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As for myself, I am a very old soul who believes in a supreme consciousness. I was raised Catholic in a small rural French Canadian Community, where I was taught to embrace my Matis background. Matis are half French and half Indian descendents who typically live in Francophone communities in Ontario. But I don't put much faith in genetics being the building blocks of my identity, as I see the mind that influences logic and reasoning. I believe the ego existed before the mind and reason, and body and form. And so, I don't believe in Organized Religion, no matter the faith. I feel this way because of the inherence to confuse the fundamental principles of the belief structure, which is the structure of religion. In that, I don't believe that any recognized master, who has achieved Christ Consciousness, has ever written* their beliefs, because of the inherence that scriptures do create confusion.
The Bible, Talmud and Koran are books of historical laws, as they concern the society and community of which they were writen for. But they are not writings that teach faith. The teachings of Yahshua were mostly parables that taught morality, virtue and brotherly love. Tenants mostly and those have been the meanings we’ve lost sight of, as a global community, and I blame organized religion and the fragmentation of Orthodox thinking.
I believe we were born with all knowledge and are simply confused as we are influenced by the mitosis that is the group consciousness of humanity. We’ve lost ourselves in the self and have denied the being. What does that mean? Well, that we are all images of god, in the way of our godliness as we have the capacity to both nurture and inhibit life and love. We are the masters of our destiny as we choose to love or hate each other and ourselves, and turn our back on the divine essence we call god.
Peace starts with the self, the being, and that’s what I’m coming to when I attempt to define what I believe Christ, Mohamed and Moses were trying to teach us. They all had the same message, which were corrupted through translation because of the written scripture that now causes confusion.
* Proof: Moses died before ever seeing ‘The Promised Land.’ And so, I believe that his brother and sons were the ones who wrote the sacred laws of Judaism, now found in the Talmud. Christ died several years before the first bible was ever found. In fact, if we look through the New Testament, we will find the books of the Disciples and of Roman Theologians, such as the missionary, Saul or Paul. And it is believed that Mohamed's cousin, Imam Ali, wrote the Koran. Yet that is still a point of conjecture. However, Imam Ali is responsible for starting the Shiite Sect shortly after the death of Mohamed and it took several more years for the 5 Pillars of Faith to take a hold of the followers of Mohamed, where we now see the Islamic faith in it’s present configuration. This was because of the mass wars and division among the people of the Middle East and Southern Europe.
However, let us look at the world today and the wars that grip us, as we examine the deviation in our faiths. We look at the words of our prophets and see the truth and glory of their words, yet we betray the teachings because somewhere our scripture condones the action. That is because of confusion. And so, I have little faith in what is called Organized Religion.
Much of what ails us can be attributed to emotional trauma, where we - on some level, associate blame (either upon ourselves or others) to explain the cause or origin of that trauma. If we explore ourselves and the world around us, we will notice that we are quick to blame another or others for an event that in some way changed the way we look at ourselves, each other or the space around us.
We create expectations in our minds and hold people accountable to that or those expectations. These are mental parameters that we create and control. And as such, we should be holding ourselves accountable to and for. And I feel that we neglect to see and recognize that. This is what I call transference.
Transference is where we wilfully assign or ‘give away’ our power, our accountability to our self and place it on another or others. Once again, another way of saying: confer blame. “I’m sick because I ate too much chocolate - chocolate makes me sick.” Or “I hate a specific racial or social group because they are responsible for an event that causes suffering.” The connection we draw in the first statement is: Too much chocolate equals sick. This altimetry means, cause of. In the second statement, we connect the event to a prominent or proponent group, which results in suffering. However, we fail to diagnose the symptoms of the initial cause that lead to the event. In the first case, we can begin associating the state of illness to over indulgence, which is a lack of self-control or undefined parameters that sets limits, which is in association with reasoning. All of which deals with the self - our power to control our accountability, our own actions. We must own the fact that we indulged ourselves and now we are ill. There may be a medical inflection that prevents our bodies to process and breakdown the chocolate, but these are normally known variables that should have already influenced our reasoning.
In the second scenario, the root cause is much deeper. These aren’t social issues that manifest overnight. These are gradual results that have cause change over a period of time within that social or racial group, where now, they act within the parameters of their reasoning to try to rectify or cause change within the structure of their social parameters. Gays and Lesbians aren't responsible for HIV or AIDs. They are simply susceptible to it because of their sexual behaviour. African Americans aren’t responsible for violence. They are simply reacting to a social condition - which exists in part as a result of social conditioning - as a result of observed effectiveness. If this action creates an equal and opposite reaction, and it draws attention to our social conditioning, then it is the proper behaviour to be exhibiting.
But these are observations that meet with our own perceptions. We allow ourselves to be told ‘facts’ that influences our reasoning and as a result, we begin to see or believe that or those ‘facts’ to be truths. Violence is a social effect, not a racial effect. No one specific social or racial group is responsible for more violence. Violence is an act that is conducted out of our fears, as a result of confusion or fallacious reasoning. And so, we give away our power, our ability to make deductions for ourselves that help define and improve our ethical parameters.
But what of those illnesses that continue to haunt our lives, making us incapable of dealing with our day-to-day lives? These are those serious mental and emotional traumas that were either a result of transference or effective assault that change or influence our personal ethical boundaries.
Transferred guilt is the result of someone doing or saying something to us that changes the parameters of our own personal ethical boundaries. These are associated to education and habit, which we fail to recognize, due to reasoning (which is the capacity for rational thought,) or because we learn to believe it to be acceptable.
Effective assault is a result achieved through action or inaction, or our lack of ability to identify and act against an action that results in physical or emotional injury. These are often situations that are beyond our ability to control, either due to reason, mental state or physical limitations.
As a correlative result of these, we begin to associate what we know as the “guilt factor.” This is an adaptive response that we use to define our ethical parameters because of our inability to cope with the event or events. This could be because we either see it as acceptable, or don’t see it as being unacceptable. These can be identified by internal dialogue that justifies why we were made a victim or why the aggressor behaved the way they did. We then judge them and/or ourselves based on that foundation, which is a base founded on our reasoning, and then continue to associate guilt because of the rational.
Where I see we fail our selves is that we neglect to take ownership for our own ethical boundaries. We associate blame because we have been victimized and we hold that blame in our hearts, which causes further emotional poisoning. I agree and understand that what happened was wrong. What that person did was wrong. But the power is ours to forgive them for their faults, accept them as being perfect within the parameters of their ethical belief system and understand that they were only acting within their own parameters without regard for yours. We must understand that it isn’t until they themselves realize that their conduct or actions weren’t on course with your ethical boundaries, that they will never understand or recognized the effects of their actions as being wrong. We have no control over what other people see or understand. But we do have control over what we ourselves see and understand. And, for as long as we continue to associate blame on others, we are certain to continue holding the poison that influences our emotional growth, which in turn permits the influence of human suffering. At least this is true within our selves.
So, to go back to the expectations we’ve created in our own minds and hold others accountable to, I believe that we should look at it as parameters we hold ourselves to and not others. We have the power to recognize our faults and the faults within each other, because we share, at some level, the same faults. We also have the power to change the perception of that or those faults through understanding the root of that or those faults. But we can only derive that understand if we explore it ourselves, in our selves. This is the part of self-exploration that helps teach us of own strengths and weaknesses, which are conditions directly under our own control. Peace first starts from within, with the self. Let us take back our power and heal ourselves and we will find the gradual, and inevitable end to our own suffering.