The shell life.

I’ll start this discussion with the importance of life within the shell. Whether it’s the shell of a chicken, any other bird, or a human being, we all start with a shell. Even though the shell is discarded in all cases, it still holds meaning. It’s about the entirety of the package, not just one part or the other. The central theme of my blog revolves around the balance an individual creates for personal and mortal life.

A chicken’s life begins with the cracking of the eggshell, while for humans, we start to crack as our physical life matures or nears its end. When our bodies start to fail, it metaphorically signifies that our shell is cracking. While it may mark the end of our physical life, I believe there’s a continuum of life for the individual, according to the rules, traditions, customs, and belief systems of their respective societies. We come into this life as individuals and leave as individuals, but before we go, we multiply to contribute to society, humanity, and even the continuation of existence itself.

I don’t want to arrogantly assume anything that I can’t comprehend or for which I can’t provide answers with logical reasoning. I’ve never received clear answers about pre-birth, after death, or matters concerning God that satisfy my thirst. Not from anybody, not from any religion, nor from the practical schooling of real life. I don’t believe anybody has the comprehension yet, not with our current cognitive abilities to explain it without resorting to assumptions.

It would be an assumption for a seed to imagine it looks like the tree it will become. Similarly, no human cell or sperm resembles the entire human body, so we as humans can’t assume what God looks like, thinks, or feels like human beings. This journey of evolution will one day reveal that our hormones relate to our emotions, which are all part of being physical. Remember, God represents our spiritual side and can’t get angry, seek revenge, or commit spiritual crimes like humans do. It’s a human phenomenon to involve God in our emotional conflicts.

Instead of fighting over assumptions, we should wait until we evolve to our potential. This potential holds the answers to our problems. If we continue to fight and kill each other, we’ll never understand our emotional connections to our biology. Regardless of our intertwining – physically, psychologically, and spiritually – the responsibility for all individual actions rests on the human individual because we’ve been blessed with free will. Since we’re a bundle of emotions with powerful free will, we must take responsibility for our actions. We have to overcome our sense of belonging to our groups and belief systems.

We need to recognize the politics wrapped around spirituality, so no religion should preach spirituality with a political agenda. Any effort to increase the number of followers of any religion is purely political and has nothing to do with God or spirituality. No one can or should guarantee heaven to a flawed individual, so no one should claim that joining their religion will lead to salvation. This is basic politics. A spade is a spade, and 2+2 equals 4, not 3.99 or 4.1. Looking for new recruits or followers is politics, plain and simple, because it aims to strengthen the group. Similarly, most, if not all, religions are against family planning and actively seek conversion, even by force, promising heavenly rewards for converting others. My opposition to abortion is spiritual because I believe every human individual is a cell of God, and thus, we need to replenish God’s body. In most religions, individuals born out of wedlock are not accepted because they aren’t born under the rules of the religion, and religious people look down on them. These rules and public shaming tactics are created to control people. If we dig deep, we’d find that all races, nations, or religions are connected through the genes of our ancestors. Thus, no one should condemn anyone as illegitimate because everyone comes from “illegitimate” ancestors. Legitimate or not, every human is a spiritual entity that enters physical life to serve and reciprocate with God and humanity, entitled to all human rights.

The invention of weapons of mass destruction is dangerous if we don’t evolve to understand our emotional biology. We might use them to eradicate ourselves, failing to reach our potential. Optimistically, I don’t think that would be acceptable to God, but that’s just my assumption.

As I understand it, when the shell cracks, physical life ends for the human individual, just as the chicken enters physical life and a person departs but enters a life beyond our understanding. Either way, the shell needs to be discarded. However, I strongly disagree with cremation because we need to be useful to humanity, dead or alive, to reciprocate. From organ donation to becoming part of fertilizing the earth for rejuvenation, we should aim to benefit future generations. Recycling is essential, especially when it comes to replenishing the earth. We’re becoming aware of modern-day needs, from organ donation to awareness about global warming and everything in between, all connected to our pursuit of evolutionary potential. Recycling isn’t just about material things that can’t disintegrate; the health of the planet depends on not only avoiding plastic in our environment but also replenishing it. Other residents of the earth, besides humans, don’t cremate; they contribute even after passing.

The most straightforward common sense, complicated by most religions, is that physicality is necessary for spirituality, and vice versa, to live a happy and content mortal life. How can this be complicated? If you can’t perform physical tasks, no deeds are done. This life is where you can actually help or hurt someone. A life without spirituality is impotent because the purpose of life has always been, is, and will always be to reciprocate and help humanity and God, as you’ve been helped by them.

The shell of the egg may be crucial for protecting the material inside, but it doesn’t create life. When life cracks the shell from the inside out, the shell is discarded. Just like a chicken egg, our bodies hold the life force inside. Metaphorically, as life matures inside, the eggshell starts to crack and eventually gets discarded. We may mature and die, but it’s simply a transition we don’t fully understand, so we resort to assumptions, regardless of our affiliations. Whatever makes sense to the majority is adopted as knowledge, even if it’s akin to poetry, adopted like religious customs and traditions.

Our religions, scientific community, and even atheists have come up with their own explanations. Hindus believe in multiple gods, and a large segment of the population believes in reincarnation, while others believe in werewolves, Dracula, and witchcraft. From major religions to beliefs in reincarnation and everything in between, people have been killing each other over assumptions for thousands of years. It’s time we step forward in our evolutionary journey.

Personally, I believe that as life matures and cracks the shell from the inside out, there’s no avoiding mortality, so there will be countless belief systems and sects convincing people with their visions of life after death. While the shell has its importance and may protect life, it can’t produce life, so we need to respect the material inside a little more than we do.

From seeds to eggs, it’s all about the material inside. Thus, our knowledge points towards the fact that shell life is not real life.

It’s all about the individual and depends entirely on how they respond to the sense of belonging. If you look at the heart of the faithful, you’ll find more politics of belonging than real spirituality, regardless of an individual’s understanding of God. Understanding God can be challenging for individuals who don’t question their sense of belonging. This sense of belonging is evident in everyone’s actions, representing the social needs of a social creature. Vulnerabilities inhibit individuals from surpassing these powerful needs, but it’s achievable for spiritually aware individuals.

The sense of belonging promotes shell life, yet the real substance you’re born with is inside you. The body is a physical expression of your spiritual truth, so don’t let the sense of belonging lead you to believe that your inner material isn’t important and isn’t worth sacrificing for the shell. Everything from suicide to unhappiness, depression, and anxiety, to plastic surgeries, implants, and efforts to impress or fit in, is related to a distorted and uncontrollable sense of belonging. If you want to live a healthy mortal life, it needs to be physically, psychologically, and spiritually healthy, so create a balance between the sense of belonging, freedom, and mortality because you’ve been granted only a temporary visit.

As humans, we initially value and like the shell, but then we resent it due to aging. That’s reason enough to focus on the entity inside, so one can live a life of happiness and contentment regardless of mortality.

If you can’t see your life beyond your relationship to any one particular department, you’re underestimating and undermining your potential. Potentially, you can become destructive to yourself because you’re viewing your life as a small department. By looking beyond that particular department, you become a CEO. Initially, life may feel out of control, fearful, and lacking in hope, but you have the potential to turn things around with your belief system. Without hope, we’re spiritually bankrupt, and any lifestyle promoting total control works against hope and spirituality. Without personal hope and spirituality, man is naked and susceptible to self-destructive behavior.

Personally, I believe any individual who possesses extraordinary knowledge from an unexplainable source ranks higher in humanity. Einstein, Mozart, and Leonardo da Vinci were all blessed with extraordinary knowledge from such sources. Their exceptional knowledge originated from an unexplainable source, so if you call that source God, then God plays a more significant role in humanity than we’re led to believe.

I don’t compare science, music, or religion, but I hold in high regard the knowledge that transforms humanity. The exploration process isn’t completely understood or known. Extraordinary knowledge in science, music, or religion is reserved for a select few; not everyone can tap into the next level of understanding. An “Aha!” moment or the opening of gates to inspirational knowledge has been key to our evolution, yet we still can’t fully explain it with our rational knowledge.

I’m naturally curious and have had a thirst for knowledge all my life. If any knowledge can help humanity, I’m all for it. I respect the spiritual aspect of all religions, but when it comes to politically charged arguments, I want every individual to learn to separate spirituality from politics.

It’s important to note that the countless human deaths and sufferings brought on by mankind have always been related to the political side of religions. All the death and destruction, even innocent lives lost due to disputes, have one major cause: every religion claims that its knowledge is complete and is the path to God.

This statement is entirely political and has nothing to do with spirituality because it fosters a sense of belonging to the group, not to humanity as a whole, thus dividing us.

If you ask any religious person, they’ll express a desire for the entire human population to join their religion. What does that mean? It implies that everyone else is wrong, and only they are right. If every religion is right, that means we’d never be able to get out of our pigeonholes and will always remain in a competitive mode, trying to conquer the world. This archaic politics needs to change because we don’t go to war with swords and spears anymore.

Competition isn’t the only way to excel, even though it’s the only method we’ve learned from our ancestors. The idea that putting in more effort leads to success isn’t universally true. Someone can play music in bars their entire career while someone else becomes a star effortlessly. What happens if we don’t succeed despite our efforts? It can have destructive implications for the individual, from losing self-esteem to leading a discontented life filled with unhappiness and resentment toward God, these are all spiritual deficiencies. To rectify these deficiencies, individuals must become CEOs so they can read between the lines and understand all the knowledge thrown at them.

(How much control does a man have?) (It’s up to you how happy and content you want to live a mortal life.)

As a CEO, an individual should consider themselves a note, and God as an empty space on a sheet of written music. They should write a melody they can enjoy for their mortal life. The CEO has a responsibility to speak or sing when it’s their turn and to be silent when silence is needed, to create perfect harmony.

Remember, the harmony may differ for each individual, but the responsibilities remain the same. As a CEO, it’s your responsibility to create a melody that suits you in this temporary life. If you think you function best with more silence in your life, that means you want God to drive the car of your life. If it ends up in a ditch, it’s meant for you, but that’s not what God intended because God created man as a CEO with free will.

On the other hand, if you’re constantly running, you may shorten your life and rob yourself of the quality you could have had with a good melody, by allowing silent spaces to play a role in making your temporary visit happy and healthy. You can enjoy your mortal life by using God’s spiritual wisdom to strike a balance of your choosing, deciding when and how to sing a potentially good song.

If you examine the reasons behind the popularity of religions, you’ll find the knowledge of civilization, which has brought us up from being savage beasts. However, despite civilization, look around and ask yourself if you feel like you’ve become a civilized human being, or if you still see baboons in the clothes of civilization.

We’ve learned nothing beyond division, and surprisingly, we’re still entrenched, ready to kill and die for our belief systems, whether they be religion, science, or nation. As CEOs, we need to scrutinize our actions. If they cross the lines of humanity, we’ve strayed too far from spirituality. Why does it take an earthquake or a tsunami to bring us together? Why can’t we shake off the shackles of the politics of belonging? Why has politics overridden the spirituality of all religions?

If religions can’t come together, accept their differences, and serve humanity with spirituality as they were supposed to, then we all should become CEOs to compel them to follow spirituality and nothing else. If we fight over who is right and who is wrong, it’s time to seek knowledge free from the politics of belonging.

The biggest hurdle in the way of real civilization and spirituality is the sense of belonging to our particular group. Individuals have the most challenging time standing up against their own groups because they can be labeled and condemned as traitors. No political entity wants to lose power, so the individual must become a CEO. Only then can they judge the politics of belonging to a group and vote for humanity and spirituality over clan, race, gender, nation, and religion simultaneously.