God cannot be feared or bribed, but humans can, especially if he or she is a politician who wants to control a group of people. Spirituality is purely based on love and only love. The relationship between God and man is like negative and positive wires. You cannot light the light bulb of knowledge with one period. You can try it egotistically, but it will lead you to the darkness of ego. Interdependence has been, is, and will always be the foundation of human civilization.
How and when did God become a judge and a punisher? This is a human phenomenon. In God’s spiritual world, love is the only ingredient; fear and control are connected to human input. Human knowledge did not evolve solely from man or God; they both contributed simultaneously to human evolution. That is why I believe God lives and survives with humanity. If you kill each and every human being, would God matter?
Love is the meeting of souls in the corners of the triangle (Read: love triangle). In the passionate corner, a couple can enjoy the ultimate experience nature has to offer. Regardless of our great knowledge, the desire for reproduction is immense because it is beyond human intellect. Sex is in that vicinity where all creatures, including human beings, passionately dance in the natural rhythm, regardless of the level of our knowledge. Reproduction continues to replenish God’s body with new blood. The best part is that, as humans, we get to enjoy each other regardless of reproduction. This gift keeps people close to each other regardless of age. Society encourages that as well because not only does it help each other enjoy life individually, but it also allows individuals not to be a burden on others thus society.
If you go to the instinctive corner, you love your children and family, but they are separate souls; that’s why you have differences even as family members. Otherwise, nobody will be able to leave their family and form a new family and so on. This process creates universal love, which is the human family, or I should say God. If you look at each other with judgment, your knowledge and expectations have been formed by the education of the society you belong to. The trouble is that humans don’t just act with hormones; we have a powerful memory as well.
Our actions are influenced not only by the education we receive from our elders, society, and our life experiences; we each have a destiny story as well, some may not believe in it, but I personally do.
Intellect has an impact on one’s happiness. Morals and ethics are founded by our intellect, but not following nature is not intellectual either because if we deny ourselves natural desires, we die in deprivation. Too bad for the mortal. God gave free will to humans to decide for themselves, so it is up to you as an individual whether you want to follow or not.
People who live in deprivation like to push that education to everybody around. They go to lengths to say that it is God’s wish that human beings should live in total control and deprivation as they have been living. If you look at it critically, the controlling people who are denying to themselves want to control others as well, which is the most miserable thing to do. This is one of the biggest causes of all the unhappiness in their individual lives because they can’t always succeed in controlling the others around or even themselves. They believe in corporal punishment to control their offspring, which can’t be done indefinitely, thus have bad relationships with their loved ones. The same belief system leads them to have a belief system that allows capital punishment, regardless it may have a chance of killing someone innocent. They may say for the benefit of the mass, one can be sacrificed. I don’t believe in that; to me, even one innocent life is worth more than ten religious belief systems all put together.
A human being is created in such a way that he or she has to have intellectual balance with the animal side, thus making the animal side just as important and legitimate as him or herself. That is the bitter pill they cannot swallow. They have been consistently and openly criticizing the animalistic instinct. Yet it is very common to see the scandal-riddled lives of religious people. The people who live their lives with strict rules, morals, and ethics feel that somehow they become better than others. This is the foundation of wrong education which causes prejudice, racism, nationalism, and all the religious wars, which have plagued humanity for thousands of years.
If the body of God works with humans, then every man is serving God. They all have a purpose to serve – for some, it may be reproduction and another can have a great impact on humanity in the future. Simply bad actions of the people can teach us about the value of the good because if there is no bad, how can one understand the value of the good? Another thing about good and bad is that they both change with our evolution. Today, racism and prejudice are bad; it used to be acceptable. Female liberation, sexual freedom are just a few to talk about.
Spiritually, everybody should be respected as a soul. If you live in a melting-pot society, you will see mixed children everywhere. Behind all that is the power of love which makes us reproduce to continue producing God. The love which comes from the soul and is not judgmental. It looks at humans as humans who are part of God’s body; different cells but the same purpose of life, the restoration, and survival of humanity or God’s body.
You as an individual can cross all the lines, boundaries, and rules of your belonging group to serve humanity and find your identity at the same time, and yes, you are the CEO.
In the world, you have to be a CEO to understand the politics of religions, which are usually coated with spirituality. If you are a real priest, live a celibate life, sacrifice your life for God. It is your choice. Once I was told that we are trying to save your soul. I believe it is a political trick to get you converted. If people really believe that they are doing God a service, they should look for spirituality exclusively.
In the spiritual world, there is no judgment. If you feel that you are better than others, you are already committing a spiritual crime. Your good deeds should make you feel good about yourself, which is a reward in itself. You cannot do that out of fear for God, in greed of heaven, to impress, or for the admiration of people around you. You really have to know and understand the politics and the power of the sense of belonging.
The more knowledge you attain by receiving higher degrees from universities, the more biased you become. Yet it should be the other way around. Humbleness should be the necklace worn by highly educated and evolved people, but they become a victim of the ego which belongs to a sense of belonging. Their legends are influenced by their sense of belonging. All our religious leaders have been the victims of this as well. They serve their belonging groups, yet as a CEO, they should have seen the wars and killings of innocent people by the conflicting education they have forwarded. They created divisions by preaching that whoever converts to their teachings becomes better and goes to heaven. To me, this is more political than spiritual. Living life to serve God is not limited to a group of people. It belongs to the whole humanity and everything we as an individual are connected with.
A solid CEO can understand his placement in the grand scheme of life and can judge himself as well. If you analyze every bit of your knowledge, what it belongs to and where it came from, you will be able to see and feel the political powers of the sense of belonging.
There is nothing wrong with belonging, as long as you belong to humanity and the source, or I should say, God. Your actions should be pure of the judgmental knowledge you have piled up in your memory. Being a CEO, you can evolve yourself with evolving knowledge; otherwise, you are stuck with the forced-upon knowledge.
Your identity is a CEO, not the individual who is influenced by the archaic, divisive, and confrontational knowledge of prejudice. Remember, if you think or feel that you are better than others for whatever reason, whether it be a great religion, nation, color, race, nice body, or looks, it is a sign of inferiority complex and a hidden identity crisis.
Your identity is connected to the source, not the group you belong to. If you feel otherwise, you have some spiritual deficiencies to overcome to achieve the CEO status. With that, you can see yourself as an individual, not a warrior ant or worker bee.
It is not a matter of believing in the holy books, nor is it a question of whether they are God’s words. Humans are an entity with free will; you can believe but you do not have to agree with. The question comes, how can you disagree with, if you believe?
The answer is the free will and flexible nature which is displayed in the western countries; people live together in peace regardless of religions, race, or nation.
Why has the human individual been granted free will?
Man can believe and not agree at the same time. If God is the creator, there must be a special wisdom behind this human power. The example of this relationship starts at home. A father and mother have created you knowing well in advance that, when you become an adult you do not have to, or you are not going to follow their rules. Parents know that you are born with the potential and they will respect your freedom. They actually feel pride when they see you making decisions. When you have your own opinion and wisdom, it means you have grown up. Being grown up means you have accumulated the knowledge from parents and belonging group and now you have the wisdom to write. With this personal wisdom, you can contribute to the well-being and evolution of humanity.
This is the main reason why God has blessed us with free will. Parents put themselves in vulnerable positions knowingly. They know their children would be free to live their lives as they choose. They can hope for the better but they do not have control over their children, as they become adults. God has bestowed free will because he has confidence in humans, but so far we have caused a lot of pain to God with our divisions regardless of being blessed with free will. God is just like a parent who would suffer from unhappiness if the children suffer.
Each and every one of us is potentially designed to be a CEO.
For thousands of years, humans have been brainwashed to believe that the individual is a meaningless and weak entity. Every governing system including religions has been trying to reduce the individual into a hamster on the wheel in a cage. Yet the human being as an individual is the third equation and has a CEO status by the creator. How can one reclaim the God-given right to be a CEO? Here are a few suggestions:
Understand God’s wisdom behind free will. Not only will you be able to see your responsibilities and potential, but also you being the third side which has the built-in two sides, God and the Devil.
Everyone, including God and the Devil, has a place in your life, but you still are the CEO.
We are flexible by nature and need to know how to be politically correct, but our spiritual side will not let us live in peace if we make unwise moves like spiritual crimes.
If you do want to be like angels, remember, humans are superior because they can be spiritual with free will and the angels don’t have a choice.
Respect yourself because you are it for you, so be a CEO of your life.
Religious teachings are okay, but be aware when you are reduced to nothing; if they are making you insignificant and God and the Devil superior over you, always remember potentially they are your two sides.
If they tell you that you are better being a Muslim, Christian, or Jew, it is untrue spiritually. It is just a political statement.
Heaven is to live honestly with inner peace, and hell is to live with inner conflicts; ask the soldiers with the war-related mental illness.
You are connected to God in such a way that God has to live through you; you are the physical expression of God and the spiritual expression of you is God so be your true self.
Our ethics are influenced by the rules of the society we live in, and rules have been, are, and potentially be changing as we become educated or evolve.
Sense of belonging is the mother of all egos. So keep your sense of freedom alive to offset the extreme and stay in balance.
Young people with a strong sense of belonging can easily become extremists because of raging hormones. They consider themselves as an extension of their belonging group instead of being the individual, who is a CEO. That is the reason why the religious people or the militaries of the world recruit young people so they can be conformed.
We all have a CEO inside of us, but it is just a matter of education. This is the reason why suppressed societies are terrified of new education and the internet is creating new problems for the authoritarian governments.
We are not going to grow horns or wings with evolution. Knowing your authority as a CEO can pave the way to new horizons for you as an individual. Today, with the Internet, groupism has been losing its power and spirituality is growing.
Just like jihad should exclusively be against poverty and disease, we should collect funds to fight against religious extremes. This day and age, no one country can fight terrorism alone. It should come from the individuals who believe that they are the CEOs of their lives and I believe a balanced individual can stand up against religious extreme.
Small communities can and should have some taxes to educate individuals because everybody benefits in the long run. Rich and poor can only live in peace if the individual is educated and evolved.
Ego, pride, and honor are the three children of sense of belonging. If children are never exposed to the sense of belonging as knowledge, they cannot create balance in their lives and thus cannot be CEOs.
If you are not impressed by nature, start with looking at yourself and learn how you function and what potentials you have.
Corporal punishment to stoning to death and everything in between is done to conform and control the population. Somehow it is acceptable for the religious people to use force and fear of God for disciplining the young; it confuses the hell out of the young people when they become young adults thus fear-based knowledge gets eroded. This process leads them to be spiritually confused and it should be blamed on the educating authorities. Whether right or wrong, it is up to the individual to decide. Is it coming from God or is it manmade? One thing is clear to me is that in God’s world, everything is done in the language of love. If you pray to God out of fear, you will deviate sooner or later. If you pray or do good things for the greed of heaven, it is morally wrong because you cannot bribe God. Logically, it should be done out of love, and the best way to live your prayers is to help humanity or someone who is suffering; the gift of life should be used for reciprocation.
You suppress your urges and control your animalistic side better if you are at peace within. Love is a spiritual gift from God. Humans supersede angels because of their ability to act out of love with choice, not control, fear, greed, or politics.
Most creatures have alpha and beta, including us, so religious leaders know that control by force works in controlling beta people. They portray God as a monster who punishes people if they defy him, thus people will obey the rules and be easy to control.
Usually, it is common for religious people to work against pornography and sexual deviance. It is universal regardless of any one particular religion or their denomination, yet still, we have sexual crimes. Sex is only acceptable if it is done under religious rules, so regardless there are more than a few stories of sexual deviance by religious leaders (Priests abusing boys).
Sex is a tool for reproduction, which strengthens the family, community, and nations; thus, it can’t be bad. It fills mosques and churches, benefits religions, and even God. God lives through us. No one would appreciate God if we do not exist.
If God has created man with free will, this life is a gift of God. Life has choices and we are free to choose, but our sense of belonging says otherwise.
When seasons come, trees pollinate and spread billions of seeds. If you look at the seed, it is an insignificant little thing but with a huge potential to become that majestic tree itself which reproduces those billions of seeds, that is the story of God and the human being.
That is the difference. Each and every one of us has divine potential, and we all are here to do God’s work. Life is not completely understood yet but we are working hard to figure out. Today, the brain is doing things considered magic in the past, like talking to someone thousands of miles away without wires, discovering genes or creating a computer.
If you feel you cannot come out of the boundaries of religions and talk about issues related to everyday life, you are not a CEO. You have demoted yourself as an extension to an ideology.
We want the group’s security, but we should have individual ethics. If the group you belong to is going against your ethics, you should be able to stand up and say it.
Religions talk about spirituality but become political by claiming superiority. As a result, conflicts ensue and become irresolvable because of the loss of love. Our history shows that despite evolution, we still kill our own kind in numbers even more than ever because of our advanced weaponry. So, did religions help the primate to evolve or devolve? That is the question we all should ask in 2016 to our religious leaders.