Thought Dump Part 11

 
Religion is by definition : system of beliefs held to with ardor and faith
Beliefs have limits and limits establish separation from other religions.

According to the definition of what constitutes a religion:

Christianity is a religion
Hinduism is a religion
Buddhism is a religion
Spirituality can also be seen as a religion when people establish separation from one set of beliefs from another

Religion isn’t bad, nor is it primarily good. It’s a path, a journey, an experience to explore. 

Certain religions can be more open-minded than others, but they are still religions.

 
Religions can help people expand or contract, to show them their power or take it away.

For me, I appreciate all religions, but I am neither in or outside of any religion. I am one with all.

I am neither confined within Christianity or outside of Christianity, I simply am.
I am neither confined within Hinduism or outside of Hinduism, I simply am. 
I am neither confined within Buddhism or outside of Buddhism, I simply am.

I am not limited by any belief systems or other limits within or without religion unless I choose to be, and I don’t, so I’m not. 

I give myself the freedom to explore everything because my current experience is to transcend all self-imposed limitations that are disguised as outwardly imposed limitations. 

Many times within religion they tell you that you need to submit and follow their leader because he is "the vicar of Christ", the "Prophet of God", the "Minister of the Age." They say, "You need to be initiated by this Guru because you cannot do it on your own".  Others say, "You need to be baptized by the Holy Spirit to receive the gifts because you cannot receive it without our laying on of hands. Many Christians affirm, "You need to be baptized into this church or else you cannot be saved." Then we have people from the eastern religions who state, "You must practice asceticism or you will not reach Nirvana."

My goal and my mission is to show everyone that they already have everything they need within them. By simply existing, that is proof they are one with All That Is and have just as much access to the Creator than the birds and the bees do. They don’t need some outward form to guarantee an inward reality because they are the inward reality. They are the Prophet, the Pope, the Pastor, the Teacher, the Guru.

Once again, one of my primary goals is to show people that they do not need anyone because they have everything within them and anyone who wants to experience that truth, will eventually find this and begin to go within.

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I was contemplating the idea of perfection being a state of completion and I think the way that many  define it can limit our understanding of perfection. In our terms of duality, we understand perfection to often mean completion because to us, any state of incompletion is a result of unsatisfactory results or results not meeting the required expectations. However, according to God/Source/Life encompasses All That Is, perfection is not a state of completion, but a state of Being; a state of constant expansion; a state of exploration. To put limits around perfection is to deny the limitless of what is. And if you are a Christian and believe the Creator is perfect and then also believe perfection has limits, it shows that you believe that your infinite God is finitely limited which is contradicting. However, to affirm a perfect God is to affirm that perfection is indeed limitless. Anything less is a projection of the limited perspective of man projected on a limitless reality.

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In the Bible when Moses asked, "Who shall I say sent me?" The reply was", Tell them I Am That I Am sent you" which, if one looks up the definition behind the word, is synonymous with being. To assume that something that remains stagnant is perfect, which is what completion entails, alludes to the idea that there is a limit to what an entity or thing can accomplish or explore. However, in the area of All That Is, there are no limits, there are no pre-defined boundaries that stop anyone from exploring anything. The only limits that seem to exist but do not are the ones we impose on ourselves, others and God; such as the limits of supposed perfection being a state of completion rather than a part of limitless expansion.

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Shadow work prompt

What negative opinions of religion, society, cultures or people do you currently hold and why? Can you find the polarity you believed into and unwind it and find the love and in it?

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Shadow work versus non-shadow work, duality versus non-duality are all still aspects of duality in polarized ways of seeing things. Let’s use the example of consciousness experienced through different types of physical senses. The sun is going to be sensed and perceived differently based off of an ant, a piece of grass, an antelope, a person but it’s still the sun. 

So for example, an ant may perceive the sun with a different intensity through their eyes than us. Similarly this blade of grass will understand and relate and perceive the sun in a different way then us and the ants.

The grass will use the sun in a different way than the ant will. Similarly the fox will take advantage of the sun in a different way than the ant or the blade of grass will. Based off of how each one is experiencing the sun and how it is perceived through their physical senses, each will have a unique but equally valid experience of the same thing based on their physical senses endowed upon the creature.

So similarly with people, we all have physical senses in which we understand things. However there are people who understand things differently based off of their perceptions, triggers, traumas, opinions, past conditions and so forth. So even though we may all hear the same thing, we still may experience it differently. Not only not only do we perceive things differently based off of how we receive them from all these different outputs and inputs, but also we experienced it differently based off of what particular frequency our brain is tuned into. It’s almost like someone who is only tuned into one radio station will only be able to hear one type of radio station but if someone has the option of 30 different radio fm stations to choose from, they will get more information, more understanding and a wider perspective.

 When you meditate and you don’t close yourself off and say "I am exclusively this and I am definitely not open to that" you open yourself up to wider perspective which will allow you to see things from higher vantage point. The point is, based off of your particular understanding of yourself, you will perceive things through a certain lens that will dictate how you view yourself, others, and so forth.

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When people assign different meanings to the same words, then that is when oftentimes we have people pointing fingers criticizing other people for not fitting their preferred mold. We have people hating people for not using their preferred definition. We have religious people mad because other people aren't fitting their perspective of the world. We need to rise above words because words are thrice removed from reality.

When I say "words are thrice removed from reality," what I mean is that when you say a word or you write a word, that is the highest level of abstraction. It is farthest away from that reality because one cannot fully fit the whole reality of an object within a defined, limited, conceptualized word involving the sounds we make with our mouth. The next level of abstraction is thinking of an image that you said when it pops up in your mind. The image you see in your head may miss certain aspects of the actual image that you can see with your mind, so that image is not a clear respresentation of the reality of the object we can see with our eyes. Thirdly, when you see the actual object with your eyes,  it is still not it’s full reality, but rather a temporary manifestation of reality. The truest reality of that object is that it is energy vibrating at a certain frequency manifesting temporarily as an object.

So how does this have any importance to us at all? Words which are thrice removed from reality, mean differently depending on the person, their conditionings, traditions, religions, family, societal, cultural upbringing. So to someone who says "kid," to one person that could be an insult, to another that could be an enduring word that conjures up friendly images as a child. When I say the 49ers, that’s going to mean something different for each person. When I talk about American Indians or Christopher Columbus that is going to mean different things to different people. Words have limits, so the challenge is to expand beyond the imposed limits and meet each other at a place where we can truly understand one another.

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Certain words found in the Bible such as "God is a jealous God" or verses that implies God is possessive reveals a God fixated within limits of separation in the strangest ways. For example, Jealousy is considered a sin and immoral if we display this in our daily lives, but that same jealousy is seen as "holy" and "righteous" if applied to God. Within the Bible, there is a clear double standard to morality. The God of the Bible is not expected to follow the morality he enforced on his people. If God doesn't follow the morality he enforces, nothing happens. If the people of this God found in the Bible don't, abd consequences of duality are enforced. 

Would the true Creator of the universe ask the people to do evil things such as murder? Isn't it ironic that murder is a sin if we initiate it but then it is holy and righteous when God commands it? Isn't murdering someone against their free will a violation of their free will? 

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People who reflect shadows are helping you raise your consciousness just as much as those people who reflect back your light. Both are necessary and both are essential for your growth. Without the contrast, how would you be able to determine how much you have grown? Without test and tribulations, what yardstick would you use to determine how healed you are?

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If have beliefs, I am not identified with them as in I don't attach my identity of my self which is eternal to a temporary belief of life which are often replaced as my state of awareness increases.When I say you are the creator of your own reality, that’s not a belief, that’s something I know. Quantum physics says the observer and the observed are the same in regards to quanta. Now are you not made out of Quanta particles?

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Do Christians truly realize the nature of free will? Partial free will doesn’t make sense. Either you have free will or you don’t. Either God or the devil forced you to experience something you didn’t want to experience or you chose that. Either you’re the victim or you’re the creator of your own reality.