Spirituality Guide

by Seeker

If formal or orthodox religion isn’t really religion, what is?

Looking back to early times, religion seems to be a contact with a type of reality which is not a part of that perceived by our five senses. It may be a world hidden from us by virtue of a different fundamental frequency or perhaps one vibrating to a different melody than that within which we live.

Many of the mystics seem to have needed to renounce this world, to back away from the trappings of reality – ‘trappings’ is a peculiarly significant word for this context – to find their way to a new view of things. Science has found our minds ‘ring’ to a variety of frequencies, brainwaves that have different characteristics depending on what frequency they range in.

It’s possible some drugs, such as DMT or Ayahusca can alter our basic frequency and make available new vistas for the mind to experience. It’s also possible the same states can be achieved by dance, drumming, singing praying or chanting. Meditation can also apparently achieve such states.

If so many different things can bring about a basic change of state in so many people across time, it implies something basic in humans that is either a capability or skill, not normally available to our physical lives, to our awareness, when circumscribed to the merely mundane, to the universe of atoms and forces that makes up what we experience with our basic senses.

So perhaps Religion, in its truest form, is the daily seeking of the numinous, the regular practice of the things that take our awareness outside the physical universe and into the presence of Beingness beyond ours. It could be the development of personal awareness of the connectedness of ALL, of how everything comes from, exists because of, and contributes to the ALL-ness that IS.

Religion is not the seeking for God, or the upholding of laws imposed and enforced under threat of punishment, nor even pretending to love everyone because a book tells us to. Religion is instead, the finding of God-in-us, the upholding of personal integrity in an infinite framework and the allowance of Love to grow within as we come to be aware that we are All and All is us.