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My Faith Without Me.

Is there life after death. Was Hitler not evil? Am I a product of my Parents, my heritage, my environment? These things blind me and I find it hard to believe that god actually exists if all this evil exists around me...

        First off – we must first redefine what we understand as being real. What is life and then define what is life after death. Much of what we see or believe is based on perception and that perception is filtered through confusion – confusion being the natural state of existence when we look upon the natural world and see that nearly everyone around us shares the same beliefs, limitations and habits. We’ve made an agreement as to the definition of a specific thing or state. All things are god – I know that’s a hard pill to swallow, but as the gold ring was made from a gold bar, god has become the many. When we think of god, we think of infinite and omnipotence – however, because of the true nature of those descriptions, as attributes, we as the little beings that we are, filled with confusion and limitations, have no concept of what these attributes are. In the sense that all things are relative – relative to your perceptions, understanding, beliefs and fears – these are what are called limitations. We are limited because of our confusion, because we choose to define the relative world based on our own experiences and beliefs, and not on the principles they are founded on. How can we understand the pain a dying child is experiencing if we are healthy? Because you don’t feel that pain, does it not exist? Then why do we limit that experience to that single incidence or to common incidence that occur daily in our lives? Doesn’t driving a nail through a cat’s paw hurt as much as driving that same nail through your own hand? Then why do we limit that experience? In the fact that we limit all things, regardless to whether we put thought into it or not. This is because we base the definition of our world on our own experiences, or on those people’s experiences to whom we’ve put our trust into. That is to say, if I told you – as your best friend – that I’ve experienced the love of Christ through sermon and that you too can feel that love, if only you came to my church – then wouldn’t you come to my church? But if I - as a complete stranger – told you that very same thing (think of the Jehovah Witnesses for one or Mormons as an other) then wouldn’t you reject their claims? Well the truth is, in my mind, that everyone is right regardless of their faith – as in the denomination they choose to follow or prescribe to.

        We have created definitions based on our perceptions – Is there life after death. If you can breath, eat, talk and carry on a normal life, then that is life… But what if you are in a vegetative state and force-fed through a tube in your neck and have a respirator and heart machine – are you not still alive? What is the definition of life? A fetus, once it has matured beyond the first trimester, is considered a living being and cannot be aborted. That’s in Canada and many European Nations. However, in some American States, Abortion is against the law, no matter what day in its gestation it’s in. What is the definition of life then? Well, one may base in on the quality of life that they, or someone more fortunate than they, are experiencing.
        To talk about death is to talk about change. We, as our ego consciousness, move away from the shell that keeps us anchored to the Relative State. What becomes of our consciousness then is conjecture, because I have never experienced it. However, I believe that it will rejoin a plain of existence that we can call the Astral State. Here, it is likely that our consciousness will join a collective consciousness that is not aware of the Causal State and the Relative State, as we here in the Relative State cannot experience the Astral and the Causal States. Why? Because we aren’t meant to remember those states as creatures of limitation. We must first understand the nature of creation, which we don’t and it isn’t until we experience that nature can we ever really understand it. I haven’t experienced it yet – at least not to a degree that can be explained in words. But even if I attempted to explain it in words, then wouldn’t I too be adding to that confusion? That is because you, as the audience, will simply translate that experience in terms of your own experiences. That is a product of our own limitations and I would be subjected to that very same limitation should it be you describing that very same thing to me. We cannot describe the absolute in terms of the relative, because we must first have the experience, which means both the subject and the audience. But in fact, we wouldn’t communicate it, because there will be no need to – but that’s a different story.
        But to come around and answer the question, yes I do believe there is a consciousness that defines our truest natures that continues to exist long after the shell has decayed. And that experience will be defined by the nature of the subject doing the transition. There are many remarkable occurrences that have been documented in life. One being Yahshua and his resurrection. His body was dead for three days, yet he returned from the Astral State and ‘reoccupied’ his shell. This is a miracle that we’ve limited to him alone. But what we failed to see is that he lived a different life than we do, than most people did in his time, since and before. But is that to say he was the only person to live that way? Well, that is an improbable fact. I believe that many ‘people’ have had that experience – but the expression of that experience may have been different. Now here’s the thing. Much of what we believe is based on our perception and education. If the Roman Catholic Church removed all existing documents of other saintly people who were Christ-like, and made a crusade to change the thoughts and behaviors of people to reflect their doctrine, then wouldn’t that add to the confusion and remove our ability to believe that such people did and do exist? That’s only one example. We have modern day saints, people who were Christ-like who perform miracle daily. Paramahansa Yogananda was born in the late 1800’s and lived in both India and North America, until his death in the early 50’s. His control over his own body, after his death, was so phenomenal that we, as the general population, have refused its validity. His body stayed preserved for over 20 days, looking as though he were merely sleeping, even though he was pronounced dead, and did not show any sign of decay until they disposed of his remains.
        There are several examples throughout history, but our historians have done well to remove and refute every detail because they didn’t fall within the paradigm of their understanding. Why Christ over Yogananda or other spiritual masters? Well, I can’t answer that because the Christian Movement is founded on choice. Often involuntary choice, in such periods of the dark ages when the Roman Catholic Church went forth and persecuted thousands when they refused to convert to Christianity. But we still choose to over look this forced bondage and acts of violence in favor of preserving our ‘Identities’ as they are defined by the same doctrines and dogmas created by our faith base. Choice.

        Now, the nature of that Choice as Ego Consciousness I can’t begin to understand – because of the limitations of experience and the fact that I would be trying to describe the Absolute in terms of the Relative. But what I do understand is that we create agreements, based on the natural will of creation (And I can’t define the Natural Will of Creation because again, that is the Absolute) and our roles to keep that natural cycle going. What I can help define is the belief that something is Evil as something else is Good. In our quest to define the Absolute, we create language, but what we don’t create and foster is an environment of understanding and experience. Again, how can one define the Absolute without ever experiencing it? We believe and trust that Yahshua experienced it and so, we take his word on it. Be we take his word in Aramaic and Hebrew and translate it to Greek, Latin, English, French, Chinese, Spanish and so forth and what happens… Purple Monkey Underwear… We translate not the meaning but the words and the experience is lost. But we place our faith in the words, which cannot explain the absolute – only experience can explain the absolute. And confusion is created. Hence why I don’t believe Organized Religion is an environment that fosters Spirituality and the understanding of Union with Creation. They get lost in the words and not the meaning and translate what they interject into the definition of what they are translating to suit their understanding. What is Good? What is Evil? What makes Hitler Evil and Pope Urban the Second not? In case you need a history lesson, Pope Blessed Urban the Second ordered the first excursion into the holy land to free the Holy Temple of God from the Tyranny of the Mohammedan – early Islam. These were barbarians you have to understand. They cut the right hand off of a poor man who takes another man’s bread. They have many wives and children who run around in the mud. We painted Islam as an evil empire that needed to be destroyed because they laid claims over the Holy Temple of God. Real Estate in essence. But wasn’t that the very same nature of Hitler’s claims? The Dirty Jews were stealing from us Germans, the greatest race in human evolution… The Arians. Didn’t he not want to rid Europe of the Jews? No… He wanted to make Germany a country that wasn’t weakened by Poverty, Sickness, and the tyranny of England and France. He wanted Germany to share in the same global wealth as other European Nations. But the world wasn’t going to have it, not after Germany starting a great war to reclaim the Rhineland’s and key lands that belonged to Germany before the French stole it from them. He drove his army into the Arab Nations because he needed fuel and he wasn’t going to get it from his enemies and from Germany. The Allied forces would simply blow up his refineries. He needed materials to build his Armaments, so he needed to go into Russia and take their Factories, which were building some of the worlds greatest armaments. Plus, the Allies couldn’t afford to send troops over Russia towards Siberia where some of the world’s richest Gas Fields and Mines exist today. Hitler knew his Geography and he needed to keep his army going, because he didn’t want to lose. Wouldn’t you not fight to protect your family, friends and investments if someone else wanted to take it from you? Diplomacy wouldn’t work, because the world had a hate on for Germans. They couldn’t appeal to their own people because there was a division among them. So, he turned to propaganda, like the Roman Catholic Church did back in the 10th century and started a war that would unite Germany and the world against Germany. Did they go too far? Definitely. Did they do a lot of damage? Most assuredly. However, he was doing what he felt he had to do for his people and country, even if it meant killing his own people because they didn’t share in his beliefs. He was in a position to do that. Was Hitler evil? No more Evil than the Bushes, the Putins, the Kim Jong-Il and every other man of power who is doing what he feels is necessary to protect his country and people, even if it means killing his own people to defend his position.

        We can justify every act, when we stand behind it and believe in it. And we can equally condemn it if we don’t stand behind it and believe in it. And it is in this fact that we create the lines that define Good and Evil, Right and Wrong, Punishment or Reward. If I grew up in a society that believed that Cannibalism was a natural right, just like breathing, then why would I look at it as evil or wrong? I would see your society as being crazy because you don’t believe that it’s natural. However, just because your society carpet bombed my ‘nation’ with Mustard Bombs and virtually wiped out my whole civilization, does that make your claims that Cannibalism is wrong right? No. The sin here is that we failed to find a way to communicate and reach an agreement that would benefit both our societies. We failed to acknowledge the other’s rights to exist in a state that is natural to them. Why did we fail? We failed because of confusion.

        We take on our parent’s habits when we fail to analyze them and understand them. We are an extension of our environment. That is because we need to experience. As Ego Consciousness, we need to experience the infinite. And because we cannot understand or detect or measure the infinite, we cannot begin to understand the boundaries of our experiences. Can we experience infinity in a single life? I don’t believe we can, because we are the creation of limitation. Therefore, what is the thread that keeps us intact, so that we may continue to experience? I call it the Ego Consciousness, that part of us that is the closest to the Causal State, which is the core of creation. And if we draw a line between us, the Relative Self, the Astral Self and the Causal Self, us as body, us as mind, us as the fabric of god, then are we not connected? Therefore, couldn’t we connect ourselves to the Causal? Yes. Yahshua did it, so why can’t we? Because of our belief in limitation. Because we believe, we place our faith in the belief that only Yahshua, Jesus Christ, was able to do this. But Jesus was the embodiment of God Incarnate in the body of a man. The Infinite wrapped in the cloak of the limited. And if the infinite can become limited, then couldn’t the limited become infinite? I believe we can. How? We can achieve this by espousing the virtues and life style of Jesus Christ. By learning to love all and condemn, reject nothing. Why do we reject? Because of our habits. We learn to accept and reject things because of our limited beliefs. Change our habits, remove all things that limit us, that remove us from creation – because all things are an expression of creation (The guy standing next to you, the gun he holds in his right hand, the space between the muzzle of the gun and your head, the bullet that projects from the gun and makes its descent toward your living flesh…) are all expressions of god and god is love. We cannot change who we are as long as we accept and continue to live in the realm of limitation. We can no longer continue to accept and believe in that limitation as being real, because it’s an experience. We cannot limit our experiences, embrace all and love all.

        Next is the experience and I can’t teach you that. Only you can teach yourself that, because in your eyes, in your mind, only you exist in this realm of Relative Perception, because you are the center of the universe, in terms of the fact that you cannot see the universe through my eyes.

        I hope this explained much for you. However, you will accept and reject what you choose, which is fair because I can’t teach you anything. Only your experiences can teach you anything. However, I may help you challenge your own perceptions on how you translate your experiences. And you may find yourself wanting to experience more, be more and be your true self.

        Peace.

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