How most organized ‘religions’ differ from an essential personal Spiritual Path and
the natural inclination to strive towards perfection in our physical here & now concerns.
If there ever was any sort of purpose of our life
Beyond the fantasies of our childhood of becoming a fireman, astronaut, a music star, or a ballerina
That would be
To live a life free of the inherent pain & suffering
that most of us unnecessarily endure our entire life,
and
To become Enlightened to our True Nature of Being and thus
Know unshakably the True Nature of Reality.
This is basically what all the great thinkers of philosophy has spent millennia
to get a better understanding of.
One should earnestly take up an essential personal Spiritual Path.
Fine tune your philosophy on life integrating as many intelligent factors as possible.
Part of this endeavor should be investigating all reasonable religions and spiritual traditions for what they all have in common. A path that inspires one to understand the True nature of their being and the Absolute realities of life along with our place in this timeless wonder of it all, while integrating Unconditional Love and a compassion for all God’s children… i.e.
For the greater good and one’s personal growth.
What you will find is a direction worth including in your own Spiritual Path.
All general categories of religions have various traditions and denominations which present their particular perspective in a way that makes sense to them.
Whatever religion you are in
If you are satisfied with the general child like naive concepts and are not in a mental capacity to seek any other form of worship
Then perhaps within that religion, seek a denomination that holds water and makes sense as compared with
the deep end of all other spiritual traditions.
Even Christianity, when it’s presented without the distracting political power drive doctrines in a non-dogmatic way
that speaks to the true metaphorical meanings of the myths, magic, and miracles
can deliver salvation to an aspirant of True Divinity.
I was born, baptized, raised, and catechisme’d a Catholic.
After being challenged with some very profound issues that went against many moral and real world rational perspectives
I had to expand my search for a deeper meaning of life, my life, and how it fit into the timeless wonder of it all.
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I was inspired to Transcend and Include.
I have transcended the outdated mythic literal aspects of my Catholic roots,
while including the real core meanings that originally was the inspiration for the establishment of Christianity.
My path has led me deeply into many spiritual traditions such as
Tibetan Bon Buddhism, Dzogchen, the Buddha’s Noble Eight Fold Path
along with many Buddhist philosophies,
Zen, the Tao, Advaita Vedanta, Sufi and a growing number of psychologists, philosophers and sages
that help explain the non-dual unified conscious perspectives.
One thing I’ve learned is that you know you’re on the right Path when an ineffable subject of the Absolute is presented in various traditions that use diverse methodologies to point towards the same ineffable Truths.
For most of my life I have been earnestly looking into all the major religions and spiritual traditions in order to find some unified Ultimate Truth about this timeless wonder of it all we all are naturally drawn to.
So far, I have found,
All the organized religion have conundrums to any sort of reality check
or
they contradict themselves.
They all have some profound universal commonality, which is good, but,
They all have some profound doctrine that totally derails one’s faith, particularly if one is truly a
post-modern intelligent, forward thinking rational person that is not inclined to buy into taking man made up
myths, magic, and miracles as the literal truth
This mythic-literal doctrine misses the opportunity to engage in a deeper way
to teach the core principles of the scriptures without having to place absurd assumptions as a requirement to be in their church
or have a chance to go to their version of heaven.
The more progressive churches that are teaching the core meanings of the scriptures
are using contemporary similes and metaphors to connect deeper to a wider and growing range of people.
Countless reasonable religions have a lot of commonalities.
For starters,
they all originally included morals, virtues, being good, being honest, avoid jealousy and revenge …
And they all speak of Love
But not necessarily Unconditional Love.
The love they have… is just for those that pray just like them
is pretty close to unconditional love but
it’s based on the condition that they must think, act, and pray just like they do.
However,
those that are outside of their church or worse,
if they are outside their denomination, or even worse
if they aren’t among any of the over 66,000 other Christian denominations
then pity is as close to love as they can offer.
They all pity your pathic disgraceful foolish worthless soul
that is on a one-way road to a place they made up called hell.
No matter how kind they are in dishing out this pity
There is a systematic inspiration to disenfranchise anyone
that doesn’t buy into their distracting dogmas and doctrines.
It was explained to me by a diehard white American Christian
that even if there was a church of the very same dominion in another country
and if our country went to war with, he told me:
God would want me to go over there and kill them in his name for the honor of our country because …
this is God’s country.
Wow!
What happened to God being pro-life!
That must be another myth.
:-O
After experiencing so many perspectives from Christians that obviously don’t get the first thing about
what their religion is supposed to be about
And that’s Unconditional Love, morals, virtues, decency, do no harm, serve all, be humble, be loving annnndddd
NEVER KILL SOMEONE!
Especially torturing to death over 100 million innocent people in the name of their
“all loving pro-life god”.
Christianity basically had a lot of nice moral considerations before they adopted the political power-driven ambition
to combine church & state into an unstoppable military force
Not quiet sure how so many Christians have justified all the centuries of brutal atrocities, murders, the torturing
and burning alive the academicians that dare told the truth about our planet’s real position in our galaxy
all done in the name of the church for their projection of what they imagine God is.
All this bloodletting inspired by a God that they say is pro-life!
And still to this day, the church has lost its tread of being for the poor, and hungry and disenfranchised
to help them find solace and salvation
They are even more politically power driven to gain more & more power.
This is not anything close to Divinity.
Their current vision of the 2cd coming of Christ was just found guilty of raping a woman and
is currently in court for his illegal payouts from campaign funds to a porn star he had sex with
while his wife was pregnant with their child.
Note:
this was written before all the guilty verdicts came in… and, before the Epstein files exposed tRump’s child raping crimes…
of which, all the “Christians” that still support him now enthusiastically normalize, rationalize and legitimize
raping children, praising the “lord” and stating the the “lord” has forgiven him…
so he gets away with it all and murdering his own babies that his victims gave birth to.
then they’ll say…”oh, the “lord” works in mysterious ways”… ha ha snicker snicker
I just don’t get how those religious followers can still be duped into thinking that’s what god wants us all to be more like!
while they get a sadistic boner just talking about pedophilias…. grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
There are lots of things in the bible that are in common with most reasonable religions
I love the Golden Rule
Do onto others as you would have them do onto you.
A much needed version of this quote is:
Love thy enemy as you would a friend.
If we collectively embraced these quotes that is understood to be written by Jesus
We wouldn’t be so inclined to divide & conquer and further make our differences more of a problem that got us to the dire state
that we can no longer even try to build bridges towards just simply getting along.
While doing one’s due diligence to learn about other religions and spiritual traditions,
beware of any religions claiming that only they have the proper way to an imagined heaven
or some man made up after this life place, and anyone that does not follow these obsessed men are to be deemed evil
and doomed to be tortured in hell for eternity by ‘the’ all loving pro-life ‘god’…
after being shunned by the rest of the flock in this life.
A real deal breaker for me was the Christian demand that in order to get to heaven
you have to believe that the man made up myths, magic, and miracles are to be taken as the literal truth.
This mythic-literalperspective is not a leap of faith,
It’s a leap of stupid just to prove one’s depth of faith or depth of duped.
What is infinitely waisted here is that by mis-leading the flock with man made up myths made to be taken literally,
those of rational reason, intelligent common sense, and critical thinking will see it for what it is
And then move on
And thus miss a golden opportunity to find peace in the Absolute.
While those that are trying to be good Christians and buying into not only the myths, magic, and miracles
Countless biblical conspiracy theories are being indoctrinated into the mindset of the masses and at church
to make the effort to be faithful, and thus be being good by taking the same blind faith approach to these
unsubstantiated conspiracy theories that promote ultra-reich-wing conservative christen political power driven agendas.
Again that’s not real Divinity in action.
So now we’ve become a nation of mainly mentally vulnerable citizens that are being duped with any conspiracy theories
that comes along with political power-drive issues to dominate the masses and
NOT with the greater good in mind.
These are typically promoted by demagogue politicians to further divide & conquer we the people,
pitting everyone against the other so they can get elected to pursue their own personal gains with the power of an elected office.
This is not real spirituality or a way to sustain our communities and work towards
improving the human condition of all humanity.
Be very wary of any religion that is scrambling for political power
to achieve their political goals while forcing their misbeliefs upon others.
The Christian extremists embrace of the end of times prophecies
is more dangerous than any Muslim’s religious extremist’s rants
against their flaccid effectiveness in getting along with one particular ethnic group the Jews
NO!
The Christians End of Times prophecies promote the end and annihilation of all that God has created,
killing all life and ensuring that no further life could ever have a chance on Earth for countess eon’s
just so their misbelief that the faithful can be rewarded for such global genocide and get to go to a heaven.
but its ok right? As long as no one has an abortion and shout’s “Praise the Lord” after the mass killings…
because God is pro-life?!
;-O
But seriously,
When a religion is politically motived
They become weaponized and
Innocent people die by unfathomable masses.
And the quality of life just keeps spiraling downward.
This is NOT a spiritual path
This is obstruction of everyone’s Divine Right of Free Will to strive towards perfection
in both the physical here & now and our essential, eternal True nature.
They give sermons about a God in the sky.
About a gender specific male god is up there misogynistically micromanaging our every thought.
A god that was invented by man to fulfill an archaic early world view of the great mystery.
It
it’s odd that it is currently believed that an atheist is an evil person because he does not believe in a man made up sky god.
While most Christians don’t consider themselves as evil atheists because
they no longer believe in the earlier projections of God like the volcano gods, the lightening god or even
all the many ego-personified Greek Gods.
So,
why stay stuck on this sky god perspective?
Transcend to higher and deeper perspectives of Divinity.
God want us to use our God given Triune Brain to become all that we can be so the quality of life
improves with each generation and….
we can collectively move away from a life struggling with deficiencies,
to a life of abundance!?!
Once we are at this next stage of life, we’d have more time to contemplate Divinity and
create a lifestyle that brings us all closer to harmony and the Divine Way.
We have the resources on this planet right now
and we have enough smart people to make it happen
But we seem to be stuck on stupid.
Most Christians seem very afraid of dying.
Even though they are promised they will get to meet their maker
They seem very dreadful of being judged, on judgment day of death.
And the poor Catholics that have been deceived and already lived in fear of demons under their beds and in their closets
add to the dread of being judged after death is too much for most to feel good about whatever it is that comes
after this here & now.
Oddly,
True Buddhists don’t fear dying
They fear the dread of being born again into all the man made up madness.
Please read – The Conundrums of Religions – Part 2…
or… if you prefer…
Divine Free Will…
The choice to yours…. Use it.. Divinely!