A mortal individual with free will and the knowledge of mortality simultaneously gives birth to fear-related control and an imbalanced sense of belonging. These root causes are connected to social, emotional, mental, physical, and personal spiritual ills.
Being temporary should make us humble and kinder to each other, but the spirituality of being kinder never takes root because it is based on the understanding of mortality. Our sense of belonging, tied to ego, always gets the best of us. The politics of a sense of belonging have overpowered the insecure individual who was supposed to be a free-willed CEO of their own life.
I hope that as we evolve, individuals will see the importance of personal and inner harmony—personal music where you speak when it’s your turn and stay quiet when you should, thus becoming a CEO. This way, you can balance the sense of belonging with the sense of freedom. Be a part of the ocean instead of a pond, prefer spirituality over religion, and take responsibility for personal actions. Understand the politics of carrot and stick hidden under various rules and self-regulate to become a spiritually evolved individual. Become a citizen of humanity instead of a victim of fear and control-based politics of belonging.
An insecure individual automatically runs to a belonging group to feel secure, yet there is no security and control for the mortal individual—no one can avoid this reality.
The individual loses their individuality and sacrifices personal potential, even their life. We seek and take pride in being part of a religion, race, or nation. These days, race, gender, sexuality, or like-mindedness form the foundation of belonging-related prejudice.
Heterosexuals multiply to keep humanity, God, or all kinds of groups alive, while homosexuality works against multiplication. That is not reason enough to hate and violate their human rights. You can’t simply condemn people who are not following the norm because our norms have been changing as we evolve. Just look at history and compare it to today’s societies.
I believe in reciprocation, which can be done regardless of sexual orientation. It is the responsibility of the individual to contribute and receive in their mortal lifetime because this relationship is at the core of humanity.
No one should panic about the actions of certain segments of the population. If one does, as religious people do, they focus on it as if God or humanity will die due to homosexual behavior. If that were going to happen, it would have happened long ago, and it would not be because of homosexuals.
Another thing shown by religious responses is that humans are the only ones making life happen. This is where real faith, or meaningful faith, comes into play—to truly, truly believe in God.
This lack of trust in God has been and is our major pitfall; this problem exists from the individual level all the way up to entire religions. We try to control everything with every fiber of our being, and only when we can’t control it do we say it is the will of God. Our downfall throughout history has been that we don’t really believe in God. Why can’t we reach that point before judging and killing each other?
Life is not only happening because of human intellect alone. I have a hard time understanding the religious stances against real belief in God. The controlling and strong actions against human free will are a clear sign of lack of trust and belief in God’s work, which trickles down into the behavior of individuals, causing a host of social and personal problems.
Believing everything is done by the individual is a pitfall, especially in the West. I personally believe it connects individuals to anxiety and frustration. When these take hold, individuals turn to God and pray according to the teachings of their religions. When they still can’t control their environment despite their prayers, lack of belief in God starts to grow.
This situation confuses them to the point that they start to lose not only their faith in their religion and God but also their confidence. The faulty belief system is related to the carrot-and-stick control philosophy heavily taught by most religions. In the process, the individual loses the status of a CEO, which they were blessed with from the beginning. A CEO self-regulates and becomes a good citizen without needing the fear of hell or the greed of heaven.
This personal lack of faith and confidence leads individuals to lack trust in all kinds of belief systems, including personal fiber and potential. If you are constantly told you are worth nothing and you accept it because it comes from authority figures, you will really believe you are worth nothing. So, you find your worth in your belonging groups. You feed into the politics of a sense of belonging and thus lose the value of your God-given fiber and free will.
Just think why each of us is blessed with free will and why some are stronger and more successful while many are not. You will find differences in personal belief systems.
If you carry fear-related control into your pit, deep inside you know it. You may get some symptom relief by going to a mosque, church, or any other place of prayer. You can see a counselor or get medication from a doctor, but if you don’t go into your pit and deal with the dead dog of your problems, it will always be symptom relief, which is acceptable to specialists. When the cure is not even a goal, individuals who are suffering should take some responsibility for personal care. If you go into your pit and put two and two together regarding your mortality, you will start to live a mortal life with some quality instead of quality-robbing control.
The fundamentals of personal strength are understanding the responsibilities of your life and your CEO standing. Most of us have the ability to pull ourselves from situations, events, or circumstances and look into our problems from the outside to truly judge the importance of having free will.
Only a CEO can make even big things small through the thinking process. If you are having a hard time processing and dealing with your personal problems, you need to see yourself as an independent entity instead of an extension of the society you belong to.
If you don’t produce certain chemicals, you need to get help from medication because your way of thinking has created a physiological situation that needs to be addressed. If you deal with your problems with a multipronged approach, it should involve spiritual health as well.
Just like a community is stronger with stronger individuals, God is stronger with stronger human beings because we are the physical expression of God.
You may enjoy it if I say God lives in our imagination, especially if you are an atheist, but just look around and see where human imagination has brought us. What our imagination has created for us is so powerful that no one can deny it. If you still can’t see the power, you are missing out on the realities existing right before your eyes. You can’t benefit from them because you are limiting the power of the placebo, which is beyond understanding. Remember, we still can’t access the full functioning of our brain powers, so don’t underestimate the power of imagination.
Adding happiness and contentment to a mortal life is an individual responsibility. It can rob you of the most important treasure in a mortal life, or it can pay a big dividend by having a belief system of hope and optimism. Whether you choose to believe or not is your free will. Always remember that free will is there for you to make choices, and during a temporary visit, you want to accumulate some good times. If there is something—an entity, education system, or even personal behavior—robbing your happiness, hope, and optimism, you must always keep your mortality and the value of free will in front of you so you can guard your most important asset: your personal happiness and contentment.
If, in general, you consider yourself a realist but are a perpetual pessimist and constantly think about worst-case scenarios, you are missing the important rules of mortal life.
Hope and optimism take you where God and belief systems live. Your attitude has the potential to use God or a belief system as a treasure to help you live a mortal life without the fear of death. This is the zone of your imagination that you should be using to make a mortal life worth living.
Just imagine if we did not have imagination. There would be no progress or evolution. We would still be on the food chain of other creatures, living in the bush or cave, leading small and meaningless lives without cell phones.
Modern life did not just happen; it evolved from that zone where I believe God exists. This is the whole internal universe, which we minimize with our limited intellect—or I should say limited use of our brain.
If somehow you separate the individual from all the inventions and think that you are powerless or meaningless, think again. It is you, the big kahuna; it is you who made things happen and still is making things happen, good or bad.
If you feel weak and useless, you need to look at yourself with a brand-new belief system from within. You can’t buy into something you were previously sold by political authorities.
Since we need law and order in our societies, we must have some rules, but buying into something like being a born sinner and worthless is not in your favor. Entities like religions or senses of belonging to a group disregard the individual over their belief system. Thus, it is the individual who has to take responsibility for the self-esteem-robbing education.
It is the individual who suffers from self-esteem-related personal problems like pessimism, hopelessness, and discontentment, even the most valuable gift of life despite having free will.
Be a CEO, take charge, know everything behind the rules—even the politics. Question everything, learn to ask why, and yes, including your personal behaviors, should be questioned by you. Self-regulation is the best way to abide by the rules we need in society. Not only is it impossible to have a policeman or woman for every individual, but it is also the most respectable way to live a mortal life.