For the ever-Deepening Path of my non-denominational common religious philosophies,
I’ve studied many theologies; some with very in-depth ardour.
Though I used to be born, raised, baptized and even Catechism’d a Catholic!
My inquisitive nature, requested too many questions of:
Why a few of our Irish church people had been impressed to
struggle and bomb different Irish Christian people…
typically praying for ‘God’s’ blessing to bomb thy neighbor, “HIS” kids.
Throughout my youthful Catechism education…
It was dangerous sufficient once I requested if there was an grownup model of those mythic “tales”.
I instructed the nun that:
“Wow! ‘God’ was actually upset with these historical males from Babel,
Threatening ‘God Almighty by constructing a tower of sticks & stones to succeed in ‘Heaven’.
Absolutely ‘He’ should be extraordinarily mad on the tall buildings in New York!
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As a toddler, I contemplated this conundrum of faith:
“What number of extra ‘fibs’ will they make me consider or else face everlasting damnation?”
After a gathering with the catholic faculty precept nun to additional perceive the deeply religious and philosophic considerations of an harmless child…
I by no means once more needed to make investments my time in ‘such research’ in the course of the in any other case endlessly enjoyable summers.
There’s a very lengthy listing of causes that so many people have thrown out the ‘Non secular Child’ together with the soiled dogma bathwater of un-transcended conventional religions.
A tragedy that’s past measure.
Everybody born has a pure inclination to attach ‘themselves’ to one thing that’s larger and extra significant than life because it sometimes seems with all its struggles and challenges.
The dearth of solutions by the nuns & “adults” fueled my inquisitive inquires additional into ‘in search of’, looking out, and pondering the philosophical questions of ‘Life’, the Larger Image, and yoga mythology continuing education course
‘my’ place within the ‘Timeless Surprise of it All’.
Father Thomas Keaton, a just lately Transcended Roman Catholic monk and Abbot of St. Joseph’s Abbey, said that:
“All of the world’s religions mix, is at greatest ….
A foul translation of God.
His Deeply contemplative, full immersion of actually connecting personally with Spirit was a serious breakthrough for progressive Catholics, Christians and even ‘seekers’ from many numerous theologies along with his well-known ‘Centering Prayer’ mediation.
Just like the Theravada Buddhist meditation of Vipassana, sometimes a 10-day mediation specializing in the direct experiential notion of our True Nature, integrating, morality, mindfulness of respiration, and reflection.
Father Thomas helped create his well-known ‘Centering Prayer’ that had an analogous method to considering profound scriptures…
(versus the person made up myths, magic and miracles and different dogmas.)
The Tao states that:
Something that may be learn or written…
Is NOT the Tao.
Father Thomas states that:
Silence, is the language of God.
My private Transcendence of the person made up fable, magic and miracles which are required to be taken as ‘God’s’ unquestionable phrase, or face everlasting damnation, was starting to broaden my path or private Non secular development.
‘Private’ Non secular development was very a lot not inspired inside most conventional doctrine.
It was extra of, “Do not expertise spirit your self, simply take our phrase for it.”
Once more, with the insistence that myths had been to be taken, not usefully and metaphorically, however to be taken unquestionable because the phrase of ‘God’…
or undergo everlasting damnation…
Nicely, with this ‘self-defeating Modus Operandi’…
It retains getting more durable to inform younger, post-modern rational people to desert their rational intelligence and dive mindlessly into an un-rational perception of synthetic up myths, magic and ‘miracles’.
By no means thoughts absolutely the energy created by the corruption of church and state, and the numerous 1000’s of harmless people tortured to loss of life in hideous ‘evil’ fashions, together with lecturers like Bruno. Copernicus needed to wait till on his loss of life mattress earlier than he dared printed the work that modified every thing we knew about our relation to the universe.
Galileo dared show that our narcissistic, energy pushed self-absorbed ideas of ‘Us’, God’s chosen planet to be the middle of the universe… was merely not true,
“Right here! Simply look into my telescope!”
Galileo was stripped of all his privileges, exiled by home arrest and by risk of a torturous nasty loss of life was instructed by no means look into that evil telescope once more!
However but, on the identical time they had been shaming Galileo…
the Pope funds one of many world’s largest telescopes of the occasions and have maintained the costliest observatories privately owned for over 500 years. At the least they lastly pardoned Galileo practically 500 years later!
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On the core contemplative facets of all religious Practices and even the dominate non secular traditions, there are lots of commonalities of ethical, advantage and a non-distracted psychological house.
The deeply linked Christian students and mystics introduced forth the premise of probably the most prolific faith in historical past, however these in energy created the dogma and indoctrinations hooked up to many spiritual traditions that had been born of an insatiable power-ego-driven drive for domination capitalizing on probably the most highly effective navy weapon and political device…
By no means was it conceived that with out a lot funding, an enormous military may very well be assembled and make their very own manner, manner over to ‘god’s’ enimey and kill everybody there; the church pulled this off by permitting this mob to rape and pillage wherever alongside the way in which and again.
Brilliantly evil and diabolical… The mixture of ‘church and state’.
Absolute energy corrupts, completely.
Maybe the ‘church’ atrocities usually are not ‘evil’!
Sadistic energy ego pushed torturing and killing of God’s kids within the title of ‘God’, again within the good ‘ol days, was completely regular throughout that embarrassing time of our human evolution. So let’s not bicker about who killed who;-)
Virtually all religions right this moment have transcended this embarrassing unevolved trait.
Those who nonetheless proceed the atrocities the Christians had been doing 1000 years in the past are nonetheless embracing the traditions of their mislead father’s, father’s mis-perception of their faith.
Conventional religions that do not enable the scrutiny of evaluate by a gaggle of certified friends, Is finally protecting the flock in the dead of night ages.
By not progressing, not Transcending with the evolving world views…
Solely empty rituals are left to be indoctrinated right into a deaf, dumb and blind-faith for those that inherit their father’s, father’s outdated faith, unquestioned.