Physical and Spirtual Equality
Physical & Spiritual Equality and Destiny
Being born equal is a subject that I could write about in great length. In a nut shell, in some ways groups of us are born relatively equal, but there's a vast chasm between some of the groups and individuals within groups. Just think about it: If you had been born a female in Saudi-Arabia, China, or North Korea, would you consider yourself as having been born equal? If you had been born on the "wrong side of the tracks", possibly into a one parent minority home with limited income, would you feel that you had been born equal?
Examination of equality opens up volumes of other questions that have perplexed mankind for millenniums. For example, are all religions authored by God or men? Are some authored by God and others by men? Who or what is God? Does God present itself in more than the forms that men perceive?
According to man's logic, there must be a God to have created all that we perceive through our senses and intellect, so it's only logical to ask, "If it took God to make all this, then who made God?" Maybe the answer lies in a "Big Spiritual Bang"; but then one would ask, who or what caused that?
Which came first, the chicken or the egg - which is the real self, the body, or soul? Does each soul have only one chance for salvation as Christians believe regardless of what time period into which they were born with its governmental, social statuses, economic stage, sex, physical body type, race, mental condition and many other factors, or is reincarnation the ultimate truism with a lifetime only being a single play on the stage of planet Earth? Shakespeare stated amply: "The world is a stage and all (souls) upon it are actors.
What did Albert Einstein mean when he said, "Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind"? What is the true meaning of Jesus saying "In my father's house there are many mansions"?
Does heaven and hell really exist? If so, are they physical or spiritual places? Are they temporal or permanent? Do intelligent forms of life equal to or greater than man exist on planets that circle innumerable billions of stars? Are there as many variations of worlds in the spiritual worlds as there are in the physical ones? Did Jesus have to die upon each of the physical worlds for the sins of entities residing on them?
If God created the universe and possibly countless universes, could he have not bothered to put intelligent beings on other planets? Or, could it be that we are all particles of God itself at play throughout all time, space, and beyond? Is Jesus the only son of God, or are all men sons of God?
Did God put his words in the minds of men, or did men put their words into God's mouth or maybe both?
I have contemplated the possible answers to these questions all my life and have drawn my own conclusions with which I'm stuck until I gain more knowledge and wisdom. Having graduated from a Christian College, studied and applied spiritual laws of new age religions and studied all the religions of the world and actually practiced hypnosis including pre-natal or regressive hypnosis I continue to be a seeker of truth.
I think that the religions of the world may contain some of God's will, but just enough to add some degree of believability to diabolical agendas of the human creators of religions, forms of government, and satisfaction of the passions of their minds being anger, greed, lust, attachment to materialism, power and control over others, and finally, vanity.
I have concluded that Christianity is a fear based spiritual welfare program that allows people to avoid taking responsibility for their actions. The tenants of goodness and righteousness are very appealing, but the concept of sin and salvation may be wishful thinking.
On the other hand, Islam lends itself to committing horrible atrocities against mankind in the name of Allah. Islam is also fear based but with a questionable and insidious beginning and horrible agenda that enslaves the minds and souls of its followers.
Comparing Christianity with Islam brings one great difference to mind: Christians will die for their faith whereas Muslims will kill both themselves and others for theirs.
However, Christianity is not without historical atrocities that were committed in the name of their Christian God. Pious priests and followers will state that no true Christian ever took part in the murder, plunder, and conquest of the American Indians, South American Peoples, and Hawaiians. Christopher Columbus, an extremely faithful Christain, and many that followed to the new world were such men.
Compare the Christian "great commission" with Islamic instructions found throughout the Koran: A Christian is told according to the bible to go out and preach; to spread the word, but if one does not have ears to hear and eyes to see, shake the dust off his feet and go to the next house. On the other hand, Muslims are told in the Koran to convert, enslave, tax, or kill all those who refuse to convert to their beliefs, and they have and continue to do so to this day.
To be fair however, there are both moderates and extremists in both religions; it's just more difficult to tell the difference between the two categories within Islam than Christianity because it is obvious when Christians are being unchristian but the Koran directs Muslims to "deceive the infidels"! So it appears that when Christians act like barbarians, they are going against the Bible, whereas when Muslims fail to act like barbarians by resorting to deception, violence, terrorism, and even genocide to convert the entire population of the world, they are going against the preponderance of content in the Koran that instructs them to do so Vs the comparatively few calls to be just and merciful.
Some eastern religions believe in reincarnation and teach that soul is as eternal as God Itself and that souls are sparks of God's own fabric that continuously reincarnate in physical bodies and that earth is one of God's boot camps for soul to learn love, contentment, compassion, patience, kindness, tolerance, and temperance while also learning to harness their anger, greed, lust, undo attachment to materialism, and vanity. Souls that fail the test don't graduate and have to keep trying until they do. However, instead of believing that someone else is going to pay for their sins, they believe in the laws of dharma and karma and that God has many manifestations of Itself that form a hierarchy from the highest spiritual world beyond time and space to lowly planet earth with many wonders for souls to explore on their way home to the bosom of the highest manifestation of God. No fear in those beliefs but rather a demonstration of the Love of God for all its sons and daughters that is beyond the comprehension of men trapped in traditional orthodox religious mind sets.
Many of the world's most perplexing problems that escape logical answers when approached through the viewpoint of orthodox religions become quite clear when reincarnation is factored into the equation. For example, is it possible that those who suffer at the hands of horrible people in one lifetime were the evil people who imposed horrible suffering on those who tortured them in a subsequent lifetime? Could it be that Jews killed in German extermination camps were the same souls who were the murderous Egyptian slave masters who forced the Jews to dance their lives away mashing straw into the mud with their bare feet during the days of Moses?
Could it be that every soul gets to try on all the shoes in God's closet throughout various lifetimes? Is it possible that every soul in its trek back to God through the stage plays of life gets to play the part of alternating birth situations i.e. sex, race, cultural and economical status, body type, degree of physical and mental capacity, etc.? That sure makes more sense to me than the once to live and once to die theory. That would be like being limited to a part in only one play upon which one's entire future existence would depend with the play writer and director indiscriminately stacking the deck against the play actors.
Most people did some searching before they found a religion that suited their comfort zone; others were born into it and were indoctrinted by their parents and clergy and were never allowed or dared to question their mentors.
It's not my intent to get them to think as I do but rather to entice souls to peer out from beneath their security blankets, if they dare, so they may find answers to questions that linger in their minds that are repeatedly suppressed by their chosen spiritual pathway and clergy that pride themselves in their endeavor to keep them in their fold, not to mention that religion has become a profitable business and means of making a living.
Once more, when religion is coupled with politics, that's a hoot - the ultimate ruse to control and manipulate the masses! However, that's a subject for another thesis.
Those who understand what I have said may find the following books interesting, if not enlightening:
• Journey of Souls & Destiny of Souls, Dr. Michael Newton
• The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors, Graves (free on the internet)
• The Lost Teachings of Jesus, Mark & Elizabeth Prophet
• Prophet of Doom, by Craig Winn (free on the internet)
My personal religious beliefs can at this stage of my search for truth be summed up as follows: "I am a spiritual being temporarily embodied in a biological machine made from the elements of the cosmos to which they will return upon the death of my body, but I "soul" will awaken in greater consciousness and be re-united with my spirit guide and souls with which I have interplayed for countless generations in an effort to learn to overcome the passions of the mind and love as God loves before I can move into the higher realms of the God worlds".
Out of respect for my readers, I believe that everything seems true from a point of view of anything as would be the case if many people formed a circle to view a multi-sided shaped object. Each would see it differently and swear that what he saw with his own eyes is true. The question remains however, are you willing to move around the circle?
Stan
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