Reality, truth, and spirituality
People tend to put the words “reality” and “spirituality” to mean the duality of our existence. One is “true” the other “an illusion”. In this view, the reality is an illusion, and spirituality is a truth. I do not believe that at all.
I see the reality being a combination of the two, not opponents of each other. What only feels logical to me, is that all that is real, true, MUST be able to co-exist in the same ‘reality’. If a “spiritual truth” contradicts the physical, it must be false. If a scientific “truth” contradicts the spiritual, it must be a mistake. These two CANNOT contradict each other.
Now… the trouble is, we cannot prove everything scientifically, but we can, at least, by personal and collective experience and knowledge logically argue a lot of it to the point of very little doubt of its accuracy.
I do not speak for the god(s), I speak about the god(s) and the universe, sometimes against the god(s)
I do not channel ready-made information from the Universe. I channel, but then I categorize and describe it as I wish. I treat the information the same way as I would check the source material from some random book written by a person I have never heard about: “potentially a load of shite”.
Just as in real life, ANYONE you have never heard of can state themselves to be an authority of anything they freaking wish. The same is even more true in the spiritual, where you do not need to have wings to call yourself an angel. Anyone can TRULY be anyone in the spirit world, and although that is incredibly wonderful, it doesn’t go far to give anyone much credibility.
Anyone can appear a beacon of hope and wisdom if nobody challenges their views. If you simply accept everything as it’s given to you, you will be talking to shining lights of love all day. What I have found is that the spirit world is FULL of narcissists who want unquestioned faith bestowed upon them.
Make them stand by their beliefs and prove they know their shit and you’ll strip an angel of his or her wings in no time at all.
I bow to no god but The Truth as closely as I can get to it. An authority who doesn’t know the truth, spiritual or otherwise, is no authority at all. If I can outsmart a god, I figure he ain’t no real god.
As skeptical as I am, I cannot deny the spirit
Even though I am skeptical about everything, I will not deny the LIKELY or the OBVIOUS simply because I don’t like it or because I’ve decided to deny it. I deny it if there is a cause to believe the belief is simply not accurate. As the Universe is, too, it’s created to perfection. Often, I can also tell you WHY something is designed differently than what it has been taught to be before, and why it is better that way, even if it seems hard or wrong.
Spirit exists. True love exists. We reincarnate and we are immortal. We are the creators of everything. There are a few fundamental spiritual truths I haven’t found a way to dispute, not that I wanted to. So, for the time being, I assume them to be real. Atheist skeptics assume these things NOT to be real until proven, a spiritual skeptic assumes these things to be real until proven otherwise while remaining open to any future development in research and science.
The Truth
“Totuus ei pala tulessakaan”, “the truth doesn’t burn in a fire”, is a Finnish saying, apparently. It means, that the truth can be questioned, studied, and examined, and it will withstand all scrutiny. If it falls under inspection, it is not true. Stubbornness, stupidity, and blind faith tend to have a bit of those same qualities. However, we do not need to know the truth for it to remain exactly the way it is. What is accurate and what is real, exists so no matter what we say about it.
It is hard to tell the truth, to speak in absolute truth, because our words are limited and our understanding is limited. However, with every generation passing, we know more and can get CLOSER to the absolute truth than before. We MUST keep examining the truth and we must adjust our beliefs and views on it as we learn more about the actual reality. If it is true, if it is real, it is what it is, and we can deny it all we want but it won’t change the truth for a fraction. (Apart from how we behave under a false assumption of it.)
Beliefs are not synonymous with the truth. What I believe is what I believe, what is the truth is the truth. I try to match my beliefs to the truth the best I can, as only a fool tries to match the truth to their own beliefs… Yet, a lot of people do exactly that.
Trying to keep “to the truth” while actually “sticking to one’s beliefs”
I must explain what this means. My aunt is the perfect example. She has been raised to believe that her beliefs, (her faith) is THE truth. This is, of course, a way of expressing the STRONG belief the faith is the truth, where, in fact, it is not, to be blunt.
She takes pride in always returning “to the truth” after she is challenged, regardless of the fact reality and logic contradicts her beliefs. It is often considered a religious virtue to discard logic and reason. To believe the unbelievable is considered a sign of strength in faith. The ability to blind oneself from reality and stick to one’s beliefs “the truth”. Interestingly enough, the “beliefs” and “the truth” are considered synonymous, but NOT “what actually is” being likened as the synonymous of “the truth”.
I say, adjust your beliefs according to reality
I say and teach: Always adjust your beliefs if they do not match the reality. The only way you can ever get to the truth is by adjusting your idea of it as new evidence is found. Do not base your reality on hearsay. Expect proof. A testimony that requires you to trust its giver without proof, is a testimony of a liar or a fool.
Also, do not confuse what Jesus has said with what a priest, let alone your mom or your dad has said. Even take account that what the chroniclers (Bible writers and editors) have said about Jesus or God, in what time and with under what motivations and backgrounds. Do not mistake what a God has said to what a human has said about him. Also, do not make the mistake of trusting a god you can intellectually outsmart or morally judge. Do not bow down to a God whose morals are more questionable and love more limited than yours. Further, do not follow God’s order, if you feel it is morally wrong to do so. That is not your god but a demon in disguise talking.
The embodiment of all evil won’t shy away from pretending to be God, dear
Nothing stops the embodiment of all evil to appear to you in the form of a God, you moron. The embodiment of all evil will speak pretending to be anyone they think you’d listen, of course. He has no morals. Therefore, you will have to follow your own conscience through life. That is why, ultimately, you are responsible for following any given order at any time in any religion.
Including the idiocy of killing innocents in the name of Allah, who spoke of nothing but reason, peace, and love through his prophet Mohammed.
How can I “be spiritual” and be so logical at the same time?
Spirituality and logic are not opposing forces. One of my favorite things I’ve ever read comes from the Quran, the emphasis it puts on intellect and reason. This is one of many examples.
Allah says:
Verily, the worst of living creatures in the sight of Allah are the deaf and dumb who will not reason.
Surat Al-Anfal 8:22
The WORST of living creatures are those who do not use their logic and God-given intelligence, as it’s often referred to in Quran, (the little that I know of it) according to Allah. What a wonderful thing to be said in a religious text, and how gloriously it has been ignored! Contrast that to the religion of my own birth: “Blessed are those who have not seen and yet believed”, even though I believe that to be a misunderstanding. I believe the origin of that saying is Jesus noting, with a level of frustration, that “ignorance is a bliss” rather than “do not question”. However, the latter is the most common interpretation.
Combine all information, but not without checking it for validity the best you can
New Age asks you to form your own worldview by using any source of information available. This is often misunderstood as a command to believe everything at once without discrimination, aka. criticism or critical approach or reason.
No. It means “take everything as information”.
SOMEONE has written or said or experienced X, and it tells a story about X. Treat it like a psychologist: What did they experience? What did they say?” What is the possible motivation or background to what they expressed?
Does it support or contradict what you, yourself believe? Can you explain it with anything better than “imagination” or “cannot be because I don’t believe it” or “hallucinations”? If you can’t, does it prove it’s existence or it’s non-existence? Remember, that psychology’s description of “hallucinations” is just about as much an interpretation of reality as True Emotion Mirrors description of true love is.
It is OK to put stuff into the “too hard” -basket to be examined once you’ve got more information available, and I suggest you do, rather than jump to hasty conclusions. The Universe should function in a way that it gives you the proof you need to make a conclusion. Just be certain to ask the right question: “Is it true or not” rather than “I want a reason to (not) believe this.”
At least be aware when you have a personal bias one way or the other. Sometimes it’s hard to fight the bias you feel even if you intellectually try to. You need to be aware of those times that you find it hard to accept something. (To me, this is simultaneous incarnations of the same being. This is APART from the True Emotion Mirror concept which is a different matter that ALSO talks of simultaneous incarnations of the same soul but to explain a different phenomenon.)
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