The difference between delusion and reality is somewhat fickle in religion. Sadly, much of it, other than bloodhsed, was put together by monks intoxicated on drugs over the ages. While we learn more about our intriguing minds, drugs may not just induce these experiences, but amplify what our mind, or some of our minds, already do on their own.
I've turned to the animal kingdom more often. I am uncertain of what to believe as far as the origin of Man, someone had intercourse with an ape at some point for sure. Can a Man impregnate an ape? Such outrageous studies have been done, an apparently a female chimpanzee did conceive.
Moving on, it basically boiling down to acknowledging the possibility of celestial power, not human beings, and not. When Monotheism came around with war everything began to change, as well as Man's knowledge and acceptance of the cosmos. Whether or not the God's or the origin of life began with some immortal extra-terrestrials, I have no idea, but I would assume they were residents, not aliens.
Immortality from what I learned was also deviated into the spiritual world, not the physical, as in physical immortality and eternal youth with the sacred fruit of life. This went away and was turned into fables as immortality became something less of a life adventure and something of changing the conduct of people so that they may receive immortality after they're DEAD.
Are there immortals living among mortals and choosing them as they desire? Well, that's one hell of a damn good film. It's easiest to remain open minded, some new age trend belief will turn up soon enough, I'll call it Neo-Paganism.
As far as why religion exists: Mankind is cult like, bar none, over anything. You like your actors, your athletes, imagine a physical God performing magic in the stone age. You could go back to that age with a zippo and an 9mm and do the Lord's work, many of our Gods legends are of the stone age. As far as manipulating the weather, I've left that open to possibility.
Some people just can handle it doe, have nervous breakdowns, cry.
What I learned from the Laird was the facts of nature more than anything, it's a cruel, sick, ******* world, the Kingdom of Mankind, praying on the celestial, You're ancestors didn't.
Some one asked me about my spiritual journey, I got an understanding from the ice age.
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i want to know more about it
Im also doing it, but now i want to go from novice level to hardcore level, I guess a good way is to climb the himalayas :yes:
but also I will go on to the most desolated places of the world and my mind if needed to be, mainly meditating in as many diverse ways/tecnhiques as possible(meditations, yoga, dances,(mantras?) hard physical and mental work/play
,do fasting, pushing my limiting boundaries, confront and embrace my fear of death so I can feel real love.)
do you know any authentic comunity, freeminded monastery (non dogmatic) or any really interesting thing you would like to share? i want to face the fear of death most of all.:rainbow1:
I do not know if you're still here, I am sorry. I was gone a long time.
I do not know any congregations of the sort you are looking for, although they wouldn't be difficult to find. Finding a group not oriented around doctrine and dogma is easy enough, most people detest doctrine and dogma. I myself am no expert, having to re-assure myself I even knew what dogma meant, as doctrine is the word I use.
So I've found myself somewhat confused in the end, I wish you the best in finalizing a spiritual journey, I became confused in what I thought was the end.
It's been a gag, if you can stomach it. Nature, the facts of nature, it's a brutal, sick, world we are trying to civilize. Genocide, famine, death. There's nothing fair about our world, nor do I wish to speak on behalf of the Lord like a Reverend in my experiences, it would be outrageous, cruel.
The facts of Nature, go with those. What I learned more than anything is organized religion is wrong, but something can be made of it. Doctrine on the other hand is preposterous and came in to play some time during the middle ages with divine intervention, people praying on the metaphysical to interview into their situation, perhaps save their life. It's something that needs to be done away with and self defense put in it's place.
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Doctrine as well, I mean, do your best to be a gentleman, lady. Lust, greed, gluttony, all the sins, it's like the former laws of society. Personal conduct and behavior in life, public and private. Just trying to make some understanding of what religion was getting at and it was like politics over the ages. From what I can tell it was the reform of society and how people were to conduct themselves as well as being punishable.
