Belief buries Enlightenment. Belief runs scared, afraid of new
enlightenments. Belief never mentions enlightenment. The western world
has thus been imprisoned in such hoary, one-guy, beliefs and we have
been paying the heavy price for several millenia.
In
effect, the only-son-of-god routine is an impolite way of saying every
other enlightened being throughout history is of no account, only
Jesus, Jehovah or Mohammed count.
I’m saved and you’re not. That’s orthodoxy for you, its All belief, All The Time. Hallelujah!
Now, whatever makes you a better person is fine and certainly produces
some wonderful charity. But if your beliefs blind you to the myteries
of the universe, keep you from exploring your interiority, keep you
from science, and cause you to go to war against unbelievers, then your
beliefs are clearly dangerous and counterproductive... both to yourself
and to everyone else.
History is clearly one very long and
tragic tale of believers fighting one another and screwing up the lives
of all those peaceful nonbelievers, and those just trying to get some
quiet time for meditation. Belief is then the problem, and not the
solution.
Moreover, what did Jesus say? He said "the
Kingdom of God is within you." Right on Jesus, and how do we go within?
Meditation, it seems.
However, prayer as we know it is
but talking to a male sky-god we assume exists, and knows everything –
even all the mind-boggling trivia of billions of beings
simultaneously! We’re driving the poor man mad! Why then are we
talking and praying out loud instead of listening, and going within?
In practice, the father-image God thing (its never a woman?) is a way
of putting responsibility on someone else, throwing it off our own
shoulders and making sure the women don’t get out of control. So what
was the first thing Patriarchy and its male-sky gods did? Why they
smashed any remaining Matriarchies. You know that whole women out of a
man’s rib thing gets you to thinking it’s your divine right to
"dominion." Hey, imperialism had to start somewhere.
Never
fear, God is here... just as we imagine him. So then we don’t have to
do anything, and anything that happens is "god’s will." Overpopulate,
screw up the environment, smash nature, start preemptive wars – hey,
its God’s will... or, "the Devil made me do it." Somehow, it’s always
those damn "godless" unbelievers.
As we have seen yesterday
and today, such imaginary beings are rough on humanity, and we do the
damdest things in their names. Worse, enlightened beings have been
amongst the casualties – a real crime against humanity and the hundreds
or thousands of "glowing people" down thru the ages – our own spiritual
evolution avatars.
Why do you think the halo emerged in
mankind’s art from the earliest ages? That representation of rare
energy emanation has meaning, and one that most have yet to discover,
understand, or explore. Why?
Given the fascist power of
science-fearful belief systems like the Catholic Church, Euro-America’s
never been friendly to enlightenment. So we never hear of it, we never
discuss it, we deport enlightened beings on trumped up charges –
witness the Osho (Rajneesh) episode. Witness Socrates, Pythagoras,
Buddha, Lao-Tzu, et. al. – all whose communes were raided and their
mystics imprisoned, poisoned or murdered.
As I see it,
humanity has been driven insane, and driven out of enlightenment and
spiritual evolution, by all the believers and their powerful
institutions thru the ages. Terrorism and murderous Crusades seem to be
the true believer’s exclusive franchise.
From the first
priests who could predict the eclipses and wow the masses, to the
heavily-mitred moguls of modern orthodoxies with their infallible black
books, we have been worse than hoodwinked. We have been led off the
path, waylayed, and rendered intolerant, egotistical, and uniformed due
to our boxed-in beliefs. Onward Christian soldiers, onward Catholic
dogma, onward Taliban "freedom fighters." God, what a mess!
All this in the face of the fact there is no gulf between science and
religion, only between what we know and dont know. They are and should
be the same thing, a simple and methodical exploration of what is, both
in the external world and in our internal world. When asked what truth
is, Buddha once replied "that which works" Sounds scientific, natural,
and truly religious to me... I’ll go with that.
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Getting a little tired of this holier-than-thou political season? We might ask here when does "faith’ become fascism? 
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