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At this point, I can only conclude that there are too many Gods in the world today. There are too many contradictory religious beliefs structured from the wild imaginations of humans and imbedded in rigidly structured institutions. Each imagined belief system that becomes rigidly organized into an institution automatically comes into conflict with other rigidly organized and institutionalized belief systems. I am pained when I see so much of humanity living out their lives in a mental cloud of fragmented superstition and ritual wrapped in a cloak of mythology. Instead of promoting love, kindness, harmony, and understanding between peoples, conflicting religions result in paranoia, suspicion, hate, violence, and painful death.
Humans suffer from the illusion of disunity. Most humans believe that they are separate from each other, that they are not part of one body. They believe they are separate from their environment, that they are not part of one total living system. And they believe that they are separate from their creator, that they are not part of their creator. However, deep in the sub consciousness of every living human is a knowing. We experience it sometimes as a silent voice speaking to us from somewhere. Our creator tells us in unspoken words "Everyone is going to return to me, regardless of the path they take because there is nowhere else to go."
People polarize their beliefs into such separate parts as good and bad, heaven and hell, God and the Devil, etc. Such a dichotomy fragments their world intellectually, preventing the realization that all is interconnected into one single whole we can call our creator. They never come to realize that their creator is in them and surrounds them; that they are a creation of the creator and that all that is around them is the creator manifested. If they could only realize that as a physical manifestation of the creator, the lessons of life are provided in every moment of activity in their short lives. The lessons are there all around them if they would but "listen" with their hearts and their intelligence. All that is around them is the creator and the creator provides lessons through interaction with all that is around them. Every moment of experience is intimate contact and direct communication with the creator.
The fact that some happening or event we experience is seemingly temporary or short does not render it meaningless. Every happening is interconnected and has an interconnected meaning and purpose. Our creator has been talking to us through our experiences for a very long time. Only life itself and everything in life is our covenant with the creator. Allow the localized you to interact with the universal. Our reality is just an illusion in order for us to experience life.
What the world could really use now is a universal belief system. We don't have a thought system, a basic human ethical structure, presently in place that can fully address the problems of the world today. It is imperative for man to explore and create a new spirituality based on a larger understanding of life and its natural processes. We need to get away from the current belief system which insists that God is "out there" somewhere and we are "down here" desperately trying to make a connection. In actuality the connection is already made and was made at the beginning of creation.
We can come to know our creator directly and intimately by accepting a spiritual reality grounded in experience. One that you can feel, touch, hear, see. One that is common to everyone through a shared experiential reality. Each one of us is the localized energy of our creator working its wonders in and through each one of us. We each have the work of our own destiny to accomplish, our own spiritual evolution. We are co-creating as we interact in our world with others, with the creator. Our experience is a gift and a treasure. We must master the moment regardless of how the moment is treating us. Interact with the creator--that's why we were put here, to learn.
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