Religion most certainly builds up guilt and fear, I can't argue against that.
It is those 'supernatural initiations' we are all curious about and will probably remain a complete mystery as no one here is able to describe them.
That is of course dependant on how those 'initiations' are interpreted. Since they are not describable by anyone here, their connection to the supernatural is highly questionable.
Circular reasoning.
That is nonsense.
I described some of what I experienced in my new member introduction to this forum.
I am not actually attempting to convert you to any thing or explaining something that can only be personally experienced by me.
For what ever reason, some people would rather interpret and discuss and teach about something endlessly to satisfy their own adgendas and that is why we have the religions we do.
The bible is complete with descriptions of many supernatural events and I am being careful not to draw any body into saying something they shouldn't.
The Bible has been hijacked by the intellectual who teach in their own power and the listeners enjoy it and that is all they know.
What should be happening can be rationalized and proven by science and then we would know who were the false preachers even without spiritual discernment. The proof is already there but it has raised more questions than answers at this stage.
When I was a child I did not like many adults just because of how I was feeling. I have realized now that if someone is sensitve it is easy to read that all people have their own personal power that is projected by them, even with out talking. Some people are angry, have agendas, con artists, or peaceful, happy etc. That is inside them, in their heart, in their being. What is inside is shown in body language and then what they say and a final realization of their completed actions. A complete bundle.
Most people have no sensitivity and get taken in repeatedly. It is a blindness that is in human nature and it is satan at work. The self developing power to complete its own indulgences and being smug about that and then not being able to interpret incoming information quickly or correctly.
A self indulgence would be in the preacher who instils fear.
I seem to know or have an ability to read people. This doesn't isolate me because I meet a lot of people but I am able to head off a situation and it does make life easier. Sometimes it is better to leave people to it.
An experience of God is just beyond the working of the human. It is beyond the self that is ruled by impulses, agendas cravings etc. Satan's kingdom.
God removes all from sight because of a rebellious nature.
Rebelliousness is as witchcraft. Could this be an ability to get into anothers head and instill fear? Or even good feelings and security that a confidence trickster plays on some one.
What has been shown to me is how it works and how to reach God past all the human realm and it is in the mind. I know the process and it is written in the Bible, a bit here and a bit there.
No person could open my mind up to this because I was as blind as everyone else. It was God who powerfully opened up my mind to this and revealed the nature that Jesus developed on the earth by not connecting with humans in the mind of the human which is Satans kingdom. This is the expression and indulgence of self empowerment to the exclusion of others. This hatches all types of agendas, impulses, cravings, conflicts. All the teachers and religious leaders were using the power of this and they knew it, thy were not ignorant, when Jesus walked on the earth. Jesus powerfully pointed it out to them and they did not like it.
God is not where you think. God is close at hand. God is my father.
Just as humans are all related, I am related to Jesus.
Rather than being interested in my experience only, the process should be of more interest because the changes in physiolgy can be measured by science.
If you take this path and move into the process everything in the human attachment has to be given up. Family, friends and all personal endeavour.
You will have to lose them all because the realm of the mind they are in creates mental bonds that have to be broken.
Not many will complete the process.
The reward is at the end of the process.
The new family is all those who are in the process and able to complete the process.