MODERN DAY YOU AND YOUR CELLPHONE.

March 24, 2022 by dancingbottle

First of all, the purpose of this writing is not to disrupt or create doubts in anyone’s personal and spiritual belief system. Note that I did not say religion because I believe that people’s present-day religion and personal spirituality are two different things. My attempt is to educate everyone individually so they can have a better understanding of their personal spirituality and cannot be used politically by their belonging groups. Remember, when we honestly question ourselves, only then can we truly learn who and what we are individually. This is especially important when we believe we are merely extensions of our belonging groups. It’s not easy to break free from the cocoons of belonging, particularly if we have been brainwashed since early childhood to avoid our individuality or even to know about it. The politics of belonging and its effects on an individual’s personal spirituality can internally make or break one’s perceptions of life. Just like God, we individually convert the wishes of our belonging groups into physical actions. Therefore, it’s crucial for us individually to know why. At the very least, we should know that we make things happen physically and are responsible for our actions. By doing so, at the most, we should stop killing each other, especially in the name of God. I believe that until we individually evolve to know who and what we really are, everything will remain the same as it has for thousands of years.

I want everyone to experience the importance of our metaphoric realities like God and love, but if you are unable to cleanse your spirituality from the religious politics of belonging, you will always be politically used. As human beings, we all have the power not only to make choices from our common sense and the collected knowledge we store as personal data, but also to use this data to come up with new ideas. When we make sense of this data and are able to use it, it becomes our personal wisdom. We can change the course of our personal lives and impact the world by making new discoveries.

Just like our modern-day cell phones, we have a lot of individual computing power, but without using it, it just sits there as an unused computer. You are the atom of autonomy who gets a name and responds to that name. As the computer operator or cell phone user, you have the responsibility to refer to your personal ocean of knowledge, which you have accumulated since before birth. If you develop a brain disorder, you may still be alive but unable to function properly or run at full capacity. This means that the computer and its data are not manageable or meaningful. As the atom of autonomy, if you are not present, the computer, regardless of its power, becomes useless because it cannot operate by itself. This is the story of you, your body, and your brain. You cannot be identified solely with the computer or its data; you are the human individual or atom of autonomy who is the CEO. As the CEO, you have to make decisions for everyone and everything. If you identify yourself only with the computer or the installed data, you are not the CEO. Simple logic tells us we are not merely extensions of an ideology nor are we genetically programmed creatures. We can choose to belong or not to belong. Either way, we are designed and designated to be the CEOs of our lives. If you find this absurd, you are identifying yourself as part of a group rather than as an individual. Just remember, your umbilical cord is severed at birth for a reason.

We can individually choose not to be prejudiced or discriminatory, even if our belonging groups’ data encourages us to be so. I want everyone to become the CEO of their life so they can avoid being used by elite politicians. Only a CEO can ask their religious leaders to remove the politics of belonging to groups to cleanse their spirituality. We can all find some internal and external peace by belonging to humanity as God intended. All we have to do is dive into our personal ocean of knowledge to experience our spiritual connection with God. Taking responsibility for being human means picking and choosing wisely. “Don’t do to anyone what you wouldn’t like done to you or your loved ones.” We can simultaneously make God, human individuality, and spirituality relevant, while making prejudicial and discriminatory groups and religions irrelevant. In the era of today’s equal human rights, we can achieve this easily. That is, if we individually want to, we are all capable of living in our own personal universe, even if we are oppressed.

Escaping our ancestral pigeonholes is much easier than ever before because today’s religions don’t hold the same power they did fifty years ago. Despite this, our ancestral insecurities and group politics still keep us confined, preaching prejudice and discrimination even against our own people. In the era of equal human individual rights, things are not working well for us as groups. It’s hard to break away from our ancestral chains of political belonging, yet today’s era demands that we all belong to humanity as a whole.

Before you follow and reduce yourself to a genetically programmed worker bee or warrior ant, look within to explore what you have truly been blessed with. If you are not a computer nor the data, don’t you want to know who and what you are? Simply look at your personal atom of autonomy by introspection. It tells you that you are a mini-God yourself. If you see yourself this way, you will recognize all the responsibilities that come with it. This perspective allows you to place the politics of belonging in its proper context and stand as a real, just human being. If you can do this, you will not make the politics of belonging bigger than it is or should be. You can control your personal responses to avoid committing spiritual crimes in the name of your belonging groups. By filtering the politics of belonging out of your beliefs, you will find plenty of spiritual satisfaction within the religious beliefs you were born into. Regardless of your religion, you can individually connect with your atom of autonomy and find your personal spirituality. You will reach spirituality and God as they are pure, untainted, honest, just, and universal for every single one of us.

Sure, we all have individual rights to survival, equal treatment, and freedom. This applies to every single one of us alike. If someone wants to follow their animal desires to conquer and dominate others, they should be treated like animals as well, simply because they have surrendered their spiritual side to their animal side. If we can educate everyone equally to evolve and become spiritual human beings, things can work; otherwise, we will have to keep killing each other until we are all forced to take a step into a new paradigm of our evolution, where we all belong to humanity as a whole with equal human rights and justice for all. This may sound far-fetched, but today’s reality is calling for this next step on the highway of our evolution. Just look around and see what is happening—from the internet to space stations, to global warming-related extreme weather, to equal human rights. Don’t you think humanity, spiritual nature, and God are calling?

The lowest crime rate in the world should be a good indicator of what works or does not work for human beings, especially regarding self-restraint. When you Google it, you will find that religious societies don’t do as well as secular societies. The question is, why? Logically, a religious individual should be more spiritually aware and self-restraining, thereby keeping the crime rate of their society down. Interestingly, where the human individual is respected as a human or spiritual being and taught to self-restrain instead of being forced to control themselves by fear and greed, the results are different. Self-restraint or self-regulation comes from taking responsibility for personal actions and acting as a CEO.

As I said, we are following our ancestral footprints to the cliff of faith. If you have been good, that path is useful, but if you have not been restraining yourself and committing crimes along the way, it does not matter what is beyond the cliff of faith. Your path has failed you, or you have failed your ancestors.

Now let’s look at the other side. Our scientists are saying that an explosion happened fourteen billion years ago and has been expanding ever since. What and why it exploded is not known; after all, it happened fourteen billion years ago. Sure, they have their reasons to believe in that, and I am not questioning them like I am questioning what is beyond the cliff of faith. Simply because our scientists are complying with our Godly orders to evolve. Constantly seeking, digging, and researching to discover and explore further to find answers is the game of human beings. On the other hand, our religions talk about God only to fulfill certain and present needs; they don’t even want you to question what is beyond the cliff of faith. I would respect anyone and everyone who is helping humanity to evolve so we can solve our problems by understanding the causes. Sure, religions provide us with knowledge of our metaphorical realities, but tainting spirituality with the politics of belonging takes them far from reality. Physically killing over our metaphorical realities can’t be a spiritual action. Even if our scientists are theorizing and believing, I would say they are following Godly orders to evolve because at least they are searching. I am all for theories, as long as their purpose is exploring and expanding human knowledge.

Unfortunately, history shows our religious people have been against any kind of exploration, so we have been forced to believe, and even blindly. Sure, there is a lot to stomach when it comes to science, but at least they are not only accepting and admitting their lack of understanding. On top of that, they actually have shown us a lot of physical progress, or I should say, practical evolution. Yet religions glorify the individual who kills and gets killed in the name of their belief system. Problems are not in the knowledge but rather in the politics of belonging. So if you are intolerant, prejudiced, and discriminatory because of your belief system, it’s all while you are alive and following your ancestral footprints. For you personally, it would be a matter of loyalty, or you are compelled by your personal insecurities to stay politically attached to belonging groups regardless of what is beyond the cliff of faith. In other words, it’s all political, whether driven by political belonging or personal insecurities. A sense of right or wrong would not be able to get through to an individual who is politically brainwashed unless we start to look at real spirituality where justice overrides politics.

If you don’t really know what is beyond the cliff of faith, then why not try to explore or question like our scientists are looking for the answers? Remember, our evolving nature is a Godly order for humanity. If you deny that simply because of your politics of belonging, you are putting your belonging groups ahead of even God, which can be quite confusing, especially if you are looking for real spiritual satisfaction. If we don’t even know about ourselves, how are we going to know everything about God or what is beyond the cliff of faith? We still kill each other over our knowledge, yet everyone knows we don’t know everything. It clearly says that we don’t know everything about ourselves. If we don’t know, then why do we kill each other over God and our belief systems? Is it our politics of belonging or our lack of individual knowledge or understanding about our endocrine system and its influences? Looking at it with a little bit of logic tells me we have to learn more about our animal side along with our atom of autonomy.

Being a CEO puts a whole lot of responsibility on our shoulders, so we have to know why our politics of belonging is so powerful. Being a CEO can help us individually understand why even our hormones get disrupted by our political influences. If you can’t find God out there or within you, you must carry on seeking but always remember to keep your mortal nature in front. Simply because potentially you can live your whole life in deprivation. So without fulfillment, happiness, contentment, and satisfaction, a mortal life can be a colossal failure. That kind of impotent life should not be a goal for a mortal human being. Whether you use God or science is not the question; it’s how you use your wisdom to live a successful mortal life while you are on the journey to the cliff of faith.

If you believe what you are taught to believe, that simply means God and the Devil are driving your car, and you automatically become irrelevant. As religions say, you are irrelevant and even a born sinner, so in a nutshell, you are told to lose your self-esteem. Modern-day atheist trends say exactly the opposite, so if you don’t want God even in your car and die of stress by taking everything on your shoulders, you have missed the whole point of why you have your personal atom of autonomy. Why are you able to use your free will? Why do you have an ocean-like brain within to take in all the streams and rivers of knowledge? The logical explanation is that you have to live your life as an independent entity, and you need a whole lot of wisdom to do that. No matter how religious you are or how much respect you have for the streams and rivers exclusively, they are not going to be enough to live a successful mortal life, plain and simple, especially in this era of equal human individual rights.

If you don’t acknowledge the help you have already received or are still receiving, you can’t even come close to understanding the meaning of reciprocation. Seek, appreciate, and fulfill your duties along the way to the cliff of faith. Don’t put all your eggs in the basket of the unknown and gamble. Remember, it has nothing to do with the carrot-and-stick philosophy; heaven or hell is not a matter to be discussed here. Life after death is secondary, but your reciprocation during your journey to the cliff of faith is primary. Simply because what you do in your living years matters to God and you simultaneously. Since you convert spiritual thoughts into physical actions, you are the workhorse for God. If God fulfills the prayers of others through you, shouldn’t you ask yourself how you can be irrelevant while you are alive? If you can understand that and question your politics of belonging, you can solve this spiritual riddle of relevance. Your relevance has been politically brought down by your belonging groups, so believing in that is your biggest loss. If you can’t see it as a loss, you will always be looking for God in man-made buildings.

If you view life as a scientist or mathematician, odds are that you will miss out on the spiritual side of your life. The chances would be higher to miss feelings related to emotional fulfillment because you would not be able to scientifically break down your metaphorical realities. Love would be hollow, compassion would be politically tainted, and sacrifice would be for show. Nothing personal, but either you believe in your metaphorical realities, or you break them down scientifically. If you discard them and lose their meaningfulness, your spiritual needs can’t be fulfilled. Personally, I believe that would be a loss for a mortal being because, at the end of the day, you are the CEO of your life. Just like your physical needs, you are responsible for spiritual fulfillment as well. You simply can’t live in a stream of your knowledge, nor can you live in extremes. Living life exclusively for the afterlife would be an extreme, just like living life without spiritual fulfillment during your living years. You can’t stay stuck in the streams of your knowledge or hide behind its politics. You have to go into your ocean to pick, choose, mix, and match to live a fair life, especially if you are born in an era of equal human individual rights. You can’t be prejudiced, discriminatory, or bigoted because you have to give equal rights to receive them. Living in today’s era with thousands of years old streams of knowledge is bound to cause problems. It’s you who suffers or gets relief from adjusting according to the demands of changing times. If you don’t change, you will be called a bigot, racist, prejudiced, and discriminatory. Remember, in today’s time, these words are not good labels, so you simply can’t be proud of them.

If we don’t step into a new paradigm of equal human rights and join humanity as a whole wholeheartedly, the peace we have been longing and seeking will never materialize. Sure, we have been evolving and will continue to evolve, but all the progress will be in our physical evolution. Regression in spirituality is directly related to the politics of belonging to our groups. Since our groups proudly preach prejudice and discrimination, staying on the same path is not going to change our destination. Our so-called contractors of God, religions, have been openly putting their foot in their mouth by saying that they are going to heaven and everyone else is going to hell. Regardless of how much they talk about spirituality, their actions speak for themselves. Spirituality and God are clearly universal and simply can’t be prejudicial or discriminatory, so in the presence of the politics of belonging to our group, they are the first to disappear. Disputing groups call each other Devil’s followers. With our emotional hatred and animal-like behaviors, we may blow ourselves up before even reaching our potential and blame God for a religiously predicted outcome.

Today’s reality calls for us all to learn everything about ourselves or at least become human beings at an individual and personal level. I would not want anyone to change their religious beliefs, but I would prefer them to become spiritual rather than religious. They should take their individual responsibilities to become CEOs of their lives so no one can use them as their warrior ants.

If we start to look at our education critically, dating back and even further back, one thing emerges as a reality. Yes, that is that we all got our five bucks from our nature. That atom of autonomy-related ability allows us to not only use our free will and personal sense of justice, but it also stands us apart from other genetically programmed creatures. Meaning our atom of autonomy makes us human beings who are the center of this holy picture and are at the top of our right-side-up triangle. Remember, the use of our free will not only allows us to physically materialize our individual imagination, it also allows us to convert spirituality into physical actions for God and belonging groups as well. This literally means we stand right beside God in making things happen. Unfortunately, we are tainted with the politics of belonging to our groups, doing Devilish things as well.

This cell phone comparison is easy yet crucial to understand, especially if you want to learn to use it to enhance your life in all areas, including spiritually. Let’s look at our abilities compared to our politically tainted and streams-related installed knowledge. Things would start to clear for you if you really seek to know why our belonging groups want ordinary individuals to be weak and vulnerable. Simply to keep them under political control. Groups promote and politically inspire people to stay within the clearly defined boundaries. A politically brainwashed individual would gladly, passionately, and willingly stay and even help in controlling others for the belonging groups. Dig a little deeper and see where our 1% elite class has come from and why the majority is always complaining about being behind regardless of hard work. The problem is not what we carry within us but what we don’t use. What’s coming from the education of our controlling streams of knowledge and what we have brought along from before birth? What we have had and what we do have today? How far did we come with our evolution? Let’s see what we have within from before our groups’ politically tainted education.

It’s a known fact that we have approximately ten trillion of our own cells and a hundred trillion non-human cells within us to function properly. We have built-in lungs to use freely available oxygen to live. We have a heart to pump oxygen and nutrient-enriched blood to all our cells, including all life forms within the body. We have a liver, kidneys, and colon to not only clean but also perform thousands of known and unknown tasks simply to keep us alive. We have skin to protect us from all kinds of infections. We have muscles and bones to move around like an athlete, and a continually evolving brain to think and plan, much better than any man-made computer because we evolve and fix ourselves. Our body and brain run in sync all because of our atom of autonomy, a God-like particle carried by each and every single one of us. To top all that, we are not exclusively a physical entity; we also carry our own and exclusive spiritual side.

Individually, we not only learn from the data installed by our belonging groups, but we also think and explore to understand our personalities, our drive, and even our genetic variations. Yet, regardless of all the differences, we are social creatures with the ability to function independently. Since we simultaneously function physically and spiritually, we are blessed with our own imagination to create and evolve, not only for ourselves individually but also for our belonging groups. Not only do we have our immune system, but we also have what I call nature’s overcompensation system, which allows us to learn new things, adapt, and evolve as well. Physically, we can grow to adapt to our environment, and spiritually, we can grow to love, use our abilities to become compassionate. We can forgive, become brave, generous, and even learn to sacrifice our most prized possession—life—for others. If you personally start to dig in, you may even find more untapped or unused abilities within you. If you underestimate all that, you simply are unable to use your phone according to its potential. Either you are afraid of the stress you would go through during the learning process about yourself, or your belonging groups have locked your phone, just like a parent would do for their kids. Always remember, logically, it does not mean your phone has fewer capabilities; it’s you who is limited by personal insecurities or compliance with the politics of belonging to your group.

From carvings in caves to modern-day high-rise buildings, from computers to the internet on one side, to the ability to create pathways like the Channel Tunnel and the space station program on the other. From artificial insemination to breaking down our genetic makeup to new ways of building muscles for structural health—these are just a few examples of our evolving nature. Doubling the average age from thirty-eight to ever-rising models of our cell phone-like abilities are the benefits of our evolving nature. If you still feel that the human individual is irrelevant and that God and the Devil are doing everything, it means you believe human beings have no autonomy, no control, or free will. That means you are placing us all in the lineup of creatures who are genetically programmed. If everything is done by God and the Devil, then you should be willing to believe all the good and bad are done by God’s will as well. So, where and why did the Devil show up, and why such harsh punishments for not following religious rules? After all, as human beings, we have no control over oxygen and life-giving circumstances. If it’s all God’s will, then why all the different religions? Now, the question is why God does not pull someone’s strings before they commit bad actions? If you go into this rabbit hole looking for answers, no doubt you would come out on the other side as a crazy person. Simply put, nothing would make any logical sense to you because a belief system is a belief system; you buy it as it comes or as it is sold to you by your belonging groups. The reason may not be your limited understanding but because you are still in the process of evolution or not yet evolved enough to understand everything. Understanding to discover further may not be easy because you have a bigger fish to fry. Yes, your mortality and related limited time is running out, and it should be a huge concern for you. Living according to your group’s preaching may not be enough to reduce your mortality-related stresses. So you may have to understand God not as you have been taught by your ancestors but by your personal logic as well. Using your logic while keeping your mortality in front can put a whole lot of demands on everybody to become the CEO of their life. Understanding and differentiating between realities can help. For instance, in order to experience physical realities, you simply have to be alive and functioning. After that, whether it’s for you or for your belonging group, things lose their physicality and importance. Meaning if you lose physical reality, your perceptions of life enter a zone where you and your belonging group have no physical or logical building to stand on. From there on, everything is standing on the foundation of assumptions, sort of like the flat earth theory. Never mind all that, remember your personal and physical reality is that you have got limited time, yet with all the responsibilities on your shoulders. You can live believing everything your belonging group says or use all your faculties, take charge, and become a CEO. Most probably, you would be told that you are living an egotistic life, but as long as your life is just, following or not following your belonging group’s wishes would not make any difference. Unfortunately, they can’t help you when it comes to our bigger or main issues like mortality. They may gather up, shed some tears, and say a prayer or two, but other than that, you can’t rely on them. The main reason is that they are just like you. Everyone is born like you, so mortality is the biggest fish to fry equally for everyone. If you ignore that, you may end up getting lost in your pond with boundaries instead of swimming like an expert in your personal ocean or flying in the space you personally carry within. I would rather believe that it’s my choice to discover whether the earth is flat or not. If I die in the process, I left something to ponder for my coming generations so the process of evolution can carry on.

It’s not important what lies beyond the cliff of faith or before our birth, but it is essential to live a just life while traveling towards the cliff of faith during our living years. That should be our main education, but most of our education is based on what happens after our living years, following a carrot-and-stick philosophy related to heaven and hell. Remember, the Egyptians believed they would need their material possessions in the afterlife, and they took them along to their tombs. They believed they would need them, while we have been robbing them. They may wake up to today’s realities or not, but at least we should. As I said, our education should be focused on our living years so we can be good people while we are alive. If everything is focused on our life after death, how can one learn what is important during the living years? If I am told everything is meaningful in eternal life, which is after death, that doesn’t sit well with me.

There are some questions I need answers to. First of all, if we live like worker bees, warrior ants, or monks, who benefits from our deprived living? For sure, it can’t be God, nor can it be you individually, since you have been told you would get a spot in heaven after you die. I repeat, after you die. Next, remember and never forget that even God needs your physicality to fulfill people’s prayers. So, you are more valuable to God alive, not dead. God can’t be unfair to take from you and not reciprocate by allowing you to enjoy physical things while you are alive—simple as that. If you are that important to God, where did this notion of human irrelevance start? You are irrelevant and meaningless only when you are dead, but while you are alive, you convert spirituality into physical actions, providing your hands, back, and shoulders for God’s work. How can you be irrelevant and meaningless?

As you ask this question to yourself, make sure to look within while you are already there. You carry an atom of autonomy that gives physical life to God—and unfortunately, to the Devil as well. So if someone says you don’t have free will, this is where they become wrong because it’s you who is making things happen. Sure, after you have inhaled oxygen and in a living, breathing, functioning body, but your output is a crucial part of spirituality and God simultaneously. You can believe anything you want, but if you don’t use the knowledge from your ocean, you will think what is beyond the cliff of faith is one hundred percent true. Meaning you will live as a believer who potentially commits spiritual crimes in the name of a belonging group, which is not only against God’s will but also against your personal atom of autonomy. Going against or having conflicts from within can make you suffer in your living years. Suffering from within, in your living years, can be a living hell. If you live in a living hell by choice, how can you expect to live in heaven after you die?

Remember, logically, you can only use your free will while you are alive. After that, you can’t even move physically—meaning lights out. All your physical experiences shut down, so whatever education you have can only be useful, applicable, or meaningful during your living years. I don’t like to assume, simply because life is life while it’s physical; after that, things change and enter a metaphoric zone. That does not mean we should not believe in our metaphoric realities, but they should never override our physical realities. Remember, you have to surrender your physical realities to cross the cliff of faith. What is beyond the cliff of faith is a journey into the unknown simply because you have to die first to find out. Remember, we don’t really have any physical evidence, so it’s all what you have been taught to believe on the path of your ancestral footprints. If you believe life is considered in two parts, what you do in your living years would earn you results in the afterlife. The intentions of this knowledge may be good because it wants individuals to live as better people, but unfortunately, it shifts the focus from living years to dead years.

If you believe in your belief system blindly, you may get some good results, but since not everyone believes at the same level and we have several conflicting belief systems, it can create social problems. If we can focus on our living years as decently evolved individuals who know the responsibilities of reciprocation, that may pan out better. Proof is in the pudding because the crime rate of society is not dictated by the carrot-and-stick philosophy. Since it’s created to train animals, it is for animals exclusively. Crime rates in religious societies are not lower than in secular societies, which indicates that the carrot-and-stick philosophy does not work for human beings. I believe human beings don’t stand in that lineup of regular animals and they function better if they are encouraged to be spiritual. If the purpose of belief systems is to keep individuals from crimes in living years, then why didn’t religious societies do better? The simple reason is that as human beings, we are all wired differently. Sure, genetics are powerful, but for human beings, it’s not the only thing. We can be affected by our education, our upbringing, and life circumstances, which can make people think differently. Our belief systems affect us differently, so the level of belief can vary. With various levels, we are bound to have differences of opinion, which lead to disputes even within families, communities, nations, and religions.

If you look for the causes of our problems, remember our differences kill. So we all should critically look at our stubborn belief systems. The question is, if we don’t know for sure, should we kill each other over it? As reasonably evolved human beings of the equal human rights era, we have to question our belief systems before we go for the kill. If it’s a territorial issue or dispute, still, killing belongs to our animal side. Since we are not genetically programmed, we can learn not to act like warrior ants. You can say we have to protect our territory and people, and I would not dispute that because, at the end of the day, we have to have equal human individual rights. If someone is trampling our rights, they have already surrendered their rights, so no, I don’t believe in turning the other cheek. If it’s for our belonging group, remember it’s political, so regardless of how you look at your life and its related knowledge, you individually will have to rise up and respect the life of each other and your loved ones because you are all working hands of God.

Whether you believe, don’t believe, or believe but not 100% in the afterlife is secondary; whether it’s belonging to the individual from the opposing group or our own, respecting life itself is primary. Simply because all human individuals are working hands of God. If we robbed Egyptian tombs believing they would not need all these material things in their afterlife anyway, why do we put so much emphasis on life after death for ourselves? When you start to question everything, you will come to an understanding that our living years are the crucial part of our human life. Yet we are asked to sacrifice that over what we don’t really know or simply can’t be explained. Don’t you think it is gambling for the individual? So to me, the individual and God are the losers here, and the winner is the house or politically ruling group of people.

Remember, you and God are not the beneficiaries. On top of all that, you are useful to God while you are alive. This may seem far-fetched to the politically brainwashed individual. Interestingly, we don’t only have several religions; each religion has its sects as well, which is a clear sign of differences in beliefs even within religions. We may not even believe in life after death equally, but nonetheless, we still believe. The trouble is if everything related to our metaphoric realities is accepted as facts without any solid or video proof. It’s a belief and not necessarily a fact. In this day and age of the internet, science, and equal human individual rights, killing each other over these beliefs founded on our unknowns should be questioned. Since religions were supposed to be our spiritual paths, they can’t be or at least shouldn’t be tainted with the politics of belonging and clearly should not be our governing systems.

If you win an election because you inspired people to vote for their religions, your failure to succeed in fulfilling their expectations would disrespect their religious beliefs, especially if they followed you blindly and you have tainted their religious beliefs politically. To me, bankrupting someone of their pure spirituality is an original sin because you have politically used not only the individual but God as well. Even a win can be a failure because sooner or later you, the individual, God, and the religion would be questioned and disrespected because of this political taint. Our politics of belonging has ruined people’s belief systems simply because it taints our spiritual world with prejudice and discrimination. Playing with someone’s belief system in the name of politics can bring you to another crossroad, where you find yourself lost. I remember a verse of a poem, it says, and I quote: “I could not meet God nor got my lover, now I am lost, not only on one side but the other as well.” End quote. Author unknown.

If you want to play it safe and be individually healthy in all aspects of life—spiritually, physically, mentally, and emotionally—then don’t mix the politics of your belonging with God and spirituality. Just like you want your justice system to be blind to politics, you personally need to keep your spirituality pure and clean. No matter how clearly you see or how blindly you believe, your belief system should be founded on the solid grounds of personal spirituality. Remember, you can’t get everyone else to see or believe exactly the way you do. If you force it, you lose your spirituality, and as I said, you lose others and even God as well. If you simply imagine yourself on the receiving end of your actions before committing them, you already know spirituality. If you would not like someone else enforcing you to change your belief system, then you should respect and restrain yourself to give and receive the same equal human individual rights. Regardless of how absurd it seems to you, if you picture yourself in the minority, you would grow respect for others’ belief systems. If we all respect each other and give and receive equal human individual rights, life would change for the better. Otherwise, we would never come out of our racism, sexual bias, prejudice, and discrimination. Today, all the above are not a matter of pride anymore; those times are long gone, so it’s important to live in the era we are born into.

Our past is riddled with divisive governing systems, so creating groups within groups has been the political game played by our ancestors to gain power. Conservatives and liberals have been switching hands for governing, bringing us back and forth. As long as we evolve, we can go further and learn not to kill each other over our political differences or our metaphoric realities. Everything can be safe until we mix politics into our religious beliefs. It can simply rip us all apart individually and collectively. Just look at our history; our religious dispute-related wars last the longest and are the bloodiest.

From Muslims teaching science, medicine, engineering, and space to bringing them down all by exchanging political hands is a sad story of mixing extreme politics and religion. Since we are human beings with evolution ingrained into our genes, going back and forth can be acceptable as long as we go forward in the end. Our evolution has brought us to the point where we are thinking and accepting equal human individual rights around the world. This means we are ready to step into our new paradigm or take our next step in evolution, where we are actually forced to understand the importance of working as one humanity, belonging to our original identity, and overcoming our installed identities.

In this day and age, except for a few of us, we simply can’t go ahead and kill someone in the name of God anymore because no one would want to be on the receiving end of that. I personally don’t prioritize metaphoric realities over physical realities. So in today’s time, killing and getting killed in the name of God would be like going to court and saying to the judge that God made me do it. Sure, we have the Qur’an and Bible in our courts for taking oaths, but asking the judge to free you simply because you committed a crime in the name of God would not be enough. All justice systems look at physical reality as a priority.

Most of our religious education is based on the carrot-and-stick philosophy, which simply does not suit human beings because we carry our spiritual side within. If you look around the world, proof is in the pudding. Since the lowest crime rate is not in our religious societies, I believe it’s rather a slap in the face of our so-called Godly people who think and believe human beings are animals. Remember, our religious education was designed to make us more evolved and humble human beings so we would not commit crimes against each other. What went wrong? If we all contemplate and learn to readjust our carrot-and-stick philosophy, things can change for us all. Since self-regulation comes from personal hope and spiritual evolution comes from our personal atom of autonomy. If politics is inserted into our belief systems, spirituality takes a hike. My question is, what is the reason why secular societies scored better than religious societies? It’s kind of obvious; if you treat a spiritual entity like a human being as an animal, you are not going to get much respect back from them. Things are going so badly in our religious world that they have not been getting a break from killing each other. As nations and religions, they can’t stand on solid ground to create a society where people would want to raise their children. Simply because they mixed the politics of belonging into their spiritual systems. Sure, the politics of belonging can ignite the religious passion to kill and get killed in individuals, but creating a society where people can self-regulate would be hard to do.

Just like other triangles, I believe this triangle has also been politically flipped, so the right side up is required not only by the individual but by our belonging groups as well.

Spiritually, hope should be the life and blood of our belief systems, especially because we are mortal beings. Logically, if you start to look at the cliff of faith, one thing emerges clearly: it’s not about what is after the cliff of faith but rather how we live while we are in the process of that journey. If you look at it from a political point of view, you need to be controlled. If you look at it spiritually, you have to convert spirituality into physical actions while you are on that journey. Thoughts about hell and heaven can fade, especially if you do things out of a sense of responsibility and for the love of God and humanity. God knows your intentions, so if you act out of greed or fear, God may not have the same respect for you. Now, the question is, would all that matter or not? To me, if you live as a good person, whether it’s out of greed and fear or your self-regulation stems from the duty of reciprocation, it has succeeded. But I would rather do it out of responsibility because it would be done consistently. If you have greed and fear involved, they are on shaky grounds because not everyone thinks alike. Remember, if you do it for others, even if it is for God, it would not be consistent. For instance, if God does not show up when you ask for help, you may end up losing faith altogether. SO DO IT FOR YOU, FROM YOU. If you look at it during our living years, fear can subside, and greed can be fulfilled. Now the question arises: then what? Would you stop doing good? For sure, after death, even that doing good would fall into our assumptions as well.

Looking into our past to see how human beings have been and some still are worshiping the sun and all kinds of gods, we have lots of romantic stories and songs about the moon as well, but in today’s societies, things have changed. We simply can’t worship everything under the literal sun. If anything is unknown to us, it does not mean it automatically gets the status of God. Scientifically, we have been discovering and debunking old theories of our unknowns. So if we still have our unknowns, it does not mean we should stop pursuing knowledge about them, and yes, even about God as well. Breaking down myths and solving mysteries is part of our being human, so if anyone or a group of people stands in the way of new discoveries, they should look back and see what was, is, and what will be. Standing in the way of evolution is not following God’s way; it actually goes against God’s will. Otherwise, we would not be able to debunk the flat Earth theory.

IF WE WERE SUPPOSED TO BE LOCKED INTO OUR PONDS, GOD WOULDN’T HAVE PUT AN OCEAN WITHIN US.

We simply can’t make a God out of everything we don’t know. Another thing to remind you, preaching human beings as insignificant, irrelevant, and born sinners is not from God but rather from the elites to politically benefit them. If anyone or any political policy of a group insists human beings are insignificant or irrelevant, it should be looked at critically because it’s nothing but political. We should be looking ahead on the highway of our evolution optimistically, discovering and marching further, not only to learn more about technological, medical, and scientific knowledge but also about the political influences mixed in our belief systems. If humans do not take charge, our discoveries and evolution get stuck at a certain milestone or, worse, get used to annihilate humanity. If we don’t carry on discovering, we would never know our potential. By simply understanding our atom of autonomy, we can restore a human individual’s spiritual relevance.

If we look at ourselves, just like we do at our cell phones today, we have had a lot of untapped potential right from the get-go. Unfortunately, our conservative political influences have been working against our desires to break down all our boundaries because they simply want to keep the status quo. For an individual who starts to learn about the new cell phone, it takes a lot more than just the effort to learn about new things, never mind political influences against individual progress as well. Politically, a party is strong if it’s not questioned, so there have been a lot of efforts put in to keep the ordinary individual down, or I should say, irrelevant. Unfortunately or fortunately, today things have been changing, and conservatives are facing a real threat of being left behind. So they are fighting back with everything they have got. Humanity has been outgrowing kingdoms, dictatorships, communism, and even socialism to join democracy. Yet still, we are in trouble simply because there is constant political unrest influencing individuals.

Humanity is at a crossroads because all our external forces are telling us to evolve and work together as one humanity or else. Individually, we have to gain some wisdom so we can see the politics hidden behind our group agendas. We simply can’t do that unless we start to learn about ourselves just like our phones. We all need to learn about our abilities and all about the ocean we carry within. Remember, we can pick, choose, mix, and match from all the knowledge pouring into our ocean. Otherwise, we will end up living a life that does not give us the fulfillment a mortal being needs. If you don’t care about that fulfillment, your sense of belonging is too powerful for you individually and has you under its spell. You have lost your real status and are unable to use your cell phone for everything it has within. Sure, our belief systems have their place in our lives, and so do science, medicine, and technology because they fulfill our spiritual and other needs. If we ignore our scientific knowledge, it is a big individual and collective loss or deficiency. If you are born in today’s time, you simply can’t go without your scientific knowledge. A whole lot of comfort and even life-saving strategies come from our scientific knowledge, so it has to be not only used but respected as well. We are all functioning differently and at a much higher level today, so our needs simply can’t be fulfilled with our religious or scientific knowledge exclusively. If we choose extremes, we end up choosing our stream-related knowledge as ultimate knowledge. We simply can’t do that because we can’t fulfill our emotional and spiritual needs by going scientific exclusively. Just like that, you can’t go religious exclusively and not use a blood transfusion to save the life of your loved one. You can be stuck in your extreme if you choose to stay in the streams of your knowledge. If you feel stressed out regardless of your knowledge, you have to know the reasons behind your unfulfilled life. Your reason can be simply connected to a lack of spirituality. Remember, you don’t have to pick or choose science or religion; rather, you have to learn how to create balance and use them both to live your mortal life successfully. If you have been brainwashed in your tender years, it does not mean you don’t have what is needed to function in today’s society. Undoing can happen if you start to learn all about your potential. Sure, sometimes we have to go through some discomfort to find comfort. If you feel spiritually unfulfilled, remember you are the one who makes choices. All you have to do is dive into your ocean to find your solutions. Instead of looking for the scientific or medical answers in your holy books or the other way around, take charge and become a CEO so you can be responsible for your life. You have to look in that direction even if it’s not comfortable. Politics of belonging has the power to rob you of your personal spirituality, so don’t become spiritually bankrupt and believe that you don’t have a choice and must comply with your belonging group. If scientific facts are changing things in the religious world, you may fall apart, especially if you don’t take charge of your personal spirituality. Simply look at your life as an evolved individual and find your comfort from within and for the love of it. I simply don’t know what my cell phone can do. I can use it as a phone, text, and video camera. Sure, I can see the time and temperature as well, but that is all I can do. I know learning more about it can be uncomfortable, so my limitations tell me that I am not using my cell phone for everything it’s capable of. Self-discomfort to discover more about my cell phone does not mean my phone has fewer abilities; it means it’s my inability to use it to its full potential. This is the main connection between a human individual and their cell phone. We all come into life with all the powers installed, but our politics of belonging keeps us from using our abilities. Why? There is no other reason but politics. Our politicians know this very well and take advantage of our personal discomfort, so they preach and discourage us from using our cell phones, never mind to their full capacity. Remember, God did a godly thing and gave us what we need to live and evolve progressively. Now it’s up to us how far we can take it. Our individual discomfort and political influences can dictate our backwardness or forwardness. If you can handle personal discomfort, you can build yourself bigger and stronger not only physically but spiritually as well. We sprout like a seed and become a tree; there is nothing similar to what we had, so our life should be a journey towards our evolved self.

Since we have a choice to do good or bad, even if it’s done in the name of our belonging groups, it’s still our responsibility to choose and be responsible for it. If you don’t use your cell phone to its capacity or refer to your ocean-like brain, you may end up doing bids for your belonging groups exclusively and living the life of a worker bee or a warrior ant. That can take you to a place where you end up going against your own atom of autonomy, and going against your atom of autonomy can make you accumulate guilt and related harmful effects. If you don’t use your cell phone because of your personal fears and discomfort, that is one thing, but if you think and believe it’s prohibited by your belonging group, you would never get to see your potential. Usually, your loyalties override what you think or do, so it’s your personal loss because time is running out for you individually. Your belonging groups stay behind simply because they stayed entrenched in their conservative and old political ways to govern. They don’t have an interest in their individual’s well-being or strength, so the individual gets sacrificed simply because they run out of time. Should you stand in your corner and dig into your personal ocean and strengthen your atom of autonomy? That is your personal matter because if you are a willing participant in the same politics as your belonging group, you are the group. Remember, without you, your belonging group loses its integrity and eventually its survival. So they would cunningly fight to keep their individuals from evolving. If you are not happy, remember as a mortal being your life needs happiness, contentment, and appreciation of the things that are important to you. Living with total control can lead us to live a substandard mortal life, so remember we have to fulfill not only our physical needs but our spiritual satisfactions as well. Mortal life does not just need absolute comfort; it needs happiness and contentment for the soul, so life without these two can’t be counted as a successful life.

Sure, we have a difficult time learning new things and going into uncharted waters of our unknowns, but that does not mean we don’t have those abilities. If I don’t know how to use things on my phone, it does not mean my phone does not have what I don’t know how to use. I may not know how to use my phone for everything, but I should be able to dig into my body, mind, and spirit for its potential. If I look at things with an open mind, I may even discover flaws causing me discomfort. Otherwise, I may stay stuck at the same level until I expire. So if we personally don’t dig into, cross, and break our so-called boundaries, we would never come out of our practiced and preached lines of our ancestors. Remember, all paths lead to the cliff of faith, but what goes on within you personally matters the most. Paying attention while you are on the journey is the game because you are converting spirituality into physical actions while you are alive. So whatever is before your birth or beyond the cliff of faith is none of your business; it’s Godly, so leave it at that and do your job of reciprocation because that is what keeps God physically relevant. Don’t put anyone in hell or promise them heaven to politically use them.