Talks about some "different" topics, including Sun-gazing (using the Sun for food energy), as well as a different (but not unique!) Creation story. If these topics do not interest you, watch it anyways. There is a massive amount of useful information in this film about why you are not your thoughts, your emotions, or your social programming, why it is key for the "control mechanism" that you continue to buy into certain concepts about reality, and why it is important that you free you mind!
I have a problem with religion and labels in general.
Something, especially, about being a "Christian" definitely invokes certain negative belief systems to spring forward into my conscious thought.
Thoughts of families in the suburbs going to church on Sundays, living out of nature and and going to public schools. (LOL -- what does the latter even have to DO with Christianity?)
People following blind faith, and following certain "laws" just because they are of a certain faith. (Abstaining from sex until married, marriage in general, following Jesus as their personal "savior.")
Christians in my mind are totally "uncool." (This belief system is garbage - throwing it away .. now.)
The thing is, I have felt the presence of a Creator God many times, often in an altered state of consciousness, when some would say I had more "awareness" or more of an "open mind." It just seems like it is in my nature to question EVERYTHING, which my friend Chris told me yesterday was actually one of the things God asks us to do. That in the Bible, it is recorded that God himself calls blind faith foolish (obviously paraphrasing here) and we should question everything and come to answers for ourselves, not be spoon fed dogma.
I have a lot of questions about religions and God.
For example, establishing a religion (read: cultural operating system) based on unquestionable laws determined by an all-powerful Source seems like a really easy way to establish total power and control over people. (Although I admit - I would have to read the Bible to get to know what EXACTLY is being asked of humans from God, according to the the "Holy Book.")
The psychological (Freudian) perspective is that humans created God (the Creator of the Universe) to serve as a "father figure" that we seem to lack. (As my friend Julie once put it - Freud determined that everyone has Daddy issues .. hehe!) Other psychological perspectives for the existence of God in human minds state that humans are attempting to answer questions about our origin, life purpose, and morality.
It is interesting to view all these desires from an ego-based perspective too.
Origin - Our ego wants to know where we came from because let's be honest, our ego wants to know everything. And this is, kindof a big thing. No one can explain the origins of life, and especially not the origins of consciousness, awareness, and thoughts (the observer behind the veil).
Can we figure this out without believing in God? Maybe - we just haven't yet.
Life Purpose - Our ego wants to be needed, and so telling ourselves that we are here because "God has a plan for us" or "we are here to serve God" satisfies that need. Some atheist suicidal people claim "if life has no meaning, why should I go on living?"
Can we have a life purpose without believing in God? Sometimes it can be hard to decide if you do not know if you believe in God, because if you do, your life purpose might be way different than if you don't. But, if you decide that you don't believe in God (or you don't believe that he/she/it determines your life purpose) then you get to decide your life purpose, allow it to unfold organically, or decide not to have a life purpose at all and see what each day brings. Seems fun that way!
Morality - Our ego can sometimes get lost in not knowing what is "good and bad" and so having some "higher power" tell us what is right or wrong seems easy.
Can we figure out right and wrong without God's help? Sure - we all have human feelings and emotions and the ability to feel "empathy" for others, so the notion of "treating others as you would like to be treated" seems like common sense. Even if we cannot experience being someone else (sometimes you can - in altered states of consciousness, but I digress,) we can definitely imagine what it is like to be someone else, or go through whatever they are experiencing and decide if we would want to be "in their shoes."
There are so many interpretations of what or who God is, and they all think that they are correct.
What "bothers" me about the personal, Christian God who answers to prayers and performs miracles through people and things is that he seems to fulfill many desires of the human ego, and so in my mind, it would be very easy to create such an entity. Also, for a long time now, I have subscribed to the notion "that we have everything we need inside of us already - answers to all our questions and access to all knowledge in the database of the universe" so looking to God for "help" or "answers" seems like another way to look to the "external world" for help. (Some people believe that because God created us in his likeness he gave us this ability also and so being self-sufficient in this manner does not necessarily disprove God.) Also, I am afraid of being wrong and wasting time believing in something to later find out it wasn't even real in the first place. (Because I have spent a good portion of my life already believing beliefs that weren't the "truth")
I DO believe that different religions, Christianity (and the Bible) totally being included in that list, hold a great amount of wisdom and knowledge about our planet and human beings, so I am not saying that it is all useless.
One of the more interesting facts that the Bible talks about is "humans' abilities to change reality with their thoughts" which is now being talked about in the New Age movement, quantum mechanics (and quantum physics), in the yoga and meditation traditions, and from self-help advocates everywhere.
I am totally not opposed in reading the Bible, especially a version that has modern language and word connotations in mind - I am actually very interested in what this (very old) book has to say about reality.
I am also weary of anyone that has it "figured out" because really? Really? The mind is super great at convincing ourselves that we have something "figured out" and that what we believe is the "truth." That's kind of the nature of holding a belief - believing that it is true. But as you probably see within yourself over the years, our beliefs (usually) change, or we cling to them with all our might, fearful of what letting go of a belief system will say about "who we are" and "who we will become" without it. Identity is a trip, y'all.
I love a quote that I have hanging in my bathroom which states - "The spiritual path is not about not having beliefs, but in holding them loosely. If we cling to a belief we are stuck - if we hold it loosely we can go with the flow." (The whole quote is about how limited our individual human perspectives are relative to "reality" - which is also a belief because no one has ever been able to describe the "true nature of reality.")
So for now I remain a religious skeptic, although when I look around at the world I see in front of my eyes and senses, and think about the complexity of sub-atomic particles, our body, or the universe, it really does look like it was beautifully and lovingly designed by some kind of grand Creator. (I do not believe that Creation and Evolution are exclusive, by the way.)
Is God a man in the sky, sitting on a bejeweled throne though ? - well, I obviously have some doubts about that one.
I have inserted an amazing video that really speaks to my heart and soul and raises the vibration of my being... please watch :)
Thanks for reading!
With love and gratitude for this human experience,
Sofie K.
On the way through town I was disturbed by a conversation I over-heard between a mother and her son. There where 3 or 4 kids and one of the boys was crying out to his mom "Mom, why you call me a bad boy for no reason? Mom, why I a bad boy? Mom, what I do so you call me a bad boy? Mom, why you call me a bad boy? Mom, I didn't do anything wrong, why I a bad boy?" And the mom was completely ignoring her son.
We don't really think before speaking, a lot of the time. We don't think about what we say, the belief system operating behind what we say, and why this belief system is established within us to begin with (and whether or not its actually truth).
Many children remember a time when they could not tell "reality"
apart from their imaginations. Could it be that we hinder children's creativity
and perception of "reality" by believing, ourselves, in a reality that
is too limited and concrete? Are we prisoners of this reality simply because
we have forgotten what is possible?
As is currently established in our society, it is a generally accepted belief that children learn about life from their parents. (Teachers, peers, and the media also have a big influence on how children learn to perceive reality.) Whether or not this is the "right" way to do it is up for debate, I'm just calling it like I see it here.
It is of my opinion that as responsible parent, one should become aware of how everything one says, along with the sub-conscious belief systems attached to the words uttered, affects a child learning to perceive reality. (Since we are energetic beings we also pick up on people's thoughts and actions as ways of perceiving the world - but here I will focus just on words spoken, because of the example and context.)
So the child trusts the mother (or parent) to teach him about the world.
What he isn't aware of (unless he is) is that the mother's own sense of reality is inevitably tainted with the her personal assumptions, conclusions, and altogether skewed perceptions about reality that she acquired through personal experience, relations with others, as well as adopted from her family, friends, and culture.
So the child that doesn't question will take on the mother's mis-conceptions about reality (beliefs) as truth.
So let's dissect a few of the apparent (to me) beliefs that the mother is teaching her son in this situation:
-The mother is the authority. She has the right to determine what is "bad" and what is "good." - He is a bad boy forno reason (because this is what he believes; he does not understand what he did wrong, as he exclaims himself.) - Since the mother most likely had a reason for calling her son a bad boy, He is a bad boy for doing something deemed 'bad' by his mother, SO .... - He is a bad boy for dis-obeying his mother (authority) - He is a bad boy for dis-obeying established authority (He is a 'bad boy' for walking outside the box of conformity that many adults have decided is how "life should be like." ) - Other people's assumptions about reality have the power to determine someone's nature (good or bad) (Ex: You did something I think is bad, therefore you are a bad boy!)
Maybe you are thinking that the son (maybe 3 or 4 years old) won't remember this incident. Many people believe that our sub-conscious minds remember EVERYTHING! Especially events that had an emotional impact on us.
How might this affect the little boy in the future? This story might be remembered in his sub-conscious memory, and feed him thoughts about his (false) 'bad' nature later in life. He may even start to believe that he is a bad person.
People who don't believe that they are "good enough" tend to have a need to prove their worth later in life. (Until they (hopefully) realize that they do not have to prove their worth to ANYONE.)
How do they attempt to prove this? By being untrue to themselves, pretending to be someone they are not, trying to conform to their image of what "good enough" is that they learned from their parents, friends, society, being afraid to think for themselves, joining establishments that "think" for them, following dogmas (such as those of religions, armies, businesses, etc.) , trying to buy people's love, seeking comfort in addictions, controlling people because they do not believe themselves worthy of true, unconditional love, abusing people and animals (hurting others to lift themselves up a little), mindlessly conforming to society and being afraid to think for themselves in general, believing that they are bad, unworthy, and stupid.
Let's all try to a little harder to think before we speak and act. Let's examine the hidden, underlying,often sub-conscious belief systems our words are projecting so as to attempt to limit the amount of our own emotional poison, fears, and limiting beliefs that we dump on to others, especially children.
What are we teaching our children about reality? What is it that we believe about it ourselves, why do we hold these beliefs, and are those beliefs necessarily the truth?
And are we projecting what we truly believe, or just out-dated beliefs that we "picked up" somewhere?
Can we love and trust someone enough to allow them to establish their own beliefs about reality, even if they are inconsistent with our own and sometimes may seem scary or un-safe to us?
I know that witnessing this experience was so emotionally charged for me because I am only beginning to scratch the surface of all the "beliefs" I still hold that no longer serve me, and am still resentful of the establishments from which I picked up these beliefs. (Something I am working on letting go of !) I also had thoughts arise such as "Parents are stupid, selfish, afraid, etc." and "It's like they are trying to limit his life, creativity, self-love!" I know I was thinking these thoughts because I feel like I am both the child and the parent, trying to grasp reality from established explanations and assumptions about it (usually quite flawed), as well as judging people, situations, and ideas based on the beliefs I already hold about reality.
Leave it to every experience to teach you something about your "self" if you are just open to the lesson ;)
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