Do you personally look at yourself as an intellectual entity or most likely physical entity?
If you ask this question to yourself you have opened your personal Pandora’s box but I would like to open the Pandora’s box of humanity. By being honest to myself I found some very powerful chemical related pulls in my life, from everyday love triangle to politics of sense of belonging to internal divisions of disputing or bickering spiritual and animal or physical sides. I was looking for some scientific and physical connections to my thoughts to discover ugly truths of humanity.
A long while back I wrote a blog titled (inferiority complex the dirty truth of humanity.) Personally I was looking for the reasons of why our politics of sense of belonging is so powerful that it makes even the most intellectual people dance like puppets. This is with the proof of science that some of us are ruled by our chemicals, that means their animal side is stronger than their spiritual side. Being religious or not some people just can’t understand the differences between two internal sides and you as yourself.
I Google to find this and I Quote.
“Spectators testosterone levels at world cup final. Bernhardt et al(1998) conducted such a study at world cup final of 1994 (Played between Brazil and Italy).
They collected salivary samples from fans of both teams prior to the game and shortly there after. You might recall that Brazil this otherwise extraordinarily boring final won on penalty kicks. The researchers obtained a statistically significant T effect such that Brazilian fans displayed an increase in their T levels whereas the Italian fans exhibited a decrease in theirs. This is quite extraordinary in that it demonstrates that we can experience a vicarious endocrinologist response. As social species, our brains have the uncanny ability to construe our favorite sports teams as part of our in-group even though we are likely to have never met the players whom we care so much about”. End Quote.
As human beings we are a unique combination of spirit, physicality and mortality. Sure keeping animal desires in control make you a better human being but its in the eyes of the people you belong to. Whether you or those people are right or wrong is an other question but for you, your real identity is a human being. You are not a spirit exclusively nor you are an animal so choosing one over the other is going to be a half knowledge no matter which you cut it especially if are a mortal. Things become tricky when you are pushed and influenced by the chemicals internally.
You have to learn not only about what and who you are, you have to put things in perspectives as a mortal being as well because of the limited time. Best way to do that is to question everything why do you do what you do?
First question should be do you act more with your animal side or spiritual side? If you respond to chemical changes uncontrollably you need to let your spiritual side grow so you can balance it all from within. Remember its not one or the other, our animal side makes us human beings so rejecting that would be wrong as well. God or not we all come in this life as a human being not as a spirit nor as an animal exclusively.
Since you or the people around you are or can be influenced by the politics of sense of belonging to group so their opinions can be heavily prejudicial and discriminatory against any one who opposes those accepted truths.
Since your life is your personal project and you are the one who is in charge of all details. Knowing your life’ facts like mortality, importance of personal happiness, satisfaction and contentment on one hand and guilt and regrets on the other responsibilities are all on your personal shoulders because of your atom of autonomy related free will.
If you act under the influences of honor, ego and pride you have to start digging to find their roots as well. Personally I believe they have their place in individual’s life but still the individual is the one responsible for personal actions. If you act under the influences of ego pride or honor you are under the influences of your belonging groups because they all are born from the politics of sense of belonging to our groups. If you are acting on behalf of your the belonging group and join in the mob attack and commit spiritual crimes it is your personal responsibility to keep checking your chemical influences so you don’t end up with guilt related regrets.
It may appear natural to follow the influences of our chemicals but that is for the animals exclusively. As a spirit you can be very hard on yourself and being spiritually unhappy can be a big problem for especially a mortal being . Living with guilt and regrets is within and is your personal place so your belonging community can’t help you very much when you are suffering from inside issues. You can’t even go to God because God can easily say that is why I have given you an atom of autonomy and related free will so you can make your decisions wisely.
Sooner you learn about your personal responsibilities the better because you can stop yourself from accumulating personal guilt and regrets in the name of your belonging groups. If you don’t feel guilt and regrets when it comes to politics of sense of belonging your chemical reactions have the power over your spiritual side that means you have been brain washed from your tender years and to the point that you don’t understand your personal identity.
Being a complete human being brings personal responsibilities, since our life is our personal project we have to be a CEO to understand our personal influences. From spiritual satisfaction to pleasing to living and surviving in a powerful group settings, an individual has to be practically a politician themselves. Group influences from the childhood or not as we become adults our responsibilities grow. Personal life is not just dependencies of parents or communities, it is about self reliance as well so making decisions about how to live a mortal life becomes crucial for each and everyone of us. We can’t just live this life as a worker bee or a warrior ant or for the life after death so what to do with the competing sides from within?
If we don’t even try to enjoy the moment and we spend all our lives to make things perfect for this or for the life on the other side. We rip ourselves off of our individual happiness and contentment. Happiness and contentment is the most important treasure of one’s mortal life and this is the only thing that can assess one’s life well lived or not. If we sacrifice this living opportunity just to follow the acceptance of others or gamble everything for the life after death, it may be good for the belonging groups but terrible for the individual. Not a good strategy for the mortal being. When you know you are running out of time, you really have to know the importance of happiness and contentment. Seeking permanent things like, security, control, housing, finance, health and relationships can work against you especially in your second half of living years because you put so much emphases accumulating and loving it, yet you have to leave it all behind.Remember there is no security and control for a mortal being, none whatsoever period, if you want to save a spot in the heaven or life after death do so but if you learn to reciprocate during your living years you may achieve heaven in both.
If you start to look at human being from out side you are small and may appear insignificant but further you dig in, the more you find out how Godly a human being is and can be.
For sure we are culturally complex but we are behaviorally flexible and curious so we explore and adopt that is why we have survived in all kind of environments and we are found in all parts of the world. The best part is that we are able to cooperate with people outside of the family, community, race, nation or religions that is why we can even migrate and live within the new communities. If your culture, race, gender, nation or religion has you confused learn to use your God given imagination to be a human being that can bring you hope and positivity.
Interestingly to me imagination is a place in between your personal two worlds but it is a blessing and a curse at the same time depending on how you use it.
First it is a blessing because all our evolution and civilization is based on the individuals who used their imagination and explored. Then it is a curse for the individual because it brings dissatisfaction, anxiety and rob the most important treasure like happiness and contentment. Especially as a mortal we just can’t afford to spend our lives on the platforms waiting for our train to come, we need to live our lives as complete collections of moments so staying in the moment with hope and optimism is the key to a successful mortal life.
Our religions promote and give us hope for that train to come while you are at the platform meaning this life is just a part of journey and the real thing is after life. I find it logically unacceptable because all the spiritual work is physically done by the living breathing human beings on this side to the theory of the other side is spiritually questionable for its political motives. The biggest trouble is that we have to die first to find that out who is right. Regardless of what would be important for the life after death is one thing but living this real life on a platform philosophy goes against the realities of human mortality. Simple understanding is that human beings are like cells of God and doing their jobs to make God function physically. Their job is to make spiritual things physical. If you have a job to help someone you are doing your duty of reciprocation and that is the bottom line of it all. Since God does not need any thing personally helping each other is considered reciprocation. If you have been fulfilling your duty of reciprocation should you still live your life on the platform? This question can’t be answered without going to egotistic assumptions. Just like we are discovering that God is not mad at us if there is a storm, natural disasters are not the signs of God being disturb with our actions. Why do we think God is like a human figure, just look at our cells or seeds of plants and conclude there is no resemblance not in looks not in powers. This building is standing on the grounds where our human knowledge has to grow to understand. There is no doubt there is body for the cells. How it looks like and functions is out of our comprehension it will stay that way if we have people assuming and killing each other over assumptions. No one wants to research that area because you always end up in a position where you feel our knowledge is inadequate. Our belief systems are in the zone where things happen but not sure how. Just like our imagination where we make things out of thin air for the better or worse.
Regardless of what our religions say we don’t really know anything about God, maybe we are not able to understand with the capacity of our brain yet. Every other human knowledge is discovered by questioning, where humanity is, it is because of the questioning nature of human being. I believe if we can’t or don’t question about God we can’t evolve further in that department of life and as human beings we are made to evolve by God. Our evolution is not against God but it is rather a testament for God’s physical existence.
If we have difference of opinion which we have had since forever, how are we going to get ahead in that knowledge to even have an intellectual discussion. Becoming emotionally charged about something what we don’t really know is not new, we have been killing each other over who is right since forever. With the history of evolving nature we can be proven wrong over and over yet we still kill so it is not about the spiritual side of us it is our dark side of politics and chemicals we need to explore.
Don’t forget our history says twenty five not connected human groups were doing human sacrifice if it was not up to the people who thought outside of the box we still would be doing that. In India Sati was practiced if humanity does not evolve we can be quit a barbaric creatures. It is all because we have very compelling and powerful chemical influences so our history is full of atrocities against our own kind which by the way still is going on. Do we know why? I don’t think so because we still believe in our teams whether they are sport teams or armies.
From throwing virgins over the cliffs to taking material things into our graves to still killing each other over our religious beliefs and even in the same religions. If humanity is a physical body of God and we are cells of it, it is just like we have trillions of cells in our bodies. Imagine cells in the arms think that the body does not exist and arm are the one who can rule the whole body, does not make sense does it, it is because you don’t look at yourself as cell of the humanity you are taught to believe arm is it and enough for you to know.
Belonging cells should know a groups of cells don’t run the show it is way beyond them. Body has to work all together and in synergy for us to survive. Our cells may not have the ability to see the body as a whole just like a human individual can lack knowledge of their influences so they can’t see God as humanity as a whole. They can’t see God in others just because of political and chemical influences. Remember we all are blessed to think, feel and use our free will. We can question everything what we don’t know is one thing but killing someone over God does not make any sense because you don’t understand or comprehend God.
As human beings we all should know that we have our perceived and taught realities, then we have our chemical realities and then on top of all that we have totally physical realities. For instance as human individuals we have our two sides and then you as an individual. Spiritual side and physical sides are there but you who holds atom of autonomy is the master and a CEO. If you want to live in a body which is physical to perform physical actions you have to learn about the animal side of it. Your spiritual side can’t physically perform and convert a spiritual thought into a physical reality without the help of the physical body and physical body can’t live without you. In order to live a successful mortal life you have to learn to create balance between your physicality and spirituality. Our body is our physical reality and our soul is our spiritual reality, that means God and Devil are our realities of spirit yet without our physical body they can’t perform physical tasks. That is why human being is the third equation in the grand scheme of life.
If you happen to kill someone you just killed a part of God or Devil as well. If you believe that you have killed a bad guy, you still killed a part of God or Devil. If you have killed some innocent being, you for sure killed a part of God. Just like the cells don’t know about the body or can’t comprehend the knowledge of the body, you don’t know about God so God and Devil are not your understood realities. Killing someone who is a physical reality over the realities you don’t know is simply related to ignorance or lack of the knowledge of chemicals you are influenced by.
If you don’t know about your chemicals or the political influences of the belonging groups you simply need to evolve spiritually. Since politics has been and still kills, it is you who has to grow individually to know your influences.
Since humanity has been doing it for so long it has developed a habit of killing each other so we just need excuses. Group politics is not going to change because of their political interests so it is the individual who has to change and evolve to the next level to understand that we all have to carry our own burdens individually. If our spiritual side has been suppressed that still does not mean it is not there anymore. If you individually deny it for the loyalties to your groups it may back fire on you because you are not limited like your own body cells. You are the body or God within yourself. That is why you have your sides and the atom of your autonomy, it is you who chooses what actions to take. That puts all the responsibilities on your shoulders. Genetically you are designed to be a free entity, if you choose to belong to a group of people it is like your cells belong to a body part exclusively. If you choose to belong to humanity as a whole that only makes sense. Now the question is should you be choosing your arm or a leg as your identity? By now you should know what I am talking about if you are a human being your identity belong to humanity.
Sure there are bad apples every where but still there is always a decent and spiritual part as well, sometime deeply buried because of the education, circumstances or hormones related higher animal side. Regardless of all that just remember power of the politics of sense of belonging has roots deep into our chemicals so never underestimate its lures. It has been overriding our intellect for so long that humanity just can’t find that illusive peace it needs. If we don’t connect our intellect with physicality we would not understand human psyche individually. The key to understand and over coming its powers is to gain spiritual edge. Since spirituality is universal and brings you personal sense of justice, it can help override politics of belonging to groups so you can belong to humanity as a whole. Understanding and breaking down human behavior connecting to our hormones can open a discussion for peace whether it is internal or external.
If we are still discovering what a human individual can do who and what a human being is, that means other than our installed identities we don’t really know what and who we are. Long time ago Kabir said and I “Quote”
“THE DROP IN THE OCEAN, EVERY BODY KNOWS, THE OCEAN IN THE DROP, A RARE ONE DOES”. (END QUOTE).
If potentially we are an ocean in a drop individually where are we going with our evolving potential. Today we all can talk face to face even with the people in the space. We know the paths of storms to save lives, remember we use to sacrifice living breathing human beings in the name of God. Today regardless of resistance we have blood transfusion, artificial insemination, test tube and stem cell on one side and space station, transportation and communication to blow some one’s brain from even the last hundred year. Kids can go to school without physically going to school. People can rip you off from thousands of miles away and your police can’t do anything about it. My point is that it all happened because of human individual’s imagination. Things change with time, if we disrespect the changes we are left behind.
Sure we have different lines of human knowledge and we still need to respect knowledge of all kind. You can’t disrespect spiritual knowledge if you are a scientist otherwise you can become a scientifically correct but spiritually incorrect or the other way around. If you are a good doctor you should know that imagining bad things can cause stress and stress related diseases so you can’t really fix the cause of the disease of your patient. Things have been and are still being discovered so taking pride in a still evolving and limited human knowledge is related to limited use of human brain capacity, this has been and still is our big problem as we evolve.
We have been evolving but without the balance and it is all because of our politically and chemically tainted education systems. Our group politics has been the main culprit in our differences. In past religious people have put ban on and killed intellectuals in the name of group politics yet portrayed it in the name of God.
We have history of taking drastic measures clearly showing our unreasonable resistance to keep the unknown, as unknown. From burning witches to books have been part of evolution and civilization so changing to adopt to our new knowledge against our prejudiced and discrimination and in favor of of equal human rights has been and is challenged before it is implemented.
Corona virus has brought us to similar situation, because it has brought out those people who are seeking help from the people who through virgins over the cliffs to please God. Rest of the people are looking at the scientists to come up with a cure because we use to live thirty eight years on average since our scientists discovered antibiotics we have doubled our average age. Shouldn’t we credit our scientists? Insulin saves and even helps to keep those alive who openly discredit scientists. Trouble is again our politics of sense of belonging, people can’t even appreciate the help they have been receiving from the modern technologies. They use cell phones, computer, internet modern transportation, communication technology and medicine when it suits them personally but can’t raise voice against their own belonging groups of their wrong doing.
Why do we believe God is hell bent to punish and kill us for disobeying religious rules, yet we keep looking at our scientists to help us. Some of us may believe it is a man made virus and is spread to gain political and financial control.
Our problem is that both sides are looking to blame either God or politicians yet neglect to look at the messages coming from it all. We have been receiving these messages for a long time and they are keep coming yet our ignorance is persistent and prevalent. Our need for humanity to work together is louder than ever yet somehow powerful and chemically induced politics of sense of belonging to our groups keeps us from taking this next step into our evolution.
From infectious diseases like Corona, Zika, Ebola, and Aids to technological advances like internet, space station and cyber crimes and surgeries, to modern day mixed children generations to equal human rights and to top of all that our immediate needs to fight global warming are a few things to point out. This need is not going to go away if we have one earth we have to learn to take care of it not as a group but as one humanity. People are blinded by not only because of our political reasons but because of our chemical reasons as well so it is hard for the ordinary individual to put up defenses against internal pulls. That is why I call it chemical dependencies of humanity.
Now lets look at it as an individual. Do you feel that you don’t really know why you want to be prejudiced and discriminatory against who is different than your own belonging group? Learn why and soon because it is not your group who is going to teach you this spirituality based knowledge.
Since you are a spiritual being from within, your powerful and compelling feelings by your chemicals need to be neutralized by you to create balance to be a human being. Our desires are usually influenced by our animal side especially when it comes to our unknowns. We want to preserve our self and survive so our animal side dictate how you should act but our spiritual side is equally strong to make you live miserably from within as well. Knowing and creating balance is a human individual wisdom we need to use especially because of our mortal nature.
This life or life after death, God or not, chemicals or not, politics or not personal life is our own individual project and we are not only responsible for our actions but for our happiness and contentment as well. If life after death is more important to you look for your political and chemical influences and then decide because God needs your physicality to perform all the good is needed by the humanity.
Even discoveries to help humanity not only to extend average life but to survive all kind of natural disasters. Just think about it, where you personally stand. What kind of value do you have for yourself. Are you a born sinner and you need to always be sorry for nothing, learn to not only question yourself about your influences like politics and chemicals but question everything including your belonging groups and yes even God. If you don’t humanity would be standing still, remember all the progress has been, is and will be made by the questioning individuals like you. Now ask yourself how long would it take for you to understand that you are a human individual not an extension of some chemical and politics based emotional human ideologies. Remember you are the spiritual being as well who should be equally strong to make you complete human being. Thousands of years of civilization should be enough to evolve to the next level so you don’t commit animal acts any more.