Spirituality
Insight: The physical world is actually a vast system of energy. It is a matter of seeing the human world as a vast competition for energy and thus for power. The Celestine Prophecy
There are those who contend that to be spiritual is to be religious; one cannot be separated from the other. And that may be so. Still, there is something about existence and the realization of one's life, its purpose, and the unification of all matter; the recognition of nature and physics, the combining of the spiritual and the natural world that has people struggling to identify the elusive truth of the meaning of life.
A problem of staggering proportions that was ably handled by Monty Python some while ago. But which yet besets us with the imponderable of the unknowable.
Are we merely accidents of nature that just happened to materialize through an ancient process of natural evolution and selection, no different than a similar process that produced the modern honeybee, an apple tree? Is matter, the stuff of the universe that adheres to form, to fashion everything that is familiar to us something mysteriously scientific and natural?
What else could it be? We are simply too limited in our ability to discern how truly complex nature is in her ability to produce various and diverse life forms, fitting them through trial and error to their physical, growing environments.
In steps mysticism to fill in the knowledge gaps and to ascribe to a higher spiritual power all the mysteries which humankind cannot decipher. In place of the evolutionary nature of nature itself rises the image of a great unknowable, all-powerful designer of ferocious imagery and brilliant capability.
That this divine image takes on the visage of a human being, a male human being, replacing the primitive belief in nature as a female nurturing force named Gaea, is not difficult to divine in that the construct of God is a man-made claim, a controlling mechanism of great political and social merit as a tool whereby populations may be manipulated for the greater good of the community at large.
It's all bunk. A comfy security blanket. Yet why not? If it works and people adhere to the message and find comfort in such faith, why not?
Modern seekers of the truth dredge up ancient texts to interpret their often ambiguous messages through the lens of new insight. Even going to great lengths to try to persuade the gullible and the intellectually malleable that new "manuscripts" of ancient lineage have been discovered, but certain authorities, groups in prominent political or social positions take steps to ensure these texts remain hidden.
Not entirely dissimilar to the claims of believers in extraterrestrial visitations that not-of-this-earth inhabitants and their peculiar aircraft have been found and spirited away in a government-secluded area to keep the knowledge of their existence from the great unwashed. Ostensibly with the understanding that should their existence be revealed, world-wide panic would ensue.
The Kabbalah text, written 1,900 years ago, predicted the whole 20th century would be in crisis and a new humanity would begin; the"forces that come to this world were completed and the crisis becomes tangibly felt. Perhaps we don't sense these things yet, but they've begun to unfold". Rav Michael Laitman
Now here are other figures who bring themselves and their truths to the public eye from time to time. And whose message is much sought-after and acclaimed by a public eager to believe. The Kabbalah, that ancient mystical, numerical text of Judaic piety is revealed by yet another practitioner as a science and philosophy, not necessarily a religious device. Thus opening its potential to the world at large, rather than imprisoning it forever in the realms of Jewish mysticism.
Adam, God's first living human sculpture of flesh and blood and soul marked the evolutionary beginnings of humankind. Then came Abraham purported to be the first Kabbalist, author of The Book of Creation, according to Rav Michael Laitman. Who explains the existence of two worlds; the lower material world and the upper spiritual world.
Both worlds must be united to confer upon mankind all the benefits to be acquired in an ascendant evolutionary arc. And to avoid the descent into unspeakable chaos, hatred, universal madness.
Attaining to and investing in knowledge of the Kabbalah is the assured way to avoid predictions of continuous and rising fascism in the world, along with global environmental disasters. For nature and its constituents and the spiritual world are as one and must be seen and accepted as one, welcoming a higher evolutionary standard to bring humankind closer to the angels than the beasts that we are.
Others approach this entrance to the gateway of immortality of body and soul, fused with nature in an everlasting dance with destiny in other, albeit similar ways, with similar yearnings and cautions and outreach. The Celestine Prophecy, for example by James Redfield, sets out very like backgrounds and mystical texts and uniting of the human soul with that of nature on the grandest of scales.
Aren't we suckers for a good tale?
Labels: Religion
posted by Pieface @ Saturday, October 20, 2007
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