If you are honest in your struggle to really know and understand God and why religions are still a big part of our everyday life? Why major events of our day to day life still depend on our religious traditions, customs, rituals and rules? From marriage to death and everything in between are using religiously influenced life style. Why religions have been surviving all the changes our societies go through. Why God is still a big part of our societies regardless of all the evolution, civilization and scientific advances we have made as humanity? Personally I believe you will have to be open enough and willing to understand this side of human story so first of all you will have to understand that politics of our sense of belonging is harmful for the 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 to find work they will help you to survive in your difficult time. They will connect you with different agencies run by the government. Other agencies like police, military, secret services children and senior services etc they are all there to help citizens so the nation’s business runs smoothly. Even if you need medical or legal help but you can’t afford it, you can find that as well. All that help is available by the same one government. You can call it government I am calling it a big brother. Totally invisible yet as real as it can be, yet non of us can claim that we have seen or met the big brother in physical form even if we work for it. All you can see or encounter is the people who are working and making government work physically.
I am trying to make a point of our visible and invisible realities so people can be helped in finding comfort in their mortal living. Religion or not scientific proof or not as a mortal individual we all have our personal and individual responsibility to live our life with hope, optimism, happiness and contentment. If you have never seen government or big brother why do you believe in its existence? Our trouble is that we are taught how to believe and it is usually from our religions. My problem starts when spirituality gets mixed with political ambitions of greedy leaders of religion runners.
This is how I think and feel about spirituality. When you run a spiritual grape wine on the thorny tree of politics, I call it a thorny tree because we have to lie our ways to attain, gain and sustain political powers because too much honesty can get you to lose your governing powers. Spirituality is pure and fragile as grapes. If you run the grape wine on the thorny tree, the grapes would be injured and bleed spirituality especially for the individual. Believing in God is a spiritual thing to do so is the understanding of reciprocation. Potentially both can benefit individual depending on how the individual looks at their belief system. If you wholeheartedly believe in God and reciprocate or do good deeds as a duty, the benefits of inner peace related happiness and contentment are for you. Belonging groups have their own political agendas so your personal spirituality related benefits are not considered as a good thing for a political religion because a strong spiritual individual would question political motives of their belonging group. You being political benefits group so they would like you to be like a worker bee or a warrior ant. Religions took that political step and claimed that they as a group are the contractors of spiritual God almighty and they intentionally run their belonging individual’s spiritual grape wine on the thorny political tree. Where nothing happens to the group but belonging and following individual’s injure their spiritual grapes.
One can say our political religions are at fault and should be blamed for but it has always been, still is and will always be the individual. Since politics of belonging preaches and demands individual weakness, so belonging individual believed that they are weak, irrelevant, unimportant and insignificant. Yet God had nothing to do with our lack of self-esteem or irrelevance because God had already done Godly duty to bless us all 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 as 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 atom of autonomy gives us free will, compassion and personal sense of justice for all including for ourselves. Responsibilities still lands on our personal and individual shoulders so if we suffer from our individual decisions, it is our duty to fix it with our personal decisions as well. A political group is not going to care how you personally suffer or not and yes even if it is a political religion. They all take pride in the old style politics of belonging which is based on 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 even God is in our corner, yet none of us has any physical proof. After all we don’t really 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 what is going on, on the other side. So we really have to believe whatever our belonging groups tell us. If there was no politics involved I would be game for it all, but unfortunately our religions have been infiltrated with or I should say they have run their grape wines on the thorny trees of politics of belonging. Since it only hurts us all at the individual level, collectively our belonging groups don’t give a dam how as an individual we suffer. An other questionable behavior is our enforced belief system, why do we have to push and shove our belief systems on the others? If you can find even a single reason other than the political one I would love to hear from you. If you feel its 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 is going to be that you are willing to commit spiritual crimes against others in the name of your belonging group.
Your atom of autonomy is sitting right within you to judge your actions and if you constantly go against or are always at odds with it, you will suffer from internal disputes related issues which is a big loss for especially a mortal individual. Our happiness, contentment, hope, optimism and inner peace all depend on our inner harmony with our atom of autonomy. Now 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 that eternal peace after you have jumped over the cliff of faith you may be are putting all the eggs in a basket of unknown. It can be a stretch because you are able feel while you are alive and you would not know what is going to feel like after you are dead. Remember no one can come back to tell you what is really going on, on the other side other than what your political belonging group has told you. So you should make reality based decision while you are alive so don’t put all the eggs in the basket of that non physical and unknown reality.
Real meaning of our life is our reciprocation to convert spirituality into physical actions and it is all done before we jump over your cliff of faith. If you spend all 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 got 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 the political religions but by the 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 the part two this could have been part three because it is on the 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 our unknown just like our government or big brother but they are our spiritual realities related to human individual’s actual physicality because all the spiritual stuff happens while you are alive. You can’t see big brother or 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 its 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 if you think the existence of government is an undeniable thing for you? Why do you believe in the existence of government but not God? If you believe in government and God why do you think human individual is an insignificant part of that picture. Politically it is preached that government and God matters but not the individual yet spiritually and in a literal reality human individual is the life and blood of our unseen realities. Lets take it a step further where you are walking by and see a stranger who is 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? Now 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 it can be. Interestingly you don’t have to believe any of all that because you have a free will related choice. For some if you believe in all that it can always be a religious mambo 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 the one who does not believe. God or not science or not we all are an entity who lives in a human body with brain yet totally separated. Just like a computer, you are not a computer nor you are a data but you run the computer so who are you?
When and if you don’t believe in your spiritual side you will try to control everything in your life with egotistic self approach. Yet neglect to recognize the importance of free oxygen and a functioning internal and external universe you need to even survive your next breath meaning you already are alive with the help of unknown but you don’t acknowledge it. You egotistically try to control not only the what is happening in your cup of tea, you would want the control over your second circle related government or big brother and you even would want to control your third circle of life as well. That would make you get stressed and self destruct from the storms you bring in your personal cup of tea. If you try to control your uncontrollable facts like, health, aging and mortality all at the same time you are going to suffer with the consequential stress and related issues especially if you have drained all the spirituality out of grapes.
Playing God with limited resources and even inevitable limited time is related to your ego100%. Which happened to be the first one of the three children of sense of belonging. Remember if you have ego, you will strive for pride and honor as well because you would be under the influences of what other people think about you. Not everything is wrong with ego, pride and honor but as a mortal CEO its our job to understand it all and balance it all for a comfortable mortal life. Our opposing senses like sense of freedom and sense of belonging can create complex problems for especially a mortal being so it is crucial to balance these two. Why they are important and why extreme is bad for a mortal being? Naturally we care a lot more about what other people think about us than we believe we do. Each and everyone of us has to deal with our sense of belonging and sense of freedom simultaneously to create balance otherwise we individually can pay the price. Some of us would lean towards sense of freedom but most of us usually lean towards mostly sense of belonging. Which is one of the major dead dog of our individual and personal problems. We intentionally injure our spiritual grapes and believe that 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 its a spiritual deficiency so not using free will is, and can be a personal loss for the individual. Since we are not created or genetically born as a worker bee or warrior ant we all have to understand what is the difference between us and other creatures.
We are simply blessed with our personal atom of autonomy, free will and personal sense of justice so acting on behalf of our belonging groups without questioning and judging the politics behind, is below the human status. Remember we are responsible for our personal actions regardless of our belonging group’s inspiring speeches, we just can’t act under the influences 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 you can’t be out of control nor you can live in total deprivation. If you are encouraged by your belonging group to live like a worker bee or a warrior ant, its totally political so it is your job to understand all that because you are neither 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 Godly job to keep us alive by helping us from the things beyond our control we individually need to do our share to convert spiritual things into physical realities. Sometimes politics of belonging to our groups works against it 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 related choice. Your prayers would mean only following the traditions, customs, rituals and rules of your belonging groups and nothing but.
Remember our real job is to convert spirituality into physical actions and non 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 because I would rather have someone who really works and pull their load. Its all about the 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. Its all because we as an educated human being are expected to be responsible for our actions. Bottom line is that its not what you have read but what it made you think and do, so 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 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 it is clearly understood by our modern societies. All our courts and justice systems are based on or founded on an individual responsibility.
Remember all our major breakthroughs and evolution related progress has happened and happens with the efforts and practical hard work so hard work of human individuals has its importance and value.
An example which does not really fit in this subject but it is able to explain what I am trying to point out. In the beginning medical doctors claimed that steroids don’t work yet bodybuilders kept getting bigger muscles and laughed at the medical people. In reality researchers had neglected the main component, the importance of hard work. Since it was all because of the doctors undermined the 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 and muscular people. If prayers were above the hard work of human individual, world would be in different place. Since majority of the people have their 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 personal responsibility of full on efforts.
If the scientists have figured out that chicken came first because the protein what makes the egg shell 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 they focus as God is almighty and is preached as end all and be all but human individual is ridiculed as an irrelevant, insignificant unimportant and even a born sinner? Why human individual has been undermined by most religions? Ask your self individually are their reasons intentionally political? If so why? Then you will have a chance to know what our politics of sense of belonging to our groups is capable of doing. If today spirituality is not easy or straight forward it is all because things have been twisted for us right from the get go.
Not only our religions look at God externally our scientific community is constantly looking at things externally as well just to fail to acknowledge human individual’s abilities and their importance in the larger scheme of life. If you look at everything with logic in mind you will discover that human individual’s abilities were, are and will be the foundational cause of all the discoveries physically made possible. So it is not what is out their but what is within especially if even our potential has an evolving potential.
Our scientists claim that there was a marble which exploded and is constantly expanding ever since, there could be an explanation for it but personally I think and question where did that marble come from and why did it exploded? Why its constantly expanding? We may learn more with our evolution related knowledge in future but for now both religion and scientific community can’t really explain their knowledge pure of assumptions. Now as an individual 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 a mortal. To me it is important because we are the one who is responsible of how to live in a mortal skin comfortably.
Politics, sure why not its important and integral part of human societies but running our grape wine 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 pedestal so there is a potential for the individual 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 the consequences. Modern day societies don’t look at the religions as humanity did in the past. If you look at our evolution we 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 things like prejudice and discrimination have been exposed especially in today’s world as the major causes of our disputes among our groups. This is happening because we are individually becoming aware of spiritual and common sense related sense of justice. We are individually becoming aware of live and let live philosophy which has given the birth to our newly discovered equal human rights. With equal human rights in the foundation humanity can fix all the injustice and wrong doing. Equal human rights have been talked about in civilized societies and crimes related to political injustice have been brought to surface and in near future may become a liability for the religions to openly preach prejudice and discrimination. If they would have kept spirituality and justice related equal human rights in the foundation of their belief systems they would have been clean and clear of any injustice, prejudice and discrimination what they have been and are incriminated today.
Now after thousands of years of injustice and wrong doing including giving bad name to God, today they are in a pickle. They can’t go back on their words because they openly have claimed and still claim that their words are God’s words so they can’t be changed. According to them prejudice and discrimination is a Godly thing and equal human rights are not. Remember a political building, you can say a party, a nation, a group of people or a political religion would stands on the foundation of prejudice and discrimination because it is always for some people or for a particular group of people.
It is understandable that our modern day governing systems need politics to function but when a religious group which suppose to be simply spiritual, demands and wants political control it is like putting a lipstick on a pig. As a spiritual entity you simply can’t hide your politics of wanting control over people especially when there is money involved as well. Spiritual principles are or should be like our justice systems, clearly written with nothing but the truth at heart. Interestingly our politics of belonging simply twists and turns lies to gain attain and sustain political control and unfortunately our religions are not immune to it.
If you are an extremist of any religion and want your religion to rule the world what would it make you? You simply can’t be spiritual because you are willing to do something to others what you personally would not like done to you or to your loved ones. You are for some people but not for the humanity as a whole, if you are you would want whole humanity under your group’s umbrella. That has been and still is the old style of strength group politics, just ask yourself did it help humanity or the individual? If your belonging group’s ambitions are to rule the world it is simply political because it is for the power and control to your group whether it is race, color, nation or religion base or not. Since you are a striving part of that group, you individually would not believe that all human beings are equal. Not only you would be prejudiced and discriminatory against opposing groups, you would even be against someone who does not follow and understand your sense of belonging related philosophy as you and your extremist colleagues do.
Understanding spirituality makes the human individual a CEO who can clearly see the politics behind religions undermining of the human individual. Groups usually demand obedience of the individual to demote them to the level of worker bees and warrior ants so they an be used for political purposes. We all each and everyone single one of us have free will and the abilities to choose our actions. If we are brain washed to accept our weaknesses as realities we are just like a worker bee or a warrior ant regardless of our genetically gifted superiority.
If we choose our politics of belonging before responsibilities of a CEO we end up demoting ourselves. We are not suppose to choose extreme because we carry an atom of autonomy within. Which can not let us live in peace if we choose to commit spiritual crimes in the name of our groups. We personally need to not only balance our triangle of God and Devil, we need to create balance in our triangle of sense of belonging and sense of freedom as well yet both from the top corner.
As a CEO just like we are responsible to create balance in our triangles, we need to understand the circles circling around our mortal life as well. Creating inner peace during our living years is our responsibility as well so being a mortal yet being uncomfortable in our skin is related with how we look at our life. Our first, individual and personal circle can easily be effected by the things go on in our neighboring and larger circles. Its like we are a story within a story of a story.
For instance you have your first and personal story within your cup of tea circle where you are the main character or a CEO of your life. You make decisions and choices to live successfully during your mortal years. This is where triangle of health happiness and success comes to play a role yet it is still related to the first and personal circle. After you have learned about your personal circle or I should say your cup of tea, you would have to learn about the neighboring circles to understand your real placings 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 some serious decisions for yourself. This is where you learn to relate with the people around you, just like your family, friends, your grown up kids political parties, nations and religions etc. Where you can go vote for the direction you want your community to go to but that is the only power you would have in your second circle as an individual. The out come of your vote is not guaranteed to be in your control so you will have to come to terms with your limits. If you grown up kids don’t listen to you, you simply can’t force them to comply with your will so again you will have to come to terms with your love triangle of passionate love, instinctive love and universal love.( Read love triangle). That can help you to understand and navigate through your out of control environment and its effects on you.
Understanding that you have no control on lots of different things in your life can help you to grow spiritually. Your second circle holds your community, race, gender, family your 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 just in the name of control for themselves. You have to use your personal politics to learn to live within the boundaries, rules and the law of the land you belong to at least in your physically real life in your imagination you can and are free to create balance.
Just like in the first circle as an individual we try to control whatever goes on in our individual life, as communities we try to have control. As communities we have our limitations as well so we try to control the stuff in the third circle. This can create the same frustration for the community what an individual can feel when thing 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 balanced environment to evolve further in certain rhythm. I see wild firs and the efforts being put by the communities yet 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 put our efforts where they can count. So our efforts as community should not just be limited to dealing with the problems when they arise. We need to look at the preventative measurements as well because global warming is clearly pointing towards working together as a whole humanity. This rhythmic pursue can help to adopt higher level of evolution as one level at a time instead of getting frustrated.
The third circle I am talking about is the circle, where our all powerful second circle is powerless, this is where nature and God reside our uncontrollable age and disease come from that zone where your second circle can only pray for you but can’t save you from your mortal fiat. Amongst all these complexities as an individual you have to really know and accept everything with honesty to spend your temporary visit with some happiness and contentment.
Our rights and wrongs change not only as an individual, we are constantly changing collectively as an evolving organism. Slower than the individual may be but still we change in our second circle. The obvious changes and evolution of our societies are well documented and can be seen physically but unfortunately we tend to follow our constitutions and religions with passions so changing traditions, customs, rituals and rules of nations and religions are not that easy to change. If we are for our groups we automatically be prejudicial and discriminatory against others who don’t belong to our group.
These days even the religions are trying to shake off their extreme behaviors related to prejudicial, and discriminatory policies because they have been taking a hit from evolving and judging humanity seeking equal human rights. Pope recently came out and said few things about these changes but we will have to see if they stick to them. Our world has been going back and forth with changes, if we give the powers to the religious people they would love to take us right back in the era of the prophets so there is no guarantee for political stability related 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 that is why 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 whom help you to get in the office, sometime you will have to sell your soul and become spiritually bankrupt to fulfill your belonging group’s desires. That is if you do have your spirituality in tacked.
Just like our group politics related conflicts are part of our life, our corrupt politicians are our reality as well. It is like the racism, never desired but always in the face of humanity. Should you stand with or against the racism, obviously it is a common sense related No, especially if you think spiritually. You can only change it, if you individually start to look at the things logically and put yourself on the receiving end of your actions.
Here is how I look at the racism, and prejudice.
All the security related differences come out if you don’t look at yourself as a human being belonging to the humanity as a whole. If you look at yourself as an extension of an ideology, part of a gang, race, nation or a 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 would always be people with the differences of opinion but living with each other regardless of differences is possible and is proven over and over in human societies. The only way you can overcome the passionate divisions, is with compassion and personal sense of justice. Compassion comes easily if you are in it or it is within you. If you are in it for the humanity as a whole and you can see God in the next person as you feel within yourself only then it can or would spill out.
Dr. Wayne Dyer a well known guru said. I am not sure these are the right 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 the apple juice would come out, you can’t get an 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 would be a natural racist, ignorant or even a suicide bomber who can’t think of self as an independent CEO. You will be prejudiced against all the others, regardless of your color, race, gender nationality or religion. If you are full of compassion carry compassionate sense of justice and feel that you are scientifically, genetically, spiritually a human being and belong to humanity as a whole. You would over come your sense of belonging related confusions, you would not put lipstick on a pig and will call the spade is a spade when it needs to be called.
Sure not everyone would agree with me because of their respected religious beliefs, my main purpose is not to put a doubt in someone’s spiritual belief system. I want everyone to know that mixing your politics into your spiritual beliefs is dangerous for everyone, so it is not kosher to kill in the name of religion or God. It literally is against the spirituality because there is no prejudice and discrimination connected to God. Spiritually you don’t do to anyone what you don’t like done to you or to your loved ones simple as that. Since we are an evolving organism it is even worse to believe our knowledge is 100% accurate. Simply we just can’t stay still in learning and it shows in our everyday life. We can’t be locked into or have caps on our any kind of knowledge. Where did the prejudice come from? How did we become racist? As babies we don’t discriminate, this should be a good enough reason to believe that its coming from our installed knowledge. Now lets look at our installed knowledge without any bias.
These are the top ten fundamental yes and nos.
1- If you are cut you would bleed the stuff which can be a life saver to all kind of human beings in need. Blood transfusion has the potential to save all kind of human beings regardless of its source. Whether you are black, white, yellow, brown, mixed, gay, straight, religious or its sects, non religious or an atheist all can benefit from this example of oneness of humanity. (Yes) Yet still it was religiously discredited by certain religion.
2- You can’t save a human life with other creature’s blood.(Yes)
3- Do you get hungry, and eat similar foods just like everyone else. (Yes)
4- You defecate and pee which stinks just like everyone else. (Yes)
5- You get sick, old and die just like everyone else. (Yes)
6- If you are white, black, brown, yellow, red, mixed color, believe differently in God or don’t believe in any religion. Yet if mingled as male or female would the girl get pregnant and have perfectly functioning human baby. (Yes)
7- Are you scientifically made of the same stuff like carbon. (Yes)
8- Do you need oxygen food and water to live just like everyone else. (Yes)
9- Do you and are you able to use your free will everyday just like everyone else. (Yes)
10- Do you believe we have a space station up there and it is year 2021. (Yes).
And now I have the nos.
1- Do you think you are immortal. (No)
2- Do you have control on your oxygen supply to breath to live. (No)
3- Do you have control what goes on in the space. (No)
4- Do you have total control what goes on in your Inner space, I mean the body. (No)
5- Do you feel that your belonging group, nation, religion, race, gender or family can help you avoid sickness and death. (No)
6- If you are learning something new everyday, you are an evolving organism, do you really think that your knowledge is complete. (No)
7- Do you think being Muslim, Christian, or Jew is good enough reason for you to go to heaven. (No)
8- 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. I mean some video footage or some internet connection etc. and I am not talking about the movies like Harry Potter (No)
9- Do you really believe that you are superior to others just because of the color of your skin. (No)
10- Do you think religious people have compassion, sense of justice and love more than others. (No).
Since you have already looked at yourself as a human being now lets look at yourself as a creature who lives on the earth and how?.
Just imagine a black bear comes to your door, well it is not unheard of in Canada, just recently it was in the news but it was not the talking bear like mine. Any way the bear comes to your door and tells you, in your language to get out of my house. You may call 911and have the bear killed, yet realistically you have bought a piece of land in bear’s territory. Who sold it you? Another human being whom bought it from someone else or even from the government of your belonging group. Long story short bear was there first or before you. Now does it give him the right to own that piece of land as he claimed? For some it may be, because that is what we are taught by our governing systems. The problem is that including us, all living things are mortal. You and the talking bear as well, so logically we would only live on the land for certain length of time, which makes us all renters not the owners of the land.
When and how did the things changed? I was walking by the cemetery close to my apartment and saw a grave stone which made that particular grave over two hundred years old. Meaning that dead person has and still owning 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 in 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 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 with our emotional issues but you can only over come 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 owning system is related with governing authorities to keep peace and protect the weak ones from the bigger, stronger and aggressors but how far do you want to take this, is the question.
Glob has no natural lines of divided land yet we have over 200 hundred countries with seven billion human beings and God knows how many other creatures. We are the only one still fighting over the system of owning for 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 slavery is a crime these days, and yes it is looked down the same way in all over the world.
Back to the bear, since you have bought a piece of land in bear’s territory, which he does not really own and you think it is yours, because you have bought it. You discredit bear’s claim and in your opinion bears don’t or can’t own a piece of land but you can. Now what makes you think that and would you think the same way when you are on your deathbed? Bear may not realize what you are, and 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 bear’s territory yet got him killed because of your security. What would happen if you start to look at it with the bear’s point of view?
These are the problems, as humanity we have been facing throughout our past history and are still facing them. One can say this is my land but is it really? Human governing systems have never been fool proof. As humanity in our past and even modern history we are still carrying 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 got a long way to go to be spiritual entity. There would always be differences of opinions, whether it be race, gender, nationalism or religions, 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 ourselves that we are an individual spiritual entity from within. We would be politically dividing earth in pieces and fight over it to prove that regardless of our present level of education, civilization, religions and evolution we are still a savage beast 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.