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The events, situations, and circumstances in an individual’s life are often linked to the second and third circles, deeply affecting and influencing the person. However, free will comes to the rescue. Even minor things in the second and third circles can significantly impact a person’s already short and mortal life. Mastering the wisdom of making big things smaller and small things even smaller is essential in a mortal life. Since our life itself falls within the third circle, we have no control over it. Understanding our mortality means recognizing that fearing and trying to control it can be stressful. The stress from things beyond our control should be taken seriously because it can rob us of happiness and bring the inevitable even sooner. A mortal life should be lived fearlessly; otherwise, accumulating happy moments becomes impossible. Regardless of what it means to others, you can break boundaries, set or break records, and contribute to humanity’s progress and evolution. If you try to secure yourself by isolating yourself in a metaphorical glass or iron dome, mortality will still come from within. Don’t stress about being mortal; otherwise, you risk an early death from the stress of knowing you are mortal. Education is supposed to benefit us, not harm us, yet we often harm ourselves and others with our education. The knowledge of mortality is a good teacher and a peacemaker if you accept it.

If an individual achieves this understanding, even a mortal journey can be enjoyable. The greatest benefit or logic of being blessed with free will is the ability to live in all kinds of circumstances. This can only be done successfully if the individual assumes the duties of a CEO. By becoming the CEO of your life, you will be able to see beyond the political boundaries of belonging groups.

Since the first circle is your personal teacup, you need to understand the real effects of trying to control the second and third circles. As a mortal being, you have bigger fish to fry. Instead of trying to get someone to read tea leaves, become the CEO of your life so you can see how your personal desires to control the second and third circles rob you of the very treasure you need to value—your happiness and contentment. These should be valued most by a mortal individual.

Becoming a CEO involves using the God-given gift of free will to avoid the storms in your personal teacup by knowing when to control and when not to. From a small amount of money to millions, trillions, or any other large number, perspective can make a small amount seem insignificant. When you feel that your education is designed to make you feel inferior, you need to critically evaluate it to connect the dots and realize that you are the foundation of humanity and God himself.

As a group, contributing can be a sign of strength, but it is still a small number compared to larger groups or humanity as a whole, so every group wants to grow stronger. Some do this through old-style politics of numbers, while others use weapons of mass destruction. Many religions even claim you will go to heaven if you bring someone into your belief system. What does this mean? It means that if you have a larger group, you have more power, and if it’s about power, it’s no more than political strength and has nothing to do with spirituality. If it’s not spiritual, how can it be rewarded by God?

Should we really believe that God wants us to follow one particular belief system? If that’s the case, why are there multiple yet legitimate holy books? Why do they leave things in them that cause religious people to fight for thousands of years over their differences?

I don’t care what someone thinks about me; if it stinks like politics, I’m not going to buy it as a spiritual thing. Too many human beings have been, are, and will be killed over religious differences. Who is right? Everyone is dug into their trenches or pigeonholes with the politics of belonging to show strength in numbers.

Personally, I believe it’s all about politics, and everyone is stuck in their pigeonholes, believing that God or the belief in God belongs exclusively to them, justifying killing others over it. Hopefully, equal human rights will help people understand the reality of one God, one human being at a time, not as groups with political agendas. Labels like Muslim, Christian, Jewish, Hindu, or Sikh come before being human. We are made to feel weak and worthless by the politics of our belonging groups, allowing these groups to continue long after we are gone as individuals.

If I ask you to join me in enjoying things religions prohibit, instead of constantly praying, fasting, and sacrificing, what would your response be? It’s obvious you will claim 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, my personal gift directly from God, I choose to live as I want to, and so should you.

If I insist you follow my way of thinking, you would rightly say I am wrong. Now, if I ask you to explain logically why I am wrong, the core issue is individualism versus communism. Religion may claim not to follow communism or socialism, but if you look closely at their rules, you will find similarities that can blow your mind. If a group wants you to live just for them, they want you to be their slave. This gets further twisted by mixing spirituality and politics. If you want to examine 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 understand where I stand in the big scheme of life. I can’t really know unless I become the CEO of my life. We are all created as CEOs by nature, but we are pushed down by the politics of belonging groups. Whoever uses free will makes choices about how to live their personal life as a personal project. If you insist I follow whatever 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 from the get-go?

It’s said that where human logic fails, religious beliefs start. That’s great; at least they admit we are evolving organisms. Religiously speaking, it’s not to be refuted by the individual because the individual is insignificant and has no direct connection with God; they must go to God through the prophets. Personally, I can’t believe a human being is insignificant unless a group treats them politically. Spiritually, it’s another story.

Let me explain the significance of the human individual. If you put all the good things together and relate them to God, and all the bad things to the Devil, the only way to judge good and bad is to bring in the human individual with free will as a third equation. If that judge is not there, both good and bad become meaningless and insignificant. If the human individual is taken out, both sides would disappear. For instance, if you kill everyone in the world, would God really matter, and to whom? Would anyone pray, fast, or sacrifice for God for security and comfort? I don’t think so. The whole concept of a belief system fails if you take out the human individual.

If you still feel that God and the Devil are the main characters, think again. All good deeds and bad deeds are done through human individuals. All bombs are dropped by humans, and all help to the needy is provided by humans. Take the human individual out and see what’s left. Just picture a ghost town with all the buildings, roads, bridges, water, and electrical supply systems becoming valueless if there’s no one to live there.

If I don’t have free will, then and only then, I would say I don’t have a say. Since that’s not the case, it comes down to personal security and the politics of it. A group can say, “We provide you security, so you can’t question our authority.” As an independent creature with free will, I must see what I need to pay for the services provided by the belonging group.

My first question to myself would be, “Is it true that a group is providing me security?” A group is in the second circle, dependent on the security from the third circle itself, so it can’t provide me security from death, illness, or natural disasters. They can’t even ensure me my oxygen, or in other words, my mortality. Nationalism or religion can’t provide what they claim to.

If I have to pay for their security, it must be carefully examined for its legitimacy. Is it worth living in an obedient and subservient position to some people who are just like me? Remember, it’s all about the reciprocation between God and yourself. If my belonging group wants me to pay more than it provides, it’s not reciprocating fairly.

When it comes to justice, religious extremism and God are not regarded in courtrooms worldwide, but our ethics, morals, traditions, and customs are heavily influenced by our belonging religions, so our right and wrong are stuck in the past. It’s time to bring everything up to today’s standards.

Equal human rights are a good spiritual start, so embrace them. If you feel it’s okay to be prejudiced against someone outside your belonging group, you are not following the spiritual rule of not doing to others what you don’t want done to yourself. You might believe your group’s knowledge is superior, so you must follow it to be right. Remember, we are evolving constantly, learning new things daily. Our knowledge is not complete. Our brain, like our muscles, can grow. If everything is growing, how can we claim our knowledge is complete? We don’t have to be extremists to be intellectual, religious, or spiritual. We need to be all of the above at the same time.

I believe that either extreme is wrong. We need to look at our spiritual lives as well, so instead of picking one over the other, we need to zigzag through it all with our evolving knowledge to have a personal yet successful mortal life.

No one can be 100% sure about before birth or after death because we have not reached our potential to use our full brain power. Our problem is that individually and collectively, we use assumptions. Sometimes, we even ask computers to help us predict what will happen in the future, as if everything is according to our numbers. Just look at your outer and inner spaces; see how complex you can be.

We are born into our groups, so all we know is whatever we have been taught. Therefore, we need to look at our upbringing critically as well. If you look at a living human being, they are not only a living creature but also a spiritual being. We are a bundle of both, so real balance is needed to live a complicated mortal life.

As human beings, we are all social creatures and cannot live alone. Therefore, we all willingly pay the price to be with our belonging groups. The trouble is that we all know we are mortal, so we must have the right to a pleasant journey. If, for some reason, happiness and contentment have been robbed from us, we all have the responsibility to know the reasons.

As a mortal individual with free will and a “fiver,” you have to live within your first and personal circle, yet you must relate and reciprocate with the second and third circles. The second circle relates to the community. The community or a group may have a say in the rules and laws of the land for the individual to follow, but a community may not have a say in how the third circle works. People die and get sick regardless of the support from the community.

As communities, we have been trying to control and influence our belonging individuals and even other communities of the world, just like we have been trying to control and influence the human individual residing within a belonging community.

One of our problems is that, as individuals, we think our community thinks like us. As a community, we think God thinks like us, as if everything is and should be in control. We even try to control God by worshiping and sacrificing, as if our bribery would make God give us more control in our living years and even reserve a spot in heaven for the afterlife. There is nothing wrong with having a belief system, but prayers and worship should come after using all the efforts we can. Practical living and helping each other in difficult times are much more valuable as practical prayers to God than just banging our heads against walls or the ground while committing spiritual crimes at the same time. We must do our best before asking for God’s help because we have been blessed with the “fiver” from God. This “fiver” is the foundation of all the progress humanity has made, is making, and will make.

Sure, God is involved all the way by providing individual security from external and internal chaotic spaces, but the progress comes from the lofty goals of the human individual. This visionary creature is the central reason for today’s good, bad, and ugly aspects of humanity. Interestingly and strangely, humans achieve all this regardless of their awareness of mortality.

From conquering to slavery to equal human rights and everything in between, it has been a long journey. We have come a long way. How we got here is a clear sign of human evolution. All the people for or against it will be judged by our coming generations. As communities, we should understand which side we stand on in an evolving world’s revolving door.

Controlling or trying to control everything as an individual or community is quite taxing. How far are you willing to go? If you go too far, you may self-destruct as an individual and ruin your temporary journey. Are you willing to evolve with the demands of time? The best way to be more effective is to educate, educate, and educate—not only as individuals but as communities as well.

As human beings with a “fiver,” free will, and continuously evolving brains and bodies, we have outsmarted all other creatures. Yet, we have been and still are killing each other, not even for food. So what does it really mean to be a human being? Well, with free will, we pursue and evolve to become stronger and smarter. There is one glitch: our awareness of our mortality, which stokes the fire of curiosity. It does not only ask us where we came from and where we are going; it also gives birth to the thirst for other knowledge.

From daily survival to fighting disease to understanding the disease process to science and technology to social and spiritual knowledge and everything in between, our curiosity goes well beyond our mortality. Our second circle reaps the benefits of our efforts during our living years. This should be for humanity as a whole as well, but the politics of our sense of belonging to our groups takes over, and we stay stuck in our belonging groups. This politics spawns our nationalism and religions, which we cannot question because of the politics. The sense of belonging teaches us to sacrifice even our lives for the belonging groups. They reward and even promise to secure a spot for us in heaven after our death. True or not is not the question, but the politics of the sense of belonging passionately speaks loudly enough to shut down questioning individuals.

Regardless of all the oppression, human individuals have always been able to question authorities and evolve. This desire to evolve has not been controlled by any ism or religion. We have been told that we will go to hell for our sins, but sins were never stopped, and especially these days, with equal human rights, even the past sins have been transforming to not only be acceptable but become rights.

From condemnation of other religious beliefs to slavery, to homosexuality, to abortion, to the right to die with dignity, to children out of wedlock—the list is long enough to spin the heads of conservatives or religious fanatics. Even the Pope had to change his tune to bow down to the spiritual law of equal human rights.

Canada and some other countries were chosen to be the best places to live and raise children. I don’t think it is the money; there is plenty of money in the Arab countries. Regardless of the taxes, it is the equal human rights and individual freedom that make people flock and migrate to countries like Canada. Everyone has the freedom to worship the way they want, yet they all live under the same law of the land. My question is, why can’t we live like this as humanity?

The government had to apologize and pay for the past sins of spiritual crimes committed by religious people who thought they were superior to others just because of their religion. Even today, the government has to pay for recent cases of human rights violations. Even a person who thinks they are doing God’s work can become a sinner with changing times.

What does our future hold? No one really knows. Just like the past powers thought they were right yet were proven wrong with time, let’s keep ourselves away from the politics that inspire us to commit the sins of spirituality by not doing to anyone what we don’t like done to ourselves.

The politics of the sense of belonging is everywhere, so we need to evolve to the next level—to be human beings before being Muslim, Christian, or Jewish. Regardless of the politics of the sense of belonging, personal mortality is a fact, so our journey should be a pleasant one. You can bring God, hell, and heaven into the mix, but if you are not spiritual, nothing really matters. You cannot go to heaven or hell just because you belong to a certain group of people. What really matters is whether you are reciprocating.

If you live in a country where “dog eat dog” or individualistic philosophy is preached, you personally need to create balance for yourself by looking into equal human rights with universal health care, welfare, unemployment insurance, and taxes—not as socialism but as spiritualism. It is as spiritual as it can be to help the needy in a difficult time of life. There is a very thin line between religious rules and socialism, depending on how you look at it.

You can worship all you want in the mosque or church, but the real thing is helping someone in need. That will not only make you feel good about yourself; it will also make the person helped feel good as well during their living years. You don’t have to die to reap the rewards of a good deed. If you are for the individual or for the community exclusively, it is an extreme, so respect needs to be considered from both sides.

So-called sins are based on group politics to make the individual feel inferior, guilty, and worthless so they can be controlled. If you go too far against individualism, people who are usually individuals will leave and go somewhere where they can find equal human rights and freedom.

One of humanity’s big problems is that we even collectively think as insecure individuals, so our politics revolves around security. Yet, being mortal as individuals, the word security sounds far-fetched because of our mortality.

The security rhetoric or related education or thinking comes from the politics of the sense of belonging to our groups. All groups preach that they look after their individuals, yet most people are hurt most by their own belonging groups.

Belonging groups usually preach that others are not really human beings or part of humanity, or are inferior to their group. They should not have what you have, so they should stay weaker and defeatable. This is wrong thinking because human nature comes into play, and this is related to level two.

A while back, I was watching Dr. Wayne Dyer explaining the levels of awareness on TV. He explained that, first of all, we learn owning. For instance, this is my mom, my dad, my toy, or my best friend. The second level is where we think mine or ours is better. The third is, “What is in it for me?” The fourth level is where a human being asks others, “What can I do for you?” So the second level, where mine is better, is a competition with others.

This competitive environment has its advantages, like excelling and advancing, but the drawbacks are much more dangerous because it needs to be looked at as against whom? Human beings against human beings. Our conflicts, whether territory-related or religion-related, have been and are still taking a heavy toll on humanity as a whole. Killing each other becomes easier and cheaper, yet it stokes the fire of hatred and animosity. That is why we cannot evolve out of this perpetual spiritual crime-spawning politics of our sense of belonging to our groups. It is like an autoimmune disease humanity cannot cure or overcome. The only way it will be controlled is if we all, as individuals, become CEOs of our lives and do not participate in the politics of divisions, learning to belong to humanity as a whole.

We are an organism like a coral reef—colorful, connected, and the same, yet being robbed of our potential by an autoimmune disease. We may not reach our potential if we stay stuck at level two.

Trying to prevent someone from gaining strength is not the way to go because our sense of belonging to our groups will always keep us fighting against each other regardless of the time. Just look around at all the religions; they have not resolved their differences by going to war against each other for thousands of years.

If we start to learn as individuals that we belong to humanity as a whole, which we do, we can address the cause of this autoimmune disease.

If a passionate creature like a human being gets hurt, regardless of being very smart, they are not only an emotional bundle of revenge but also carry the pain of love lost throughout their living years. With that pain, personal life becomes meaningless for them, so they want the people who caused their pain to feel the same pain at all costs. This perpetual love loss has to be understood not only by the first circle, the individual, but also by our second circle, the community, so we can start to create healing and become part of humanity instead of just our belonging groups. If there is a storm in an individual’s teacup because of the community, it is damaging for both at the same time because the community consists of individuals. The awareness of the individual is important so they do not let the politics of the belonging group ruin their temporary visit. The belonging group should understand that an unhappy and unhealthy individual is dangerous for the integrity of the group as well.

Just like understanding the balance of triangles, we need to understand the cycles of circles. Our individual and personal circle of life can be easily affected by the larger circles around us.

We are a story within a story within a story. For instance, you have a personal story worth five bucks (read five bucks). You are the main character, or the CEO, of your life. You make decisions and choices to live successfully during your lifetime. This is where the triangle of health, happiness, and success comes into play, yet it is related to this personal circle.

Since I am talking about circles, let’s stay with the circles. After you have learned about your personal circle, or I should say your teacup, you need to learn about the neighboring circles. You learn to relate to the people around you, just like in your community. You can vote for the direction you want your community to go, but that is the only power you have. The outcome of your vote is not in your control, so you have to come to terms with your limits and understand you have no control over many different things in your life. This circle includes your race, gender, nation, and religion. They dictate and show their power to let you know that they are more powerful than you. They have the power to punish or shun you, put you in jail, or even kill you for disobedience in the name of control. You have to use your personal politics to live within the boundaries, rules, and laws of the land you belong to, regardless of the demands of your personal circle.

In the second circle, we do the same. Even as communities, we try to control things in the third circle. This can create the same frustration for the community as an individual feels when the community does something he or she does not want. We need to comply, even as communities, to create a balanced environment to evolve further. I see wildfires and the efforts made by communities, yet wind can lead to out-of-control fires.

By accepting mortality and health-related issues, we can set the rhythm to evolve without frustration. You don’t win a war against cancer by going to war; you continuously pursue evolution to get better and use more of your brainpower. This rhythmic pursuit can help to adopt evolution one level at a time.

The third circle I am talking about is where your all-powerful second circle is powerless. This is where nature and God reside. Amongst all these complexities, you have to really know your politics to spend a mortal life with happiness and contentment because you, as an individual, depend on the oxygen from this circle.

Our rights and wrongs change not only as individuals but also as evolving organisms, meaning we change in the second circle over time. The obvious changes and evolution of our societies are well documented, except for religious rules, but even religions these days try to shake off their extreme behaviors. The Pope has made statements about these changes, but we will have to see if they stick to them. Our world has been going back and forth with governmental changes. If we give power to religious people, they would like to take us back to the era of the prophets. I would like to see if other religious leaders come out and preach human rights over old rules dating back two thousand years.

As children, we learn something we don’t agree with. As teenagers, we think that was stupid, and when we become adults, our rights and wrongs change places.

In exactly the same way, our belonging groups can change with evolution. We condemn and believe that slavery and gay bashing are crimes nowadays. Canada becoming a sanctuary for Russian gays shows signs of these changes. Our sense of human rights is overpowering the politics of our sense of belonging to conservative groups. Acceptance of Syrian refugees, and the Omar Khadr case, regardless of social divide, are good examples of our evolution. In the past, it would not even have been a topic of discussion.

Evolution is at the core, foundation, or genes of human beings, with the wisdom to see or envision the future. The sooner we adapt to the coming changes, the better. It is important for the individual to know what is most important in personal mortal life, circle, or teacup. To me, personal happiness and contentment should top the agenda. Remember, regardless of the circle you are in, it will always come down to your personal happiness and contentment as an individual in your living years.

If changes happen in your next circle, where you don’t have control, you have to adjust accordingly to live your mortal life with the top goal of happiness and contentment.

If you are unhappy because the opposing political party won the election, or you are cleaning up after a natural disaster, it is you who has to adjust to keep going because you are the CEO of your life project. Events, situations, and circumstances are part of a big project; they should be just that. They should not have the power to bring your whole life to a screeching halt or break down your belief system. Losing hope because of an event or situation is looking at life with a narrow-minded and limited vision, as if it is a department instead of a project.

Knowing the wrong is easier if you put yourself in others’ shoes rather than demanding others to fit into yours. People change gradually, so the problem is not the change itself but rather the speed at which individuals adopt changes. Some don’t want to change at all, while others want to change everything instantly.

I prefer to look at the journey of humanity where the reality is that we have already come this far. We have a lot to show—just look at the people with cell phones in their hands. Our history shows constant changes, and resistance to change has always been constant and a part of our evolution. Yet it has never been able to stop progress. From no religion to religion, from one religion to another, from communism to socialism to democracy and back and forth, there is still progress to show. Just look around: the number of moderate believers is growing against the extremists.

At the base of all changes, you will always find an individual’s imagination, regardless of the size of the change. It always starts from the thoughts of one human individual. Every group is made of human individuals, yet it is there to nurture or destroy the individual’s imagination, which creates or destroys reality. If reality is not created, the group will lag behind because of the brain drain.

If there were a measuring device to measure the smarts, strength, and ability to live for oneself and help others, imagine you are standing on the bank of a river and need to get to the other side. Before jumping in and drowning, you have to think, plan, and then act on your plan. You can gather some branches, make a raft, and row yourself to the other side. It’s not simple, but in a nutshell, this is what it’s all about.

If this godly wisdom, power, energy, and ability to do everything is measured, metaphorically it is worth five bucks for each individual. If the whole community contributes their five bucks to build a bridge, everyone in the community can cross the river whenever they want. But here comes the problem: when the community gets involved, things have to run with rules, and the rules should be equally followed by all community members. But with the politics of control, everything changes, and the five bucks take a back seat because of the metaphoric big brother.

Logically, a single individual is weaker than the big family, community, nation, or religion, depending on whether they get along and work as a unit. One can be very smart and have a lot of resources to hire many helping hands to function at a higher level. Either way, that smarts still come from that five bucks.

Fighting infectious diseases like the Ebola outbreak, issues with global warming, the spread of the internet, or even building the space station is best done if humanity comes together with five bucks at a time. These days, times have changed. Infections and global warming don’t stay within our political boundaries.

An example: a human cell is meaningless on its own, but with the right circumstances, it has the power to create a whole and functioning human body with limitless potential. We each have trillions of cells in our bodies. Individually, a cell may be insignificant, but when they work together, the potential is limitless.

Internal space has its intricate functions of trillions of cells, which seems chaotic, but we have been learning to survive disease. We have been learning about external space as well, regardless of our control over it. This all points towards the bigger circle that holds our health and death. Trying to control without accepting it creates an even more chaotic situation. The stress of learning our responsibilities points to the need for a belief system. A belief system helps us be at peace with mortality. I still believe we need to do everything in our power to evolve further because we have not hit our potential. As human beings, if we pursue, we achieve. Modern technological advancements and medical and genetic breakthroughs don’t come with the attitude that “God will save me, so I should pray regardless of my lifestyle.” To me, prayers are and should be left until we have done our best. If you are on the other extreme and believe you are the one doing everything, you need to know that without oxygen, you are a dead duck, so don’t take all the credit. It is not God alone or you alone; everything is done by both of you together. Create balance to accept your responsibilities as a CEO and believe that you are being helped so you can create some inner peace for your mortal life.

Back to the circles: all my knowledge has never been, is not, and will never be about controlling to reach extremes. It is all about creating balance for the individual to live a mortal life with all its difficulties because it is the reality.

I believe most of our mental health and other happiness and contentment-robbing problems start when we want to fit the larger circles into our smaller one. If you want to control even godly events, sooner or later you will run into a situation where you lose control, and most of our problems start when we feel out of control.

A belief system teaches about these things by saying that God is doing everything and we as human beings have no control whatsoever, yet they have the strictest punishments for human disobedience. I have two problems with this philosophy. One, God’s work is done physically by human individuals, so they can’t be insignificant. Sure, we depend on oxygen to perform the physical work of God. Second, it is not that humans or God are doing everything separately; it is done with equal efforts, so it is not one or the other or who is doing more. It is the balance because of the individuals’ ability to reciprocate regardless of mortality. Just like our cells do their job to keep us alive, we do that for God.

If you believe God is doing everything, then you have to know how things are being done physically if God is only spiritual. Where and how do you fit the five bucks you got before birth? You have been told that it is not enough, so you have to put up with our political agendas. This not only robs the individual of self-esteem, but it also makes the individual limited, which God had never meant. We are not a drop in the ocean; we are the ocean in a drop. So any education that limits and holds back the human individual is against God’s will because otherwise, logically, we would not have the five bucks individually.

If you believe that you are limited, you have to look at your education or the data you have been instilled with critically. The potential you carry is related to God himself, not to your politics of a sense of belonging as a group. A group makes the individual weak so he or she can be controlled.

If you look at our governing systems, some go too far in the dog-eat-dog philosophy and some try to help the individual to the point that he or she stops seeking his or her potential. Help should be there because I believe if a community wants the individual to follow rules, the individual’s basic rights should be met. No one should go hungry. If a hungry individual breaks the rules, it is not the individual’s mistake; it is the community’s fault. Sure, we need rules to follow, but we should have rules for our groups as well so they don’t trample on individual human rights.

As healthy human beings, we have rights and responsibilities of reciprocation, not only to God but with our communities as well.

So playing your part is a must. Honest living creates inner peace. Using others or the system is like making yourself a limited being who does not want to reach his or her potential. Reaching and living to our potential is a responsibility we all have because not only as individuals, but as communities and as part of God, all our evolution depends on it. If the community is the right one, it will encourage it because it helps the community in the long run. If the community is hindering, the brain drain should happen to that community because regardless of religious beliefs, it is against God’s will to keep human individuals from reaching their potential.

Being part of God himself is the foundation of individual self-esteem, which is why most religions and nationalist systems of governance are against individual strength. We have been brainwashed by community-oriented thinking to the point that we sacrifice our energy, happiness, and even life, despite the fact that this mortal life, happiness, and contentment are personal gifts from God directly to the individual. The politics of our sense of belonging are determined to rob the individual to serve and spend a mortal life as part of a big machine. While there is no denying its importance, why do we all have free will and personal responsibilities for our personal lives?

I understand the purpose of life is to reciprocate, but when matters are taken to the extreme, we end up killing and being killed over the politics of belonging rather than for spiritual reciprocation to God. Even God himself made the human individual so important that we are all given the potential to be the CEO of our lives. We are taught not to have self-esteem and that we don’t have a direct connection to God, so we must follow the rules to go to the so-called heaven while creating hell in this lifetime. Where did this knowledge of hate and conflict come from? God himself or spirituality? I don’t think so.

Religious beliefs are like kingdoms where royal families are the only ones connected to God, and everyone else is a commoner with no direct link to God. They must follow orders blindly, or else. Yet, God created the individual in such a way that he or she is perfectly capable of using free will at will, anytime and anywhere.

It’s true that sometimes you must use free will to stay alive by following the orders of oppressive rulers. However, in reality, you are using your free will to say that you don’t have free will. To know your importance, it is important to stay alive. So regardless of the level of freedom you have, you still have free will, which makes you a miniature God or part of God himself. You can go through this lifetime being free in your mind, even if you feel trapped outside.

The human individual is the thread of the fabric of God. Regardless of the design and strength, the very existence of that strength is impossible without that thread. The thread in the fabric is the most important aspect of the fabric. In God’s case, the physicality of God depends on the presence of human beings. Without them, the fabric’s physicality disappears and it is not able to fulfill the prayers of others, thus losing its importance regardless of spiritual significance.

Taking attention away from the individual’s importance is a must for controlling authorities. The individual can easily be controlled if he or she feels the need to belong. Groups have taken power from individuals by instilling the knowledge of weakness. They have flipped the triangle, causing the individual to lose importance and self-esteem.

When it comes to mortality, it is crucial for individuals to understand their importance. If you don’t recognize yourself as the thread in the fabric of God, you will become what your ruling authorities intended for you to be: “meaningless.” This may come from religions, yet it is against God’s will. Helping fulfill someone’s prayers is as good as it gets; human beings are meaningful to the point that they make God meaningful.

Issues with self-esteem, such as inferiority complexes, personal weaknesses, lack of belief in God, and lack of control, create an environment of helplessness, resulting in an unhappy, depressed, anxious, and unfulfilled mortal life. This is created by the politics of governing authorities or worshiping systems. The weaker you are, the easier you are to control. Lack of belief is not created by you or God; it comes from the installed knowledge you have grown up with.

That is why you are taught to think whatever you are doing is your personal will. Yet, acting as a puppet is not in your interest, especially if you are mortal. Doing good for society is great and very satisfying, but it is an extreme. Creating balance is your duty as a mortal individual because God created you as a CEO. This means you have to attend to all departments of life, including taking care of your personal importance. You matter to yourself, regardless of the education you have been exposed to. If you are not important to yourself, or you don’t matter to yourself, it is a spiritual flaw you have accepted from your belonging group because you have demoted yourself to being the head of a department instead of being a CEO.

If you dig into yourself beyond the installed data, you will discover your direct connection to the source, or God, at any place, anytime, and all the time. This will give you all the confidence and self-esteem you need to tread through a mortal life, regardless of your belief system, because it makes you a miniature God yourself. That is, if you are willing to go there and deal with the dead dog of the problems you are facing. Most of the time, going inward and becoming spiritually evolved can make what appears to be a big problem seem small. When you put things together for yourself, the first thing you should do is become aware of your mortality so you can appreciate even the simple things like oxygen, which you can’t live without. It will make you appreciate physical life and its bounties, like love and other enjoyments like food.

Most religious people believe in sacrificing everything that God has offered for this life to get into the afterlife. Sacrificing this life for the afterlife has a smell of the politics of control so that the individual can be used and controlled in living years. Human beings are useful to God while they are physically alive, so doing good while alive is a good thing. But sacrificing while being alive makes God unfair, so it may not be God’s order. God can easily say that he gave you free will for a reason so you can reciprocate while enjoying the living years. People do that anyway; not everyone sacrifices. Even priests have their cake and eat it too.

You may turn things around for yourself if you can address the causes of your imbalances. I believe in medicine, but I also believe in finding the causes of the problems. Spirituality resides within the thoughts of human beings, so being aware of mortality clears a lot of clutter out. Our thoughts are, and can be, very powerful and have profound effects on our daily living. They dictate how we feel. So if your thoughts are controlled and cluttered, you may be led to believe that you are a born sinner and an inferior entity, thus needing to find strength in numbers to belong. Obey the rules of the belonging groups regardless of right and wrong. This has nothing to do with spirituality but everything to do with politics. So find your real belief from within by becoming a CEO of your life. You are an equal partner in doing God’s work. Remember, God can’t fulfill anyone’s prayers physically without your help. So know your importance. If you don’t believe in yourself or what I am saying, find me a prayer that got fulfilled without the help of any human being. Even miracles are performed through human individuals. Remember, all the prophets of God were human beings. Ever wonder why?

Mosques, churches, and other places of worship are where like-minded people gather for political reasons. Strength in numbers is politics. In the foundation of religions, people believe or are taught to believe that if you bring in a believer to their religion, you will go to heaven. Every political entity requires individuals to follow a set of rules to be part of the group. Yet, in spirituality, there are no demands on the individual other than reciprocation. It all depends on the individual to use free will to be an evolving human being with potential. This potential takes us out of the politics of belonging to a group and brings us into the arms of humanity as a whole. So a politician of a group would never want you to become a CEO of your life to challenge their belief system.

God does not exist in religious buildings but in the real worship places, like the armpits of humanity where it stinks but these places will give you real spiritual satisfaction. Doctors without Borders, food for starving children, or helping people after a natural disaster or refugees of human political conflicts or global warming are examples. Interestingly, religious wars are still creating refugees.

I want to clear one thing here: I don’t think or believe we can function without our politics. It has its place and importance, but one should be able to distinguish the differences between politics and spirituality. Just look at our actions. You may feel confused about your standing. If you do, strive to become a CEO.

If you believe that enhancing the number of a belonging group, nation, or religion is spiritual, you need to think again. Remember, seeking strength for security is as political as it gets, period. Worship style or clothing is political as well. You may be led to believe it is God’s order to dress a certain way. Sure, we need to cover ourselves, but it is all politics of the sense of belonging to a certain group to show signs of belonging. Traditional clothing of the land where you are born is a common political statement. If you are born in the north, you have to survive by covering up, and yes, even if you have to wear fur. The people who talk against it are not in your shoes, and you are not in their shoes either. So becoming passionate about it is all political. You may feel the cause is a spiritual one, but if you don’t put yourself in others’ shoes, you can’t be passionate about it.

When you show up at your place of worship, you are standing with your belonging group. Otherwise, talking to God can be done anywhere at any time, so it is political to show up at gatherings of all kinds. Prayers and the sacrifice of your time, resources, and energy are personal and directly connected to God, so they can be done in personal ways depending on your intention. Sticking to the law of a land is an individual’s duty, but it is not necessarily spiritual. While doing so may keep you out of trouble, following the law in the name of God has no spiritual value. Political value? Yes, but only if the ruling authorities care for everyone equally, which doesn’t happen often.

It is important to be aware of why you follow a certain set of rules to live a life. The answers to your problems may reside in the installed data. You should be able to differentiate between political and spiritual matters. It’s important for your well-being to remove the clutter and have room for peaceful living and contentment. Realize your importance, especially as an individual, and gain self-esteem by understanding your mortality. Gain awareness, then talk to God and your problems will become more manageable. Dealing with the dead dog is much easier. But it’s your free will, and that’s what God has given you. How you want to exercise it is your personal choice. My purpose is to increase your awareness, that’s all. No one can live your life but you. It’s your responsibility to have a fulfilling life, and you should know that without God’s direct connection, that is not possible. Your prayers are answered, or not, according to your actions and awareness. So be aware, and the rest will fall into place.

Standing up for your belonging groups, regardless of right or wrong, is entirely political, not spiritual. Therefore, thinking that standing for your religion automatically makes it spiritual is a misconception. Fighting and killing over religious opinions is not spiritual; it is political to align with your belonging group. An individual should evolve to be the CEO of their life so they can judge right and wrong, even if it involves their belonging group.

Believing in one God and seeing everyone as part of God, regardless of differences or ensuring equal human rights, is purely spiritual. Oppression, discrimination against any human individual or group, racism, and prejudice are entirely political. The carrot-and-stick philosophy, or the concept of heaven and hell, is not spiritual; it’s a form of politics used for control.

God is free from the politics of control; otherwise, we would all be angels without free will. God represents only truth, while human beings, despite ideally not being, have become nothing but political entities driven by security concerns. Ironically, as mortals, there is logically no absolute security whatsoever.

Extremes lie in completely adhering to spirituality or politics. Finding and creating balance is the challenge that a mortal CEO must undertake. If you visit a graveyard, you can observe that all the deceased may have believed, in one way or another, that living a controlled life would secure them, as taught by their belonging groups. However, no group, not even the most powerful ones, can save an individual’s life or alter mortality—at least not yet.

While I don’t deny the importance and benefits of religious knowledge that inspires spirituality, I refuse to close my eyes and blindly believe as ordered. I aim to highlight the flaws in our belief systems and the harms they have caused. Spiritually, these systems teach restraint and love for others, which is commendable. However, they have also allowed and facilitated the dominance of political agendas driven by a sense of belonging to certain groups. This has not only eroded trust in spirituality among ordinary individuals but has also led to countless deaths and individual suffering.

Consider historical dungeons, torture chambers, and the punishments inflicted by religions for minor disobediences—they are enough to shock modern sensibilities, especially when done in the name of God. When religions engage in war, they do so with fervor, often trampling spirituality in the process, all under the guise of serving God.

I believe that religion touches each of us deeply, akin to music—we may like it, dislike it, or passionately love it. It remains an enigmatic reality. Our transition from compassion to zealotry is closely linked to our extreme political allegiances to belonging groups, whether personal or collective.

The rigid boundaries and strict conformity imposed by governing systems have subdued the human spirit, reducing it to mere allegiance to governing structures that often disregard individual human rights, especially for those belonging to opposing groups. If a governing system lacks respect for the individual, it is spiritually flawed and will inevitably fail. Today, few nations still enforce religious rules as their justice systems—why do you think that is?

By nature and logic, placing any restrictions on the individual contradicts human nature, which I believe aligns with God’s will. The continuous regeneration and multiplication of neurons and all other human cells are clear signs of evolutionary intent. Embracing this evolution with faith in God is the path forward. Creating rules that stifle human potential goes against God’s will, often reflecting political motives driven by a sense of belonging. Modern advancements, such as predicting and mitigating superstorms to save lives, owe their success not to religious decrees but to scientific inquiry. Without scientists, we might still be sacrificing virgins, believing it would appease an angry God.

All attempts to restrain the human individual, based on carrot-and-stick philosophies of the past, may work temporarily, especially when dealing with animal instincts. However, they fail when imposed as a permanent police state over every individual. Such controls not only prove impossible but also degrade human intellect.

I believe in knowledge that promotes self-regulation through compassion and logic. If you expect respect for your personal self-restraint from those around you, you have misconstrued its purpose—it’s between you and God, not between you and others. Seeking approval, fitting in, or wanting admiration diverts from the spiritual path. It worsens if you impose your beliefs on others, unless mandated by law and order. There must be a clear distinction between the laws of the land and an individual’s belief system, as not all humans share the same level of clarity in their beliefs. Ignoring this could lead to injustice and human rights violations against those who do not share the same beliefs.

Remember, everyone is born with mortality thrust upon them without choice, logically entitling them to live as they choose. Crimes against humanity or each other become matters of law enforcement. Law enforcement operates under a justice system based on solid, universally applicable written rules.

During discussions, belief systems often touch upon the unknown, requiring varying degrees of belief—from complete acceptance to outright denial. This is why a belief system should not be equated with a legal system. A justice system built on equal human rights, devoid of prejudice, supersedes belief systems in fostering community welfare as a superior governing model.

Self-regulation through education, in contrast to carrot-and-stick methods, can help individuals overcome mob mentality, opportunistic crimes like looting, and killings. Such crimes plague societies worldwide, regardless of their governing systems. Education in self-awareness and critical thinking is imperative, empowering individuals to make decisions beyond group allegiance.

Religions, with their carrot-and-stick approach spanning millennia, should have eradicated crime by now, creating self-regulating societies that negate the need for police or justice systems. Yet, observe the world today—thousands of years of education have not eradicated these issues. Continuing with the same beliefs is unlikely to yield different results. The spiritually enlightened individual, who distinguishes right from wrong and acts as a CEO of their life, remains rare, regardless of education level. It’s time to advocate for a new paradigm—one that embraces humanity as a whole. All signs point toward collective action against global warming issues, as safety cannot be confined within national or religious boundaries.

The internet serves as a gateway to diverse perspectives, akin to spirituality and religions. In contrast, nationalism, racism, prejudice, and discrimination are like single computers. Choose your paradigm wisely. When dealing with differing opinions—whether within family, friends, community, nation, or religion—remember mortality, spirituality, humanity, God, compassion, and love. These principles steer us away from extremes, cultivating a discerning judgment of what truly matters.

We are evolving beings and cannot achieve perfection until we reach our full potential. Some may exhibit more of their animalistic side, contributing to societal challenges as physical beings. This tendency persists despite strict rules; sexual deviance, even among high-ranking religious leaders, betrays respect for religious tenets. From violating indigenous rights in residential schools to scandals involving priests, or the neglect of neighboring nations by wealthy Islamic states, these deviations spotlight individuals and states in moral decline. Likewise, choosing political parties contrary to spiritual beliefs and values by churchgoers is another glaring contradiction.

When politics intertwine with religion, compassion and spirituality often take a backseat. Self-regulating individuals can discern between enforced rules and self-imposed morality. Despite efforts to impose fear of God and guilt over supposed devilish affections, such control mechanisms fail because the unknown remains uncharted until we reach our fullest potential. Looting, especially during natural disasters, or abusing power post-conquest, contradict principles of compassion and love.

Why hasn’t our religious knowledge succeeded? I attribute it to forced education. The best approach to education is fostering self-regulation through informed reasoning. As parents, we can’t be omnipresent, society can’t assign a cop to every individual, and concerning our governing affairs, we should allow God to address broader concerns like providing oxygen and health by maintaining inner and outer order.

The recent fires in British Columbia remind me of the surge in racism we’ve been experiencing. Initially, the instances were scattered and small, but they have now merged into a large, uncontrollable blaze. Politics is a dirty game; people seek power regardless of the cost. To please the groups that help them gain office, they often sell their souls, becoming spiritually bankrupt.

Forest fires are a part of life, much like corrupt politics and racism—undesired but always present. Whether you stand with or against racism, the only way to change it is through logical thinking.

Here’s how I view racism and prejudice: Security-related differences emerge when you don’t see yourself as a human belonging to all of humanity. If you identify as an extension of an ideology, a gang, a race, a nation, or a religion, you may politically hide your racism and prejudice, but when pressured, they will surface, whether you like it or not.

There will always be people with differing opinions. The only way to overcome these passionate divisions is with compassion. Compassion comes easily when you view humanity as a whole and see God in others as you do in yourself. Dr. Wayne Dyer, a well-known guru, once said, “If you squeeze an apple, only apple juice will come out. You can’t get orange juice from an apple or apple juice from an orange.”

When you are under pressure, what’s inside you will come out. If you are passionate about your group, you have the potential to become a racist, ignorant, or even a suicide bomber. You will be prejudiced against others, regardless of your color, race, gender, nationality, or religion. But if you carry a compassionate sense of justice and see yourself as part of humanity as a whole, you will overcome confusion related to belonging and call a spade a spade when needed.

Not everyone will agree with me due to religious beliefs. My main purpose is not to cast doubt on anyone’s spiritual belief system but to highlight that political religion is dangerous. It’s not acceptable to kill in the name of religion or God because it goes against spirituality. Spiritually, you don’t do to others what you wouldn’t want done to you. As evolving beings, we can’t be locked into any fixed knowledge. Prejudice and racism are not inherent; as babies, we don’t discriminate. This proves that our knowledge is learned.

Let’s break it down to fundamentals. Here are the top ten yeses and noes:

1. If you are cut, you bleed the same blood that can save all kinds of human beings through transfusion, regardless of the donor’s race, gender, or orientation.
2. Can you save a human life with another creature’s blood? (No)
3. Do you get hungry and eat similar foods like everyone else? (Yes)
4. Do you poop and pee, and does it stink like everyone else’s? (Yes)
5. Do you get sick, old, and die like everyone else? (Yes)
6. If a white person and a black person have sex, will the woman get pregnant and have a perfectly functioning baby? (Yes)
7. Are you scientifically made of carbon? (Yes)
8. Do you need oxygen to live like everyone else? (Yes)
9. Do you use your free will every day like everyone else? (Yes)
10. Do you believe we have a space station up there and it is the year 2017? (Yes)

Now for the noes:

1. Do you think you are immortal? (No)
2. Do you control the oxygen you breathe to live? (No)
3. Do you control what goes on in space? (No)
4. Do you have total control over what goes on inside your body? (No)
5. Do you think your group, nation, religion, race, gender, or family can help you avoid death? (No)
6. If you are learning something new every day, do you really think your knowledge is complete? (No)
7. Do you think being Muslim, Christian, or Jewish is enough to take you to heaven? (No)
8. Do you know everything about God, heaven, and hell, with any evidence other than taught belief systems? (No)
9. Do you believe you are superior to others because of your skin color? (No)
10. Do you think religious people have more compassion than others? (No)

Imagine a black bear comes to your door and tells you to get out of its house. You might call 911 and have the bear killed, but realistically, you bought land in the bear’s territory. Who sold it to you? Another human or the government of your group. The bear was there first, but does that give it the right to own the land? To some, it might. We are all renters, not owners, of the land.

I once saw a gravestone over 200 years old, meaning the deceased still “owns” that land. This doesn’t make sense when living people are homeless. We should use logical thinking to solve emotional issues. Ownership is tied to governing authorities to keep peace and protect the weak, but how far should this go?

The globe has no natural borders, yet we have over 200 countries with seven billion humans and countless other creatures. We still fight over ownership. Is it right for an aggressor to conquer a country and own everything? If your answer is yes, you’re living in the past. Slavery is a crime today.

Back to the bear: you bought land in its territory and had it killed for your security. What if you saw it from the bear’s perspective? This is a problem humanity has faced throughout history. We claim land, but do we really own it? Our governing systems have never been foolproof, carrying black marks of human rights violations. We are still evolving, and differences will always exist.

Recently, a teachers’ association requested removing Canada’s first prime minister’s name from all schools. This isn’t a problem unless viewed as a human rights issue. Canada’s history should be treated as past to avoid repeating mistakes. We need to respect our ancestors while learning from their mistakes.

If conservatives are elected, they might glorify the past instead of reconciling. Today, it’s about human rights and equality, and group politics must take a back seat. Revenge is not the answer; evolution is, so we don’t violate anyone’s rights. Our governing politics should transcend any group affiliation.

Equal human rights and democracy are our best systems, but they have shortcomings. We often elect opposite groups, hindering progress. I believe in a council or constitution to guard evolution, preventing backtracking regardless of who is in power.

Religions have preached compassion for thousands of years, but they haven’t eradicated our animal instincts. Religious extremists kill without discrimination. Compassion is absent in politically charged religious speeches. Human rights should be governed by governments and international authorities, preventing killings over belief systems.

Religious extremism stems from strong, uncontrollable group affiliations. Individuals must control their urges or face consequences. After 2000 years, if the system hasn’t succeeded, individuals must recognize their responsibility. Why can’t they see the responsibility in group politics?

A human cell lacks eyes or a brain but instinctively knows to stick to the body for survival. This is how we understand God—through a sense of connection. No one truly knows if God looks like a human. We feel the connection in our ways but must realize our dependence on oxygen. Mixing politics with spirituality is like oil and water—they don’t mix. Compassion should guide religions, and governing systems should adapt to changing times. Compassionate governance is desirable, but religion must focus on humanity’s evolution.

Religions have different belief levels, and passionate individuals must comply with contemporary society. You can’t deny your children a blood transfusion or have multiple wives and children without legal consequences. We must adapt politically, technologically, and scientifically while respecting human rights.

Islam brought equality to India but still faces internal prejudice. Shia and Sunni Muslims have fought for centuries, highlighting the need for equal human rights in spirituality. “Don’t do to others what you don’t want done to you” should be the guiding principle.

Weapons used against animals are now used against humans, fueled by religious fire. Despite advanced weaponry, we threaten each other with mass destruction. We must evolve spiritually, abandoning ignorance that glorifies the past. Security from animals requires intelligence, but security from humans requires compassion. Compassion should rule, not the politics of belonging.

In summary, mixing politics with spirituality is futile. Compassion should guide us in all aspects of life, ensuring we evolve beyond our prejudices and divisions.

 

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Did God as a spiritual entity took a physical form to become God for us or did we as physical beings evolved enough to understand the need of spirituality to create God to evolve further? No one can tell you anything about God one hundred percent and we unfortunately started to use God, for the power to control the unsuspecting population for our political convenience?
If you ask this question to a religious person the defense mechanism would kick in, they would not let anyone, to be asking anything about God, because they believe that God is in need to be believed blindly. Immediately you would be put down, for your asking and doubting the holly books thus be labeled as a non-believer.
If you ask this to an atheist he /she would response with total certainty that there is no God. My question is to both sides that how can you answer this question with so much passion? Yet with the limited use of your constantly evolving brain powers. Even just because of that your answers can’t be without the assumptions.

If these egotistic assumptions are mixed with the human passion everyone becomes louder and aggressive enough to kill and get killed over assumptions. Religions have been doing this for thousands of years, yet interestingly, at the same time they have the teachings of compassion. It just does not make sense to me, especially when I see people killing each other over their opinions. Whether God exists or not, whether we understand God or not, still it is not worth taking someone’s rights to live, not only it is illegal it is a spiritual crime as well. What if you are on the receiving end, remember the golden rule of the spirituality, don’t do to anyone what you don’t like done to you. If religion is touching you in such a way that you feel passionate about it, just add com before your passion, hopefully you will be able to see what I am trying to show.

If you show the Harry Potter to a religious person they would freak out to discredit the stories like that, yet value the religious stories passionately, but an atheist would have total rejection with an explanations, that, how the special effects can be used to create such movies to be convincing, from Werewolf to Dracula to Chinese dragons and Witches to black and white magic, a few to talk about.
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Right now I want to talk about the creator’s active human imagination.
Imagination has helped the human beings to evolve and excel in all departments of life because it enables us to see the future scenarios and out comes of our decisions.
From science and technology to medicine to all kind of inventions and yes even in religions, like pope is opening up and being accepting to the new and changing times, he may be is able to see the empty church buildings and eventually collapsing of the religion itself.
Still it is not common, to connect our imagination to our problems at individual level, like robbing our own happiness and contentment out of our own yet mortal life, to creating all sort of stress related physical, mental and emotional health problems just imagining the out comes and imaginary scenarios as if we don’t have our real problems to face.

First of all the out comes of the decisions are residing on the horizons and they are not present in present, second they are not materialized yet. For instance you go to school to become a doctor, if everything goes according to the plan things may turn out according to the plan, but in most cases not everyone becomes whatever they want to be.
Envisioning, desiring and planning, yet not succeeding, is a lot more common than achieving whatever we want to. The society and parent may teach that, to the kids to raise their self-esteem and confidence, but in reality the proof is in the pudding, just look around, do the kids become whatever they want to. If that was true there would be a lot more rock stars then we have. Why there are not only doctors and lawyers? Who are these people whom become plumbers construction workers or night cleaners, especially if these professions are not desired by the kids.

I hope eventually we will connect the dots clearly, as we advance in our medicine, because I believe, that the way we think and believe, has a lot to do with the type of disease we develop or die off. Say someone swears at you with a smile, in a language you don’t understand, you would not have any kind of physical response other than the confusion, but if you understand what was said, you may process it, and within seconds you will respond with anger. The process of physically getting angry came from a thought process thus the feelings depend on the thoughts, and if you can control the thought you hopefully and I say it again hopefully can control the feelings. With that we can override a lot of genetics related problems by not feeding them.
If you become passionate about your existing knowledge regardless of the field, you want everyone else to follow, or at least think like you, but when you start to disrespect others over it, even as an atheist, you already have claimed that you somehow are better than others, which puts you in the zone of prejudiced. This is the foundation of prejudiced, when you have been installed this knowledge from the get go, you would never be able to see God living in the people, especially when they are from the opposing group. You are taught to see the opposing groups as the Devils or the followers of the Devil but yourself as good people thus in God’s good book.
If you are a bad CEO or spiritually inept, you just can’t see beyond the politics of your belonging group to judge, that a good deed is a good deed whether it is coming from a belonging group or opposing group. If you can’t see the Godly things done by the Godless people you are too far into the religious politics and even much further from the real spirituality.

If you are passionate about your religion being right, for two thousand or fifteen hundred years. How are you going to acknowledge and describe the progress and evolution made possible by the Godless people? Especially when you claim that even a leaf on the tree can’t move without the God’s will. If a leaf can’t move without the will of God, why can’t you believe that there is a will of God involved, which helps the Godless people to help humanity evolve. Thus they should be respected just as much as a religious individual, that alone can help to, not only work against prejudiced but also to help you to become aware of spirituality beyond the boundaries of your belonging religion.
If the progress and evolution is the will of God then why do you stand against it, or hell bent to destroy it. If you are trying to bring the day of judgment, described in the holly books, why don’t you come out and say so, and the most important question is that why would you destroy and kill the innocents to claim a spot in the heaven? and how can you even think that you would be able to get there with the innocent blood in your hands. Heaven is a zone opposite to hell, if you create hell for the innocents to go to heaven, you have been watching too many Harry potter movies and believing in them.
The reality is that as an individual we all have been granted or blessed with the free will and compassion from before birth, these two you don’t learn, growing up you bring along as you start to exist physically. With free will there will always be a choice. If you force others to follow, what you think is right it is one hundred percent politics and nothing but, and yes even if it is coming from the politics of your religion. Religion becomes a political system when it is forced, and most religions are guilty of that, so where did the spirituality go? I think it took a refuge in the Godless people that is why democrats and liberals talk about the practically spiritual things, but conservatives regardless of going to church stand against the spirituality driven morality, like taxes to use for the poor and provide universal health care. A compassionate individual would gladly give to help people in need.

I can describe the extreme capitalism this way.
Say there is a big monkey in the bush he claims a tree full of fruit as his, if anyone comes close to it gets beaten up of worse, so in reality he can’t eat all the fruit but would not allow the others to even come close to the tree because of the security so the fruit rots. Unfortunately this one big monkey is not alone, so there is a whole lot of fruit goes to rot. As human beings we have the knowledge of our mortality so we all feel insecure thus we try to secure ourselves with our belongings, but our insecurities can take us to extreme, which makes us to hoard as if we are going to live forever. History shows that Egyptians and Chinese took their belonging stuff to their graves. Sure you can leave it behind for your loved ones, but doesn’t it go against the very arguments commonly made by the people whom are against the welfare states and universal health care. They believe if you help people they become lazy and dependent, yet with expectations. To a point they have a legitimate concern but still it is not an excuse to hoard. There was a guy named Thompson in Toronto, when he died he left billions of dollars behind yet he lived moderately, he lived in an older house and was very exited to tell his friend that he bought a freezer full of hot dogs on sale. My point is not that you live your life recklessly or hoard to the max, my point is, that for you to be able to see the causes of hunger or related sufferings so you can use your compassion to help the ones you think that its their fault to be poor or facing that suffering from hunger. If you think that everything in your life has been and is done by you and you alone, you got to think again about it, because everything you have done, was dependent on the oxygen you have been breathing in, yet you have absolutely no control over it.

Being alive is being blessed, so we all need to reciprocate in return for these blessings. You can choose not to, but you still owe it to yourself to know the purpose of a human’s life.

Human individual is like a cell in the living body, who gets life nourishments from the functioning of the body but it works for it as well. When you say it is not my problem, spiritually speaking it is, because if everyone or all human beings think and adopt that philosophy the mothers would not take care of their babies. The governments would collect the taxes without providing any help in return. No one would care to live in that kind of society. How far do you want to go to challenge the responsibilities of reciprocation. If you expect to be safe from the suffering people it is a wise idea to help and reciprocate. If every big monkey is allowed to keep the food, even if rots then the community has the responsibility to provide the food to hungry as well. The potential chaos like hungry getting together and killing the big monkeys is a good possibility, so the balance is needed. The government has to find the rules to be fare to all. To protect your rights to have a tree to yourself but feed the hungry as well, the government alone can’t do it because the government is consistent of people, people like you and me.

You can put it down as socialism, but this is as spiritual as it gets, when and if you, yourself start to see the hungry and the rotting food. This has nothing to do with the tax system but everything to do with your spirituality. If you look at the people voting against this spirituality driven human efforts, they are usually the church goers and religious otherwise.

The biggest example is the Arab nations neighboring the starving nations suffering from the water shortage thus starvation and death. This day and age, pipelines for oil but not for water is completely political. A very non spiritual yet these countries follow the religion Islam which openly says, “if your neighbor sleeps hungry your food is not kosher for you”. Humanity can’t be healthy in a system of dog eat dog. If we are alive with the free oxygen we owe our life to the provider and we need to do some reciprocation in return. This is why spiritually we need to help the less fortunate we are above being a monkey whom can’t use his imagination to see the rotting food.
I am against the communism and socialism as well because they still give powers to some elite individuals, just like the religions, so what I stand for, is, that a justice system with equal human rights, compassion and respect, if an individual or an entity commits an unjust action they should be punished by the law and yes even if it is the governing party. If as a community you expect the individual to follow the rules, the community should  make sure that it is not guilty of, not providing the basic necessities to the individual.
In politics everything goes, so its not, that the opposing groups, or even the people in your own family, community, nation or religion are wrong. It is you, who is wrong if you are passionately charged with a limited use of your brain power. When or if you are able to use one hundred percent of your brain power, then and only then you can’t learn new things anymore. You can only say, you are one hundred percent right with the use of one hundred percent brain power not just because your religions say so. You as an individual come with the shoulders to take spiritual responsibilities to be a working horse for God directly not to follow your belonging groups political agenda.
Our wars and extreme related killings have been going on for a very long time, and if they are still going on, you should know what it means? It means that there is a segment of population, which has always, and still believes in, that they are one hundred percent right, even the life is evolving in all other departments right before their eyes.
If one believes that he/she has the right to kill the non believers, then non believers should have the right to defend and protect him/herself, so all the wars and conflicts of humanity are related with the revenge related love loss and passionate extreme belief to be right.
If you look in the history people even kill to prevent the loss of power, like the killing the children of the opposing kings or opposing groups. Politics puts different masks, even Godly mask to act Devilish. Just look around you would not have to go far to find politics related extreme. The trouble is that the deeper you are in the extreme, further you are from the personal choices. Yet God has granted you the free will and compassion from before birth.
If God is a desert and a human being is a piece of sand, it may appear to be very insignificant but it is you, who is making things happened physically. The desert, stays as a desert, useless and infertile unless physicality of the human being is involved. One piece of sand is the foundation of all the microscopic changes to make all the good deeds or spiritual things of humanity, yet with a choice. Does God plays a role in it? For sure remember without the oxygen all human cells die and when the body works as a whole then and only then the cells receive the oxygen to live and let the body live. You just can’t separate one from the other to function.
No one wants to be unproductive while alive, not even God. That is why the progress and evolution is constant regardless of, whether you believe in God or not. As long as you are a living human being and you are helping to do God’s work, no one should disrespect you, not even God himself, because if everybody is dead God is a fruitless and useless desert. You may believe in the heaven and hell but you can’t feel superior just because of that alone.
There would always be an area or a zone, where we need to have a belief system, to have hope and optimism  you have to have an active imagination, because the hope and optimism’s building is founded on the positive imagination. It is powerful enough to make of break one’s happiness and contentment, heal or make sick, just like the placebo effects. You can’t prove it, yet it is a reality, but if you believe in it to the point that you kill all others whom don’t believe in it the way you do, you are trying to use the placebo as the real medicine. Which has a success rate but with a low percentage. When it comes to yourself or your family you would not want to use it. Would you? To end it I would say we never should use our imagination for its negative effects, because if a child can have night meres what does it do to that child when he/she is grown up with that active imagination negatively speaking, he/she would rob his/her own happiness and contentment out of a mortal life, that is the biggest loss one can have . Positively speaking there are no limits to the human individual unless he/she creates them from the imagination.

Most religious leaders have attempted to teach the language of spirituality, but they or their followers often fail to keep it pure. The politics of belonging tend to overshadow genuine spirituality, which is why religions are still at war with each other today. Yet, spirituality has always existed within individuals, regardless of their religious affiliations.

Spirituality is a knowledge that no one can patent, unlike religions, which are exclusive to particular groups and thus political. Religions have their own sets of rules, traditions, and customs that define their identities, such as Muslim, Christian, or Jewish. If you do not follow these, you are considered an outsider. This is a political identity, not a spiritual one.

If you disobey or question the rules of a religion, you risk being ostracized, regardless of your spirituality. In the spiritual realm, you are valued as an ocean in a drop, not a drop in the ocean. There are no boundaries, and you have the freedom to evolve, question, and adapt according to your time.

God’s existence is intertwined with living human beings because all spiritual work is done by the living. Religions, however, teach us to live for an afterlife without clear evidence, demanding blind faith.

I prefer to be a questioning, evolving, and independently responsible being rather than relying on outdated, rigid knowledge. Unfortunately, today, we see ongoing conflicts and prejudices rooted in the past, as groups try to prove their ancestral correctness, often leading to violence and division.

Hell and heaven are created by humans in this life. Appreciating earthly pleasures like milk and honey or bricks of gold means nothing in the spiritual world. Life becomes more important than the afterlife. If you cannot enjoy your life because you always want more, how will you change after death? Happiness and contentment must be learned in this life.

We all share basic human experiences: hunger, eating, illness, aging, and death. Our differences, such as beauty, wealth, race, nationality, or religion, ultimately mean nothing as everything is left behind. Personal peace is achieved when we view life as an individual project, not as an extension of family, race, or religion. God has nothing to do with the traditions, customs, and rules of any group; these are politically created to control ordinary people.

A lack of freedom and an overemphasis on belonging can lead to self-harm or harming others. I am not saying belonging is wrong or freedom is right; I am against imbalance and lack of personal responsibility. Each individual is born with free will, and responsibility lies with them. Hiding behind religion, nationalism, or group identity undermines law and order. True belonging is to humanity as a whole, overriding group politics.

We all face mortality, which should humble us. Yet, group identities lead to spiritual crimes and social problems due to prejudice-based politics. Upbringing influenced by nationalism and religious extremism fosters prejudice. Older generations often exhibit more prejudice due to their upbringing, despite wisdom supposedly increasing with age.

Prejudice is a spiritual crime, regardless of how it is justified. Some people proudly display their prejudice, while others strive to eliminate it. Politics of insecurity and belonging perpetuate this prejudice, as seen in actions by figures like Donald Trump or a mother demanding a white doctor for her son.

Native populations seek equal human rights but also want special recognition, which does not solve prejudice-related problems. Group mentality perpetuates conflicts. Prejudice is taught in households worldwide, evident in events like Brexit and Trump’s election, which cater to special interests.

Naming conventions in Arab cultures and the caste system in India highlight deep-rooted prejudices. Even in sports, prejudice is ingrained. Healthy competition can drive progress, but claiming superiority over others is pure prejudice. True greatness requires a character that distinguishes between spirituality and political religion.

Education can break the chains of belonging politics. Accepting group mentality means sacrificing individuality, despite being created with free will. Group loyalty controls individuals, leading to spiritual crimes. Each individual is born with free will, a testament to their individuality. However, political groups use religion to control and oppress.

Spiritually, we should not do to others what we dislike done to us. Organized religions often deny this principle, leading to wars and innocent harm in God’s name. Western nations show that individuals of different backgrounds can coexist under equal human rights laws. Recent examples include Omar Khadr’s settlement and apologies to indigenous populations.

Religions cannot contain spirituality due to political intervention. Prejudice-based politics cause human shortcomings. Humanity has suffered from this throughout history and continues to do so. We need to see ourselves as what God created us to be: individuals with free will, capable of making personal choices beyond group politics.

Our actions, whether for survival or convenience, are influenced by group politics. Blaming God for our lack of choice ignores the power of belonging politics. Understanding humanity, spirituality, and God as one entity, one individual at a time, allows us to transcend group divisions.

Language is politically oriented, but the message is universal. Loving and killing have been universal since the beginning, transcending language. God is not confined to one language; God’s essence is in all spiritual beings.

In the spiritual world, there is no race, color, gender, nationality, or religion. The proof lies in our free will, allowing us to make personal choices and follow religion or become unbiased spiritual beings. If a group restricts your free will, it is oppressive and political. Political divisions have created over 200 countries, but spirituality knows no boundaries.

Spiritually, we should not harm others. Organized religions often ignore this, leading to wars and harm in God’s name. Western nations demonstrate that equal human rights laws allow diverse individuals to coexist peacefully. The politics of belonging cause spiritual crimes and prejudice.

True spirituality requires humility and an understanding of human unity. Political divisions, from caste systems to sects, have nothing to do with spirituality. Prejudice-based politics perpetuate conflicts. Education and personal responsibility can help overcome these divisions, allowing us to see our true belonging to humanity and spirituality.

Spirituality transcends group politics. It requires humility, personal responsibility, and an understanding of human unity. Prejudice and group politics are the root causes of human conflicts. By embracing spirituality and equal human rights, we can overcome these divisions and achieve true peace and harmony.

 

Yesterday, CBC News reported that church buildings are being sold due to a lack of attendance and funds. In Northern Ontario, a church building was listed for one dollar, which inspired me to write this piece.

I believe this trend has been happening for a long time but at a slower pace, making it less noticeable to the average person. It began when the movement for equal human rights started to work against all forms of prejudice. Many religions preach prejudice against other religions and against those who don’t follow their particular guidelines or rules. They often claim that joining their religion will guarantee a place in heaven, making followers feel superior to others and condemning non-followers to hell.

This is one of the biggest mistakes religions have made with their politics, as it disregards humanity as a whole and focuses only on specific groups. This raises concerns about the politics hidden behind spirituality. Religions preach that individuals are insignificant, creating insecurity, especially about the afterlife. Yet, for thousands of years, no one has returned to provide evidence of heaven or hell. We are told to believe blindly and follow orders, even to the extent of killing innocents or getting killed in the name of God. Questioning this makes one labeled as a non-believer, inferior to believers. This conflict will continue until we learn to balance a sense of belonging to humanity as a whole and respect others as God’s people as well.

We are an evolving species, and our knowledge constantly changes. Therefore, any knowledge that doesn’t evolve with the times becomes archaic. I believe spirituality is the essence of our existence, which has allowed religions to survive but also threatens to destroy them.

In the deep psyche of the human individual, helping each other regardless of group affiliation signifies a direct connection to the source, which can be called God. Religions often make individuals feel unworthy of a direct connection to God, yet it is the individual who performs God’s physical duties.

If you believe you are superior to others because of your faith, reconsider without prejudice. In today’s world, such an attitude would label you as someone who disrespects others and feels superior regardless of personal character, which contradicts the humility preached by all religions.

When it comes to a sense of belonging, all religions become political, allowing leaders to preach prejudice. They believe their prophets have kept humanity alive, yet the death toll from religious conflicts is unaccountable throughout history and continues today.

I believe those who have helped humanity, whether spiritually or physically, should be regarded as God’s people. Prophets of religions had extraordinary knowledge that helped people evolve and care for others. My hats off to them for that. However, religions should have remained spiritual entities. Since religion touches individuals like music and alcohol, it can drive them to extremes, including killing and dying for it. They should not let the politics of belonging ruin their reputation as spiritual entities.

We often neglect those who invented ways to combat infections or brought us insulin, enabling us to live. They deserve the same respect as prophets because they have saved millions of lives. Politically charged individuals who speak against other religions yet live thanks to medicines from opposing belief systems should respect the inventors who keep them alive. Credit is due where credit is due. Hypocrisy in personal life locks one into prejudice regardless of religion or sect.

It is illegal in Western countries to deny children medical care, yet some people believe blood transfusions are against their religion and that having multiple wives is acceptable. Some have been jailed for these beliefs. Religious freedom exists, but extremes evolve with time. Human rights is the new religion, and one shouldn’t want to be labeled as prejudiced. Medicine, religion, or any belief system should help individuals live better lives. If it doesn’t, the individual is responsible. It is your duty to use your religious faith for benefiting your living years. If it robs you of happiness or life itself, serious adjustments are needed.

Before you are Muslim, Christian, Pakistani, Canadian, black, white, or brown, you are a human being with both spiritual and physical sides. When hungry, spirituality, belief systems, and all rules take a back seat. Ensure no one goes hungry before enforcing any rules. Hunger leads to rule-breaking and hatred, causing intrareligious conflicts.

We are influenced more by our physical side than spirituality. Good deeds come when the stomach is full. Physical creatures, influenced by hormones, act based on ancestral knowledge. Problems arise when individuals think they are superior due to ancestral knowledge. This prejudice is the root of social ills. We blame others but need to fix our own thinking.

Right or wrong boils down to the Golden Rule: do unto others as you would have them do unto you. If we hurt from love loss, why do we rob others of love? Religions have fought for thousands of years, committing spiritual crimes in the name of God. Killing is political, not spiritual.

Instead of criticizing each other’s ancestral knowledge, we should embrace and learn from it. Humanity must evolve in all areas of life. Societies learn from each other, even stealing knowledge, as seen with hacking and patent systems. Knowledge is power.

We are interconnected more than we think, like a body consisting of different cells that can’t function without each other. Global issues like warming and human rights abuses connect us as humanity rather than separate groups.

Most religions have become political organizations, no better than socialism or communism. They mixed politics into spirituality, creating a lethal mix of perpetual killings, making them inferior to modern democracy. This is one reason why houses of God have lost value.

Living for the afterlife has political reasons, making individuals sacrifice their present lives for the benefit of a few powerful individuals. Why sacrifice the gift of life God has given you?

The need for a sense of belonging leads to control and power for some and sacrifice for the masses. This is political. As individuals, we must understand the importance of this life and not rob each other of it, as it leads to love loss and perpetual revenge killings.

This life is given to us to reciprocate directly with God. We are only good for God’s work when we are alive. When dead, we can’t perform physically and thus can’t help with God’s physical work. Helping each other to evolve humanity is our spiritual duty. God helps the needy physically through human hands. Without living human beings, God’s work is not done.

In the spiritual world, God is immortal and consistent. In the physical world, humanity is consistent as a whole, but individuals are mortal and inconsistent. This reality creates insecurity, leading us to seek security and control. Mortality makes us fear love loss.

If one believes they are above this, they may focus on securing themselves financially. But when mortality comes knocking, fear and discontent set in. As long as we are mortal, there will always be room for God in belief systems.

Right or wrong is not the question. It comes down to individual efforts to succeed and reciprocate. You can’t expect food to go into your mouth without effort, just as you can’t expect to achieve anything without effort. God helps those who help themselves.

We must not kill each other over belief systems. Respect the hard work and efforts of individuals. Mixing spirituality and politics of belonging creates belief systems and sects, leading to conflict.

Human beings are always evolving, and religious knowledge may not fulfill changing needs. Church attendance fluctuates with time.

God lives through human beings. Without people, buildings are empty spaces. Majestic architecture without humans is just expensive landmarks or ruins. If church buildings are being sold, it’s because fulfillment is not found in buildings but in people.

Educated individuals view God, religion, and spirituality through the lens of ancestral knowledge, which is biased by the politics of belonging. God and spirituality are separate from this bias.

To solve our problems, we must understand them as individuals. Only then will we evolve to the next level of civilization. Otherwise, we will continue killing each other over who is right about God without understanding God.

If everyone adopts divisive philosophies, with weapons and hatred, we may fulfill holy predictions of destruction. Instead, we should view choices as individual decisions. Even religious and nationalistic philosophies are political influences on individuals.

We call ourselves evolved individuals. Are we? Shouldn’t we question our religions and constitutions as we evolve? Nothing is so sacred that it cannot be questioned, especially if it goes against equal human rights. The fabric of collective evolution is made of individual threads. Disrespecting individuals jeopardizes the whole.

Preaching division and disrespecting individual rights is against spirituality. Religious buildings should be places for individuals to worship. All religions should allow worship in the same space because the need for God and spirituality is universal.

Today, people go to worship places with intentions to kill, be it church or mosque killings, in the name of God. No wonder our prime minister seeks an apology from the Pope for residential school injustices.

Religions often conceal political agendas behind charitable actions. If charity is aimed at conversion, it’s political, not spiritual.

Individuals still seek spirituality and lean on their religions, driven by personal insecurities. We want control over the unknown, the ultimate control perceived to be possessed by God. Yet mortality remains unchanged.

Our mortality is a reality, regardless of increased life spans. We live lives of control, even at the cost of health, happiness, and contentment.

If you believe your faith makes you superior, you are outside spiritual boundaries. True spirituality fosters humility, self-esteem, and hope. Politically charged religious fanatics lack true self-esteem, committing spiritual crimes in God’s name, tarnishing God’s name due to their insecurity.

Religions are full of stories of God’s interventions, yet God does not stop perpetual killings by religious extremists. We need to gain more knowledge and evolve. We must take responsibility as individuals to distinguish spirituality from the politics of belonging.

Each of us can contribute to humanity’s evolution by assuming our responsibilities.

In true equal human rights, one should not have to seek security within their own kind. A human is a human, period. In this day and age, we should already understand this. Why must we seek security if humanity is present as a whole? No one should be deemed inferior due to their color, sexual orientation, nationality, or religion. The reason we gravitate towards similarity is for security. If you examine the social crime rate and everyday killings, it becomes evident that our own group often holds the worst record for individual safety.

A while back, I read about a study conducted on fans of the Italian soccer team during a match against France. Researchers tested the fans’ testosterone levels before the match and found that when the Italian team scored, their testosterone levels noticeably increased. Conversely, when France scored, the hormone levels dropped.

Interestingly, these changes weren’t observed in the players but in the regular fans. This demonstrates how profoundly a sports match can affect us as human beings. Another example that comes to mind is from a documentary about wolves. It mentioned that when wolf pups were born, protective hormones surged not only in the parents but also throughout the entire pack. These are powerful and intriguing phenomena, highlighting the interconnectedness of creatures.

As creatures of nature, this behavior is present everywhere, yet we often fail to examine it critically to understand our own behavior. I intend to explore this further to understand evolution-related issues better. These hormone fluctuations are not just archaic occurrences; they happen today as well.

While hormone production related to wolf pups is understandable, as humans, we should already know more about our emotions and their causes. I feel like a child repeatedly asking, “Are we there yet?” in our quest for self-understanding.

In Western nations, children are often taken away from individuals who act out emotionally or under the influence of hormones. Most, if not all, justice systems aim to control emotions. Are we evolving too quickly, unable to balance our evolving social rules with our out-of-control emotions during these changes? It’s a clear fact of being human that, when forced, we adapt to changes. It is time to learn about the realities of our hormones and their connections to our behavior so we can understand the consequences of our actions. We can’t hide behind emotions, regardless of their powerful nature. We need to understand the importance of evolving and changing gradually, with acknowledgment as the first step.

Growing up, I heard a sermon by Maulana Ajmal in Pakistan. He said, and I quote, “If I give you a piece of paper and ask you to put your finger through without ripping it, what would you do? If you take a pin and make several holes in the paper, it will allow you to put your finger through without ripping it.” He explained that human knowledge must be given gradually; otherwise, it confuses rather than enlightens. End quote.

Adaptation to knowledge has its own rhythm, and everyone has their unique pace. Sometimes, knowledge brought to light by an individual might not be understood by the masses and can be misinterpreted.

Our grading system in schools is a great example: knowledge of any kind should be given gradually because knowledge is meaningless if not understood. Just like muscles are built with steady stress, not sudden heavy weights, the same applies to learning. If someone doesn’t understand, they might need more time and explanation. Religious knowledge often lacks a solid foundation; digging into it can lead to losing faith. It’s not about God’s existence but about our understanding. Believing extremely without understanding is ignorance. Killing someone over incomplete knowledge is like giving a death penalty and later discovering the person was innocent. This is a spiritual crime, common on both sides of any conflict.

Drug companies claim their drugs are scientifically proven, yet people die from these drugs. Religious extremists commit acts of violence in the name of a God they don’t fully understand. We use only a fraction of our brain’s potential. If you doubt this, look around: in every field, we are evolving and still learning, showing we have much more room to grow.

Ask yourself in the dead of night: How much of a wolf are you? How much of an evolved human being are you? This personal question can only be answered individually. If you feel influenced by your sense of belonging to a group, you won’t be honest with yourself.

Overcoming the sense of belonging requires becoming the CEO of your life. If you don’t believe you are the CEO of your life, become one first before claiming to be an individual beyond the boundaries of your group.

As humans, we are not fully evolved yet, despite our progress in all areas, including religion. Claiming to be a perfect, evolved human is a reflection of social and political influences from our groups.

Unfortunately, we still need to protect ourselves, our families, communities, nations, and religious beliefs from our kind due to differences. Some want to change everything, and some resist change. Our civilization hasn’t reached the point where we can live harmoniously despite our differences.

We may or may not reach that point, depending on how we use our weaponry. We could destroy ourselves before reaching our potential or recognize and understand the emotional beast within.

Each situation is unique, but the politics of belonging is a powerful force. We need to evolve individually to become CEOs of our lives, understanding the balance between belonging and freedom, not just one or the other.

Would that be chaotic? Maybe, but we already have chaos. Conservatives and authoritarian systems resist giving CEO powers to individuals, especially in religious politics, which won’t accept that God exists without humans.

Personally, I believe if you only follow knowledge from ancestors or old books, you’ll just continue the past. Innovation requires forward-thinking individuals questioning and improving existing knowledge. In all fields, including religion, knowledge must evolve to meet humanity’s needs.

If you’ve adopted your group’s political knowledge, it’s your choice. But if you can’t step outside those boundaries and think like a CEO of your life, you are using your free will to stay within limits. As a CEO, you owe it to yourself to understand why you are the way you are.

Remember, potentially you are created by God, whether you believe in God or not. You are above any data you possess. Use your free will to make choices; you are a CEO created or not. If you can’t step outside your boundaries, you undermine your potential, not following God’s order to evolve continuously.

Look around at human evolution: we can predict and track weather and natural disasters. Without forward-thinking individuals, we’d still be throwing virgins off cliffs to please God.

God and religion are still part of our lives, but human progress shows we are not to be contained within boundaries. It’s mind-boggling that individuals today can still be radicalized into extremists. Fundamental problems are related to basic issues. Prejudice, whether racial, national, or religious, stems from the politics of belonging.

If all groups teach prejudice, humanity will never unite. We will always identify as Muslim, Christian, black, white, Pakistani, Canadian before recognizing our shared humanity.

In reality, we are all human beings first, beyond our assumed identities. Scientifically, we are made of the same material. Genetically, we can intermix and reproduce perfectly, share blood and organs, and save lives. Differences come from data, not carbon or genetics. This data must be overhauled and re-evaluated by all groups and individuals because we are not just data.

Your religious knowledge, nationalism, racism, traditional clothing, symbols, and cultural traditions are all data. You are an entity beyond this data. If taught otherwise, you need to re-evaluate yourself.

Strip away everything and dig deeper to find a human being with five bucks. You hold the key; you run the computer. You are above the computer, beyond the data. Find yourself beneath cultural traditions and take charge of who you are. Discover your potential and make God proud, or remain stuck in the politics of belonging, committing spiritual crimes under a false sense of pleasing God.

A black person remains black regardless of their beliefs. We have white Muslims, black Jews, brown Christians, and olive Hindus. Differences stem from education.

These differences are rooted in fears of love loss, power, and security, making them entirely political. We fear members of our group straying to others, weakening our group. Politics, security, and upbringing teach us to belong to our groups, despite abuse within them. We think that’s just life, but it doesn’t have to be.

Differences of opinion are common, but the problem is when society, parents, teachers, nations, or religions enforce their views as the truth. We use the politics of God, heaven, and hell to control and mold our offspring, even if we’re wrong. Belonging to one group is spiritually wrong; we must let humanity or God function as a whole. If your holy knowledge preaches for a particular group and not humanity, it is political, not holy.

Imagine if no one killed over beliefs. Humanity would be much further along today. Human knowledge is like a light switch; it comes on instantly. Humanity needs to take a leap of faith, addressing current issues as they arise. Stopping killings over beliefs is the first step to self-understanding, belonging, and God.

Understanding the balance between belonging and freedom and the reason for free will is crucial for individuals today. Knowledge of self-worth and connection to the source is foundational. Humanity must understand that God’s body can’t function if its cells are at each other’s throats.

Belief in a single mosque or church brick must evolve with the times. Individual responsibility for adapting to a changing world is essential for peace. The rhythm of adaptation should suit everyone to evolve. Those slowing down evolution may have wisdom for gradual adaptation instead of sudden destruction.

The idea that war creates peace is false. War creates emotionally charged, cunning creatures, hindering our journey to peace.