Essential Religion

As our culture is an expression of shared racial consciousness (genetically predisposed), a foreign culture cannot resonate deep within our mind as our own culture does. An experiment to prove this:

• Listen to Jewish music¹ and attend the service of a Jewish religion, Christianity. Rate your spiritual satisfaction of this experience (0 to 10).
• Listen to our people’s music, for example Celtic music², and connect with God via nature as our Forefathers did:

1. Position yourself (alone or with friends) in nature before sunrise.
2. As the sun rises, thank God for all that He has provided to sustain your life — the sun, water, air, plants, insects, birds, mammals, fish, all the people you know and love, and more.
3. Offer a sacrifice, e.g. put out food for wild birds.

Rate your spiritual satisfaction of this experience (0 to 10).

The above-mentioned three essential elements (raising Nature-consciousness, thanking God, practically demonstrating gratitude) are easily formalized within regular life, e.g. outdoors as part of organic gardening, countryside walking, bird watching, a picnic, or indoors in a dedicated area with representations of nature such as pot plants, pictures, sculpture, stones, feathers.

We can formally thank God in such a location any time of the day (doesn’t have to be at sunrise). Ways in which we can show gratitude are innumerable, including feeding wild birds, removing human litter from nature, and sacrificing wasteful aspects of our lifestyle (take less from nature, leave more for other creatures).

Our names for the Force (God, Oneness, quantum vacuum, consciousness, universe, etc) and our formal relationship with it aren’t important. It’s deeds that count.

Whatever we might call Essential Religion, it’s so exhilarating that we want to do it regularly, including dates of seasonal (e.g. solstices and equinoxes) and personal (e.g. dates of birth, marriage, death) importance.

These spiritual experiences can include prayer, prose / poetry reading, traditional music, feasting and merrymaking.

Music references

1. Jewish music

2. Examples Celtic music

• The Laxey Reels — Barrule
• Catherine Ashcroft & Maurice Dickson – King of the Pipers
• Calum Stewart — The Seven Men of Glen Moriston
• GOITSE 7 Piece – Transformed
• The String Sisters live
• Barrule Does Celtic Connections
• Mec Lir — The Grackle
• Mec Lir – Foxhunter’s Reel
• Father Kelly’s – Reconciliation
• Beòlach and Breabach live
• Flook – Wrong Foot Forward
• FullSet – The Glen Road to Carrick