Who Flipped My Triangle?

No matter how powerful, real, and influential they may feel, our hormone-driven urges cannot be left unchecked. The same applies to the politics of our sense of belonging to our groups. In reality, we are each a reflection of the spiritual world. We must create balance from within. Our sense of freedom and personal sense of justice are there to counteract the politics of belonging, which can lead us to become prejudiced and discriminatory. Since we are neither exclusively spiritual nor solely physical entities, we need to balance both aspects to truly live as human beings.

Each of us is blessed with our personal atom of autonomy and related free will to choose and decide, but we must also answer to our inner authority. Our innate compassion, sense of justice, and love help us navigate our spiritual and physical journey toward faith. Not all of us are naturally team players; we also have the ability to function independently. If we let our hormonal responses and the politics of belonging dictate our truths, we may end up at odds with our atom of autonomy. Our spiritual side, or atom of autonomy, can be just as strong as the politics of belonging. Internal conflicts have consequences for us individually. Just ask a war veteran if the politics of belonging have compelled them to commit crimes against others or innocents, leading to guilt and strong negative feelings. This internal struggle, which I consider a real form of hell within our mortal lives, must be acknowledged and understood.

How much and who is truly responsible for our actions? Some might argue that their belonging group is strong and can punish or ostracize them, so they must conform to their religion or nationalism. Regardless of the legitimacy of this claim, we join causes due to internal imbalances and are responsible for our actions. When you examine yourself with your personal sense of justice, you will see that not feeling guilt is a sign of personal weakness. Since we all have an atom of autonomy within us, we cannot simply let our physical side make all our decisions. We are unique entities because we must answer to ourselves, which is why we need to understand what really goes on within us.

If you focus solely on the physical aspects of life, you learn about our animal side—mechanical, technological, scientific, and medical facts. If you explore your spiritual side, you encounter non-physical realities such as compassion, love, sacrifice, forgiveness, guilt, ego, pride, honor, bravery, and even self-worth and self-esteem. Ask yourself: can you live without acknowledging one side or the other? At the end of the day, we are not merely mechanical bodies nor simply spiritual entities. We need to acknowledge our uniqueness and learn to merge and balance both aspects of our knowledge. When we achieve this, we first acknowledge the vastness of our knowledge and then use it to live our mortal years with quality. This personal responsibility should prompt us to question and learn what is necessary to function within ourselves and our social settings. To do justice to ourselves and others, we must become the CEOs of our lives—functioning as real human beings rather than as worker bees, warrior ants, or extensions of group ideology. We need to see our individual and personal truths behind our physical, social, political, and spiritual realities.

Interestingly, it is not the truth itself but our belief in that truth that shapes our personal reality. For millions of years, human societies have grappled with non-physical truths and evolved with imbalances. Nothing gets discovered without pursuit; if we don’t question, we remain stuck at the same level, regardless of time passing. Every culture has segments of the population that believe and disbelieve in strange and unexplained things. Despite our scientific advances, traditions, customs, rituals, and religious rules remain popular. The question is: why? Despite our scientific and technological progress, there are still many who prefer religious beliefs over scientifically repeatable facts. They struggle to see the politics of belonging as a problem. We tend to view life through our personal lenses and follow whatever feels right. Most people do not question their religious beliefs, relying on others to guide them, which is where politics-related problems arise and taint our spirituality.

Our sense of belonging to groups is so powerful that it can affect our hormonal levels. Look at our sports, political parties, nationalism, and religious extremism—these influences can shape behavior. Scientifically, we observe this but may not understand why it happens. Similarly, we struggle to understand and break down non-physical realities like love, compassion, sacrifice, forgiveness, ego, pride, honor, bravery, and even guilt. This is because science often fails to acknowledge the existence of our spiritual side and its non-physical truths. To understand something, we must first acknowledge its existence.

We often reject the existence of certain fields of knowledge and remain stuck in our ways. We view ourselves as merely physical beings and attempt to fix ourselves mechanically rather than addressing the root causes of our problems. By not acknowledging, rejecting, or underestimating the influences of our spiritual side, we may miss out on finding real solutions to problems that stem from spiritual issues.

Simplifying the complex nature of human beings through political lenses can keep us behind and cause us to underestimate the importance of spirituality. We cannot even agree on what it means to be human. If you visit a doctor, they will focus on fixing symptoms rather than addressing underlying causes. Scientifically, we have not fully explored our spiritual nature, and there are aspects within us that remain immeasurable by current scientific knowledge. Religions, on the other hand, often overlook the importance of the individual within the broader spiritual context. They undermine individual humanity for political control, with traditions, customs, rituals, and rules reflecting the politics of belonging. Those who seek to explore beyond the politics of belonging often find themselves entrenched in conflicting philosophies, believing that God favors specific groups rather than humanity as a whole. I strongly disagree with this notion.

As I mentioned, I do not believe in a God who is for some but not for all. I believe that as human beings, we are metaphorical cells of a single entity, which you could call God. Looking at God physically, you see humanity as a whole. If you perceive with spiritual eyes, you will see that God is for all divine cells, not just for some or specific body parts. Claiming God for certain people doesn’t make sense to me because, as humans, we wouldn’t prefer some cells over others within a functioning body. By examining ourselves without political influences and the sense of belonging, we can discover our own spiritual belief systems. There is no need to reject or discredit the religion we were born into to address our spiritual deficiencies.

Imagine this analogy to gain perspective: Picture a brain cell loudly proclaiming that if it were absent, all other cells would die. To someone spiritually illiterate, this might make sense, but before it happens, the heart cell interjects, saying it supplies oxygenated blood for survival. The lung cell adds that it provides oxygen. The skin cell mentions its role in protection from infections. The liver and kidneys talk about their roles in cleaning and filtering. The colon claims it provides essential nutrients. Eventually, God speaks and says that in such a chaotic and bickering environment, He cannot stay. The entire body must function in harmony for God to remain within. If the body cannot function harmoniously, none of the individual cells can contribute to turning spiritual things into physical actions. This analogy highlights the need for collaboration and understanding of both sides. A cell cannot understand the whole body’s workings unless it experiences death, which makes physical existence meaningless.

Discussing existence and being prejudiced or discriminatory is linked to the knowledge we have been given.

Understanding the human spiritual side is a monumental task, yet religions often become mired in group belief systems, living as if they are just a part of the body rather than the whole. This division isn’t necessarily due to spiritual reasons but rather the politics of belonging. Science, preoccupied with creating biological and nuclear weapons, seems more interested in proving religious predictions of doomsday rather than exploring spirituality.

Remember, it’s not the truth itself but your belief in that truth that shapes your personal reality. For many, spiritual truths—such as love, devotion, compassion, passion, guilt, and justice—are more significant than scientifically proven facts. If you don’t explore these spiritual aspects of your soul, you may struggle to trust a teacher who simplifies life to mere equations like 2+2=4.

While numbers are objective facts, they don’t necessarily address the needs of aging mortals. For us, happiness, contentment, and a spiritually fulfilled life are the ultimate truths, even if they cannot be fully understood with our current knowledge. If you live a life focused solely on scientific accuracy but miss out on spiritual fulfillment, you may find yourself unfulfilled. A life without spiritual satisfaction is like a machine—mechanical and unfulfilling.

To experience a truly meaningful life, one must understand mortality and embrace the unknown and unexplained aspects of life where 2+2 no longer equals 4. For instance, our life transitions—moving from weakness to strength and back again—are consistent truths of human existence. These transitions, though simple and widely accepted, point to deeper truths about happiness and contentment.

The challenge arises when we confront the reality of our mortality. If you have always expected life to fit neatly into the equation 2+2=4, you will be disappointed, especially as you age and lose cells you cannot replace. This loss may impact your happiness and contentment, which are the true treasures for mortals. If you rely solely on scientific facts, you risk missing out on spiritual fulfillment.

Understanding God may involve examining yourself. Consider your ten trillion cells and hundred trillion bacteria with millions of genes. The complexity of your being might require more than just scientific explanation; it demands a perspective akin to that of a CEO who comprehends mortality, not just an egotistical viewpoint.

Our quest for understanding God is akin to two cells debating the existence of the body—they lack the perspective to grasp the whole. Just as cells are part of a larger body, we need to recognize the existence of non-physical spiritual realities. Science and religion have both struggled with this, often failing to explore or acknowledge spiritual dimensions fully.

The evolution of human understanding is ongoing. As we continue to learn and discover, it’s clear that we don’t know everything. Debates about the existence of God are similar to cells debating the body’s existence—they lack the capacity to see the bigger picture. Our pursuit of knowledge must include spiritual dimensions, not just scientific facts.

We often reject spiritual exploration due to political influences and preconceived notions. Science may disprove certain religious claims, but this does not necessarily negate the importance of spirituality in our lives. True understanding requires balancing scientific and spiritual insights, recognizing that both contribute to our overall well-being.

Religions and belief systems impact us in ways science cannot always explain. Believing blindly may lead to insights that non-believers miss. Human imagination can transform a simple idea into something profound. Personally, I believe in God not out of fear of hell or desire for heaven but to avoid committing spiritual crimes against others. Belief in God can offer spiritual benefits and help us navigate our lives meaningfully.

Spirituality and politics should remain separate. I may question and disagree with various religious traditions because they often stem from political motives rather than genuine spirituality. True spirituality is about helping humanity and doing God’s work with pure intentions.

Consider how a child finds joy in simple things. While adults chase after happiness and contentment, often without finding it, children experience untainted joy. Our personal life circumstances and hormonal fluctuations can obscure our ability to find spiritual pearls. By clearing the clutter accumulated from societal, parental, and religious influences, we might rediscover pure joy and satisfaction.

Cleaning up mental and emotional clutter is essential. Can you forgive past hurts? Can you face your fears and attachments? Surrendering control and facing these issues may help you reconnect with a childlike joy. It’s not an easy process, but recognizing the temporary nature of our journey can help us let go of unnecessary fears and attachments.

Ultimately, it’s more important to focus on what we seek rather than what we avoid.                    Embrace the journey of self-discovery, acknowledging that we are not finished products. Our understanding evolves, and so must our approach to spirituality and knowledge. By recognizing the balance between physical and spiritual aspects, we can live more fully and meaningfully.

Quote: “Don’t make unhappiness the goal; avoiding unhappiness is not the road to happiness.”

You can choose to represent your good and bad sides, but accidents can still happen. Does this mean you are responsible for everything you do or what happens in your life? If you wholeheartedly accept that there is room for accidents and mistakes in your life, only then can you address your need for control. Otherwise, each of us will face some kind of dissatisfaction or mess we don’t like. Being mortal requires us to understand what life is all about. If you are terrified of dying, how will you even live? If you expend all your energy avoiding the inevitable, what will you have left to give? Your purpose in life is to reciprocate for the blessings you’ve received. Your oxygen is free, your body functions, and you have an atom of autonomy, which is akin to divine free will. If you think the purpose of your life is merely to pray and fast, who will do the real work for God? Turning spiritual thoughts into physical actions is the job we all have. If you’re seeking untarnished joy, deep spiritual satisfaction, and soul-satisfying happiness, take responsibility to reciprocate in practical ways. Instead of building grand mosques, churches, or temples, help the truly poor, feed the genuinely hungry, or pay your taxes so governments can assist the needy. While it’s important to know how your money is used, avoiding taxes by finding loopholes is not kosher, especially if you’re seeking a fulfilling mortal life. Remember, the politics of belonging may compel you to attend religious places and meet like-minded people. Your intentions may be good, but if your money is used for wrong purposes, you need to ensure it is spent correctly. If your mosques, churches, or temples are grandiose while poverty, hunger, and homelessness prevail, you may be on the wrong path, influenced more by politics than spirituality.

As the CEO of your life, you need to balance all areas. If helping your religious institution is sufficient for you, you might be influenced by a sense of belonging rather than a spiritual purpose. Both senses are extreme, so you must balance them. They are naturally ingrained, but you control and balance them because you are the boss of your life. If others are pulling your strings, it indicates a spiritual deficiency on your part, so put your CEO hat on.

I personally draw the line when it comes to taking risks that harm others or myself in the name of my group. Some might see this as selfish, but I believe it’s about creating balance, taking personal responsibility, and clearing clutter. A strong desire to fit in, impress, or be admired by a group is not a flaw but can lead to harm or spiritual self-destruction if unchecked.

From anorexia and bulimia to drug and alcohol addiction, unhappiness, and spiritual unfulfillment to even suicide, these issues arise when others have too much power over us or when our sense of belonging is out of control. We are fundamentally similar, so it’s not the circumstances but our response to them that matters. An imbalanced individual, unaware of their role as a CEO of their life, may spend their whole life seeking others’ approval, missing out on fulfillment. Seeking security only to find it’s elusive, intellectual disease driven by the need to please can force one to live a life of fitting in, impressing, or seeking admiration without spiritual sense. Some may lose their self-identity, becoming extensions of group ideologies, leading to prejudicial and discriminatory behavior, and committing spiritual crimes. Compassion and respect for oneself and others can help one understand the principle of “live and let live,” which is the spiritual rule of treating others as you wish to be treated.

Since both our internal and external spaces are beyond our control, we should seek our personal reasons for being alive, especially when things are not in our control. We all walk our paths and prefer not to have anyone disturb or end them. Even if things are beyond our control, we should not do to others what we don’t want done to ourselves. This is the spiritual understanding of our free will. When viewing life solely through physical or spiritual lenses, things become murky. A purely physical view reduces human life to mechanical and animalistic terms, minimizing our humanity. Although we evolved from simpler creatures, we have unique treasures, such as our spiritual side, that set us apart. Our imagination and ability to translate thoughts into actions have always been with us. Have you ever wondered where this spiritual “jewelry” came from?

The power of thoughts is evident in our physical responses, from salivation and excitement to increased heart rate from memories or nightmares, highlighting human complexity. Focusing only on physicality simplifies the picture based on our understanding. Even today, the placebo effect remains an unresolved mystery in medical science, showing we still have much to learn. Our progress comes from those who question, whether religious or secular. If a religion preaches not to question and to believe blindly, it creates doubt by keeping individuals irrelevant to maintain political control. With the rapid changes brought about by the internet, questioning is unavoidable, and humanity must adapt. Seeking truth is important, and individuals can benefit from belief systems if they understand that spiritual satisfaction comes from experiencing life as it should be, not from blindly following religious or political doctrines.

Understanding our problems begins with individual actions and concludes with an individual’s expiration. We should focus on the causes and consequences related to the individual. Solutions also lie within the individual. If we view ourselves as CEOs of our lives, we can see, understand, and act according to the politics of belonging to our groups. Recognizing how our political affiliations can reduce us to mere worker bees or warrior ants, shouldn’t we look inward to understand what is happening within ourselves?

As groups, we often fail to overcome our desire to dominate others, including our followers. As long as we have the ammunition of individual blood and the rage of revenge for lost love, things will remain unchanged. The true impact of our disputes is felt and suffered by the individual. When individuals are insecure and politically bombarded with a sense of belonging during their formative years, they have little chance to question the authority of their groups. Especially if they believe they are worthless, unimportant, and irrelevant in the grand scheme of things.

The biggest problem is that we are taught to view the world through the political lens of our belonging groups, which inhibits us from looking beyond group politics. Politics often accepts lies and deceitful illusions, making us believe that we are individually irrelevant. In contrast, our spiritual side offers nothing but the truth, affirming that the individual is the most important, meaningful, and relevant part of the grand picture. If we change individually, we can change everything.

The pain of lost love should teach us to treat others as we would want to be treated ourselves, which is a spiritual principle. The need for individual growth has never been more urgent. Interestingly, we can outgrow our insecurities and address our problems. To address personal insecurities, we must balance our sense of belonging to our groups with our personal sense of freedom.

Groups strive to secure their followers by emphasizing the group’s importance. However, a group can only offer prayers and cannot prevent illness, aging, or change our mortal nature. Their claim of providing security falls short of reality. We all must come to terms with our mortality to realize that no mortal being can achieve absolute security.

Being used politically, spending a lifetime feeling unimportant, losing self-esteem, and committing spiritual crimes in the name of our groups is a grave human condition. Not accepting personal responsibility for actions and hiding behind the politics of belonging represents a low state of humanity, far below the real human status of a CEO who possesses individual autonomy.

We need to view ourselves through a broader and spiritual lens rather than a narrow political one, as billions of us need to understand our reality. From both physical and spiritual perspectives, our individual importance is crucial to the divine world. Each and every one of us is a vital part of spirituality.

I simply don’t believe in multiple gods, especially if they promote exclusivity, or even one god who is exclusive to a particular group. To me, such beliefs often reflect politically motivated faith or exclusion. Exclusivity, in my view, leads to the root of many spiritual problems and even crimes. Our politics of belonging to groups is the source of many of the crimes we commit against each other. Most of our prejudices, discriminations, disputes, and even wars—along with the suffering of innocent individuals—are politically inspired.

A sense of belonging not only gives rise to prejudice, discrimination, ego, pride, and honor but also creates fearful individuals who are overly concerned with what others in their group think. This concern limits their ability to practice or utilize their sense of freedom. In the presence of political belonging and individual weakness, our personal sense of justice gets compromised. We fail to extend to others what we receive from them, including something as fundamental as equal human rights.

On the surface, a sense of belonging might not seem like the root cause of our problems, but if every community preaches exclusivity, we cannot resolve our disputes. We would continue to harm each other regardless of our education, civilization, or progress. In an era of equal human rights, our sense of belonging to specific groups and the resulting prejudice and discrimination often conflict with our personal spirituality. If we portray God with favoritism, as the father of such exclusivity, we hinder our spiritual evolution. Our spiritual principle, which is to treat others as we would want to be treated, cannot be achieved if our politics of belonging makes even God a prejudicial entity.

Religions teach us to be good people and offer illusions of hope and optimism, but many are also guilty of instilling a sense of individual irrelevance. This undermines an individual’s self-esteem, leaving them feeling vulnerable and insecure. Such insecurity and vulnerability are central to the real and political aspects of our religions. Naturally, humans dislike feeling insecure or vulnerable, so we spend our lives trying to escape these feelings. This often leads us to cling to anything stronger than ourselves, particularly our belonging groups. In group settings, God becomes secondary because both individuals and groups feel vulnerable. Throughout history, people have exploited individual and group insecurities, and even land disputes have been framed as religious disputes, using individual passion as fuel. Political religions understand these weaknesses and exploit them, encouraging extreme behaviors rather than discouraging them. Consequently, people may follow religious teachings outwardly while hoarding, compromising their spirituality, and committing crimes to secure themselves. This is evident in the full mosques, temples, and churches that coexist with social crimes like cheating, bribery, and violence.

Why do these people fill religious buildings yet continue to commit crimes? Why don’t they take responsibility for their actions or self-regulate? What leads them to believe their wrongdoings are justified by their affiliation with a particular group?

In a world where individual and group vulnerability and insecurity are prevalent, things can’t improve in the long run, especially if survival is considered optional while prayers are viewed as a duty. If religions operate like businesses or governments, the money collected is often used for monumental architecture or even laundered, rather than fighting poverty and hunger. Collectors themselves, seeking power and political control, are also victims of insecurity and vulnerability. How can they preach against these issues?

Insecure and vulnerable individuals, raised among similar people, carry these traits like blood flowing through their veins. Addressing these issues is monumental due to resistance from those politically invested in maintaining the status quo.

Examining social crimes and the happiness and contentment levels in various societies reveals some intriguing statistics. Why might religious societies not fare better than secular or socialist societies in terms of happiness and contentment? What is the purpose of a belief system if it doesn’t contribute to our well-being? Why do religious individuals resist spiritual concepts like universal health care, welfare, and other social services? Why do they vote against democratic values and equal human rights? Why do they resist adapting to the demands of changing times? Why is there religious rigidity against accepting others’ rights to differing opinions? Why do they claim certainty in their knowledge of God while dismissing other knowledge as incorrect?

Religious beliefs are heavily influenced by the politics of belonging, making it difficult for us to develop a common-sense spiritual philosophy. Principles like “don’t do to others what you don’t want done to you” or “live and let live” are often overshadowed by political and religious agendas. Regardless of whether it’s politics with a religious twist or religion with a political twist, it all boils down to politics. God has nothing to do with it. Rules governing human society should undergo rigorous scrutiny, just like our justice systems. Rules based on the principles of equal human rights are closest to spirituality. Any belief system founded on exclusivity is inherently prejudicial and discriminatory. Therefore, organizations that reject others as equals cannot be considered a true spiritual path, as spirituality is inherently free from the politics of belonging.

Looking at the state of the world today, it’s clear that we cannot judge or punish others as we did in the past. Practices like stoning people to death for adultery or chopping off hands for theft seem incompatible with the idea of a loving God who created us with sexual desires and a fundamental right to survive. Such practices appear to stem from a political agenda aimed at controlling people through fear and force. When these political controls form the foundation of societal rules, they reflect an era when there were fewer hungry and desperate individuals. Blaming God for our politically driven rules is short-sighted. If a person goes hungry in a society, that society, spiritually and logically, shares responsibility for their criminal behavior. This is why, despite the origins of such harsh punishments, modern societies condemn them as barbaric.

The concept of the “cliff of faith” represents a line drawn for us all, individually and collectively, due to our mortal nature. This line is not determined by our beliefs or what we are taught to believe. We all face this cliff of faith individually because we are born into a faith system inherited from our parents and their communities. Naturally, we are expected to follow the beliefs of our communities, nations, and religions. Following in the footsteps of our ancestors seems normal, not necessarily due to loyalty or the correctness of the path but because of the influential politics of belonging. Given the vast number of human communities, there are countless paths to this cliff of faith. Unfortunately, no one truly knows what lies beyond, as death is the only way to find out, and no one returns to share that knowledge. Therefore, we are left to believe the teachings of our communities as truth.

I believe that God is like a fully bloomed flower or a majestic tree, producing billions of seeds, none of which resemble God. Comparing God to an individual human, intellectually, emotionally, or spiritually, is unwise. We are like those billions of seeds, having never seen God or experienced the essence of God from within. It’s akin to two cells within our body speculating about the existence of the body. As humans, our understanding is still evolving, and we cannot claim ultimate knowledge of God without making assumptions. Our understanding of ourselves is incomplete, let alone our understanding of God. Our knowledge of God will always be in flux because our potential is also evolving. Claiming to know everything beyond the cliff of faith is based on faith rather than truth, especially since we are taught that our truth is the only truth. This belief is heavily influenced by the politics of our sense of belonging. Disagreements even arise within religions, evidenced by sects, which are not purely spiritual but often political.

Our claims of knowing everything are filled with egotistic assumptions rooted in the politics of our groups. Logically, since we learn something new every day, our knowledge is never complete. Our constant quest for understanding shows that we must continue to learn. As humans, genetically and spiritually programmed to evolve, we can never be fully satisfied with our current knowledge. Despite our assumptions, our reality includes ongoing conflicts and violence driven by these assumptions, heavily influenced by the politics of belonging groups.

Every path to the cliff of faith has its passionate followers, and they can all be right if their followers find inner and external peace in their lives. Problems arise when we claim that our group alone is on the right path and that God is exclusively with us. This exclusivity breeds prejudice and discrimination against those born on different paths. By implicating God in human politics, we make God a figure of discrimination and prejudice.

Thus, none of us truly knows what lies beyond. To me, God is not exclusive to any particular group; otherwise, everyone would be born on the same path. The political influences from our groups are clear. The real question is: who or what is responsible for this? Is it the insecure, vulnerable, and passionate individuals, or is it the exclusivity-driven politics of insecure groups that make individuals feel inferior or irrelevant? If this is the case, what can we do to address these problematic behaviors? A passionate individual with nuclear and biological weapons poses a far greater threat than one with a sword or spear. We risk bringing the apocalyptic scenarios described in our holy books to life—not from a spiritual God, but from a physical one influenced by the politics of belonging.

I am not trying to find comfort in the mysteries of existence. Instead, I am attempting to make sense of problematic human behavior. I am not questioning ancestral knowledge but pointing out the flaws in our group politics of belonging.

If we believe that the carrot-and-stick philosophy comes from God, we need to examine it with an open mind. If God is almighty and knows everything before it happens, then no one would be able to do wrong. Our justice systems would be obsolete. If we were mere programmed entities like bees and ants, our autonomy and free will would be meaningless.

However, that is not the case. If the carrot-and-stick approach were from God, God would simply be a political entity. I believe God is a spiritual entity and cannot be associated with injustice. Since we are all endowed with our own autonomy and free will, it is our responsibility to use compassion and personal justice. The burden of justice falls on us, which is why we have justice systems worldwide. Injustice is a human creation. We have invented the carrot-and-stick philosophy to control our communities, but this approach is failing in the era of equal human rights.

My belief that these practices are not from God stems from their political nature. Human politics relies on lies, deceit, and distorted truths to maintain control and power. Therefore, I would prefer that God not be involved in such politics. If a belief system serves political control or benefits only a select few, it cannot be from God. If everything were predestined, we would lack free will. Everything points to individual and collective strength in addressing our responsibilities. We should strive to understand and practice the philosophy of reciprocation, enjoying our lives while engaging in actions that align with spiritual principles. Group politics often makes us feel inferior and irrelevant, allowing middlemen to assume power and control.

Consider the progress humanity has made outside the spiritual realm. While we have made strides in democracy and human rights, the need for political belonging to groups signals ongoing insecurity and vulnerability. If our politics of insecurity underpins group belonging, does that make God irrelevant? No, because every human action is influenced by both God and human will. We are all blessed with free will, and God has provided us with bodies and life-sustaining conditions beyond our control. Our actions during our lives are our responsibility. If we choose to harm others or act unjustly, we cross lines of justice and face consequences. These should be addressed by living, breathing humanity, not relegated to divine retribution in an afterlife.

Our courts handle crimes and punishments as human constructs. Despite using holy books for oaths, real justice is administered by people, not left to God to decide in the afterlife. Furthermore, without a physical body, how can we experience pain or pleasure in an afterlife? If we are to receive a new body after death, why do major religions not believe in reincarnation? The concept of hell as a burning place or heaven as a paradise is often based on our physical experiences.

So why would God employ a carrot-and-stick approach if humans are capable of self-regulation and choice? This approach seems more suited to animal behavior than to human beings capable of self-regulation. Therefore, religions treating us as animals, responding well to the carrot-and-stick method, might be overlooking our potential for self-regulation.

God is not intervening or punishing us in our lifetime, which logically should increase crime rates rather than reduce them. Crimes are not lower because of the threat of punishment; they are lower because most people self-regulate without fear or greed. We understand the difference between right and wrong, but various factors such as survival, addiction, and other circumstances can lead to criminal behavior. The root cause of many major crimes is the politics of belonging to particular groups. Therefore, it is not only the individual who affects the crime rates in our communities. If someone steals a loaf of bread to survive, that community should not exert control over them. If we invoke God in this context, I would question a deity who punishes someone merely for trying to survive. Reciprocation should be a two-way street: God should provide for individuals as well. We should act out of love for God, not from greed for heaven or fear of hell. With our free will, we should be encouraged to self-regulate rather than be frightened and treated like animals.

If reincarnation is part of the life beyond the cliff of faith, then we should all agree on it. If we can’t agree, then why does every path claim to be the right one? In reality, no one has proof of what lies beyond the cliff of faith, so various paths create philosophies based on fear and greed to keep individuals feeling weak, insecure, and insignificant, thereby ensuring adherence to their groups during their lifetimes. For those seeking political control, the afterlife is secondary, so individuals must evolve to understand political dynamics and the importance of personal spirituality.

If reincarnation is true, then we must also believe in heaven and hell and view God as a human-like figure who rewards obedience and punishes disobedience, despite granting free will amidst challenging circumstances. It doesn’t make sense to implicate God in human inhumanity. The portrayal of God by religions often leads to a horrific situation for ordinary, insecure humans. Even if one adheres to religious practices, who benefits—God or the people in control? Why demand total obedience, sometimes by force, when God has endowed each individual with free will? Why are we expected to live like worker bees or warrior ants? We are treated and disrespected like animals and threatened with eternal punishment, yet it is humans who turn spirituality into physical action. If humans are treated as irrelevant, why is God’s spiritual work dependent on human actions? If not, why do religions not acknowledge this crucial aspect? Removing politics from spirituality might reveal the true picture. The significance of human individuals is evident in every spiritual act, but one must be willing to look beyond their religious beliefs.

I aim to bring our spiritual belief systems out of fantasy and mystery akin to Harry Potter, as real damage has been done to individuals’ personal belief systems. In real life, disputes have tangible consequences. Blaming it on God’s will is unjust. If I were to blindly accept and pass on these beliefs to future generations, it would be an injustice. Thus, I will critically question these beliefs until we all take personal responsibility for our actions, even if they are motivated by religious teachings.

If we do not take responsibility, who will? God or the politicians of belonging groups? God cannot be responsible because we have our atom of autonomy, which comes with free will, compassion, and a personal sense of justice. The real culprit is the politics of belonging, a powerful human phenomenon that can turn even the most righteous individuals into extremists, stripping them of their responsibilities as spiritual leaders. If no one returns to tell us the truth about what happens after death, why do religious leaders continue to preach with such conviction? What underlies their special understanding? If every path leads to the cliff of faith, why don’t we question our religions as we do everything else?

Humanity has made tremendous progress by questioning everything. When it comes to religious beliefs, however, questioning has been discouraged. In an era of equal human rights, we still openly preach prejudice and discrimination. Had we questioned our ancestral paths as we have questioned other aspects of humanity, we might have ceased killing each other in the name of political belonging. We would have advanced in spirituality as much as we have in medicine, science, and technology. Today, if faced with a virus like Corona, we look to vaccines and antibodies rather than ancient prayers and sacrifices. If your computer malfunctions, you wouldn’t consult a religious leader but a technician. We must start questioning everything that causes us problems. It is an era of understanding, problem-solving, and taking responsibility. Global warming demands our action, not sacrifices. When faced with a problem, we seek out experts in the relevant field. Similarly, we should question our religious beliefs and understand their impact.

Leaving religious beliefs unchallenged would result in a gap of at least two thousand years. Fortunately, this problem can be addressed. By removing the politics of belonging and transforming religious beliefs into spiritual beliefs, we could overcome the divisions that lead to violence. The Pope has recently acknowledged the need for equal human rights and against prejudice—an acknowledgment that should have come two thousand years ago. Even though it is late, it is a positive step towards spiritual growth. Other religious leaders should also embrace the principles of equal human rights to fill the gap.

Regional traditions, customs, and rituals are not inherently spiritual because spirituality is universal and transcends all groups, nations, and religions. The desire to fit in and impress is often tied to group approval, leading to practices such as self-harm and human sacrifice, which have been justified in the name of God. Today, we no longer engage in such practices because we realize that God never demanded them. Humanity has advanced its understanding of natural phenomena and disease, discovering solutions that save lives, even as religious authorities have historically opposed such progress. I credit scientists who have saved lives with being closer to God than those who claim religious authority. God’s work is realized through our actions, so saving lives is as spiritual as it gets, whereas killing in the name of God is a spiritual crime. Recognizing the difference between spirituality and politically motivated religious beliefs is crucial. The best spiritual action is to assist others, embodying the duty and purpose of human life. Although it may seem optional due to free will, God’s work is manifested through physical actions performed by us. If we suffer from the consequences of our political beliefs, we must seek the true causes of our hatred and violence. Understanding our differences and addressing them with individual insight into political belonging is essential.

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If you analyze it logically, the driving force behind all religious practices is often the pursuit of spiritual fulfillment. Rather than adhering to outdated traditions that involve sacrifice, why not modernize and amend these practices? For instance, instead of sacrificing blood to follow a religious tradition, consider donating it annually to save a life. Rather than fasting, focus on feeding those who are going without food. Instead of self-mutilation to feel pain, help those who are genuinely suffering. Rather than attending mosque or church for prayers, engage in practical acts of kindness that address real issues like poverty and suffering. This approach will provide a deeper sense of spiritual fulfillment than merely impressing others in religious settings. Remember, human gatherings are rarely free from politics. There are various types of pain people experience, so if you are in pain and seeking solutions in mosques and churches, try becoming a vessel for God’s work. See how you can transform spirituality into tangible actions that benefit others and yourself. Ultimately, practical acts of kindness are what truly matter to God, and even if you don’t hold any religious beliefs, you can still achieve spiritual fulfillment by being a helping hand.

If you are struggling spiritually despite following religious traditions, customs, rituals, and rules, consider changing your approach. Aim to please God by embodying godly qualities and bringing spiritual thoughts into action. This won’t happen by simply adhering to religious practices without genuinely fulfilling your purpose.

Consider how our cars, planes, and boats have evolved over time. Why haven’t we made similar advancements in personal behavior? Historically, we have done both good and bad things; shouldn’t our bad behaviors decrease as our civilization progresses? Why do we evolve with imbalances? On one hand, we develop nuclear weapons, while on the other, we remain mired in unjust politics and conflicts. We haven’t stopped killing each other, even during the COVID-19 pandemic. Why can’t we see ourselves as CEOs of our own lives, making decisions that shape our existence?

God does not reside in political places like mosques, temples, or churches. God is present in the lives of suffering people in need. If you spend resources on building majestic religious structures but ignore the poverty surrounding them, you are addressing the wrong issue. God resides in the human heart, so if you seek inner peace, focus on alleviating human suffering to feel useful and meaningful. A sense of purpose and relevance is beneficial for self-esteem and overall well-being.

Like our physical similarities, such as having one nose, two eyes, and a mouth, we share universal desires to stand out and achieve higher status in competitive societies. We strive for progress in all areas of life, and our basic needs—oxygen, water, food, shelter, and love—are universal. Yet, some of us cannot suppress our desires to dominate others, which may be linked to inherent traits. While we are capable of great compassion, our desire for dominance and the politics of belonging often lead to violence against the weak and vulnerable.

Reflect on where you personally stand. Can you control your animalistic desires to dominate, or are you a humble, compassionate, and loving spiritual being? Being honest with yourself will place you in a balanced state. If you fail to understand the importance of this balance, you might act purely on instinct or let others manipulate you. We are often taught to choose extremes: to be either with God or the Devil, without acknowledging our human complexity. Understanding your true identity and achieving balance between your animal and spiritual sides will lead to spiritual fulfillment. If you choose to live purely as an animal or, metaphorically, as the Devil, you will miss out on spiritual growth. Conversely, if you focus solely on spiritual devotion, you might miss out on the physical joys of life.

You have been blessed with your personal atom of autonomy, allowing you to be the CEO of your life. Unlike angels, who are devoid of desires and consequences, humans have the capacity to make choices. This capability places us ahead of angels, as we act out of choice rather than necessity. We are spiritual entities experiencing a physical existence. If you choose an extreme path, it’s your choice alone, and you should not blame your religious group or God for an unfulfilled life. God and others are not responsible for your decisions. If your religion encourages living like an angel, there are likely political motives behind this philosophy. As a human, you should embrace your nature without guilt. God might say, “I gave you autonomy to be the CEO of your life, but you chose not to live fully as a human.” With your autonomy and role as CEO, you can understand yourself better and nurture both your spiritual and physical aspects to feel comfortable in your mortal existence. A well-balanced individual cannot be swayed by simplistic reward-and-punishment philosophies or the politics of belonging, as they are spiritually aware and secure within themselves.

If you are honest in your struggle to truly know and understand God, you might wonder why religions remain a significant part of our daily lives. Why do major life events still rely on religious traditions, customs, rituals, and rules? From marriage to death and everything in between, religiously influenced lifestyles persist. Why have religions survived all the changes our societies have undergone? Why is God still a central figure in our societies despite the evolution, civilization, and scientific advances we have made as humanity? I believe you must be open and willing to understand this side of the human story. First of all, you must understand that the politics of our sense of belonging can be harmful to an individual’s personal spirituality.

A clear example I can give you is how our real-life governing systems work. For instance, if you don’t have a job in modern societies, you can go to social assistance and ask for help. They will not only help you find work but also help you survive in difficult times. They will connect you with different agencies run by the government. Other agencies, like the police, military, secret services, children and senior services, etc., are all there to help citizens so the nation’s business runs smoothly. Even if you need medical or legal help but can’t afford it, you can find assistance as well. All that help is available from the same one government. You can call it the government; I call it the big brother. It is totally invisible yet as real as can be. None of us can claim to have seen or met the big brother in physical form, even if we work for it. All you can see or encounter are the people who work and make the government function physically.

I am trying to highlight our visible and invisible realities so people can find comfort in their mortal living. Religion or not, scientific proof or not, as mortal individuals, we all have a personal and individual responsibility to live our lives with hope, optimism, happiness, and contentment. If you have never seen the government or big brother, why do you believe in its existence? Our trouble is that we are taught how to believe, and it usually comes from our religions. My problem starts when spirituality gets mixed with the political ambitions of greedy religious leaders.

This is how I think and feel about spirituality. When you run a spiritual grapevine on the thorny tree of politics—I call it a thorny tree because we have to lie our way to attain, gain, and sustain political power, as too much honesty can cause you to lose governing power—spirituality, which is pure and fragile as grapes, gets injured and bleeds. Believing in God is a spiritual act, as is understanding reciprocation. Both can benefit the individual, depending on how they view their belief system. If you wholeheartedly believe in God and reciprocate or do good deeds as a duty, the benefits of inner peace, happiness, and contentment are yours. Belonging groups have their own political agendas, so your personal spirituality is not seen as beneficial for a political religion. A strong spiritual individual would question the political motives of their belonging group. You, being political, benefit the group, so they prefer you to be like a worker bee or a warrior ant. Religions took that political step and claimed they are the contractors of spiritual God Almighty, intentionally running their followers’ spiritual grapes on the thorny political tree. Nothing happens to the group, but the individual’s spiritual grapes get injured.

One could argue that our political religions are at fault and should be blamed. However, it has always been, still is, and will always be the individual’s responsibility. Since the politics of belonging preaches and demands individual weakness, the belonging individual believes they are weak, irrelevant, unimportant, and insignificant. Yet God has nothing to do with our lack of self-esteem or irrelevance because God has already blessed us with our personal atom of autonomy. Now, it is our personal and individual duty to protect our spiritual grapes from the politics of our belonging groups. God potentially made each and every one of us a CEO of our lives, and we choose to believe what we believe. If we are injuring our spiritual grapes, we should be aware of it and do something about it before we pass on.

Our atom of autonomy gives us free will, compassion, and a personal sense of justice for all, including ourselves. Responsibilities still land on our personal and individual shoulders, so if we suffer from our individual decisions, it is our duty to fix them with our personal decisions. A political group will not care how you personally suffer, even if it is a political religion. They all take pride in the old-style politics of belonging, which is based on the strength-in-numbers philosophy.

If no one really knows what is beyond the cliff of faith, why do we, as groups, insist that we are on the right path and that even God is on our side, despite having no physical proof? We don’t have any video evidence other than our movies. Especially if we have to die to find out, yet no one comes back from death to tell us what is going on the other side. So we must believe whatever our belonging groups tell us. If there were no politics involved, I would be game for it all, but unfortunately, our religions have been infiltrated by—or I should say, they have run their grapevines on—the thorny trees of the politics of belonging. Since it only hurts us at the individual level, our belonging groups don’t care how we, as individuals, suffer. Another questionable behavior is our enforced belief system. Why do we have to push and shove our belief systems on others? If you can find even a single reason other than a political one, I would love to hear from you. If you feel it is spiritual to convert others by force, deceit, and lies, I predict your personal grapes are bleeding spirituality. If you don’t do anything about it, your next step will be committing spiritual crimes against others in the name of your belonging group.

Your atom of autonomy is within you to judge your actions. If you constantly go against it or are always at odds with it, you will suffer from internal disputes, which is a significant loss for a mortal individual. Our happiness, contentment, hope, optimism, and inner peace all depend on our inner harmony with our atom of autonomy. Remember, you can feel everything while you are alive, so all the internal conflict-related discomfort is for you personally. As a mortal, you will have to work on that inner harmony; otherwise, a listless life can be a burden. If you are hoping that you will find eternal peace after you have jumped over the cliff of faith, you may be putting all your eggs in a basket of the unknown. It can be a stretch because you can feel while you are alive, but you would not know what it will feel like after you are dead. Remember, no one can come back to tell you what is really going on the other side, other than what your political belonging group has told you. So you should make reality-based decisions while you are alive and not put all your eggs in the basket of that non-physical and unknown reality.

The real meaning of our life is our reciprocation to convert spirituality into physical actions, all done before we jump over the cliff of faith. If you spend your life like a worker bee or a warrior ant and don’t feel spiritually fulfilled, it is your personal choice-related loss, which you can stop to prevent your spiritual bleeding. Don’t wait until you have nothing left and you have to jump the cliff to find out you may have been on the wrong political path. This right and wrong is not dictated by political religions but by spirituality, so understand your standing in the real picture of a mortal being.

I wrote a blog, “Personal, Communal, and Universal Circles of Life Part One,” and “Storm in My Teacup” was part two. This could have been part three because it is on a similar subject, but I chose “Injured Grapes of Spirituality” instead.

When you try to look at God or the world beyond our cliff of faith, it may appear to be unknown, just like our government or big brother, but they are spiritual realities related to human individuals’ actual physicality because all the spiritual stuff happens while you are alive. You can’t see big brother or the government, yet you can see how it works with the help of us all working for it. Every helping hand is related to the government, but it is physically done by its employees, and they all get paid by the government for their help. Meaning, help for help, or I should call it reciprocation. Now, question yourself: do you think the existence of the government is undeniable? Why do you believe in the existence of the government but not God? If you believe in both the government and God, why do you think the human individual is an insignificant part of that picture? Politically, it is preached that the government and God matter but not the individual. Yet spiritually and in literal reality, the human individual is the life and blood of our unseen realities.

Let’s take it a step further. If you are walking by and see a stranger in need of help, you decide to help because you had a thought. Where did that thought come from? Why did you go ahead and make your thought a physical reality by helping a total stranger? That was all done by you with no expectation of anything in return, and it was not a government-paid job, yet you did it anyway. You made that choice with your free will because you had a thought inspired by the need and your ability to understand your duty of reciprocation. That decency and compassion-related thought came from your atom of autonomy related spiritual side. Just like our big brother works in the second circle, God works from our third circle (read “Storm in My Teacup”). All invisible to our naked eyes, yet as real as can be. Interestingly, you don’t have to believe any of that because you have a free-will choice. For some, if you believe in all that, it can always be religious mumbo jumbo. Yet, even if you take the religious beliefs out and take a second look, you would still help the stranger. You would have to wonder why. If you try honestly, you will see how important our invisible realities can be, even for those who do not believe. God or not, science or not, we all are entities who live in human bodies with brains, yet we are totally separated. Just like a computer: you are not a computer nor are you data, but you run the computer. So, who are you?

When you don’t believe in your spiritual side, you try to control everything in your life with an egotistical approach. Yet, you neglect to recognize the importance of free oxygen and a functioning internal and external universe, which you need to survive your next breath. This means you are already alive with the help of the unknown, but you don’t acknowledge it. You egotistically try to control not only what is happening in your own life, but also your second circle related to the government or “big brother,” and you even want to control your third circle of life as well. This approach leads to stress and self-destruction from the storms you bring into your personal life. If you try to control uncontrollable facts like health, aging, and mortality, you will suffer from consequential stress and related issues, especially if you have drained all the spirituality out of your life.

Playing God with limited resources and inevitably limited time is related to your ego 100%. Ego happens to be the first of the three children of the sense of belonging. Remember, if you have an ego, you will strive for pride and honor as well, because you would be influenced by what other people think about you. Not everything is wrong with ego, pride, and honor, but as a mortal CEO, it’s our job to understand and balance them for a comfortable mortal life. Our opposing senses—sense of freedom and sense of belonging—can create complex problems for a mortal being, so it is crucial to balance these two. Why are they important, and why is extreme behavior bad for a mortal being? Naturally, we care a lot more about what other people think about us than we believe we do. Each of us has to deal with our sense of belonging and sense of freedom simultaneously to create balance; otherwise, we individually pay the price. Some of us lean towards a sense of freedom, but most of us usually lean towards a sense of belonging. This is one of the major root causes of our individual and personal problems. We intentionally injure our spiritual grapes and believe that the politics of our sense of belonging is more important, or I should say, being a worker bee or a warrior ant is more important than using our God-given CEO status.

As human beings, not being able to use personal free will is not an asset; clearly, it is a spiritual deficiency. Not using free will can be a personal loss for the individual. Since we are not created or genetically born as worker bees or warrior ants, we must understand the difference between us and other creatures. We are blessed with our personal atom of autonomy, free will, and personal sense of justice. Acting on behalf of our belonging groups without questioning and judging the politics behind them is below human status. Remember, we are responsible for our personal actions regardless of our belonging group’s inspiring speeches. We cannot act under the influence of our hormones like other creatures because we are in a class of our own.

Just like in the triangle of Human, God, and Devil, our sense of belonging and sense of freedom are on the bottom corners as well, so we can create balance and live a successful mortal life. Simply put, you can’t be out of control, nor can you live in total deprivation. If you are encouraged by your belonging group to live like a worker bee or a warrior ant, it is totally political. It is your job to understand all that because you are neither a bee nor an ant, so make decisions like a normal mortal human being.

God’s vehicle would go in circles if we don’t personally understand and act on our duty of reciprocation. Since God has done a godly job to keep us alive by helping us with things beyond our control, we individually need to do our share to convert spiritual things into physical realities. Sometimes the politics of belonging to our groups works against this, so they politically hide it behind God. If you believe God literally wants your prayers, fasting, sacrifice, and total obedience, logically you would not have a free-will choice. Your prayers would mean only following the traditions, customs, rituals, and rules of your belonging groups and nothing more.

Remember, our real job is to convert spirituality into physical actions, and none of that happens if you don’t understand the importance of practical prayers. Even as an individual, I would not give a job to a person who does not do what is meaningful. I would rather have someone who really works and pulls their weight. It’s all about individual responsibility. If someone says, “I read this in a book, and it made sense to me, so I followed it,” in today’s world, reading alone is not enough to make individual sense because we have to think and act before we follow any instructions. As educated human beings, we are expected to be responsible for our actions. The bottom line is that it’s not what you have read but what it made you think and do. Your personal knowledge is crucial. You can’t just hide behind what you have read because, as human beings, we are judged by our actions, not what we know. Our individual knowledge is not physical until we practically make those thoughts physical. For instance, you can pray, but if you have reciprocated physically to help someone in need, you have fulfilled their prayers. So regardless of what you have read, it can only be meaningful if you acted on it physically. Remember, it is all because of our free will, which is vastly used by us and clearly understood by our modern societies. All our courts and justice systems are based on individual responsibility.

Remember, all our major breakthroughs and evolutionary progress have happened and continue to happen through the efforts and practical hard work of human individuals. Hard work has its importance and value. An example that might not perfectly fit this subject but can explain what I am trying to point out: In the beginning, medical doctors claimed that steroids didn’t work, yet bodybuilders kept getting bigger muscles and laughed at the medical community. In reality, researchers had neglected the main component: the importance of hard work. Because the doctors undermined this main component, their research did not pan out.

To me, human hard work and efforts are the practical prayers of our spiritual world. Otherwise, mosques and churches would be full of big, muscular people. If prayers were above the hard work of individuals, the world would be in a different place. Since the majority of people have desires bigger than their efforts in everyday life, fewer people achieve the results they desire. Personally, I believe our belief systems clearly have and should have a place in our life, but not without the understanding of real spirituality and the personal responsibility of full-on efforts.

If scientists have figured out that the chicken came first because the protein that makes the eggshell is produced by the chicken, they concluded and ended this age-old argument. But how are we going to scientifically end the argument of what is more important in the making of God’s fabric? A thread or the fabric? What makes fabric meaningful: its spirituality or its physicality? Can this spiritual clap sound with one-sided efforts? Why do they focus on God being almighty and preach Him as the end-all and be-all, while the human individual is ridiculed as an irrelevant, insignificant, unimportant, and even a born sinner? Why has the human individual been undermined by most religions? Ask yourself individually: Are their reasons intentionally political? If so, why? Then you will have a chance to know what the politics of our sense of belonging to our groups is capable of doing. If spirituality is not easy or straightforward today, it is because things have been twisted for us right from the start.

Not only do our religions look at God externally, but our scientific community is also constantly looking at things externally, failing to acknowledge human individuals’ abilities and their importance in the larger scheme of life. If you look at everything with logic, you will discover that human individuals’ abilities were, are, and will be the foundational cause of all discoveries made physically possible. So it is not what is out there, but what is within, especially if even our potential has an evolving potential.

Scientists claim that there was a marble that exploded and has been constantly expanding ever since. There could be an explanation for it, but personally, I think and question where that marble came from and why it exploded. Why is it constantly expanding? We may learn more with our evolutionary knowledge in the future, but for now, both religion and the scientific community can’t really explain their knowledge purely without assumptions. Now, as individuals, we all have to figure out how to be spiritual in the middle of religious politics and continually evolving scientific knowledge while individually running out of time as mortals. To me, it is important because we are the ones responsible for how to live comfortably in mortal skin.

Politics, sure, is an important and integral part of human societies, but running our grapevine of spirituality on it is simply wrong. For example, involving God’s name and using God for political purposes can potentially harm our individual spirituality because we all put God on different pedestals. There is a potential for individuals to find out the political lies, which can bring the whole religion down and taint or rob spirituality at the individual level. Using God to harm the individual’s ability to believe and personally fix bleeding spiritual grapes can have consequences. Modern-day societies don’t look at religions as humanity did in the past. If you look at our evolution, you can assume and change with time politically. Our spiritual values and justice can and should stay constant so we can work against injustice.

If you look at it realistically, political issues like prejudice and discrimination have been exposed, especially in today’s world, as major causes of disputes among our groups. This is happening because we are individually becoming aware of spiritual and common-sense justice. We are adopting the philosophy of “live and let live,” which has given birth to our newly discovered equal human rights. With equal human rights as the foundation, humanity can address all injustice and wrongdoing. These rights have been discussed in civilized societies, and crimes related to political injustice have been brought to light. In the near future, it may become a liability for religions to openly preach prejudice and discrimination. If religions had kept spirituality and justice-related equal human rights as the foundation of their belief systems, they would have been free from any accusations of injustice, prejudice, and discrimination that they face today.

Now, after thousands of years of injustice and wrongdoing, including giving God a bad name, they are in a pickle. They can’t go back on their words because they have openly claimed, and still claim, that their words are God’s words and cannot be changed. According to them, prejudice and discrimination are Godly, while equal human rights are not. Remember, a political entity—a party, a nation, a group of people, or a political religion—stands on the foundation of prejudice and discrimination because it always favors certain people or a particular group.

It is understandable that our modern governing systems need politics to function. However, when a religious group that is supposed to be purely spiritual demands political control, it is like putting lipstick on a pig. As a spiritual entity, you can’t hide your desire for control over people, especially when money is involved. Spiritual principles should be like our justice systems, clearly written with nothing but truth at heart. Unfortunately, the politics of belonging twists and turns lies to gain, attain, and sustain political control, and our religions are not immune to this.

If you are an extremist of any religion and want your religion to rule the world, what does that make you? You can’t be spiritual because you are willing to do to others what you would not want done to you or your loved ones. You are for some people, but not for humanity as a whole. If you were, you would want all humanity under your group’s umbrella. That has been, and still is, the old style of group politics. Just ask yourself, did it help humanity or the individual? If your group’s ambitions are to rule the world, it is purely political because it seeks power and control for your group, whether it is based on race, color, nation, or religion. Since you are part of that group, you would not believe that all human beings are equal. You would be prejudiced and discriminatory against opposing groups and even against someone who does not follow or understand your group’s philosophy.

Understanding spirituality makes a human individual a CEO who can clearly see the politics behind religions’ undermining of the human individual. Groups usually demand obedience to demote individuals to the level of worker bees and warrior ants so they can be used for political purposes. Each and every one of us has free will and the ability to choose our actions. If we are brainwashed to accept our weaknesses as realities, we are just like worker bees or warrior ants, regardless of our genetically gifted superiority.

If we choose the politics of belonging over the responsibilities of a CEO, we end up demoting ourselves. We are not supposed to choose extremes because we carry an atom of autonomy within us. This autonomy will not let us live in peace if we choose to commit spiritual crimes in the name of our groups. We personally need to balance our triangle of God and Devil and create balance in our triangle of sense of belonging and sense of freedom, both from the top corner.

As a CEO, we are responsible for creating balance in our triangles and understanding the circles around our mortal lives. Creating inner peace during our living years is our responsibility, so being uncomfortable in our mortal skin relates to how we view our lives. Our first, individual, and personal circle can easily be affected by what happens in our neighboring and larger circles. It’s like we are a story within a story within a story.

For instance, you have your first and personal story within your cup of tea circle where you are the main character or CEO of your life. You make decisions and choices to live successfully during your mortal years. This is where the triangle of health, happiness, and success comes into play, yet it is still related to the first and personal circle. After learning about your personal circle, or your cup of tea, you must learn about the neighboring circles to understand your real place in the larger scheme of life. As a CEO, it is your job to understand your evolving potential and your limitations along with your mortality so you can make serious decisions for yourself. This is where you learn to relate to the people around you, such as your family, friends, grown-up kids, political parties, nations, and religions. You can vote for the direction you want your community to go, but that is the only power you have in your second circle as an individual. The outcome of your vote is not guaranteed to be in your control, so you must come to terms with your limits. If your grown-up kids don’t listen to you, you can’t force them to comply with your will. Again, you must come to terms with your love triangle of passionate love, instinctive love, and universal love (read love triangle). That can help you understand and navigate your out-of-control environment and its effects on you.

Understanding that you have no control over many things in your life can help you grow spiritually. Your second circle includes your community, race, gender, family, grown-up children, nation, and religions. They dictate and show their power to let you know that you are not in control of everything. They have the power to shun you, punish you, put you in jail, or even kill you for disobedience, all in the name of control for themselves. You have to use your personal politics to learn to live within the boundaries, rules, and laws of the land you belong to, at least in your physical life. In your imagination, you are free to create balance.

Just like in the first circle, where as individuals we try to control whatever goes on in our personal lives, as communities we also strive for control. However, communities have their limitations, so they attempt to manage the third circle. This can create the same frustration for the community as an individual feels when things are not in control. When a community tries to control whatever is going on in the third circle, it can cause problems. We need to comply, even as communities, to create a balanced environment and evolve further in a certain rhythm.

I see wildfires and the efforts made by communities to control them, yet the wind can lead to out-of-control fires or rain can put them out. Global warming-related weather extremes should be understood properly so we can direct our efforts where they will count. Therefore, our efforts as a community should not be limited to dealing with problems when they arise. We need to look at preventative measures as well because global warming clearly points toward working together as a whole humanity. This rhythmic pursuit can help us adopt a higher level of evolution, one step at a time, instead of getting frustrated.

The third circle I am talking about is where our all-powerful second circle is powerless. This is where nature and God reside. Our uncontrollable age and disease come from this zone, where your second circle can only pray for you but cannot save you from your mortal fate. Amongst all these complexities, as an individual, you have to truly know and accept everything with honesty to spend your temporary visit with some happiness and contentment.

Our understanding of right and wrong changes not only individually but also collectively as an evolving organism. Although slower than individual change, our second circle still evolves. The obvious changes and evolution of our societies are well documented and can be seen physically. Unfortunately, we tend to follow our constitutions and religions with passion, so changing traditions, customs, rituals, and rules of nations and religions is not easy. If we prioritize our groups, we will automatically be prejudiced and discriminatory against those who do not belong to our group.

These days, even religions are trying to shake off their extreme behaviors related to prejudicial and discriminatory policies because they have been taking a hit from an evolving and judging humanity seeking equal human rights. The Pope recently made some remarks about these changes, but we will have to see if they stick. Our world has been going back and forth with changes. If we give power to religious leaders, they would love to take us back to the era of the prophets, so there is no guarantee for political stability related to equal human rights. I would like to see if leaders from other religions come out and preach equal human rights over their old rules.

Since politics is a dirty game of control, I call it a thorny tree. People want to gain power regardless of the price they have to pay. If you have to please a group of people who helped you get into office, sometimes you will have to sell your soul and become spiritually bankrupt to fulfill your belonging group’s desires. That is, if you have your spirituality intact.

Just as our group politics-related conflicts are part of our life, so are our corrupt politicians. It is like racism—never desired but always in the face of humanity. Should you stand with or against racism? Obviously, it is a common-sense “No,” especially if you think spiritually. You can only change it if you individually start to look at things logically and put yourself on the receiving end of your actions.

Here is how I look at racism and prejudice. All the security-related differences arise if you don’t see yourself as a human being belonging to humanity as a whole. If you see yourself as an extension of an ideology, part of a gang, race, nation, or religion, you may politically hide your racism, prejudice, and discrimination, but whenever you are squeezed, they will show up whether you like it or not. It is kind of obvious that there will always be people with differing opinions, but living with each other despite our differences is possible and has been proven over and over in human societies. The only way to overcome passionate divisions is with compassion and a personal sense of justice. Compassion comes easily if it is within you. If you are in it for humanity as a whole and can see God in the next person as you feel within yourself, only then can it or would it spill out.

Dr. Wayne Dyer, a well-known guru, said something along these lines. I am not sure these are the exact words because I heard him talking on TV a long time ago, but the idea is there, and I quote: “If you squeeze an apple, only apple juice will come out. You can’t get orange juice from an apple or apple juice from an orange.” End quote.

When you are squeezed, whatever you have inside of you will come out. If you are a passionate person for your belonging group, you will have prejudice and discrimination bursting out of you. Potentially, you could be a natural racist, ignorant, or even a suicide bomber who can’t think of yourself as an independent CEO. You will be prejudiced against all others, regardless of your color, race, gender, nationality, or religion. If you are full of compassion, carry a compassionate sense of justice, and feel that you are scientifically, genetically, and spiritually a human being and belong to humanity as a whole, you will overcome your sense of belonging-related confusions. You will not put lipstick on a pig and will call a spade a spade when it needs to be called.

Sure, not everyone would agree with me because of their respective religious beliefs. My main purpose is not to put doubt in someone’s spiritual belief system. I want everyone to know that mixing politics into spiritual beliefs is dangerous for everyone, so it is not kosher to kill in the name of religion or God. It literally goes against spirituality because there is no prejudice or discrimination connected to God. Spiritually, you don’t do to anyone what you don’t like done to you or your loved ones—simple as that. Since we are an evolving organism, it is even worse to believe our knowledge is 100% accurate. Simply put, we can’t stay still in our learning, and it shows in our everyday lives. We can’t be locked into or have caps on our knowledge.

Where did prejudice come from? How did we become racist? As babies, we don’t discriminate. This should be a good enough reason to believe that it comes from our installed knowledge. Now let’s look at our installed knowledge without any bias.

These are the top ten fundamental yeses and nos.

Yeses:

If you are cut, you would bleed, and this blood can be a lifesaver to all kinds of human beings in need. Blood transfusions have the potential to save all kinds of people, regardless of their source. Whether you are Black, white, yellow, brown, mixed, gay, straight, religious or non-religious, or an atheist, all can benefit from this example of the oneness of humanity. (Yes) Yet still, it was religiously discredited by certain religions.

You can’t save a human life with another creature’s blood. (Yes)

Do you get hungry and eat similar foods just like everyone else? (Yes)

You defecate and pee, which stinks just like everyone else. (Yes)

You get sick, old, and die just like everyone else. (Yes)

If you are white, Black, brown, yellow, red, mixed color, believe differently in God, or don’t believe in any religion, yet if you mingle as male or female, would the girl get pregnant and have a perfectly functioning human baby? (Yes)

Are you scientifically made of the same stuff like carbon? (Yes)

Do you need oxygen, food, and water to live just like everyone else? (Yes)

Do you use your free will every day just like everyone else? (Yes)

Do you believe we have a space station up there and it is the year 2021? (Yes)

Nos:

Do you think you are immortal? (No)

Do you have control over your oxygen supply to breathe and live? (No)

Do you have control over what goes on in space? (No)

Do you have total control over what goes on in your inner space, meaning your body? (No)

Do you feel that your belonging group, nation, religion, race, gender, or family can help you avoid sickness and death? (No)

If you are learning something new every day and are an evolving organism, do you really think that your knowledge is complete? (No)

Do you think being Muslim, Christian, or Jew is a good enough reason for you to go to heaven? (No)

Do you know everything about God or the stuff beyond the cliff of faith like heaven and hell 100%? Do you have any evidence other than the taught belief system, such as video footage or an internet connection? (No)

Do you really believe that you are superior to others just because of the color of your skin? (No)

Do you think religious people have more compassion, a better sense of justice, and more love than others? (No)

Since you have already looked at yourself as a human being, now let’s look at yourself as a creature who lives on the earth and how.

Just imagine a black bear comes to your door. This is not unheard of in Canada; recently, it was in the news, but it was not the talking bear like mine. Anyway, the bear comes to your door and tells you in your language to get out of its house. You may call 911 and have the bear killed, yet realistically, you have bought a piece of land in the bear’s territory. Who sold it to you? Another human being who bought it from someone else or even from the government of your belonging group. Long story short, the bear was there first or before you. Now, does it give the bear the right to own that piece of land as it claimed? For some, it may be, because that is what we are taught by our governing systems. The problem is that all living things, including us, are mortal. You and the talking bear as well, so logically, we would only live on the land for a certain length of time, which makes us all renters, not owners, of the land.

When and how did things change? I was walking by the cemetery close to my apartment and saw a gravestone that made that particular grave over two hundred years old. This means that the dead person has and still owns that piece of land even in death. No other creature can do that.

When you have a problem, you have to be able to see it as a problem first. We have homelessness all over the world for living people, yet a dead one, even after two hundred years, still owns a piece of land. Personally, it just does not make any sense to me because of the homelessness of the living people. I can understand that I am living in a transitioning time and it may change as we develop problems with our living spaces. Sure, it can be related to our emotional issues, but you can only overcome them by logical thinking. I understand that if I believe in things differently than you, you and I can’t put the fire of emotions out with emotions.

Sure, the ownership system is related to governing authorities to keep peace and protect the weak ones from the bigger, stronger, and more aggressive, but how far do you want to take this? That is the question.

The globe has no natural lines of divided land, yet we have over 200 countries with seven billion human beings and countless other creatures. We are the only ones still fighting over the system of ownership since the beginning of our awareness. An aggressor can conquer a country to own everything and everyone within. The question is, is that right? If your answer is yes, you are still living in the past. If you are keeping up with today’s world, you should remember that slavery is a crime these days, and yes, it is looked down upon in all parts of the world.

Back to the bear. Since you have bought a piece of land in the bear’s territory, which it does not really own, and you think it is yours because you have bought it, you discredit the bear’s claim. In your opinion, bears don’t or can’t own a piece of land, but you can. Now, what makes you think that? Would you think the same way when you are on your deathbed? The bear may not realize what you are or how things function in your world, but the question is, do you really know how things work in your mortal world?

Long story short, you took over a piece of land in the bear’s territory yet got it killed because of your security. What would happen if you start to look at it from the bear’s point of view?

These are the problems humanity has been facing throughout our past history and continues to face. One can say this is my land, but is it really? Human governing systems have never been foolproof. As humanity, in our past and even modern history, we still carry black marks of human rights violations and robbing others of their rights. The reason is that we are still in the process of evolution. We may be better than the bear, but I think we still have a long way to go to become spiritual entities. There will always be differences of opinion, whether it be race, gender, nationalism, or religion. We just can’t come together under one umbrella of humanity regardless of our proven equality. This is the nature of the beast inside all of us. Until we take our next step to spiritually evolve and realize that we are individual spiritual entities from within, we will politically divide the earth into pieces and fight over it to prove that regardless of our present level of education, civilization, religion, and evolution, we are still savage beasts within. We individually are bleeding our spirituality, yet our belonging groups and yes, even our religions, say we should be proud to follow the politics of our belonging groups.

When a core principles of spirituality like compassion and blind justice get compromised by the politics of control. Controlling authorities become politically inclined to choose even injustice done to the individual. For instance if a is child born out of religious wedlock they can suffers all life by being called a bastard a term used by the political religions. Even they are born out of rape and have no say in their birth non what so ever. How that kind of injustice can be not only tolerated by the spirituality preaching and so called pure Godly contractors but openly. If we punish innocents and actually implicate God as an unjust entity our collective grapes are bleeding spirituality, equal human rights can and will eventually fix our wrong doing but people who believe and follow blindly they are under the influences of the politics of belonging instead of being spiritual. Religious societies usually believe even a leaf on the tree can’t move without God’s will so my question is how can a whole child be born without God’s will? So why they are being punished for having no fault of their own especially by the people who should be spiritually aware enough to understand innocence. They did not only sale their soul they soled spirituality itself in the name of having political control on their followers.

A political tree is a thorny tree and if you want the thorn free tree to keep your grapes from bleeding spirituality. Keep your politics of belonging out of your religious beliefs individually because as a group your religions are not going to do it. If things can’t be done collectively, don’t forget as a human individual you have free will. Remember being a human being we all are personally responsible for our spirituality. As an atom of autonomy holding being you just can’t be living in guilt because it will eat you alive from within regardless of what your political religions preach. Simply try envisioning yourself on the receiving end of your or your belonging group’s actions.

In the era of equal human rights even as individuals we can point out all the injustices done in the name of our belonging groups and even in the name of God.

 Our politics of belonging to our groups has done enough damage to the innocents. I believe if you are an honest and spiritual individual who follows and believes in God given real identity, you will not do to anyone what you don’t like done to you or to your loved ones. It is understandably hard for the individual to dig in beyond their religious identity because it involves politics of sense of belonging to the belonging group. If you can’t see the political thorns of your belonging tree, just because you are born into it so your loyalties are must. Remember you are not connected to others like other creatures whom are genetically programed. 

You personally are an independent CEO so you carry your personal and individual grape wine of spirituality.

 If you knowingly and blindly run your grape wine on the thorny tree of political belonging you are running the risk to bleed spirituality out of your spiritual grapes. 

With no spirituality left in your grapes you are going to become an extension of an ideology yet you have been created as an independent entity. 

Being an independent entity you are totally responsible for your actions so anything you do for your political belonging you will be responsible that. Not only that you would have to personally answer to your atom of autonomy, for a mortal being, being at odds with internal force like atom of autonomy is not a good place to be. 

As a CEO of your life you can understand and see the political thorns of your belonging so if you understand your independence you would keep your grapes unharmed. With unharmed grapes and being spiritually solid no one can influence you to commit spiritual crimes. Our atom of autonomy gives us a choice and personal sense of justice. So regardless of your belonging group whether its your race, nation or religion you are born in, you can still be spiritually fulfilled and content without changing your belonging group. Simply by understanding the concept and protecting your spiritual grapes.

If you comply with your atom of autonomy, respect your free will and personal sense of justice you can become a CEO of your life. You can not only create balance between your sense of belonging and your sense of freedom you can save your grapes from spiritual bleeding as well. With in tacked spiritual grapes you would not have any trouble confronting injustice regardless of who is doing it.

As we grow up, we become individuals who acquire a master’s degree from the data installed by our belonging groups. Still, regardless of all the installed data, each and every one of us can think individually to influence our personal life. Writing these independently is similar to earning a PhD. Your research puts things together in your personal, virtual, or spiritual world from within so you can come up with your own decisions to live your mortal life. Unfortunately, not everyone reaches that level of individual thinking because of the political influences of their belonging groups. Our governing authorities or power brokers, such as our religions, dictate how an individual should think and even live within their influential perimeters. Whether they are governing authorities or religious preachers, they promote individual insignificance to keep themselves relevant. They want individuals to feel insecure and seek shelter under the wings of their belonging group, stay attached, and carry on with their group’s political agendas. Individuals are told that other groups are out to get us, are the bad bogeymen, and are ready to harm us, so we should be loyal to our group. Looking at our history, it is hard to deny the experience-related behaviors. In an insecure environment, it is hard for individuals to reach a PhD level, so most people stay stuck at the master’s degree level and speak from and act within the boundaries of their installed knowledge or data. This keeps them from seeing the harms done to them by their belonging group, yet the outside bogeyman still lurks in their minds because of the propaganda.

Our real and personal education starts with us, individually assuming our CEO responsibilities and putting our personal sense of justice to work. Simply by putting ourselves in others’ shoes or by putting ourselves on the receiving end of our group’s actions, we can think spiritually. Interestingly, that would be the hardest thing to do for a master’s degree holder because their knowledge consists exclusively of installed data. Our ability to write these is there for us all; each and every one of us has to explore and dig within for personal abilities to be a spiritual entity. Our atom of autonomy, related to free will, compassion, and personal sense of justice, has been ingrained within us from before our birth, but not everyone can access or reach it. It is all because of being brainwashed by the politics of the sense of belonging. Regardless of age, we individually are capable and can understand that. Greta Thunberg, a child climate change activist, is a good example to talk about. Even as a child, she speaks her mind regardless of very loud and influential climate change deniers. So THINK FOR GOD’S SAKE WHAT YOU PERSONALLY ARE. AS A HUMAN BEING, YOU CARRY AN EVOLVING POTENTIAL WITHIN, YET YOU CHOOSE TO FOLLOW AND LET YOUR GROUPS THINK FOR YOU. Just look at your personal abilities; you simply can’t be a herd or politically programmed being because you yourself have been created as a mini God. You are a lot more than what you are taught to believe and feel; you are a lot more than a physical entity. So explore your spiritual self if you really want to know who you are.

What if God were to start asking direct questions to you personally? I would believe God would most certainly ask what is more important to you: bowing down to God or helping the needy? While you are able and can help others in need, do you prefer or choose to go to prayers because you have been preached about that or you feel insignificant, irrelevant, and helpless yourself? Do you choose to show up and gather together with like-minded people to draw some energy from the belonging group but neglect personal responsibilities of reciprocation and practical help for the needy? These people are literally praying to God but have no ability to meet their needs regardless of trying. What would banging heads to the ground, to the wall, kneeling, or intentionally staying hungry for a day or two in the name of God mean while people around you literally don’t have food to live? Shouldn’t you be questioning this behavior of worshiping? Isn’t it political? Whether it is traditional, customary, politically ritualistic, or questionably spiritual, it is your job to reciprocate for the God-given oxygen and functioning body in which you are living. As an evolved human individual, it is your job to understand all that and your personal standing in the larger scheme of life before acting and defending your belonging group’s political agendas.

God is almighty and a spiritual entity with no physical need for ass-kissing to stroke a godly ego like a physically insecure human individual does. So Godly desires would be for us to help each other to fulfill someone’s prayers who is seeking God for help. It sounds like a bold statement, but I just could not find any other words to soften it. Why do we believe our life is for the afterlife while people die of starvation in our living years? We are supposed to be God’s workhorses to fulfill people’s prayers physically. Buttering up God in front of others but in private committing spiritual crimes is not the way God works. People talk about God watching us all. Ever wonder how that works? It works because you yourself are the physical part of that spiritual entity, so if you are alive, you are the spy from within. Your spiritual jewelry is not only an example but proof of your spiritual side that you have brought along from before your physical birth. Your physicality is needed by God and is the real wisdom and purpose of your life so you can be physically helpful or relevant to those in need. It is our duty to reciprocate, focus on practical prayers, and be helpful to others. That is to be in a position with equal footing, relevance, importance, and significance without feelings of guilt. You can not only get your self-esteem as an individual, but you can spiritually reach that level to be close to God and be fulfilled spiritually. Remember, it’s all about your individual spirituality, and it has nothing to do with the political side of your belonging religion or group.

You can have religious traditions, customs, rituals, and rules, but they all belong to the political side of religions. Yes, even going to the mosque, church, or any place where people gather for prayers is political. Real spirituality is where the needy ask God for help, even in the quiet of their homes. Majestic buildings of religious monuments are built with money that could have been used to feed those in need. People gathering together is a sign of an old-style political system of strength in numbers. This actually signifies group insecurity as they seek more individuals to strengthen the group. They promote group strength, but this is always based on individuals’ inferiority complexes. The promotion of group politics has been and still is perpetuating individuals’ weaknesses.

Spirituality sets you free because it is an apolitical system, just like the justice system, focusing on nothing but the truth. It makes sense to believe in one and only one spiritual God, regardless of our colors, races, genders, nations, or religions. With a direct connection to God, individuals can reach a level of spirituality where they see all humans, including themselves, as God’s workhorses. All fears and insecurity-related inferiority subside or completely disappear if you personally start to see God in others and within yourself. This removes the competition of an “us versus them” political system founded on our sense of belonging to groups. Self-esteem rises, and a sense of serene personal satisfaction becomes a part of daily individual life. Spirituality is highly personal because it is between you and God individually; it is not a group thing. This has the potential to make an individual spiritual regardless of their belief system. Religion or not, spirituality is universal because it can be found in humanity all over the world, regardless of belief system. That means it should not be dictated or considered exclusively a religious thing. We personally and individually should have spiritually based solid rules for ourselves and for our groups as well. Equal human rights, anti-racism, anti-gender bias, and anti-prejudice and discrimination policies should be a general part of humanity altogether.

When you go to a mosque, church, temple, synagogue, or any other place of worship and gather with like-minded people, you are participating in a group activity. Belonging to a group simply is not and cannot be an apolitical activity. Clearly, this getting together follows a strength-in-numbers related politics, so it is more of a political thing than spiritual. Now ask yourself honestly, how much influence does your belonging group have over you?

An individual under the spell of the politics of belonging is compelled to go to places of worship to follow prescribed traditions, customs, rituals, and rules of their respective religions. Interestingly, beyond the spiritual intentions of the individual, this gathering points towards the politics of belonging to a certain group, and that simply is political. A spiritual being or spiritually aware individual would be inclined to go where the real need resides. To me, that would be because of their understanding of reciprocation as a duty and the value of their practical prayers. This means they would find real-life cases of real-life needs instead of building majestic religious monuments among starving populations. Not too long ago, there was news about religions laundering money just like the mafia. If you Google “European.com,” you can find an article, “Top 5 Financial Transgressions Committed by the Vatican.”

I could not find the name of the author, so I will write it as author unknown. I quote: “The Vatican has always shrouded its financial dealings in mystery, but in the last 100 years, its embroilment in financial scandals has allowed Europe to catch a glimpse of some of the skeletons hiding in its closet. These skeletons have earned the Vatican international infamy and have caused conflicts with the EU and several of its member states.” End quote.

Now just look around the world and see the majestic monuments created by religions. It’s all because they did not spend incoming money to solve the poverty and sickness of societies. If money pours into religions, it is not to invest in building majestic buildings, but it is from the good hearts of people who want to help the needy. Yet the funds get used by the religions to own properties and become rich organizations. Can you find spirituality in all that so-called organized business of God, especially if you find poverty and sickness all over the world?

You may appear to be physically healthy, but that can fall like dominoes as you age or are constantly conflicted from within. In that case, the politics of belonging is not what will help you, but being spiritual will. So understand one thing clearly: spirituality and politics do not mix. Finance, well, that is another story of political power and corruption.

If a religion is preaching the politics of the sense of belonging instead of spirituality, it becomes just like another political party seeking power. It is up to you individually where you stand in the grand scheme of life. God created you as a CEO with free will for a reason. If you have lost those reasons, you can clean up your personal and individual belief system. Not only will you never have to jump from religion to religion to seek spirituality, but you will also easily find spirituality within the religion you were born into. Remember, spirituality is universal and is directly between the individual and God.

If you are spiritually aware and are a capable CEO of your life, your belonging group cannot pull you with their political strings like a puppet. You would not only know the differences between politics and spirituality, but you would also hold your spiritual jewelry, like compassion, love, and personal sense of justice, above political belonging. It is very easy to lose a personal sense of justice for an insecure or group-oriented individual to become a prejudiced and discriminatory being. This will take them against the will of the miracle sitting within each of us. Going against our own atom of autonomy can put our belief system in a pickle. These days, with the popularity of equal human rights, religions are looking like prejudicial and discriminatory bad guys because they commit the ultimate crime of killing each other in the name of God. Being in conflict from within has serious consequences, especially for a mortal being like us. If you are not able to connect the dots, you will be left open to not only losing inner peace but also susceptible to stress-related physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual illnesses. Being a CEO who knows their mortal nature, we all should be aware of the reasons why we have been blessed with free will.

If we are responsible for our actions, why do we gladly let our groups use us like puppets? Personally, I think it is because of all the brainwashing we have gone through in our early and tender years. Being irrelevant has been preached to us right from the get-go, which made kings kings and governing people superiors to the ordinary individual. For thousands of years, we have been exposed to bigger power than all of us, yet no one told us that we are the engine of the whole machine and even a machine ourselves. We have been taught we are part of a group, not a part of humanity. We are taught we are useless, irrelevant, and even born sinners. Our self-esteem has been robbed, and we have learned that we are not worthy to be connected to God directly. Yet God does not need a political group but instead a spiritual individual to get Godly work done physically.

Our physical reality is that we are the thread that God is made of, or we are a physical cell that gives life to spirituality. On the other hand, our fulfillment matters, or at least should matter to us all, because of our mortal nature. Without a spiritually fulfilling life, a mortal life can be meaningless, so we all should look at our religions critically. If your religion is not able to fulfill you spiritually, that does not mean there is something wrong with that religion and another would be better. Instead, there is something wrong with your out-of-control sense of belonging, which can make you not only cross spiritual lines for the politics of belonging but also convince you to commit spiritual crimes in the name of your religion or belonging group. That way, regardless of your mortality, you may be good for your belonging group, but you did not or could not stand in your own corner for yourself just because you did not recognize yourself. If you could not help yourself in your living years, you did not value or understand the importance of your atom of autonomy and related free will. You did not understand reciprocation, which means you did not really understand the reasons for your life, yourself, and even God other than what your belonging group had taught you. Here are thirty-three questions you can ask yourself to understand how far you have been politically influenced.

Do you believe we are at the level of genetically programmed ants and bees when it comes to using free will?

Since we don’t have an umbilical cord stuck with us, should we metaphorically stay stuck with our belonging group’s ideology?

Do you think God fits into your personal life? If yes, how and why?

Do you think religions are the exclusive path to spirituality and God?

Do you believe that as human beings with free will, we all are capable CEOs of our lives?

People always talk about the government. Other than the employees, have you ever seen the government physically?

How long do you think you are going to live? If you are aware of your mortality, should you be fearful of undeniable death?

What is more important to you: your living years or the scenarios of the afterlife you have been taught to believe in?

What is worse: burning in metaphoric hell after death or living in agony during your living years?

The footprints you are following—how sure are you that they are the right path to God and spiritually correct?

How strongly do you believe in what is beyond the cliff of mortality, and why?

Do you believe a baby can be born a sinner and responsible for being born out of wedlock, or should be punished for it?

Would you question if your racism, religion, or nationalism leads you to become a racist, prejudiced, and discriminatory individual? If not, why not?

Do you think it is okay to become a prejudiced and discriminatory being when it comes to the politics of belonging to a group?

Do you believe in equal human rights, especially when the politics of a sense of belonging is pulling you towards loyalty to your group?

Do you believe in equal human rights? If yes, why? What is your logical explanation for it?

Do you have a personal sense of justice, or does the politics of belonging override everything you think is right or wrong?

Would you like to be on the receiving end of your actions, especially when it comes to your religion-related prejudiced and discriminatory behaviors?

Do you think God is a discriminatory or prejudiced entity as religions preach that God is on their side exclusively?

Do you believe God created human beings, or did human beings create God for control-related purposes? Which came first, just like the question of whether the chicken came before the egg?

How do you think God and the Devil really work in human societies to be relevant? Can they work without the physical help of human individuals?

What is more important to you: religious traditions, customs, rituals, and rules, or practical prayers like really helping someone in need?

What do you know about reciprocation? Should it be just an optional thing or a duty in return for free oxygen, a functioning body, and all the other blessings of our life?

What do you really think about paying taxes, and what are taxes anyway?

Why do you pray? Do you believe in your hard work, and are your desires bigger and higher than the efforts you put into your life?

If your race, nation, or religion calls for you to sacrifice or commit spiritual crimes in the name of your belonging group, can you judge and say no to it?

Killing an innocent is a spiritual crime and a physical reality. Would you commit a physical crime over your unknown realities like God, and why? What is the driving force behind your actions?

Who would you choose and why if you had to pick between your lover, your child, your parent, or what other people think about you?

Do you believe in living in the era you are born into, or do you believe in following thousands of years-old traditions, customs, rituals, and rules?

What are the chances of humanity being destroyed by a natural disaster as predicted in holy books, or by a man-made disaster like chemical or nuclear weapons?

Do you believe we bring our spiritual jewelry, like a personal sense of justice, compassion, and love, from before birth, or are we taught by our belonging groups? If we are taught, then why can’t chimps learn like us, after all, they are genetically closest to us?

Does your personal sense of justice get overridden by the politics of your sense of belonging to your group, and why?

Do you believe that you are better than others just because you belong to a certain race, gender, nation, religion, or their sects? If yes, why?

More questions will arise as you personally develop yourself spiritually. For instance, how much control does a human being have in their day-to-day life, or how can our hard work make us grow smarter and build muscles regardless of our genetics?

These questions are there for you to think and educate yourself spiritually, not religiously, because spirituality is universal like justice. Religions, if they preach prejudice and discrimination, are political groups using God politically to gain political power over you. I believe if you are born into any religion or even in a non-religious family, you don’t have to become religious, but you do have to put effort into being a decent human being who believes in equal human rights and respects others just like yourself or for who they are. Believe in equal human rights to live and let live, believe and let believe, instead of thinking our belonging groups are always right. No one has to change their belief system they are born into, but we all have to understand the politics of our belonging groups if we really want world peace. If your religion preaches for you to be a good person but only for your belonging group, or it says you are better than others just because you are part of that particular religion, it is preaching you to become a prejudiced and discriminatory individual. It is your personal and individual responsibility to choose spirituality over the politics of the group. Remember, if they are preaching that, they are actually making even God a prejudiced and discriminatory entity as well. If you look at God as an entity for some but not for all, what does it really mean to you? Regardless of how strong a group is, it still is a political entity. Try to come to terms with it even if you fail in the beginning. Just try to understand because that is the life of being a human being. If we were not evolving, it would be a whole different ball game, but fortunately, we are evolving. We solve and figure out one problem, but it opens several different doors for us to learn more, so claiming our knowledge completion would be an egotistical or ignorant claim.

Our trouble is not that we have the potential to evolve; our trouble is that it does not have a cap on it. Yet all our groups try to lock us in a pond with boundaries. Even as individuals, we are like an ocean and space all rolled up in one, never mind the pond. How are we going to be locked in the boundaries of knowledge of a political group? As we learn more, we learn that there is always more to learn until this never-ending quest hits the wall of our individual mortality. We are confused because, regardless of our physical incapabilities, we mentally carry on thinking about our Godly control of our life and even genetically pass it on to our coming generations. Most of the learning an individual accumulates may be from schooling and life experiences, but that thinking individual, the Ph.D., is the one who breaks down the barriers of education or accepted truths by the societies we belong to.

If we all think, it would not be normal because we are not exclusively spiritual entities. We are physical creatures with mortal nature as well, so just like other creatures, we have dominating characteristics of alpha and beta. If you are not able to learn about your nature, you may struggle in understanding the causes of your problems. From relating with others to leading and being led in social settings, to personal relationships, to living in a society where there are justice system-related rules that need to be followed, can become personal problems. This can create a constantly irritating and stressful life, especially not a good place to be for a mortal being. Understanding all that and having an intellectual conversation within yourself while keeping your mortal nature in front can put things in perspective to make you rationally spiritual.

The politics of your sense of belonging has the potential to kill your spirituality-related personal sense of justice and potentially turn you into a prejudiced and discriminatory being. The politics of belonging in every human community is a real dead dog of our perpetual disputes. If you are for world peace like me, understand the cause and eliminate or remove prejudice and discrimination and see what happens. Equal human rights are gathering strength all over the world because deep inside, individually, we all want to live in peace. Logically, we are willing to give if we can receive equal human rights in return. Even our thousands of years-old lingering disputes can fall like dominoes if we individually can understand the politics of our belonging.

Up till now, we did not even ask for equal human individual rights because we were not even aware of that. Our history shows that we have always asked for group rights from each other because no one cared for the individual anyway. It has been, and in most cases, it still is a common fact that nothing changes unless groups demand and fight for their rights. From nations to races to gender, sexuality to religious beliefs, like-minded people had to get together to put pressure to gain rights. But first of all, why do we have to ask and fight for group rights? Second, it keeps us in the same limbo because there could be a group within the group asking for rights, and so on. The prejudice and discrimination-related disputes would still exist, and things would never change for the individual.

If a Jewish person and a Palestinian agree to grant each other equal human rights, or if a Kashmiri Muslim and a Hindu agree to do the same, territorial disputes might become a thing of the past. However, humanity has not changed, does not change, and will not change unless we start from the bottom up. For example, Western societies are a melting pot of people from around the world who have come together and strengthened these societies by being accepted for who they are. The secret to their success is the equal human rights granted to them as citizens. If Hindus, Sikhs, Muslims, Blacks, Whites, and Chinese, regardless of their sexual orientation, can live together in one part of the world, why can’t they coexist elsewhere? The principles of equal human rights should be adopted by all governing authorities. Yet, we are still in the process of evolution, and our politics of belonging are not fully understood across all human societies. With proper understanding, no one would need to live separately or harm each other based on their identity or birthplace.

Globally, there are no physical lines created by God to divide nations, yet politically, the world is divided and continually subdivided in the name of peace. Our understanding of equal human rights can help us transcend boundaries of color, race, gender, nationality, and religion. If we can learn to live together within the boundaries of Western nations, why can’t this be achieved worldwide? Our issues stem from prejudice and discrimination at the individual level, and the solution lies in equal human rights at the same level. Change at the individual level will inevitably lead to changes within groups.

Humanity’s problems are deeply connected to the politics of loyalty to our groups rather than to humanity. Just because it has always been this way does not mean it should remain so. We are evolving entities and must progress. Our sense of belonging to our groups is a crisis of individual identity that affects both the individual and the community, beginning at home. Our first education involves color, gender, nationality, and religion. We wrap our children in religious traditions, customs, rituals, and rules before teaching them about their nationality. As children grow, they learn about their community, layering their identities with first names, middle names, last names, nationality, and religion. We bury our fundamental identity as human beings beneath the politics of belonging, becoming like puppets. We are taught that we are superior to others, which is often our first exposure to prejudice and discrimination. This indoctrination from our parents and authority figures, including nations and religions, makes it difficult for ordinary individuals to overcome such conditioning, especially before they are spiritually developed. In Western nations, children are exposed to others with equal human rights, which fosters better tolerance compared to other countries. However, some parents still manage to teach their children prejudice and discrimination, so the problem persists, though not on the same scale as in places like Israel and India. Group rights are the root cause of prejudice and discrimination, and disputes will continue until every individual is treated as equal.

Another reason for these issues is our ingrained philosophy of competition, which may seem innocent but connects us with prejudice and discrimination, especially when it moves from individuals to groups.

Our current problems, such as global warming, infectious diseases, and internet-related crimes, highlight the need for us to evolve further, particularly as groups, so humanity can work together to navigate changes. Otherwise, humanity may implode due to imbalanced progress. We possess chemical and nuclear weapons and face emotionally charged nationalism and religious extremism worldwide. We no longer live in an era of swords, spears, and arrows. Just imagine if security walls or forts of the past could protect us from infectious diseases or nuclear radiation. We have advanced far beyond that and must learn to leave the past behind and adapt to the needs of today’s humanity.

Currently, our disputes are not about color, race, nationality, or religion but are rooted in our two major problems: prejudice and discrimination. These issues give rise to racism, gender bias, nationalism, and religious disputes. If our foundational problem is prejudice and discrimination, why don’t we start addressing it at home? Remember the saying: “If the trunk of the tree is green, you can bend it whichever way you want to, but once it’s grown, forget it. It will break but not bend.” Work must begin early in life so that future generations can learn to live and let live.

Our problems start with our so-called identities, which are everything but our basic humanity. Why hide behind political identities? It’s all about the politics of belonging and individual insecurity. If an individual is spiritually aware, their sense of insecurity changes from within. Our personal sense of justice, which helps us adopt equal human rights, is unleashed. If every national constitution and religious rule incorporated equal human rights, we could treat everyone equally without bias. Only then will we overcome prejudice and discrimination. How long will it take? We are a work in progress; things are happening, but racism persists even in America, despite its status as a beacon of democracy. This is because we are ensnared by our politically assigned identities, preventing us from reaching our true identity as evolving human beings. Beneath all these layers, we are still human beings, regardless of our external appearances. Unfortunately, we often undermine our spiritual side, which separates us from other creatures. We function like worker bees or fight like warrior ants in the name of our groups, neglecting our genetic superiority and acting as if we are mere creatures without human expectations. We need to follow our nature, which calls for continuous evolution and balance. However, spiritually, we lag behind. Technologically and politically, we are far advanced but still kill each other and even innocent people in the name of group loyalty.

We continue to make progress towards equal human rights, but the struggle persists. From Brexit to “America First,” these are clear signs of the ongoing battle, even in the most advanced societies. The politics of belonging remains a powerful force, especially for individuals influenced at a hormonal level. Americans and Britons have led efforts to spread equal human rights globally, yet they still grapple with prejudice and discrimination at home. As we evolve, we should not only amend our constitutions but also critically evaluate our religious rules and rituals. For instance, penalizing a child born out of wedlock or discriminating based on sexual orientation is unjust, especially when it relates to genetics. If someone is born with a particular color, race, gender, nationality, or religion, it is not their fault, and blaming or punishing someone for something they had no control over is logically wrong. If a religion punishes innocents, it goes against spirituality. If you wouldn’t want to be on the receiving end of your actions, you are committing a spiritual crime. Before judging others, consider the “glass house” you live in.

In an era of equal human rights, humanity must work harder because these rights are bringing us closer to spirituality. Injustice committed in the name of nations and religions is politically motivated, and when politics intervenes, both spirituality and justice suffer. Since we are more than just worker bees or warrior ants, we must evolve from this challenging time. We cannot revert to being prejudiced and discriminatory, especially if we recognize these as the root causes of our disputes. Such behavior would signify regression, not progress, regardless of education levels. There will always be issues with equal human rights until we cleanse our constitutions and religions of prejudice and discrimination. Our politically assigned identities must be addressed to resolve individual and collective prejudice and discrimination. If we continue to believe we are superior simply because of our group affiliations, we all need to engage in soul-searching, both individually and collectively.

Changing the core messages of group politics is not an easy task for humanity. It may take generations to achieve, but it is possible, as most of us are willing, especially at the individual level. However, one must be willing to give to receive.

Religions serve as examples of unity and division simultaneously because they are both spiritual and political. Major religions like Islam, Christianity, and Judaism all worship the same God but have been in conflict for thousands of years. If the answer to why this occurs cannot be spirituality, then it must be the politics of belonging to these groups. What does this mean today? With equal human rights, things should change, but unfortunately, the politics of belonging are deeply rooted in our hormonal levels. Will it be difficult? Certainly, but humanity has dealt with such challenges within our justice systems. We cannot act on animal instincts; instead, we must restrain our urges to follow societal laws. Recent events in America exemplify how politicians exploit physical inspirations to influence people, often at the expense of spiritual awareness. Ultimately, we are individually responsible for our actions. Hormonal whims aside, grown individuals are judged by the justice system. If spiritually aware, we would place ourselves on the receiving end of our actions before acting to determine what is right. It is our personal and individual duty to seek that spiritual awareness. Politicians from our groups may work against individual awareness, making us believe we are insignificant or born sinners. Brainwashing and blind obedience lead individuals to think their salvation lies in group affiliation. However, the reality is that the group is composed of individuals. If each individual becomes spiritually aware, the group will collapse, quite literally. Without individual physicality, the stories of religions, nations, or any group fall apart. How many more examples do you need to see that as individuals, we are crucial to our groups, nations, religions, and even God? Politics of belonging have brainwashed us to the point where we cannot think rationally. We believe in God but not in our own individual worth because we have sold our souls to our groups. We may appear free but are, in reality, useful idiots or mere puppets, albeit with pride. Remember, God, Devil, Big Brother, or any group cannot function physically without the involvement of a human individual. A police officer who shoots in the name of Big Brother, as well as our good and bad actions, require physical manifestation through individuals. In essence, without human beings, there is no physical humanity, God, Big Brother, or nation. If as individuals, we understand our value and mortality, we can bring all kinds of groups to their knees, as they rely on the foundation of human physicality.

Now, ask yourself privately: How much political influence do you carry from your group? How much spiritual strength do you have? Can you question your group’s spiritual crimes against innocents? If your loyalties prevent you from questioning, you have work to do because times are changing rapidly. If you don’t care, you may be labeled as racist, bigoted, backward, prejudiced, or discriminatory. In the era of equal human rights, such labels are neither flattering nor cool. The sooner you come to terms with this, the better, because evolution is a tide we cannot control. Even the Pope has had to adapt politically to accept these changes after thousands of years of injustice, prejudice, and discrimination.

Happy New Year, and may health, happiness, and success abound for all.

Despite our wishes, last year did not fare well due to the coronavirus. Still, I hope the coming year brings hope and optimism to everyone. I believe our mortal existence lacks meaning without hope and optimism. Without happiness and contentment, we question the purpose of our lives. Remember, if everyone faces challenges, we cannot blame others or ourselves for life’s shortcomings. Interestingly, I continue to wish everyone the best of health and happiness, regardless of whether these wishes come true. Ever wondered why we do this? Hope, optimism, happiness, and contentment are not merely positive attitudes; they are crucial aspects of our evolution. To me, without these wishes, we stagnate and fail to evolve; thus, they are ingrained in our nature.

Regarding the coronavirus, vaccines have arrived, a testament to our practical wishes to evolve and learn. Imagine a time in history when we knew nothing of viruses, yet we survived. Today, our focus is on our current challenges and how we confront them. Where does the individual stand in the grand scheme of life to solve these problems? What is the significance of a living, breathing human being? Had we solely relied on prescribed religious methods, would we have reached scientific, medical, and technological advancements? I respect religious spirituality but view politically enforced beliefs as akin to political groups or parties, as should everyone else. If we had adhered solely to them, we might still be in primitive times, sacrificing virgins.

In essence, I aim to explain why I place the human being at the top corner, with God and the Devil at the bottom of my philosophical triangle. It is not to deny their existence but to underscore the importance of humanity, often lost due to group politics throughout history. Credit should be given where it is due, not solely to God or the Devil, but to the primary physical agent.

Many pray and continue to pray for divine assistance, which I respect, believing in the spiritual existence of God without doubt. However, I emphasize the vital role of human beings in the existence and meaning of God and the Devil simultaneously. My query concerns the importance of the physical human in this divine depiction. How does God work and assist? Why do bad things occur? Remove the human from this divine scenario, and what remains? We each ponder these questions in our own way, often divided yet passionate in our opinions. If you approach with an open mind, you may find my explanation along the way; otherwise, we may disagree.

Around this time last year, I wrote “Our Invisible Realities: God, the Devil, and Big Brother.” Continuing from last year’s exploration of invisible realities, particularly in light of recent news on police shootings linked to Big Brother, is crucial. Despite its political uncertainties, Big Brother increasingly influences modern human societies, including our views on God and the Devil’s invisible realities. Interestingly, in evolving populations, religious adherence may decline, yet societal rules persist. Secular societies see Big Brother superseding God and the Devil as a controlling force. We create these realities to function as societies, but did God, the Devil, or Big Brother precede us, or did we evolve to give them physical form? Do you believe in Human first or that God, the Devil, or Big Brother came first? This debate spans generations. I believe we’ve learned and understood the importance of non-physical realities like God, the Devil, and Big Brother to alleviate mortal stresses. As we must relinquish everything, including life itself, hope and optimism are necessary not only for survival but to depart with collected happiness and contentment.

This question may unsettle those whose loyalty to their groups places God and the Devil at the apex of their triangle. For ordinary individuals like me, living a mortal life with common-sense physical realities is paramount. When viewing the human at the triangle’s base and God and the Devil at its apex, they embody our majestic realities, akin to Big Brother. Yet, it is we who breathe life into these constructs. Look around with an open mind; events unfold based on physical foundations.

WITHOUT THE HUMAN ELEMENT, THINGS ARE UNINTELLIGIBLE AND BASED ON ASSUMPTIONS. HONESTLY ATTEMPTING TO UNDERSTAND CAN RESULT IN EGOTISTICALLY ASSUMED LUNACY. AS HUMANS, WE CONTINUE TO EVOLVE, OUR KNOWLEDGE REMAINS INCOMPLETE, APPLICABLE TO EVERY FIELD INCLUDING RELIGION, MEDICINE, AND SCIENCE.

In my early years of writing, I penned a blog on “Five Bucks,” now evolved into “Atom of Autonomy.” I too evolve with time, maintaining common-sense spirituality. You can read “Five Bucks” or “Atom of Autonomy” for a deeper understanding; they share similarities. Today, this brief version explains our “five bucks.”

Metaphorically speaking, each of us is born with our “five bucks,” a concept originating before birth, tied to our atom of autonomy or innate abilities bestowed by God. What exactly is this “five bucks”? If we had a device to measure it, we could gauge one’s intelligence, strength, and capacity to live, create, and achieve not just for oneself but also to aid others. Imagine spotting a log floating in a river; this sparks an idea to use it as a raft to cross the river. Instead of merely wishing to reach the opposite shore, act upon that thought and turn it into a tangible reality.

First, you must wish, then think, plan, and act on your plan. Remember the power of that initial wish; it forms the bedrock of our ability to create physical realities. Collect some branches, weave them into a raft, and row yourself across. However, I’m not speaking of present-day humanity but rather a time when resources were scarce and our capabilities were in their infancy. Despite these challenges, the ability to think, comprehend, and achieve existed. We brought skills that were undervalued by political entities seeking control. Authorities ensured individuals remained unaware of their true capabilities, hindering their self-respect and self-esteem, thus fostering political lies and deceit to manipulate people, especially making them feel inferior and irrelevant, a common tactic across kingdoms, authoritarian regimes, religions, communism, socialism, and even modern-day political parties in democracies.

Metaphorically, I assigned a value of “five bucks” to each individual, symbolizing the inherent worth every human possesses. Despite our individual “fivers,” we may perceive ourselves as weak. When a community collectively contributes its “fivers,” we can logically construct bridges and achieve other advancements, fulfilling the ordinary person’s aspirations. In a sense, everyone in the community can metaphorically cross the river whenever needed. This metaphorical journey embodies the collective effort and the beginnings of our politics of belonging.

Nevertheless, individually, we may appear physically weaker compared to large families, communities, nations, or religions. Achieving anything alone would be slow, arduous, and sometimes impossible. Both individuals and communities recognize this, forcing cooperation. However, communities use politics to sow insecurity among individuals, encouraging them to seek safety within the group. This political belonging spawns militancy to protect group interests. While group efforts expedite achievements on a larger scale, they also erode individual identity and personal justice. Despite these challenges, the intelligence and resources of communities originate from the individual’s “five bucks.”

Similar to how a single human cell lacks significance alone but, with others under suitable conditions, can form a fully functional human with trillions of cells, our potential, when combined, knows no bounds. Each of us possesses trillions of non-human cells within our bodies, yet we began as just two cells. While individually insignificant, collectively, our potential remains immeasurable, constantly evolving.

Unfortunately, humanity remains ensnared in the politics of group belonging. This illogical fixation, advocating that a functioning arm or leg is stronger and better than others independently, obstructs spiritual evolution. While we create nuclear and biological weapons, our spiritual advancement lags, posing a significant threat alongside our unbalanced evolution.

Just because something is invisible does not render it incapable of influencing us. Our justice system, police force, and metaphorical “big brother” underscore this truth. Although physically unseen, these entities, like God and the Devil, play crucial roles in individual and collective lives. Without human beings actively involved, none of these entities could manifest physically. When good things occur, we attribute them to God; conversely, we blame the Devil when misfortune strikes. Police actions are linked to the metaphorical “big brother,” yet without human involvement, these entities are impotent. Understanding this fundamental aspect of human life opens new perspectives, emphasizing individual responsibility in shaping both positive and negative physical actions. Consider yourself the CEO of your life.

REMEMBER, IF SPIRITUAL HARMONY BETWEEN GOD AND THE HUMAN INDIVIDUAL IS UNATTAINABLE, HOW CAN IT BE ACHIEVED SUCCESSFULLY BETWEEN INDIVIDUALS, GROUPS, OR BETWEEN AN INDIVIDUAL AND A GROUP? SPIRITUAL EQUALITY FORMS THE FOUNDATION OF ALL HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS.

If politics is mixed with religion or the justice system, a spiritual individual would also lose the value of spirituality. This can have consequences for both. Society does not respect the individual who belongs, and the individual feels torn from within. Politics, unlike spirituality and justice, is not pure. Therefore, when everything is mixed together, our respect for religions and justice systems can change. Mixing politics often robs individuals of self-respect because we each bring our personal sense of justice, which can be drowned out by political affiliations. Going against this internal conflict can tear us apart because acting against our personal and spiritual sense of justice creates guilt, which we must deal with individually. Our individual atom of autonomy judges us internally, which can be a very uncomfortable place to be, especially for mortal beings like us. Just ask a war veteran going through this internal struggle.

A child tries to mimic parents, understanding personal limitations, just as a cell compares itself to a whole body or an individual compares itself to a group or humanity as a whole. Similar to a child, we often place everything that seems impossible for us individually on God’s shoulders. We expect that God will take care of everything, just as our parents did. When we are unable to manage a task ourselves, we pray to God and ask for help. Believing that help will come is great, but only after we have exhausted our “five bucks,” because our “fiver” is the initial help we receive from God. Most of the time, this is sufficient to handle the task at hand, unless our desires exceed our capabilities, like attempting to play God and biting off more than we can chew. Remember, you are the individual who built a raft to cross the river when nothing else was available. The idea of building a bridge and the community coming together is God speaking and physically expressing through human individuals. This means all advancements made by mankind are related to God as well. Not only have we been blessed with a functioning yet extremely complex body, but we are also supplied with free oxygen to function. Where are we heading with these advancements? Well, God and mankind are evolving, with potential that evolves itself, so we never truly know.

As a human individual, you have been politically brainwashed and marginalized by groups like nations and religions for thousands of years. Especially if you fully buy into this, you risk not recognizing the worth of the Godly “fiver” installed within you. This not only makes you worthless to yourself but also risks you becoming a victim of an inferiority complex. This not only gives all the power to the religious leaders but also bankrupts you of your “fiver.” Just look at the majestic buildings of religions and the hunger and poverty in the world if you want proof. If everyone looked at spirituality without the influence of politics, things would be different today. We believe in religious traditions, customs, rituals, and political rules of belonging but often ignore God and spirituality. Yet, we have the ability to convert every spiritual idea into physical action. Despite the head pounding, fasting, and kneeling, you won’t find God in those buildings because God lives in living, breathing, hungry, and helpless people, not in majestic man-made structures. If human beings were absent, those “God’s houses” could be sold for a dollar (read “God’s house for sale for a dollar”).

Ask yourself if you are the one who expects the community to provide bridges for you, or are you the one who can build a raft and row yourself to the other side of the river? Instead of waiting on the riverbank, take charge, become a CEO, and live life on your terms because you are responsible for your happiness and contentment. If you wait for or expect the community’s help, you don’t truly respect your “fiver” and have no grasp of its real worth and value. If you think it’s inadequate to achieve your desires, spiritually you’ve failed yourself before even trying. Society has brainwashed you to the point where you don’t even attempt to utilize your “fiver” to live life. The politics of belonging intentionally creates an attitude of inferiority complex and lack of self-worth, even self-esteem, in individuals because weaker individuals are easier to control. This grants power over you, but if they make you disrespect yourself and convince you that your “fiver” is worthless, it’s your loss, and you’re responsible for that loss. Gather yourself and use your “fiver” before seeking help, even from God.

Politics has always been hidden in the fabric of humanity, and it has been, is, and will always be you who must clear away all the influential fog of the era in which you are born. After all, you are blessed with free will, awareness of your mortality, and the potential to be the CEO of your life. With all the responsibilities for your individual happiness and contentment on your mortal shoulders, you have no choice but to grow stronger and assume the responsibilities of a CEO.

On the other hand, if you become caught up in personal strength and believe you have more than just your “five bucks,” it’s also extreme and leads to disrespect for our invisible realities. Whether you become a doctor, a successful businessman, or a superstar in any field, believing it’s all your doing can be quite confusing, especially if you find out the hard way—through sickness or accident—that you can’t control what’s going on inside or outside your body. If you can’t survive without oxygen and a complex body, you aren’t doing what you believe is your doing. Regardless of what you believe or don’t believe, we have been assisted all along to stay alive.

From a helpless baby to a grown adult, help has always been there to keep you alive. The sky hasn’t fallen, and oxygen is still here, yet you have no control over it. To me, this is simply external help, and internally, the body is so complex that we still don’t understand everything about it. If you’re alive, it’s not exclusively your will keeping you alive because we haven’t overcome mortality. In societies where spirituality is considered nonsense or religious jargon, this is often preached.

The functioning of the body is nothing short of a miracle. If you still believe you’re doing everything yourself, you’re simplifying life with limited brain power, making assumptions and forming opinions. Just ask a near-death patient about vulnerabilities, especially a successful patient with a brain disease. I’m not humanizing God, but I’m clarifying the clutter to make my case so we can accept individual responsibilities and stop harming each other over our incomplete knowledge of being human and God.

Your personal “fiver” or atom of autonomy is a direct connection between God and you, so there’s no intermediary. Everyone is blessed with free will, or I should say a “fiver” or atom of autonomy. It’s not tied to any particular religious belief, traditions, customs, rituals, or rules, but deeply connected to an individual’s personal spirituality.

It may go against the popular beliefs of the majority, but I personally don’t believe in a God who punishes and blames innocent human beings as sinners or demands sacrifices. Understanding human nature, it seems that such beliefs are tied to human emotions and incomplete knowledge. If God were responsible for everything, our personal sense of justice and free will would become meaningless. Although we might not always recognize this due to the politics of belonging to certain groups, these concepts are tangible aspects of our reality.

Despite our differences, humanity tends to come together during crises like infectious diseases such as the coronavirus or natural disasters related to global warming. Even refugees from wars are accepted into various societies. These are glimpses of God visible through human actions—if we choose to see them. We expect God to protect us, believing that God should handle everything. This expectation often removes our personal responsibility, leading to disappointment when things don’t go as hoped, and we might blame God for not intervening. For instance, the help we receive during the coronavirus pandemic, including vaccines, comes from the efforts of scientists. If we use our resources first and then seek divine assistance, it maintains the integrity of our spiritual and physical efforts. Otherwise, the picture of human efforts adding physicality to God collapses into confusion, leading to misguided practices like sacrifices intended to appease God.

Just as a parent protects a child to the best of their ability, it’s impossible to be present all the time. A child doesn’t develop self-confidence to become an independent adult CEO without learning to trust in their own abilities. When adults act immaturely, it’s often due to incomplete knowledge and a lack of understanding of their own irrational emotional states. Our religious leaders might inspire young people at a hormonal level, but if one doesn’t understand this, they can be manipulated as puppets by politically tainted religious knowledge.

Religions should ideally serve as spiritual systems and be free from political influence. Implementing religious rules as laws of the land would face challenges in modern courts. A universal rule of law should reflect the principles of spirituality and be impartial to political influences. Religions have claimed their teachings as God’s words, making them unchangeable. As humanity evolves, especially in an era of equal human rights, religious doctrines face dilemmas: adapt and be criticized or resist change and remain outdated. The Pope’s recent decision to accept gay marriage reflects an attempt to adapt to contemporary values, but it comes after centuries of spiritual missteps. If religions had followed a simple spiritual rule—treat others as you would like to be treated—they wouldn’t have entangled God with prejudicial laws. Spirituality, advocating for equal human rights, has always been present, but religions often prioritized their political agendas over genuine spiritual principles.

Our sense of justice is connected to our inner autonomy, which can be disrupted by conflicting loyalties and political influences. This internal conflict can lead to personal turmoil and loss of well-being. Spirituality and justice should remain pure from political contamination, serving as clear ethical guides for individuals.

I recently watched Mehdi Hasan’s show on YouTube, where Reverend Dr. William Barber quoted Frederick Douglass: “I love the Christianity of Jesus but I hate the religion of the slave master.” This quote highlights how politics has corrupted spirituality. Another poignant quote from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., cited by Dr. Barber, was: “The church was supposed to be a thermostat of the society, not a thermometer of the society.” Both quotes resonate with the idea that religion should guide society’s values, not merely reflect its political climate.

Religions and justice systems should be free from political manipulation because they represent spiritual and moral truths. Politics is necessary for running societies, but it should not corrupt the foundational principles of justice and spirituality. An individual’s understanding can be clouded by political influences from their groups, which can distort their perception of justice and spirituality. The current system, where a president selects Supreme Court judges, clearly shows political influence. If figures like Donald Trump attempt to politicize the justice system, it’s not solely their fault but indicative of a broader systemic issue.

Religious individuals who have supported Trump are rightfully criticized by the media, as religion and politics should not be mixed. I believe religions should focus solely on spirituality to avoid giving God a bad name. It’s not new for people to use religion for political purposes; this has been happening since the dawn of religious awareness. Personally, I believe there is nothing wrong with the original and spiritual teachings of Prophets, as they preached spiritual principles. However, the political twists and turns came after those Prophets were long gone.

When a king disliked something, they wouldn’t just disobey religion; they would change it or create their own version of the Bible. Islam has four sects, partly because the Quran’s words couldn’t be altered, but people influenced their interpretations politically. In reality, spiritual principles are undeniably universal. If spirituality were kept pure, there would be no need for different religions or sects, as our groups are created by our politics of belonging. This is how the politics of belonging infiltrated religions, making them prejudicial and discriminatory against each other, inspiring people to kill in the name of God. In today’s wars, both sides fire missiles or drop bombs while chanting God’s name passionately. This is why our religious conflicts can last for hundreds of years and beyond without any compassionate compromises.

We should all critically examine our behavior concerning the politics of belonging. Individually, we must recognize that we are personally responsible for our actions. Collectively, our behavior should be influenced by spiritual principles. If we can stay focused on our mortality and personal sense of justice, things could be different for us collectively, because the individual is the foundation of the group. Being spiritual is in our DNA, and it precedes our birth; being religious is taught to us by our belonging groups. Therefore, choosing spirituality would be natural and aligned with our atom of autonomy, while being religious is often political.

Logically, if you are sick and starving, all your politics of belonging-related religious ethics and morals are rendered meaningless. If you, other individuals, your nation, religion, and the law and order don’t care about your physical reality, it all relates to collective ignorance.

A stressed individual will strive to survive, and that survival takes us back to primitive times. Denying basic physical realities removes our spiritual realities and reduces us to simple physical creatures. Our civilization and evolution are highly dependent on a full stomach.

If societies lack a basic understanding of individual security, things can deteriorate rapidly. A system that is prejudicial and discriminatory, even against a group, will never be stable. This is especially true for the wealthy and prosperous. One cannot feel secure amidst hungry and desperate people. While you can vote for strong police security, if the fundamentals are unjust, true security cannot be felt. It’s not about the security itself but the feeling of being secure. If the majority of people do not feel secure about their next meal, fewer people will have to invest significantly in their own security to feel safe. Arming the police like the armed forces is not practically feasible. In today’s world, paying taxes is a better solution because, as human beings, we all have the ability to self-regulate, but again, this depends on having a full stomach.

Authoritarian or fear-based politics can work, but only for so long. History shows that most societies prefer democracy as a governing system. Democracy is the closest system we have to achieving equal human rights and societal peace. Unlike other animals, humans can give if they receive equal human rights. Our spiritual side allows us to self-regulate.

Today, things are changing rapidly due to the internet and cell phones. News is not solely delivered by news agencies but also by ordinary citizens. If people are starving and being brutalized or if police are using deadly force to control through fear, it is likely being filmed and shared instantly, making the world aware. Communities must address not only how to feed a starving population but also manage prejudicial and discriminatory policies in line with the era of equal human rights. Nations guilty of social crimes against their populations can now face sanctions.

You can implement a tax system to ensure everyone is fed, but this might be considered socialism. If you oppose it, consider the perspective of those starving before making judgments. You might be politically brainwashed by propaganda, so educate yourself before acting. Personally, I believe these tax-related policies are a matter of common sense and spiritual principles. Given that politics of belonging can be overwhelming for individuals and these spiritual rules are seen as socialism, confusion may arise. If the goal is to maintain power for certain political parties, it might be based on lies.

Where did socialism come from? It emerged as an alternative to kingdoms, authoritarianism, or religiously inspired governance systems. It represents a different way of governing that can benefit everyone in society. Unfortunately, like other systems, it can also be spiritually flawed due to its mass-over-individual philosophy. If people who oppose these valuable rules are not wealthy or in the top one percent, they miss the point of a just society. I am not a socialist, but I believe in equal justice for all, both between individuals and between individuals and the mass. These rules are spiritually based as long as spiritual justice is maintained. Problems arise when we go to extremes and lose the balance of spiritual justice. For example, mass-over-individual policies are extreme and unjust, as is a system of dog-eat-dog politics.

A successful community should be a peaceful one for all its residents. If things fail, the first loss is internal peace, followed by external peace. We can have a stronger police force with shoot-to-kill orders, but this is an expensive and oppressive approach. Modern societies are more peaceful due to education-related self-restraint and regulation, which depends on a full stomach.

News about police shooting to kill may reflect an outdated and oppressive style of maintaining order. In an era of equal human rights, such policing is considered oppressive, especially if it targets specific groups, which is clearly racist, prejudicial, and discriminatory.

If you discuss using lethal force to maintain order, consider our compassion for animals. We have used darts to deal with even the most dangerous beasts to check their health and protect them from extinction. But when it comes to fellow human beings, we don’t use darts. Why go straight for the kill for humans and not for real deadly beasts? This suggests that fear-based control is ineffective in human societies, especially in the long run. The message sent by using lethal force is similar to what terrorists aim to convey. While I’m not comparing the intentions behind enforcing laws, conflicts and fear are linked. Lasting peace requires changing fear and the oppressive political messages associated with it. The era of oppressive authorities is over; today belongs to equal human rights. The sooner we comply, the better. Even religions have lost their appeal due to openly preaching prejudice and discrimination. Our loyalties to our groups contribute to our spiritual flaws, whether it’s racism, prejudice, or discrimination, all stemming from the politics of belonging.

Today, conquering and controlling nations like in the past is no longer viable. Ask the British, Russians, and Americans about their experiences in this regard. Reputation and business suffer from oppressive, unjust authoritarian regimes. Occupying other nations is not a viable proposition, especially today. Afghanistan and Vietnam are examples where even the most powerful and technologically advanced nations have failed. With equal human rights flourishing globally, prejudiced and discriminatory politics of belonging are increasingly recognized as humanity’s greatest evil. This old-style oppression is condemned not only by the oppressed but also by the oppressors themselves. Thus, going against belonging populations can be challenging to justify.

Personally, I believe the answers to our issues with racism, prejudice, and discrimination lie within each individual’s personal sense of justice. If you honestly imagine yourself on the receiving end of your own racist, prejudicial, or discriminatory actions, you would likely support the changes necessary for a more just society. If an individual is not aware or evolved to that spiritual level, changes cannot happen on their own. Awareness of personal justice, along with other spiritual values, often gets buried under the politics of belonging to our groups. If you find yourself overwhelmed by political influences, it is even more important to embrace and nurture your spiritual side. Otherwise, you risk remaining a prejudiced and discriminatory person. Fighting for rights for your group, even if successful, is not enough if the underlying cause remains. First, why must you fight for your rights in the first place? Second, there is a potential that once you obtain rights for your group, you may become prejudiced against others. The solution is to eliminate the root cause of the problem by advocating for equal individual human rights. If honest reciprocation is the goal, spiritual justice will prevail.

Today’s world is evolving towards equal human rights, which benefits humanity as a whole. If we do not acknowledge these changes, we may face looming chaos and lose our sense of security. No governing authority wants to pick up arms against its own people, which is why finding a balance between feeding the population and maintaining individual freedom is crucial. Divisive political rhetoric can lead us to extremes. If we take from the rich and give to the poor, it undermines freedom and incentives to work hard and succeed. Similarly, if there are too many hungry stomachs to feed, peace and justice are unattainable because all positive and spiritual outcomes depend on satisfying basic human needs.

Regardless of wealth, infectious diseases like the coronavirus and extreme weather caused by global warming highlight our fragility and mortality. It is not only the responsibility of governing authorities to maintain peace and provide food; as individuals, we must also contribute and possibly make sacrifices. Viewing our taxes as a duty of reciprocation can help us survive. We are spiritual yet physical beings; we do not need guns but self-regulation to achieve peace. This self-regulation stems from nurtured spirituality, but even the most spiritually strong individuals can be broken down by hunger and related physical realities.

Continuing from the last blog, as I mentioned, as human beings, we naturally possess a powerful ability to create reality from our thoughts and imagination. The trouble is that this ability works both ways. If you envision something and wholeheartedly believe in it, you can actually manifest your thoughts into physical realities. However, this power can also create harmful physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health issues for yourself. Depending on your depth, you can even feel a direct connection between yourself and God, granting you the ability to individually heal or harm yourself through your thoughts and their corresponding realities.

Despite our modern-day evolution and advancements in Western societies, meditation is increasingly gaining popularity worldwide. Stressed individuals globally are turning to spiritual awareness to cope with everyday challenges. While meditation originates from Eastern philosophy, it is now practiced universally. Underestimating oneself is not an innate trait; it is instilled by our belonging groups for political purposes, including political religions. When accepted authorities tell you that you cannot connect with God directly but need intermediaries like prophets, religious leaders, or priests, you accept it without questioning. You conform to the traditions, customs, rituals, and rules of your belief system without challenging them.

The side effects of believing oneself to be irrelevant or unimportant, and losing self-esteem, are beneficial to the authorities to whom you belong. If you do not question these authorities, you diminish your self-importance. This makes it easier for the group to politically influence and manipulate you for their agendas. They thrive on individual weakness and promote a sense of irrelevance.

Contrary to old-style politics, where strong individuals are harder to control politically, they actually contribute more and make a group smarter and stronger. Throughout history, humanity has experimented with various governing and political systems—kingdoms, religions, empires, authoritarianism, socialism, and communism—but none have achieved the popularity of democracy. Democracy has popularized voting and equal human rights, combating prejudice and discrimination. The foundational assets of successful modern societies include fair pay for work and the feeling of equality irrespective of gender, race, color, nationality, or belief system. People flock to societies where they find equal human rights, contributing their talents to make those societies excel.

When there is freedom of speech and room for personal growth, individuals can imagine and create better societies. If a nation with smart citizens becomes authoritarian and disregards its individuals, it begins its decline because individuals always seek environments where they are valued.

Just as when constructing a building, you must honestly communicate with yourself, particularly in meditation. If even your self-communication is politically influenced, you cannot be truthful with yourself. You need to discuss the reality of your foundation, which may not be fully understood by you. The more real it is to you, the better, because you have limited time to waste, especially on political beliefs.

Not only do you have limited time, but you are also responsible for how you use that time, as it pertains to your mortal life. If you find it difficult to locate yourself amidst the numerous influential identities imposed upon you, examine your personal desires. Whether you seek to fit in, impress others, or be admired, keep your mortal nature in mind. There are two sides to this mortal coin. If you live solely for others, you may do yourself injustice; conversely, living exclusively for yourself can also lead to self-harm. As human beings, we are not merely physical creatures; we are also spiritual entities. Neglecting your spiritual side while solely nurturing your physical side can leave you spiritually starved, preventing contentment and happiness. Maintain awareness of your mortal nature to avoid extremes.

Recognize the power of your imagination to benefit rather than harm yourself. One side of this coin can create anxiety, self-inhibition, isolation, a restricted life, and self-harm, and can even lead you to harm others due to an inability to use your personal sense of justice. On the other side, through visualization, prayer, and reciprocation, you can create a different reality. For instance, physical exercise not only builds muscles but can also facilitate a direct connection with God, provided your mind is positive, pure, and clear. If your mind is cluttered with doubts about God and yourself, you will be everywhere and nowhere. You won’t achieve what less evolved creatures can, such as changing colors to blend into their environment. If you fail to understand yourself, you will be bogged down by daily survival and its accompanying anxiety. Your negative thoughts will manifest as physical realities, requiring you to engage in honest self-communication to resolve issues.

Believing yourself to be a victim or blaming others for your shortcomings is one thing; finding your spiritual self and establishing a direct connection with the source or God is another. If others build things for you, you may become a good soldier for your group but not for God. This may give you a sense of belonging, impressiveness, or admiration from your group, but it ignores your freedom and limits your potential as a human being. You were created by God as an independent entity; failing to utilize this ability means you are not fulfilling your potential as a CEO, as intended by God. Following our groups has historically led to politically inspired conflicts in which we hurt and kill each other for political purposes. As human beings, we all—without exception—possess our own personal atom of autonomy and free will. Therefore, we are all responsible for our actions. Even if you claim to lack choice, you must communicate with the atom of autonomy within you. While your external material life may differ, internally, you cannot afford to be dishonest, especially with yourself. Utilize all the abilities you possess, especially your spiritual side, which includes compassion, personal justice, love, and everything in between. If spiritually aware and in tune with your human nature, you will understand the importance of personal justice. Otherwise, the politics of belonging may devalue you until you feel worthless. Ultimately, it is up to you individually because you possess the inherent atom of autonomy.

Remember, being born into any race, gender, nation, religion, or group—whether with or without a belief system—should not lead to punishment. You have no control over or say in the circumstances of your birth, logically or spiritually. Therefore, you cannot hold yourself accountable for your birth circumstances, nor can you punish others for theirs. Reflect on history and observe how nations, races, and religions have treated innocents in the name of belonging. If ruled by the politics of belonging, use your personal and spiritual sense of justice to honestly assess your group’s actions toward the innocent.

We have evolved from cultures of division; even some religious doctrines label individuals as born sinners, contradicting spiritual law by punishing the innocent. Our political biases, prejudices, discriminations, and related actions against each other constitute spiritual crimes committed by our nations and religions, openly and with pride.

If you harm yourself or others due to thoughts of superiority, you are on the wrong side of the spiritual coin. You possess free will and are individually responsible for your choices. Use your thoughts and their corresponding realities for the benefit of yourself and humanity. Unfortunately, we have been entangled in the political realities imposed by our groups, hindering our progress.

Our problem is that politically, we have been and are keeping individuals from realizing their potential because they themselves believe they are irrelevant, unimportant, and even sinners, yet that has nothing to do with God.

All sins depend on or conform to society’s rules and the era we live in. Just look at it from today’s perspective: past sins are no longer sins, and previously accepted practices like racism, prejudice, and discrimination are now widely regarded as bad and sinful. Harming or punishing the innocent has always been wrong but has been politically accepted, even by organized religions. The Pope is just starting to accept modern-day changes—or rather, realities—of today. Personally, I don’t believe this stems from the spiritual side of religion but is a political decision, because going against equal human rights could potentially put religious institutions up for sale, even if it’s just for a dollar (read: “God’s house for sale”).

Our imagination may not be akin to our ego, but both have two sides to them, making them similar. Hence, we should exclusively pursue their beneficial sides. Often, as individuals and even collectively, we politically choose their harmful sides. If you are an able CEO, you can be wise enough to see both sides of the coin. Otherwise, influenced by the politics of belonging, you will likely end up choosing the harmful side, especially if you are not careful. We harm others and ourselves by engaging in wars, whether external or internal.

Our imaginative constructs are not based on reality, yet we create them nonetheless. When we go to war and kill each other over our belief systems, we turn our imagined constructs into physical realities. This can be seen as a form of godhood gone awry, all due to the politics of belonging. The correct path should involve understanding spiritual compassion, peace, and love. However, we have historically and continue to choose passionate wars, not because of a spiritual God, but due to politics. Whether or not you believe in God, if you participate in political wars and use God as justification, you are tarnishing God with human emotional politics.

Personally, I don’t place much emphasis on the unknowns, such as witchcraft, psychics, horoscopes, fortune-telling, exorcisms, ghosts, magic, or visiting the tombs of dead saints or prophets for help. Anything extraordinary or not clearly physical or understood should be considered unknown and unclear to all of us, as we are still evolving. Instead of blindly believing in or outright rejecting them based on egoistic assumptions, I categorize them as my unknowns. As long as we are evolving, there should be respect for all forms of human knowledge. To me, this is a healthy approach. If you are not open to learning anything new, you are operating from ego and adhering to politically installed assumptions, whether yes or no.

Reflecting on these matters brings me back to the concept of creating physical realities from our thoughts and imagination. If you truly believe in extraordinary phenomena beyond the comprehension of ordinary humans, you will actively seek them out, making anything strange become real to you. Since I don’t prioritize these in my actual life, I have not experienced them. But if you ask me, “How real is God to me?” My answer is, in the absence of human beings, things logically lose their physicality. Yet, do I believe in our godly and spiritual realities? Without a doubt. When an individual human feeds a hungry person or any creature, especially without any strings attached, I witness how God works tangibly through ordinary human beings. Observe the social good being done by living, breathing God around us. Depending on your view of God, if you were taught that God does everything and you are insignificant, that would logically be incorrect, as God needs human beings to perform godly deeds. Now, where does God fit into your personal life? If God is on a pedestal and you are deemed insignificant or absent, you have been politically brainwashed. Belonging groups ensure you do not believe in your significance. If you think you are unimportant or a born sinner, it’s because they want to diminish your self-esteem and make you easily controlled.

To discover your true self, look within. If you find your atom of autonomy, you will find a god-like entity within yourself. I don’t wish to discuss the devil within, as I believe that engaging in evil acts for belonging groups is the logical devil. By doing so, you are directly opposing God’s will, even if it is done in the name of religion. This is not just a simple matter of belonging; it’s about your actions dictating whether you align with the devil or God. Remember, both depend on you and how you shape your realities.

If you still doubt yourself, consider the human ability and desire to protect others from harm. Where do you think this impulse comes from? While I wish it were non-political, it’s an example of people joining the armed forces due to this desire. Unfortunately, it is often exploited politically by belonging groups. However, risking your life for others is clearly a spiritual notion.

When someone invents drugs like insulin, develops life-saving procedures, or creates vaccines for diseases like COVID-19 to save lives, it is God speaking through them, regardless of political affiliations. This is how I believe in God. It may differ from others’ beliefs, but I wholeheartedly believe in our spiritual side. Ask yourself, how do you believe in God? Do you blindly follow whatever your religious leader preaches, or do you question their political motives? Do you seek the well-being of your group exclusively, or do you strive for all human beings? This is where you must question why or why not. If you can’t question, your personal belief system is politically tainted. Only by honestly shedding these politics can you truly reach an unbiased and spiritually real God. Otherwise, you will not only be politically biased, prejudiced, and discriminatory but also believe that even God is biased, prejudiced, and discriminatory—a double spiritual crime for you.

For me, judging a belief system’s spirituality means examining its core teachings. I personally believe that every belief system should espouse equal human rights and spiritual justice as foundational principles. If not, their spiritual teachings are tainted by politics. Following such tainted beliefs could lead to becoming a prejudiced and discriminatory individual, which is unappealing in today’s world. Hence, we must separate politics from spirituality, or risk causing harm to others and ourselves.

Remember, your atom of autonomy resides within you. If you are not spiritually aligned, balanced, and enriched, you will lose inner peace. While it may feel natural to live within the bounds of your group due to loyalty, this is a result of early indoctrination. There’s nothing wrong with joining a group politically, as long as you do not compromise your personal sense of justice. It all hinges on self-understanding; losing balance between your spiritual and physical sides is a significant issue, not just in history but in our current era as well. This internal conflict is no trivial matter; it has the power to deprive individuals of inner peace, spiritual fulfillment, happiness, and contentment—all crucial aspects of mortal life.

The debate over the existence of God has never been the real issue; rather, it’s the politics of belonging that dictate our realities. As far as human wisdom goes, there’s no end in sight, at least not yet. Delving into it deeply may lead us away from God, not because of God but because of our politics of belonging. Hence, an honest inquiry will always reveal that we cannot fully comprehend it, as we are only using a fraction of our cognitive capacities and are still evolving. Even the foundation of belief systems is built on unknowns, portrayed egoistically as certainties. Consequently, this exerts a powerful influence on us as human beings. It has the potential to aid us in navigating mortal life with hope, optimism, happiness, and contentment, which are otherwise hard to come by. The wisdom of God is intensely personal and individual; thus, its benefits or harms are also individual.

I happen to believe that this wisdom of God is a priceless gem, worthy of one’s life. Without a belief in God, it’s just a drop of water to you, regardless of its origins. You cannot derive any benefit from it because you fail to acknowledge its value in your transient life. In today’s world, everyone has the prerogative to live their life as they see fit. However, a life of deep happiness and contentment is increasingly rare due to our disconnection from our spiritual side.

Two plus two equals four is mathematically correct, and so are many scientific discoveries. Their knowledge can only benefit you if you apply it during your lifetime. The same applies to knowledge of the unknown. You can benefit from it, but you do not fully understand its workings, much like the placebo effect. As you age, what was once a simple calculation may no longer add up due to our ego’s reluctance to accept imperfections. In the journey of aging, failure to adapt to change can lead to a loss of happiness and contentment. In mortal life, happiness and contentment are paramount; ignoring them amidst imperfections can be daunting.

It’s difficult to accept that we do not know everything. If you believe you must know everything, your time will run out before you learn even a fraction of it. Therefore, embrace all facets of life. The best approach is to remain in a constant state of learning. Deciding or believing in certainties, whether known or unknown, egoistically feels natural, but it is inadequate for a constantly evolving entity like a human being. Today’s truth may be disproven tomorrow, so not knowing everything is acceptable because it leaves room for further learning and evolution.

Both science and religion share one thing in common: they advocate for the belief in knowledge as ultimate truth, suggesting that nothing more needs to be learned. However, since we continue to learn new things daily, no one should claim complete knowledge about any subject, even with repeatable results. Even accepted truths can potentially work against us, such as when drugs approved for human use can interact dangerously due to unknowns.

Passionate individuals compel you to adopt their beliefs due to their politics of belonging. Therefore, it’s up to you to question everything before you follow. We all have the ability to open ourselves to spiritual wisdom for self-help, as it can genuinely bring life to our years. Regardless of my level of evolution, I personally believe that belief in God is a priceless wisdom, akin to a pearl rather than just a drop of water. It can benefit anyone, enabling them to delve inward, find inner peace, and spread spiritual benefits to others. This pearl helps me to explore within and enjoy deep happiness and contentment. I don’t merely live to nourish my body and mind; I believe in feeding my soul to achieve equilibrium in my mortal life.

Recognizing that we don’t know everything is human. Therefore, especially for mortals like us, my happiness and contentment mean more to me than egoistically claiming complete knowledge or feeling the need to know everything. In the realm of aging, if we do not adapt as things change, we may find ourselves at odds with our happiness and contentment amidst life’s imperfections.

In conclusion, the leader like Trump on one side urges you to join a specific group, nation, or religion, while on the other side, a virus like COVID-19 or issues like global warming compel you to embrace humanity as a whole. Individuals with a strong sense of belonging will naturally gravitate towards their group and its prejudiced, discriminatory politics. Conversely, those with spiritual fortitude grounded in common sense will lean towards advocating for equal human rights and the unity of humanity to address global challenges with universal solutions.

Some may find the idea of working as a unified humanity absurd, preferring group loyalty instead. I believe otherwise because history repeatedly shows our evolution. In India, the caste system existed or still exists, but Islam’s arrival brought change. Islamic prayer requires standing in lines and bowing down to the ground, symbolizing equality—your head is at the feet of the person in front of you. They sought to abolish Hindu practices like Sati, where widows were expected to immolate themselves with their deceased husbands, a practice the British also sought to eliminate and is now virtually nonexistent and certainly not popular. We have strived to do right by the individual, but group rights often obstruct progress. Many individuals cannot see beyond their politics of belonging, hindering the pace of change. Despite this, we have collectively recognized the benefits of democracy and equal human rights. While we may not have fully achieved these ideals, they are gaining popularity.

The United States’ Trump era serves as an example, as Americans grapple with this issue despite being vocal proponents of democracy and equal rights. The courts do not always align with Trump’s objectives because the constitution is designed for a democratic society. What is right for the individual differs from what is right for the group. One is aligned with universal and spiritual truths, while the other is rooted in prejudiced and discriminatory politics of belonging. Which path do you choose? For an evolved individual, the answer is clear, but the politics of belonging can override all our civilization and progress.

We are undergoing social change, albeit at varying speeds. We no longer sacrifice virgins by throwing them off cliffs, yet our work remains unfinished. My purpose in writing this is to highlight our slow but persistent social evolution. If you are someone deeply invested in group politics, consider two significant points. First, setting aside suffering, consider the human death toll resulting from groups fighting and killing each other’s individuals, regardless of innocence. I wager we cannot even quantify this toll because it has been a part of our group consciousness since time immemorial. Second, examine the crime rates in each society and observe who commits these crimes and against whom. You cannot simply attribute these to other groups, as statistics clearly show that people from the same belonging group often commit social crimes against each other.

Logically, this is all tied to the level of our evolution. We must take the next step in our evolution to unite as humanity as a whole. The politics of belonging to our groups are and will continue to place obstacles in our path, doing everything possible to hinder this progress. Consider the International Space Station and the internet as examples of humanity working together. Global warming-induced extreme weather events and infectious diseases like the coronavirus demand that we evolve and take a leap of faith. They do not acknowledge our political party divisions, boundary lines, or human community borders. Ask the Chinese why their wall did not contain the virus, or consider if the United States had a wall around the entire country, could it keep out extreme weather or the coronavirus? Be rational and ask yourself what your answer would be.

As nations, we can think and physically build monuments like walls for political reasons. However, not all our constructs are healthy for us as individuals when it comes to practical reality. Personally, I believe that all our religious monuments do not contribute much to individuals because I believe in practical prayers. Our thoughts should not just remain thoughts; they should shape our physical reality. A grand mosque or church may be related to our group politics, yet it still represents a physical reality of religion. If we are still killing each other, experiencing poverty, hunger, and related death tolls, these are the true realities of humanity. This indicates that our walls, nations, and religions have not been truly successful for humanity and the individual. Our politics of belonging to our groups have been, are, and will be a reality for a long time unless we begin to think, act, and create physical realities from spirituality. Equal human rights represent the most spiritual system of all, and we should all vote to incorporate them into all our constitutions.

THINK, IMAGINE, VISUALIZE, PHYSICALLY CREATE YOUR SPIRITUAL REALITIES AND GIVE PHYSICAL LIFE TO SPIRITUAL GOD.

Going to start this one with a word of advice. Understand that no matter how absurd it is to you, if someone is trying to follow their religious beliefs they are actually trying to become a good person because religious knowledge usually consists of spirituality.Instead of putting each others belief system down keep eye on their efforts to be good and a decent individual. Before you argue, fight and kill each other over your religious beliefs take two simple steps. First honestly remove the politics of your sense of belonging to your group. Second understand and remove what I call ignorance because with our evolving knowledge being trenched into something is either politics or ignorance related. When you learn to clean all that, you will enter in a spiritual zone where God can become a physical reality for you individually, otherwise its a political mambo jumbo.

Not an easy task but hopefully you will be able to separate politics from spirituality and really understand the essence of having a religious belief. Not only it will help you to understand spirituality but how to become a human being what God had really meant for us. By critically looking behind our individual behaviors and actions. We can not only discover our personal insecurities and the powerful politics of sense of belonging but our physical and spiritual realities as well.

Since you are an evolving organism everything what you do or think is in the process of evolution so claiming that this is it, simply can’t be right and it may take you to a place where you end up putting your foot in your mouth. All our knowledge, physical systems and even our collective systems of governing human populations should be subjected to change as needed. From medicine to religion and everything in between has been evolving yet it has been effected by the populations and some time held back by the massive ego.

Individually and even collectively we tend to secure ourselves yet unfortunately most of the time from other human beings. It is unfortunate that we still are entangled into disputes with each other yet we are a complex but simply one organism. We have the potential to over come our differences if we can understand ourselves. Every individual and collective dispute is related to the way we think, from parents and grown up children to between mates, socially, politically, physically, scientifically and religiously we are as divided as we were thousands of years ago. Today’s science is discovering and proving that genetically human beings actually are an organism. You may look different in color and size but when you meet the present with your political arms open, you would be able to see from blood transfusion to organ transplantation to emotional responses there is nothing you can find what can point towards you being different. Sure our political lines on the globe are a sign of insecurity but our insecurity still points towards our sameness.

Long time ago I bought a magazine just because of the cover. Interestingly magazine is called The Economist yet I did not buy that because of learning economy. On the cover it said Microbes maketh man. That I what made me curious about it. Dated, August 18th-24th 2012. I read the article and learn “Quote” “People are not just people. They are an awful lot of microbes, too.”

I learnt that each and everyone of us have ten trillion cells with 23,000 genes. Yet with 100 trillion bacteria of several hundred species bearing 3 million non- human genes. If you look at the sophistication and complexities of us running around calling ourselves as human beings in control of everything. I would not take our life as simple as we have been preached to believe. Sure we are highly complex but if we are constantly being discovered by ourselves. We are learning, adopting and evolving yet there has always been and is a segment of population which resists to believe in all that. We may think and believe in different ways to live but we all are born, we live and die pretty well the same way. We can say that we are cleaner, better looking or stronger than others but it would exclusively be from outside. Inside however we all carry the same genetics and I should call it an organized mess especially if we look at ourselves biologically. Trouble is that our religious people would rather believe in following their way is the only way which logically promotes prejudice and discrimination related disputes. Since our religious beliefs are politically influenced they would not want to go where they will have to literally see our invisible realities. Going there means cleaning up religions from politics of belonging meaning blind justice, equality, spirituality, God and nothing but.

When I watched a documentary about creatures changing colors to blend in with their environment to be safe or hunt on the Discovery Chanel, it left me thinking to write about it. I thought of putting this article together long time ago but it got lost in the other subjects. Anyway now I am working on it and hoping for it to become a good read. I don’t remember exactly what it was called and when it was shown because it was long ago so I can’t really credit. I don’t think there would be a whole lot of documentaries to choose from. It was about a small stingray fish being put in a swimming pool with a checkered floor, when water was splashed it camouflaged itself into checkered exactly the same color of swimming pool floor. It blended so good that it disappeared right before your eyes.That ability to camouflage is the subject of today. I saw that happening in the movies but in reality why we are not able to do that as human beings? I believe its because our mind is full of million things at a time and we can’t have that focus and desire of animals but we have an imagination which can allow us to come up with creative ways to even better what other creatures can do.

Today if you look at our cars, planes and space shuttles, look at our artificial intelligence and our mega cities, look at our advances we are making in medicine and see what we are capable of doing and who we are? How we are learning to save lives with drugs and vaccination yet still our populations don’t agree. From believing in God to disputing with each other over who is right is a common human trait. Some believe wholeheartedly and some disregard it as a religious mambo jumbo but interestingly from either side we still don’t really know about everything. If we only agree that we learn something new everyday, that alone should clear everything but unfortunately we are not that simple. I think as human beings we may need to learn and evolve even further to find out more about our selves to stop killing each other over who is right.

Not only we need to know why do we kill each other regardless of individual’s guilt we need to know why do we even resist our on coming knowledge? Why do we find killing each other is easier than evolving to the next level? It takes our attention to focus on one thing to learn more and we individually lack that attention. Its all because of not only our personal desires to follow politics of our groups but our group’s demands to obey their agendas as well. If religious people would have allowed their followers to evolve just like science encouraged its followers, we would have discovered a lot more about the real meanings of our compassion and love by now. Perhaps by now we would have overcome our desires to kill people who don’t agree with us. Looking at the world politics, interestingly regardless of Corona virus killing us indiscriminately our killing each other over our disputes has never stopped.

If not throwing virgins over the cliffs to not burning widows alive with their dead husbands is a progress then why don’t we learn that we still do weird things for our belonging groups and mass. We are able to and do create real things out of thin air of our thoughts. Since we are a creature unlike others we need to out do them by evolving to the next level. If they can grow wings, fangs, claws, horns, spots and color of their fur or change colors and patterns to blend in with their environment we can do better than all that. If we can top everything other creatures can do why can’t we over come our politics of sense of belonging? If you see and compare we can fly not only higher than winged birds we go where they can’t even go. We dig deeper than any creature with claws, we swim in the depth of the ocean without the help of gills. We can flatten mountain build mega cities and come up with weapons against unseen enemies like Corona virus. Yet just can’t evolve enough to overcome politics of sense of belonging. We all have to ponder about our personal insecurities and the power of the politics of our belonging groups.

All that sophistication came from somewhere one can say from God another can say from personal desires to evolve, either way we as human beings should respect all that. Sure we don’t grow wings, fangs, claws, fur, horns or change our color like other creatures but we have used our thoughts to evolve to be where we are today. Simply look at our sports we break records all the time, especially looking at the body builders, I am not going to question what they use or do to get there, they are the clear and see able example of evolution in the sports. I am not talking about the process but I am talking about the start of the process. When an individual thinks, desires and puts efforts along with visualization of having to grow bigger muscles that is the start of process. Which is not limited to our sports. Since it comes from individual’s desire which is the foundation of actually creating and converting spiritual thoughts into physical realities. Our ability to evolve has been under rated by the politics of belonging groups because they want the individual to be irrelevant, insecure and self defeating so they can stay in power. That does not mean I don’t believe in God, it just means that God is there but we can only connect to physical God by personal and strong desire. If desires are politically tainted or are too many of them we just can’t concentrate nor we can fulfill to reach our goals simply because we have a short period of time for our physical existence.

Now lets look at the body which has 10 trillions of cells with 23,000 genes and hundred trillion bacteria with millions of genes. This kind of knowledge I would compare it with space’s vastness and complexities. Sure we have been figuring out a whole lot, especially since the computer and internet started to help but things have been changing for us since the beginning of our awareness. Only one thing has not changed and that is our individual mortality.

Since we have been blessed with our individual atom of autonomy and related free will, we can think and evolve individually to the point that we can become a CEO of our lives. That means buck should stop with us individually, sure one can say we don’t have a choice but in reality we all are responsible for our actions. How we live through our mortal life can be influenced but in the end of the day we individually have the free will, so we do have a choice. One can spend their whole life believing what religions say yet the other can spend life believing what scientists say. Either way it is a personal prerogative for you so if you live with or without the belief system its your choice as well.

Now remember your choices should be based on to help you to live a better life especially if it is a mortal life. Choosing personally to live a comfortable mortal life is our individual responsibility so religion, no religion, science or no science or somewhere in between is still a choice.

Now lets look at where we have been and where we are today? Starting with space, a scientist says there is no God anywhere up there but there was a marble which exploded, don’t really know but billions of years ago so to me its an assumption related. Anyway that explosion has been expanding ever since and for billions of years and don’t forget we came along long after that so it would be an other assumption scientific may be but non the less assumption. We don’t really know where did that marble come from, why and how it exploded? Since it happened before our existence we just have to believe because Sari and Alexa says so we have to assume that it had happened.

I am glad that science has certain standers for not to believe in something which can not be repeated to achieve the same results. That takes me to our body, we find drugs working scientifically but by some percentage. A medicine can drop blood pressure, cholesterol, help in controlling urination or anything what we call disease. As I said our body is like space so you may fix one thing but you don’t really know how everything else is effected by the treatment. Even years later you may develop a different problem or other disease from your efforts to fix and treat a problem. I let the experts argue about it, but my point is that we may reach the space and claim whatever we want to but we don’t really know not 100%. Problem is not the knowledge but its our evolving nature. Our cars and plans are not the same what we had even ten years ago so nothing stand still for us. Interestingly we still claim that we know better than others yet with evolving knowledge. Most interestingly that we can’t figure out the start and end of it all.

If you believe in your religion you can have several stories but in reality sooner or later you will end up on the cliff of faith so you will have to die to really find out how it ends? If you look for scientific solutions you don’t really know how it started, theory can can be believed for constantly expanding explosion but what, how and why did it explode would still be in the air. Personally I believe that I am a mortal and I don’t have that much time left so should I spend that much time to know what happened in the beginning and what is going to happen in the end? Should it be looked at as a fact? My question is then what is the difference between believing in God and expanding explosion? Either way you have to believe in something what is not clear so my suggestion would be to put it in your basket of unknown and live your personal life with reciprocation in the foundation of your strategy. Believing in you and your belonging group being right is not really right related but it is assumptions related politics which is prejudicial and discriminatory so no spiritually it is not right.

I personally would lean towards believing in God because we are making good things happen physically yet with our vision of God so physically God exists with the human beings as cells. I would believe in the path taking me to the cliff of faith because at the least it is teaching me to be a decent individual towards others. If my religious foot prints related path is taking me to become a prejudiced and a discriminatory individual I would rather go alone to jump over the cliff of faith. If I can learn about the compassion, forgiveness, sacrifice, honesty, justice and above all love to live a mortal life with some dignity I am all for it. You can pick any and all and learn about these spiritual jewels but science is not going to be able to teach you about this side of human knowledge. To me no one should disrespect different sides of human knowledge and try to put each other down. Especially we individually need to become a CEO so we learn to balance our sense of belonging with our sense of freedom to live our mortal time with some quality. You can be a scientist and still wear your spiritual jewelry with pride because you are a human being before you become a scientist. If you start to look for your real identity you would really have to dig deep. Your belonging groups have given you several identities so peel them one at a time so you can understand them as well. Your gender, name, family name, tribe name, your color, your nationality and your religion are already too many to count, if you add your degree to it you human identity is buried quite far deep.

Who would not want to be a decent human being? If you know that being comfortable in your mortal skin is essential, you would learn it scientifically. Ask yourself why do we feel good when we are able to help others? Why love make us happy? Sacrifice is a net loss yet it gives us spiritual fulfillment, ever wonder why? Ask these questions to yourself in private and keep your mortal nature in front of you then decide what you prefer, science, religion or as I said choose both but create balance. YOU CAN DO ALL THAT BECAUSE YOU ARE THE ONE WHO IS A CEO AND HELPS IN GOD TO PHYSICALLY EXIST.

I want to clarify one thing before I begin. I do not support arguing over religious beliefs, but I firmly stand for justice and equal human rights. I believe our belief systems exist to spiritually fulfill individual needs, not to serve the political agendas of groups. If you are content and spiritually fulfilled with the religion you were born into, that’s commendable. However, if you believe your knowledge is definitive, this read is especially for you—particularly if your affiliation is doing more than providing spiritual fulfillment. If your clique, political party, religion, or nation is leading you towards becoming a prejudiced and discriminatory individual, you must grasp this triangle before committing any spiritual transgressions for your group.

Any nation or religion struggling to grant equal human rights to its citizens, whether due to religious beliefs, skin color, or gender, needs to comprehend this triangle. We must all prioritize spiritual justice at the apex to succeed in our mortal lives. Understanding this triangle can genuinely enlighten us about what justice truly entails. It’s not the fault of individuals for being born a certain color, gender, nationality, or into a specific belief system—they are innocent of what they are being punished for. Punishing an innocent person is a universal spiritual crime. Therefore, if you choose to punish someone, especially for their religious beliefs, you are not only guilty of a crime against that innocent individual but also against God. After all, they were born according to God’s will, yet you were blinded by the politics of belonging to the extent that you, personally and collectively, failed to see it. Committing a spiritual crime against an innocent individual is a grave offense in itself, but implicating God elevates it to a higher level. An individual may become prejudiced or discriminatory due to negative personal experiences, but as groups, nations, and religions, we should all feel ashamed to be unjust, especially towards the innocent.

I believe in individual strength and personal accountability. No one should surrender their human identity to their group affiliations. It’s a fact that groups indoctrinate their followers from a young age, to the extent that even as adults, they struggle to take responsibility for their actions. As human beings, we are constantly evolving entities, which means all our knowledge, including what I am writing here, is subject to change and evolution. Thus, engaging in conflicts over who is right, despite our ongoing evolution, logically hasn’t been right, isn’t right now, and never will be right. This blog post aims to explain why prejudice and discrimination still persist in humanity and why achieving equal human rights remains elusive.

THE BEST DEFENSE AGAINST PREJUDICE AND DISCRIMINATION IS TO ADVOCATE FOR INDIVIDUAL EQUAL HUMAN RIGHTS. DEMANDING GROUP RIGHTS IN ITSELF IS PREJUDICIAL AND DISCRIMINATORY.

Spiritual Sense of Justice

Individual Group or Mass

This triangle provides insight into achieving foundational knowledge of equal human rights as intended. Equal human rights are not just crucial for individual balance but also for understanding collective equilibrium. First and foremost, it’s important to acknowledge that a human individual is the central figure in the entire narrative, despite the political rhetoric suggesting otherwise.

Whether it’s a group, community, nation, or religious belief system, they all regard the individual as fundamental to their essence or as a thread in their fabric. Without living, breathing individuals contributing physically to all kinds of groups, the life-giving essence of entities like God, the Devil, groups, nations, or religions can be extinguished. They all lose their significance or even their existence without the active participation of living human beings. To me, this makes the individual the most pivotal aspect of all human-related scenarios, whether political or related to belief systems. All these entities depend on the physical contributions of individuals to be acknowledged as tangible entities.

As you can see, I have placed spiritual sense of justice at the pinnacle, with individual and mass at the base—this represents the correct orientation of this subject. Placing justice at the bottom, with individual and mass at the top, turns it all into a political issue, giving rise to prejudice and discriminatory behaviors. Regrettably, even religions that preach spirituality have failed to prioritize justice at the apex, thereby reducing themselves to mere political entities. They propagated that God was solely for their group, not for everyone. To me, politics couldn’t be clearer than this. Not only did they become political, but they preached prejudice and practiced discrimination openly. This is why they currently face such challenges from the global spread of this new religion of equal human rights, which is spreading like wildfire. If you scrutinize the opposition standing in its way, you’ll find religions and conservative nationalism are increasingly becoming the minority.

When justice and politics are intermixed, with individual and mass placed at the top corners of this triangle, spiritual justice, particularly, loses its significance, and society begins to suffer in various ways. As I often say, just as spirituality and politics cannot be blended, neither can justice and politics. Hence, when religions incorporate politics into their belief systems, or when a nation merges politics into its justice system, spirituality is compromised, leaving them devoid of their true purpose.

When you live in a world with nearly two hundred justice systems, it is impossible to find one that can serve humanity as a whole without any prejudice and discrimination. You simply can’t remove politics from these exclusive justice systems, especially if you don’t question them and continue living within them as if they represent the best knowledge humanity can offer, leaving no room for evolution. This is why, even in this era of equal human rights, humanity still suffers from prejudice and discrimination. If you look at our international organizations like the United Nations, which grants veto power to certain nations, it automatically becomes a prejudiced organization, making equal human rights an unattainable dream. If you have an international court that nations can opt out of joining, it cannot be a real court nor deliver real justice. If you can’t evolve beyond your group politics and prioritize justice, you simply cannot achieve equal human rights for all individuals worldwide. This means prejudice and discrimination-related killings will persist for future generations to contend with.

No matter how loudly humanity calls for us to work together, if the politics of group belonging are foundational to our constitutions and religious beliefs, we cannot bring true and spiritual justice to all. If the United Nations, the International Court, or other international organizations are unsuccessful, it’s because they habitually sweep issues under the political rug. Calls to work together against climate extremes, global warming, internet crimes, or to bring equal human rights to all individuals are not being heard because, individually and collectively, we do not or cannot prioritize justice.

I personally believe the politics of group belonging is an individual issue, so if you bring it down to the individual level, things can change. As groups, we have not, are not, and will not bring the necessary changes to combat global problems due to our political interests. Humanity cannot achieve equal human rights because, as groups, we would lose the political power that makes us relevant, so we resist. If you bring it down to the individual level, things can drastically change, especially if the individual becomes a CEO. By individually putting spiritual justice at the top, we can remove politics from justice, one person at a time. An individual can start the change from within by granting equal human rights to others and receiving the same for themselves. As reasonably evolved human beings, it can be easy to accept others as equals, and we would not do to others what we don’t want done to ourselves or our loved ones. When an individual loses personal identity, we see ourselves as part of a group, and as groups, politics can take over everything, including our decency and human identity.

Sure, a personal sense of spiritual justice doesn’t grow on trees, but each of us brings it from before birth. It just needs to be nurtured individually, but our groups systematically dismantle it by politically brainwashing us from the start. Our installed data becomes more important to us than ourselves, causing us to lose our personal sense of justice, relevance, importance, and self-esteem all at once. By losing personal identity, we become puppets for our groups, yet with pride. In my triangle philosophy, the individual is not only the third component with God and the Devil. According to spiritual justice, we are all equal to our groups, nations, and religions. By losing our individuality, we become mere fuel for our group disputes. You can’t regain your CEO status if you don’t even want it. If you want to remove prejudice and discrimination from your life, you must first take charge of your life. Nurture your personal sense of justice to the point where you can prioritize it for yourself. Then you will be able to see the group politics hidden behind your nationalism and religious beliefs. Unless you assume and assert your inherent CEO status, finding individual importance within the ocean of politics is not easy, especially among your politically powerful groups, God, and the Devil.

In a nutshell, justice starts and ends with the individual. Remember, don’t do to anyone what you don’t want done to you or your loved ones. You can only achieve that level of spirituality by taking charge of your life beyond your political affiliations. Being a CEO helps you to put everything and everyone, even your group, God, and the Devil, as departments of your life. You can’t run the show without accepting your real identity, so do justice to yourself first before seeking equal justice for all.

Sure, God, the Devil, nations, and religions are big and strong, but you need to discover what is behind their strength. Dig in a little, but logically, and guess who shows up? Yes, it’s you, the human individual. A living, breathing human being who lends physical hands, backs, and shoulders to make these entities strong. In reality, the human individual is the main character in this whole spiritual picture, making everything a physical reality; otherwise, it’s just a mirage, like what lies beyond the cliff of belief systems. If you give yourself up, it’s your choice, but always remember you are the life and blood of all the above, including yourself. If you don’t do justice to yourself, it’s your choice, but don’t forget to recognize the politics behind the brainwashing you received in your tender years as the cause of your weakness.

In reality, you are the vehicle carrying all the entities like God, the Devil, nations, and your religious beliefs within you. It’s not the space or the ocean itself but the knowledge of them all. What is more important to you? God, the Devil, your group, nation, religion, space, ocean, and all that you know, or yourself as a mortal being on a temporary visit? Hypothetically, take yourself out of the equation and see what happens to all that you know. Now ask yourself about your importance, honestly. Your answer won’t come from somewhere out there but from within you. Think about it for a while, then assess the value of everything you consider important during your temporary visit. I don’t want you to become a selfish entity because that makes you incomplete; instead, learn to create balance so you consider yourself a relevant and important being with self-esteem.

Now, let’s look at ourselves as individuals with general knowledge but from a different perspective. Sure, we are born to our parents and communities, but we bring along much more than we are taught to believe. Just look at yourself and ask why we have all these abilities and what we are literally capable of. Before diving in too deeply, let’s simplify some things. Generally, we have two eyes, ears, a nose, and so on. Sure, we look different in colors, shapes, and sizes, but we all function exactly the same way. We are born, need oxygen, food, water, and love, and hurt from the same things. We eat, sleep, get old, sick, and die the same way. So far, everything is the same, but what happens to us with the political knowledge of our groups? It can draw a different picture for everyone. Why? Don’t you want to know your personal answers without political influences?

Since we are social creatures, we individually and collectively need to understand much more about ourselves individually before engaging in any relationships of life. From family and friendship to community to nation and belief systems related to God and the Devil, to individual understanding for self. Our personal powers, like free will and the ability to function independently, should be critically examined by us individually. As mortal individuals, it is essential to create balance rather than blindly following what is advised and popular according to group politics. When you look at the relationship between the individual and the community, with spirituality as the foundation, you can easily see reciprocation in action. Reciprocation is an act of give and take that goes both ways, so ideally, this triangle should help understand it all. Relationships with parents, family, community, nation, and religions, even God, all depend on the philosophy of give and take. So how can you overcome personal and individual insecurities to create this crucial balance without becoming a CEO? If you are insecure, you will be inclined to take, take, and take because you want to secure yourself. Unfortunately, with the knowledge of a CEO, anyone can understand that for us mortals, there is no logical security; otherwise, we would be trying to overcome our mortality first.

Regardless of all the ego, pride, and honor, we should simply look at our mortal nature and keep it at the forefront to be honest with ourselves. By doing so, you can learn to give and take equally yet gladly. How would you know that you can’t just take and take? Interestingly, we all come with our human nature, which includes a built-in spiritual side as an atom of autonomy, along with other traits that dictate the need for compassion, love, justice, and sacrifice. Understanding your spiritual side will lead you to your inherent personal sense of spiritual justice.

Spiritual justice is pure and should transcend all forms of political affiliations and concepts of freedom. If you believe in taking, taking, and taking, you are leaning towards the extreme of individualism. Being selfish is not, and should not be, a trait of a decently evolved human being. As humans, we feel deep spiritual happiness when we are useful to others and genuinely enjoy giving, even when it results in a net loss for us. However, if you constantly give, give, and give, you fall into another extreme, neglecting the balance necessary for spiritual justice to be at the apex of your life’s priorities.

No matter what you have been taught, either extreme is detrimental, especially for a mortal being. Given our mortality and free will, choosing either extreme is unwise. If you belong to a group that promotes constant giving, you will be influenced by the politics of that group and serve the collective. This often leads to unfulfilled expectations from the group, resulting in unhappiness, even though you sought deep spiritual satisfaction from your actions. If you give solely for God, remember not to neglect yourself, as you are also responsible for your own well-being. God might question whether you used your free will wisely.

On the other hand, if you live by the principle of taking, taking, and taking, you will not be happy when required to pay your fair share, such as taxes and fees. The issue is not how you live or what you have but your spiritual fulfillment during your temporary existence. If you lack spiritual fulfillment, you need to examine the reasons, with extremism being one of them. While prioritizing others and God can be noble, you must find a middle ground to achieve personal meaning and happiness.

We need to view ourselves as equal entities, whether as individuals, corporations, communities, nations, or religious organizations. All should be treated equally. Remember, politics and spirituality do not mix, just as justice and politics cannot mix. When they do, spirituality is compromised, and belief systems and justice systems become prejudicial and discriminatory. This is why the statue of Lady Justice is blindfolded.

The Essence of Equal Human Rights

Real equal human rights mean that an individual is not only equal to each other but also collectively equal to all human organizations, nations, and religions, as justice should be blind. Equal justice stems from our spiritual nature, but the undermining power of the masses cannot be ignored. Historically, humanity has often sacrificed individuals for the masses. Unlearning this tendency is a challenge for both individuals and societies. Consider the injustices committed by the masses, not only against individuals but also in the name of God, politicizing the divine.

Where do you personally place God in your life? How much do political influences affect your thoughts? Can you stand up against your group if it uses God for political reasons? As a human individual, you possess a personal sense of spiritual justice. By maintaining this balance, you can navigate life’s complexities like a natural CEO. Your mortality should remind you of the importance of spiritual justice. Ignoring it can create internal conflicts, risking your happiness and contentment.

The masses have always preached individual sacrifice, but if the masses continually take, it is not just. This triangle of balance and reciprocation is essential. Whether between individuals, corporations, nations, religions, or God, everything should be founded on and balanced by spiritual justice.

The Balance Between Individual and Collective

Consider socialism, which, despite appearing great on the surface, prioritizes the masses over individuals, potentially going too far against individual liberation. Religions share similarities with socialism, both sometimes opposing individual freedom. Conversely, total individual freedom can lead to societal chaos due to individual insecurities. The disparity between the 1% and the 99% is a result of individual insecurities.

Balanced and equal justice for all inclines individuals to reciprocate, as it is based on equal spiritual justice. Without spiritual justice, individuals and the masses may rob each other by resorting to extremes. Law and order without a justice system are impotent. Individuals must contribute fairly while ensuring the system remains just, fostering balance and peace.

Taxes, often viewed politically, should be seen through the lens of spirituality. A spiritual perspective on taxes promotes the understanding of reciprocity and the purpose of life.

The Circle of Life and Reciprocal Relationships

From birth, we rely on others. As we grow, we care for the vulnerable, continuing the circle of life. If everyone viewed reciprocity as life’s purpose, societal harmony would be easier to achieve. The philosophy of taking without giving harms relationships, whether with a mate, family, friends, or community. Extremes of giving or taking are detrimental to social creatures. Decency and social nature are vital; balance is essential for a meaningful life.

Financial security is important, but so is social compassion. Inner peace and harmony with your autonomy’s atom are keys to a fulfilling life.

The Role of Spiritual Justice

When people lose their sense of spiritual justice, they lose their humanity. Placing oneself above others, or belonging groups without spiritual justice, reduces one to a mere creature lacking spiritual awareness. Nurturing our spiritual side strengthens us as individuals and brings inner peace.

Becoming responsible and taking charge of your life means not succumbing to the politics of your belonging groups. Balance, created by spiritual justice, leads to a successful mortal life. Without spiritual justice, life leads to prejudice and discrimination, making equal human rights unattainable. Spiritual justice fosters empathy and eradicates prejudice and discrimination.

The Importance of Individual Responses

Regardless of your knowledge base, remember that your responses to it matter more than the knowledge itself. Responses under the pressures and political influences of belonging groups are personal.

Influenced responses are signs of individual insecurity and spiritual deficiency. Our sense of freedom should be as strong as our sense of belonging to create balance and avoid extreme choices.

Understanding your strength can save you from self-inflicted pain caused by political influences. You are not the data installed in you; you are the one running the show. Avoid spiritual crimes in the name of your belonging group. Your actions can harm others and yourself. Learn from war veterans’ experiences and recognize that your installed knowledge can hurt you.

As a responsible adult, reevaluate everything and become what God intended—a CEO of your life, knowing it is your responses to knowledge that define you.

For instance, if a father tells his son that he will be a loser for the rest of his life, the son’s response can go in entirely different directions. He might become determined to prove his father wrong, or he might accept it as the truth because it comes from an authority figure. How the son responds is highly personal and individual. If he chooses to prove his father wrong, it is a response that comes deeply from his heart. Our knowledge has the power to cut both ways, so choose wisely, as we can be hurt by our own choices. Especially when we are torn by the powerful sense of belonging and the equally powerful sense of freedom from within. That is why it is important to be the CEO of our life so we can not only understand these pulls but have the power to create balance.

If you find yourself blaming either yourself or another individual for the shortcomings in your life, and you claim to believe in God, there is a contradiction in your belief. Either you believe in God’s will or you don’t. Blaming God may reduce your stress, but blaming yourself and others shows confusion. Clearing things up for yourself is easy but also the most difficult thing to do because it involves questioning your personal belief system. It is a common disconnect in belief systems yet difficult to address because of our ingrained beliefs. This confusion doesn’t help reduce stress or bring comfort; it makes one’s personal belief system questionable because you can’t speak from both sides of your mouth. Either you believe in God and God’s influence in your everyday life, or you don’t. You need to be clear for yourself, especially in your deeply personal belief system, because having faith can help you live a calm and peaceful life. God’s existence is highly dependent on the individual’s belief system. As individuals, we all need to carry on living with some hope and optimism, especially given our awareness of mortality. Otherwise, a lack of belief has the potential to drain the life out of our already temporary existence. This is where understanding the importance of spiritual knowledge comes in, as our hope and optimism can turn our tears into valuable pearls, whereas a lack of spirituality reduces them to mere drops of water. This means you can benefit from your belief system or waste it all, regardless of being a regular mosque or church-goer.

There is no doubt that larger issues matter to us human beings, but our mortality and personal free will tell us to become the CEO of our life so we can balance our life when making decisions. If you become a CEO, you will understand how important it is to take charge. You simply can’t afford to lose focus on yourself as a temporary being. Your personal happiness and contentment should top the chart of your life. If you desire to understand yourself better, it is a sign of being a CEO. If you think about the consequences of your actions, it indicates your spiritual side is intact. Whatever makes you think about that also makes you a responsible being. This is your key to living comfortably within a mortal skin, regardless of the realities you face in your everyday life.

If you find yourself arguing passionately about things beyond your lifetime, such as politics, religion, or God, ensure you don’t stress yourself to the point of losing your precious relationships. Your family, friends, and personal health and happiness mean more than you are taught to believe. Stress and related illnesses can be prevented by making the right choices. Remember, it is your responsibility to protect yourself from your emotional politics and even from yourself. Whether it is science, nationalism, or religious belief systems, they all fall into the larger issues, but fortunately, you are the CEO of everything, so if any of them cause you stress, keep this in mind.

Science-leaning societies may excel in technology and medicine but may end up with social problems. A lack of spirituality among their citizens can rob them of fulfillment. Most advanced nations lack balance between their social problems and their advances in other areas of life. The lack of spirituality is quite pronounced, from divorce rates to bad relationships and lack of trust, which can be connected to the unwritten education we receive written between the lines. If science and numbers are your ultimate education, you can’t learn anything about compassion, nor can you quantify love. You can’t understand why helping others feels good because you would count that help as a net personal loss.

When we talk about Mother Nature or Father Time, we assume and label them as if we know all about them. First of all, who are we to assume their sex if we don’t even know them? If we don’t know them, why do we need to have an opinion about them? From religion to medicine and everything in between, this human arrogance of knowing everything is present throughout history. Even today, it is one of the biggest causes of the problems humanity faces, and there is no way to quantify the death toll due to this egotistic behavior. Yet, in the same breath, I acknowledge the benefits of our progress and evolution, which come from our competitive nature, so the key is to evolve continuously.

I am, however, advocating for having a metaphoric basket for our unknowns. Especially at the individual level, we should accept and place all that we don’t know into this basket instead of following the assumptions of our ancestors egotistically. When it comes to personal life, you can reduce your stress by having the outlook of a mortal being. The tendency to harm humanity with assumptions and disregard for individual human life is more common with religious extremism. Even today, people are still being killed around the world for being born into or having different belief systems. It is just like being killed for being born with the wrong color of skin or gender. Remember, I said born in. What does that mean to you? To me, it means that the individual has no fault of their own and is completely innocent. If they are being punished for something they have no control over, who are you to punish them? I would even stand against God if an innocent person is punished. I personally and individually believe in having spiritual justice at the top corner of my triangle, so I will speak against injustice.

Our knowledge should not make us forget that no individual should be punished for something they have not committed or have no control over. Simply ask yourself, if you were on the receiving end of your actions, how would you respond? Remember, at the heart of our knowledge, whether it is our belief systems, science, or medicine, the purpose should be to help individuals live better mortal lives. If somehow, somewhere along the way, we have lost the main purpose of our knowledge, it is up to us individually to question it.

Instead of helping, we have gotten into the politics of belonging, which brought wrong results to anyone who did not belong. When and how does an individual who belongs become a human being, and the one who belongs to the opposing group is reduced to an animal? How and what changes us to treat each other as animals? Is it our holy or scientific knowledge, or do we still need to evolve from being animals? To me, it is all politics of our sense of belonging to our groups. Question yourself individually to find out what you really believe and where you stand as a human being.

We all want to believe that we have the correct knowledge. Religiously, we believe in God; scientifically, we don’t. But being entrenched in something while we are still evolving is our foundational problem. Where do you think that comes from? You got it—it all comes from the politics of belonging to our groups. That means you individually will have to learn to understand where to draw the line for yourself. Either way, you will have to bring it down to your individual level and question before you act on behalf of your belonging group.

Since we are continuously evolving, we should all have a basket for our individual unknowns. Remember, our knowledge needs no cap, freezing, or restrictions to reach our potential. Most of our problems are related to the politics of belonging because, individually, we deny not only the existence of God but also the factual and scientifically proven aspects of our life. We have been killing each other without being sure why. The answers are not so clear, other than the politics of belonging groups. If you say it is because of ego, pride, and honor, I would ask where you think they come from. I personally believe they are born from our sense of belonging. If you honestly question your behavior, you will learn your honest truths; otherwise, you will only carry on with the colors of your belonging group.

Remember, justice is not exclusively written in holy books or national constitutions; it is based on the human common sense that we all possess from before birth. Since it belongs to our spiritual side, which provides us with an awareness of justice, we are not nurtured spiritually as much as we are influenced politically, so our physical side overrides our spiritual inclinations. That means individually we get robbed by the politics of belonging. It is highly likely that if an individual is insecure, they will seek security even at the price of personal sense of justice. On the other hand, if the individual becomes a CEO, they can understand personal responsibilities; otherwise, they would believe everything written in holy books and constitutions as the last word. Since our holy books and constitutions preach individual irrelevance and demand obedience, they preach prejudice. Common sense justice, like “don’t do to others what you don’t like done to you or your loved ones,” may be easier to practice at an individual level, but with group politics involved, things can become tricky. Sure, as creatures, we are connected to our belonging groups, but for us human beings, it is a choice. We are not genetically programmed, so hiding behind political influences is not a human spiritual truth. Regardless of our connections and willingness to kill for our belonging groups, as individuals, we all have a responsibility to continuously evolve to become spiritually aware human beings. It would be equivalent to denying God’s will if we keep acting as warrior ants or worker bees.

We are human beings, and the existence of God is our unique characteristic, so don’t deny yourself because of the politics of belonging. Trust me, your spiritual sense of justice is your greatest strength, and if your belonging group teaches you otherwise, leave them, or else the sense of belonging will keep you insecure and without the benefit of spiritual justice. If your belonging group makes you fight your wars for them, you are living with injustice and lack of faith, so be aware of the politics of belonging to groups.

If your Mullah, Priest, or any other religious preacher says that questioning religious beliefs is a devilish act, ask them this question: How do the Devil and God physically work and what do they mean to humanity? If their answer is that they function without the help of human beings, you have been sold a philosophy designed to degrade you with fear and greed, making you feel insecure in your living years. Now, look at things logically and see how a human being, who individually holds the power to make good and bad things happen, does so by choice.

Feeding the hungry, weak, and vulnerable, helping the needy, or even robbing the weak and vulnerable can’t be physically done without human involvement. If you believe in miracles, you must accept that they are too rare to be mentioned in the functioning of humanity. All you have to do is see how often a miracle happens in your personal life. Don’t talk about the stories you hear from your preachers; just look at the realities of everyday individuals.

In the real world, it is the human individual who physically lends their hands, backs, and shoulders to turn spiritual thoughts into physical actions or realities. Unfortunately, all the Devil’s work is done by us as well. Reducing the human individual to an irrelevant part of the main spiritual picture is nothing more than a political plan. The fear of hell and the greed of heaven are preached as a carrot-and-stick philosophy. Sure, it works, but to me, it reduces human beings from spiritual entities to animals. Does that mean I don’t believe in heaven and hell? I believe in our real importance, which is obviously in our living years because God’s real work is done by us physically, making this time more important than the afterlife. What is the afterlife? A reward or punishment, maybe, but there is no evidence whatsoever other than religious preaching. Since one has to die before finding out for themselves, I personally will put all that in what I call a basket of the unknown. I need to carry on living as a decent human being, so I decide what is important at the present moment of my life, yet with the responsibility of a CEO to balance it all. I like to reciprocate for my oxygen and functioning body directly to God as a duty, not for the greed of heaven or fear of hell. Sure, being born into a certain religion is important and out of an individual’s control, but remember it is not all about traditions, customs, rituals, and rules. It is all about spirituality-related practical prayers. I believe no one has to change their religion or fight over who is right or wrong, especially about what happens after jumping off the cliff of belief systems. If you adopt practical prayers as a duty to reciprocate and become a decent human being, that is what God meant for us all. You can’t go wrong. Remember your free will is there to help you all along, but the politics of your sense of belonging related to insecurities are there to make you stray from spirituality as well.

The name of this blog is “Who Flipped My Triangle?” for a reason. The right side up keeps the human individual or group of people at the top corner, responsible for their actions. God and the Devil are on the bottom corners because they are our sides to choose from. All our good and bad actions take physical form when we choose to act on them. If God is almighty and powerful, how can a creation like the Devil make bad things happen? Popular belief is that the Devil can convince the human individual to act physically on the Devil’s behalf. Well, the thought of committing crimes can come from the Devil, but without the physical actions of human beings, things can’t get done. So God and the Devil or not, our individual free will should mean something to all of us.

The purpose of my writing is to help the human individual become what we are meant to be: a powerful CEO. Potentially, we are designed to be the main character, but our politics make us forget what we are. We don’t know where we stand in the grand scheme of life, and it is all because of what we have been taught in our tender years. I don’t intend to undermine anyone’s belief system because I do believe that our belief systems are powerful and important aspects of our individual lives. Interestingly, one can get spiritual fulfillment not from any exclusive belief system but by following the spirituality preached by it. Somehow, religions sold their soul to politics along the way and traded spirituality for political power, so they lost their real purpose of preaching for one to be a decent individual. Spiritual jewelry got lost as we fought passionately over who is right. Spiritual jewelry like compassion, love, and everything in between was supposed to be the path, but politics took over. If you can understand your importance, you can easily see the politics behind everything. It is quite convenient to politically blame the human individual, God, and the Devil. As a group, we have become a big brother; our individuality and even spirituality have suffered. Even God and the Devil have taken a hit. As groups, we use and abuse our belonging individuals politically, especially if we can convince them that they are weak, vulnerable, irrelevant, unimportant, and useless sinners. They will follow you to the point that they will commit spiritual crimes, personally suffer, and even die for you. Now, the logical question is, where do these handlers come from, and who are they? Since they are just like all of us, how can they be strong and not every one of us? THIS IS WHERE ALL THE FLIPPING HAPPENS. THIS IS WHERE POLITICS SEEPS INTO OUR BELIEF SYSTEMS TO THE POINT THAT EVEN GOD AND THE DEVIL GET USED AND ABUSED POLITICALLY.

As groups, we are smart enough to blame the Devil for our bad behaviors, so the individual believes that their actions for their groups are justified. Yet we are the ones with choice. Sure, we credit God for our achievements as well, but there is still a political twist involved there. We want our followers to believe God is on our side and we are the good guys, so whatever bad we commit against others, it is in the name of God. Now, the trouble is, why don’t God or the Devil speak up against this political abuse? See, we came from a history of throwing virgins over the cliffs to please an angry God. Today we have the knowledge of the paths of deadly storms to save lives ourselves. Sure, it took a lot of evolution to get here, but where did this evolution come from? Just look around and see who stood and still stands with pride against evolution. Our big brother. It has never been God, the Devil, or the individual, but always a like-minded group of people. These politically divided human beings have flipped our triangle.

Whether you look at it from an evolutionary point of view or a religious point of view, the human individual has been and still is the heart or essence of good and bad evolution. We all carry our atom of autonomy within us individually and use our free will to make our choices, so we can’t and should not blame God or the Devil for our actions 100%. Sure, we need oxygen and functioning bodies to achieve whatever we want, so to me, it’s a shared venture. Interestingly, our politics of sense of belonging is so powerful that we gladly join others to rob ourselves individually of our real position. If you look at the reasons for our flipped triangles, two things emerge as the foundational causes. Both are related to human group politics and individual weakness and insecurities, not to God and the Devil.

Mullahs and priests preach that God is almighty and that the Devil is a close second in command, so as human beings, we are placed at the bottom corner as irrelevant and insignificant beings. If God and the Devil are the main characters and we believe in it wholeheartedly, we automatically think of ourselves as inferior and lose our self-esteem, which can have long-lasting effects not only on the individual but on the belonging society as well. The human individual loses relevance, yet in real life, or at the end of the day, they provide real life to good and bad. You can toss for the first or second position, but the human individual’s weakness and the strength of group politics are the reasons this flipping of the triangle happened. Either way, God and the Devil are not on the top corner because they are the sides of the human individual. If a human being does not act physically, it is like a ghost town. You can have all the buildings, roads, sewer, or electrical systems, but that town has no value if there is no one to value it enough to live in it. If you don’t agree with me, I would like you to ask these questions to yourself, but remember to be honest with yourself.

Do you still have your umbilical cord attached to you? The reality is that you don’t. Do you use your free will and make choices in your everyday life? Most likely you do. Do you think spiritual thoughts and intentions without becoming physical actions matter? Logically, your answer should be no. Do you believe that God needs human sacrifice, and I mean literally, like we should throw virgins over the cliff to please God? In this day and age, hopefully not. Do you believe that it is exclusively you who is making things happen regardless of being helped with oxygen and a functioning body? Hopefully, you are not that arrogant. Do you believe your belonging group can help you change your mortal nature? I don’t believe so. If you take the human being out of the picture, what happens to God and the Devil? Would they matter, and to whom? What makes sense to me is that, God and the Devil or not, without human beings, it literally is a ghost town. We have made a lot of progress and have evolved. Do you really believe that it is without God’s will? Evolution is in our DNA. Do you really think we can progress without knowing the politics of our individual weaknesses and the strength of our belonging group politics? If your answer is yes, please see a psychiatrist. Do you think you have to change your belief system to evolve? Logically, you don’t have to. Do you believe that human beings are the top corner of a triangle and that God and the Devil are the sides? If you don’t, please reread this blog. If you agree, you can get your self-esteem back, be relevant, and know that it is an equal effort of you and God to keep this physical world going. Unfortunately, the Devil has no place if you understand your true essence, so group politics can’t use and abuse you.

These questions are more spiritual and philosophical in nature, but I think you need to ask yourself to get a clearer picture. Your answers can guide you on the path you want to take. They can help you evolve, gain relevance, and stop this flipping once and for all. I would like you to remember that individual weaknesses and group politics play a huge role in our lives, and understanding them will make our journey much easier and more meaningful.

Senses like belonging, freedom, and justice are ingrained within us from before birth. Our autonomy is evident through our ability to exercise free will. When faced with uncertainties, instead of assuming and fighting over those assumptions, we should maintain a personal “basket for our unknowns,” evolving our understanding as we learn more, much like we no longer throw virgins over cliffs to appease storms.

As individuals blessed with personal autonomy, we have the ability to choose our actions, making us natural CEOs of our lives. However, the politics of belonging can interfere with our ability to make choices, influencing us to the point of becoming mere extensions of our groups. This issue persists across eras, despite greater opportunities for individual expression and equal rights. Many still adhere to group politics, committing spiritual crimes against each other, indicating the need for further evolution. If you regularly use your free will to live as you wish, you are a potential CEO of your life. Strong individuals don’t solely attribute reality to the politics of belonging. Human mingling and genetic diversity in societies show our capacity for assimilation and evolution. Embrace your CEO role, fulfilling your evolving nature and achieving true tolerance.

If you are unhappy and seeking answers despite praying without responses, you may be experiencing internal conflicts between spiritual and physical desires or struggling to balance your sense of belonging and freedom. As humans, we are born with conflicting inner senses but can nurture them by choice. Our ability to choose can save us or create disasters. If troubled, try using the following triangle to create inner peace:

You and Your Common Sense

• Sense of Belonging
• Sense of Freedom

Before diving into this, understand and recognize yourself in a different light. You are not just a computer or the data installed within; you are the CEO running the whole show, aided by God but possessing many powers your groups don’t want you to know about. Learn about your abilities and mortal nature to gain perspective. Viewing your life from all angles prepares you to use this triangle, especially for personal matters.

As individuals with limited time, use your common sense to balance conflicting senses. If you can’t make decisions, you’re torn and need to make internal changes quickly due to your mortal nature. External knowledge may help but won’t solve your real problems if you’re internally imbalanced. Influenced yet troubled decisions require deep thinking. Leave bigger problems to God, like giving you oxygen to breathe, and focus on becoming the CEO of your life, organizing everything and everyone accordingly.

How do you do this? Use common sense to connect real issues to existing problems and think your way out. For example, you’ve been politically bombarded with a sense of belonging but are born with a personal sense of freedom, rarely discussed due to political reasons. Conflicting senses are personal problems; only you can create balance and find peace. The importance of inner peace depends on how uncomfortable you feel within. Internal conflict that can rip you apart must be addressed promptly due to your mortal nature. If you can’t see your internal problems, you might spend your life in limbo despite having free will. When asking God for help, consider if you’ve done your best, used your common sense, and acknowledged your choice-making ability. If you’re unhappy, you may not understand your mortal nature’s needs.

Recognize that your belonging groups use you as an extension, and stand in your corner with common sense. You are not programmed like warrior ants or worker bees. Despite mortality, you’re born with a sense of freedom to balance belonging, achieving happiness regardless of mortality.

If you don’t stand up for yourself, who will? Belonging groups won’t respect your sense of freedom as it counters their political power. When asking God for help, acknowledge the help already given and consider your remaining choices, realizing your CEO status.

With limited time, take charge of your life swiftly. If unhappy, know you hold the solutions and must act. Understanding the importance of happiness and contentment is crucial. Learn and use your common sense, recognizing your spiritual and physical sides. Unchecked politics of belonging indicate physical side dominance, showing the need for a well-established spiritual side to balance desires. Religions preach spirituality but often align with belonging group politics, causing internal conflict. Nations may demand law-abiding citizens while promoting violence for political gain, and religions may preach exclusivity to heaven, teaching prejudice and discrimination, contrary to true spirituality.

Human autonomy sets us apart, giving us three dimensions: you, your physical side, and your spiritual side. This triangle can help you understand and balance these aspects of yourself.

This triangle teaches us about creating balance between our spiritual side and physical side, instead of running wild like other creatures or going completely silent and having no voice. This balance is crucial for all of us individually because if you live without your human melody, you are the one who loses individual happiness and contentment.

Spirituality teaches us inhibitions, while our physical side helps us enjoy the bounties of life while we are physically alive. Both sides hold powerful cards, so if you ignore one or the other, you are not living a human being’s mortal life. It’s all about creating a balanced melody, not an extreme, to live a mortal human life.

Spiritually Physical

It is not about the bargain of hell and heaven, God or the Devil; it is all about the reciprocation between you and God. This give-and-take is the game that has to be played by you during your living years, right or wrong. When you end up on your deathbed, or I should say on the cliff of belief systems, your comfort matters the most to you, and that comfort will not be there if you have not reciprocated. Your atom of autonomy is what will create a hell or heaven-like state of mind, or I should say spirit, for you to cross that line. In a nutshell, what I am saying is that it is you who will put yourself in hell or heaven by recognizing who you really are. Your understanding of having free will and the duty of reciprocation can make or break your mortal life. The sooner you get it, the better, because the politics of your sense of belonging can destroy more than your inner peace. It can make you commit spiritual crimes that can go against your inner atom of autonomy, turning your living years into a living hell because you are responsible for your actions. Don’t agree with me? Just ask a veteran who can’t be comfortable in their mortal skin regardless of all the help they get from their belonging groups. You can say you were brainwashed and did not know any better, but remember, your atom of autonomy knows whether you know it all or not. Politics may be group and other people-related, but when it comes to self, you just can’t lie to yourself.

Being spiritually strong helps one control physical urges and all kinds of desires, but being a mortal human being, it’s not about living in total deprivation either. It is all about creating balance so we all can be human beings. Contrary to popular beliefs, human beings are not designed to live like animals nor like angels, meaning not exclusively spiritual or physical. If you try to live in deprivation and are unhappy, God can still say, “I gave you that free will for a reason, did you use it?” If you listen to any mullah or preacher of any religion, they would want you to live like angels. Now remember, metaphorically speaking, angels are like genetically programmed worker bees, but we are human beings with personal atom of autonomy-related free will to choose. When we do good things, we are doing them despite the opposing desires the angels don’t have, so to me, a human being is far superior to angels. So why should we live like an inferior entity? Now remember the politics of belonging groups: when an individual lives frugally, who benefits from it all? It certainly would not be God. If not God, then who? It has to be those politicians who like to have control over the individual.

If you choose to do good regardless of your desires, that is your reciprocation directly with God and that makes you in a class of your own. Don’t forget you convert spirituality into physical actions, yet still with choice. So putting yourself down even below the angels or counting yourself as a born sinner or irrelevant in the grand scheme of God’s world is not only against God’s real will but against your choice as well. So make sure you start to look at yourself with respect and don’t forget that living exclusively spiritually or physically is an extreme choice. Your best bet is to create balance to look after your interest as well. What is your best interest? Well, that is highly exclusive and personal for everyone, so I am not going to tell you what to do. For myself, being a mortal CEO, I know I am a working horse of God, but being a CEO, I feel responsible for my happiness and contentment as well. Interestingly, and not to forget, for human beings, deep happiness and contentment actually come from the accomplishment of reciprocation directly with God. Now that could be coming from the genetic makeup of our soul, which needs to be explored scientifically to find out why we are the way we are.

Back to Sense of Belonging

As social creatures, we can’t and should not underestimate the power of our sense of belonging to our groups, but as mortal beings individually, we can’t and should not ignore or underestimate our sense of freedom either. Unfortunately, our sense of individuality gets lost when the politics of belonging takes over, but fortunately, we are all born with our exclusively own atom of autonomy. This is the essence of God Almighty connecting us directly to God. That is why we can personally influence our life by choice. Sure, the sense of belonging gives us identity and a sense of purpose, but as an individual, we make the purpose of our life limited to serving exclusively. Yet interestingly, we are still left with unfulfilled feelings because we did not stand for ourselves where personal needs can be met—a clear sign of an incapable CEO. As individuals, we need to be vigilant for ourselves as well so we don’t lose our sense of self-importance. If we are not there to look after ourselves individually, we get robbed by the political interests of our belonging groups. Since we identify ourselves with our belonging groups, we personally lose our status of being a CEO. Our belonging groups systematically use politics to make the individual unimportant, irrelevant, and insignificant so they can be controlled.

If an individual has already lost self-esteem because of believing in politics as a reality, they will latch onto group security, obeying whatever the group demands of them. Personal sense of justice is another loss for the individual, making them better soldiers for the groups. If no questions are asked, groups can influence the individual to commit spiritual crimes in the name of belonging groups. Not only is this demeaning for us as human beings, it has the potential to make the individual a constant fuel for our unending group conflicts, resulting in hurt not only to individuals from both sides but causing real emotional damage to humanity indefinitely.

Solutions for the unending disputes of humanity are not going to come from our groups because they follow the same politics they have been following forever. The same politics is not going to produce opposing results, so it is time to evolve to the next level. Just like these existing disputes and our failed solutions are making me think outside the box, our individual strength should be brought to the forefront because these are the people who feel the first-hand pain. Groups are too political to feel real pain, so they can’t experience the loss. To them, it is acceptable to have conflicts that can be carried on for generations, even thousands of years. Since it is only the individual who can understand the pain of loss, they can relate with the individual on the opposing side. Trouble is, if we don’t have a personal sense of justice, we are too political to feel the pain of the opposing side. This is where being a CEO comes into the picture because we need to be able to see and separate the politics of belonging to understand personal sense of justice and even other spiritual jewels like compassion. If you have been robbed of your CEO status and personal identity, you could not even think about the other side of the picture. It is important to assume your CEO status so you can judge the wrongdoing of even your own belonging groups. If you are not a CEO, not only can’t you have a personal sense of justice, you can’t question your belonging group either. If you can’t do that, you lose your spirituality and trade it for acceptance of political belonging. It’s all because you were brainwashed in your tender years that you can’t think beyond the politics of your belonging group. So in a nutshell, I am saying the politics of your sense of belonging not only robs you of your status as a CEO but also robs you of your personal sense of justice and self-esteem. Now you are left to justify all that to your atom of autonomy, which is calling for your personal and individual strength. This inner conflict can be a devastating place for the individual. Unable to push down your atom of autonomy puts you in a constant inner battle, which can potentially rob the individual of their happiness and contentment. Being mortal, we just can’t afford to do that, so understand your realities, know yourself, respect your CEO status, and balance your sense of belonging with your sense of freedom so you can individually live a successful mortal life.

If you always question not only your belonging group but your personal behavior as well, you will discover a whole lot you wouldn’t otherwise. For instance, if you question, “Is my politically installed religious data making me a prejudiced and discriminatory being? Or is science taking me away from my spirituality?” This kind of questioning would open the doors to knowledge that can help you live your life comfortably in your mortal skin.

The goal of my questioning is not to put any human knowledge down or discredit it. My goal is to work against anything and everything that takes us away from being whole human beings. Whether it’s science, political systems of governing, or religious belief, if it makes individuals become prejudiced and discriminatory to the point that they commit spiritual crimes against each other, I will always speak and work against it. To me, a lack of knowledge of science and religion is one thing, but a lack of spirituality is a totally different matter.

Today’s human individual is far ahead with sophisticated scientific and technological knowledge, yet still vulnerable to the politics of belonging to groups, which is actually a bigger problem for humanity than it appears to be. Genetically programmed creatures like ants and bees stick together to protect their own because of nature, but as human beings, we are above all that. Each and every single one of us, if you believe, is created as an independent being. We are not only able to think differently, we can act and follow different paths of humanity. Now the question is, what makes you believe that you are just like ants and bees?

Our trouble is that right from the start, we all get installed with data from our parents, community, nation, and religions, so our beginning is riddled with knowledge that promotes prejudice and discrimination. I am trying to break down these things to make it simple to understand so we all can overcome the influences of that installed data in our adult years. Remember, data is not our identity; we are the computer runners and use data, not become data.

If you look at your body and brain like a computer and all the installed knowledge as data, it automatically makes you a different entity than your body, brain, or installed data. Now if you are not a computer nor the data, don’t you want to know what and who you are? It is you who has the name, who uses the computer and data to live comfortably in a mortal skin. If you are not comfortable in your mortal skin, do something about it. Become a questioning CEO and do justice to who and what you really are.

If you look at our differences and disagreements, they are usually connected to our data. If you believe you are just data, you will carry on with the installed data as truth and ignore your evolving nature. If you are under the influence of the belonging politics, your actions could make you a prejudiced and discriminatory being. If you are looking for the way out, you just have to look for and strengthen your spiritual side of your triangle, which always suggests that you put yourself on the receiving end of your actions before you commit them. If you wouldn’t like it, it’s a spiritual crime for you.

Remember I said you are an evolving entity. What does that mean to you? Let’s say you are a space scientist, and you have concluded that there is no God, but you believe there was an explosion that has been expanding for billions of years, indicating that space has existed for a long time. Without assumptions, we don’t really know what happened, why it exploded, or why it continues to expand. I choose not to make assumptions because I believe my time is limited, and I aim to live decently. If anything fosters prejudice and discrimination, I should avoid those assumptions, whether they stem from science, religion, or politics of belonging. We all should question, but if our questioning is met with opposing opinions, we need to understand them clearly. My question is, how can you truly form an opinion with your constantly evolving knowledge? Whether the explosion happened by itself or not, and whether God exists or not, these should be smaller issues compared to why we are killing each other over who is right, especially when our knowledge is continually evolving and incomplete.

If you input data into a computer and believe its output without question, how is that better than those who believe in God without questioning? What makes us cling to our beliefs? Since we don’t have foolproof answers with evidence either way, why do we become entrenched in our belief systems with passionate convictions, despite our constantly evolving knowledge?

Space Within

To me, the real issue isn’t the actual space but the space within. Our ability to envision, see, and achieve is the real game, yet we continue to kill each other over external knowledge. We’ve believed this way since our awareness began, yet despite our evolution, we can’t move past the notion of being better and right. This, to me, signifies an inferiority complex that births our egotistic behaviors. Where does this ego come from? Our sense of belonging is the mother of three children: ego, pride, and honor. If you understand the mother, you understand the whole picture. So, think not about what’s happening out there but about what’s happening within.

Imagination and Capability

Look at your imagination. What makes you fly higher than birds with God-given wings, dig deeper than any clawed creature on Earth, and reach the ocean’s depths without gills? For God’s sake, why are you willing to kill each other? Can’t you evolve further, especially after creating nuclear and biological weapons? Why is your group better than humanity as a whole? Dissect prejudice and discrimination, learn about ego, pride, honor, and, above all, your ability to love and have compassion. Why does your belonging group, whether a nation or religion, make you a puppet? Do you really think you are no more than an ant or bee?

If the politics of your belonging makes you dance in a hypnotic stance, snap out of it and assume your responsibilities as a CEO. Grant each other equal human rights and eliminate prejudice and discrimination, whether from scientific knowledge, governing or political systems, or religious beliefs. Bring it down to the individual level, and feel the pain of the love loss you cause in the name of political belonging. If your politics claims to be in God’s name, it’s even worse because you make God seem insecure.

Balancing Belonging and Freedom

It can be simple if you individually assume your CEO duty, stand on top of the triangle, and balance your sense of belonging and sense of freedom. You can’t go wrong regardless of what your installed data says. The key is to separate the politics of belonging from spirituality. It’s not easy for someone brainwashed to believe they are nothing without their belonging groups.

Logically, looking at the body as a computer and knowledge as installed data, neither qualifies as a human identity because both are run by the individual who has a name. If you seek a system of justice, look no further than spirituality, which promotes equal human rights and counters prejudice and discrimination.

Human Identity and Justice

If you are a living, breathing human being, you are alive by the will of God, and any political system working against you cannot be spiritual. A system against certain individuals is like having a justice system for some but not for all. Believing that people should be controlled by a political entity might be politically right, but spiritually, it’s a whole different ball game. People are born the way they are without choice; they can be male, female, or anything in between, born white, black, brown, yellow, or red. Discriminating against them is like punishing someone for something they are innocent of and had no role in. It’s like punishing a child born out of wedlock; it’s not spiritual to punish the innocent. Connecting God to justify nonsense is political and far from spirituality. Justice and spirituality go hand in hand, with no room for prejudice and discrimination against innocence. No one should discriminate against someone born differently and without a say in it. Politics often removes spirituality-related justice, so be aware of your choices individually. Do not do to others what you wouldn’t like for yourself. It is simple if you think and keep your triangle right side up to create balance, but it is complex if you are influenced by the politics of your sense of belonging.

I am going to start this one with a statement that:

The purpose of spirituality or God-related knowledge is to help individuals navigate mortal life with happiness and contentment. If these two elements are missing for you, stand up and ask questions about the politics of belonging, dominant religious belief systems.

Look at your own belief system and remember that you don’t have to change to another religion, nor do you have to become an atheist. All you have to do is understand and adopt spiritual messages while questioning political influences related to traditions, customs, rituals, and rules. This prevents one from becoming prejudiced and discriminatory. By doing only that, you will find real gems of spirituality within your own religion, provided you understand the politics of belonging and what religions are meant to be about.

If it says “believe in God,” do so wholeheartedly, meaning without doubt, so you can benefit from having a belief system. A belief system asks you to believe in God’s will; if you do so, you can potentially become not only fearless but also reduce the stresses of daily life—an essential asset for mortal beings. Religions help remove the fear of death when you have to take a leap of faith.

Learn the true meaning of compassion so you can see how politics of belonging to our groups robs us of “com” before “passion.” Then, learn to discern spiritual teachings so you can reap the real benefits of having unwavering faith.

To me, it’s not that God wants human obedience; it has been, is, and always will be other human beings who desire human obedience. Remember, in reality, obedience is a hindrance, not an asset, for an evolving entity like human beings. Our evolution isn’t simply knowledge passed down from ancestors; it’s ingrained in us from before birth, connecting us to who and what we really are. If evolution didn’t come from God, religions would have succeeded in halting our evolution. Being obedient and subservient is demanded by our mullahs and priests so that our religions continue as significant political authorities. In reality, obedience runs counter to our evolution, against our nature; thus, human beings were never meant to be contained within the political ponds of security. Since our struggles propel us to achieve higher levels in everything we do, we shouldn’t buy into everything our groups sell. Imagine where we would be today if we all obediently followed our ancestors. Our behaviors are an interesting thing to examine—why do some blindly believe what our groups preach, while others reject it all as religious nonsense, and still others attempt to make sense of everything with an open mind?

To me, it’s not the presence of faith but its absence that makes us defensive, political, and group-oriented to the point of being willing to kill each other. Personally, if you truly, deeply, and sincerely believe in God, why would you even fight over who is right? Where does accepting things as God’s will fit in, especially in political disputes?

Our individual and collective fears of being proven wrong have always been and are the foundation of our wars and disputatious psyche, regardless of our group affiliations. Since we are aware of our mortality, we’ve always been curious and focused on what happens in the afterlife, sometimes even more than what’s happening in our physical lives. Being mortal and insecure go hand in hand, so the more insecure you feel, the more susceptible you are to being brainwashed into believing scenarios about life after death. We not only believe in and follow our ancestral belief systems but also constantly seek security, whether in our living years or in the afterlife.

That doesn’t mean there isn’t a scenario to believe in; personally, I believe that when we find ourselves on the cliff of faith, we must have the courage to jump without hesitation, and our belief systems take a prominent role in aiding us when we truly need it. As mortals, we don’t possess solid security, so belonging to humanity would be a better bet. Ask yourself, if you’re unwilling to think beyond your group interests, how will you champion equal human rights with your heart and soul?

Your first step toward eliminating human conflicts should be to examine your personal actions and those of your group. If they cross spiritual boundaries, you should personally stand for equal human rights. If you dislike being on the receiving end of your or your group’s actions, your personal sense of justice should kick in. Remember, your personal sense of justice is a sign of your strength and doesn’t come easily if you’re not the CEO of your life. If you become the CEO of your life, you can spiritually evolve and look at yourself in the mirror without guilt.

If you’re someone who always asks for God’s help with miracles, you have to find out why your desires and hard work aren’t aligning and where that disconnect originates. If it’s coming from people you blindly trust, you may need to scrutinize the motives behind their teachings, even if they’re presented as religious and sacred. Understanding this can help you comprehend causes and consequences.

For instance, if you live your entire life saving and living frugally in hopes of living lavishly in the afterlife, you need to make sense of your behavior because living this way not only makes you live poorly but also goes against what God has blessed you with. Having oxygen and a functioning body are blessings with which you have a say; living for the afterlife can be good to keep you in line. Ask yourself why you’re afraid to be a good person or why you need bribes to be a decent human being. Your actions should be reciprocal and duty-based, allowing you to proceed beyond the cliff of faith without fear. Living poorly is a choice some make, but we must all be aware of its consequences. If we take and take without giving, we potentially stall the circulation of money—an issue not exclusive to the rich; the poor are guilty as well. Life should be lived according to means, but our priorities are skewed by the politics of belonging; we try to fit in, to impress, and we die trying to be admired by our groups.

As the world’s wealth goes to 1% of the population, and 99% stay behind, I won’t specify who’s at fault, but I can logically conclude that a wealthy individual’s security depends only on a strong government with law and order, yet they desire a smaller, weaker government. It’s odd to see that; they can’t foresee the future. Conservatives and Republicans want less government and more freedom to make money without paying taxes. This could work against them; if wealth keeps going to the top 1%, the poor might starve. If the community reaches that point, the pendulum could swing not towards socialism, but towards communism, as Russia experienced. Democracy and equal human rights are the best things humanity has developed so far, so going back and forth should not be an option; we’re evolving entities and should strive to move forward. With equal human rights, all organizations—including governments and religions—become one entity with as many rights as any individual. You can’t eliminate prejudice and discrimination without this spiritually grounded knowledge, and no one with personal sense of justice can deny equal human rights.

If we don’t nurture our spiritual side, we end up believing that life is just about numbers and scientifically correct knowledge. Even if you live a scientifically correct life, you still have to believe in events that occurred billions of years ago. By becoming adamant about this, you remove a significant portion of human knowledge and experience from your life. When life lacks these real and meaningful aspects, individuals can suffer. If your community is not evolving or is evolving with imbalances, it becomes your personal duty to understand everything about your mortal nature and live accordingly. If you lack your spiritual jewelry, attain it, so you don’t have to feel insecure within your mortal skin, whether for your living years or afterlife. A spiritually bankrupt individual or group always feels insecure and hoards possessions, even habitually, which extends into thoughts of the afterlife, where heaven becomes a goal to achieve and hell something to avoid, shifting the focus from the importance of living years. In reality, however, God needs our physicality.

There’s a lot of promotion to seek help from God, but to me, God has been performing godly deeds by aiding us where we’re unable to help ourselves. For instance, we can’t live without oxygen and a functioning body. With these, we must use our atom of autonomy to pursue our potential. If seeking more help beyond these comforts brings comfort to individuals, it’s excellent, but unchecked, it can discourage personal effort in life’s evolution. Without individual effort, collective repercussions ensue.

Money is taken out of circulation, halting our progress. Issues arising from the 1% versus the 99% stem from accepting the status quo. Under closer scrutiny, it becomes apparent that most religious individuals align with the 1%. One might wonder why. What could be the reason? Why do they preach about God yet hoard and support non-spiritual practices? They often oppose socialism, although many spiritual concepts are intrinsic to socialism. Delving into the hidden causes of extreme poverty, one would find that belief systems are a major factor, followed closely by feelings of insecurity. Belief in God is meant to foster spirituality, yet without it, the duty of reciprocation during our lifetime vanishes. When you’re repeatedly told to seek help from God without personal effort, you may begin to believe that miracles will secure your happiness, be it in life or the afterlife. This mindset can lead to poverty, as the rich profit, aided by so-called religious people.

To derive meaning from spirituality, one must understand that one’s hard work is compromised by the teachings focused on the afterlife. You are meaningful to God during your living years because you are physically making things happen. If you swing your hand forcefully, without contact with another, there’s no spiritual resonance. It doesn’t make sense, especially concerning individual life. As a group, it’s a different story, influenced by politics. If some desire the wealth to remain with the 1%, they keep ordinary individuals believing in God and from hard work. I refer to this triangle as Luck, Opportunity, and Hard Work. If you’re fortunate, given the opportunity due to the oxygen and functioning body God provides, hard work can align circumstances. Without all three, success as planned is unlikely.

Interestingly, elders typically teach hoarding, security, and frugality—distrusting God, trying instead to impress others, even if it doesn’t bring personal happiness. For me, another triangle signifies Health, Happiness, and Success, encompassing physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health. Without health, there’s no happiness; without health and happiness in life, success eludes us, regardless of our hoarding or perspectives. From every angle, this truth is evident, especially for those who comprehend their mortal nature.

Mortality-related spirituality should urge us to focus on real divine work, eliminating extreme poverty, offering universal healthcare to the sick, and aiding those facing hardships. A community that fails to care for its weak, sick, and vulnerable members is spiritually unhealthy. It’s intriguing that these actions, despite their spiritual value, are often opposed by both wealthy and religious communities. They prefer electing a government that runs on a business model. Business is profit-driven, whereas spiritual reciprocity is non-profit, focused on giving and receiving. Responsibility lies with both sides, but they strip human life of all spiritual aspects while discussing life after death and God as if they’re divine contractors. Personally, I believe the rich get richer and the poor get poorer not because of God, but due to human insecurities, akin to our animal nature. Involving God absolves us of personal responsibility for our actions. Always remember that it’s our physical hands, backs, and shoulders that make spiritual work, or God’s work, possible.

Any governing or political system naturally seeks power to control the populace. That’s why I think religious beliefs shouldn’t govern people, primarily for two reasons. Firstly, to rule, one must bend and twist the truth, so truth isn’t rooted in physical realities, making it prone to prejudice and discrimination. Secondly, religions are based on God’s belief systems, beyond the comprehension of evolving human entities. They lead to metaphorical belief systems, where adherents must trust the path they’ve followed. This approach often segregates those who don’t believe or follow religious tenets to the letter, fostering prejudice and discrimination. If we blindly follow religious beliefs, we risk infringing on equal human rights, which, to me, is inherently wrong. It turns even God into a prejudiced and discriminatory entity, compounding spiritual transgressions. Without a solid understanding of God, as evolving beings, we’ve lived with partial truths. Tomorrow’s knowledge may change, just as today’s human rights outweigh religious beliefs. We can’t legally prove or disprove God, yet we still swear oaths on the Quran or Bible in court. Should this continue? People frequently lie, despite swearing to tell the truth, suggesting religious customs and traditions are out of step with reality. Religions are part of our lives, but their relevance wanes due to vulnerability to group affiliations’ political dynamics, humanizing God, diminishing individual significance, and straying from spiritual truths. God is a body, and we are its cells, with no favorite cells. If you believe, do so, but don’t entangle God in politics. Belief might serve some, but it’s inherently political, and I staunchly believe God isn’t political.