Spirituality Guide

I offer the following as an example of where things are awry…

Thanks!
By Journyman

I’d like to thank the priests of God, who ease our mortal pain
By taking all that we can give, so it’s not in our name
Apparently the more we own, the harder Heaven’s road
So those who reap the peasant’s tithe, will take the rich man’s load
Listen to them preach and pray, for we won’t have them long
If we achieve the Promised Land, they’re too rich to belong
So think of them with kindest thoughts, they save us all from Hell
As we ascend in rapture’s grip, look down and wish them well

I’d like to thank the Corporate men, who take a pirate’s stand
We don’t need the warlike types, to steal a valued land
With economic argument, and Christian’s pious hat
They set greed’s standard very high, we can’t compare to that
They set themselves above the law, no Government control
With money tricks and interest rates, create a cash black hole
We can’t aim high enough to count, in poverty’s deep groove
It’s really very noble work, temptation to remove

I’d like to thank the men who run, all of our sovereign realms
The ships of State in maelstrom caught, but still they fight for helms
It’s good of them to take the task, of pulling grubby strings
To tax our birth, our life and death, so they can buy more things
While they stand out at power’s peak, we all seem meek and mild
When standing in the Judgement court, it’s they will be reviled
If we can’t make our own life’s choice, we can’t be said to fault
So thank them, pray they won’t decide, their power grab to halt

I’d like to thank the average man, Joe Public to us all
Somehow through all the evil times, he hears compassion’s call
He’s the one, when said and done, to meet production’s need
He works long hours and toils away, his family to feed
All the money of the Church, for which the taxman yearns
And Corporate profits, (sacrosanct) the average person earns
There is no other source of funds, than what the people make
If they all didn’t work their shifts, there’d be no cash to take

By Seeker

If we look at the documented histories of the orthodox religions, it becomes apparent that, particularly in the Judaic religions, but also in others, the message of Truth has been subverted into mechanisms to control the populations of the world.

The mystics, sages and messiahs through the ages have repeatedly told us that salvation, enlightenment or progression from the Wheel of Life are all a personal journey, yet Religion is based now on Authority. The message of Religion, originally so pure in intention, has become corrupted in the pursuit of power and the greed of possession.

But no matter which belief you hold, no matter which is your holy book, no matter who has corrupted ‘The Word’ for their own purposes, the message comes through over and over. In the Stars we can find the Truth. In the monuments left behind to bear mute witness to the glories of entire worlds now forgotten we can find evidence of what they found important.

Over and again we find exact measurements of stars, an impeccable tracking of Time by the medium of measurements of the Precession of the Equinox, by the passage of stars across the sky and by the exactingly careful placement of stones so large our modern world has difficulty lifting them let alone moving them and lining them up so precisely.

In rock walls so carefully fitted you can’t fit a card between the multi-ton rocks to walls of multi-ton rocks measured so exactly true to the meridians we can’t think how they did it, in cities built from scratch with all the basics in place and no evidence of development of the precursor techniques by people of whom we have no knowledge and in ‘impossible’ knowledge such as the Dogon people knowing not just that Sirius was a star but that it has a companion, invisible until very recently, that takes fifty years to orbit the huge star we are shown that the world is not how we see it.

By Seeker

It would seem, if we seek the media and not the messenger, Religion is about finding ourselves, not as mortal bodies in a physical world, but rather seeking the purpose behind who we are. If Graham Hancock sees any Truth, we were, in this chain of history, ‘awakened’ through trance. Somehow in Trance we found new knowledge, new paths and ways of expression that showed us a world beyond this one.

If we look at the physical evidence, the relics and monuments, we see that those who had (as far as we know) few of the technologies we now have, were able to at least equal and in all truth surpass projects of which we are not capable. If we look at the peoples of the past that are only now becoming known, we see people who venerated those who brought knowledge so highly they formed civilizations to provide for the needs of those they called Gods.

If we read our myths, we find stories so fantastic they are treated as legend, yet they seem to tell of the times when the civilizations that built the megalithic monuments, who hauled stones in the hundreds of tonnes across vast distances, and who mapped the world in accurate detail before we think there was a people capable of so doing, fell from their sophistication because of cataclysm.

Over and again the stories are of Flood and Deluge. In our knowledge of Science we now have a process by which these two events can occur and they attach directly to events we know to have happened. The evidence of the passing of the most recent Ice Age is all around us. Go to the shoreline of the sea and you will see such evidence. Ten thousand years ago you could have walked out miles further than you can do now – the sea has risen that much.

So, what is Religion? Well, what it is now for you depends on what your parents believed to be true. Very few people have the strength of mind to stand aside from what they were raised in to view Truth as it might be. But at its root, in the beginning, from all the evidence, Religion appears to have been meant as a means to preserve the knowledge of the Fall… and perhaps a forewarning of what is still to come.

By Seeker

Following along from What is Religion? (Part Two) the Universe followed the ‘expanding as gravity slowed it’ process until about five billion years back at which point, for no reason we can discern, it began to accelerate the expansion. Because we have no explanation for why, once again, our math fails to predict what we see around us, we have ‘Dark Energy’ – a strange property of the universe that adjusts things so what we see matches what our theories tell us.

This has become dogma – anyone who tries to query it cannot get peer review because the ‘peers’ refuse to review it. This means they cannot get funding, they commonly lose their jobs, and the nay-sayers (who DO get peer review) get quoted as experts in fields they refuse to research because they ‘know the truth’ of things.

The problem is, and it can be seen in glaring starkness in the Anthropogenic Global Warming (lack of) debate, Science goes missing and what we get is Dogma and Belief masquerading as Truth.

Like Religion, which began as a codifying of Truth into stories that would pass through time, Science has fallen by the wayside as funding, vested interests and ‘authority’ get to determine what we get told. I imagine there were people with knowledge but not position who watched in horror as the Ancients Priests conned the populace into weird practices on the basis that such would lead them to life in Eternity.

It seems the practice of keeping knowledge ‘where it can be understood’ has led us yet again into the realms where wrong belief will allow people to see other beings as ‘alien’ and not simply as an alternative expression of the same life force of which they are formed.

So, again, what is Religion and from where did it come?

By Seeker

Religion fights a battle of Creation versus Evolution, even though, for anyone with two or more brain cells to rub together, they are clearly not contradictory. (In case you’re wondering, Evolution cannot occur vefore there is a goal-seeking mechanism (ie. Life) to make it work – Creation is about where that goal-seeking mechanism began)

In Science, they are equally ‘authority’ based. The story of creation involves a number of magical events for which we not only have no verbal explanation, we don’t have the math for them. The math says the Universe cannot be as large as it is by now – nor can it be as (simultaneously) homogenous (large scale) or discrete (smaller scale) as it is.

So we invent stuff. Like global cooling with fear of an Ice Age because the Earth was in a cooling cycle from 1940 to 1975, or global warming because it got warmer after that, we seek an explanation that we can tell ourselves is Truth.

The reason for the homogeneity is because a magical force called ‘Inflation’ came along a certain time after the ‘Big Bang’ and somehow grabbed SpaceTime and stretched it instantaneously to the point where the math allows for our universe to be as it is. Then it went away.

We don’t know what it was so we label it as Scalar Field’ and think we have an answer.

Even with this magical field, there are mysteries as to how galaxies formed and why they currently behave as they do. So, the reason for the discrete nature of matter clumps, and to make the math match observations, we decided there must be Dark Matter – strange stuff that only reacts with the normal universe enough to adjust things so what we see matches our theories.

By Seeker

What is going on? Science leads us in strange directions where the basics of Science are being changed to reflect new and strange realities. Millions of people have hung their hats on the reliability and repeatability of Science, yet now it seems the basics of Science are moving towards an unreal reality.

Go to a Science website and ask some basic questions about Reality as expressed by Science – try not to enter your own views in it, particularly if you come from a religious background. Ask in earnesty and you will get earnest replies.

Go to a Religious site and ask the same questions – you may need to rephrase them so as not to trigger the ‘this is a heathen’ reactions, and note if you do this in reverse, you need to change the phrasing with the Science community to avoid the ‘this is a believer’ reactions – and watch the answers that flow.

In both cases you get answers based in Belief.

With the religious sites, you are required to accept their answers (and reject all others) because ‘God says it’ or ‘God wrote it’ or ‘the ancients tell us’ if you so much as query ‘Truth’ as they see it.

With Science sites, you are required to accept their answers (and reject all others) because ‘they have peer review’ or ‘an authority says so’ or ‘we’ve known it since Einstein’ if you so much as query ‘Truth’ as they see it.

In both cases, what you are seeing is Belief – as quoted to me by a Pastor when I was ten years old… ‘the substance of things not seen, the evidence of things hoped for’ …in other words, imagination and fantasy.

By Seeker

So what is Truth?

From the outset, all we know of the Ancients tells us that they venerated the quest for immortality, the search for the fundamentals of Life. Those fundamentals were apparently things beyond the merely physical.

The cave painters drew on the walls the symbols and visions they experienced while in altered states. Shamans reach into the otherness to find solutions for troubled lives. Mystics give up any shred of comfort or luxury in their quest to find the Real. The Egyptians apparently devoted their lives to ensuring their leader found his/her way into a realm called the Duat, (a very defined location in the sky) to dwell with Gods forever.

Along the way, most of these sought very specific knowledge. Knowing the details of the Precession of the Equinox, the steady progression of Ages through time was important. Knowledge of the Ages and when they end, and how they end, was apparently crucial.

It seems a strange mix of knowledge. What we have of the Ancients talks about knowing details that they, according to modern views on how primitive they were, couldn’t have known about the real world, right alongside images and instructions about how to act, where to go and what to know, after one died.

Religion seems to have been formalized as a way to pass down this sort of information. But it is carefully encoded; none but the Initiate can find the full meaning of the stories, the parables and allegory contained in the various ‘scriptures’ that have been passed down.

Over and over, similar stories are told across the races, the nations and religions. Look at the Noah story. For one from a Judaic religion, Noah is Truth, but the story is told over and over across realms never dreamed of by the Hebrews. And when we look, we find the evidence tells us, while the tale may be truth, it could not be so for the Hebrews – it is a story brought forward from older times and altered to fit in the new story of the Judaics.

The God of the Old Testament doesn’t make much impression in the realm of sanity unless one takes into account the possibility the He is an amalgam of a number of God stories from the Ancients. The times before the first Flood must have been marvelous, but after three or more such events, the remnants of knowledge were hard to retain. Myth and legend were brought in to play. Tell someone a dramatic story with the needed details encoded and they will pass it on almost unchanged, to their progeny.

By Seeker

So why are we confronted and confounded in our quest for a better life? Why is Religion, once a force in our lives that drove entire civilizations to magnificent achievements, now a subjugating establishment that will kill rather than provide freedom of belief?

The Church spent the better part of two thousand years persecuting anyone who held even slightly divergent views to what was decreed from Rome. Question the authority of a regime which bled entire nations of their strength and wealth, doubt for a moment the bishops, or worse, the Pope, were truly divine and you would die. Usually horribly.

For centuries, the scriptures were printed only in Latin, a script the average person could not even attempt to read. But you could still be killed outright for failing to fully accept what was said from the pulpit or failing to offer everything you had to those already rich on the gold and blood of the subjugated.

This is not Religion, it is oppression. It has not yet released its hold on Humanity. Today the biggest threat to our personal safety comes from religious institutions and the governments who use the beliefs of the people to justify their personal agendas.

So again, Spirituality is not Religion. There are many people out there, wrapped up in religions, who are wonderful people who do their best to embody the credo of their chosen faith. Unfortunately it is extremely difficult to find leaders of those religions who actually justify the faith of those they are supposed to be shepherding.

Spirituality is personal – the message comes down through the ages, echoed again and again by sages, mystics and spiritual people throughout time. Allowing others to tell you what is spiritual, what is right and real, simply opens one up to manipulation. Billions have died throughout history because they allowed others to decide for them what Truth is.

By Seeker

Science has failed us as a tool. Logic was useful for some time and brought a revolution to the way we live, but it has become a tool that kicks back against the user.

Dogma has replaced the ability to think o7utside the box. If you try to open new ways of thinking, you will meet resistance. Science says you should be asked questions, be required to show how what you say provides answers. Instead, new thought is required to fit into how things are currently being seen.

If Einstein had been required to show how his ideas fit within Newton’s world, he would have remained in the Patent Office. Instead, he moved beyond what Newton saw. In this time, even those who try to use scientific method to show new knowledge are castigated and have their reputations attacked by the orthodox.

Rupert Sheldrake has some new ideas about PSI effects – he conducts large scale experiments to try to show ephemeral effects at a scientifically acceptable level – he gets ridiculed for trying.

What are they scared of?

Egypt alone has questions unable to be answered by orthodox thinking. Even if the Egyptologists are correct in their ‘history’ there are questions to be answered. To combat those questions, they remove the questioners from Egypt, they gather in numbers to ridicule the theories, and they ignore the inconvenient questions.

How did people who had only copper and then bronze, carve out granite? How did they make small radius curves in stone seats, or ‘drill’ into granite to make small bowls and vases? How did they align multi-million tone structures so exactly to the meridians? And if you can answer that, WHY did they do it?

Science should be addressing these issues as puzzles; instead, those who raise the questions find themselves cast beyond the boundaries, labeled and ridiculed as cranks or, the ultimate epithet, Conspiracy Theorists.

By Seeker

We have, in our lives, an entire system of living that gears us, trains us and motivates us into chasing the physical. Those who achieve in the physical world are venerated. The God of the modern human is Science – suggest anything that isn’t able to be tried and tested by science and you will meet ridicule and personally derogatory remarks – and this is from those who claim their goal is knowledge!

Don’t get me wrong; I have been interested in both science and used the scientific method for most of my life. But there are things which cannot be tested by science. Science requires the subject to be falsifiable. This means you must be able to propose a situation where, if ‘X’ isn’t true, ‘this’ will be the result. Then you set out to try to disprove ‘X’ and see if it can be done.

God is not falsifiable. This doesn’t mean God is real, just that Science can’t test for God. Equally, the Big Bang is not falsifiable – the theory says that all we know, including the laws of the Universe, came into existence with the Big Bang, so the actual event predates the Universe AND all the laws. Consciousness is likewise non-falsifiable – there can be no experiments that give results where Consciousness doesn’t exist – who would be proposing the experiments? Also, String Theory is currently non-falsifiable as we have no way to test for either the presence or absence of them.

But seeing people supposedly geared to Science, to discovering the new and the meaningful about our Universe reacting with disdain and ridicule to those who dare to think otherwise that orthodox science is disturbing. The system meant to be an alternate to that of a spiritual life, to accepting and working towards an immortal existence, is failing us.

If it is wrong to question the basics, if doing so brings personal attacks and the worst debating tactics to bring down those who question, how is this different from the religious fanatic who derides everyone who doesn’t believe in the same, exact, specific ‘god’ believed in by the derider?

Science has become the new religion.