12: Do you have a problem with organized religion?

That’s a tricky question because the answer is both yes and no. First, I’ll talk about what I don’t have a problem with. One of the things that I specifically was able to take in during my experience was the balance in the universe and specifically here on Earth, since that’s where I was focused. When I was a child I used to want to be able to ‘save’ the world. My experience showed me that it didn’t need saved because it was where it was supposed to be. I used to except that as an end answer but now I still want to try my best to influence the world in a harmonious direction. I don’t have a problem with any religion because there is a reason that any particular person has a particular belief. It would be against everything I believe to judge another person! If there weren’t a reason for religion then no one would participate in it. That means there is a reason for religion to exist. One could write an entire volume on what religion has contributed to humankind. Of course one could also write a volume on the destruction and death contributed in the name of religion, as well. Remember, if you want someone to respect your beliefs you have to respect theirs. In fact, the degree in which you expect your beliefs to be respected, can be no more than the degree you respect others’ beliefs. Furthermore, I believe in reincarnation and evolution through multiple lives. In past lives we have made the same mistakes as those that many of us look down upon. It’s not about measuring a level of evolution and placing a value based upon it, thinking your better because your more evolved than this person or that person (that attitude is not very evolved by the way ;-). It’s about understanding our connectivity to each other and respecting it. Unfortunately, the reality of humankind so far, is that "might makes right”. Those willing to fight for material reasons, no matter on what level, are usually the ones running things. It is up to the ones that see the truth with their heart, to have the mercy to help evolve ‘them’ beyond their current state. That helps evolve us!

That leads nicely into why I also say ‘yes’ I have a problem with religion. Again, most religion is male energy based and denies the female energy that is within us all. Denies our senses that we were inherited. Denies our ability to evolve by trying to make members dependent. In the case of Buddhism, denies are place by thinking that evolution is only a state of mind and not feeling as well. However, if you read about monks that have experienced Nirvana, it was achieved, many times through an emotional jarring. Religion thinks beings are supposed to evolve around the circle diagram (fig 2) I drew, through ascension, moving counter clockwise from ‘being’ toward ‘star’. This is like going ‘up’ to heaven. My point is that yes, that is a part of us, and most of us do need to develop that part more than the part that is related to female/planet, but it’s only an equal part, to that female/planet side of us. It’s not mutually exclusive, it’s just part of our right as beings.