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THE UNSOLVED QUESTION FOR THE AGES HAS BEEN: Is there a God and do we have a Soul that lives on after we die? The science is approaching rudimentary set of answers that is explaining most what is happening in all of the related process of life and death slowly forcing the religions to reformulate their ancient interpretations of the writings on claims how the world was created and the role of the Creative forces or God in this process. The slowly opening understnding of the life itself and how it is and can be created will not contradict nor support what we have imagined as the true meaning of life and God.
Today we have over 10,000 different religions each claiming to be the only right one that can lead to new life after our body dies and is recycled one way or the other.
What happens to our physical body is easy to explain but what about the soul itself if it exists? If it exists is it now free to go and where would it go? We are no closer to the answer today than those who pondered this issue 350,000 years ago in Spain, or perhaps the problem existed already 7,000,000 years ago in Africa with the first ones of our ancestors.
All great western religions have failed to solve this problem so that it would make any sense. So, they all have created dogmas to define answers the way that serves them best. With this need the eartky politics is deeply in bed with this question. Here we have a problem: science and politics are not comtible and can never become the same. That is the why we have now over 10,000 religions on the planet and a few new ones are invented every year.
Those Eastern religions that have managed to stay outside the politics and power games of the mortal rulers appear to have some very practical wisdom to share for those who are still the seekers.
Those religions attached to the rulers of the lands are lost and just abused in endless war games to advance the earthly glory of the ruling class and nothing else. The rulers are blinded by their desire to have more and more of everything and any major religion is convenient for them as ita allows to revenge the past and prevents the future from ever arriving. The Emperors, Kings, Khaliffs, Ceasars, Kingpins and alike together with their Priests and alike have caused maiming, torture and killing of more people in the name of justice than has been killed for all the other causes put together. This is the dark side of the religions that is unavoidable whenever they choose to get close to the ruling classes.
We are lucky that the real soul of all religion is the opposite. Like said once about every 500 years the western an middle-eastern religions stemming from the same God go to the dark side with disasterous consequences to their peoples.
The Islam and Christianity both have a mandate from the same God to expand and make all nations ther followers. The thrid religion, the tiny Judaism, teaches that this same God will give them all Nations and their peoples as servants for them to enjoy and use as they please. This tells immediately that something is man made in all these three religions. How can the same God instruct two groups to fight each others and everybody else to expand their specific brands of the religion while the third one has been promised to rule them all and use them as they please. To simplify this dilemma we can ask: did the God really want the two first sons to kill each others so that the third one would get all their property and rule the world? Hardly, as that is not what the God in any of these theree religions as explained.
The followers of the still more ancient eastern religions have been studying their old writings to understand what was already known thousands of years ago and invariably all these religions have also new afterlife part of them all in one form or the other. The study of the ancient writings follow a simple rule: there is no need to reinvent the wheel when it has been invented already thousands of years ago. In some of the most original religions the soul is only one entity, and in others it consists of several distinctly separable and even competing independent spirit bodies that together form the mind of a person and determine all his/her actions as long as his/her physical body remains in the world of the mortals.
The rewards in the next life for obedience has been critical for all eartly rulers as it provide a whip to keep the subjects in order and following the whims of the rulers in this life.
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Religion requires loyalty to the scriptures or whatever the current head Rabbi or the aliases are saying to be the truth. The loyalty is a funny thing. It can start innocently from following the acts and opinions of charismatic people. All figurehead leaders are charismatic and intelligent but most of the time they arev controlled by their megalomaniac thoughts of the ruling of it all. When this is the case they do not care what happens to followers after they have served their duties to the cause. Hannah Arendt put the essence of mind control as follows: "Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise."
Adolf Hitler was one of the most revered past practicers of mind control of the masses and consequently all politicians and wannabe rulers since are mimicking him with varying success. Consequently the world is full simple minded political leaders with blind followers that all are so right that they even keep on repeating it continuously to themselves and all those with differnt opinions.
Here is an old sanskrit saying clarifying it all: He who knows and knows that he knows, is a sage; follow him He who knows not and knows that he knows not, is a seeker, teach him He who knows and knows not that he knows, is asleep; wake him He who knows not and knows not that he knows not, is a fool; shun him |
As said earlier the eldest prehistoric religious relic has been unearthed in Spain a few years ago signalling that the belief of life after death was already part of the human thinking already a fact.
The history averages each 500 years that one of the major religions forgets their inner meaning and turns to politics - the opportunity to grab the earthly power is suddenly available for them just by taking and only a real sage can resist this temptation. This eartly power is deceptively dangerous to carry as it contains more finesses and layers than most are equipped to handle.
In today's world the Western people believe that the Muslims are the worst war mongerers and expansionists in the world. It does not really matter what is right as the Middles-East contains majority of the oil that the World needs and that makes the area a powder kegg. Here are some examples what we have thought in the past and how most of us still think:
It is not only the Muslims who have a problem with violence and their holy scriptures: "A curse on him who is lax in doing the Lord's work! A curse on him who keeps his sword from bloodshed!" -- Jeremiah 48:10, Motto of Pope Gregory VII. "Kill them all. Let God sort them out!" -- attributed to various sources, including Pope Innocent III, Abbot Arnold Amaury, and Saint Dominic, at the genocide of the Albigensians. It is also the motto of one but not the other members of the current Zionist Regime in charge of the State of Israel.
The ink of the scholar is holier than the blood of the martyr. ~ Prophet Muhammad
"I am surrounded by priests who repeat incessantly that their kingdom is not of this world, and yet they lay their hands on everything they can get." -- Napoleon Bonaparte
I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours. ~ Stephen Roberts
We, on our side, are praying to Him to give us victory, because we believe we are right; but those on the other side pray to Him, too, for victory, believing they are right. What must He think of us? ~ Abraham Lincoln
Which is it, is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's? ~ Nietzsche
Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. ~ Denis Diderot
All great truths begin as blasphemies. ~ George Bernard Shaw
The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers. ~ Denis Diderot
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death. ~ Albert Einstein
If you talk to God, you are praying. If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. ~ Thomas Szasz
It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal god and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious, then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it. ~ Albert Einstein
You know your god is man-made when he hates all the same people you do. ~Anonymous
Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich. ~ Napoleon
If child molestation is actually your concern, how come we don't see Bradley tanks knocking down Catholic churches? ~ Bill Hicks, 1993, referencing the Waco siege
Religion, comprises a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find in an isolated form nowhere else but in amentia, in a state of blissful hallucinatory confusion.~ Sigmund Freud
I like your Christ; I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ. ~ Mohandas Gandhi
The same people that wrote the bible thought the world was flat. ~ Unknown - (disputed)
If god created us in his image we have certainly returned the compliment. ~ Voltaire
The Bible devotes some 500 verses on prayer, less than 500 verses on faith, but over 2000 verses on money and possessions.
Here some eaxamples how it all goes:
In the Biblical view, debt is always the responsibility of creditors as well as debtors. In the ancient Near East, even pagan kings periodically cancelled debts to allow the poor a measure of respite from harsh conditions. The Biblical mandate goes much further, reordering the whole economy around the need for periodic cancellation of debt and restoration of community.
Before this in old Sumeria and Egypt the pricess were stable, ineterest rates were fixed by government to be the same for rich or poor. The new era needed adjustments as allowing interest to be collected by everyone as long as they debt was standing was suddenly creating wealth beyond belief. The rulers could not allow that to happen and debt cancellation was their solution to prevent "state enemies" from rowing more powerful than the rulers and disposing them with the mercenary armies.
This wealth machine did not go unnoticed and led to the birth of the precursor to the modern banking system. The Templars were the first to realize the benfits of this all on large scale by using the huge gold reserves stored hidden beneath Solomon’s Temple in Jerusalem they discovered during their crusades. The Templars banking system ended on October 13th, 1307 when King Philip IV of France joined forces with Pope Clement V and conspired to kill during one day and night every Templar they could find in their controlled lands and sent also mercenaries beyond to kill the rest of them. The charges against Templars ranged from necromancy to the use of black magic. Their goal of King Philip IV and Vatican was to take over the emerging banking system controlled by the Templars. Their effort was risky as Templars together were a major military force.
The Talmud (the oral law teachings collected by the Rabbis) strictly forbids charging interest to either Jews or non-Jews when a loan is made for basic needs rather than profit. The Rabbis held that the testimony of anyone who charged interest on a loan was not acceptable in court. In our global economy built on compound interest--consider the implications!
"At the end of every seven years you shall grant a release of debts. And this is the form of the release: Every creditor who has lent anything to his neighbor shall release it; he shall not require it of his neighbor or his brother, because it is called the LORD's release" (Deuteronomy 15:1-2).
Proverbs 22:7 states: "...in the seventh year you shall let [your Hebrew slave] go free from you. And when you send him away free from you, you shall not let him go away empty-handed; but you shall supply him liberally from your flock..." (Deuteronomy 15:12-14).
Today we have eight families that control all wealth in the Western World as we understand it. THe far East knows this problem and is organizing already a counterbalance. Finacially the East is weak but it is eveolving afst and it has billions of people and with that West has to ebcareful.
Are we really different from the animals?
All of the higher creatures do clearly know what is right and what is wrong and they can be jealous exactly like we. All the higher land, air and and sea creatures have this same understanding proven by the researchers time and again. Most of us though do not want to hear this nor will they believe on it either.
We have this "eternal and noble" knowledge already at birth and it does not need any enforcement. Regardless what we say we know (including most other creatures) at the time we do something wrong that our acts are wrong. Killing for food is not a wrong nor unjust act for the hungry of any species even if it would be totally unacceptable for the others of the same or the different species.
We all know that most animals like lions, tigers and bears have the same gift. They do not kill more than they need to satisfy their hunger at any given time. The rotten food is not good for them either. Also hunting the prey and and killing it is hard and sometimes even dangerous work - why should they kill more to feed the scavengers and with that reduce their own food supply and life expectancy?
There are though animals that behave the opposite way like the minks who keep on killing until nothing moves that they can catch. We all know that the cats and dogs are perfectly adapted to knowing what pleases or displeases their masters. We have also seen that dolphins have saved swimmers from sharks by protecting them until the danger is over or the help arrives. We have heard also that some chimpanzees have mastered enough of human language to accomplish elementary communications using a touch computer screen.
There are countless planets in the Universe with circumstances suitable for life. And what is this life anyhow?
We know that when certain atoms combiner in certain circumstance they at the ned form simple molecules that when present in large quantities start assembling themselves to even larger and larger molecules... We just have not been able to go that far that we would see any of them getting a a real life so far.
The difference between the nature and us is that the nature has used hundreds of millions of years to perfect the process, while we have known this phenomena only a few decades. With our fast developing understanding and ability to see more and more details of it all, perhaps, if we are very lucky or unlucky as a matter of fact, then we might be able to create some primitive life forms within the next 50-100 years or so.
The straight forward conclusion is simple: we are not alone in the universe. However, this is too difficult for some to grasp. Here we have an US Senator denying it all as the "scientific community is divided" as per his knowledge.
Here is the first published video clip form artificially created life in a laboratory.
There is one skill in all of us that gets very little or no attention at all, A small minority has been puzzled with this phenomena that appears to repeat itself in different forms for some while most of us have have had only rare occurrences and we have just shrug them away as nonsense.
In fact we do not know any answers here but the science is slowly making exploratory trips to it and if this exploring continues the science is bound to get interested. The fact is that the science can change only "funeral by funeral" with the old generation making space for new one that is getting free to say what they think.
Today if someone says they believe on this the most likely answer for others would be a simple: I would not believe this even if it would be true! The topic we are talking is called "premonition". The Webster dictionary defines this as "previous notice or warning" or "anticipation of an event without conscious reason"
In the following s interview, Dr. Larry Dossey, author of Healing Words: The Power of Prayer and the Practice of Medicine, discusses the inherent wisdom of premonitions -- the topic of his third book The Power of Premonition.
He is trained in internal medicine and is the former Chief of Staff of Medical City Dallas Hospital, and has lectured in medical schools and hospitals throughout the US. In 1988 he delivered the annual Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Lecture in New Delhi, India. He’s the only physician ever invited to do so.
He has also served as the co-chairman of the Panel on Mind/Body Interventions, National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine at the National Institutes of Health. The interview by Dr. Mercola is shown in 5 separate video clips.
Vol. I
Vol. II
Vol. III
Vol. IV
Vol. V