you do not exercise your free will and sense of justice due to allegiance to political or religious groups, you risk straying from spirituality. This internal conflict with your own autonomy can be deeply unsettling and spiritually damaging. Understanding and accepting your role as a human being is crucial, as you cannot escape the presence of God within you.
The pressing question is: Who is responsible for your personal happiness and contentment—yourself or your group? Who bears the burden of internal suffering? Personally, I take responsibility for my actions, which means I prioritize my own happiness and contentment over political affiliations. I recognize the importance of personal spirituality, and regardless of my political or religious ties, I would not sacrifice my spiritual integrity for the sake of group loyalty. While many religions are political in nature, spirituality is a personal journey. Most religions preach against gambling, yet when it comes to political control, they often accept it. Whether you find it easy or difficult, you must learn to select, combine, and apply the vast ocean of knowledge within your mind to achieve justice for yourself and others.
Ideologies such as democracy, autocracy, dictatorship, monarchy, “isms,” or even religious beliefs that advocate removing individual responsibility and free thinking are politically designed to undermine self-esteem. They aim to make individuals feel irrelevant so that they can be used for political purposes. By making people feel insignificant, these ideologies also make them feel irresponsible for their actions. Politically driven senses of group belonging are tools used by many political systems to achieve this. Group-related passions, sacrifices, or even remaining silent about a group’s wrongdoing are often seen as inevitable. This strategy infiltrates our spiritual systems, including religious beliefs, often hiding behind the guise of divine authority to gain popularity.
Most belief systems and governing frameworks preach that God, the Devil, and a controlling authority are more important than the individual. An injustice remains an injustice regardless of its justification. If political manipulation distorts the truth, it ceases to be true. Many governing and belief systems imply that human actions are insignificant on a larger scale. For example, if you are taught that your prophet died for your sins, it might lead you to believe that you are forgiven for past, present, and future sins. This philosophy suggests that as long as you are part of and truly believe in religious rituals, traditions, customs, and rules, you will be forgiven regardless of your actions. This notion effectively shifts the responsibility for your actions onto God and the Devil, rendering individual actions irrelevant in the grand scheme of life. However, it is evident that without human physicality and choices, both good and bad deeds would remain suspended in the air or in an imaginary realm. Spiritual deeds, whether good or bad, require physical action to be meaningful, effective, or harmful.
Socialism and communism share a similar perspective because they place responsibility for individual needs on the community and government. These belief systems and governing structures all aim to deny the individual their freedom, importance, and relevance. Politically, making individuals feel irrelevant signifies success. Yet, in reality, a free and strong individual contributes to a stronger community, nation, and religion. When an individual possesses autonomy, a personal sense of justice, and the ability to be compassionate and loving, it highlights the importance of personal physical actions.
Labels such as “good little angel” or “little devil” are not merely labels based on thoughts but are earned through physical actions. Our physical actions are crucial in defining our character. No matter what we think or imagine, it does not determine our moral standing. Even our legal system waits for physical actions to charge someone with a crime. Physical actions are the essence of our moral narrative. When we physically help or harm someone, it directly affects others and dictates how we are perceived. While we need life-sustaining conditions like oxygen and a functioning body, which are beyond our control, our free will and sense of justice place us in a unique position. Our actions are choices and are judged based on the benefits or harm they cause to others and ourselves.
Our understanding of good and bad evolves with our personal growth. Concepts of good and bad are not static; they can change over time. For instance, equal human rights, once a matter of pride, are now seen as fundamental, whereas bigotry and discrimination are viewed negatively. Humanity’s evolving standards of good and bad reflect changes in societal attitudes, often influenced by events like wars or gradual shifts in public opinion. Historical practices once accepted by the majority can become obsolete, while previously condemned practices can become normalized.
Being a conservative who resists change or a liberal who seeks immediate transformation can lead to conflict. Social realities today differ significantly from those of the past century or even two thousand years ago. Traditional customs and rules may clash with modern values, particularly in conservative nations struggling to align with evolving human rights standards. Nations like Saudi Arabia illustrate this evolutionary struggle.
Equal human rights mean that no race, nation, or religious belief is superior to others. As humanity advocates for equal justice, groups, nations, and religions must adapt to the needs of an evolving society or risk being marginalized by the global community and future generations. Some nations grapple with issues like abortion rights, not necessarily due to the moral question but because of shifting public opinions. The real battle is not between right and wrong but between segments of the same population, reflecting the pace at which individual education and demands for equal rights evolve.
Extreme conservatism and radical liberalism reflect deep-seated opposition to change, often leading to internal conflicts. These opposing forces raise questions about the origins of conflicting principles and whether human beings are driven by their evolving nature or constrained by political ideologies. While religious beliefs and nationalism suggest one thing, modernization and progress point to a different direction. As modern individuals, we must evaluate our internal feelings and align them with our free will. Our actions and their consequences are our responsibility, not solely attributed to God or the Devil. Ultimately, we must use our free will to navigate spiritual honesty, acknowledging that our individual actions, influenced by politics and personal beliefs, play a crucial role in shaping our reality.
If you want to understand the power of the divine nature of evolution, just look at history and observe the journey of human progress. It has been advancing, is advancing, and will always advance because our political affiliations are not natural; rather, they are political constructs tied to our constantly evolving knowledge. How do you feel internally? Do you prefer to remain within the confines of your current beliefs, or do you believe that you are a boundless entity created by God? Do you genuinely believe that you are an independently evolving being? Looking back at history, we see that humanity has often debated its evolution—whether to slow it down to adapt wisely or to act out of our primal nature, often resulting in conflict over political affiliations. We cannot control, contain, or stop this evolution, no matter what our affiliated groups say. Every nation on Earth has evolved and continues to evolve. Interestingly, even the most conservative societies, such as Saudi Arabia, are undergoing significant changes, embracing activities like singing, dancing, and even opening casinos.
Humanity has always been and will always be in a state of change. We cannot rely on metaphoric realities to solve our problems. This is not meant to undermine anyone’s belief systems but to clarify what logically seems inconsistent to me. Let’s simplify a complex issue with a simple example: Imagine you are in a building that rents large halls for social events. Various groups come and go according to their bookings. The first group is considered bad; they gather to plan how to spread their harmful activities. As they leave, another group arrives, aiming to plan how to spread goodness for the betterment of humanity. When they leave, a third group enters, a mixed bag of people who engage in heated discussions, arguments, and attempts to define what is good and what is bad based on their current level of evolution. Logically, the building itself is neutral—it is neither good nor bad.
This is where I disagree with the general perspective that God and the Devil are either revered or despised by people as a way to absolve themselves of their own actions. If you believe that the building is not neutral, and that people become good or bad simply by attending events there, then we have a serious issue with our belief systems. The building allows or contains people who physically commit acts of good and bad, but this should not make the building itself good or bad. Since each of us possesses an atom of autonomy and free will, we should hold individuals or groups responsible for their actions. Their actions are a result of their choices and physicality. Logically, we should stop blaming or crediting the building and instead take personal responsibility for our actions.
Always remember, as human beings, we carry our individual atom of autonomy, which makes us accountable for our lives. If you view yourself merely as a body and brain, you are denying that you are more than just these physical components. Personally, I believe we are not just a body and brain, nor are we merely the sum of installed data. This makes us an integral and crucial part of the larger scheme. If you consider yourself irrelevant to this larger picture or mechanism, you imply that the mechanism would function just as well without you. If you don’t understand your role, you remain trapped in a world of irrelevance. Unless we delve into assumptions, we cannot truly know what happens to God and the Devil, especially if we exclude human physicality from the equation. Logically, everything would either collapse or come to a halt. All concepts of good and bad would remain in thought processes and fail to take physical form, making them irrelevant. Without human beings to convert deeds into physical actions, both God and the Devil would become irrelevant. The question then becomes, what is good and for whom? What is bad and for whom? Regardless of our belief systems and political affiliations, a living, breathing human being should be respected for their physical contributions that make things actually happen. Good and bad transcend the boundaries of humanity, nations, and religions. Spirituality or God-related good and Devil-related bad are universal because of our physical presence in societies worldwide. Since human beings contribute physically to manifesting divine or demonic actions, individuals should be recognized and respected as a crucial element, regardless of their beliefs. If you aim to diminish individual importance for political gain, it is neither divine nor spiritual. The first step should be to address your personal spirituality and understand the politics of belonging.
Consider this: if you visit a ghost town where all the infrastructure—roads, bridges, electricity, sewer systems, buildings, and houses—remains intact but no one is there to use or value them, the question arises: who will put value on these assets? Similarly, if God is considered valuable only in the presence of humans, then without people to benefit from God, God would also be rendered irrelevant. Many religions claim that human individuals are insignificant and that only God and the Devil matter. To me, this doesn’t make sense. If humans are made irrelevant, their absence should not make any difference. However, we see that without human beings, good and bad actions do not occur physically. Therefore, a living, breathing human individual is an essential factor. Our collective politics may lead us to believe in God and the Devil, but without human beings, both would become like empty buildings or ghost towns.
As human beings, we may seem small and irrelevant, but we are the primary converters of spiritual thoughts or wisdom into physical actions. Unfortunately, this includes the opposite of good as well. When it comes to our religious beliefs, most people say there is one and only one God. I personally believe this as well, but I also believe we are all cells of God, continuously converting spiritual thoughts into physical actions. I only question this belief when I observe how God’s work is carried out. When people speak of one God, they may mean that there is no other God or gods. They may fear acknowledging that a human being can be a partner of God because that would make the individual relevant. They fear individual power, which is why so much effort is put into indoctrinating individuals within their belief systems. I wonder how religions would maintain their political power if everyone recognized their own relevance. How would they influence a person who is considered a partner of the Almighty? How would they manipulate individuals for their political purposes?
Our self-respect and self-esteem would be too high to be controlled by politically savvy leaders. Interestingly, all seven billion of us are engaged, in various ways, in translating God’s spiritual work into physical actions. Some of us may convert malevolent thoughts into physical actions, but in general, humanity functions well because most of us are able to self-regulate and make God and the Devil relevant. Now, the question is: why would an individual choose to do good? If you can choose your actions, you will end up discerning and judging them as good or bad. This should be based on the era you are born into, not outdated by thousands of years.
Logically, if your physicality brings good and bad into existence, you are an equal partner in creating that good and bad. You cannot simply attribute all the credit to God or solely blame the Devil for your actions. It all comes down to the free will you have been given. If you ask whether God and the Devil have partners, remember to explain it logically, not through widely accepted religious theories. If you accept that without human beings, both God and the Devil lose their significance, then you can truly understand the importance of human contributions in creating physical realities. God and the Devil would only be important when their abilities are measured. If I had been born in the era of our prophets, I would have followed and accepted God and the Devil as the ultimate entities. In that time, questioning their authority might have been dangerous, and many would follow out of fear. Today, things are different, but not for everyone; there are still people who kill and are killed in the name of their religions. Spiritual questions or standards continue to be overshadowed by the politics of belonging in some societies. In this era of equal human rights and the internet, we are free to believe what we want and to use logic to figure things out. While religious beliefs may start where logic fails, human decency calls us to oppose spiritual crimes like racism, bigotry, prejudice, and discrimination.
As human beings, we are born into our respective groups—whether Muslim, Christian, Jew, Hindu, or any other race, nation, religion, or sect. Always remember, this was not by anyone’s choice, so you cannot be punished or punish someone else simply for belonging to a particular group. If you are blamed or punished, those doing the punishing are committing spiritual crimes.
I have likened humanity to a body with various cells working to keep it alive. How the body functions and becomes a body is still a question humanity is learning about. We can explore this question religiously or scientifically, but without assumptions, we cannot find a definitive answer. If you believe it is important to discover these answers, pursue that knowledge, but remember to live your mortal life well, considering all aspects of your life and the people around you. If you choose to adhere to what you have been taught, you may be stuck in the current stream of knowledge. However, you should select from your broader understanding to live a fulfilling life. We may know a lot from science, but I am not referring to that single stream of knowledge. I am talking about the entire spiritual picture of our physical existence. We are still learning how to function both physically and spiritually simultaneously. We must understand how to embrace our metaphorical realities, such as belief in God, love, compassion, and personal justice, while recognizing our physical existence. We do not stand apart from other creatures, yet we cannot completely distinguish ourselves from God either. As physical beings, we need to understand how we interact with the ten trillion cells and hundred trillion non-human bacteria within us. Oxygen and favorable conditions for life on Earth are required, and none of this is under our individual control. When you delve into these aspects, whether scientifically or religiously, you often end up facing the cliff of faith. Becoming an extremist in any domain is related to partial knowledge. Just as the politics of belonging keeps us aligned with our ancestors’ beliefs, and new scientific discoveries pull us in the opposite direction, we must recognize that we are still evolving. We have resolved many unknowns and no longer throw virgins off cliffs to appease God, but we are still in the process of evolution. The more we know, the more we realize we do not know. Instead of getting entrenched in our political affiliations, we should remain open to learning more.
After reading this, do you believe God and the Devil have partners? Try considering the situation without human physicality, even metaphorically, and see how God and the Devil function. Human beings are the greatest partners of both God and, unfortunately, the Devil. If you see that humans are translating spirituality and even malevolent acts into physical actions but deny this because you have been taught that God has no partners, you must acknowledge human beings as partners of God or recognize that God lives through us as physical entities. If you don’t, you will need to rely on miracles and explanations. If you accept that we are partners with God, then our relationship to God makes sense in the context of our bodily functions. Believing that we are directly connected to God would challenge the notion that humans are irrelevant or born sinners. Whether you consider the universe created by God or that humanity named the unknown entity, you can either explore the science of creation from billions of years ago or adhere to a belief related to a particular group. However, I prefer to focus on the realities of my individual mortal life. A mortal life is limited, so it must be lived accordingly. We should understand how belief in God helps or hinders us in our mortal existence. Delving into assumptions or metaphorical realities should primarily benefit us in living a successful mortal life. Instead of diving into the universe of assumptions, I would prefer to focus on our present lives to avoid killing each other over metaphorical realities. Killing someone over something we do not clearly understand cannot be rewarding to God, as it stems from ignorance and is a spiritual sin.
Our problem is that we cannot distinguish between good and bad because we are often indoctrinated and have lost our personal sense of justice. We are blinded by the politics of belonging to our groups. Our religious beliefs have stripped us of our relevance, and we have bought into this wholeheartedly, resulting in suffering from the age-old politics of belonging. No one can quantify the deaths committed in the name of political belonging. Even religions that claim to be spiritual have caused countless innocent deaths and continue to do so. Unfortunately, we fall victim to this willingly, failing to question our actions and allowing politicians to dictate what is good or bad. We are unable to apply our personal sense of justice because we are told what justice is. If you are blinded by religious politics, you need to start living in the era you were born into. Today, being racist, bigoted, prejudiced, or discriminatory is not an asset; it is a human flaw. Whether it is religion or nationalism, you are expected to be responsible for your individual actions.
Navigating identity politics is simpler than you might think. All you need to do is recognize who you are. Your identity consists of your personal “atom of autonomy” or “God particle,” which grants you free will, a personal sense of justice, and the capacity for compassion and love. In essence, you are a microcosm of divinity or even a small devil, but you are not merely a worker bee or a warrior ant. You are a superior entity, not just an extension of an ideology or a group of people. You are a being who holds within you an ocean and space of infinite potential. Clarify this understanding in your mind so that you can make informed choices for a fulfilling life.
If you do something to someone that you wouldn’t want done to yourself or your loved ones—even in the name of your nation or religion—that constitutes a spiritual crime. At the end of the day, you are responsible for your actions. If you are evolved enough to imagine yourself on the receiving end of your actions and find them uncomfortable, you are committing a spiritual crime. We are all born with an innate sense of justice, adorned with spiritual qualities, but these can be obscured by the politics of belonging. We must evolve beyond outdated political affiliations and recognize that, logically and physically, we belong to humanity as a whole. We belong to one spiritual God and to our own atom of autonomy.
The idea of belonging to specific groups often promotes the notion that we are separate from humanity and God. How you view God will affect your sense of relevance or irrelevance. If you see yourself as part of God, rather than a separate entity, you are not a mere partner but an integral part of God. Separating yourself makes you irrelevant. Conversely, if you view humans as separate from God but still responsible for translating spirituality into physical actions, then God has billions of partners. This logic implies that God and human individuals are intertwined.
When you engage in the politics of belonging, your group may resist acknowledging this interconnectedness because it threatens their authority, especially in today’s world. Logically, God and human beings are inseparable. Just as a body dies without a soul and a soul becomes non-physical without a body, spirituality loses its value without physical manifestation. The question is whether you see God and humanity as separate or one. Either way, understanding the importance of both spirituality and physicality is crucial. If you separate them, you must accept that God has billions of partners. If you cling to political belonging, you cannot explain how good deeds are done without human physicality.
In India and Pakistan, many people visit the tombs of long-deceased saints. Different Islamic sects have varying beliefs about this practice, with some labeling it “shirk”—a grave sin in their view. I asked someone for statistics on this practice for my blog, and he reported that on average, 150,000 people are fed at one popular saint’s tomb alone. This represents a vast number of individuals receiving food regularly. Regardless of your religion or sect, you cannot deny that spirituality is being translated into physical actions. Whether or not you agree with this practice, you must recognize the actions being performed and not let political loyalties blind you. Saints may be gone, but living individuals are carrying out these acts. If you need help, you should seek out places where such assistance is offered.
If you disagree with these practices due to your political or religious views, you must acknowledge that God and humans are not separate. Humanity, as a whole, can be seen as cells of God, making God omnipresent. If you cannot see God in others who live and function like you, you need to look beyond the politics of belonging. If you cannot do that, you are no different from genetically programmed creatures. As human beings, we each possess our unique atom of autonomy, and our connection to God is inherent. Everything else is related to the politics of belonging.
Conflicts and wars associated with religions and their sects are nothing more than politics of belonging. They create a separation between you and spirituality. However, you are one of the two hands needed to make a spiritual “clap.”
Many religious leaders and gurus promote their belief systems to gain political power. I will not counter their claims or assert that I know everything about life before birth or after death, such as reincarnation, hell, heaven, or the origins of the universe. However, if you follow the teachings of your group and strive to be a good person, these belief systems may be worth exploring. But, as you observe the state of the world, you must take responsibility for navigating your spiritual life. Especially if things are not going well for you, take charge and become the CEO of your life. Let your goodness come from within, not out of greed, fear, or a desire to impress others.
While I may occasionally venture into the realm of assumptions to illustrate my points, I prefer to keep things as simple as possible. To me, it is more about our journey during our lifetime than about the afterlife. The concept of the “cliff of faith” (see “Cliff of Faith”) helps explain my perspective. I believe that creating physical outcomes from spiritual thoughts can only be achieved while we are physically functioning. Life after death has little use for God in this context. Living a meaningful life should be the priority, as sacrificing a physical life for eternal comfort has not been proven, despite millennia of struggles and wars. We must first die to truly find out, but even then, we cannot prove it because we will no longer be physical.
As history shows, we have robbed tombs of their material possessions, illustrating that putting all our faith into such beliefs is akin to gambling. Most religions preach against gambling yet are addicted to it because it provides them with power and control over people. You need to decide for yourself what is more important: having a say while alive or being unable to perform Godly tasks after death. Think critically before reaching your own “cliff of faith.” Remember, we all face the same ultimate reality.
People continue to debate and undermine each other’s belief systems to gain political advantage. Some argue that the Bible was compiled and written three hundred years after Jesus, claiming that kings altered the text to suit their preferences. Similarly, while the Qur’an is considered the unaltered word of God, sectarian divisions continue to fuel conflict despite its purported divine origin. Christians and Muslims both revere their respective prophets, yet they remain divided into numerous sects, often at odds with one another. If they truly believe in their holy texts, what fuels their discord? If not politics, then what?
Our issues are not with the sacred texts themselves but with those who lead people away from the true messages of spirituality, acting in ways that reflect a lack of evolution. Religious books, beliefs, and the concepts of God and humanity are often manipulated for political gain. If you cannot see how the politics of belonging create problems, you need to delve deeper into your personal sense of autonomy. This understanding will guide you in using your free will, compassion, love, and sense of justice to see beyond political affiliations. Being a good person involves more than following political messages; it involves personal spiritual evolution. Learn who and what you are. As an independent entity, you should use your free will to take responsibility for your actions.
Our knowledge is not confined to a single stream; our minds are as vast as oceans. We constantly receive knowledge from various sources, like rivers flowing into the sea. It is our responsibility to select, combine, and apply this knowledge in our lives. If you limit yourself to one stream of knowledge, whether it be science or religion, you confine yourself to a narrow perspective. For example, if you choose science and dismiss religion as nonsense, you may neglect understanding emotions like love, compassion, or personal justice. Conversely, focusing solely on religious beliefs about the afterlife may cause you to overlook the physical realities of life and the needs of others. While metaphorical realities may or may not manifest, physical realities are concrete and undeniable. We must use our unique ability to pick, choose, mix, and match knowledge to live a full, mortal life rather than becoming trapped in narrow ideological tunnels. Recognize yourself as a mini God, acting with a sense of justice towards all, including yourself.
Historically, people sacrificed virgins to appease God, yet God did not intervene on their behalf, as the goal was to learn and evolve from such barbaric practices. Today, we benefit from advancements that were previously unimaginable—predicting storms, saving lives through blood transfusions, and expanding our understanding of the world. We still have metaphorical realities, but they are continually evolving. It is crucial to avoid extreme ideologies and recognize that knowledge provided by our groups should aid in becoming spiritually aware individuals, not in harming others or ourselves. Our identity is not the data installed by our groups but our personal autonomy. If you let group politics dominate, you diminish your humanity, becoming akin to a computer or a car. This diminishment means you have strayed from what God intended for you.
If we are told that God has no partners or helpers, we must question how divine actions are accomplished. As a CEO of your life, you would understand that divine work, whether good or evil, requires human participation. When you start thinking critically, you will see the true importance of individual actions. Spirituality matters only when it is translated into physical actions. No matter how hard you swing your spiritual hand, if you do not add physicality, life remains silent. A lily in a forest pond may be beautiful, but without appreciative eyes, its beauty remains unrecognized.
If God is seen as good and the Devil as evil, you must consider the third equation to achieve real justice. Without understanding this, concepts of good and bad lose significance. Good for whom? Bad for whom? Humans are the only ones who experience benefits or harms from actions. Without human judgment, divine concepts become neutral. Thus, if you credit God for good and blame the Devil for evil, it fails without human involvement. If divine and devilish actions rely on human physicality, preaching human irrelevance is merely a political tactic. Without human beings, things get lost in abstraction.
As a human being, you can only grasp the politics of relevance if you are not swayed by your group’s influence and can critically assess the knowledge available to you. If you cannot see beyond the politics of belonging, it may be due to brainwashing or low self-esteem. The politics of belonging often undermine self-respect, leading to a lack of personal opinions and making individuals susceptible to manipulation.
Do you question your own relevance? If you find yourself confined to a single stream of knowledge, consider who is responsible for that limitation. You cannot blame your group, God, or the Devil, as you hold the atom of autonomy within you. You possess an ocean of knowledge within your mind, and it is your responsibility to navigate it. If the politics of belonging blind you, you fail to recognize your true potential. Even today, we are still struggling with these issues, but progress is being made towards equal human rights. I do not blame politicians who exploit people; I blame individuals who fail to act responsibly. Will you take charge and become the CEO of your life? Will you take responsibility for your actions or deny your role in translating spirituality into physicality? If you feel you are not yet there, begin exploring your personal ocean of knowledge to live a fulfilling human life, rather than a programmed existence. Even God and the Devil cannot act without your physical involvement. If you believe in miracles, so be it, but make sure you have done your due diligence first. You cannot prioritize metaphorical realities over physical realities.
Conversely, if you are a scientist or mathematician, you may prioritize numbers and dismiss anything outside of science and math as irrelevant. This approach confines you to a narrow perspective, while those who believe in metaphysical realities may lead richer lives. Spending your life focused solely on numbers or hoping for an afterlife without exploring the full spectrum of knowledge limits your understanding. As a CEO of your life, you must learn to navigate your living years successfully.
If you are a scholar in science or religion and exclusively adhere to one field, you still fail to be a complete human being. Whether you wield the power of an atom bomb or commit acts of violence in the name of your beliefs, you have access to an entire ocean of knowledge but choose to remain in a narrow stream. Claiming complete knowledge while failing to recognize the broader context is a sign of ignorance and prejudice. It is time to reach for your true potential. If you believe you become a better person by simply belonging to a group, you are still confined to a narrow stream.
Recognizing God within yourself and others, regardless of group affiliation, means becoming the CEO of your life, effectively distinguishing between the knowledge of various streams and recognizing the ocean within. If you are a true CEO, you will see the partnership between God and humanity. Otherwise, you may accept any explanation presented to you, regardless of its logical validity. It is clear that human beings are the ones who convert spirituality into physical actions. If you believe God does everything, you must understand how divine work is accomplished. As previously mentioned, God is in all of us and works through us, making us part of God. If you reject this, you must believe that God has partners, and therefore, billions of them. So, will you recognize God within yourself and others, regardless of their group affiliation? This recognition means you cannot harm others in the name of God. Believing in a distant or separate God confines you to your group, allowing its politics to dictate everything, including spirituality. In our complex world, where numerous religions and sects clash over who is right, we must individually navigate our path. If you choose to spend your life in conflict, that is your choice, but failing to utilize the full spectrum of knowledge will only lead to confusion within your own ocean.
We should all come down from our high horses of religious and scientific knowledge and address our present-day problems. Issues such as global warming, infectious diseases, and violations of equal human rights are pressing concerns that need our attention. We should move beyond the legacy of mass graves and the mistakes of our ancestors. In today’s era, we can instantly know about starvation, poverty, and sickness occurring anywhere in the world. We cannot simply focus on events from two thousand years ago, fifteen hundred years ago, or debates about the existence of God. We need to roll up our sleeves and address these issues head-on, without clinging to the superiority of our own groups. Humanity is a single organism, and its essence or “blood” is intertwined with our understanding of God—or vice versa.
If everyone claims that their stream of knowledge represents an ocean, why do we still face global problems rooted in prejudice and discrimination? Why are solutions tailored for specific groups rather than for humanity as a whole? If you cannot move beyond your own biases, you cannot genuinely claim to possess oceanic knowledge. True knowledge would lead to solutions such as equal human rights, universal spirituality, and justice for all individuals, regardless of where they live or where they come from. Connecting your prejudice and discrimination to God means committing spiritual crimes.
We must take both individual and collective responsibility to address present-day issues. Remember, we cannot change the past, nor can we predict or solve future problems by dwelling on them. We need to adopt a realistic view of human life, both individually and collectively, as our vast reservoir of knowledge calls for us to pick, choose, mix, and match wisely. The problem is that we are often educated within limited frameworks—our own ponds, streams, and rivers of knowledge. The politics of belonging have made our knowledge exclusive and biased. LET’S CHOOSE TO TAP INTO THE OCEAN OF OUR KNOWLEDGE OVER OUR LIMITED PONDS, STREAMS, AND RIVERS. We are capable of achieving far better than what we have done for thousands of years.
A while back, I wrote a blog titled “Know Your Realities,” which discussed our physical, metaphoric, and virtual realities. Logically, any non-physical or unproven knowledge should take a back seat to our physical realities. Unfortunately, looking at both our history and current events, it is evident that we have been—and continue to be—killing each other over our metaphoric realities. We have sacrificed for the unknown, unseen, and unproven since the dawn of our awareness.
Consider this: you simply can’t close your eyes while driving. Whether you believe in God or not, doing so won’t help you reach your destination. Believing that humans have no say in life can become a risky business for us all, both individually and collectively. We need to navigate our mortal journey with simple common sense—nothing more, nothing less. Interestingly, today you can trust virtual realities more than metaphoric ones. Self-driven technologies are emerging and becoming available. In essence, you can’t leave everything up to God. If you want bigger muscles, you must go to the gym, not to the mosque or church. This is because you have been blessed with your own personal atom of autonomy to take charge of your life. If you don’t, someone else will dictate how you should live or think, and you will be left behind.
So, should we act like genetically programmed entities as our religions sometimes demand? No. Especially regarding our realities, we need to raise our awareness. Distinguishing our realities is essential for us all. While our belonging groups have a place in our lives, they fall short as a physical reality because their physicality starts with the individual. We, individually, are creatures holding a God-like particle and are more important than any installed data. This means no one should be able to rob someone of their physical reality in favor of metaphoric realities. You cannot justify killing even in the name of God, let alone in the name of political belonging. Even if your belonging groups teach that your metaphoric realities should surpass others’ belief systems and physical realities, it does not justify such actions.
To engage with your atom of autonomy, imagine yourself on the receiving end of your actions. You will quickly become spiritually aware of your wrongdoing. Not only can you overcome your animal urges, but you can also tame political influences. If you understand that God represents our metaphoric knowledge or reality, you will also understand the politics of belonging. By being pure in the politics of belonging, you will gain spiritual insight. Only then will you be able to envision yourself on the receiving end of your actions before committing them.
When you delve into the rabbit hole of political belonging, everything becomes murky and tainted. Even God may not appear as the reality He should be. There is no absolute right or wrong if you are under political influences; you will be inclined to please your belonging groups. With personal awareness of your atom of autonomy, disagreements with your belonging group are inevitable. Politically, we have been used by our groups, and intriguingly, they don’t shy away from using God because He doesn’t physically intervene. Using God and people politically to justify killing each other has been happening since the dawn of awareness. For thousands of years, we have been aware of our individual free will, yet we still serve, kill, and die for our belonging group’s interests. We continue to do this despite being labeled prejudiced and discriminatory. We serve our groups regardless of our individual education or evolution. Whether or not we have God, the politics of belonging have us in their grasp.
This doesn’t mean we don’t play a role in humanity’s daily existence. We simply haven’t evolved enough to question our belonging groups. If it were up to God, He would intervene physically to stop us from killing each other. Since God is not our physical reality, it is up to us to take charge. If we want anything—anything physical—it requires our personal and physical input. If that input is influenced by personal insecurities or political biases, we will never overcome our urges to harm each other. Since God does not physically guide us, we are individually responsible for our physical actions. As mentioned, we have used God and people politically without His physical intervention. Thus, we cannot base our justice systems on God. Similarly, no religion or belief system should serve as a political system, as this inevitably leads to justice-related problems. One can simply say, “I don’t believe in God,” or “I believe in a different religion.” So how can a system operate without becoming prejudiced or discriminatory? Since both sides stand on shifting and evolving grounds, you cannot use a metaphoric reality politically to undermine someone’s physical reality. History shows that whenever we attempt this, disputes and wars drag on, costing countless human lives. Both sides vigorously attempt to prove God’s physicality, often resulting in the loss of human life.
Interestingly, a third perspective is emerging: individuals who view God and religions with skepticism due to political nonsense. We are undermining and tarnishing our spiritual side because of our unproven metaphoric realities. When people are forced, they think outside the box and naturally respect physical reality over metaphoric reality. Personally, I believe extremists are responsible for this spiritual erosion. The lack of respect for our belief systems stems from being extreme in our religious beliefs while being spiritually bankrupt. Individually, we are responsible for our participation due to our makeup. We are not merely animals; we are spiritual entities. Thus, our actions are not just a reflection of belonging groups but also of our individual contributions. Remember, a group of people is not a physical reality; they cannot act on their own unless we individually provide our physicality, similar to God or the Devil.
The actual problem is that we have been brainwashed by political leaders and politically organized religions into believing that being human means nothing. Some still believe, even today, that human beings are irrelevant. Try picturing God and the Devil without human beings and see how physical they are. If you can do that, you will find your self-respect and self-esteem. Interestingly, when it comes to our religious beliefs, we are very defensive. Our reactions are often very emotional. Yet, as evolved creatures, we are demanded by the times we live in to become spiritually aware.
Remember, our problems may seem minuscule, but our reactions can have enormously consequential impacts. Be mindful of your reactions. I know it might be asking a lot, but don’t let your reactions consume you. Becoming upset with people or situations can lead to self-destructive behavior. While you might be physically harming others, you could also be spiritually damaging yourself. Both are powerless without your reaction. Even God and the Devil cannot be praised or cursed for their help or harm because the key to physicality is still held by human beings. Other creatures might claim, “God made me do it,” but as entities with free will, whether you are the giver or receiver of your actions, you are responsible. Your group is in the same position. Circumstances may be life-threatening for individuals living in oppressive settings, but we all know when we are wrong in the name of our belonging groups or even God. Just look at justice systems—they have different sets of rules for minors or special circumstances, much like other creatures.
In the circle of our individual lives, we all face times when we need help, such as during disability, and at the beginning and end of our lives. Beyond those times, we have many more responsibilities than we are taught to believe. Since our parents and societies follow their traditions, customs, rituals, and rules of belonging groups, we don’t have much choice as dependents. However, for most of our lives, we are not dependent, so our actions are generally by our own choice. If you are acting on behalf of your belonging group, you are still responsible for your actions. Acting as if you are a dependent is not due to some genetically influenced or Godly programmed force pushing you—it is entirely decided by you because you have been blessed with free will. If your parents and society are influenced by political belonging, they will train, preach, and even enforce you to be just like them. Look around, and you will see numerous nations and religions dividing humanity into thousands of pieces. They keep their individuals weak and vulnerable so they can be used politically. This runs down to the individual level, so our insecurities are the foundation of our political systems. Since understanding this is an individual responsibility, we must evolve to take our next step. Times have changed; today, humanity needs to work as a whole to address our current problems. Our habit of belonging to groups prevents us from thinking beyond politics. This habit will not disappear soon unless we individually evolve and learn to trust and help each other. For now, we are merely looking for excuses to differentiate ourselves from one another—whether by color, race, size, gender, or beliefs. Let’s make some human sense out of this nonsense and keep up with the times. Understand who you really are as an individual before you try to understand God or claim to know everything about God. Beneath all the wrapped-up and installed identities, you are a human individual who simply wants to live as a tool of God. Discovering your true identity only requires a flick of a logical switch, but you must unwrap yourself from all the layers of political belonging and personal insecurities. Dealing with these ingrained issues is not easy, but you have been helped by God because you have come with your own personal atom of autonomy. The problem is that most of us think and believe what we have been taught to believe. Personal exploration is necessary at an individual level. Since not everyone is capable of doing that, our political leaders and even politically organized religions take advantage of this and hide behind democratic governing systems and religions. They manipulate people by preaching and spreading outdated theories of human irrelevance. They succeed in creating even more insecurities in already insecure individuals to maintain their power and control, disregarding the needs and demands of the present time.
What is God to you?
God is like what you are to your own body cells—you became what you are because of your cells, and your cells live because of you. It’s a loop: God created human beings, and human beings became aware enough to understand and create God. This relationship is like two wires—negative and positive. If one is absent, there can’t be light. If you undermine the importance of the other, the relationship loses its partnership, which I call reciprocation. If you lose reciprocation, the whole spiritual picture collapses. There can’t be good or bad without human physicality. God or even the Devil become irrelevant if there is no human physicality. This is only if you remove your politics of belonging to groups and start to look at things logically. At a personal level, your physicality is impossible if your cells are not working or if your body is not functioning in harmony. Can God or even the Devil exist without humanity? You can’t answer that without resorting to assumptions. Give yourself a chance and logically examine your body and cells to see what answer you come up with. Honestly assess if your physical actions are absent—would God or the Devil work? For or against whom? Remember, God and the Devil can’t be praised or cursed for their actions because you hold the key to physicality. While you can’t breathe on your own and life-sustaining circumstances are necessary, nothing moves without human physicality. When good and bad take physical form, only then do they hurt, harm, or benefit someone. Otherwise, things don’t work very well. As human beings, we need to critically examine ourselves. Only by understanding ourselves can we truly understand God. Human cells don’t have the ability to understand the body or its existence as a whole, but as human beings, we have the sophistication to grasp the entire process of life and God’s place in it. The knowledge humanity has accumulated is based on accepted opinions. Some are solid and repeatable, like math and science, while others remain in the realm of metaphoric realities. Our feelings of love and hate, religious beliefs, nationalism, and even political senses of belonging to groups can’t produce repeatable results. They reside in our metaphoric realities along with God and the Devil. They are there for us to feel, just as cells can feel the body but don’t understand it completely. When you feel but don’t have clear knowledge, you can’t claim to know everything about it. It’s like walking in a dark room, stumbling upon something, and sensing it but not fully understanding it. As we are still evolving, not everything is proven or solid, so if everyone doesn’t react the same way, it should be respected. However, you can’t leave the room and claim to know everything about the object you stumbled upon. During our evolving period, truth has nothing to do with our accumulated knowledge because we don’t have ultimate knowledge until we reach our potential. Even our potential is evolving, so established truths can fall victim to new discoveries. One might question the authenticity of established scientific knowledge because we are not done evolving. Even if something is accepted by the majority, it can’t be guaranteed. This should open a discussion about the legitimacy of all our political disputes, wars, and related atrocities.
Today, there was news that the Pope is coming to Canada, possibly to apologize for the atrocities committed against Native children. It’s about time; the British government should also be doing this. The Canadian government has done so, even though they were not in power at the time of the atrocities. If humanity acknowledges that our past is riddled with less evolved actions, we may create a better world by taking an evolutionary step beyond political, religious, racial, and group affiliations.
Life is not what it is but how we respond to it. It’s like saying it’s not how you look but how you feel about your appearance that matters most. If you feel good about possessions yet don’t truly own anything—not your body, not even your breath—there are many illusions we have grown up with. If you start to look at your real realities, you will understand the true nature of ownership. I was watching an old movie, Crocodile Dundee, and two lines stuck in my mind. While they may not be exact quotes, in essence, he said, “Land has been around for 600 million years. They don’t own the land; they belong to it like a mother. The rock will still be there when we are gone.” The other line was, “It’s like two fleas arguing over who owns the dog they live on.”
We should understand that we own our actions—good or bad—because we have been blessed with free will. The concept of ownership has been created by our belonging groups to maintain peace in society. While it is an evolving step, observing environmental horrors may bring things home to roost. Americans are complaining, and Europe is stressed by the influx of refugees. Wait until environment-related migrations begin. The real test for humanity is yet to come. Individually and collectively, we are all responsible for the side we choose. Politically or spiritually, things will clash because this ownership concept has been and continues to be disastrous for humanity. If we don’t become spiritually aware and look beyond the numbers, we will not deserve to be called spiritual entities. Our real life is how we feel about all aspects of life, including material possessions. If you feel you are not good enough until you acquire property, undergo plastic surgery, or develop bigger muscles, critically examine the source of your desires. As you dig into yourself, you will encounter the cause, which is often your sense of political belonging. Be aware of it all before you spend your entire life sacrificing your happiness and contentment just to fit in, impress, or seek admiration from your belonging group. Unfortunately, we are bombarded by the politics of belonging to our groups. We are valued or threatened with exclusion, so most of us adopt our group’s identity and become irrelevant. Yet, God did not create human beings as extensions of groups or even God. Simply look at yourself: if you have your personal atom of autonomy and related free will, you can choose to believe or not believe in God. This means we are such unique entities that we don’t fit into any physical or political mold. If you look at human history, we have established nearly two hundred nations and subdivided humanity even further by creating groups within groups. Regardless of race, belief systems, or their sects, these all point to our independence and free will.
Our individual troubles begin when we are raised by parents and society without understanding our true identity and mortal nature. As young adults, we learn the hard way. Learning to deal with major life issues on our own can be taxing. By the time we become independent, we have often formed opinions related to positivity, usually under the influence of hormones. We may be too high to ignore or too busy to learn about our mortal nature. Then, when real life hits, it makes us feel vulnerable and out of control, robbing us of crucial aspects of our mortal existence. Losing happiness and contentment leads to anxiety and connected health issues. Since parents and society leave life to teach us about our mortality and related issues, confusion and hormone-based misconceptions arise. Not everyone is a Buddha, so we all respond to our mortality with great fears. Our insecurities, control issues, and related stresses start early, causing unnecessary anxiety and potentially forming habitual behaviors. What is robbed is often not acknowledged because of our political grooming. We learn to seek refuge within the boundaries of our belonging groups, living like robots or genetically programmed creatures, without realizing our spiritual responsibilities.
Our mortality can be best described by the beauty of blooming flowers. It doesn’t matter how long a flower lasts, but rather how beautiful it is. Beauty should be appreciated at face value, not judged by its duration. Since our existence is far more complex than that of flowers, keeping things simple allows us to live a life that reflects our true selves rather than focusing on what it lacks. Otherwise, we risk remaining in a state of insecurity, falling apart just like a flower. By fearing our own end, we rob ourselves of happiness and contentment, never giving ourselves a chance to appreciate our own beauty. As a result, we live and die without realizing the true purpose or potential of our beauty for ourselves or others. We can’t fully enjoy or appreciate being alive if we spend our lives trying to fit in or seeking the approval of those around us. This is a clear sign of losing control over our sense of belonging while having no real sense of freedom.
We were created as free entities with free will for a reason. But not only do we lose that freedom, we fail to appreciate our own beauty. If God intended something for us, we would be genetically programmed with no choice. Since that’s not the case, living and dying for the approval of others is a significant personal loss. I’m not advocating for extreme measures, as that would be an animalistic trait, and we are far more complex than mere physical creatures. Our spiritual fulfillment is a crucial aspect of our existence. True wisdom lies in living a life of service to humanity and to oneself. Since we gain spiritual and deep satisfaction from being useful, we cannot undermine this part of our lives.
Our trouble is that we often choose extremes. For instance, it’s not the primary purpose of our religions to preach about heaven and hell. The real intent is to guide us while we are alive. While the intentions behind these teachings can be good, individuals can take them too far. Remember, it’s not about what happens after we die, but how we live our lives and what we do during our journey. Concerns about how we can improve our afterlife should not overshadow our actions in this life. After all, we only act physically to help or harm while we are alive. What is the right way to live? History and the present show that no single prescription fits everyone. Therefore, it is our personal duty to live a spiritually just life, not only for others but for ourselves as well. “Supposed to” is a term for genetically programmed creatures, not for human beings. Unfortunately, our political leaders have led us to believe that our living years are merely a test and that the real life begins after death. A bit of deeper reflection will reveal that being productive and useful is the essence of life, and there is no proof that a dead person is useful to anyone. A spirit cannot perform physically, so God’s needs cannot be met, nor can anyone’s prayers be physically fulfilled if we do not act.
Look around and observe the cause of our divisions. From individuals to families, communities, nations, and even belief systems, there is no one-size-fits-all solution. Therefore, find what suits you to become a spiritually just person. You will not only be satisfied during your lifetime but also free yourself from the fear of what comes after death, eliminating unnecessary stress. Remember, we all came into life with our personal “atom of autonomy” and related attributes like free will, a sense of justice, compassion, and love. Wear these proudly. No matter how much a politically charged religion may scare you, you won’t need to worry about the afterlife if you are embracing your spiritual attributes and reciprocating during your lifetime.
Interestingly, people who believe in God and those who do not spend a great deal of time bickering about life after death, yet no one knows the real truth. If you are honest with yourself and remove all assumptions, you will find yourself walking around with confusion yet gaining deep wisdom simultaneously. Many wars have been fought over things no one clearly understands. The politics of belonging is the common thread in these disputes; we put immense effort and even kill each other over what happens to us after we die. Yet, while we are alive, we often stray from the logical reasons behind these beliefs. Remember, it’s not about what happens on the other side but what is happening while you are alive. If you feel the need to fear the afterlife to be a good person, you are missing the point spiritually. As human beings, we choose to be good, but what value does that goodness have if it’s driven by fear or greed? This is a sign of learning but not exploring the reasons behind our behaviors.
We are taught to live as physical beings or animals, not as spiritual beings. Although there is much talk about spirituality, few walk the talk because people and even God have been used for political purposes. Don’t believe me? Just look at religions; they often treat human beings as animals or purely physical entities. I once saw a video where a Mullah was beating children to teach them the Quran. Learning out of fear does not foster respect—for the teacher or the subject. The problem is that human beings are easily brainwashed and conformed, so such methods have worked for religions, almost like hypnosis, treating humans as animals. The question is: what percentage of people are brainwashed versus those who resist being conformed? What do you think about yourself personally? Do you believe harsh punishments would make you a better person? If you believe you can self-regulate and control your animal instincts through spiritual awareness, would you support corporal punishment?
Interestingly, this is another aspect of change in the world. Today, you could be criminally charged for abusing even your own children. Things are evolving, and religious education must adapt. If you view yourself and others as spiritual beings, you would start to consider yourself as a higher being with better self-esteem and respect for others. When you recognize yourself as distinct from other creatures, you will no longer need to follow the carrot-and-stick approach with humans, including yourself. Spiritually, are you a just individual, or are you following the politics of belonging, committing spiritual crimes and believing you will go to heaven because your group says so? Reflect on this and see what answer you come up with. Remember, religious and political leaders often exploit human weaknesses. Most people willingly accept mass over individual philosophy and even God over the individual without questioning spiritual injustice. If a religion or justice system is based on this philosophy, it is political, not spiritual. Anything political cannot be connected to God. Would you believe in a God who is prejudiced and discriminatory? I would place God on a higher pedestal than a politically influenced human being. Especially when religions make us believe that it is God’s will. To me, that is beyond the bounds of spirituality because we cannot place God on a higher pedestal while attaching God to our insecurities and related injustices. If it is not just, it is not from God, plain and simple. God cannot be connected to our political insecurities because God is purely spiritual. Mixing politics with spirituality, even with good intentions, robs spirituality from a belief system because, sooner or later, it leads to prejudice. Whether through religion or not, God should not be involved in human politics. What God is to you is your prerogative, but you cannot connect spiritual injustice to God. Doing so removes the Godliness from God and installs politics of belonging into the very idea of God. This means you are using God for political purposes.
By keeping our mortality in view, we can put things into perspective, especially regarding God, spirituality, and our ability to love. The bottom line of our life’s purpose is reciprocation. If God has been unfair by not providing you with a properly functioning body and life-sustaining circumstances, you have the right to survive with or without the idea of God. If you are in a relationship that is not based on reciprocation or is unfairly one-sided, you have the right to leave, regardless of what your religion says. Now, what does love mean to you?
To me, whether it’s love or belief in God, without reciprocation, things don’t work very well. Being human is not as simple as ABC or as religions often make it seem. They may oversimplify life, making you believe that you are irrelevant. Just ask yourself: if I am not relevant, why do I have such an important role in translating spirituality into physical actions or making God and the Devil relevant? If I don’t feel productive, important, and relevant during my living years, it’s a major loss for me personally. My self-respect and self-esteem depend on my relevance. If some political party, religion, entity, or group is robbing me of my life essentials, I should have the right to speak up. If I can reciprocate but choose not to, thinking a good businessman takes but does not give to maximize profit, it may be acceptable in the physical world but not in the realm of personal autonomy. In spirituality, you need both positive and negative forces, like two wires to light up a bulb. If you don’t understand this concept, you might see God as the supplier of oxygen and a functioning body. Remember, you live in it but have no control over its functioning. Now that you are alive and healthy, what is the purpose of this help you receive, especially to you? If you don’t understand yourself, how would you know what to do for God in return? Perhaps you are a good worshiper and believer, but God does not need all your worship. God needs your physicality so you can fulfill the prayers of those asking for help. In reality, if God does not take on divine responsibilities, it won’t be long before people start denying the existence of God.
If you are with someone for life, you need to go beyond the physical aspects of the relationship to sustain it. Focusing solely on physical aspects can become problematic as time takes its toll on physical abilities. As you experience losses, your happiness may diminish, and you might become angry, driving people away. To truly nurture your relationship, you and your loved ones need to cultivate spiritual awareness. This awareness can help you appreciate the value of friendship and love, making life more fulfilling and easing the burdens on each other.
If you are physically fulfilled but spiritually starved, handling relationship demands becomes difficult. As children, we are not aware of animal traits nor spiritually evolved, so we are free from prejudice and discrimination. It is commonly believed that prejudice and discrimination are learned behaviors. However, I find this assumption shallow because it is more related to a lack of individual spirituality. As we grow, we start to observe and learn, but you cannot learn spiritual awareness from someone who is not spiritually aware themselves. You cannot feed your soul from someone who is spiritually starving.
By nature, people resist losing power and control, which perpetuates the cycle. People often complain about prejudice and discrimination but ignore the broader humanity issue. Prejudice is not limited to skin color; it exists within families, communities, nations, and religions because individuals are not aware of their spirituality, physical abilities, and their importance. If spirituality can be taught, it can also be reversed individually. Becoming aware of your spiritual side helps you understand not to do to others what you would not want done to yourself or your loved ones. You can also learn to consider yourself on the receiving end of your actions before committing them. If you can stop yourself, your spiritual side remains intact. If you feel spiritually starved, you will not find spirituality in a mosque, church, or temple. You must start from within and seek practical ways of praying rather than literal interpretations.
All organized religions are influenced by politics, which often includes preaching prejudice and discrimination.
Since all relationships are built on honest and trustworthy reciprocation, it is crucial to evaluate reciprocation critically to maintain a successful relationship. Whether in a life partnership or business, if one party does not fulfill their share, the relationship will become strained. People may prefer equal rights and reciprocation over mere affection because it makes spiritual sense. If I make your life easier, I would expect you to reciprocate and make my life easier as well. This may sound transactional, but spiritually, reciprocation is fundamental to human life. Keep it straightforward: contribute your share and have honest discussions about everyday living.
Regarding intimacy, it must be mutual. If you don’t believe in mutuality, you are not suited for each other. If you use your partner without reciprocation, you are spiritually bankrupt. Love claims may not hold weight after a disagreement if trust is lacking. A lack of trust is a personal issue, and bringing distrust into a relationship is unfair to your partner, including a relationship with God. The past is yours, not your partner’s, so the innocent should not be punished. If a partner endangers others’ respect, finances, or love, you have the right to protect yourself. A partner seeking control and domination has not evolved beyond animal traits. Spiritual evolution aids in reciprocation-based relationships by fostering self-regulation. Acting on animal instincts leads to selfishness, prejudice, and discrimination.
As our knowledge evolves, why do some resist change while others embrace it? The cause lies within us individually. Insecurity often drives resistance to change, even a lack of trust in God. Ironically, those who claim to be godly are often the most resistant to change. The reason is that they may not truly trust in God, which fuels their insecurities and behaviors. Genuine belief in God should help overcome insecurities. Those in power and control resist change to maintain their status; it is not about God or religion but politics. When people are insecure and lack deep trust in God, they resort to politics of belonging. Whether spiritually right or logically wrong, these issues are not defended by God, so people act on God’s behalf.
Today’s religious leaders benefit from all humanity’s progress but reject it while using it. From medicine and blood transfusions to cars, planes, and electronic gadgets, they enjoy these advancements yet complain about them. The problem is not God or religion but the politics of belonging. Loyalties may stem from being born into a conservative group. Politically brainwashed individuals may feel insecure when thinking beyond their preached knowledge.
Love can create not only good and euphoric feelings but also deep fears of hypothetical loss. If these feelings make you physically ill, you need to look at them with a broader perspective to harmonize spirituality and physicality. Fear of loss, often driven by a highly active imagination, can create extreme feelings, making you fear love’s potential loss rather than enjoying it. These fears can be exacerbated by hormones and a sense of belonging. A broader and critical perspective is essential for addressing these issues. Locking ourselves into insecurity-related boundaries is not a solution for evolving beings. We should explore our purpose individually to avoid being viewed solely as physical creatures.
I personally don’t believe in being good out of fear of hell or greed for heaven. For spiritual entities like human beings, we should evolve beyond the carrot-and-stick philosophy. Animals can be trained using this approach, but as humans, we are not in the same category. We have the capacity to control our instincts through education and understanding of our spiritual responsibilities. The proof is in the pudding: societies with the lowest crime rates are not necessarily religious. These societies promote education over strict punishments because barbaric punishments are beneath our compassionate human nature. Being good is a personal and individual responsibility, directly tied to our reciprocity with God. In reality, our good deeds are not defined by prayers or pilgrimages; they are reflected in the practical help we provide to those in need who are praying to God for assistance. Religions may preach prayers as a holy duty and demand absolute and unquestioning obedience, but God and humanity require physical, action-based good deeds. If you are good because of fear or greed, you adhere to the carrot-and-stick philosophy, which I find demeaning for a human individual endowed with their own spiritual essence from birth.
There are three main issues with the carrot-and-stick philosophy. First, you would need to die to find out about your consequential results. Second, being good is often done for others and typically out of fear or greed, lacking personal responsibility or a sense of duty. This means there is no guarantee that everyone will follow or adhere to the prescribed rules. Third, we are not created like simple animals who need carrot-and-stick training. We are human beings with our own “atom of autonomy,” akin to mini-gods. Each of us possesses our own spiritual essence, so treating us as if we were genetically programmed animals is demeaning. Being told we are irrelevant or even born sinners cannot be based on truth but rather on a political agenda designed to control society. How do you view your belonging to the group you were born into? It’s your prerogative, but personally, I feel offended when treated as a mere physical creature rather than a spiritual entity.
Now, let me ask you personally: Do you see yourself as a conforming being molded by the demands of your society, or do you see yourself as a PERSON IN CHARGE OF YOUR MORTAL LIFE? Are you a CEO who understands what it means to be a human being, or an independent entity carrying a personal “God particle” or atom of autonomy within? If so, how does it feel living among people who consider you irrelevant in the context of spirituality? God and the Devil have long been dominant realities in our world. Politically stripping individuals of their relevance has consequences. When society makes individuals believe they are irrelevant, it leads to a loss of self-respect and self-esteem. An individual lacking self-respect and self-esteem becomes dependent and loses their sense of personal responsibility and place in the spiritual picture. Without individual responsibility, society cannot flourish. Crime rates and moral ethics related to personal responsibility would be compromised, regardless of strict punishments. Logically, no governing system can hire enough police officers for each individual; eventually, things fall on the individual’s shoulders. Discouraging personal importance and relevance leads to social chaos because humans are unique entities. Religions have had their heyday, but as people question everything, they seek answers where they can find them. Remember, God and the Devil are metaphorical realities, not physical entities like living, breathing humans. Not everyone agrees on their importance or human irrelevance. It is essential to recognize that while there is undeniable need and place for our metaphorical realities, they should never outweigh our physical realities. Therefore, killings in the name of metaphorical realities are unjustifiable.
I personally dislike categorizing people because I strongly believe in our evolutionary nature, individualism, and the individual as the foundation of community and even God. Consider this: if you hypothetically ask a human cell, “What is God?” it would say that God is the human body, which provides oxygenated and nutrient-rich blood to keep the cells alive and functioning. The cell’s survival depends on the living, breathing body, and the body’s survival also depends on the cell’s well-being. Life becomes complicated, leaving room for political influences to undermine individual importance. This relationship can be seen as one of give-and-take or simple reciprocation. Now, imagine yourself as a cell of God to make sense of your life. This metaphor may help you see things more clearly. If you ask me what God is, I might say I don’t know because I genuinely don’t know. I don’t like making assumptions, but I use this metaphor to illustrate my point. Although there is a wealth of knowledge about God, much of it is tainted by political agendas related to the sense of belonging. I admit that I don’t know everything because I believe I am still evolving and learning. Unfortunately, many people blindly believe they know everything about God, the Devil, heaven, and hell. For these individuals, everything is already figured out, and questioning or further learning is unnecessary. Often, things seem real to us because we are pressured to respect authority, leading us to accept ancestral knowledge mostly out of loyalty to our groups. Questioning myself has helped me view our spiritual picture critically, and I believe that if there is spiritual injustice, that picture is no longer holy.
Nothing scientific, but my logic suggests that if I don’t even own my own breath, why am I so certain that I am doing everything? My claim to know everything doesn’t stand on solid ground because if I did it all, I did it with the help of that very breath over which I have absolutely no control. Does this mean that what a human being does has some external assistance, whether good or bad? This would imply that God is complicit in everything that happens in humanity. Try to digest this for a moment and then consider your own relevance. If God were pulling our strings, we would be genetically programmed to do certain things and be unable to do others. As human beings, there are no such boundaries for us, so if everything is decided by us, shouldn’t we take on more personal responsibility for our actions?
Belief in God or not is not a measuring stick. The proof is in the pudding—these days, everything around us is changing. We can track storms and even name them. We have advanced in knowledge about artificial insemination, test tubes, stem cells, and space travel, even for pleasure. Yet, we still claim to know everything about God and the Devil. There is a balance we can create between our physical and spiritual realities. If my breath is not mine and my whole life is on borrowed time, how I spend it is my prerogative. However, functioning as a dependent and feeling irrelevant is not my nature. I would do justice to myself by believing in my relevance and importance and taking responsibility for my personal actions. I would rather believe and reciprocate to God for my oxygen and the gift of a functioning body. If this give-and-take is the game of spirituality, I should play with honesty, carry my load, and fulfill my responsibilities according to the time and era I am born into.
Sure, we have been shaped by the politics of our belonging groups and trained to follow their traditions, customs, rituals, and rules. However, the evolution of time is helping us think beyond our group boundaries. Despite our political conditioning, most of us desire to live in a peaceful society. Politics has been involved at every stage of our growth, making our evolution and social conformation never purely spiritual. Politics has been used by our groups to the extent that even individually, we may see political prejudice and discrimination as normal. Despite our level of evolution, many today still fail to see the damage caused by the politics of belonging. We are often brainwashed to the point that we are blind to our responsibilities as human beings. Our loyalties make us unable to see the political taint even in our personal spirituality. We can’t use our personal sense of justice and become prejudiced and discriminatory. We fail to acknowledge that as individuals, we have personal responsibilities to ensure we don’t do to others what we wouldn’t want done to us or our loved ones.
As physical creatures influenced by insecurities and wrapped in political influences, we are fearful and insecure. We fear loneliness, and our societies use this fear as a tool for conformity. This fear is the most powerful motivator for us to conform and compromise. Regardless of our personal traits, we learn to see the merits of living within our group environment. We have created a world where individuals have ceded their personal power to their groups. Until recently, we followed our groups’ traditions, customs, rituals, and rules without question. Today, we live in melting-pot societies, and as evolved human beings, we are more inclined to grant equal rights to each other, viewing racism, prejudice, and discrimination as flaws. There has been a significant shift in humanity’s attitude, but there is still a long way to go. Even though conservative populations may still pull us back in time, there is now a struggle or tug of war that wasn’t there before. Remember, religious people have burned witches and even killed innocent children in the name of conformity. We should take comfort in knowing that we have evolved to this level because of those constant inner battles.
The journey from killing each other to learning the need to love one another hasn’t been easy. If you look at our history, there have been many pitfalls. We still kill each other, but humanity is gradually coming to accept the concept of one shared humanity. Our current issues—such as the quest for equal human rights, infectious diseases like the coronavirus, global warming, and new internet-related crimes—point to the needs of present-day humanity to conform to the demands of the times. Unfortunately, humanity is divided in many ways. To succeed, we must confront our deep personal insecurities, deal with our nature, and evolve spiritually to understand our influences.
I’m not going to rely on the powerful nature of shapes because I personally believe in our evolutionary nature. As individuals, we all have the potential to grow with our knowledge. If you find yourself molded into a particular shape, understand that you are not genetically locked into that shape and its related boundaries. You may have created those boundaries out of insecurities or been conformed due to early brainwashing. It is an undeniable fact that human beings have been evolving. We have not grown horns or wings, but we are evolving every day. If you see yourself conformed to a certain shape or category, or if you behave and believe that you are merely an extension of your group, you may need to step up, expand, and evolve to find your place in today’s world.
Before we proceed, my first message to you is this: Don’t let your insecurities and the politics of belonging spiritually bankrupt you. Remember your mortal nature and understand it this way: if a flower blooms and dies, its short life should not be seen as a doom and gloom for its temporary beauty. Beauty is beauty, regardless of its mortality, so be beautiful while you have the chance. The flower’s bloom and demise are highly perceptive to us human beings. If you remember to appreciate its beauty, you can see the spiritual picture; otherwise, personal life can feel like a drag. The flower’s nature teaches us about ourselves. If you can’t or don’t want to enjoy your beauty, it’s wrong on all fronts. Remember, you have been blessed with free will, so you can’t blame your creator. If your desire to control the uncontrollable is robbing your happiness, it is under your free will to choose.
Keep your personal sense of justice and responsibilities in front of you at all times, especially if you want a successful mortal life. Whether you believe in hell and heaven or not, if you achieve a level of comfort from within your mortal self, you have nothing to worry about. Whether during or after physical life, things will be fine for you—especially if you have lived reciprocating honestly, whether with God, your loved ones, or others. If reciprocation is done as a personal responsibility without the fear of hell or greed for heaven, it will ensure peace of mind from within. This peace of mind will persist throughout your life by removing fears and greed about the afterlife. Remember, your atom of autonomy is within you, helping navigate life honestly. You simply need to acknowledge, value, and nurture your spiritual side to connect with this personal source of goodness. Since we have not fully emerged from the spells of our political conditioning and have not yet taken on the responsibilities of being the CEO of our own lives, it will take more time for us to evolve. We are still grappling with personal relevance and self-esteem issues. This is largely due to politically motivated policies from corrupt religious authorities. It seems to be a deliberate attempt to keep us insecure, not only in our living years but even in the afterlife. Does this mean I don’t believe in life after death? Not at all. I believe that area is part of our ongoing evolution, so I avoid making assumptions and will find out when I get there. Not knowing is not a problem; it is a fact. Denying this human fact is political. Reality is, we are not living in the bush or caves, nor are we in mud huts. Our progress shows that our knowledge is constantly evolving, and we are moving forward. I personally believe that it’s not all doom and gloom, so the fear and greed-based carrot-and-stick philosophy is not necessary for any individual.
If you start to name God and the Devil, you automatically believe that all good comes from God and all bad comes from the Devil. Let’s examine this with some common-sense logic: How does good and bad take physical form or actually happen? If you can’t see that all good and bad are performed physically by human beings, you may need some spiritual awakening. To me, the human individual is the main character in this holy picture but has lost status due to the politics of belonging to our groups. God and the Devil would mean nothing if there were no human beings to act on their behalf. If you believe God and the Devil are responsible for everything, where do you fit in, especially your free will? If you still think they should be at the top of the hierarchy as your religions suggest, you have the right to believe that, but you must also grant the same rights to those who disagree. Since human beings are the ones who physically make things happen, they should be at the top corner of this holy triangle and respected as a key player. Today’s humanity recognizes this, and human beings have become a physical reality. Thus, you cannot place a physical reality below metaphorical realities like God and the Devil. If your religion preaches that human beings are irrelevant, unimportant, or even born sinners, and you believe this to the extent of losing your personal respect and self-esteem, look at your makeup and abilities. It’s your own fault because you are blessed with free will directly from God. So remember, nothing good or bad happens other than natural accidents without the help of human beings. For physical help, human beings are at the very least an equal partner or a key equation in this triangle. Spirituality becomes impotent without human beings, so the holy picture only makes sense if humans are present, contributing physically, and are respected accordingly.
I started this blog project with the title “Who Flipped My Triangle?” for this reason and have been trying to explain it all in simple words. Interestingly, this does not stop at our original politically flipped triangle. The second politically flipped triangle relates to our individual lives as well, where you are the CEO and should be at the top corner, with your sense of belonging and sense of freedom at the bottom. Unfortunately, this has been politically flipped as well. Visualize this triangle: the right-side-up triangle has the CEO at the top corner.
Sense of Belonging Sense of Freedom
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Sense of belonging Sense of freedom
Being human comes with significant personal responsibilities. Each of us needs to view ourselves as responsible adults, capable of questioning and choosing beyond the beliefs of our belonging groups. Spiritually, an individual is an ocean in a drop; our responsibilities extend far beyond merely belonging to groups. As human beings, every single one of us has the capacity to exercise free will. As long as you are healthy and functioning, this free will makes you an entity in a class of its own. Unlike worker bees or warrior ants, who lack choices, you have the freedom to decide because you were born a human being. If the politics of belonging have influenced and molded you, you may live and die like a genetically programmed entity. Nonetheless, it is still your choice, because you possess free will. This free will not only makes you responsible for your actions but also places you in the role of CEO of your life. In this context, your place in the triangle is at the top corner. If you feel otherwise, it is because you have not embraced your responsibilities as CEO. If your sense of belonging or freedom is dictating your actions, your triangle is politically flipped, meaning you are not in control of your life—your belonging groups are.
If you genuinely believe that we should act on behalf of our groups, what does that make you? A worker bee, a warrior ant, or a human being who is supposed to have free will, personal justice, compassion, and love? It is important to recognize that failing to take responsibility for our personal actions is not an option. Being in control of our lives makes us feel good, and anything that makes us feel good can become addictive. These controlling addictions, given our mortal nature, can lead to constant inner conflicts. Living with these inner conflicts can deprive us of much more than just personal comfort and happiness. Research shows that our stress levels are scientifically connected to various physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual disorders. Since our mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual health is at stake, we need to critically assess our personal lives. For instance, if you do not accept your mortality yet deep down recognize it as a fact of life, you are both the cause and the solution. The sooner you accept this undeniable reality, the better, as you will want to maximize your time rather than sacrifice your happiness during your temporary visit.
Our reality is that we come into this world alone and leave alone. Aside from our assumptions, we do not truly know where we come from or where we are going. The time in between is our personal and individual time. We can make better use of it by choosing to become the CEO of our lives. Otherwise, we may live and die in vain without even realizing it. While we can form emotional attachments to our families, communities, nations, and religions, none of these can prevent our departure. No individual or group can stop or alter our mortal nature; therefore, how we spend our time is entirely our prerogative. If you are being politically manipulated or influenced in any way, remember that you are the one with free will. Whether you allow yourself to be used or not is your choice. Controlling addictions can be overwhelming, but it is up to you to recognize them as such. If your desire for control is worth the sacrifice, it remains your choice. Our understanding evolves as we age; we learn and grow both individually and collectively. If you understand this, you can keep your politics of belonging-related addictions in check to lead a universally healthy mortal life. Otherwise, you may end up contradicting the will of your atom of autonomy and causing yourself various internal ailments.
You may seek help from various professionals, gurus, fortune tellers, horoscope experts, or psychics, but the true authority lies within you. Your atom of autonomy can reveal your real story. Personally, what I have learned from my atom of autonomy is to keep it simple and maintain awareness of your mortal nature at all times so that your decisions are spiritually influenced. Understand that you have no control over your next breath, yet you have been blessed with free will. It is not merely for making decisions but for recognizing the hidden politics of belonging to our security-related addictions. Every tradition, custom, ritual, and rule of your belonging group is infused with politics. Personal awareness teaches us that we not only possess free will but also have the ability to show compassion, love, and personal justice. If you are spiritually aware, you would naturally know that you should not do to others what you would not want done to yourself or your loved ones. Now, the question is: if you live a spiritually aware life, should you worry about not reaching heaven or fearing eternal hell? To me, if you live honestly and reciprocate with integrity during your lifetime, you should be comfortable in your mortal existence and see yourself as a beautiful life. If not, you should examine the reasons behind your dark and fearful feelings. As human beings, we can live without the fear of death or hell and without the greed for heaven, especially if we cultivate a habit of living honestly. Contrary to popular belief, our practical prayers are our actions, not merely the rituals performed in mosques or churches. Helping practically is the essence of life. Are you contributing metaphorically or physically? Since you are the one converting spirituality into physical actions, you need to engage in practical prayers because even God requires human physicality to be present for those who pray and ask for help.
I believe that spiritual reciprocation is the purpose of our lives. We may not be genetically programmed, but we are spiritually programmed to feel guilt if we receive but do not give—meaning the responsibility of reciprocation is ingrained within us. Since we translate spirituality into physical actions, good things do not happen by themselves or without the help of living human beings. It is not about following every tradition, custom, ritual, and rule of our religions but about taking personal responsibility to convert spiritual thoughts into physical actions. Always remember who is performing these actions. Whether it is a religion, a group of people, or even God, without human individuals, they all lose their importance and relevance. Reciprocation is not attending a place of worship but rather about translating spiritual thoughts into physical actions as a duty. Unfortunately, we have been taught everything except being equal partners in the creation of physical reality. Without physical action, there is nothing but empty silence. Even God and the Devil mean nothing in that state because there is no one to benefit or suffer. Understanding the true nature of reciprocation will positively influence your everyday and personal relationships, benefiting you spiritually.
If we have been taught that the politics of belonging form the foundation of our belief systems, we would naturally adopt a mindset of taking from our groups. Our wars have not been fought for God but for groups. We consider ourselves smart, especially when we get things for nothing, so using people and even God has become a common practice. Imagine if we all honestly reciprocated directly with God; there would be no need for religious beliefs. Everyone would intuitively understand spirituality better than any political religion can teach. If I enjoy the blessings of life that God has given me and am able to reciprocate, to me, it is a life well spent. Whether you believe in God or not, I am not here to preach religious beliefs or a manifesto for living. However, I personally choose to believe in God because, to me, life—even at its lowest level—is so sophisticated that it astounds me. How one believes in God and where God is placed in their life is a personal matter, but I feel like a part of a bigger picture, much like a cell in a body. The supply of oxygen and the functioning of a body as complex as it is cannot be a fluke. As long as I see myself as relevant, important, and purposeful in my creation, I will continue to fulfill my responsibilities, whether within or outside the boundaries of the religion I was born into. Will I go to heaven or hell after I die? I will leave that worry for after I die. Should you believe as I do? That is not for me to dictate because you have your own life to live, and you are the CEO of your personal life.
To me, behind human physicality lies the wisdom of the Creator, which is to accomplish tasks through physical means. Where you place God in your life is your prerogative, but if you receive without reciprocating, either spiritually or practically, it is fundamentally wrong. While the natural and physical world often operates on a “dog-eat-dog” basis, as spiritually aware beings, we are in a class of our own. We don’t fit into the category of other animals, and “dog-eat-dog” or “carrot-and-stick” philosophies are beneath us. We have an evolutionary duty to create and manage things spiritually.
As spiritually aware beings, if we fail to reciprocate, we experience guilt and confront our “atom of autonomy,” which can impact our spiritual health. Our deep happiness and satisfaction come from helping others, which suggests that we are spiritually programmed. This implies that we are much more than just genetically programmed entities; there is a great deal more to us than we are often taught to believe. Internally, we each have a unique jigsaw puzzle of God and human existence. Ignoring these facts means living out of balance and failing to fully embrace our humanity. You will still live and die like any other living creature, but remember, you are the CEO of your life, responsible for what happens in your personal and inner universe while you are alive. You may choose to ignore your spiritual side and live exclusively as a physical entity, but there are aspects of life you cannot fully address without acknowledging this dimension.
I encourage everyone to ask themselves these questions, particularly in the quiet of the night when you can truly confront yourself. This is a personal, one-on-one conversation with yourself. Ask if you truly believe in God and, if so, how God fits into your daily life. Do you view yourself as an independent entity, and where do you see yourself in the grand picture of spirituality? Are you aware of the immense power of the sense of belonging, and how does the politics of belonging fit into your life? Are you honest enough with yourself to acknowledge and recognize that your truths are not politically tainted?
Regardless of your religion, can you openly and honestly discuss your beliefs with someone else without becoming emotionally upset or crossing religious boundaries? Can you question your religious traditions, customs, rituals, and rules, especially if they seem outdated in today’s world? For instance, consider the practice of throwing virgins off cliffs to appease God because leaders claim God is angry due to bad weather.
What about your views on making money—whether it is legal, illegal, unethical, or unspiritual? Religious societies don’t always excel in individual morality or have lower crime rates. If they did, we would see marked differences in societies with or without religious beliefs. Should we adjust our deeply ingrained religious practices to accommodate today’s rapid evolution, or slow down progress to match outdated religious frameworks? If a religious leader commits a social or spiritual crime, they are personally responsible, but if a religion itself commits crimes in the name of conformity, should it be held accountable, and by whom? The recent discovery of mass graves of native children in residential schools raises the question: are such acts the responsibility of individuals or the entire religion? The United Nations may be our top authority, but it lacks enforcement power. When nations and religions commit crimes against each other, how can we reconcile our past and ancestral disputes?
Do you go out of your way to fit in, impress others, or seek admiration from your group, even at the cost of harming yourself or others? Do you accept everything at face value, or do you critically question everything? Are you willing to kill over nationalism, religious beliefs, or God? What do you believe a human being should be?
If you have questions but feel it’s inappropriate to ask because it might upset your community or challenge authority, do you believe upsetting your group is a form of self-imposed punishment? Is it natural for a social creature like us to have differing opinions? Should we prevent people from becoming educated or forming opinions, as seen with those trying to escape from Afghanistan? Personal opinions about God, religion, or the politics of belonging can be contentious, as humanity has long fought over them with significant death tolls. Yet, we still evolve and continue to kill each other in the name of nations and religions. Perhaps if we had engaged in open, honest discussions in the past or even now, things might have been different. If we recognize that our knowledge is always incomplete, why do we engage in such extremes? When will we stop killing each other over our incomplete knowledge? Starting with personal and individual questioning, removing appropriation, and having open discussions can lead to a new paradigm. Otherwise, maintaining the status quo with modern weaponry could become increasingly dangerous.
We should seek answers that benefit humanity as a whole, not just specific groups. We need a push to advance to the next level of human evolution, addressing current issues like infectious diseases, global warming, and internet crimes with collective responses. We cannot build walls against or solve these issues as singular nations.
Living with emotions like anger, jealousy, hate, envy, and disappointment may not only harm others but also lead to internal destruction. Personal and inner conflicts can initiate a process of self-destruction from within. I have been writing about the politics of belonging and freedom because I believe there is a disconnect that can create or exacerbate many individual and collective problems. These opposing senses are within all of us, but you have the responsibility of a CEO to create personal balance among them. If your senses are extreme and uncontrollable, this inability to manage them can be destructive. As a mortal being, your spiritual tranquility and personal satisfaction are invaluable. If your sense of belonging leads to spiritual bankruptcy, you must seek the reasons and work to heal from internal chaos. Reflect on how much you have been conditioned by conformity throughout your life, and examine your ego, pride, and honor to understand their origins and effects. These are often double-edged swords, related to our education and influenced by the politics of belonging. If you constantly worry about others’ opinions and shrink your potential to meet societal demands, your atom of autonomy is aware of the imbalance. Going against it can be destructive. As a mortal being, it is unwise to wage war against something within you. Utilize your strong sense of freedom to create internal balance. If you are not in touch with your sense of freedom, you face a significant personal problem. You risk becoming a slave to your group’s whims and losing your humanity. We are meant to be sophisticated, evolved, and independent, unlike worker bees or warrior ants. The politics of belonging can render your atom of autonomy inactive and spiritually diminished, reducing you to the level of genetically programmed creatures.
If you are hurting from within, the least you can do for yourself is to be a friend who stands by your side. If you recognize that your ego, pride, honor, anger, jealousy, envy, and disappointments are causing you pain, it’s important to understand these emotions thoroughly to address the root of your problem. Remember, your life is temporary and limited. If these issues are causing you distress, they could jeopardize your entire mortal existence. So, what can you do about it?
First, you must acknowledge that you have a problem. If your sense of belonging is causing you to hurt others, recognize that this not only harms others but also affects you personally in multiple ways. It depletes your potential and drains the spiritual vitality from your life. It’s crucial to understand why you have your own unique “atom of autonomy.” Your ability to use free will, personal sense of justice, compassion, forgiveness, sacrifice, and love all stem from this unique atom of autonomy. Ask yourself: Are you worthy of having this personal autonomy? Are you spiritually evolved enough to be an independent human being? If so, why are you behaving like a genetically programmed entity, such as ants or bees?
Understand yourself so you can confront your fears related to “what ifs,” rather than spending your entire life worrying about what will happen when you die. Consider why our religions emphasize fearing hell and desiring heaven. The purpose is to live this life as a good person. If you commit spiritual crimes in the name of your religion, regardless of what your group says, you will be living in a personal hell because of your atom of autonomy. Instead, recognize the importance of translating spirituality into physical actions. This approach will open the spiritual doors you have been waiting for.
You are, in essence, a mini-God who translates spiritual concepts into physical actions. The purpose of your life is to embody the beauty of the flower, as if God is experiencing the physical world through you. God’s beauty shines through your living actions. These facts are crucial as they can greatly influence your happiness, even as a mortal. If you focus on understanding your mortal beauty, regardless of its duration, you will find that the Creator’s wisdom behind your physicality is about reciprocation. Your God-like abilities are there for you to maintain balance and independence.
The politics of belonging can be more powerful than the individual due to political influence. While the odds may seem against you, you still have to choose and act spiritually because you hold the atom of autonomy within you. One might wonder why God would create beings with God-like abilities. Despite the conformity we face, why do we all have free will? Since no one can fully comprehend God’s wisdom and the mysteries of life, we start to make assumptions. In the past, we performed human sacrifices to appease God, including throwing virgins off cliffs. Even bad weather was attributed to God’s displeasure.
I was shocked to discover that twenty-five unrelated human communities historically practiced human sacrifice. We now know that bad weather is not caused by divine anger, and that these practices were misguided. Unfortunately, many are still manipulated by religious leaders, willing to kill and be killed based on these false beliefs. If we view the purpose of physical life as performing and converting spirituality into action, then this should be our reciprocation in return for oxygen and a functioning body. Ideally, if we are in balance, we should be comfortable in our own skin. Unfortunately, politics of belonging often lead us to rob each other of life and love.
If your love is taken by an opposing group, you might be motivated to inflict the same pain on others. Conflicts persist not only due to group politics but also because of the desire for revenge over lost love. Your group might convince you that your loss of love is the work of God or the Devil, ensuring your loyalty to them. Political groups often exploit these beliefs for their own purposes.
Even if you mean well, you cannot assume the nature of pure spirituality and God. Spirituality, justice, and God should be understood as truths, not influenced by political realities or metaphoric constructs. Robbing someone of love in the name of God is a human degradation. If you justify violence against others to defend God, you are disregarding physical reality for metaphoric concepts. Even with the best intentions, such actions do not involve God or spirituality. Instead, you are undermining God’s work.
Your politically taught assumptions are tainted by the politics of belonging. Dig deeply into your motives to uncover the true causes of your assumptions. Consider that the idea of believing in God is universal; therefore, God is a universal entity, just as love, compassion, and justice are. These concepts are not exclusive but are distorted by the politics of belonging, which insists on group superiority and the idea that God is on their side. This fosters prejudice and discrimination, which we, as belonging individuals, perpetuate.
If you cannot understand your realities and their implications, imagine yourself on the receiving end of your actions before committing them. Remember, the “dog-eat-dog” world is for animals; as human beings, we possess an atom of autonomy that makes us spiritual entities with a physical twist. This duality requires us to create balance. Our hormones may fluctuate with our group affiliations, illustrating our deep connection to our groups. This connection can lead us to defend our groups fiercely, sometimes at the expense of reason and self, as seen in American divisions over identity.
We are taught that our belonging groups are our safest bet, so we endure their abuse and continue to follow them. However, humanity evolves with individual education and the advancements of the internet. With increased transparency, it’s harder to cover up wrongdoings, such as the discovery of mass graves of native children—a horrifying example of religious and political malpractice. We must address the root causes of these issues and understand why our emotions fluctuate over trivial matters like sports scores.
Before I continue, it’s essential to remember that we are not like other animals. Otherwise, they would have mega-cities, advanced cars, planes, and cell phones as well. We are human beings with our unique atom of autonomy, which grants us free will, personal justice, compassion, freedom, and individuality. Therefore, before committing spiritual crimes for the sake of our belonging groups, we must take personal responsibility for our actions. Those innocent children were entirely blameless. If killing an innocent being is a spiritual crime, how can such acts be justified in the name of God and spirituality? This is pure politics, nothing more. Human killings have been occurring long before recorded history, and the politics of belonging to our groups predates our religious beliefs. Consequently, our religious beliefs are not as pure as they are often presented. They could not remain apolitical; instead of serving as spiritual knowledge, they became political parties, stripping spirituality from our belief systems.
Spiritual qualities such as compassion, generosity, bravery, sacrifice, and love cannot manifest physically without our physicality. We must act responsibly when influenced by political belonging. Acting under hormonal influences is not a matter of pride for humans. Ask yourself this question before participating in a mob attack: If you were to kill someone who looks different, believes differently, or belongs to an opposing group but has not harmed you personally, what would you call them? I would call them innocent of any crime other than being born into their group, nation, or religion. The easiest way to evaluate your wrongful actions is to put yourself in the other person’s shoes.
God has endowed each of us with an exclusive atom of autonomy indiscriminately, so why do some people think beyond hormonal influences while most do not? If you are one of those who love their sports team, examine if you love your race, gender, nation, and religion, and whether you would commit spiritual crimes for them. If you find these tendencies within yourself, assess where you stand on the ladder of civilization and evolution. If you are confused, that’s actually a healthy sign. If you are absolutely certain and under hormonal influences, it’s time for you to catch up and evolve according to the era you are living in. This gap may not harm others significantly, but it can have serious consequences for you. Today, we link mental health issues to wars, as soldiers face various mental health challenges because their atom of autonomy conflicts with their actions. The power of the atom of autonomy is undeniable, and our guilt is a clear example of it. There is a powerful spiritual entity within us capable of tearing us apart.
As individuals, we all seek justice because stronger entities, whether individuals or groups, push their weight around. We, as weaker beings, may comply using the politics of survival. When a gang imposes its will, justice is sought from governing authorities. When one nation oppresses another, we turn to the United Nations. But where do we turn when those who preach God push people around and force them to commit spiritual crimes? I believe the United Nations should have the authority to deliver justice against all violators, regardless of political affiliations, religions, or powerful nations. It’s about the pursuit of justice and peace, but unfortunately, we are still evolving.
Some of us believe in personal responsibility, yet many delegate that responsibility to our belonging groups. As groups, we are entrenched in the politics of belonging, which preaches prejudice and discrimination against other human beings. This politics of superiority has not benefited us despite thousands of years of evolution and is worsening with modern weaponry. It’s time for us to develop our own personal sense of justice. We don’t need to look far; our atom of autonomy within us can guide us with simple spiritual principles. Follow the principle: “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you or your loved ones.” By developing personal justice at the individual level, we can overcome the spiritual crimes driven by our sense of belonging. Just as a gang cannot fight a nation, a nation should not be able to fight the world or a competent United Nations. At the highest levels of power, humanity faces a weak or impotent United Nations, and as individuals, we are also weak because we fail to speak out against wrongdoing, especially by our own nations and religions. The United Nations will only gain respect and fulfill its role as a global justice body when it can stand against strong nations, religious extremism, and organizations.
The desire for justice is within all of us, but politics of belonging and survival often overshadow personal justice and spirituality. If each of us develops a personal sense of justice and spiritual strength, no group or coalition can enforce injustice because their power relies on individual contributions. If individuals reject such politics, groups, nations, religions, and even God would lose their power.
Interestingly, if you start questioning: What are you? Who are you? Why do you constantly seek knowledge? You will be able to transform not only yourself but also your belonging groups. You will continue evolving and learning throughout your life. Otherwise, things will remain as they are, and we cannot afford to stagnate in a world with new problems such as global warming, internet-related crimes, advanced weapons of mass destruction, and infectious diseases like Coronavirus.
As human beings, we are evolving entities capable of significant transformation within a single lifetime. One can emerge from a thick shell as a child, breaking free of old constraints through personal struggles. There are no limits to our potential. When considering human types, three stand out metaphorically: Triangle, Circle, and Square.
Triangle People: These individuals are thorny, questioning, and eager to learn beyond conventional boundaries. They do not conform to the norms of Circle or Square types but are balanced within themselves. They understand the importance of happiness and contentment while living in a mortal body, acknowledging their dependence on oxygen and a functioning body. They respect external help but recognize that their belonging groups or religions cannot provide real security from mortality. Triangle people do not respect authority figures who stray from spiritual truths. They see outdated rules for what they are and balance their personal responsibilities with ease. They understand how to balance their passionate, instinctive, and universal love, creating peace within family situations. They know where society fits into their lives and the value of personal freedom. They respect their atom of autonomy and strive for harmony in their lives. Triangle people instinctively know when to speak and when to remain silent, understanding God’s importance while recognizing their own responsibilities.
You might choose a 9-to-5 job, set limits to fit in, compromise, and keep going, just like a circle without any edges—easygoing and adaptable. You may not fully grasp the importance of balancing life as a mortal being. Believing in mortality and living continuously don’t really match physically, so we all have to address our affairs as mortals, regardless of the shape we fit into. If you see life as a continuous circle, you may tend to adhere to the teachings of your ancestors. Your logic of being good might be to comply with your group’s expectations, believing people should be good out of fear of hell or desire for heaven, all because you see life as a circle. Unlike a triangle individual, who believes being good is a personal duty from within and not due to fear or greed, a circle person might have clearly defined boundaries and feel secure and comfortable within those limits. You might even worry about securing yourself for the afterlife as well.
Interestingly, by nature, we are meant to evolve, so blindly following ancestral truths and staying within boundaries can be limiting. As human individuals, our potential is an evolutionary process; we simply can’t fit into a circle forever. You might spend your whole life living in compliance, yet by choice. Adapting to circumstances is one thing, but failing to create balance in your personal life is another. Smoothing your edges so you don’t disrupt those around you can hinder growth. A strong sense of freedom, which can be lacking if you avoid disrupting or going against the people around you, is essential. Though challenging, remember that truths must be told. Being comfortable in a circle goes against our evolutionary nature, but political belonging to our groups keeps us attached to group norms. Having a stronger sense of belonging can demote you to being a department head instead of the CEO of your life. Remember, being a department head is less empowering than being a CEO; it makes you dependent on others and weakens you personally. Yet, by nature or divine endowment, you are blessed with free will and the status of CEO. Logically, you should have the power to balance your opposing senses of belonging and freedom. As a weaker individual, you might not seek that power, leading to spiritual disorder—a disease of pleasing others, including God. So, do you believe in God to please Him, or do you have your own logical reasons for living a happy mortal life?
Square People
Square or box people conform easily, taking on shapes and following rules. Similar to circles, they are non-questioning and follow all kinds of rules, often becoming religious and accepting their irrelevance, needing someone to pull their strings. They make excellent worker bees or warrior ants but may struggle in leadership positions. Without clear boundaries of security, their stress levels can rise, making them uncomfortable. Though they may be good workers, their ability to think beyond the education provided by their group is limited. Humans are not genetically programmed to conform; rather, we are programmed to evolve spiritually and genetically. If you are not following your genetic and spiritual potential, you might be merely following your group’s orders. Not evolving means not following divine orders. If you believe crossing your religious boundaries is impossible, you need spiritual awareness because all religions claim to follow God’s orders. This contradiction is something you must overcome personally and remember within your lifetime.
As evolved human beings, we all have responsibilities, shapes or not. I have no problem with religious beliefs and senses of belonging, but when they start wars and use God and individuals for political purposes, I must speak out. Whether it’s religion or nationalism, we must evolve beyond the preached knowledge of our political groups. We’ve evolved from racism, prejudice, and discrimination, but have we truly moved past these issues? Not completely, but it’s better than our recent past. Today, we are less proud of racism, prejudice, and discrimination, and human rights are sought and flourishing in liberal societies. Despite religious preaching, politics of belonging often tarnish our spiritual purity. Humans still fight for resources and territories like other creatures. Remember the Egyptians, who tried to take it all with them, believing life was a circle. They were proven wrong as we now rob their tombs, yet we still cling to the belief that life is merely a circle.
Other creatures do not understand their mortality as humans do, yet we act like them, robbing each other of life’s most precious things like life and love, while hoping for global peace. Religion or nationalism aside, we all have a responsibility to evolve and address our individual and collective problems. Without bias, examining history and present day reveals that education is crucial for peaceful social living. People want to live in places where they can raise their families in peace. The question is, what kind of education? Book-burning events are now called fake news, and soon, faces will be put on fake news to make it seem more authentic. Our technologies are growing, but spiritually, we are still living in primitive times. Even our best knowledge and logical explanations have not worked in the past and still do not work for those blinded by their group’s promoted education and the politics of belonging.
Today’s example is the political bickering surrounding the coronavirus, which is literally killing people. This is a reality of political differences, not logical ones. Some even suggest praying to God for salvation, and if prayers don’t work, they blame you for not being sincere enough. They advise gathering together and believing that God will save you, dismissing science and preventive measures as fake news. Vaccination helps, but politics of belonging kill. God might say, “I gave you free will for a reason. If you choose to follow the politics of your sense of belonging, remember I also gave you a sense of freedom. You are not genetically programmed to follow your group or a person; you are the main character in your own life story. Whether successful or not, even God stands aside for you to make your choices.”
All our past and present disputes depend on this individual decision power. The success of families, gangs, communities, nations, and religions rests on that individual’s personal decisions. Politics often seeks to keep individuals weak, vulnerable, dependent, insignificant, and irrelevant. With a lack of self-confidence, self-respect, and self-esteem, individuals may see themselves as mere cells in a body, but this is not the truth. Logically, a cell belongs to the whole body; similarly, a human being spiritually belongs to God and physically to humanity as a whole, not its parts. Belonging to a group of people makes no sense. If you are human, regardless of color, race, gender, size, nation, or religion, you are human. Digging for differences will only reveal sameness. You are made of the same material, depend on oxygen, water, and food, and experience life, aging, sickness, and death in the same way. Our differences come from the installed data of our belonging groups, which are directly connected to the politics of belonging and individual weakness. To solve these problems, we must look beyond the boundaries of group politics. Education, specifically the education of the individual and not just the group, is crucial. Understanding our personal identities can help us reach the elusive peace humanity seeks with all its religions and isms.
Understanding our realities is also essential. Our physical reality is visible, but as humans, we are more complex than other creatures. We have metaphoric and virtual realities that are becoming increasingly important. It is crucial for us to take personal responsibility to understand them. If you don’t truly understand God, you cannot justify killing anyone in His name because God is a metaphoric reality, like love and a sense of belonging to groups. Even if you combine them, they cannot become a physical reality like the human individual you are killing. Robbing someone of their physical reality over your metaphoric or virtual realities is unacceptable. When you rob someone of their physical existence, all bets are off, as a human being is not merely a spiritual entity that will understand and forgive. Reflecting on history and present times, do you see what I see? Our present is filled with the business of robbing each other of love while seeking world peace. This is not a shame solely for our political religions, groups, or nations; it is a shame for all of us to be weak and ignorant individually. If we, as individuals, do not fuel the fire of prejudice, no group can survive as a prejudicial and discriminatory entity.
Our politically tainted religions and nationalism are spiritually failed systems because they have not remained pure of the politics of belonging. In our physical reality, we belong to humanity as a single organism; although we come in all the colors of the rainbow, our fundamental realities are the same. Spiritually, we belong to one God as spiritual entities, making us the cells of God’s body as a whole. If you remove the politics of belonging, you will see what remains. In physical reality, we are made of carbon, and genetically, we are all a perfect match, regardless of color, race, or size. We all require the same environment—oxygen, water, and food—to survive. We experience similar pleasures and pains. So why do we have so many disputes and wars? Shouldn’t we have evolved past our animalistic behaviors by now? If not, we need to ask ourselves why.
Our challenge is that evolution is embedded in our genes. Yet, being square or circular shapes, or at least being politically inspired to follow our sense of belonging to groups, creates a strong pull from both sides. No matter how natural our sense of belonging might seem or how essential it is for us to be social creatures, it has not halted our progress and evolution. We have seen changes in religions, a graveyard of empires, failed ideologies, and we continue to seek perfection in our democratic systems. Interestingly, despite the strong pulls of conservative politics, our progress has never been entirely halted by any era, governing system, or religious belief. Sure, we have oscillated back and forth, but progress and evolution persist. Our trajectory is not the question; what is certain is that we are not standing still as our outdated politics might wish us to. Our evolution has always, and will continue to, override the power of conservatism. Though conservatives may create squares and circles around us, the triangular knowledge created by God is inherent in humanity. It grows outward as knowledge expands. Politics or not, this triangle cannot be contained. All our progress and evolution have come from questioning individuals. Thankfully, if everyone had followed religious dogma, we would still be throwing virgins off cliffs to appease God. If everyone were confined to circles or squares, we wouldn’t have discovered the causes of our problems. Today, we can forecast storms and save lives. We now know where a storm will hit days before it happens. Although natural disasters make us feel small and insignificant, this does not mean we cannot work for the benefit of future generations. We must seek, explore, and persevere, even if our conservative peers claim it is meddling in God’s domain. Our genes suggest that God intended us to do precisely what we are doing today—continuing to evolve. Conservatives may find this uncomfortable, but they still partake in the progress made by liberals. Look around: our technology benefits all humans, and our medicine is used without regard to ideology. Vaccination against COVID-19 saves lives regardless of belief systems, color, or nationality. Yet, despite benefiting from these advancements, some continue to complain. If it were not meant for us to be evolving, we would still be living in caves and among primates.
If I personally cannot find solutions to my problems, I would pray to God for more knowledge and evolution. I would not dwell on what our ancestors did because we live in an era of understanding and naming our storms. The saying “God helps those who help themselves” suggests we should exhaust all efforts before leaving matters to God. Even then, God does not require physical sacrifices but rather the good intentions of helping one another to fulfill the prayers of those in need. Since we are already blessed with functioning bodies, oxygen, free will, and an evolving nature, we have all we need. It is up to us to guide humanity’s future. Whether I predict it optimistically or pessimistically, it is still speculative, so I should refrain from doing so.
I am not presenting a contradiction but rather arguing that we need a triangular balance to be wise. If you exclude God and believe you are responsible for everything, what about the systems in your body that operate without your direct input, such as breathing and your beating heart? Can you truly control or even manage them? As human beings, we still have metaphoric realities. Although we may not fully understand them, that does not mean God, love, or other metaphoric realities are unimportant. Our scientific understanding may not yet fully explain them, but they are powerful and significant, much like the placebo effect acknowledged by science. We must remain open to further learning. Evolution has its rhythm; not respecting it or allowing time for adaptation can be harmful, even to the strongest individuals. Many people suffer from stress simply because they do not acknowledge mortality and the need for rhythmic adaptation. Ignoring these aspects can lead to imbalances and unnecessary consequences.
Interestingly, practices like throwing virgins or human sacrifices were once common across twenty-five unconnected societies. Fortunately, we have evolved, and today we can research and discuss these practices. It is fascinating that our prophets provided knowledge to help us evolve, and now we have people going to space for pleasure. Our deeply entrenched religious traditions need to be updated to match the modern-day speed of evolution. How are we doing? If we look at extremely conservative societies like Saudi Arabia, we see signs of change: allowing women to drive, building casinos, and making peace with Israel indicate a gradual erosion of extreme religious conservatism.
Regardless of any particular religion, nurturing your spiritual side naturally makes you a more moderate and well-rounded individual. Ignoring your spiritual side makes little difference between us and other creatures in the wild. We can be influenced by our hormones if we do not acknowledge or understand the power of our inhibitions. Problems arise when we choose extremes due to hormonal influences. Unfortunately, it is impossible for us to separate our spiritual and physical aspects. Instead of choosing one over the other, we need to create a balance between the conflicting sides to live a successful human life. Embracing one side exclusively leads to extremes and neglects the other side, which can act against us from within. Being torn from within is a spiritual disorder that affects our physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health. Ignoring the root cause will only lead to temporary solutions without lasting success. Addressing the underlying issues gives us a better chance at a healthier life. Avoid contradictions and strive to live honestly, at least with yourself.
If your shape-related urges interfere with your spiritual growth, recognize them so you can become a better CEO of your life. Instead of following everything blindly, question everything while keeping your mortal nature in mind. The purpose of this writing is to help you understand your external influences and personal insecurities because they often lead you straight into the arms of your belonging groups, where they are exploited politically. Understand this so you don’t confine yourself to the circle or square where you feel comfortable. I would rather play a role in informing people than conforming to them and reducing them to mere worker bees or warrior ants.
Regardless of our prophets’ good and spiritual intentions, our religions have never outgrown their political affiliations, making them victims of political agendas. When we taint our personal and collective spiritual systems, or even our justice systems, with politics, both lose their purity and eventually their respect. If we continue down this path, even God could become perceived as a prejudicial and discriminatory figure because people use God for political purposes as well. If God is for some but not for all, then there is no true God. Since God is a spiritual entity, God cannot be political; God represents universal truth, much like justice. If justice can be bought, it is not pure justice and cannot be respected. Remember, Lady Justice is supposed to be blind—literally blind to human politics.
Personally, I believe that if any entity or system is politically influenced, it is for some but not for all, and therefore not truly Godly or just. If you cannot be honest in your spirituality and justice, where can you be honest?
The importance of human beings and their physical functionality is so immense that even concepts like God and the Devil would disappear from your life if you were afflicted with a brain disorder. To me, our systems of justice and spirituality are built upon—and stand on—healthy human physicality. If you undermine and disrespect human beings, everything loses value, even discussions about God and the Devil. A spiritual or criminal thought is just a thought unless it is translated into physical actions by functioning human beings. So, correct your perspective and respect the individual as the central figure in your spiritual picture. Remember, spirituality cannot be truly spiritual if there is injustice present. In many religions, the individual is rendered irrelevant, yet if you remove the physicality of human beings, everything logically falls apart. If you intentionally make human beings irrelevant, what is the purpose of that? Beyond political control and power, there is no other explanation. For political gain, human beings have been stripped of their importance. This is a spiritual offense, and using God politically is even worse. Eventually, everyone will realize the lack of honesty, meaning you are working against your own religious beliefs. If the whole concept of spirituality collapses without the physicality of human beings, why is there so much disrespect for individuals? Why so much killing? From a logical standpoint, there is nothing spiritual about our politically tainted religions. Robbing individuals of their importance and brainwashing them for political purposes is another matter. Interestingly, they don’t stop at individuals; they use God as well. So, do you really buy into what you are sold, or do you rely on your common sense to live your life with spiritual principles? Remember, if you are killing each other, you are severing the hands that help manifest spirituality into physical actions. Do you really think God will reward you for removing divine helping hands? If you see this as a spiritual crime, you understand why our religious wars are so prolonged and bloody. I will always advocate for respect for God, spirituality, and the individual, but I will speak against the politics of belonging to groups because they preach prejudice and discrimination. I do not believe in spirituality that accommodates prejudice and discrimination.
As human beings, we each carry our own atom of autonomy—attributes like free will, compassion, love, and a personal sense of justice. We are independent entities with our umbilical cords severed at birth. As human beings, we are far more responsible for our actions than we are often taught in our group settings. We come and go through life as individuals, so logically, we belong to humanity as a whole. Killing each other because someone was born into a different group or because of skin color, race, gender, nationality, or religion is as spiritually nonsensical as it gets. We use our free will every day in various aspects of life, but when it comes to the politics of group belonging, we often become like animals or genetically programmed puppets.
We all need to take the next step in our evolution and learn to belong to humanity as a whole. After all, everything in our present indicates the need for humanity to function as a unified entity. Connect directly to God as an individual so you can truly embody spiritual principles. God and spirituality are universal, so it doesn’t make sense to belong exclusively to political groups. Our politics of belonging have made us prejudiced and discriminatory, leading us to develop weapons of mass destruction against each other. This means it has the potential not just to sever one divine helping hand but to exterminate the physical manifestation of God. This direction contradicts our evolution and opposes everything associated with God, spirituality, and humanity. The biggest lesson we can learn from the coronavirus is that our problems are universal. Climate change is another teacher, delivering the same message to us all, and even internet-related crimes highlight the need to change our outdated ways of living. Unfortunately, our strong sense of belonging to our groups pulls us in a direction where the individual becomes irrelevant. Instead of focusing on spirituality, equal human rights, and addressing our prejudices and discriminatory politics, we often ignore these issues to pursue our group interests. We have been led to believe that our belonging groups are our saviors, but this has never been true. Consider this: your belonging group does not provide you with oxygen, nor can it make you immortal. Oddly enough, most crimes against individuals are committed by their own group members.
I previously wrote a blog titled “Know Your Realities” to explain why we individually need to evolve and understand the politics of belonging to our groups versus belonging to humanity as a whole. If you don’t understand your realities, you may ignore the concept of reciprocity for the sake of social conformity. For instance, if you are a husband or wife who brings resources to run the household, you should be respected for your contributions. However, social influences can damage personal relationships. For example, in religious households, regardless of the religion, males may be considered superior to females, even if the female is the provider. In today’s world, where social liberation is a reality, adhering to outdated rules can be problematic. With women now being breadwinners, old rules may not address contemporary issues. God, government, and big brother are our metaphoric realities; you may see only people, but there are unseen figures actively shaping our modern lives. I refer to them as our metaphoric realities—important but not more significant than our physical realities. They need to be respected, but never at the expense of physical realities. For instance, if someone is hungry, food is the physical reality. God, government, or big brother cannot fill the stomach; they are relevant only when the stomach is full. To make my point, if your spouse provides the resources to feed your family, they should be respected above all other metaphoric realities. Our societies are also metaphoric realities. If a trend or a friend’s opinion influences you to destroy a good personal relationship, it’s because your sense of belonging to your group has deprived you of your basic right to happiness and contentment. Consider this: if you are a cleanliness fanatic, you need to understand why. You might care too much about what others think and thus insist on a spotless house, avoiding pets that could mess up your rug. Ask yourself how you will enjoy the love that children and pets provide. In the end, you must reconcile what you truly want. If you want a relationship, it might require you to change your cleanliness standards, accept a messy house, and compromise to gain a different kind of happiness. If the opinions of others matter more to you than your desire for love, you have a serious problem. Without deep happiness, joy, and satisfaction, life is not well lived. I can point this out through my writing, but only you can critically examine your behaviors. Love is ancient and universal, like God and spirituality, transcending human knowledge. It is universally valued and knows no language. While our chemistry plays a physical role, that is only one aspect. Loving children and pets is a repeatable and undeniable fact of human experience. If you spend your life worrying about others’ opinions on your unclean house, get a grip on it. Love may not be measurable by science, but it can touch your soul and is a spiritual priority for us mortals. It brings not only spiritual satisfaction but also happiness and contentment. Remember, as human beings, our lives are not solely physical; spiritual fulfillment is crucial. You can live scientifically correct and tally all the numbers, but real fulfillment is another story. If you believe you will find fulfillment in the afterlife, that is a story for beyond death, so don’t put all your hopes there. If you have developed a habit of unfulfillment, even God may not be able to satisfy you, and would it even matter? After death, the choice to reciprocate is gone because you can no longer convert spirituality into physical actions. Our ability to reciprocate is essential for spiritual fulfillment and requires us to be alive and functioning. Regardless of belief systems or religions, if you are not genuinely reciprocating, you will be searching for spiritual fulfillment beyond your living years. If you pray continuously, fast, and follow religious practices but fail to treat your partner, children, parents, and fellow human beings with the same respect, you have missed the point. God is a metaphoric reality, while the people around us are our physical reality, so personal happiness and contentment are essential. Ignoring these for any reason makes no sense.
In mortal life, we simply can’t afford imbalance. Balance your sense of belonging with your freedom and truly understand the meanings of reciprocation. As commonly preached, reciprocation is not only between you and God; it also involves you, your partner, and even the society you belong to. Remember, you are the CEO of your life and the person in charge. If you find yourself prioritizing the approval of friends and societal trends over your relationships, keep in mind that although times have changed, the importance of personal happiness and contentment remains as crucial as ever. Whether you were born in prehistoric times, religious times, or today, our physical realities haven’t changed. The bottom line is that personal security and comfort are always vital.
It may not be popular to say in today’s times, but our social reality still often expects the male to play a protective role in the family. Whether or not you agree, our situations naturally call for the male to act as a protector. For instance, if someone breaks into your home, regardless of whether the breadwinner is male or female, the male is typically expected to confront the intruder.
Now, consider the responsibilities of reciprocation: if a male is expected to risk his life to protect family members, what should be the reciprocation for that sacrifice? The success of our mortal life depends on our ability to reciprocate. We follow our religions because they tell us we are alive because of God. I begin to stray when religions undermine the importance of the individual. They can brainwash people into believing they are irrelevant, robbing them of self-respect and self-esteem, making them mere puppets for authorities. I believe that as physical beings, we deserve respect.
The title of this blog, “Who Flipped My Triangle,” signifies that in your personal life, whether you are male or female, you are the CEO. Your position should be at the top of the triangle, with your sense of belonging and freedom at the bottom corners. If you feel this triangle has been flipped, you must reclaim your CEO status to keep societal trends out of your personal affairs. Your home, your physical reality, should be your top priority. Others have a place in your life, but only you should have the final say. You cannot sacrifice your physical reality for metaphorical ones, so respect your physical reality above your metaphorical one.
The situation in Afghanistan illustrates this problem: if the male holds the power, what happens if the female is the provider or if both contribute equally? Should our religious beliefs or primitive traits dictate the roles? With our evolution, we have created institutions like “big brother” for security, reducing our reliance on primitive methods. People generally call upon these institutions rather than relying on outdated practices.
Returning to the issue, if a female is the primary provider, she deserves respect, regardless of traditional beliefs. Conversely, if a male is not respected for providing physical security, that is wrong as well, especially from a perspective of honest reciprocation. Reciprocation is fundamental to a successful mortal life. The question is: if you still act as if you’re living in prehistoric times, would you let your primal nature dictate your actions, or would you allow spiritual reciprocation to help maintain your relationships?
Your dependency on your partner is a physical reality; God, government, and big brother are not your physical realities. At home, you are the CEO. Address the responsibilities of reciprocation openly and discuss the dynamics of your relationship. If your hormones or primal nature threatens your physical reality, or if traditional customs and rules are harming your relationships, it’s time to adapt to the present era. Our mortality and limited time remain unchanged by evolution, so respect should be given to whoever provides physical support, regardless of who brings in the income.
If you respect metaphorical realities more than physical ones, you face extreme problems with your realities. God should be respected for our oxygen and functioning bodies, but if someone who provides, clothes, and pays the bills is disrespected, that is not equal reciprocation. If you respect God but fail to reciprocate in personal relationships, you are behaving more like a dominating alpha creature, following animalistic traits. If you understand your responsibilities with God but not in personal relationships with your partner, children, or parents, you need to understand why. Always remember that you are in charge of keeping your personal triangle right-side up. If you are shaped or bent out of shape by society, remember that you are the one living your life, and you are literally running out of time—even if you are young and strong.
This is my personal and individual way to describe what I think about God. To me, it has never been about “What is?” but rather “What is it all about?” You may not agree with me, and that’s perfectly fine. We can agree to disagree.
I believe we are part of the body of God, just like our cells are part of our bodies. Our cells have no eyes, understanding, or mental capabilities to see the body from the outside. Some might argue that a human cell can see a whole human being from an experimental petri dish, but a scientist would disagree because cells lack such capabilities. I’m not talking about experiments; I’m referring to real-life living cells within a functioning body. These cells are encased within, without the ability to see physically, go out, and still stay alive while looking back at the body as a whole. That can’t be done, so their knowledge about the body is limited. They are there, assigned a job to do, and their feelings of being fed, kept alive, and nurtured by the body are pronounced enough for them to be emotionally attached.
We take pride in our knowledge and have always used shameless and egotistic assumptions, claiming to know everything. But can a cell within the body claim to know how our body looks from the outside? Our ability to see everything is clearly limited because we are still in the process of evolution. We may be knowledgeable about different physical aspects of life, like science, medicine, politics, and technology, but when it comes to our origin, God, and the afterlife, we have nothing but assumptions. Unfortunately, we tend to view life as black and white and have not learned to accept that we don’t know everything. If we don’t know something, we rely on vivid imagination and assumption-based belief systems.
When you are born and grow up in your belonging group, you are bombarded with politics of belonging, from loyalties and guilt to nationalism and religious beliefs as a way of life—your first education. Hormonal connections from within also play a role, and normally, you wouldn’t question anything because you are not yet aware of yourself as an atom of autonomy. Regardless of what I have learned and what I say, we are like cells encased within the body. As cells working to make the body function, if you are part of the arm or leg, you are told to lift or relax the arm or leg or walk the body in a certain direction, which you are not aware of. You only know you are supposed to move the arm or leg.
Assume you believe everything your part says is the truth. In reality, you are moving an arm or leg but have no idea what is involved in that movement. You believe what your part says is true, but you do not completely understand it. Yet, you are aware enough to talk to your buddy about whether the body exists. Your limited knowledge insists that the arm or leg is the whole body, yet you think there is more to life than just moving an arm or leg. Assuming you are smart enough to start questioning how the arm or leg works, what it is attached to, and how the life system works—oxygen, brain, heart, lungs, liver, kidneys, colon, skin, and brain—you wonder how it looks as a whole from the outside.
Personally, I believe our intelligence in other areas compels us to find out, but unfortunately, the more we dig into it, the more we realize there is a lot to learn. Meaning, we don’t know everything. The most uncomfortable feeling for cells claiming to know everything is accepting that we don’t know anything about our origin or even what we are, why we are, and what happens when we die.
Our problem is not related to what it is but what it’s all about. So, I don’t try to talk about what it is. I may give an example here and there, but my main focus is on what it’s all about. I have no problem accepting my limitations and not knowing, but I try my best not to use assumptions. This example of the body and cells should be acknowledged as a metaphor, not as an assumption. I know and believe I have limited time, and my life calls me to attend to all my other departments. Since I consider myself the CEO of my life, I must attend to it as needed. I simply can’t afford to spend my whole life trying to figure out what God is and why I am here. Sure, if you have time and energy, knock yourself out. I’ve got bigger fish to fry. My mortality calls me not only to fulfill my duty of reciprocation but also to accumulate some enjoyment and happiness along the way. I personally don’t believe God made us to be monks, and I disagree with spending a lifetime with a blank sheet.
To me, we are all born with a sheet that has music written on it. God is an empty space, and we are the musical notes. If we don’t speak when it’s our turn, we have a blank sheet, but if we don’t believe in empty space or leave room for God in our lives, we will live and die in constant stressful noise. So, I believe in a balanced, rhythmic, and melodious life. No monking or stressful monkeying around for me—just plain and simple living of equal partner reciprocation. I don’t have time to figure out God while I’m running out of time. All I know is that I am inside the body because I can feel the spirituality touching my physicality and vice versa. I am receiving oxygenated and nutrient-rich blood to experience life, functioning to do my daily job, which is reciprocation.
If my buddy asks me if the body exists, I can’t say no because my own functioning is not my own doing, yet it is still happening. I believe that I have been helped and instinctively know I need to do something in return. That something is my reciprocation, which gives me deep and personal spiritual satisfaction. Should I buy into everything my arm or leg buddies are selling? No, I believe they have politically manifested and constructed assumption-based ideologies of belonging to the arm or leg instead of understanding how the whole body functions. I can’t follow traditional, customary, ritualistic, and belief-based rules of the arm and leg. I am for understanding the body and its functioning. Remember, I said I am for what it’s all about, not what it is. If their way of living is to politically use and control people and use even God in the process, that is what I am talking about and what it is all about. When people follow the masses over the individual, it is political and an unjust practice. Whether it comes from socialism or even our religions, they are spiritually incorrect because it’s not coming from our groups of people. Rather, it’s God who supplies oxygenated blood to us equally, a clear example of equal justice. There is no injustice in the spiritual world. If religion says everyone has to follow religious rules, I have a problem with that. To really find out about God, one has to die first, so no one can claim to know everything about God. Creating rules of God and religions has no connection and nothing to do with God or the body. So, as I said before, I am not for what it is but for what it is all about. If it is about politics, which always stands on injustice, prejudice, and discrimination, it’s not related to the entity which supplies oxygenated blood to the cells indiscriminately. It’s about the group of cells or people belonging to each other as political organizations claiming to have good intentions for the individual yet using cells and the body for their political agendas. If you follow what it’s all about, you will discover politics at the base of all our disputes. As they say, follow the money; in this case, follow the politics of control and power to discover what it’s all about. You will discover your incomplete knowledge-related personal insecurities compelling you to follow to the point of reaching your personal and self-destruction, spiritually that is. Depending on how high you put God on the scale and how low you put yourself, your behaviors can threaten the very existence of the body and God. Don’t believe me? Simply imagine the world without people or a body without physical cells.
Spiritually, things are not usually logical, but since we are born mortals, we individually have to understand everything about our realities. Our physical realities may be different from our metaphoric and virtual realities, but that doesn’t mean they should not mean anything. For instance, if you only believe in your physical realities, you may not understand a lot about our mortal life. God, love, compassion, bravery, sacrifice, and a sense of justice are a few of our metaphoric realities. Sure, they are not physical, but they all have a place in our mortal life. You may not be able to see or touch them physically, but that does not mean they don’t exist. Just look at history and even present days and see how many books, movies, and plays have talked about love, yet it’s not our physical reality. People sacrifice their lives for their loved ones, for their communities, nations, and religions all the time. We have holy books, and we still swear by them even in our modern-day court systems simply because they are part of our everyday life. They may not be our physical realities, but our metaphoric realities can’t be denied. They have undeniable benefits for us mortal beings, from placebo effects to counseling to hypnosis, and now even spiritual awareness can play a legitimate role in our healing systems. Sure, you can’t say a belief system is founded on clear-cut truth, but it still benefits us in known and not yet known ways. Meaning we may learn later with our evolving knowledge, so everything is not proven until it’s proven. We can live and die or carry on living even after a proven fact, so why not believe in both our physical and metaphoric realities, even if they are not connected? I am not here to confuse you or you to confuse me, so let’s agree to disagree, and that’s my personal and individual way to describe what I think about God.
To achieve equal human rights, we must individually understand spirituality, live, and let live. If you are conservative, be conservative, but don’t try to hold everyone down with you, as you might lose even your loved ones. Forced beliefs are not spiritual; they are based on political insecurities. People who don’t put their own two and two together allow others to do it for them, following the political whims of belonging groups. In the era of equal human rights, anything forced doesn’t work, let alone a belief system. Don’t let politics ruin your relationships or tarnish your belief system. The simple truth is that oppression has never worked, so people need to meet in the middle to eradicate extremes. With today’s freedom, information technology, and equal individual rights, suppressing human nature has become a black mark on societies. Remember, nations with lower crime rates and happier people successfully use spirituality, while so-called religious societies have spiritually nothing to show in real-world results.
Politically, our sense of belonging influences nationalism and religious identity problems, which cannot be eradicated unless we all seek to understand our individual and personal truths. We are still evolving both personally and collectively, yet we oscillate in solving our worldly issues. The shifting political powers between conservatives and liberals prove that humanity is transitioning to a new paradigm. The formation of the European Union and Brexit are examples of this back-and-forth. Eventually, we will hopefully learn that we all have to survive as one humanity. Global warming, wars, refugee crises, infectious diseases like the coronavirus, and internet-related crimes constantly point to the need for humanity to work together.
When you see a cat or a dog, regardless of their color, gender, breed, or size, you distinguish them as cats or dogs. Interestingly, when it comes to humans, we often fail to acknowledge this simple truth. We bury our primary identity as human beings so deep in politics that it becomes difficult to recognize ourselves as such. Our actions shame us. Our color, race, gender, nation, and even our belief systems speak louder than our humanity. Logically, if we are born as human beings, regardless of our color, race, gender, size, nationality, or religious beliefs, we all belong to humanity as a whole. Spiritually, we should take pride in being spiritual beings, but our belonging groups discourage us. They fear that if all individuals believe in one humanity, their group’s political power would be threatened. The politics of belonging to our groups has done immeasurable damage to humanity and continues to do so. We need to take the next step in our evolution. Our spiritual growth calls for individuals to understand the power of political belonging to groups.
When someone says to put your two and two together, they mean to figure things out for the better. The purpose of religious beliefs should be to help individuals find internal peace with their mortal nature during their living years. When it comes to God or religion, they have nothing to do with the afterlife but everything to do with our living years. We need hope and optimism to survive mortality while seeking happiness and contentment. God’s work needs to be done while we are alive, so it’s all about our living years. The logical motive of religious beliefs is to prevent spiritual crimes against each other and stop us from acting like other animals. Whether there is heaven or hell is not the question; it’s about controlling living people to maintain social peace. The carrot and stick philosophy is good for training animals, but as human beings, we bring our spiritual side along and shouldn’t be treated as animals. This is disrespectful to God and the creator. Nations that achieve low crime rates and happy populations have spiritual policies and don’t treat humans as animals.
Interestingly, in the religious world, most people emphasize life after death and neglect to focus on the meaningful life they have. They are so obsessed with the afterlife that they don’t put their personal two and two together to understand what it’s all about, as if they know exactly what happens after death. The real problem is that everyone personally has to die to find out. Questioning all that can become an issue. The bottom line should be to live this life with spiritual decency. Looking back at history and even today, there are many solved and unsolved mysteries of life, meaning we are constantly learning and evolving. What was once accepted as God’s territory is not anymore, so we are advancing despite its uncharted status. We still need to evolve further to solve our personal mysteries. People have their ways to figure things out, some through science and technology, and some through metaphoric stories. Unfortunately, as groups, we still follow the politics of belonging, resulting in the killing of innocent individuals. We cleverly twist everything to blame God for our actions.
To me, it’s absurd to kill or get killed in the name of group politics and connect it to God. Politically, your group might say you’ll go to heaven, while the opposing group says you’ll go to hell. As if human beings have no free will, choice, compassion, or personal sense of justice. Remember, we all have our own atom of autonomy within, so going against it means you create your own hell. This clearly shows that your two and two are not spiritually together because it reeks of politics. If you kill someone, you’re taking away God’s helping hands, robbing someone of love, and if you see God isn’t doing anything about it, you become entrenched in your version of two and two. How can you believe that your actions are spiritually related? If God were pulling our strings, we would be genetically programmed like bees and ants, not responsible for our actions. Since that’s not the case, we all have personal autonomy and can use our free will, sense of justice, compassion, love, and hate responsibly. Now, my question to you is, do you have your spiritual two and two together, or is your belonging group doing that for you? If your belonging group’s politics is powerful enough to pull your strings and make you dance like a puppet, you don’t even have your two and two, let alone put it together. Prejudice, discrimination, and believing that even God is prejudiced and discriminatory is a spiritual crime. That means, politically maybe, but your two and two are not spiritually together. Remember, if you are against equal human rights, both you and God are used politically by your belonging groups, whether you acknowledge it or not.
Instilling beliefs that people are born sinners creates individual insecurities and related issues. Politically, it robs followers of their self-respect and self-esteem, making them easier to control. Promoting prayers and fasting as a duty, with non-compliance punishable by God, is another tool for control. Corporal punishment for children and brutal penalties for social crimes send political messages of fear and compliance. If it’s not politically instilling fear, what is? These punishments create a fearful environment that stunts all kinds of growth, brainwashing followers so no one can question authorities and everyone becomes like creatures genetically programmed. Strict rules loudly declare that it’s all about political control, not about what is. Poor God, spirituality, and humanity have nothing to do with this. Political rules have nothing to do with justice, compassion, or spirituality; it’s all about ruling the population at all costs. Fear-based politics has been a typical human tool for training animals, but using it on humans doesn’t work. The proof is clear: religious societies don’t have lower crime rates, nor do their populations score high on happiness and contentment. Human beings are not in the same class as other animals because we have a spiritual side. Religions are full of people hungry for power and control, who don’t hesitate to use God and people politically. In their quest, they have caused people to lose respect for religious beliefs. I don’t have to prove it; what could have gotten them killed in the past, today’s world gives people the power to openly challenge or take religions to court, never mind defying their rules.
What has happened to our religions? Why are things changing everywhere, regardless of any particular religion? Roman Catholics have been involved in all kinds of scandals: first with sexual abuse, then with residential schools, and now with thousands of children’s unmarked mass graves on residential school grounds. Interestingly, they are not even in a position to defend themselves or explain why they did it. In Afghanistan, Muslims are desperately trying to escape Muslim religious rules. The Taliban-style Islamic government may even cause more disrespect for the religion. Where is the love for our belief systems? What went wrong with our religious beliefs in this modern era? We used to have a lot of respect for our religious beliefs, but in modern days, humanity has lost that respect for our belief systems across the board. Interestingly, this issue is not limited to any particular religion. Personally, I believe our belief systems and justice systems should be above any kind of politics. If there is no spiritual purity in beliefs or justice systems, or if they are not based on nothing but the truth, they are politically tainted. Regular people can’t respect politically twisted truths or politically tainted belief systems.
As autonomous human beings, we naturally respect truth and honesty. Therefore, I believe our spirituality and justice system should both be based on nothing but the truth. Anything less than that should lose respect because of its political taint. In our group politics, there is a lot of room for open lies and twisted truths. So, our religious beliefs and justice systems should simply be pure of those influences. Our religions have glorified God and the Devil just to rob individuals of their importance, which I find impure and political. In the process, they promoted education that made individuals seem irrelevant and even born sinners, to the point that individuals lost their importance even in their own eyes. This led to self-respect and self-esteem issues, giving more power to the governing authorities but not to God.
The popularity of equal human rights and internet-connected humanity is changing the world and changing it fast. Even the most conservative societies are having trouble keeping their populations in political control. Recently, even Saudi Arabia is allowing casinos to open for business. Personally, I believe Saudi Arabia is one of the most conservative nations around the world because they just recently allowed women to drive.
Remember, equal human rights are not just limited to individuals. They extend to individuals, corporations, nations, and even religions. Those times have passed when religions could push people around without being questioned out of respect. Today, if an individual has a dispute with a religion, they can take the religion to court and win if they have a legitimate case.
Directly acknowledging the importance of the individual in the grand scheme of life can open the doors to reality. Regardless of our religion or the number of religions, the main and functional character is the living, breathing human individual. One might say we can’t even breathe on our own, so how can we not believe in God? Sure, I believe in God as well, but how does God work physically? If everyone is out to rob individuals of their importance and make them feel inferior, insecure, unimportant, and irrelevant, I have a problem with that. Simply because it’s a spiritual injustice and God can’t be on the side of injustice. So mark my words, number one, it’s not from God, it’s related to the group politics of control. It’s designed to make individuals lose their self-respect and self-esteem so they can easily be controlled. Meaning it’s doubly political. If everything spiritual is physically done by the individual, that means they all individually have a direct connection to God. The need for middlemen has been created because we all are under the influence of political belonging to our groups. Most of our religions say that we all have to become good, spiritual, and decent individuals to succeed in achieving a spot in heaven. Following a group of people is directly connected with human politics of the sense of belonging to our groups. If you mix human politics with your personal spirituality, you personally lose out. Sure, we need rules to live in a human society where people are at different levels of evolution. For instance, alpha and strong people would fight to comply with those rule-makers, but weak or beta people would love to comply effortlessly. Of course, our alpha and beta traits belong to our animal side, spiritually we are above our animal traits. Now the question is, should we carry on living like animals or should we evolve to override our animal instincts? Most human societies are pluralistic, but not all people agree on everything. Even our religions, believing in the same God and Prophets, have several sects simply because of the political belonging to a group of people.
Foundational themes of our popular religions are based on God and the Devil as the main characters, and the human individual is openly believed to be an irrelevant part of the holy picture. Simply dissect this problem with logic and see how God’s and even the Devil’s work gets done and what happens if we remove human individuals’ physical contributions. To prove my point, I just want you to picture the world without human beings. Would any good or bad physically happen? Who would perform for whom? Or against whom? Would that matter and to whom? See, if things don’t add up or get done physically, everything starts to fall like dominoes. So the bottom line is if our religions are based on God and the Devil, both are not completely understood to be physical entities unless human beings lend them their physicality. Removing human importance would be completely political for power and control hungry individuals, and who is that hungry entity? It’s easy to see the flaw in this holy picture. So connecting or mixing God and the Devil to gain political control would be using even God politically, which can and should be a spiritual crime because God does not come to defend the almighty. It’s up to us as individuals to speak against the political use of God. If it does not make sense to you, why are you letting it happen in broad daylight and even participating in it? Simply think without any bias and defend God and yourself as well. Spiritually, learn to put yourself on the receiving end of your actions before committing them, even if they are in the name of your belonging group and yes, even in the name of God. If you feel they are unjust, they actually are.
I don’t intend to create doubts in anyone’s belief system, but if you personally are willing to go and kill someone, including innocent people, in the name of your religious beliefs, I will try to discourage you by pointing out the politics of the sense of belonging hidden in plain sight for you to see. The politics of the sense of belonging to our groups has been and still is the most dangerous thing in humanity because it compels people to take extreme measures against other human beings and yes, even the innocent ones. If you are going to defeat the whole purpose of having a spiritual belief system, you have to look at your personal behavior critically. Spirituality’s fundamentals are not to do to anyone what you don’t like done to you or to your loved ones. Compassion and your personal sense of justice should be the foundation of your religious beliefs, but unfortunately, politically organized religions have sold their souls to the Devil of the political sense of belonging. They have sacrificed their spiritual principles in the name of power and control.
I consider myself reasonably spiritual, but I draw the line at worshiping stones, kissing stones, or throwing stones in the name of my belief system. Even though I don’t personally believe in graveyards, I would visit the grave of someone who attracts hungry stomachs and feeds souls. Not because of who is buried there, but to see how spirituality is converted into physical actions by individuals at the grave of someone long gone. Controversial as it may be, in my opinion, if spirituality is being converted into physical actions, it is real spirituality, and wherever it is happening, it is good enough for me. You can believe whatever your belonging group says, but I personally believe every human knowledge must deliver physical results. If your religion or sect is unable to deliver spiritual results, you don’t have the right to say others are wrong, so my vote is not for you. But I would have a lot of respect for that dead saint, simply because I want to see real results-oriented actions of spirituality. There is no preaching of any religion by the saint because the saint is long gone, so if spirituality is being converted into physical actions, it has its merits.
Individual happiness and contentment, whether from feeling secure within or from spiritual fulfillment, matter the most for the mortal being. If people are running from the fear of being killed because of religious extremism or, in general, are not happy and content, there is a problem with our belief system. That problem is related to the absence of spirituality. Interestingly, if you Google the lowest crime rates in the world, the nations that come out on top are not even religious. To me, that is, and should be, a real slap on the face of our belief systems, simply because they are unable to deliver the results they claim to provide. Not only have they failed to show the lowest crime rate, but they also fail to produce happy and content people. So if religious societies perform poorly in even providing the basics of spirituality, where is the disconnect? To me, the nations that are delivering results have adopted spiritual principles as rules and rejected politically tainted religious beliefs. Now put your politics of sense of belonging aside and look at it with your open spiritual eyes without bias. Use your God-given personal sense of justice to really see where humanity is today. How can so-called godless people deliver spiritual results while organized religious societies can’t even come in the top six? You might say I am just Googling and making my decisions accordingly, but not at all—just look around and see how religious people have been and are still treating each other, never mind killing each other. Interestingly, they still claim they are doing it all in the name of God. The question is, which God—the political one or the spiritual God?
Watching the desperation of people wanting to flee from the Taliban makes me think not about the spirituality of the individual but their fear of a religious government. It’s unbelievable to see that even the reputation of religion has suffered due to politicization. When we follow and believe in any human knowledge blindly, it can help us even jump into a sure-death situation, meaning we will be willing to die for a cause. We will be considered brave believers and praised by the belonging group. If our sense of belonging is out of control, we will be willing to commit spiritual crimes for that group. Now the question is, where is our God-given personal sense of justice? Are we even able to see that we may be committing spiritual crimes? Every religion preaches compassion, justice, and forgiveness, yet they end up getting caught going to crusades, killing children in the name of conformation, or simply going to wars and killing each other for political supremacy, not spirituality.
Since human beings convert spirituality into physical actions or do the devil’s deeds physically, they simply can’t be marginalized. So if you kill or get killed, either way, it’s God who is the loser. We all are the physical helping hands of God. Depending on how you personally look at life or are taught to believe, being born into our belonging groups is out of our control. So it’s inevitable to avoid the politics of belonging, but as we grow and become adults, things can change for us individually. Being born with a personal atom of autonomy, with all its fringe benefits and responsibilities, can transform us from within. Our ability to think independently, use free will to make decisions, be compassionate, and use our personal sense of justice to override the politics of belonging all help us grow spiritually. As human beings, we are not just physical creatures compelled by nature exclusively. Remember, we can think and act individually above the orders of belonging groups. Our traditions, customs, rituals, and rules have been and are always there, but a percentage of people would follow them and a percentage would not, simply because we all individually have the ability to see and judge the hidden political agendas of our groups and decide what we choose to follow or not.
Our ability to balance our sense of belonging and sense of freedom has been there for all of us, but some of us are under the spells of political belonging, and some of us always question authority. If everyone complied or defied, there would be chaos in human societies. Interestingly, we all can see when God and people get used politically, but our level of sense of belonging has the power to keep us quiet or make us speak against it. Unfortunately or fortunately, our atom of autonomy has the power to wreak havoc within us as well, so ignoring it can be disastrous derailment for us individually.
Our age-old problem is the powerful sense of belonging to our groups and the weakness of human individuals. Recently, things are changing, and groups are having internal problems. Present political turmoil around the world is not because of religious beliefs or lack thereof; our problems are stemming from clashing old-style conservatism and new-style liberalism. People are struggling to gain and keep political power because equal human individual rights are becoming popular by the day. Even highly educated people can’t speak against political injustices simply because their sense of belonging to the group overrules their personal views. Whether it’s fear of being shunned or fear of death, either way, people are trying to survive. If your religion is feared, its days are numbered because politically, humanity is not where it was even fifty years ago.
Sure, we are all connected to each other as social creatures, but to me, we are above all that. We are not our installed knowledge, nor are we the data; we are not even the body or a computer. Since we run the body and brain, we are the logical computer runners. We call the shots to mix and match the data to create new knowledge and make decisions to suit our mortal life. Since we are the ones who run the body, brain, and all the installed data, we should be able to override our politically installed views as well. Do you feel that you are that person? If not, simply try to be honest with yourself so you can get in touch with your potential real self. Being free will allow you to see the political influences of your belonging groups. If you are taught to believe that life beyond your race, color, gender, nation, or religion is all evil, it doesn’t only mean you and your belonging group are limited in present-day knowledge; it means you are prejudicial and discriminatory beings as well. Unfortunately, you actually believe even God is not beyond those boundaries and is a prejudicial and discriminatory entity. Simply looking at it this way should open up your spiritual horizons to see the politics your belonging group is playing. We can prevent ourselves from committing the spiritual crime of making God a prejudicial and discriminatory entity if we start to question our politics of belonging. If God were limited, there would not be thousands of religious beliefs, nor would there be any gender, race, nation, religion, or sect-related crimes. God left it all up to us to have a desire to evolve from our animal desires and insecurities to become mini-gods ourselves. I know it’s a little far-fetched to say as a single human being, but if you look at our makeup, we are as complex as anything can be. We are the phenomenon God uses to make everything good happen physically, so if you choose to think that you are inferior, irrelevant, unimportant, and even a born sinner, it’s up to you. But the reality is, if you think beyond the politics of your belonging, you would be able to see your real importance. Look around; everything you see, regardless of its sophistication, a single human individual’s imagination started all that to bring it all into physical reality.
Other than the stories you have heard or read in your holy books, have you ever personally seen any good or bad thing physically being done on its own, like magic or a miracle? If someone gets killed by an animal or in an accident, you can’t count that either because you can’t really prove that it’s God’s or the devil’s doing. The idea of separating God, the devil, and human beings is like life, death, and mortality. They are all intertwined in such a way that physicality and spirituality can’t work unless they are together. You simply can’t make this spiritual clap make any sound, whether it’s for good or bad. So good and bad can’t exist physically if there is no one to create or experience it physically. Since we have free will at our disposal, we choose to act and make things happen physically. If you believe in God and the devil, believe so, but simply don’t ignore or underestimate the importance of the human individual. Remember, the physicality card is held by human individuals yet with a free choice, so learn to respect yourself and take pride in being a spiritual entity as well as a creator of physicality. Sure, you have help to do all that, but if you choose to do good, to me, you are superior to metaphoric angels because they don’t choose to do good; they are designed to do so without choice.
When a bunch of us does good, we can create heaven on earth. When a bunch of us does bad, we can create hell on earth. Have you heard of God or the devil doing all that alone? Sure, your preacher tells you to live a certain way, but does he or she tell you about the importance of your human individual as well? Most probably not; instead, you will be told to follow the preacher’s ways to be saved. Nothing wrong with listening and learning, but the preacher has no idea of your internal connection with your God and the devil. Since you are the one to run your show, listen to everyone, but follow your internal individual God’s connection and free will to balance your life and afterlife, if there is any. Never mind trying to create heaven on earth; all you should do is be a good person and let everyone else experience you physically to get the benefits of your spirituality. In return, you will get the same benefits without even trying hard because the good you experience is a direct result of your free will and the positive energy you produce. If you create a political hell on earth, you will get the same benefits as well, but a life of spirituality with positive energy can’t be converted into bad deeds; it’s impossible. The idea of self-spirituality is an antidote to political belonging if practiced correctly.
So feel free to live your belonging group’s life but keep your personal sense of justice with you. Look out for the signs of the politics of belonging and always remember, God has given you free will to be a free thinker and make your own spiritual decisions, so use it. If you think that it’s all making sense to you, think about the idea of spiritual crime; that is a real crime that you commit by killing your free will and ignoring your sense of justice. As a result, you can easily let your belonging group’s political views overshadow your real individual spirituality. As a result, you will be living a belonging group’s life without even knowing it. Sure, you will get the praises and fringe benefits of your group’s politics, but is it worth it? Maybe for a short while, but your inner self will eventually rebel and start showing the results of your spiritual crimes. Interestingly, the more you try to keep it under wraps, the more your spirituality will be disoriented and suffer the consequences. Remember, your spirituality is a double-edged sword. It’s your individual spiritual knowledge and actions that will eventually change the physical world around you. In doing so, you will be delivering physical results for yourself and everyone else.
The popularity of equal human individual rights is not limited to one area of the world. Today’s era is challenging not one, not two, but all politically organized religions, often by their own young followers. Things are changing rapidly, and oppressive forces are struggling to maintain power. Just look around—even in Canada, traditional physical, individual, and sexual abuse and cover-ups were bad enough. Now, mass graves of children on residential school grounds have become a grim symbol of the failures of politically organized religion. Ideally, religious ideologies should exclusively focus on spirituality if they want to avoid collective derailment by their own followers.
In modern society, traditional approaches can’t keep up with internet-era advancements. They simply don’t work with rapidly evolving humanity. You can take religion online, but you can’t keep everyone in line anymore. Unless you remove the politics of division, exclusivity, prejudice, and discrimination, your days are numbered, and your survival is in question. The popularity of equal human individual rights is growing, and you are not adapting to these changes. You are standing in the way of a wave that will sweep you away like a relic of the past. Today, people understand the importance of blood transfusions and vaccinations because they save lives. In contrast, religions can’t wash away the indelible black marks of their history of taking lives indiscriminately. Bloodshed runs so deep and so far that our history can’t even account for all the religious disputes and the extreme death tolls. Yet, interestingly, religions claim it was and still is in the name of spirituality and God.
We can believe in all our religious stories, like parting the ocean and the moon, but the real powers of human individuals are just now becoming evident. Never mind parting the ocean—modern humans can dry up entire oceans by blocking their sources. Remember, the ocean does not part in our daily lives, the moon does not split into two pieces, nor are we regularly bombarded by birds. Today’s realities can’t be denied: we are in the midst of a real miracle. We are burning up the planet and drying up the oceans in the name of progress. People die every day, but these deaths are not counted as the price of global warming because some preach there is no global warming, and others believe them, thinking it’s all God’s doing and that human beings are just not relevant enough.
Human individuals are valued by both sides of the equation. The devil’s work is not done physically if human individuals do not become a helping hand. Similarly, God’s work is not done unless human beings contribute. So placing God and the devil at the top corner of this holy triangle is simply wrong. If human beings do not lend their hands, backs, and shoulders, neither God’s nor the devil’s work can become physical realities. Unless it’s an obvious miracle, and tell me, how often do you see miracles in this day and age? A mullah and a priest can tell you whatever they want, but denying human individuals their legitimate position is clearly connected to politics. In the holy and spiritual picture, humans play an essential role in converting spirituality into physical actions, yet they get robbed politically. This is not only wrong, but it’s also unholy and a spiritual crime committed by politically tainted religions.
If you start to look at our physical or animal side, we are all very territorial, just like other animals. When we are constantly exposed to and preached about the sense of belonging to our groups, we naturally fall for it. We believe every word and place our natural identity below our installed identities. We belong to family, group, race, color, nation, and even our belief systems before considering ourselves human beings. Our globe is not physically divided by God or nature but by the political lines created by our sense of belonging to our groups. We are taught to believe that our divisions are for peace and security, but despite nearly two hundred nations, humanity has been longing for that peace since forever. That security is an illusion as well because most crimes are committed against each other by our own kind. Despite our evolution and religion after religion, we still can’t overcome our animal instincts. Our spiritual side has been undermined politically, even by our religions, which have given us the carrot-and-stick philosophy to live by. They even say God has heaven and hell for us. So regardless of the number of our religions, we simply can’t overcome our animal or barbaric behaviors. This is because we are not taught that we carry our own atom of autonomy within us. We don’t nurture our spiritual side and accept ourselves as one of the breeds of primates. If we are like other primates, then why don’t other primates evolve like us? If we are living in megacities, at the very least, they should be living in some kind of villages. Our problem is that we keep reinforcing the beliefs of Darwin’s theory, which denies our spiritual side, personal God particle, or our exclusive atom of autonomy. To me, it simply does not make sense. If there is evolution in everything, why is humanity flying higher than all other species? We literally fly higher than birds, yet we don’t have wings. We can dig deeper than all creatures with claws. We even swim deep in the ocean without gills. Our evolution is not due to our animal side; we are evolving because of our spiritual side. Sure, we still kill each other, but we are trying to save other species from extinction as well. We believe in things because things require different kinds of knowledge. To mention a few, we need compassion, love, justice, and sacrifice for social living, but there is no way we can break these down and explain them with our scientific knowledge. So we need our belief systems as essentials for our social and mortal living. Just as we are evolving in our scientific, medical, and technological knowledge, we need to evolve in our belief systems as well. But our religions have systematically ignored and discouraged the exploration of religious knowledge. Our political religions have shot themselves in the foot by saying that God’s knowledge is not going to change or evolve. Interestingly, nowadays they have to go online to reach and find followers just to preach them the same old prejudicial and discriminatory rhetoric-based knowledge. They still preach their group superiority and exclusivity. They simply can’t come out and preach spirituality-based equal human rights.
If you have inner balance as a human being, unlike other animals, you have the ability to override your hormonal influences. Otherwise, your dominating animal side will dictate your actions. Our ability to understand and overcome hormonal influences comes from our spiritual side. That atom of autonomy is a powerful and influential entity within all of us. Today, we are discovering that we are a lot more spiritual than we were taught to believe. Our old-school carrot-and-stick philosophy does not work because we are able to self-regulate without the fear of hell or the greed of heaven. We still have nearly two hundred countries, further divided by territorial, religious, and even sectarian differences. They still kill each other because of their politics of belonging to their groups. If you want to see and understand Godly truth, you simply need to see the world beyond your installed data or politically preached knowledge. Proof is that today we have people living peacefully in melting-pot societies regardless of their different backgrounds. Equal human individual rights in the constitutions of modern-day nations are changing the picture of humanity. Refugees from disputing nations find peaceful lives in foreign lands, living together while still fighting and killing each other in their respective homelands.
From rainbow-colored humanity to sexual identities to biracial and ethnic children, these are prime examples of today’s humanity’s ability to override the politics of the sense of belonging. We have come a long way, and we still have a long way to go in our evolution and civilization. Our consistent and main problem is political belonging and clinging to our conservative old ideologies versus growing liberalism, which divides humanity. It’s divided on whether to follow Godly-installed evolution or politically tainted religious conservatism. Our resistance to change has always been around; it is natural and feels right, but exclusively to our animal side. As independent, yet physically evolving human beings holding an atom of autonomy, we can use our free will and personal sense of justice to give and receive equal human individual rights. That’s why the popularity of equal human rights is growing throughout humanity. Changing times are showing our progress, but conservative populations are fighting for their survival, trying to slow the process down. This means humanity still has a long way to go. Overcoming the politics of the sense of belonging to our groups has not been easy because it relates to our animal side. Just like our hormonal influences, everything seems real. So it’s an internal, personal, and individual battle for us all. Since the sense of belonging has its roots deep enough to disrupt even our endocrine system, progress is very slow, especially regarding our social evolution. We can’t see or judge the legitimacy of our animal side unless we can sit outside of ourselves spiritually. Fortunately, as human entities, we are all able to do that just by thinking and nurturing our spiritual side. If we all consider ourselves as spiritual entities, we can understand and overcome our hormonal responses.
I disagree that our evolution is exclusively physical like other creatures; we have been outgrowing everything, both physically and spiritually. Today, we experience both kinds of evolution. Physically, we live in megacities with people from all over the world simultaneously. We are building high-rises and discovering and breaking down genetic codes, not only of bugs and viruses but of ourselves as well. We are making progress both internally and externally. Sure, we still exhibit animal-like behaviors, but unlike our past, we can now live in peace and harmony, giving and receiving equal human rights. We still have wars and related spiritual crimes, but nowadays, they are looked down upon instead of being glorified. We used to admire conquering nations; today, we view them as occupiers. That’s why the Russians couldn’t stay, and now the Americans are leaving Afghanistan. Not because they are weak, but because they are looked down upon by the whole world. Their war is not lost militarily but politically. Reputation matters even to a nation’s own population. The American public stood against the Vietnam War and didn’t let it continue because they were concerned about their reputation in the world’s eyes. Humanity no longer tolerates human rights violations. The tide is turning, so if you are not on the right side of history or evolution, you may win the present election by using fear and bogeyman politics, but it won’t work in the long run. The new era does not favor prejudice, discrimination, racism, nationalism, or religious superiority. Equal human individual rights are accepted as a modern-day religion, so learn to change with the times or be left behind. No human population is immune to evolution and progress. Your new generations will make you hollow from within if you keep oppressive policies in place. Unrest around the world shows that the number of conservative people is dwindling, and religious extremism is losing its luster compared to twenty years ago. Conservative nations can’t control their populations because you can’t close the can of worms like you could in the past. Today, everyone holds a cell phone connected to the world. That police officer who killed George Floyd has gone to jail for a long time, like a common criminal.
Simply looking at our present-day problems shows that you can’t build walls for security anymore. Our war weaponry is different. Global warming-related extreme weather and infectious diseases are not communal problems anymore, so the solutions can’t be communal or involve building walls against our universal problems. The burning desire for equal human rights is sweeping societies worldwide. You can’t scare people with your heaven and hell philosophy anymore. They won’t believe in what happens later if they keep learning and solving their immediate problems with science and technology. They know global warming isn’t there because God is mad at them, and the coronavirus wasn’t sent because we haven’t been listening to our mullahs and priests. Everyone knows they have to survive with vaccination, global initiatives, and equal human rights, so we must join humanity as a whole. Our problems are bigger than the walls we can build, and we already know we can’t solve our problems by being exclusive.
If you fight over religious or territorial disputes, that lack of peace will create refugees leaving your land to become assets to other communities. Remember, it’s the people who make the land valuable. A town becomes a ghost town without people. Even God Almighty can become physically irrelevant and powerless without people. If individuals do not convert spirituality into physical actions, what would spirituality mean and to whom? Understand that your actions harm not only the people you are fighting but also your community. Losing people means losing the value of everything you hold dear.
The power of political belonging is the demon humanity has struggled to overcome since the beginning of civilization. Humanity needs to put its two and two together spiritually before it’s too late. Personally, I believe killing is not related to spirituality or God’s will. It’s our personal and individual inability to put our spiritual two and two together. Since all our religions claim to be the spiritual path to God, why have they failed to help us in our spiritual quest to lead fulfilling lives? Instead, they have converted us into politically biased, prejudiced, and discriminatory extremists, killing each other in the name of God.
Logically, we have been blessed with our exclusive atom of autonomy, allowing us to use our free will and personal sense of justice to become honest, compassionate, just, and loving human beings. The responsibility of becoming political or being used politically falls directly on our shoulders. Unlike other creatures, we can use our free will to make choices. Solving the puzzle related to the sense of belonging is our responsibility. You are an atom of autonomy, or a mini-God yourself, so why can’t you put this spiritual two and two together for yourself?
Sure, you can be born into a certain race, color, nation, religion, or sect. Having or not having a belief system is your personal prerogative, but don’t be a political mini-God; be a spiritual one. That is the purpose of our exclusive atom of autonomy, so seek help from it to put your spiritual and logical two and two together.
A story of cells I wrote a few years back comes to mind. The brain cell says to the other cells of the body, “If I am not here, you all will die.” Immediately, the heart cell responds, “I supply you with oxygenated blood. If I don’t pump the blood, you will die without the oxygen.” The lung says, “But I am the one who gives you all the oxygen. If I am not there, you all will die.” The liver says, “But I am cleaning up your mess all day long to help you live.” The kidney cell adds, “Don’t forget me; I am doing that all day long as well.” The skin cell says, “I protect you from infections all the time, so if I am not there, you will die of infections.” Eventually, the colon cell says, “You are full of it. If I don’t give you nutrients and clean your mess, there is no way you can survive.” Then God speaks, “If you have a chaotic situation in the body and don’t work together, I simply can’t live here. If I leave, regardless of how young and strong you are or how well you function, you can’t survive.” We all need each other to live and function physically and spiritually. It’s not about who is more important; it’s about the harmonious melody that keeps us functioning rhythmically. Our God particle, or atom of autonomy, can depart when our cells can’t function in harmony, whether due to aging, an accident, or disease. If harmony is lost, we know it because our physical eyes can see what is happening around us. We know our mortality and physical capabilities, but there is still a lot to grasp spiritually. As evolving entities, we can’t know everything because we are still in the process of evolution.
American conservatives may even start something to lose more political power. Abortion is an issue I have struggled with. I am conflicted because human beings are the spirituality-converting Godly entities, so opposing it is problematic for me. However, an undoubted belief system says that even a leaf on a tree can’t move without God’s will, so how can a whole human child be born or aborted by human beings? This question creates doubts in belief systems and confuses people. If you believe in God, and I mean totally believe, spiritually you can’t punish human beings for their actions. It’s not about what God is but what God is all about. If abortion becomes a political hot potato, it’s related to our deeply confusing belief systems. First, our religions are against sex outside of marriage. They allow it if done according to religious rules. If you look at it that way, children born into other religions would be called bastards. Since there are thousands of religious beliefs, if everyone calls each other’s generations bastards out of disputed belief systems, we have a major, even God-confusing, spiritual problem. Second, they believe God does everything and humans are irrelevant, so they punish and kill for non-compliance. The problem is not God but how God is used for political purposes. Imagine if you can’t use your installed data or develop a brain disorder to lose your memory. God, the world, space, and loved ones still exist, but you lose it all. Not because they aren’t there, but because you lose comprehension. This should explain that it’s not about what is but what it’s all about. Things may not exist or have meaning for you, but if you are cared for, that is what God is all about. If people use God for political purposes, that’s again what it’s all about but not what God is. If you want to work against abortion, first understand why. If it’s about politics of control and power, you have the wrong reason because we are not living in the era of religious governments. Today’s questioning population can’t be contained, and conservatives may lose more power to liberals. If you are against abortion for spiritual reasons, stop calling each other’s children bastards. Set up a reasonable system of adoption where biological and adoptive parents become a spiritual team and care for those who can’t care for their offspring. That is what a spiritual religion should do, but we are too busy abusing God for political purposes and still stuck in the era of calling each other bastards. If you want a smaller government, who will care for those who can’t care for themselves? If you preach a dog-eat-dog philosophy yet expect people to live with law and order, you are dreaming because people in survival mode can’t respect law and order. Back to God, whether God exists or not, with our evolving knowledge, we can’t make ultimate decisions.
It’s like those cell buddies discussing whether the body exists. We are curious to know it all. Even if we don’t have the eyes to see beyond the skin or the mind to comprehend, we know there is more to life than what we can comprehend. Our atom of autonomy doesn’t make us a complete deity. In fact, we are very small, insignificant, and irrelevant in the whole universe. We need to grasp a lot more to come closer to God, so don’t fall for the name of God but be what God is all about. Remember, it’s not about who is more important, but about the harmonious melody that keeps us functioning rhythmically.
Following science exclusively is not my thing because I believe our knowledge encompasses much more than just math, science, and religion. As evolving entities, our knowledge can never be complete as it has been preached. Our natural makeup is designed to evolve, so logically, no human knowledge, even our religious knowledge, can ultimately be an unquestionable truth. Unless we reach our potential—a bad thing for some but good news for most of us—is that even our potential is in an evolving process. When we learn something new, our brain produces new neurons, meaning if we keep producing new neurons by learning, that process can be unending. So logically, we can’t simply measure a human individual’s potential. Personally, I believe we are individually blessed with our own atom of autonomy, a God-like particle within all of us. Yet we have been and are still underestimated not only by our controlling political powers and religions but by ourselves as well.
Regardless of our evolution and scientific progress, science still can’t measure our metaphoric realities like God, love, compassion, bravery, sense of justice, and sacrifice, to mention a few. Even our medical community, which prides itself on being scientific, accepts placebo effects openly and generally as not-so-understood facts. I am all for solving our mysteries and believe in looking for their causes as challenges to solve. But I want our scientists to live and enjoy their lives like everyone else as well. I believe no one should miss out on the other rich experiences of being mortal. Since our evolution is founded on our God-given nature, no one has succeeded in stopping the process of evolution. Regardless of the forceful aggression of our religions, they could not hold humanity down to their successful heyday. Our evolution is going to be there whether individually we like it or not. We all should individually take our responsibilities as the CEO of our mortal lives, not as a department head. Especially when we are preached that life after death is the main department of human living. Remember, all the Godly work of converting spirituality into physical actions you do is in your living days. Here on earth is a physical reality, and after that, you become a metaphoric reality. Simply and logically looking at our realities reveals that our physical realities are far more important than our metaphoric realities. If God needs your help, that help is your physical help; otherwise, God would do everything as a miracle. Logically, the main miracle is us, who are running the Godly machine. If you say that you are saving for retirement, that I can accept. But why should we believe we are not important in our living years? Our main job in our living years is to be useful, not after. I would rather pay attention to living as a useful entity who reciprocates instead of just believing in receiving exclusively without putting in any effort.
To me, spending a whole lifetime in a robotic mode is not a wise option, whether it is in being a scientist or constantly worshipping, because there is much more to human life. Especially for mortal beings like us, we should remember that science and religion don’t cover everything in our mortal life. Being successful in one department of life, like becoming a scientist, doctor, engineer, mullah, or priest, may be fulfilling to some, but if you can’t enjoy the real blessings of human life, it is not lived as it was meant to be. I want to cover and enjoy everything whatever mortal life has to offer. So I believe in a religious preacher taking medical help like blood transfusion or vaccination and believing in science, and as a scientist, to be soft on people who believe in God, know, and research love and compassion just like science because their own knowledge has not been proven to be as ultimate as they believe. Remember, a successful CEO does justice to all departments of their life, so regardless of our understanding of science and religion, as mortals, we should not just be surviving but happily enjoying our temporary visit.
I used this quote before; Kabir said it with a clear vision of what a human being is. Since this suits and fits here, I am using it again.
“Quote” “The drop in the ocean, everybody knows, the ocean in the drop, a rare one does.” (End Quote).
If you start to dig in and really look at human beings spiritually, you will find that each and every single one of us is a vessel that does not only contain the ocean and space but everything else as well. This incredible machine has been undermined not only by politically inspired belonging groups but by the individual themselves. This phenomenon has been able to come up with mathematically correct scientific facts to break down old myths to evolve. Going to space without having the wings to even fly. Looking into the future to understand the reasons for global warming, connecting and predicting the path of storms to save lives. Unlike our ancestors who literally undermined human individuals and even sacrificed them to please God because they believed bad weather or storms were because God was mad at them. Interestingly, it may not be to that extreme, but it still goes on in certain segments of populations. I Googled human sacrifice, and to my surprise, I found out that there were twenty-five unconnected human societies that performed human sacrifice. Sure, today we have come a long way from that, but we are still far from respecting our individual lives. We are still killing each other in the name of our political sense of belonging. For sure, we have a long way to go yet, but interestingly, it is only the beginning of where we are going. Even if there are people who believe the coronavirus is a punishment from God and vaccination is a business venture, still there is proven science that is helping to save lives. Contrary to all the pessimistic points of view of our religious people. I happen to have some faith in our future because we are understanding a lot more about our climate today than even yesterday. Regardless of our scientific decisions and the lethality of our weapons of mass destruction, we are learning new things all the time.
If somehow, as an individual, you feel insecure, it is not because of who you are, but because of who you have been made into by the people you belong to. If you wholeheartedly accept your mortality, believe in God unquestionably, and remove the politics of greed and fear to the point that you can see through the origination of all your traditions, customs, rituals, and rules. When you get there, you will be able to see that other creatures don’t cause problems at the scale of human beings. Human beings think and actually have been believing that their knowledge is complete and causes no adverse effects or consequences. Simply if you look at our individually inspired projects related to damages, you can clearly see and relate to serious consequences of that even in one lifetime.
Someone posted a video titled, “Why Did This Sea Vanish?” It triggered the thought of my old blog titled “Ocean in a Drop.” So this is turning out to be a part two of “Ocean in a Drop.” I believe we can not only solve our problems by thinking but we usually create them as well. We may have good intentions but may not have the ability to connect all the dots together, but we are too quick to blame God for our shortcomings. To me, undermining the human individual is one of the original sins committed by our political religions. An individual’s importance in the holy picture is undeniable and can logically be proven. If you want to see for yourself, just picture Earth without human beings. A lily in the forest cries for appreciative eyes, so God would be that beauty without human beings. If you pull a thread or two or even a hundred, the holy fabric or material would not be damaged. But if you keep pulling until all the thread is gone, what happens to God? Ask yourself, what happens to the material? Meaning, if we are the thread the holy material is made of, God can seriously suffer and lose meaningfulness.
The scientific community has been and is slowly chipping away at religious myths, but is having a real hard time with the powerful politics of the sense of belonging to our groups. There are still people who would rather believe in religious stories than the importance of blood transfusion. A whole lot of people believe the coronavirus is God’s punishment for humanity yet seek vaccination to survive. Remember, our problems have never been from us being spiritual. Most of our problems stem from the politics of belonging to our groups instead of humanity. Unfortunately, we have lost our spirituality because the politics of belonging has been able to penetrate and taint our religions. That is why, regardless of spirituality being universal and making sense, we simply can’t even achieve equal human rights. Islam spread in India like wildfire because they had caste system-related oppression, and Islam brought equality but fell short because of the politics of belonging to Islam.
To me, a human individual is an ultimate truth in our holy picture of spirituality because they convert spirituality into physical actions. Spiritual thoughts of humanity are our metaphoric realities and are up in the air until human individuals get their physical hands on them. The hungry get fed by a spiritual thought of a living, breathing human individual. A jobless person who prays to God for a job gets it through another human being, making it a reality. Maybe God is involved in putting thoughts into the minds of helping individuals, but it gets physically done with the help of human beings.
The problem is all our bad and ugly get a life from human beings as well. Now the question is, why would our groups and even our religions think a human individual is insignificant and irrelevant? If you start to dig into it honestly, you will find serious political infiltration. If that was true from God, why would we discover that human decisions are the ones keeping the spiritual world of God going and even all the bad and ugly of humanity is connected to human beings as well? Especially these days, our discoveries are pointing toward and connecting our climate-related extremes, like making a whole ocean disappear. Causing not only harm, death, and destruction to people but to other creatures as well.
How can a whole sea disappear, just vanish? A disaster in Central Asia left ships sitting in a desert. During Soviet times, someone made a decision that created a disaster for Uzbekistan. The Aral Sea, the fourth largest lake in the world, was cut off from its river source. A simple human decision started a perpetual and long-lasting problem. This decision to divert water for agriculture and development resulted in a major, God-like disaster. My point is if we, as human beings, can convert spirituality into physical actions and affect our climate like God, why don’t we take ourselves seriously and take responsibility? Why do we keep underestimating ourselves? It’s all because of our insecure religious politicians. If, God forbid, the individual human becomes stronger, what happens to their power and political control?
In another part of the world, Indian farmers were committing suicide because they couldn’t pay their bills due to droughts, created simply by cutting down trees to create land for farming. Remember, we are an evolving entity, so our knowledge is constantly evolving. We should separate our spirituality from our politics. Our well-intentioned decisions may seem good, but they can have long-term consequences. These consequences can be deadly for us and future generations. Blaming God is premature. Our scientists have been alerting humanity for a while, but some still don’t believe in global warming. It’s not wrong to make decisions, but research should be conducted beyond politics and business to see the consequences as well.
We are more responsible and have more of God within us than we are taught to believe. The politics of belonging has placed the individual human at the bottom corner of this holy triangle. Yet without their physicality, both God and the Devil become impotent. Our evolving knowledge is there to help us figure things out, so making a decision should not be taken lightly. Today, you can’t simply accept things as God’s will; scientific research should be respected and encouraged. That is how we can connect things to their real realities. If we keep taking things as God’s will, we may keep removing our responsibilities and simply suffer from our actions without knowing. Like making a whole ocean disappear. Flying salt with the winds can destroy crops even hundreds of miles away. Today, things are different, so we need to learn all kinds of knowledge to evolve with inner and outer peace, including the safety of our future generations.
Our body is an example of God. Just like we have cells that belong to us, we are cells that belong to God. We can go to the gym and make our bodies stronger by stressing them. Our evolution does not come unless we seek it. If religions preach that God is doing everything, we need to ask how. If we can improve our bodies physically by stressing them, we can enhance humanity spiritually by seeking. God would be proud of our contributions because we work for God without even asking. We self-regulate to avoid sins without the fear of hell and automatically do good deeds without the greed of heaven. We can help the needy who are praying and asking God for help as a duty of reciprocation. Interestingly, we do everything automatically because we have our own atom of autonomy.
THERE IS NOTHING MORE IMPORTANT THAN OUR SENSE OF RECIPROCATION, WHICH NOT ONLY CONNECTS US DIRECTLY TO OUR SOURCE OF GOD BUT ALSO GIVES US SELF-RESPECT AND SELF-ESTEEM. REMEMBER, OUR SPIRITUAL WORLD WOULD BE A VOID IF THERE IS NO PHYSICALITY IN IT. WE ARE THE NOTES OF GODLY MELODY, AND GOD IS AN EMPTY SPACE ON A SHEET WHERE OUR MUSIC IS WRITTEN. IF WE REMOVE HUMAN PHYSICALITY, WE WILL BE HOLDING A BLANK SHEET, SO BOTH NEED TO BE RESPECTED. OTHERWISE, THERE WOULD NOT BE ANY SOUND OR CONSTANT NOISE WITHOUT RHYTHM. REMEMBER, IF WE DON’T PAY ATTENTION TO OUR PHYSICALITY, THE WORLD AROUND US GOES QUIET LIKE A GHOST TOWN, AND EVEN GODLY THINGS DON’T HAPPEN.
Our trouble is that we are taught to believe all our pain and suffering will simply disappear after we die. So, there are people who commit suicide, ending the pain and suffering of living years, meaning removing or trading a physical reality for a metaphoric one. Sure, our metaphoric realities feel real, but no one really knows them as physical reality. Losing physical reality for a metaphoric one is one thing, but leaving the same pain you are running from for loved ones is a physical reality for them. The pain of love lost should be respected by all of us because we don’t want to face it ourselves. Any kind of loss can be painful, even material things, friendships, and relationships of all kinds. They all have the potential to cause us pain, but suffering from all that is usually optional. The purpose of believing in God is to get help in those areas where we don’t have control. If you put in more effort and expect less, or better yet, give yourself a logical explanation of being mortal with temporary and limited time, suffering from a failure simply can’t be an option for an individual who is just transiting. If you compare yourself with others, you may feel bad, but that is not fair. If you plan to compare, you should compare both sides of the coin. You may not suffer if you compare with others less fortunate than you. SO TO ME, WE SHOULD COMPARE WITH THE BETTER FOR INSPIRATION AND WITH THE LESS FORTUNATE FOR APPRECIATION. If you don’t succeed despite your efforts, it doesn’t mean you should suffer. Logically, look around and see how many people work in different professions. If everybody got what they wanted, there would be social chaos. Just imagine if everyone succeeded and became a rock star; what would be the value of being one? Who would go to the concerts? If everyone became a doctor, who would be the patient? The value of any and all professions goes down, and socially, things don’t work very well. You could be a brilliantly talented musician and spend your life playing in pubs. Yet some kid becomes an overnight megastar just by putting a video online. The question is, should you compare, feel bad, and question your talent, or should you be thankful to have a job that pays your bills?
Our happiness and contentment are important, so no one should stop pursuing what they want. But being mortal, losing happiness and contentment is a loss we can’t afford. Two examples come to mind. I was watching my son playing a video game. The object was to collect coins while going fast to reach the end of the game and win. My triggered thought was that those coins are our happiness, and we are supposed to collect them regardless of winning the game or not. The second example is floating in the river of time. Say you have three lanes in the river: one is always turbulent, the middle one is sometimes turbulent and sometimes calm, and the third one is constantly calm. If you are in the turbulent area, you have to swim and put in the effort to stay above the water. Automatically, you would want to go to the next lane to get a breather. When you get there, the constant calm starts to look very tempting, so you start to put in more effort to get there. Trouble is, being mortal, that calm is not our destination. If that calm becomes your destination in life, your attention from collecting those coins starts to stray, and you end up spending your life in dissatisfaction. As mortal beings, our destination is and should be those coins along the way, not the calm. Making choices as if you are going to live permanently is simply wrong. Remember, we simply can’t get around our mortality. Since we all have our individual atom of autonomy related to free will, God put the responsibilities on our personal shoulders to decide how we want to live a mortal life.
Personally, I believe it does not matter where on earth you are born or live; if you pass the test of being a human being, you hold your atom of autonomy, which makes you a holder of the ocean, space, and everything in between, all rolled up within you. You are the center of our evolving universe because you are the one who is evolving to make things happen. If you doubt or do not accept your importance, you will not take responsibility for your actions. If you really learn and understand everything about yourself, you will lose all the fears and related insecurities simultaneously because you will see your value and worth. You will not only learn to respect yourself, but you will become the spiritual entity God meant for you. If you learn to respect and see who you are, you will personally have to consider yourself a first-class citizen of the planet. Present-day circumstances and the know-how of humanity inspired me to state the truth according to the best of my knowledge.
Let’s look at India. If you are a Hindu nationalist or a protectionist, you may think Kashmir is part of India. Yet, India itself is a place where many nationalities, religions, their sects, and castes of all people live together. To me, every single one of them is a first-class citizen of this planet and deserves equal human rights. If anyone or someone is treated as a second-class citizen, the politics of belonging is in play. Logically, it would be against equal human rights. Their conflicts are based on their political differences, meaning spirituality has nothing to do with it. When it comes to our collective actions, politics may play a role, but as individuals, we all have to live in our mortal skin. It does matter when people can individually label you as prejudiced and discriminatory. The same goes with Israel. If Palestinians are second-class citizens, it is against equal human rights. If any race, gender, nation, or religion looks down on people who look or believe differently, that is politics, nothing but. If that kind of situation makes you feel good and powerful, you are ignoring and living under your own shell. If you don’t like the taste of your own medicine, you should not expect others to like it. If you follow that path, God would not be proud of you.
There is a time when we all die, but our politics stays alive, so no one can escape their karma. However, our spirituality moves on with us. The good thing about it is we keep moving to the next stages of our evolution. So, it’s worth learning more and leaving behind a strong legacy and a good name.
Logically, we cannot move without knowing, so it is worth learning about ourselves and our true realities. Otherwise, if we keep moving with our false realities, we may end up with a path of regret. Learning is a long and constant process, so taking any physical action to hurt yourself or anyone else is the wrong thing to do. We need to stay positive, so if we are not learning the truth and true knowledge, we may end up creating a monster inside of ourselves. It is hard to go back and find the truth about yourself once you start looking from a skewed angle. Being logical and using your common sense, we are most certainly a highly evolved species, meaning if we keep learning and teaching the truth, even God would be proud of us. My message here is to stop underestimating yourself. Learn and study more about yourself and the people around you. We can create heaven on earth if we all start respecting ourselves and each other. There is nothing like a problem-free world, but most of us can pass our mortal lives with a respectful life. Happiness is free, so don’t pay a price for it by falling into the hands of false politicians, even if they wear a garb of spirituality. Just like your body is your responsibility, your spiritual needs are your duty, so keep your sense of reciprocation alive and don’t listen to anyone blindly.
Looking back at your life, you should be able to say you have done your best in all areas, and there is no regret. If you take this attitude as your baseline, it will help you no matter where on earth you are. It does not matter which faith, nation, gender, color, or race you belong to. Your sense of reciprocation is your power. Learn from your actions and take your lessons to heart to make your future better. The same applies to humanity, so your presence will always be felt and remembered. That is my definition of evolution. If our example of God makes the whole sea disappear, our spirituality would not be respected until our physicality is taken seriously. So, get up and make the difference you are supposed to make. When all said and done, God would be proud of us.
Nothing is going to change through the political and religious leaders of our groups, simply because they are the root cause of our passionate conflicts. Change must come from individuals themselves, meaning we need to embrace our humanity from the bottom up to end our group differences by accepting and advocating for equal human rights. If each of us starts to question the hidden politics behind every human conflict and stops fueling them with our individual and passionate emotional fires, then and only then will there be a chance for that elusive peace on Earth.
Before this can happen, individuals must gain self-respect and self-esteem to become the CEOs of their own lives. Remember, it goes both ways—individuals can either solve or cause problems. We can envision something and make decisions that have devastating consequences on humanity.
Imagine drying up an entire ocean and witnessing the effects of such actions. Logically, if humans lived like other creatures and did not build dams or cut down trees, we could argue that God was responsible for all the good and bad in our lives. However, God has blessed humans with an evolving nature and free will, so the related responsibilities fall on our shoulders as well. This clearly means that not everything is predetermined by God; in spiritual matters, we have a significant role to play. We are not like other creatures; we are potentially like the cells of God, tasked with making things happen physically. Our ignorance can be deadly, so it must be kept in check. We cannot do that if we refuse to evolve.
First, we need to understand our importance and responsibilities. If we underestimate ourselves, we also underestimate our responsibilities, potentially creating our own doomsday. If we comprehend human potential and responsibilities, we can overcome predicted scenarios of doom. However, we are still stuck, unable to evolve from the quicksand of political belonging to our groups.
History shows that populations which underestimate their individuals often attribute both good and bad outcomes to God. My question is: why do Godless or non-believing societies end up achieving higher levels of evolution and progress? Why are they able to bring good and bad outcomes under their control, while believers often accept everything as God’s will? Is it individual ignorance, or is it related to religious politics that keeps individuals weak, vulnerable, and politically controlled?
Each of us is born with a highly sophisticated “computer” with many perks. Unfortunately, we identify ourselves as either the computer or the data. Yet, God created us as computer operators. Our families, communities, nations, and religions start installing data in us as soon as we are born. Educators expect us to accept our identity according to this installed data. For instance, if you are born into a Sikh family, elders may expect you to grow a beard and not cut your hair. If you are born into a Muslim family, you are expected to pray five times a day, believe in God and Prophet Muhammad, and follow the teachings from fifteen hundred years ago. If you are born Christian, you are taught to believe in Jesus as the Son of God and follow his teachings from two thousand years ago, and so on. Interestingly, our education is designed to confine us within our belonging groups with literal boundaries. Yet, as human beings, God created us as evolving entities that cannot be contained. The proof is in the pudding—look at how humans have been breaking boundaries set by our ancestors. From blood transfusions to stem cell research to artificial insemination, human progress has not been contained. Unfortunately, we still struggle to overcome the politics of belonging to our groups, which hinders our ability to resolve conflicts.
As CEOs of our own lives, we know that education is merely data installed by our belonging groups. We must understand that our real identity is not the computer or the data, but rather the computer operator. A person who receives a name at birth and then thinks, mixes, and matches data to draw conclusions—like a Ph.D. professor—is the computer operator. This individual, living in a body with a brain, accepts or rejects knowledge as data. We are much more than just the computer and the data. To me, this spiritual entity is not a mere drop in the ocean, as our groups and religions might have us believe. Quite the opposite—we take physical form at birth and can be seen as vessels containing a universe within. The question then becomes: what is this spiritual entity? It depends on who and what you believe as you grow up. As individuals in a sea of seven billion, we might logically feel inferior compared to a group or humanity as a whole, leading us to perceive limitations and mortality as facts of life. We tend to gather together and feel stronger as social creatures, leading us to believe in the politics of strength in numbers and the sense of belonging to our groups. However, it was meant to be a direct connection between the individual and the larger entity, whether you call it God, the Source, or humanity.
Just as our cells die and regenerate within our bodies, we as individuals go through a similar process as part of the body of God. The question is, when, why, and how did individuals lose their identity? If you can move beyond the politics of belonging and connect with humanity as a whole, you can easily feel the connection and understand who you are. Belonging to a group is like being an arm or a leg of a body that depends on the whole, just as an individual cell depends on the body. Logically, our politics of belonging to groups is not grounded in reality. This is evident in the COVID-19 situation, where the limitations of group politics became apparent. Human knowledge is always evolving, and we can be proven wrong repeatedly, regardless of our strong sense of belonging to our groups.
If you have passed the genetic test to be a human being, you are not merely a computer or data; you are a computer operator—a spiritual entity who is simultaneously a physical being. You are above all the education or data you have been given. If you reduce yourself to just the data, you will become extreme and passionate about your existing knowledge. Just look around and see the progress humanity has made.
When you fall victim to the politics of belonging or become enraged due to love loss, you are letting the data become your identity. This is where you have the potential to become just a drop in the ocean, a common element, even though you are the computer operator yourself—the one who is spiritually aware and carries an ocean and even space within. I previously wrote a blog titled “Five Bucks” (Read Five Bucks) in which I discussed how that five-dollar bill represents the ocean and space. Despite its significance, it has been ignored by both human populations and individuals themselves.
I wholeheartedly believe that if that five-dollar bill disappears, the number turns out to be zero. Regardless of the powers God Almighty possesses, they become insignificant if humans are removed from the equation. All the gazillions of dollars that God is holding become meaningless because we, as human individuals, are a crucial part of that picture. If all of humanity were to disappear, what significance would God have, and to whom would God matter? No matter how you look at it, without human beings, life loses all meaning. This means that the individual is like an ocean in a drop. If you feel insignificant, it is not because of God but because of the data you have received or been conditioned with. Your feelings of irrelevance and insignificance are deeply connected to your sense of belonging, as every religion, nation, and ideology promotes the weakness of the individual for political purposes. In Christianity, some even preach that you are born a sinner. Imagine what that does to one’s self-esteem. Therefore, try to physically and spiritually connect with humanity and God directly. Explore and understand reciprocity and related duties, live and let live with equal human rights, and see what happens to you as an individual. Since you are the one who translates spirituality into physical actions, you will feel your importance, relevance, and direct connection to the source.
The data we collect from the start can be problematic for many of us. Consider the education systems in our nations. Most schools around the world begin by teaching nationalism and religion, burying our human identity under politically assigned or installed identities. Each group promotes that their way of living is the best, whether it’s their traditions, customs, methods of governance, or worship. They always claim to be superior to everyone else, yet humanity is striving for equal human rights. When education is rooted in contradictory ideologies, how can we expect different results in adulthood? This is the foundational cause of our prejudice and discrimination. It is practiced by nearly all groups, yet humanity is seeking world peace. To me, educating the new generation with prejudice and discrimination from the beginning is a flaw in our education system. If you desire that elusive world peace, we must first teach what it means to be a human being, then democracy and equal human rights. If education starts with group politics and a sense of belonging, individuals will struggle to think beyond collective politics. In today’s interconnected world, people quickly realize that their education contradicts reality. Our outdated political propaganda, based on group superiority, perpetuates conflict, leading humanity to spend more on weapons, shed blood, and rob love instead of eradicating poverty, hunger, and disease. Religions, too, are deeply entwined with the politics of belonging, though they should focus solely on spirituality. Spirituality is universal like God, but religions often ignore it, leading to more severe and prolonged conflicts. I believe that religions should be exclusively about the path to God, spirituality, and humanity as a whole, but they often take pride in their involvement in political group dynamics.
I believe and blame our group politics for creating spiritual chaos for both God and humanity, so let me illustrate this with an example. Imagine yourself as a cell in a functioning human body. The brain claims, “I am the one keeping the body alive and functioning.” The heart responds, “Don’t forget, I supply the life-giving oxygenated blood, so I am the most important.” The lungs chime in, “If you talk about oxygen without me, you won’t get any.” The liver and kidneys say, “We clean you up, so without us, none of you can function.” The skin adds, “I fight and protect you all from infections daily so you can live.” The colon then says, “You’re all full of it. I not only clean you but also supply all the nutrition you need.” Hearing all this, the arms and legs complain, “We don’t want to live in this bickering and chaotic environment.” God then quietly and calmly says, “If you all function together, I can exist within you peacefully despite the chaos. But if I leave, you have no chance of survival.”
This has been, is, and will likely continue to be the status of humanity unless we metaphorically get our act together and learn that we need each other to create a functioning body. Whether or not you believe in God is less important than being a fully functioning human being. Sure, God exists, but how does that existence carry on and become useful to humanity? Finding answers to our spiritual questions is a personal responsibility, rather than something we are taught or told to believe.
If an individual is playing a role in God’s work, why don’t we accept and understand that? The answer lies not in religions but in spirituality. As groups, we not only use individuals but also politically exploit God. Since individuals are blinded by the political strength of their sense of belonging, they cannot see clearly. The real problem is not in our belief systems but in our personal weaknesses. Racism, prejudice, discrimination, and resistance to equal human rights are clear signs of individual weakness.
When you stray from spirituality and follow the politics of belonging, you are discouraged from questioning and learn not to because you are told it goes against God’s words. Personally, I believe in God’s true words because they are enacted through human physicality. Our reciprocity is not only the purpose of our individual lives but also the foundation of spirituality. Unfortunately or fortunately, human beings are evolving entities, and the proof is in our actions. Just look around and see where we were, where we are today, and where we are heading. You will find that human beings are like worker bees, following their evolving nature and changing everything. Although we have not yet overcome the politics of belonging, changes are happening, and equal human rights are being accepted worldwide, even in religious societies.
Logically, if you believe in God without doubt, you accept and continue to believe in God’s will, so you would not have difficulty accepting circumstances and people as they are. Remember, it is your lack of belief that causes extreme reactions, and God forbid you start punishing people in the name of God. Listening to our mullahs or priests has created weaker individuals who do not question and even commit spiritual crimes in the name of their religions.
If you believe in evolution in all aspects of life, existing knowledge is always a stepping stone for our future. This has been true since the beginning of our awareness, and we have come a long way in our evolution. Yet, to this day, the politics of religion still incite us to kill each other over it. This happens because we start to believe egotistically in our religious knowledge and separate ourselves from God and humanity.
As mortal beings, we cannot afford to sacrifice happiness over something we are going to leave behind. When you turn a molehill into a mountain and fall victim to it, becoming self-destructive, you have a personal duty to take charge and become the CEO of your life, ruling all aspects of it, including the sense of belonging. If you let it, it will overwhelm you, and you will become a puppet of your belonging groups. Our partial knowledge has always been and continues to be dangerous for us humans. It not only affects you mentally and spiritually but also has the potential to rob you of your happiness and health. Without health and happiness, nothing is successful in our lives, even if it is our religious belief.
Since spirituality is an ingrained reality of God for us all, we all have the potential to question our religion’s political boundaries, though our sense of belonging often prevents us from questioning our authorities. I believe that humans are the cause and effect of everything good and bad in nature, and since we cannot even move a finger or breathe on our own, how can we claim to make it all happen? For instance, oxygen is beyond anyone’s control, and nothing gets done by humans without it. Since God’s work is carried out by living, breathing human beings, we are supported. Now the question is, why do people have different paths? What has been and is happening in humanity has hidden wisdom that we do not yet understand. If someone is bad, they are doing that to make people realize what good is, and the good is to make others realize what bad is—much like cold and hot, dark and light. Does this mean humans choose to be good or bad? Yes, because we are all created with free will. If you can choose to get up in the morning and go somewhere with a decision, it is because you are using your free will. The ability to choose is ingrained in us all equally, but our insecurities dictate the paths we choose.
For example, if you divide a love triangle into three equal parts, a fourth triangle emerges at the center, which I call our core, where our spiritual and physical sides merge to make us human beings. If you divide it into two equal parts, you are a normal human being. If you neglect the spiritual part entirely, you become more like an animal, and if you neglect your physical side, you fail to be a normal human being. Many people try to live a monk-like lifestyle, but that is not a normal human life. You cannot ignore your physical side because it translates spiritual thoughts into physical actions. Keeping them balanced allows you to live a mortal life with the wisdom of mortality; otherwise, extremes can rob you of happiness and contentment. If you are unhappy and discontented, things are not adding up spiritually, so it cannot be from God. Remember, God is a just entity and cannot commit injustices. It is us using our free will to victimize ourselves. If you have divided your triangle properly, you will understand that you are encompassed by three kinds of love: Passionate Love, Instinctive Love, and Universal Love. We fall victim when deprived of any kind of love, so whatever dominates within the individual’s core will influence their spiritual awareness.
The balance we achieve is the real blessing of our spirituality. Always strive to balance the three loves and learn the value of each. With that balanced awareness, our personal strengths can become more than just spiritual beliefs; they can translate into our actual worldly actions.
When you mismatch train speed with the rail tracks, derailment is inevitable. Just as with trains, human beings, both individually and collectively, are designed to evolve by nature. Despite efforts by religions and other conservative systems of governance to halt this evolution, they have been, are, and will always be unsuccessful. The politics of power and control have undeniably failed and damaged our relationships at all levels—family, community, nation, and religion. Conservative individuals and groups have consistently attempted to prevent humanity from progressing. They interfere with and obstruct human advancement across all areas of life, preferring to cling to past glories and deny our God-given evolutionary nature, regardless of the clear benefits of evolution. From medicine to science and technology, conservative societies struggle to adapt. The question of right or wrong is irrelevant; it is an undeniable fact of history that people and nations are left behind and overtaken by others simply because they refuse to embrace changing times.
Our fears stem from a lack of spiritual trust and optimism for the future—qualities that religions should be promoting and embodying. This is where they often contradict themselves. If you preach belief in God, it should instill hope and optimism to help individuals navigate mortal life. Openly preaching that God is the ultimate authority while simultaneously controlling with harsh punishments or even violence for not adhering to religious rules clearly indicates that other humans are calling the shots. Belief in God should foster trust in divine support for the future, making resistance to change inconceivable. Is your fear-based pessimism a reflection of a lack of belief in God, or are you merely using politics of control, even invoking God for political purposes? If you cannot answer or distinguish between politics of belonging and spirituality, and if you use God for political gain, your religious beliefs are missing spiritual pillars necessary to withstand the winds of change. You are attempting to operate a speeding bullet train of evolution on tracks left by your ancestors. Without trust in God, religions stand on the political pillars of group belonging. Relying exclusively on politics of belonging not only damages the individual’s spiritual health but can also cause a religion to lose the respect of its followers. While individuals can choose to stay behind, if families, groups, nations, or entire religions collectively choose to remain static, they will inevitably be left behind in an evolving world. For example, if the population evolves but political leadership does not, it will create friction between individuals and authorities. A liberal individual in a deeply conservative society will likely demand change, especially if existing rules are outdated in the internet era. As more individuals feel stifled, rebellion is likely, and if conservative authorities attempt to impose liberalism, or if other nations pressure them to do so, conflicts can arise—such as the ongoing issues between America and the Taliban. The remedy is to align metaphorical rail speed with track capacity by focusing on education—educating and continuously educating. Otherwise, various forms of derailment—mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual—will be inevitable, leading to collective civil unrest visible around the world.
Self-doubt and related influences undermine self-respect, confidence, and self-esteem. If you constantly compare yourself to those perceived as better or buy into religious teachings that view humans as irrelevant, worthless, or sinful, you will begin to feel inferior and worthless. However, if you see yourself as a valuable part of God’s creation, you will start to recognize your true self-worth. Each of us is a functioning cell in God’s body, contributing to the spiritual progress of the physical world.
How one perceives themselves is closely related to the level of conformity imposed by their belonging groups. Solutions to our physical, mental, social, and spiritual problems often lie beyond these conforming boundaries. Our spiritual realm knows no boundaries, just as God and space do. Religions may claim deep spirituality, but when the politics of belonging take over, even the most spiritually expansive religions can become confined.
Politically conforming religious individuals often seek security within their groups or from God, driven by their education. They view security as a crucial issue in their lives, yet logically, there is no physical security for mortals. These feelings of insecurity are not only a sign of a lack of trust in God but also contribute to the creation of boundaries. If even our survival oxygen is beyond our individual or collective control, security becomes an illusion. We seek security within our groups, yet most crimes against us are committed by our own kind. Imaginary security is promoted by human societies, but as mortals, we often die from within, highlighting the need for logical thinking. But does it?
Today, we are beginning to rise to address our environment, social justice, and equality. Ironically, many conservative religious groups, who typically do not believe individuals should be in charge, rely on God to guide their lives. Yet, in politics, they often resist change and abandon divine principles. They fight against any changes to the point of violence, prioritizing their politics of belonging over their spiritual beliefs. This attitude fosters prejudice, discrimination, racism, and ignorance. Despite ongoing religious teachings, we struggle to achieve world peace. We have fought over our differences for thousands of years and continue to engage in religious wars with pride. This mindset slows our progress, as resources are spent on ideological conflicts rather than on evolution. Simply put, you cannot stand on mile twenty and claim to understand the entire journey when you have yet to traverse the remaining eighty miles. Remember, God made us responsible for our evolution, so as evolving beings, we must align with the right side of history, especially concerning evolution and the betterment of humanity.
As evolving entities, our good and bad aspects will continue to change until we reach our potential. The question is, why do religions impose limits on our knowledge? It’s all about the politics of belonging, which keeps us bound to outdated paths. No one wants to be associated with incorrect knowledge, so everyone believes their ancestral wisdom is ultimate and correct. They think that following their ways leads to heaven, while those who differ are condemned to hell. This mantra, prevalent in many religions, ignores the fact that we create hell on Earth through our differences. Bomb blasts and other forms of violence are human-made hells. If God and humanity are intertwined with us, our actions inflict pain on God. Can we rise to the task of healing humanity and God by living in peace? Can you take responsibility to challenge your personal sense of belonging and related politics? Can you stand against your own group? It is time to advocate for humanity as a whole, not just for our groups. While it may seem impossible for humans to live in peace, studying melting pot societies—though not perfect—demonstrates our ability to live in harmony.
Our modern era is one of surpassing our various human insecurities and the boundaries of our limited philosophies. Today, we are conquering the depths of the oceans and anchoring ourselves in space. If you separate God and humanity, you might think that humans are intruding into divine territory. However, if you connect them as they truly are, you’ll understand that humans are not acting entirely independently of God. God’s will is involved in our evolution. Our evolution is part of God’s plan for us, yet we are so entangled in territorial disputes or arguments about life after death. It’s time to wake up and recognize the reality of today’s human condition. Why would God want the physical presence of human beings to disappear? Why would God want us to become purely spiritual entities? No one really knows what happens to individuals, humanity, or even God Almighty beyond mere assumptions.
As individuals, we are not only spiritual beings but also physical entities born to perform crucial roles in the grand scheme of humanity. We are here to translate spiritual thoughts into physical actions. Since we have been blessed with free will, we have the potential to transform even devilish thoughts into reality. Remember, free will is a gift. By choosing godly and spiritual thoughts, we align ourselves with God’s will. If we choose to act on devilish thoughts, we are committing spiritual offenses.
Consider your makeup: you are born as a physical being with a powerful, evolving brain. As a baby, you are like a new computer—capable of immense potential but requiring autonomy to function. Without life, you cannot use your body or brain. This proves that you, with your name and other identities, are a unique individual gifted with life. What are you doing in return for this gift? God has given you life with a purpose, and it is up to you to fulfill that purpose. Your atom of autonomy is evidence that you are created with a spark of divinity. You can experience everything because of that life force within you—you can taste food, see the world, hear the sounds of nature, and feel love—all by your choice.
However, as you grow, you become encumbered by various identities. For instance, your parents will assign you:
A name
A last name
A gender
A race
A color
A community
A nationality
A religion
A sect
An educational degree
Your first and foremost identity is being a human being. After birth, you are buried under at least ten other identities, which might overwhelm you and cause you to forget who you really are. Losing sight of your primary identity happens not because of God but because of your belonging group. Never forget your true identity. As a child, you might be influenced to prioritize your degrees or group affiliations over your humanity. People often become so wrapped up in group identities that they forget their divine identity. Understanding what it means to be human can be confusing when knowledge is derived from authority figures.
As you mature, you begin to realize that you are personally responsible for your actions. Even if you commit a crime in the name of your group, religion, or God, you are still accountable. Your judgments should be based on education rather than merely following others’ advice. This is where you must become the CEO of your own life. Remember, your given identities come from your group, but God has granted you a singular, crucial identity. You belong to humanity as a whole and to God as one entity. Since God gave you free will, you are more responsible for your actions than you are led to believe by your group.
You might not have controlled the knowledge or sense of belonging instilled in you, but if you are the CEO of your life, you will understand the power of belonging. Your atom of autonomy allows you to stand firm in any circumstance. You have the ability to mix and match your knowledge to make decisions. As you harness your human powers, your understanding will grow. Your autonomy helps you grasp your personal strengths. The importance of having free will and a personal sense of spiritual justice will become clearer, especially if you are not completely controlled by your sense of belonging. The foundation of your personal sense of justice is grounded in the principle of not doing to others what you would not want done to yourself or your loved ones.
Since we are all born with our own spiritual attributes, failing to use or acknowledge them is a disservice, particularly if it is due to the politics of belonging to a group. For example, if you follow religious practices without questioning their alignment with God’s will, you might still be working against what God requires. If your sense of belonging prompts actions against others and you know those actions are wrong, regardless of who is preaching them, you are not fulfilling your spiritual duty.
Each individual is responsible for their actions. We should intuitively understand the impact of our actions by imagining ourselves on the receiving end. No one should be punished for things they had no control over, including ourselves. This principle should apply in human courts and in God’s court. If you would not want to be punished for things beyond your control, why would you inflict punishment on others for their identities?
Ask yourself why you act against others in ways you would not want to be treated. If you can look past the politics of belonging and examine your actions honestly, you might discover your true, God-given identity. Your autonomy will guide you, but you must be willing to seek it out. By imagining yourself on the receiving end of your actions before committing them, you will understand how spiritual principles work in reality.
Anger often arises from being blamed or punished for things beyond our control. We should consider ourselves innocent of circumstances we did not choose, like our group affiliations. So why do we, as groups, blame and punish innocent people? Is it an animal instinct? If so, shouldn’t we have evolved beyond such instincts? If it’s due to group politics, it remains our individual responsibility to overcome it. God has endowed us with autonomy and free will, and the essence of justice is that we should not punish anyone for things they are innocent of.
We are born with a spiritual dimension and must evolve beyond our primal instincts. We live in a sophisticated world, not in caves, and each of us is a natural-born CEO. If you follow the politics of your group, ask yourself why you act in ways that contradict your higher principles. Why let group politics control you when you have the power to make independent, ethical decisions? You are not a puppet but a free-willed human being. Your responsibility for your actions lies with you, not God or your group. Punishing someone for their identities is unjust. Your relationship with your creator is personal, and you should live in a way that honors both yourself and your creator.
SPIRITUALLY BY GOD, SCIENTIFICALLY, BIOLOGICALLY, GENETICALLY, AND ACCORDING TO YOUR FIRST IDENTITY, HUMAN BEING INDIVIDUALLY BELONG TO HUMANITY AS A WHOLE. ALL OTHER GROUP IDENTITIES ARE LITERALLY POLITICAL, PLAIN AND SIMPLE.
If you only follow what your belonging groups teach you, remember it is your individual responsibility to educate yourself, as you might be manipulated politically. You are taught how to pray, worship, be obedient, and participate in group activities. Prayer and worship systems are designed to keep you engaged in these activities. While hormonal influences affect us, these come from our animal instincts. As spiritual beings, we are meant to rise above these instincts. Throughout history, following purely animalistic instincts has impeded our evolution, preventing us from becoming self-regulated, compassionate, sacrificial, loving, and capable of understanding spiritual justice, even towards strangers. You instinctively know that becoming a good and evolving human being requires more.
Logically, God needs our practical actions as reciprocation, meaning it is our duty to help and give back. It is not merely about being good or bad; our conventional prayers are group-related rituals meant to align us with political conformity. If you are taught to praise God, you can do so, but it should be after you have fulfilled your duty of reciprocation. It is debatable whether God needs your praises, as God may not be in need like a human child. God transcends our praises.
When you praise, you may be doing so to the best of your understanding, which evolves over time. For example, if today’s weather is bad and frightening, you no longer attribute it to God’s anger or fear it as your ancestors might have.
Just as God is above your praises, you yourself are above the praises you receive from others, as their political approval is below your God-given status as a CEO of your life. You and God are inseparable, and God’s help has always been with you. Beyond sustaining your life and your body’s functioning, if you are the one making things happen physically, you are beyond mere flattery. If you manage all the spiritual affairs of humanity but are undermined by your belonging groups, it is due to the politics of control and power.
During your lifetime, you are tasked with converting spirituality into physical actions. God needs your actions, not just your worship, praises, or flattery. If you do not perform and help physically, where do you think your prayers and worship will lead you? Your understanding of practical prayers is lacking if you are merely memorizing and repeating holy words. The true essence of spirituality is not about reciting prayers but fulfilling the physical needs of others.
As human beings, we may enjoy praise, but if you believe God is like a human, you are placing God on a pedestal, making assumptions. If you are praying, worshiping, fasting, or being obedient, you might be missing the point. Your living years are what God needs from you. Spending this time only in prayer without helping others physically means you are holding a blank spiritual sheet, much like monks. Your physical presence is needed by God, and reciprocation is the purpose of your life. If you prefer to pray and worship rather than take responsibility for reciprocation, you may be mistaken. If your mantra is that God will take care of others, you must learn to respect both God and yourself. Consider the facts: you are alive without control, blessed with free will to make choices, and an evolving entity. If you believe God does not need your physical help for spiritual tasks, what do you think the purpose of your life is? Prayers, worship, fasting, or self-mutilation will not suffice if you have nothing to offer physically. Given the political compromises, your sense of reciprocation needs spiritual updating because you are attributing human insecurities to God. You may assume God desires your praises and sacrifices, but remember, as a spiritual entity, God does not need anything physical. Your physical life should be dedicated to helping others in need. Worshiping God means helping those who are physically in need. As God’s universe evolves, so should you. With the increasing number of hungry mouths, longer lifespans, and evolving threats like viruses and global warming, we need to work together as one humanity. If you think God gets mad and punishes, you might feel that your prayers are insufficient, leading you to pray harder or follow religious leaders’ advice to sacrifice. However, today we make vaccines and predict weather to save lives rather than resorting to outdated practices.
Despite the placebo effects of belief systems, we should take individual responsibility and manage our lives, considering its mortal realities. Our religious rhetoric is personal and should be treated accordingly. If you are taught to place your primary identity below other identities, it is your choice. Personally, I believe in prioritizing my identity as a human being over politically assigned identities.
In today’s world, we should align with modern realities. Instead of obstructing scientific progress, we should embrace it. Human nature may lead to profit-driven motives, but if you keep your mortal nature in mind, you may have a better perspective on your life. As groups, nations, companies, and corporations, our thinking and views have been commercialized. Profit is prioritized over people’s lives, which can be acceptable if it saves lives, unlike the business of war. If you survive pandemics and remain alive, you contribute to running God’s affairs scientifically. Those who help save lives are translating spirituality into physical actions, thus becoming spiritual themselves.
Examine how science has benefited humanity in saving lives compared to religion. Science has largely contributed to saving and improving lives, though not perfectly. History shows that religions have been involved in war crimes, often in the name of God. Religions have eagerly taken lives and hindered God’s work, ironically, in God’s name.
Humanity is evolving rapidly, and old religious beliefs struggle to keep pace. This is akin to old rail tracks unable to match the speed of modern trains. Today’s religious societies, like outdated rail tracks, are accustomed to operating at a certain level and speed. If the track cannot handle the train’s speed, problems will arise. Similarly, if our personal, familial, communal, national, and religious lives cannot adapt, suffering will result. For example, Saudi Arabia opening casinos illustrates adapting to modern needs. If you don’t evolve, your population will seek these opportunities elsewhere.
Education is crucial, but history shows that political affiliations can overshadow it. Presently, Americans are experiencing this clash, with debates over issues like global warming and governance disregarding scientific evidence. People cling to outdated methods, even when progress is evident. While old methods have their merits, adapting to contemporary changes is necessary.
Ultimately, individual trains often travel faster than traditional tracks can handle. Are you updating your personal and mental tracks to keep pace? You can benefit from this adaptation or choose to stay behind. Populations that adapt lead, while others follow. Change can be exhilarating and daunting, but if you resist, ensure you do not hold your community back from progress. Argue logically to gain knowledge and avoid hindering your community from embracing modern realities. Recognize that God and love are metaphoric realities, but if you impose these metaphors to override others’ physical realities, you are acting unfairly. Avoid doing to others what you would not want done to you or your loved ones.
It is natural to fear seeing your children deviate from the path you took, but trust in God to overcome your fears and stress. True belief in God is a spiritual asset, and fear-based control signifies a lack of trust. We have evolved from practices like sacrificing virgins to using technology to save lives. Our religious practices need logical updates to match the speed of modern advancements so individuals can navigate life without risk of derailment.
