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What is wrong with “morality”?

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Is morality good or bad for you? The bottom line: For those who like to control the life of others, it is good, for those who do not like to be controlled, no so much.

Morality is said to be the greatest achievement of mankind. Morality gives human beings rules to live by. Rules given by a “God”. Without these rules, it is advanced, we would quickly  become derelicts incapable of sustaining a viable society or a cohesive “self”. The citizenry we would be at each others throats and the individual would fall into depravity. It would be the end of civilization.

God has hammered human ways, values, meanings on stone tablets. Good, bad…. right, wrong… evil… valid thoughts… approved behavior… how people must think, want, act, react is set in “absolutes”. Deviation from the dictates of “God” is “sin”. Sin against God… and sin against man. In-born human contradictory “ways” of  are to be denied, eradicated, and replaced by morality.

The why behind all of this is known: It is “God’s” will. And “God” is truth.

On the other hand, non-believers, atheists, science’s gymnasts cannot offer any coherent ideas for a philosophy of existence… the why, the truth, hide behind Day One. “Heathen” are left to claim that they are as good, as moral, as ethical as their believing brethren.

Yet morality’s attempts at our de-naturalization is a futile endeavor. All we get is confusion, guilt, incomprehension, submission, and the destruction of our self-esteem. We walk our lives in a daze, in a dream-trance, hating ourselves, unable to make heads or tails of who we are. The spiritual “morality” noise makes us forget that we are natural beings living in a natural universe. We have been made into fake  “righteous” beings. 

No matter how righteous is our moral compass, we remain sinners. Why are we always sinning? Maybe we have the creation’s “formula” wrong. Could it be that our natural nature dances to a different “pulse”? 

Nature inherent cosmic pulse: Life/Death. What creates life is seen as good. What destroys life is seen as bad. Be it a person, a lion, a rock, a thought.

Many say that without morality, we fall. Actually, we rise. We feel a sense of belonging, a sense of oneness with the cosmos, with the earth, with the forms of nature, and with people. We become real.

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How we can free ourselves from religion… from… even ‘science’.

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Who are we? What are we? Where do we come from? What are we doing here? What is Creation? Purpose? Life? Death? Eternity? Meaning?

What if what governs us and the universe is not an external ‘Spirit’ or an unknown external ‘Force’ but a ‘Formula’? A knowable formula… with enough elements known to help us make sense of our existence. A Formula/Source/Mind enacting into matter/form/body a single present instant. No past. No future. Only a Now. 

At present, about these questions, religion and science enounce most of the answers. But are the answers given applicable? What if they were not? Religion and science are twins. They both teach that, eons ago, there was a “Day One”, a “First Day” of Creation. And behind that first day existed / still exists an Originator. For religion it is a “God”, for science it is an unknown “Force”. The “God/Force” is Cause, Creation the effect. Each and every form, ‘mind’, body, thought, is an ‘effect’ of that Cause.

Who is ‘God’?

First, we must review who was/is “God”. For this, we need to go back to the origin of the God story on earth. There is a “God” story. It has an origin. It has a root. It has a time. It has a place. And there are traces leading back to that “event”.  There are “Holy Books”, there are legends of gods travelling in the heavens above, there are megalithic edifices called “temples of the gods”. And these roots of divinities exists all over the earth. We need to know. We need to come to grip with what was this event. Without this understanding, we fumble, never certain, never sure. We exist in ‘absentia’. We are ‘vagrants’. We are homeless.

A few centuries past, people began to question the solidity of their beliefs. “God” was falling out of favor with the ‘scientific” intelligentsia. Too many inconsistencies. The “Spirit” was tossed out of the school books. The “unchangeable” creation appeared to “evolve”. The universe has become a question of “matter”. We live in a “materialistic”, measurable, observable, somewhat controllable “space”.  But as something cannot come out of nothing, some pre-creation “Force/Mind” got an explosive Big-Bang which got the “matter/space/time/continuum” ball rolling. 

Still the “Spirit” is stong.
We can almost see behind the “Big-Bang”.

After millennia of control over humanity, religion and science have mastered the skill of hiding the exit doors behind massive walls of indoctrination, dogmas, doctrines, fear… facts, proof, reason. Every inquiry, every question, every hole, every opening, every glimpse of enlightenment is quickly plugged… with words and with swords. Every second of the day, society “normalizes” in our body, mind, and soul an imaginary realm. What you are taught about nature, the world, and ourselves reflects this fictitious “empire of the unreal”.

They will ask: How, without a primary Creator, has the universe come into being, or exists today? And if no such Being/Force exists or has ever existed, then, who are we? what are we? what is the universe?  

They will say with great humility and intelligence: “No one can know for certain?”

(Those who don’t want to know… also don’t want you to know.) 

To open the freedom door that leads into this instant is not easy. But it can be accomplished. 

The key to opening the “reality” door is not a “who” or a “what… but a “when”. The singular and primary instant was not an instant in the past, but it is this very instant, the Now. When that understanding comes to a mind, answers begin to light up creation’s landscape.

The laws of human existence taught by “officialdom” are not the laws which the universe operates under, which we operate under.  All is to be reassess anew.  

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The moment after death.

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How have we come to believe that upon death we go up to Heaven where we are assigned a place by the side of a “God”?

It is recounted in a multitude of ancient texts and legends that “gods” (“God”) travelled to and fro their home on earth and their home in the sky. One day the sky bridge vanished and the gods no longer came down to earth. Yet mankind’s desire to be by the side of their gods (“God”) did not diminished. If life did not offer the opportunity, death did.

If you have bought such a “God” and Heaven ticket for your next life… no matter who is doing the underwriting, the selling, the giving, the asserting, the promising, the threatening…

The ticket is invalid.

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Still, in our mind’s “ruminatings”, we feel that our death should not be a final ending. We should… go on… being ourselves.

So, we hope.
So, we speculate.

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Speculation:

Is there life/existence for us after our death?
Of course, it’s possible.

We know from many near death experiences’ stories that the human mind, at the end of life, seems to enter into a death program. A tunnel is seen and a white light is in want to be followed to its end. Loved ones are sometime encountered along its path. At a certain point, the travelers are informed that if this is not the right time to complete the tunnel journey they may chose to go back to their earthly life. Truth? Fantasy? Imaginary imprints on the mind? The fact that the near death program has been remembered and recorded on many occasions over the ages attests to the possibility of its existence.

From time to time we hear that a certain person had a dream subsequent the passing of a loved one. The dream appears to be real. And most often than not the loved one say in a way or another that she/he is fine. Of course, it can be the dreamer’s neurons making up stories. Stories that consoles the heart. But, an eternal “matrix”  builds the neurons in a dreamer’s head.

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Transitions: The Oneness of time and space is both eternal and infinite. The Now does not experience interruptions. The Now is for ever “present”. Essence which does not exist outside of substance is forever “present”… everywhere. Life and Death are One. From Oneness all forms originate.  

After our last breath on this earth… what will happen to us, our energy, our memory, our “I”, our consciousness, we, human beings, do not see that far.

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Then there are the butterflies.

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Can you be “spiritual” without a God?

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We, humans, feel that our “self”, our life, our existence is “more”, more than rocks, or vegetation, or  animals. We have a “spirit”; they do not.

“Spirituality” originates in the belief that a “God” exists, and that the God is a “Spirit”… and by extension, we, humans, are endowed with a droplet of “divinity”, or, at minimum, a connection to the divine spirit. The “God/ Spirit” is separate from us. And our “spirit” is separate from our body. By being human and by following the words of God we activate in us a “spiritual” effect. The effect: A feeling of oneness with God, a sense of “validated” purpose and meaning of existence… and at a ticket, at  end of this existence, to rejoin God in is celestial abode. The “spiritual” effect satisfies our need to be “more”. The problem: There is no God.  The exercise is, in the end, imaginary. 

Science leaves our sense of being “more” wanting. Science is uncertain as to the nature of the Mind/Force behind creation. Behind the Big-Bang. Behind evolution. Is it a God? Is it a Force. Is there anything there? We are scrutinizing the cosmos further and further backward into time hoping to see behind the veil. While we wait to form a philosophy of existence based on the real nature of who we are, we claim to be as moral, as ethical, as good, as… than the believers! In the end, the “Force/Mind”, which is unknown, is separate from us. Who are we? Are we more than rocks? 

There is also an allusion to a steady-state universe. A “matter” world. Un-created. Even.  Without Mind. Only a body. This does not do much for our sense of being “more”.

Science abandons spirituality for dry facts and figures. Mind is a physical/matter “construct” that fires synapses. The dryness leaves the “soul” empty. Empty of meaning, empty of purpose. We go get drunk, accumulate trophies, accolades, bank accounts, doctorates, buy more stuff. All of this dispense pleasure, but on a flat line. 

Are we out of luck? Are we condemn to wait? Can we fill our emptiness vase: 

What do we know for certain?
The Now exists. 

And, in the Now, is there the “more” we seek? 

The Now has no root-cause, no source-cause. The “Now” is of this instant. The Now is a singular instant. An instant without beginning, therefore eternal… yet, it is always beginning. (And this confuses us, we think that there is a past) An instant without end… yet, it is always ending. (And this confuses us, we think that there is a future.)  An instant infinite… everywhere is its center. (And this confuses us, we think that there are distances, edges, heights, tops, bottoms, firsts and lasts.) There are no lesser human, no lesser tree, no lesser grain of sand. (And this truly confuses us.)  

Is the Now mind and body? As the Now is a singular instant, it cannot have sequentiality. Essence/mind cannot precede substance/body. Essence has to present itself as substance, mind as matter, thought as body. No separation. 

Where religion and science (as we know them) seek to connect/ re-connect “Spirit/Mind” to “body/form” (a connection that gives “more”), the Now makes no such separation. Therefore no reconnection is necessary. But a game is being played, a game of eternity and temporality, of infinity and finality. (This too, we can understand.) For our consciousness has an intensity knob which we can turn up. That is what makes us “more”. The knob is there, but we have to turn it.

Can we feel the cosmic singular/duality propositions of the Now? Can we feel the unfolding and folding of light into darkness, of mind into form. Consciousness like all of creation’s ways is infinite in its depth, in its height, in its reach. It is present everywhere. Can we enter the consciousness of the forms as they manifest consciousness? Knowing and understanding is included in our “matrix”, in our design. The “ways” of our composing Matrix are knowable.

We are not only connected to the ways of the cosmos, we are the ways of existence, of the present. All of that which the Now is is all of what we are. The whole is one. Our intelligence is our (attached to us) cosmic searchlight revealing to our mind/body the universe we are and the universe we are in.

The more we feel the “oneness” in all that exists, the greater our experience of being, of purpose, of meaning.

The “blueprint” is the form.

The “more” is infinite. For our consciousness has a “cosmic” intensity knob which we can turn up. How much we receive is up to us, to you.

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What is sin ? Or – in nature, there is – no such thing – as sin or sinners.

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Sin, the idea that we can sin, that we sin, is the single most destructive force implanted and implemented into the human psyche.

We are taught that, long ago, a “God” created a man and a women, and, after placing them in a “paradise” gave them instructions to follow. Tempted by another character named “Satan”, the two perfect souls disobeyed a command of the “God”. This act caused a split (a fault line) in human nature. They had sinned. And, on that day, their sin became our sin.

Like these first parents, our mind, our life, became a battlefield for a never ending war between “God” and “Satan”. “God” represents good, “Satan” evil. This set the human stage for what is right and what is wrong. Satan stands at the ready to tricks us in wanting forbidden “fruits”… forbidden knowledge… forbidden thoughts… forbidden acts… forbidden sensations… forbidden desires.

Always fearful of displeasing the “God”, we struggle. Even though we try our best to be like God our natural nature overruns our good intentions. We sin. Fall. Feel guilty. Repent. Fall again. The game never ends. Sin twists our mind. Sin makes us hate our own “self” as well as the world around us.

We are caught in a nightmare.
The “divided” self nightmare.

And the nightmare consumes our existence. Believers and non-believers alike. For the non-believer think him(her)self as moral, as good, as righteous as the believers. 

Like all other forms, we human beings, cannot transgress, change, alter, modify, deny, reroute the laws of the cosmos. It is not possible. Our natural nature cannot be undone. Nature demands that we walk existence by its rules. Then, intelligence demands that we learn, know, and understand what the rules are, how they apply, and the why behind the what and the how.

It is possible to know.

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