There are 6 aspects to a fully
balanced life. #6 is Being (i.e., transpersonal, transcendental,
spiritual: ethics, morals, values, ultimate-concerns, quantum-mechanics,
religion). Some don’t feel the need to develop all 6 aspects, and concentrate
on only 5, 4, 3, 2, or even only
1. Examples are a body-builder whose ONLY concern is working-out at the expense
of everything else, a monk who abandons everything else in order to pursue ONLY
spirituality, or a workaholic who loses family, friends & health in order
to pursue ONLY wealth.
Those who feel the need to pursue #6-Being,
end-up attaching to whatever spiritual tradition they were brainwashed into,
forced into, intimidated into, or attracted into. Some of those don’t
officially join a group but still function within the influence of some
mythological tradition. Very, very few actually bother to visit as many groups
as possible, compare the pro$perou$ & $ucce$$ful people that those groups generated,
and proactively seek membership & involvement therein. Sadly, so many of
those are motivated by fear of eternal suffering in the fires of hell where
they would be thrown by a “loving-God” or “beneficent-&-merciful-Allah,” if
they don’t practice some set of religious requirements properly. By looking at
the world numbers of adherents (e.g., 1.3-billion Muslims, 1.1-billion Catholics),
it seems that what works best in religion-building are fear & force. Those
2 seemingly very-effective approaches resulted in 19% of the world fearing the
75-yr-deep hell of Allah, and 16% of the world fearing the hell of the Siamese-Triplet-Gods
of Roman-Catholicism.
There is nothing wrong with
binding-together into synergy-groups in order to accomplish some worthy undertaking
that unconnected individuals could not accomplish. That, after all, is the
original definition of the word “religion.” But why is it, in order to get
people to listen to some insight about progress toward civilization, that a
visionary’s disciples have to first tell people that their teacher was some divine-avatar-incarnation-ascended-master-prophet-son-of-god
from 9th-dimention-Shambala-heaven? Is it that sheeple are so stupid
that just reasoning with them simply would not work?
Do adults need to be frightened into
civilized-polite-behavior by threatening them with some boogie-man if they don’t
behave appropriately? Doesn’t that sound very much like European legends about Santa’s
boogie-man-like travelling companion, Krumpus? Even children ought not to be
frightened like that. What's not so well known about Santa-Claus, is that he
has a devilish travelling companion, who is a frightening, demonlike creature
who travels with Santa to punish misbehaved
children, who were too bad to get on Santa's
"good" list, by beating them with a whip.
What’s wrong with simple appeal to
reason without having to claim to have been sent by God, or threatening people
with burning in hell? Is it really necessary to make convoluted,
impossible-to-explain-logically, mythological-doctrines about
salvation-by-blood-of-human-sacrifice or imputed vs. imparted righteousness, or
wafers literally transforming into the flesh of a person.
It’s all very, very simple. The only
thing that really is, is the light, love & warmth of HAPPINESS. If that is
missing, the lack thereof is the darkness, fear, & cold of the condition of
something missing that we label “un-happiness.” All we got to do is learn how
to live happily from within by creating our own value w/o diminishing the
happiness of anyone else by misappropriating their value.
And that is simple too. We do
self-talk all the time. Through it we either internalize what others tell us
about ourselves, or we create our selves according to our own choosing. We can
either entertain thoughts & words of indestructible, internal HAPPINESS, or
we can entertain thoughts of fear, worry, suspicion, paranoia, lack, etc.
Whichever thoughts & words predominate, create our actions & habits,
which then create our character & destiny. If we don’t like a destructive,
unhappy direction our life is going in, we just simply need to re-pattern, re-habituate
into a constructive, HAPPY direction.
And that’s all, that it’s all about.
