God and religion… It could have worked… Part one

Your writing should be... If we had managed to curb power and control over others, we could have actually succeeded in achieved "Paradise" as everyone would have done the right thing by obeying the words of Jesus.

God has now just become a commercial term, people should always hav the perception that God is nothing but love in its pure form and compassion at supreme level.

I find your dissertation interesting. Within your customary style of resignation and cynicism about humanity comes through loud and clear and I accept that is how you see things. Do I agree? No...I do not see things the way you have presented them here. You know by now that my 'lens of life' is energy based and I view everything within that context. Consequently, I refuse to get into stereotypical labels that pigeon hole people in the way you describe in your framework. In my views God/Goddess/Source/Ultimate/Universal Intelligence/Creator...whatever a person choses to name "It" is an energetic Source of which we all are a part of. When our energetic essence takes on a physical form we have the right of free will. This choice making ability is how we (as spiritual/energetic beings living in a physical form) learn that there are laws that we can work with or against. As spiritual beings going through human experiences we are have many opportunities to create through choice-making ventures. Some use their choices to serve their own needs...others work in a more co-creative effort for the common good. In my view organized religions came about through a man-made desire for power, greed and control and it is not something that God failed to put in place. If there was a dictatorial form of religion instated by a Creator that everyone HAD TO adhere to it would contradict the great gift of choice. Free thinkers are often the ones that bring about the greatest changes...so without them there would be no great thinkers to challenge things when they no longer work. Where on earth would we be without the forerunners in our world...the scientists, the philosophers, inventors, artists...all of those free thinking (Bulls) who had and continue to have the courage to challenge established norms and think out of the box. What kind of smart Creator would stifle them in order to have them bow down to a unified 'religion?' Sounds very contradictory to me and not serving the greater good and co-creative forces that make life so interesting and diverse. Within my spiritual views the amount of order within our Universe and the natural world is where the real evidence of Source actually is. The natural world has order, harmony and balance. Humans often choose to operate outside of those energetic parameters...but we were given the right to do so...and many choose that until they have some 'awakenings.' Within a pursuit of higher knowledge many find that our short span of time on this plane we have opportunities to explore ideas that lead to greater inner peace, purpose and empowerment. The 'Bull' was something man created by using the gift of free will to serve personal needs rather than to promote deeper spiritual understanding and that is still fine...because Source loved us enough to allow us to learn our experiences in whatever time it takes us to do so. In my view we do incarnate back because energy cannot be created or destroyed. If we don't get it the first time around...well there are many other lifetimes to come back in physical form and explore the cause, effect and consequence of choice on our path to more enlightened living. The polarity that is here allows us to have a contrast. Without sadness and loss how could we appreciate joy and connectedness. Without those who follow there would be need for ground breakers to forge new pathways. Contrasts are part of how we have something to choose either 'for or against.' Within your stereotypical breakdown you have outlined polarity very well. However, within all goodness and light there are shadows...within all the shadows there is light. Whether we take this idea from science, religion or metaphysics things are never as black and white or right or wrong as they appear. Bulls can and do open their minds when the time is right and some mellow out. Sheep can and do find ways to move away from the ties that bind them and create new paradigms, inventions or the world would not keep progressing, advancing and evolving. Things are often judged as 'bad' initially but in retrospect there was a lot of good that comes from any life-altering event. Judgments about the outer appearance of things is often short-sighed and narrow minded because we see them through our filters of experience. When seen in the light of experiential life learning and opportunities to grow one's soul everything takes on a different hue. In my many years in a non-cloistered life I have had countless opportunities to interact with people from all walks of life...from the very wealthy...to very poor, from highly educated to the illiterate...polar opposites on the outside...but with some basic human needs on the inside. Within all I have seen and participated in I know that when all the outer trappings are stripped away that some basic things are true of all people. Regardless of our race, color, creed or gender we all bleed the same color. To a large degree (if people are willing to 'get real and get over them sleves') will admit that they seek, wish or hope for a feeling of being loved, accepted. Whether they fit into your 'Bull or Sheep' category more often than not people's drivers are fueled by those needs...they just project them differently in their outer persona. I have seen confirmed atheists and agnostics become believers and some believers become agnostics because as energy based beings information and the way we process is always creating transformative changes in who we are, what we believe and how we live. That is what makes life grand...because we have the right to be who we are and I am grateful for that reality every day of my life. I love the process of releasing my old definers and opening my heart and mind to new realities that I had not considered before. In the work David and I do we see many others we are willing to do the same thing...and that is my perspective and experience on this interesting topic. So Aussies...I love having respectful dialog with you whether we agree or not! Look forward to your comment on my two comments here. Post topics I am interested in...and I will come! So long for now, Raia