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The change.

Every progress, especially when it comes to social changes comes with the price. The conservatives whom are comfortable in the status co don’t want to change anything, so they fight back against the changes. As we see every group from race to sexual identity has to fight to get the humanity to the place, where human rights can over ride and trump all our traditions and customs to become the law of common sense.

Humanity has been is and will be going through the changes as we evolve, some people still don’t believe that human is an evolving entity.

Sure we don’t grow horns or wings but we have been changing and evolving in every department of human knowledge you can think of, other than the religions of course.

The religious people would always be against the changes because they want us to be frozen and live in the era of the prophets. If you look at Afghanistan, Pakistan, India the population in the villages live and dresses like the old times and I don’t believe the excuses are legitimate you can’t blame everything on the poverty they have honor, pride and ego ingrained by the sense of belonging to their respective religions. The religious education does not allow them to change with time, so they still fight over even the food. One group worship the cow and the other kills and eats it. The differences are deeply ingrained and defended by the populations, yet they have to live in the same society.

Interestingly here, right in the middle of the western civilizations we have the religious communities whom are like those people as well. Here we don’t get any news about the fighting but the differences exist.

There was a big news few years ago, when about four hundred children were apprehended by the authorities, just to be brought back to their religious communities. They still believe in the multiple wives and dozens of children right in the middle of North America, so what gives? Ever wonder why?

After all the civilization, why do we have such vast differences in our belief systems. If you look deeper, it is all about the following of the religious rules and the sense of belonging. An other thing is common in those communities like that is, that they try to block the modern education, some even don’t want kids to watch television. After all this side, I still believe we have to remove and grow out of the real culprit behind all that the prejudice.

I believe in individual liberties, and since we all are mortal we can’t just say what we believe is right and as a majority we say what is right for us, is right for that particular individual as well so he/she should follow what is common. Its fine as long as it is based on the principle of don’t do to anyone what you don’t like getting done to you.

If you have multiple wives and dozens of children and you are able to provid to live happily, it is your human right to live however and where ever you are, but when you feel that you are better than others, then I have a problem with that.

For instance Native children were taken away from their communities to be conformed by the religious people, which had left a mark to the point that prim minister had to apologized for the things done to natives. Now people want the pope to apologize as well. Again don’t do to anyone what you don’t like getting done to you. Your incomplete knowledge is not necessarily better, so don’t enforce your belief system, it becomes a political system and loses its spiritual aspect.

Democratic society calls for the majority to create rules and control, but I believe it is a flaw of the democratic system as well, because if someone is happily living in there way of living we should not have the power to strip them of their human rights. Prejudice is not that you don’t like each other, it is that you believe that you are better than others.

Regardless of me being critical to religious rules, I still believe if you are going to give people a system of living like democracy, you have a duty to give them something better than what they have.

I am not going to the stats because I don’t know them, but I believe in, if we are promoting something to sell to people it should be better than what they have. For instance if you want to sell one man one woman marriage system to the people whom have multiple wives system. You have to show the bottom line with the net benefit to the individual who uses the one wife one husband system.

If you have a system which is riddled with the problems and sky high divorce rate you are forcing it on the people whom have lower divorce rate and less problems than you have, then you can’t and should not argue with them about your system being superior. Same goes with exporting the democracy to the countries where the number of the educated people is lower, they can’t sustain the democratic system because people can be swayed by the sweet words of politics.

Governing a nation with less educated people whom don’t even realize their rights, is a dirty business so not only it can taint the democracy it can create chaos. It can be seen in all over the world so the best way to deal with this problem is to spread the knowledge of becoming a CEO amongst the individuals so they can vote better. The stronger the individual, better  the ability for them to see the politics hidden behind the religious authority.

If you look at the purpose of the religious education or knowledge of God, it’s to help the human to evolve from the animalistic behavior, which in fact had helped the humanity in past because they promoted the jewels of humanity like love, compassion, sacrifice and forgiveness so I buy into that and give credit to the religions for the spiritual aspect. But I see prejudice being promoted by every religion and even the democracies out there so I have to speak against it.

You can’t just be better because of being a part of certain organization, it takes a personal character to be judged as a better person. If you believe that you will go to heaven just because of you are a Muslim, Christian, or belong to any other religion, and everyone else will go to hell,  you have to up grade and evolve as an individual to grasp the real spiritual aspect of the religions.

Just look into the history and even today, how religious people incite and permute violence and killing of the other human beings when it comes to the religious differences.

They disregard the individual sufferings, give and use hope of the life after death to meet their political agendas. Spirituality has been trampled over by the sense of belonging, whether it was related to the religions or empires.

Luckily in north America, if someone wants to leave their religious community they can choose to join the modern life style because of the human rights and individual freedom.

In other places it is not that easy because they could be shunned or even killed by the conservative societies. Just look at the staggering number of people who died trying to get out of those war torn countries to reach Europe, if you look at their quest all they want is to find a place to live a normal life and raise their children in peace.

Today human rights, equality and freedom of speech is becoming and spreading like a new religion so just like every religion or governing system goes through difficult time in the beginning, we have to go through the wringer.

Just like the other changes this is taking and will take its toll. We are going to get  over this bad time but it may get worse before it gets better. I am not making any predictions like religious books but I believe in humanity and believe, as an individual we all have some common decency and we will overcome our animalistic behaviors.

Ironically individual freedom which is feared by all groups of humanity is going to connect the humanity and remove the us and them concept which is going to sweep away the group politics, religions and nationalism.

The formation of the Europe Zone and common currency is modern day phase of the changes humanity is going through. The countries like Greece will go through some ruff times but eventually things would have to be settled.

The major problem is our wars, they are squeezing the life out of our economies. Wars don’t just cost the individuals to lose life, they just can’t be sustained without the consequences. Look at the price tag of the Iraq war. Between the insecurity of the wars and the insecurity of the individuals whom put the money away for security, what is left to circulate would have the lingering side effects which would make the humanity suffer for a long time.

Regardless of all that, I still believe  we have to stand in the right corner of the changes. If we start to object the unstoppable changes, we would always end up against the human rights. Just like the religions and the governments over seas are doing right now, and I believe they are becoming a dying breed progressively.

Conservatives will fight back with whatever they have until the vast majority turns against them. Just like the democracy, gender equality, human rights and freedom of speech has over powered the imperialism, racism and prejudice, the religious prejudice and national superiority would be swallowed by the individual awakening.

For now the individual is confused because of the sense of belonging  to their respected groups, but not for long, eventually we will all figure it out that the real security is in standing together as a whole humanity. The regional, provincial, or federal governing systems would still play role but their is a change connecting people all over the world as a humanity. Our problems are pointing towards solidarity of the humanity, the climate change, internet, space station and open education like what I preach is just a good recipe to bring the humanity together. Would I be able to see that in my life time, maybe, maybe not but I can hope to see it but for now.

The nationalism and religions are up an arm against the individual freedom but they are against each other as well so the change is brewing and perculating. There was time for the tribe, then came nationalism and then the religions spilled over the borders of the nations.

Now the same awareness is crossing over the race, religion and nationalism by making black, white, brown, yellow and red stand with each other. They have started to feel that they are all part of the humanity.

Authoritarianism has been over powered or being over powered by the democratic schools of thoughts throughout the world. This is a clear sign that as humanity we all have an inner desire to strengthen the individual and seek justice for all equally which in reality are the human rights.

All wars of the past and even today, have under laying causes, and one of the dead dog (read the dead dog) is the individual freedom but the  personal insecurities keep the individual confused and fearful thus this confusion feeds into the sense of belonging and keeps the individual attached to certain  belonging group.

As the time evolves us, we all will learn that we all bleed if cut, we get hungry, sick physically, hurt emotionally and seek revenge for the killings of the loved ones, we are all human beings, still in the process of evolving and far from being the finished product.

As we know more about the politics of our belonging groups we will be able to stand together as humanity. Just look at the education of the day. All western societies promote the individual strength to help individual to succeed in all areas of life and interestingly we promote the same for all over the world. Yet we have not solved our democracy related problems.

Sooner or later we would start to realize the problems and face their side effects as well. One of the side effect is that we have bad relationships all around us. From parent children to husband wife to boyfriend and girlfriends to employee and employer. It all comes with the territory but as a society we will not fall apart because on the bright side, we have and are creating universal health care systems growing in the modern societies, we have systems set up for the people when they get old and vulnerable.

As the level of the basic education rises we will be able to see, when we are used, or exploited by our political leaders so it would be constantly harder to govern. The same awareness would help us to seek to belong to the humanity and we may will be able to change the attitude and the concept of us and them.

How would we deal with all the changes, just like we did before, where we are today it is not perfect but it is not the destination yet so we have to keep our arms open for the changes. Change has always been a part of the human societies so we can’t hide from them. The trick is to know which side to stand, If you are a CEO it will not be hard to decide but if you are not educated enough  and are insecure you would be colored by the popular trends even they are based on the prejudice.

 

A few years back I went to visit my mother, my father had just passed away. One night we were talking and this subject matter came up. As growing up I had seen my mother had blamed my dad about every thing went wrong in her life. The poor guy put up with it and the family stayed intact. As the discussion went on, I mention that you prayed five times a day fast every year, yet you never really, really and I mean really believed in God. She was shocked so I said that he was just a man and you blamed him for all your problems. Have you ever wondered if it was your life story that called for the problems or to have the problems, she did not expect that I was telling her to believe in God totally and completely and differently.  She started crying as if  it was new to her or the tears came out of guilt.

For some people the whole life is in our control, I don’t argue about the say we have but control is another thing. Control  can be  habit forming, which can make the individual to go to extreme and forget about his/her mortality. If you try to control everything including the uncontrollable things you are setting yourself up for the serious happiness robing path, so regardless of all the blessings, one can be unhappy for the whole life experience.

I find it strange that the closer to religions you are more controlling you become, yet it should be the other way around because a belief system should help one to believe and benefit from the God by unloading the burdens of life.

Sure you have a say in your life but if you want to use that say, it should be useful to live this life in health, happiness and success. If you want to write your story write, to create inner peace and have a pleasant journey because it is after all temporary.

Say you go for a vocation to some hot spot, you don’t want to have worries and stresses of your everyday life to go with you. This short journey is going to end regardless of your way of writing the story of your life.

If you are stressed, depressed or anxious,  look closely, you may have a problem which I call it a pit problem. Constantly nagging fear robs nutrients to create deficiencies to cause the physiological symptoms thus I believe if you give spirituality a chance to fix the cause of the problem you may benefit to rise up from your physical ills as well.

The knowledge of mortality creates fear of death which breeds the control and these two can reek havoc for the individual. Life and Death is unquestionably undeniably is a fact of life thus we need not to fear from it. Our expectations are out of control and make us live in self caused deprivations and anxieties.

A CEO knows the life is temporary so it should not be controlled but the happiness robing behaviours and practices should be controlled. If you are the CEO you would know what is, and what should be your melody. The question is that are you giving a chance to the empty spaces to help you to create happiness in your mortal life? (Melody of life)

On the sheet of a paper where the music is written, there is a note followed by the empty space and then note followed by the empty space. Music is written by both, if you don’t have a note there is total silence, and if there is no empty space there is constant noise. Either extreme is not for human beings. Especially when it comes down to using free will.

A stressed individual can benefit form the meditation because it quits the mind but that doesn’t mean it can fix all our problems. Total silence or becoming a monk can stop our evolution thus I would say use it to benefit to  center you but we still have to evolve to reach our potential thus we have to pursue. We have to speak when its our turn and learn to stay quite when its called for.

Individual has to create a nice rhythmic music of life. Complete silence may have spiritual essence of life but it is not physically fulfilling for the entity like the human being. So the music is written by each one of us for ourselves and yes we need to use our free will to create our melodious music.

If you grab a drum and beat the hell out of it for few hours, you will be exhausted and will have all the burnt out symptoms like you see in the modern day man or a woman without the faith and I repeat I talk about spiritual faith. If you can find it in the religion its fine, as long as you don’t start to think you somehow become better than others by following certain religion. The cause of our wars is the prejudice taught by our religions thus becoming a CEO can teach you to understand the spiritual side of the religions as well as political.

We carry all the memories so it is not as bad, that someone has done bad for you but if you  carry it around with you all your life is bad for you. If you stay bitter you are doing injustice to yourself and not creating a good music out of your life. The enjoyment of the music is for you, and the bad effects of just the noise is for you as well.

You have to come up with a strategy to live a better life, so you don’t have to carry all the burdens all the time. Not an easy task for the controller so learn to be a CEO, that will help you to see what is good for the company business.

You alone are not making it happen, you just can’t make a bridge or a raft without the help of the oxygen. Remember without the oxygen you can’t function. Your physiology depends upon the oxygen, which makes all systems go so you can do whatever you want to do.

Without it, you are just a dead duck, so don’t boast and be humble before your time is up. Connect to the source, and be useful to the humanity whichever way you want or can. It has nothing to do with your belonging religions and everything to do with your personal spirituality. Your real connection to the source is related with your character and practical help to the humanity not with your prayers or fasting or religious duties or loyalties to belonging groups.

When you believe in God but blame someone about your problems, it usually is related with the habit of expectations. Weather its from yourself, spouse,  partner or God. It is all related with the expectations of having control for yourself. When you expect to have control for yourself you generally expect others to fit in your shoes not the other way around.

If life was that simple and easy to understand, we would never seek solutions for our problems. God would be always there to lend a hand and the purpose of the free will and the potential would be meaningless.

When we go through ruff times we become resourceful and make a raft to help ourselves individually and a bridge collectively. I believe when something happens, it usually is asking you, to man up or woman up and stand up to take charge of your life.

No job, spouse, or religion is worth sacrificing happiness, because you are here temporarily. Just like the vocation, you don’t want to spoil it by losing your happiness department. Being a CEO you can’t just sacrifice the most important asset of your company by believing that a man or a woman is the cause of your problems.

Every job loss or a break up makes the controlling individual to build the walls higher and higher till the point that the individual is trapped in the tomb of self created boundaries. The bottom line is that, an individual, people or even God should not be given that power to make your mortal life miserable. Fix your belief system, and take your responsibilities. BY

1- Believing in God even if it has a placebo effect on you, because you have to create a nice rhythmic melody out of your life story. You are the note and empty space in between is the God. Speak when its your turn and stay quite when you need an empty space between the notes. Give that empty space to God so you can live a mortal life in balance.

2- Be a CEO, you have had no control on  your birth, you could have been born ten thousands years ago, you could be born male, female black brown yellow or whatever you don’t like, would you be caring about the same things as you do in this era.

Life is still the same regardless, you can live with or without the modern technology but you always need love. We can hide behind the materiel things but it all boils down to the wanting, giving and receiving love. Even our pursue of the materiel things is based on the desire to achieve love. You want a nice car to attract the mate, you make a nice house or wear name brand clothing for yourself, I don’t think so, it to impress, fit in, or be admired by the others. It all falls in the love category (read Love triangle)

3- One person, job or a group you belong to can’t and is not keeping you alive so give credit where it belongs. Blaming others or even yourself usually related with not taking the responsibility of personal happiness.

4- You have a life story which is written with ups and downs and it is not done until its done, so always keep hope and be optimistic about your future. Understandably a difficult task.

5- Believing in that you are directly connected to the real source can helps you to understand the importance of yourself, self-worth and of the next person, thus you would respect them just as well as you do for yourself. That is spirituality 101.

The bottom line of this article is that you can’t just blame some one and be miserable for the rest of your life. The things happen in our lives are not done by just one individual there are so many aspect to the story.

One thing is for sure and that is our responsibility to collect the happiness. Interestingly the deep happiness we feel is in serving the humanity. This alone makes be believe that we are the cells of God and are reciprocating with the power of spirituality which we brought along before the installed knowledge. Naturally we work for the body to keep it alive so it can keep us alive.

If you happen to be the one who is controlling, I feel really for you because, how much energy are you going to spend in preserving yourself. It is not going to be in control regardless of your efforts, try to understand a mortal life so you can put some quality in it.

Remember the triangle of the Health, Happiness and Success. If you are not spiritually, physically or emotionally healthy you just can’t be happy and without the health and happiness there is no success. A mortal life without the health and happiness is not a successful life. No matter how you cut it.

The Enforced belief systems

If one enforces his/her belief system on others he/she crosses into the realms of the politics. If you believe that you are following the religious rules by forcing on to the others, you take the spirituality out of it. The knowledge of spirituality is all about the wellbeing of the humanity, its about everything to do to serve the human individually, collectively and even the other creatures.

Living a life for the wellbeing of others is as spiritual as it gets, because it is directly related to the God. If we are all cells of God, the real service to God is to serve the people and the individuals around, baring children, raising them to be useful citizens in the society is the real spirituality.

The existence of God has been is and will always be a question of understanding God. If one understands God, that is the one who is spiritual, if one doesn’t understand God but preach the religious rules, he/she understand only the politics of sense of belonging and nothing but. These people will always preach the learnt knowledge from the belonging groups. As a CEO it is your responsibility to know your knowledge.

If you are born Muslim, Christian, Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist or any other religion, your understanding about God is coming from the knowledge of your belonging group, because that is what you are called. Whatever they believe you can’t question, or would not question, or even would not let it be questioned. What does that mean? It means there would always be wars and killings related to God, yet God is totally incent of all the killings done by the sense of belonging influenced individuals.

Does God want that, I would doubt all the religious knowledge but not God, because the very existence of God depends on the existence of human being. If there is no man kind who worship in practical ways, all the spiritual work comes to screeching halt and the existence of God ceases.

The man has always built the world of convenience for the coming generations, all the Godly help has man’s hand behind it. From feeding the hungry to healing the sick to saving lives, all comes from the actions of the man. Then why would God want to kill the mankind it would be equaling to suicide.

It never has been form God, it has always been from the mankind, all the so called Devil’s work is related to the man himself. It is the man who is always behind the Devilish acts. So believing that good is coming from the God and the bad is all caused by the Devil removes the human importance and responsibilities, which is a cunning political act of the controlling leaders of every religion. Using politics to remove the blame from the bad actions of human beings is typical politics of the sense of belonging.

Every human group has the political system to govern its population and when the religion is mixed with the politics it is a tainted religion. It is not a spiritual system, and thus it is not a spiritual path to serve the humanity. It is designed to serve a particular group, not the humanity. If you are taught to serve your belonging group exclusively, your sense of belonging to your group can’t be spiritual. The sense of belonging to humanity equally is the only way to spirituality.

You can’t be prejudice if you are spiritual, plain and simple. The knowledge of prejudice is exclusively related to the politics of the sense of belonging.
Religions have been claiming their knowledge is coming from the God thus can’t be changed, that in itself is creating a gap in the conservative and liberal ideologies.
Human beings are an evolving organism, that means our knowledge would always be in the process of evolution thus can’t be capped by the religions or constitutions, so leaving room for the amendments is essential.
When I was in Iraq one of our company manager would always come to me and complain about the people throw the pebbles in the toilet even the toilet paper was provided. The reason for clogging the toilet was that some of the people try to follow the traditional drying after using the toilet urination. The tradition was used by the people who did not have water to wash at the time when religion was in its infancy. Using toilet paper would do the same job but there are some traditional stubborn people in every religion which keeps us fighting against each other.

The evolution of the human has been, is and will always come from the deep desire for the change. When we disagree, it triggers the evolution. That means we can use some healthy disagreements for our progress but taking the competition to extreme has always been a challenge. Just look at our sports, how much sense of belonging is involved and how big is that business. To overcome our prejudice would take the individual to become a CEO of his/her life because every turn we take we are bombarded by the education of sense of belonging. The individual growth comes from the individual knowledge of all kind and as an individual it is our responsibility to know what is going on around us are we just cheering because of our sense of belonging. If you are not even aware of the world around you, how and why would you question the knowledge of your belonging group?

Praying several times a day and fasting may make the individual feel that he/she is fulfilling the duty to God, yet the real duty to God is to help the fellow human being or even other creatures. The knowledge of prayers and fasting is to fulfill oneself spiritually but that falls short if you don’t help the others in real life. If you are taught that you become a better person by praying and fasting, you may be are taught that you become better than others whom don’t pray or fast. These feelings of self being right and others being wrong can and does cause prejudice.

If every religion has people whom believe, that they are better than others. It’s a lot of promotion of prejudice then how can we expect the opposite results? We are reaping what our ancestors has sewed because most of us are born into one or the other religion.

My understanding of God tells me, that it is not the God who is creating all the prejudice. It is our incomplete and unfinished political knowledge which is making us go crazy over our sense of belonging.

When we are born, we breathe the oxygen which is equally provided to all mankind. If it was God’s doing God could, should or would cut the help for the bad ones and spread the good. People born and die everyday, they get sick and get well in all human societies the same way regardless of religion. We all stay alive and functioning regardless of being good or bad and why our good and bad has been changing, just look at the history. Racism and prejudice is a crime and human rights are in as a good thing, so why do we blame Devil for our actions and give credit to God for being good.

Since the politics of the sense of belonging is related to our living in the social settings, we have to make an agreement with the society we live in or belong to. The good and bad of the belonging group becomes good and bad for the belonging individual who teaches to his family the same and so forth.

The problem is that our knowledge changes as we evolve, and sometime the individual’s knowledge changes faster than the belonging society, which can make the individual feel suffocated even when he/she is at home.

All the human progress came from the human individuals one idea at a time, thus we have to listen to all the new ideas with the open mind because we are not a finished product yet.

Watched a bushman dug out a bulb of vegetation in a very dry land. Scraped and squeezed some of the fluid out brilliantly to survive in the completely hostile environment. Marvelous wisdom of survival, yet the generations away from the modern technologies.

Human beings have survived the ice age, and can survive the modern day global warming as well, but we have to get our act together. The droughts and extreme weather in the world should be enough to warn us, to band together and take care of the dead dogs of our problems.

Our survival instinct can and should force us to plan as a humanity or as a united nation because our survival depends upon that wisdom. The fundamental flaw in the knowledge of sense of belonging to a group is, that it works against the spirituality and humanity as a unit. It inspires nationalism and religion, which are political entities. Today the problems we face don’t have the solutions for a group of people because these problems have no boundaries, thus the solution is to evolve from this flawed knowledge and emerge as one humanity.

If the pipelines are being built for the oil, there should be pipelines for the water as well. From the excessive water areas to the drought ridden areas, if the humanity works together it would become a spiritual thing to do.

Business has its place but you have to look at it logically. The ghost towns of our past can teach a thing or two about the history and a common sense.

Cities or communities are not made of buildings, roads, railway lines or bridges. They are all build by the people for the people and used by the people, one individual at a time. Wherever there are resources people would live, otherwise everything loses its value because the value is to the individual. If the individual does not want to live in the area because their are no resources or comfort, the bigger problems will rise. If you see our communities, most of them are situated around the water sources.

Oil has its place but human beings survived millions of years without it, but it is a fact that we can’t survive without the water.

Even pope is joining the scientists of today, previously that was unheard of. If pope can change his tune, Muslims should learn to make some amendments in the religious knowledge as well, because these days people are living higher up in the north. I think, higher up in north the prayers time and fasting times need and should be amended by the scholars. It just does not make sense and its not fair to the individual to follow something what can’t be followed. We have twenty four hour day light which dictates the times of prayers and fasting, if the religion runners can’t fix the problem, they have credibility problem. The disputes about the moon sighting is an other problem which can be solved easily. This day and age we should be able to take help from the scientists about the moon, instead of bickering about the moon sightings.

Our history shows that religious people never looked eye to eye with the scientists because scientist community don’t really believe in God. Past history shows that religious leaders have sided with the rich and powerful to maintain power and control over the ordinary folks. Power and control has always been the reason of politics and religions have been always part of the politics. Today’s Shia Sunny clashes are related with the purely political war, more than a thousand years ago, yet one of the first lesson of the Islam and the meaning of the Islam is peace. Where are the scholars of the both sides, why can’t they cross the lines of the sense of belonging to their groups and join the humanity. The jewellery of the religions have been compassion, forgiveness, sacrifice and love. What happen to the main lessons of the religion. It is a shame that both sides have the same slogan, “God is great” well God is great but the politics have been greater than the spirituality and God. The only wind under the sales of the conflict has been the weak individual who can’t become a CEO and stand against the belonging group’s wrong doing. You have to be honest and cheer for the better play, not for the team of your belonging group regardless of the bad play. A CEO can see through the emotional attachment and do the justice.

Even if you look at the religious vote internationally today, it usually goes to conservatives in Canada and to republicans in the United Stats.
I have always wondered why the most spiritually inspired ideas come from the democrats, yet they have been called as Godless people. Health care or taxing system to run the government funded help for the needy. Republicans and conservatives have all the religious people whom don’t want to help the poor, it is mind boggling for me.

I believe when you are sick you are the most vulnerable and need help. If a community is able to take care of its sick individuals in the difficult times, it is a healthy community, regardless of the politics. If any one suffers needlessly and could not be helped by the people around, it is not a spiritually healthy community because the essence of the community is the individual. When the individual suffers, eventually community suffers as well.

The brain drain is one of the most undeniable proof of today’s world. Educated people leave their communities because they want to be valued by the community. If most of the educated people end up in modern civilized countries, the people left behind would still believe, that the earthquake can happen by someone taking a naked pictures on the mountain.
Our ancestors had a belief that God is mad at us, if there was a storm or earthquake so
throwing virgins over the cliffs was a traditional sacrifice to please God. We have come long way from that. I think we are doing pretty good because now we are able to predict the path of the storms or tsunamis to save lives instead of throwing one over the cliff.

I was torn about the title for this article, it could have been the walls of the humanity but I went with the bushman with the cell phone.
The walls of humanity.

Say you are walking by, and see a guy banging his head against the wall, I am not talking the wailing wall, I mean literally you see him bleeding, you wonder oh the poor guy, there must be a really bad situation. You go to the next block and find ten or twenty of them banging their heads against the wall, now you are really worried about them. Then you find millions of them doing the same thing, now you start to wonder about your own sanity.
Our racial, gender, national or religious security is related with our perceptual walls.

We can build the majestic buildings or walls for prayers or banging our heads until we bleed. But God is no where close to these places, God is in the people, that is why the spiritual arms of the religions insist to help the humanity. A building is a building with out the people, or a wall is a wall of the boundaries.
If you look at your self and I mean really look at yourself, spiritually there are no boundaries, fences or caps to keep you down. A bush man with the technology has no limits, from genetics to space to spirituality nothing stops the bushman other than the his own perceptions.
Racial killings, as a matter of fact any kind of killings is robbing the God, humanity and the bushman’s potential, thus the political education of the belonging groups is limiting.

It is the time to get out of the notion of being right, because an evolving knowledge can never be right until it hits its potential and we are no where close to it.

The difference between God and the mankind has been created by the mankind itself. The walls of perceptions have been around since the infancy of the civilization. As a humanity we should be mature enough by now to see those walls.
Any kind of wall is unnatural for the human beings, whether its a wall of perception or security. The understanding of the mankind is rising, the wall of China or Berlin have become the part of our history.
We have been breaking walls in all areas of our life, our awareness of the human rights points towards the humanity as one organism or an entity. The important things we should try to secure are our planet and the oxygen, and they can’t be saved by building any kind of walls. Every fiver would count, so we need to spend where it counts. We can kill each other over the control of a ghost town or ghost planet. The interesting thing is that we are all mortal regardless. Just by looking in the past our grave yard of the individual life and the life of empires shows that how fragile we are.

Spiritually speaking there are no walls between mankind and God, but our religious and political knowledge tears us apart. We are taught that we are functioning on our own yet the reality is that we can’t function without the oxygen. On the other hand, weather the leaf moves on its own or not if the human beings are not there to appreciate it is meaningless. Spiritual part of the religious education is, for us to become a good person. When you are told that you are meaningless and worthless sinner that is completely a political statement.
You are a bushman with the fiver, and that fiver has had helped you to create the cell phone, helped you to save lives from the storms and tsunamis, break the genetic code, reach and land on the racing stars, while our ancestors worshiped even sacrificed human lives for nothing. Today we have the human rights over and above all the beliefs, no one can follow the human sacrifice or make someone victim of the traditional sati.
No one should stand on the fence because of our politics of sense of belonging to one particular group, remember it will be you who will judge your life with your conscience and character.
The bush man is extremely wise because he can survive in a very hostile environment but if you give him the cell phone with all the perks he can be a force to reckon with.
Today we are the bushmen with the cell phones but our knowledge has gone to the sense of belonging to our groups and we are dyeing to kill our own kind even with the weapons of mass destructions. If our fivers are always used up for our groups, how are we going to fight the global issues when we all have to chip in to pull together to survive. Would we have our fiver available when we really need it?

Saw a documentary on the monkeys, two alpha males duke it out by a big fight. One of them won and the other ran away. After nursing their wounds life went back to normal as usual. Winner got the status of the top dog and the loser hung around alone for a while then he accepted the supremacy of the winner. Assumed a submissive role and at time he groomed the winner. As a creature that kind of understanding is crucial to survive in the wild. Yes there is a price to pay.
As human beings we don’t only have similar situations, whether one is alpha or beta we have created an unseen but real big brother who dictates that how should we live within the law of the land. Our problem is just like the monkeys we live in the groups and groups have their own governing systems, some time with vast differences. With animal instinct we try to dominate each other thus get into the conflicts. Our wars last decades or centuries and we have now weapons of mass destruction. Not a rosy picture, because we still have that emotionally charged behaviors and not only individually.

For our local internal conflicts or social peace we have to have the justice system and the law enforcement with the jails. The usefulness of the big brother keeps us from killing each other but everyday problems can’t be solved. If we all can develop our personal ethics and morality related with the individual spirituality we can personally regulate our selves. This individual awareness of the spirituality is the only and best way to reduce the crimes, practically you can’t have a police man for every individual so the need of this education is a must in all societies. This kind of education can help us as a group as well as it can make us aware that other human groups are human too, thus we are all one organism, humanity or an entity. That is if you believe that God lives through us and we all are God’s physical expression.

All the social ills, wars and prejudice related crimes are related to our free will. We can choose to become aware of individual fiver or just follow the trends, friends, society, race, gender, nation or the religions.

We as human beings at times would rather suffer, become depress even commit suicide if we can’t win in the rat race of life. The reason behind this behavior is that individually our sense of belonging is over powering and we can’t balance or counter it with the sense of freedom or use our fiver of common sense. Yes that old sense of belonging. This intellectual phenomenon undermines our nature and compels us to live in isolation even we are still in a concrete jungle.

It is all about the flexibility, adaptation and the wisdom or understanding of mortality. Why even a so called lower form of life out wits human beings? especially when it comes to us being a social creature as well just like the monkeys.
Where else do we suffer because of our intellect, it is a matter of how do we live.
We have to live a life which zigzags through the intellect and nature equally. If you try to live in extreme, either way its you loss as an individual.

Imagine yourself with a knowledge which does not accept the boundaries and you live in a conservative community. For sure you would be a minority and would run the risk of being shunned just because of your views of life, even if you are right. The prejudice always keep the populations at lower level of knowledge. It means you could be penalized just by having a higher level of knowledge. Our history shows that sometimes the brilliant people even were killed because of their knowledge was not understood by the general population. If you look deeply most religions and isms have had hard time in the beginning, yet they gave harder time to the newer knowledge.

It is all about the politics of power when you get in power you supress all kind of opposition, especially when the general population becomes educated it can threaten the power shift. Just like today, all the chaos in the world is related with the shift in the education by the internet. The conservatives would suppress the uprisings but the internet and modern technology is exposing everything to the whole humanity. I know I am an idealist and personally I think no one should be on the wrong side of the evolution. It is ingrained in the human beings because of the God. Religions unsuccessfully put the boundaries around us to keep us contained in the jars (read the seeds in the jar).

Some how human nature plays a role as well, we naturally don’t like the changes. Our ego (which is one of the child of sense of belonging) gets involved it blinds us from the importance of the new knowledge or even evolution. I believe it involves pride and honor of being right and smart as well ( the other children of sense of belonging). All three get involved especially if the changes are proving old theories wrong.

If you are proven wrong that means your ancestors were wrong as well. Especially when it comes to religions we even fight the amendments needed to function in the changing world. So we naturally resist the changes and would rather take extreme steps to fight changes. Our wars and hatred related behaviors are based on this fundamentalism which exists in all human societies. If they have strong indications of them being prejudice and against the human rights, that makes all of them wrong whether it be a conservative group, nations religions, isms or democratic systems.

We have to out grow these boundaries and causes of extremes. We have to separate, instead of mixing religions and personal feelings or losses, like revenge and the disputes of lands. If you can successfully do that, you will find most of our conflicts are expanded by the politics of getting more people involved. If there are more people involved with their fiver the more power to that group. That is the reason why we all are victims of our politicians so it is essential to self educate before chipping in with your fiver. This chipping in knowledge has been around for millions of years but never really understood by the people because it is for the whole humanity not for your immediate groups.

The problem is in the following of a group is that if you take the strength and security from a gang or community, you have to give back and follow the rules. Those rules could be in the conflict with one’s personal ethics or individuality.

Individuals lose strength when the politicians give fancy political speeches to gain group strength.That is why its crucial for the individual to have education to make personal decisions or bring the right leaders to lead. This makes individual stronger but the other problem would rise because, if you take that individual strength to extreme it can have the negative effects as well. It can be like a rust to the social fabric, because in the community you have to band together. Having too many opinions can cause the community to fall apart, the examples are all over the world from religious sects to dividing nations. I have seen several mosques in one neighbourhood and when I moved to Canada I saw the same thing but it was churches. This is not unique in the world we have communities divided like Ireland, Palestine and Kashmir these conflicts are still on going but without the resolutions.

This is a dilemma for the so called perfect solution to human problems, yes our modern democracy is not immune to it either because, you can see politicians physically fighting inside the legislatures. So what to do and how to deal with it, is the question?

Whether to strengthen the individual or the state? Either extreme is not acceptable for the humanity because you can’t live being torn apart from the inside, especially if you love freedom. You can’t live alone, and if you can’t live alone you have to pay the price to mold your self with the rules.

Freedom is natural for the human being as well, but so is the desire to live in the community, thus we all need individual flexibility. just like those alpha monkeys we all need the balance. Not only to survive but to be useful to the belonging community and to serve the humanity in general.

Regardless of gender as human beings we all have to live this life as a mortal. If you look at the modern day life of the single people, there is a lot of pain just because of the social trends and sense of belonging. For instance you live on average around eighty years. First twelve to fifteen are usually under the shelter of your parents. Say at eighteen you get a boy friend or girl friend, have a good relationship for a year or two followed by the break up. You go through a dry period of three to five years depending upon the hurt and the personality because, some people never recover from the hurt.

If you keep going at that rate you can end up spending a lot of time in pain and suffering just because of that you are not looking at your life as a CEO. Just look at it, is it a good deal for you personally as a mortal. You have to assess your personal life because it is you who is in charge of your life.

Always remember it is your personal business and happiness is the cash, if you keep losing that cash you need to make some major changes in you thinking. Other people have a say but not to the point that you spend all your cash and live a bankrupt life.

If you keep looking for the approval of the other people including your friends or trends of society you may accumulate some regrets so the sooner you take charge the better, become a CEO and understand what is at steak. If you keep dumping every boy or girl friend that means you are always looking for the perfect one to come and chances are you are going to live your life in deprivation.

Logically you are living your life on the horizon which may not become a reality and your time would be up. Is it good to gamble with your happiness, it is a million happiness dollar question? and you have to ask yourself why? The founder of the woman’s liberation got married late in her sixties, may be finally she realized the personal life is just as important as a cause you take on.

If you were born ten thousands years ago, would you be living in the same mentality or you can look what is coming ten thousands years later, would you do the same thing with your life. Society has its trends they come and go but you lose very precious time which is not going to come back so place the society in a department but not as a whole business, you have to become a CEO of your life. If you are unhappy you have to look at the causes of that unhappiness. Don’t let the trends, friends or even your sense of belonging rob or ruined your life. It is your time and you have a lot more say than you think.

How much do we really believe in God? According to the religious people, not even a leaf can move unless it is God’s will. If God has been given that kind of powers, then why an innocent child who has no control or a say in his/her birth, has been penalized and stigmatized throughout the religious world.

He/she is called bastard and unacceptable in the general populations. Civilization has brought in the marriage and related rules, usually created by the religions. These rules have been the foundations of our social traditions and customs. Our traditions and customs have been that powerful, that we still can’t change or even raise voice against them. These customs and traditions can be extremely harsh against the individual even he/she is an innocent.

Religions are spouse to be spiritual entities, they should stand by and help the vulnerable and stand against the injustice. The religions teache the truth but this truth is so bitter it can give bad taste for generations. The bastards get shunned for life or even their generations for the crime they have never committed. Hindu religion has been especially horrible for the widows, the tradition sati which makes the wife of the dead husband to be burn alive with the corps of the husband.

For whatever reason, whether it is religious or political, if we do an injustice to someone, especially when he/she is an innocent, it should be classified as a spiritual crime.

Today we can stand for the human rights, but in the villages of the world these crimes are still happening. From the prejudice to racism to our holy wars they all are the black mark on the face of humanity.

If you believe that nothing can happen without the God’s will then why do we punish people of their wrong doing, especially the punishments like death penalty or flogging, and why our wrong doings are changing with our evolving knowledge?

Slavery, prejudice and racism has been a way of our lives, today these are unacceptable in educated societies. The closer to religions you are, stricter you are, every wonder why? Is it that you don’t have the understanding or you intentionally ignore the real things religions preach, like compassion, forgiveness, sacrifice and love. Maybe you just don’t have the capacity to really, really, really believe in God, or plain and simple you just want the control over the general population. What is it? what does make you penalize and call bustards to the most vulnerable and the innocents of the society.

If God is doing everything then where does the individual stand, or even the society of the human beings stand. Anyone who punishes an innocent is committing a spiritual crime especially when it comes to a baby. Human has been born the same way since the beginning. If you really look at the history, we can all be called the generations of the bastards, because the religions just came around few thousand years ago and we have been around for millions or God knows billions of years.

This evolution in our knowledge has been, is and will always be a learning process, so it is time to clear out some of the traditional garbage or I should say spiritual crimes we have been committing as societies.

No innocent should be punished, because of our traditions and customs. Law and order or governing systems should be clearly separated from our belief systems and based on the equal human rights. Individual rights should be respected in all human societies equally because these are related to the spirituality. Human rights should surpass all religions, isms and governing systems especially when it comes to punishing the innocents.

Canadian history shows that aboriginals have been mistreated by both, religious and the political systems. Government has apologized few years beck and the demand is to ask pope to apologize as well. The understanding here should be, that the religious extreme compels people as a group or as an individual to cross the lines of decencies, yet with passionate convictions. It is because we are taught by our groups that we are always right, our actions should be according to the rules of our belonging groups. If an individual is a CEO of his/her life, he/she would question on the name of humanity otherwise these kind of failures would never stop.
Human rights commissions should have the power to make everyone promise, that it can never happen again. I believe any traumatic experience especially as a child, leaves marks for life. Even one depressed individual is hard to treat with the medication and or counselling, how can you treat the depressed nations?

United nation has to have the mandate to resolve the conflicts as they start, you can’t sweep these kind of things under the rug and expect they will go away. If you look at the history or even present day conflicts, they are the breading grounds for the mental health issues.
In reality if you dig in, the atrocities against the innocent individuals have been and are committed all over the world all the time. Some for the piece of land and some on the name of God. Hiding behind all that is the politics of the sense of belonging. There is a victim and a predator in every nation who has committed atrocities.
How far should one dig? Ganges Khan comes to mind, who conquered a city in China, killed everyone in it, beheaded them made a mountain of their heads and rode his horse to the top. Chinese came out of it and getting to the top of the world, I don’t recall they asked an apology from the Mongols. Apologies alone don’t do anything because healing starts with the promise of never again.
Self assertion, sense of equal rights, not self harm or disrespect, because the past of human beings have been full of the animalistic actions.

As humanity we need to acknowledge our past, at times we have been worse than the baboons or the chimps. All nations have been, are and will always be evolving. I hope we can overcome our sense of belonging to our groups and learn to belong to the humanity as a whole. These kind of atrocities can stay as part of the past or as stepping stones of our evolution, so we never have to look for the apologies for such spiritual crimes.

My logic says since all jobs are related to help each other, for instance if you are sick you need a doctor, a doctor needs a plumber, a plumber needs a mechanic and a mechanic needs a teacher and so on. An individual who is working, is helping the humanity even he/she is getting paid. Since the paying person is getting helped, he/she is paying to help back.

We keep the ball rolling for the humanity, thus we all are God’s work horses. If you have learnt to see God in the next person, you would be able to see with your spiritual eyes everything else.

I am trying to show that there is a disconnect in the religion related traditions and customs. The intensions may be good but treating someone with an attitude that you are better than them and you are saving them from being bad, yet your own actions are clearly related with prejudice.

In the case of the bastards or widows, that disconnect is most prevalent in the religious societies. If people know that they are doing something which is against their religion they still do it but undercover. The fear can lead to even more spiritual crimes and anything done in fear of the religion is on the shoulders of the religious authorities. If it is not related to the belief systems it is related to the politics of control.
If its in the politics of control, it should not be connected to the God or spirituality.

If its in the belief system, then it should be looked at as God’s will thus really, really, and I mean really believe, that it is God’s doing because if you believe even a leaf can’t move on its own, how can a baby be born without the God’s will.

My point is that, if we don’t understand clearly we can’t be passionately killing or punishing someone harshly. Imagine if we find out, that we have been doing the wrong things to innocents. Like labelling innocents with the words of bastards or blaming the widows of their husbands deaths or in the modern world giving a the death penalty.

Sure when someone is charged with a crime he/she should do the time, but killing someone intentionally even as a society, we should know we can’t kill an innocent individual because there is a chance for that. That chance even if it is a small chance it should be enough to stop the capital punishment. I can’t say enough that punishing someone innocent is a spiritual crime.

If you are passionate about it, always remember don’t do to anyone, what you don’t like getting done to you. Our knowledge has been is and will always be evolving so our rights and wrongs can even reverse with the evolution.

Ask yourself in the dead of the night, do you really believe in God? if you come up with not really, then ask again, and again and then decide. Should you be passionate about your knowledge and even if your knowledge is really yours. Maybe you are influenced by the sense of belonging and you are simply speaking the language of your belonging group. If you are speaking your belonging group’s language then what about you? Are you just an extension of an ideology or an independent entity? If you still don’t believe what I am hinting towards, then what about your free will, you use it everyday. That is why I believe you are designed for a CEO. As a CEO you use your free will everyday but why don’t you use it in the matters of your belief system? Are you worried that you will go to hell and would not be allowed to go to heaven. Figuratively and logically hell and heaven is going to be because of your personal character, not just because of your belonging to certain religion.

Our ethics and morality is usually taught by our religions, which means politics of the religion will dictate what is right and what is wrong. Pope has changed his tune after thousands of years of discrimination against the human rights. Today the rights of the religions have been proven wrong thus they want to politically exist and be relevant in individual’s life. After thousands of years of conforming powers and disregarding human rights the time has turned on them and now they have to be conformed to the human rights.

Since we are all the CEOs of our lives and are the third equation, we should have our own personal and individual ethics and morality so we can take our responsibilities and stand with our own principles.

Today human rights are the new spiritual religion, I repeat spiritual religion, which goes beyond the boundaries of all nations, religions and human groups or societies. Have your personal ethics and morality clearly defined and connected to the spirituality, just like a computer is connected to an internet.

According to the personal spirituality, you can try to live guilt free and with the responsibilities of a CEO, it is possible and it can be done with or without the religions. No one has to change his/her religion just stop following the religious politics you will find your personal spirituality.

The dead dog of our conflicts.
There once was a community, they dug a well for the water and lived around it. One day a dog fell in it and died. When water started to stink everyone got worried, so they gathered up and one of them went down in the well to investigate. He found a dead dog and yelled from the well, that there is a dead dog in here. People looked at the mayor with questioning eyes. He said, take about fifty barrels of water out and then start using it, but make sure you take the dead dog out first.

Today we have a world which keeps on living without taking the dead dog out. From medicine to social systems, everyone is looking for a band aid solutions to buy time. If you have a headache, you take an aspirin regardless of the reason. Our problems persist and evolve into our major issues of life. From health problems to our local social issues to international conflicts. We have built an attitude to sweep everything under the rug and keep going. There is nothing wrong with it, but the problems don’t go away on their own. We as a humanity has to work towards removing the dead dogs of our personal and communal wells.

I am a self-employ yet personally, I believe the solutions for the poverty is not in the charities, it helps, but there should be a poverty tax in all over the world so the help never dries up. Since us as an individual can be insecure and at times, we don’t give anything to charities. That can make the donations, not only go up and down they can completely dry up which can leave a black mark on the face of the humanity when someone dies of hunger.

The religions preach to help the poor, but preach the religion shamelessly so it becomes a help with the strings attached.
Any human social system is a political system. When people get together with their fiver (read five bucks) the politics starts, whether we like it or not. Since all religions are group of people, the politics can’t be avoided unless it is strictly about the spirituality. Religions can claim that they stay away from the politics because of the nature of the business.

No matter how much I believe in the spiritual living, as an entity we can’t just live on the spirituality alone. We have to have our political systems to keep our governing systems going.

We are in the process of continuous evolution thus can’t put caps over our political systems. An evolving entity can’t practically freeze the evolving knowledge so we can’t claim that we can’t change constitutions or religious rules because they came from our fore fathers or God.
We need our political systems to run our affairs, but if a political system is designed to exclusively cater a particular group of people it lacks the spirituality and spirituality is needed to create peace, whether it is inner peace for the individual or external peace for the community, society or in general for the world.

We have been trying to get there by our politics without the spirituality, so the compassion, forgiveness, sacrifice and love is not involved thus our constitutions and even religions could not get the job done.

We have united nation with the veto powers to a few, Geneva Convention commission against the human right violations, but can’t do anything against the violations because all over the world it has been and is still happening. The democratic process with the back benchers because they can’t stand against their own party manifestoes, because of the sense of belonging to their party over rules their personal ethics or the interest of their constituents whom they represent.

Democracy, better than what we have had for thousands of years. For sure better than the kings and dictators but far from perfect.

The reason behind all that is the powerful human phenomenon yes, the old sense of belonging to a group but not to the humanity as a whole.
Religions say they are the cousins of God and they will take you to the heaven, everyone else is going to hell regardless of their help of humanity.

A mullah could be alive because of the insulin, but curses the western knowledge shamelessly. We as an individual should have the personal ethical protocol and system we believe in and credit where it is due, our sense of belonging should counter and balanced by our personal sense of freedom. Human being is blessed with the free will for a reason, God gave us the responsibilities to run God’s affairs.

Humanity is a jambalaya of the genes, you could be white and against all the other skin colors but your ancestry could have black in it. You could be a Muslim with the genes from Ganges Khan or you could be an American Muslim fighting against the Muslims all over the world.

Can’t you see that it is not the race, nation or the religion what makes you a human being? Your genetics can tell you a different story, and we all have the same genes. If you are different from the color, nation or the religion, genetics and spirituality brings you to the humanity, just ask anyone who has received an organ from a match but form different race, gender, nation or religion. So start with yourself to remove the dead dog of the sense of belonging to your particular group, one person at a time to create inner and external peace.

What happens if the climate changes? Oceans rises to sink the land of certain part of the earth, it is happening as I am writing. Would the countries on the higher lands accommodate all the displaced people or protect their borders and let the humanity suffer.
The face of the world has been changing for a long time, if we don’t change to belong to the humanity from the group mentality, it can be chaotic.

You can’t practically live together if your legends are with your respected clan, race, nation or a religion. Optimistically thinking, if we can live in the western countries as melting pot societies, we can do that at a larger scale as well. We just have to evolve to the next level of our evolution scale and that requires us to cross the lines of the sense of belonging to a group.
All circumstances are pointing towards the necessity of the evolution to the next level.
From internet to global warming, gender liberation and sexual freedom to space station to human rights are all signs of the changes we all have to adopt.
If we don’t change with the changes, we are going to end up facing the predictions of the holy books but with our own choices.

If you spend all your resources fighting each other, how and what are you going to do to manage the real problems looming in the near future, where every fiver is going to count.
We rob each other of that fiver by killing the individual belonging to the other group, but the net loss is to the humanity which keeps us behind and slows us down to reach our potential.
Imagine if the whole humanity chips in with their fivers to build the bridges. I whole heartedly believe, we can protect ourselves from the global warming because we have survived the ice age. We can conquer the poverty and hunger as well as we can stop killing each other on the name of our nations and religions.