The events, situations and circumstances in an individual’s life usually are connected to the second and third circles so the individual is highly effected and influenced by the second and third circles, but having the free will comes to rescue. It may be a minor thing in the second and third circle but can have great effects on the individual’s already short and mortal life. Making the big things smaller and smaller things even smaller is the wisdom we need to master in a mortal life. Since our life itself is in the third circle we simply don’t have control over it so with the knowledge of being mortal we need to understand that fearing and controlling can be stressful. The stress from the things we don’t have control over should be taken seriously because not only it can rob ones happiness, it can bring the inevitable even sooner. A mortal life needs to be lived fearlessly otherwise you can’t accumulate happy moments of life. Regardless what it means to others, you can break the boundaries, set or break records, help and contribute in the humanity to forge ahead and evolve. If you try to secure yourself by putting yourself in the glass or iron dome, still the mortality come to us from within. Don’t stress of being mortal so you don’t die early death from the stress of the knowledge of mortality. Education spose to benefit us not harm us, yet we not only cause harm to ourselves we cause hurt and harm others with our education. Knowledge of mortality is a good teacher and a peace maker if you allow it by accepting it.
If this is achieved by the individual, even a mortal journey can be enjoyable. The biggest benefit or the logic of being blessed with a free will can be the ability to live in all kind of circumstances. This can only be done successfully if the individual assumes the duties of a CEO. As you become a CEO of your life, you will be able to see beyond the political boundaries of the belonging groups.
Since first circle is your personal tea cup, you need to understand the real effects of trying to control the second and third circle. As mortal being you got bigger fish to fry so instead of trying to get some one to read tealeaves become a CEO of your life so you can see how your personal desires to control the second and third circle rob the vary treasure you need to value. Your happiness and contentment is and should be valued the most by a mortal individual.
Becoming a CEO, calls to use the Godly gift of free will to avoid the storms of the personal tea cups by knowing when to control or when not to.
From a fiver to millions, trillions or whatever number we can imagine can make the fiver look small and weak, when you feel that your education is designed to make you feel inferior you have to look at your fiver critically so you can connect the dots together to find out, that it is you who is in the foundation of humanity and God himself.
As a group, chipping in, maybe a sign of strength , but it still is a small number when its compared with the larger groups or with the humanity as a whole, so every group wants to grow to be strong. Some with old style politics of numbers, yet the others with the weapons of mass destruction.
Most religions would even tell you that you will go to heaven, if you bring someone into your belonging belief system. What does it really mean? It means if you have a larger group you have more power, if it is about more power, it is no more than political strength so it has nothing to do with spirituality. If it is not spiritual then how can it be rewarded by God?
Should we really believe that God wants us to follow one particular belief system? If that is the case then why multiple yet legitimate holy books? And why leaving something in them, so all the religious people constantly fight for being right, for thousands of years over the differences?
I don’t care how someone thinks about me, if it stinks like politics, I am not going to buy it as a spiritual thing, because God knows how many human individuals have been, are and will be killed over religious differences. Who is right? Everyone has been dug into the trenches, or are stuck in their pigeon holes with the politics of sense of belonging to show the strength with numbers.
Personally I believe it is all about the politics and everyone is stuck into their pigeon holes believing God or belief of God belongs to them exclusively, so it is fine to kill others over it. Hopefully equal human rights would bring them out, to smell the reality of one God with one human being at a time, not as groups with their political agendas.
The label of Muslim, Christian, Jewish, Hindu or Sikh comes before being the human being. We are made to feel weak and worthless by the politics of our belonging groups, so the groups carry on living even long after we are gone as individual.
If I ask you to join me to enjoy the things religions prohibit, instead of praying, fasting and sacrificing all the time. What would your response be? It is obvious that you will claim that I am on the wrong path. Sure I can be, but for the argument sake if I say I am the one with a mortal life time which is my personal gift directly from God, so I choose to live the way I want to, and so should you.
If I insist you to follow my way of thinking, according to you, I would be really wrong. Now if I ask you to explain to me logically why I am wrong? When you go into the logic it will take you to the core of the issue or the problem, the real issue is individualism vs communism, religion may say we are not following communism or socialism but start to look at their rules closely you will find the similarities, they can blow your mind. If a group of people want you to live just for them, they want you to be their slave. This gets twisted even further with the mixing of spirituality and the politics of sense of belonging. If you want to look at the politics and spirituality look at them separately because spirituality is nothing but the truth. As a CEO you want to do the spiritual justice to others, including yourself because you are your responsibility as well.
Since I know that I am a mortal being with a free will, I need to really know, where do I stand in the big scheme of life? I can’t really stand to know unless I become a CEO of my life. We all are created as a CEO by nature, but we are pushed down by the politics of our sense of belonging by our own belonging groups. Whomever uses free will he/she makes choices, how to live a personal life as a personal project.
If you insist that I should follow whatever the belonging religion preaches, I have the right to ask why? If you say I don’t have a choice where should I fit my free will? which I got from God right from the get go.
Its said that where human logic fails religious beliefs start from there, it is great, that at least they are admitting that we are an evolving organism. Logical or not, religiously speaking, it is not to be refuted by the individual because individual is insignificant and has no direct connection with God, he/she has to go to God through the prophets. Personally I can’t believe that a human being is insignificant unless a group treats him/her politically. Spiritually, well it is an other story.
Let me explain the human individual’s significance, if you put all the good things together and relate them with God, and all the bad things with the Devil. The only way you can judge the good and bad is to bring in the human individual with a free will, as a third equation, if that judge is not there both good and the bad become meaningless sides of no significance. If the human individual is taken out both sides would disappear with the human individual. For instance if you kill everyone in the world, would God really matter, and to whom? Would anyone pray fast or sacrifice for God for security and comfort? I don’t think so, the whole concept of belief system fails if you take out the human individual.
If you still feel that God and the Devil are the main characters think again, all the good deeds and the bad deeds are done through the human individual. All the bombs have been dropped by the human beings and all the help to the needy is provided by the human beings as well. Take the human individual out and see what you got left. Just picture a ghost town with all the buildings, roads, bridges, water or electrical supply systems become valueless if there is no one to live there.
If I don’t have a free will, then and only then, I would say that I don’t have a say. Since that is not the case, it can come to personal security and the politics of it. A group can say, we provide you security so you can’t question our authority. In that case being an independent creature with the free will, I have to see what I need to pay for the services provided by the belonging group.
My first question to me would be, that Is it true that a group is providing me the security? Group is in the second circle which is dependent on the security from the third circle itself, so can’t provide me security from death, illness, natural disasters, they can’t even ensure me my oxygen or in other words mortality so the nationalism, or religion can’t provide me what they are claiming for.
If I have to pay the price for their security, it has to be really looked at for its legitimacy. Is it really worth for me to live in an obedient and subservient position to some people whom are people just like me. Remember it is all about the reciprocation between God and yourself, if my belonging group wants me to pay more than it provides me, it is not reciprocating fairly.
When it comes to the justice, religious extreme and God is not regarded in the court houses of the world, but our ethics, morals traditions and customs are heavily influenced by our belonging religions so our right and wrong are stuck into our past. It is time to bring everything according to today’s times.
Equal human rights are a good spiritual start, so get with it. If you feel that it is okay to be prejudiced against someone other than your belonging groups you are not following the spiritual rule, of don’t do to anyone what you don’t like done to yourself. You can say the knowledge of my belonging groups is superior to all others so whatever it says I have to follow to be right. Remember as a human being we all are evolving all the time, the proof is that we learn new things everyday, so we are not done with our knowledge yet. I believe we have a brain which has multiplying neurons, just like our body cells we can grow the muscles and brain in the same manors. If everything is growing how can we claim that our knowledge is complete. We don’t have to be extremist to be intellectual, religious or spiritual, we all have to be all of the above at the same time.
I believe either extreme is wrong we need to look at our spiritual lives as well so instead of picking one over the other we need to zigzag through it all with our evolving knowledge to have a personal yet successful mortal life.
No one can be 100% sure about the before birth, or after death because we have not reached our potential to use full brain powers. Our problem is that not only individually, but collectively as well, we use our assumptions, sometime we even ask the computer to help us assume what will happen in the future, as if everything is according to our numbers just look at your outer and inner spaces, how complex you can be.
We are born in our groups, so all we know whatever we have been taught, so we need to look at our upbringing critically as well. If you look at a living human individual, he/she is not only a living creature but a spiritual being as well, but we are not one or the other we are bundle of two, so the real balance is needed to live a complicated mortal life.
As a human being we all are social creatures and social creatures can’t live alone, so we all pay the price willingly to be with our belonging groups. The trouble is that we all know that we are mortal as well, so we have to have the right to have a pleasant journey. If for some reason happiness and contentment has been robbed, as an individual we all have the responsibility to know the reasons.
As a mortal individual with free will and a fiver you have to live within your first and personal circle yet you have to relate and reciprocate with second and third circles. Since second circle relates with the community, as community or a group may have a say with the rules and laws of the land for the individual to follow, but a community may not have a say in how the third circle works so people die and get sick regardless of the support from the community.
As communities we have been trying to control and influence our belonging individuals and even other communities of the world as well, just like we have been trying to control and influence the human individual residing within belonging community.
One of our problems is that as an individual we think our community thinks like us and as community we think God thinks like us. As if everything is, and it should be in control. We even try to control God by worshiping and sacrificing. As if our bribery would make God give us more control in our living years and even reserve a spot in heaven for after life. There is nothing wrong with having a belief system but prayers and worshiping should come after the use of all the efforts one can use the fiver for, our practical living and helping each other in difficult times is a lot more valuable as a practical prayers to God than just banging our heads to the walls or ground yet committing spiritual crimes at the same times. We have to do our best before asking God’s help, because we have been blessed with the fiver from God. This fiver is the foundation of all the progress humanity have made, is making and will be making.
Sure God is involved in it all the way by providing the individual security from external and internal chaotic spaces but the progress came from the lofty goals of the human individual. This visionary creature is the central reason of today’s good, bad and the ugly humanity has to offer. Interestingly and strangely he/she does it all regardless of the awareness of mortality.
From conquering to slavery to all the way to the equal human rights and everything in between, it has been a long journey. We have come a long way, how did we get here is clear sign of human evolution. All the people for or against would be judged by our coming generations, so as communities we should understand which side or how do we stand in an evolving world’s revolving door.
Controlling or trying to control everything as an individual or community is quite taxing. How far are you willing to go, if you go too far, you may self destruct as an individual and ruin your temporary journey, or are you willing to evolve with the demands of time. The best way to be more effective is to educate, educate and educate not only as an individual but as communities as well.
As human being with a fiver, free will and continuously evolving brain and body, we have out smart all other creatures, yet we have been and still are killing each other not even for food. So what does it really mean to be a human being? Well with the free will, we pursue and evolve to become stronger and smarter. There is one glitch, and that is that our awareness of our mortality which stokes the fire of curiosity. It does not only asks us that where did we come from and where are we going? It gives the birth to the thirst of other knowledge as well.
From daily survival to fighting disease to understanding the disease process to science and technology to social and spiritual knowledge and everything in between. Our curiosity goes well beyond our mortality so our second circle reaps the benefits of our efforts during our living years. This should be for the humanity as a whole as well, but the politics of our sense of belonging to our belonging groups, takes over and we stay stuck into our belonging groups. This politics spawns into our nationalism and religions we can’t question because of the politics. Sense of belonging teaches us to sacrifice even life for the belonging groups. They reward and even promise us to secure a spot for us in the heaven after our death. True or not is not the question, but the politics of the sense of belonging passionately speaks loudly enough to shut down the questioning individuals.
Regardless of all the oppression, human individual has always been able to question authorities and evolve. This desire to evolve has not been controlled by any ism or religion, we have been told that we will go to hell for our sins, but sins were never stopped and especially these days with the equal human rights, even the past sins have been transforming to not only to be acceptable but becoming the rights.
From condemnation of the other religious beliefs to slavery, to homosexuality to abortion to right to die with dignity to children out of wedlock. The list is long enough to spin the heads of conservatives or religious fanatics. Even pope had to change his tune to bow down to the spiritual law of equal human rights.
Canada and some other countries were chosen to be the best places to live and raise children. I don’t think it is the money, the money is plenty in the Arab countries. Regardless of the taxes, it is the equal human rights and individual freedom makes people flock and migrate to countries like Canada. Everyone has freedom to worship the way they want to yet they all can live under the same law of the land. My question is that why can’t we live like this as a humanity?
Government had to apologized and pay for the past sins of spiritual crimes done by the religious people whom thought they were superior to others just because of the religion. Even today government had to pay for the recent cases of human rights violations. Even the person whom thinks he/she is doing God’s work, can become sinner with the changing times.
What is our future holding? No one really knows just like the past powers thought they were right yet proven wrong with time, so lets keep ourselves away from the politics, which inspires us to commit the sins of spirituality, by not doing to anyone what we don’t like done to ourselves.
Sense of belonging related politics is everywhere, so we need to evolve to the next level to be human being before being Muslim, Christian or Jewish. Regardless of the politics of sense of belonging, personal mortality is a fact, so our journey should be a pleasant one. You can bring in God, hell and heaven into the mix but if you are not spiritual nothing really matters, you can’t go to heaven or hell just because you belong to certain group of people, what really maters is that, do you or are you reciprocating.
If you live in a country where dog eat dog or an individualistic philosophy is preached you personally need to create balance for yourself, by looking into the equal human rights with the universal health care, welfare, unemployment insurance and taxes not as a socialism but spiritualism because it is as spiritual as it can be to help the needy in a difficult time of life. There is a very thin line between religious rules and socialism, depending on how you look at it.
You can worship all you want in the mosque or church but the real thing is helping someone in need, that will not only make you feel good about yourself it makes the person helped feel good as well and in the living years. You don’t have to die to reap the rewards of a good deed. If you are for the individual or for the community exclusively, it is an extreme, so the respect needs to be considered from both sides.
So called sins are based on the group politics to keep the individual feel inferior, guilty and worthless, so he/she can be controllable. If you go too far against the individualism, people whom usually are the individuals would leave and go somewhere, where they can find equal human rights and freedom.
One of humanity’s big problem is that we even collectively think as an insecure individual, so our politics revolves around the security yet being mortal as an individual the word security sounds farfetched, because or the mortality.
The security rhetoric or related education or thinking is coming from the politics of the sense of belonging to our belonging groups. All groups preach that they look after their individual yet most people are hurt from their own belonging groups the most.
This is a usual preaching, from belonging groups that the others are not really human beings or part of humanity, or are inferior to your belonging group. They should not have what you have so they should stay weaker and defeat able. Wrong thinking because human nature comes into play and this is related to level two.
A while back I was watching Dr. Wane Dyer explaining the levels of awareness on TV. He explained that first of all we learn owning, for instance this is my mom, my dad, my toy or my best friend. Second level where we think mine or ours is better. Third is what is in it for me? And the forth level where human being asks the others what can I do for you? So the level two, where mine is better is a competition with others.
This competitive environment has its advantages like excelling and advancing, but the draw backs are much more dangerous because it needs to be looked at as against whom? Human beings against human beings, our conflicts whether they are territory related or religion related had been, and are still taking a heavy toll against humanity as a whole. Killing each other becomes easier and cheaper, yet it stokes the fire of hatred and animosity. That is why we can’t evolve out of this perpetual spiritual crime spawning politics of our sense of belonging to our belonging groups. It is like an auto immune disease humanity can’t cure or over come. The only way it is going to be controlled, if we all as an individual become CEOs of our lives and don’t participate in the politics of divisions and learn to belong to the humanity as a whole.
We are an organism like coral reef, colorful, connected and same yet being robbed of its potential by an auto immune disease. We may not reach our potential if we stay stuck in the level two.
Trying to prevent someone from gaining strength is not the way to go because of our sense of belonging to our groups would always keep us fighting against each other regardless of the time. Just look around all the religions, they have not resolved their differences by going to wars against each other for thousands of years.
If we start to learn as an individual that we belong to humanity as a whole, which we are, we can go after the cause of this autoimmune disease.
If a passionate creature like human being gets hurt, regardless of being very smart, he/she is not only the emotional bundle of revenge, he/she carries the pain of love loss throughout the living years. With that pain, personal life becomes meaningless for him/her so he/she wants the pain causing people to feel the same pain at all cost. This perpetual love loss has to be understood not only by the first circle as an individual but by our second circle as well so we can start to create healing and become part of humanity instead of our belonging groups. If there is a storm in individual’s tea cup because of the community it is damaging for both at the same time because the community is consisting of the individuals. The awareness of the individual is important so he/she does not let the politics of the belonging group ruin his/her temporary visit and belonging group should understand that an unhappy and unhealthy individual is dangerous for the integrity of the group as well.