Toward the Light

Tag: God

  • Essential Religion

    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

  • Encouragement for grieving people

    Encouragement for grieving people

    I’ve studied the subject of consciousness, including the primacy of consciousness, continuity of consciousness (life after death) and interconnectedness of all instances of consciousness. I’ve also learned about the nature of reality through other consciousness-raising activities, e.g. dream analysis, meditation, creative activities, and observing nature.

    Learning points

    1. We live in a world of mind (consciousness) — the ‘physical’ world as we experience it does not exist outside our mind.
    2. Consciousness arises from a realm beyond space and time that is known by names such as God and quantum vacuum.
    3. The brain does not produce consciousness. The brain is involved in processing consciousness but consciousness originates from outside the brain.
    4. Expressions of God in the visible universe (e.g. in the lives of you, me, everyone and everything else) are necessary for the evolution of God — God learns through us.
    5. All worldly instances of consciousness are in a transactional relationship with God.
    6. We cannot exist without God and God cannot evolve without His/Her expressions in us.
    7. When our worldly expression ceases upon physical death, our mind continues in the realm beyond space and time (a realm of infinite beauty, love and knowledge).
    8. We live in that heavenly realm during our worldly lives and we occasionally experience that level of our being in altered states of consciousness such as heavenly dreams and visions.
    9. The heavenly realm varies in levels of awareness, from levels that are close to the Light (God) to those that are far from the Light, i.e. yang (light) and yin (dark), the positive and negative principles of cosmic processes.
    10. During worldly life we stream consciousness from our spiritual home, and we continue life in our spiritual home after leaving the worldly realm.
    11. Our deceased loved ones returned to their spiritual home, from where aspects of their worldly presence radiated.
    12. Heaven is being in our spiritual home. Therefore, people who habitually expressed ignorance (darkness, evil) in this world go home to Heaven in a low realm of the afterlife.
    13. There is no evidence (e.g. studies of resuscitated people who remember their experiences of continued consciousness while clinically dead) of what Christianity teaches about “Hell.” Even resuscitated psychopaths report a heavenly afterlife.
    14. Like their lives in this world, our deceased loved ones’ lives in Heaven are of mind (spirit / consciousness). Heaven is an infinitely richer experience of our limited experience of the Divine in this world.
    15. We will see our loved ones again. Our reunion will be in a realm that is more ‘real’ than this one, where we are all in our prime, and where our life and suffering in the present realm is no more than a hazy dream.