I am physically confined in a concrete cell eight feet by ten feet, and yet I am just as “free” as anyone else.
I'm not just telling myself that I am free in order to escape my imprisonment through denial. In fact, I don't believe I am “free” at all. And that's my point; nobody is!
Can you walk on the sun, or even the moon for that matter? Of course not. And neither can I. So we are not free.
But wait, this is no mere word play with exaggeration. This is a serious restriction on our freedom! We do not recognize the seriousness of it because we just accept it. But we don't have to accept it at all!
We were meant to be truly free! And if we don't demand our freedom from the universe then we make ourselves slaves to it.
Demand to be free! And don't stop until you are.
Saturday, February 26, 2011
Thursday, February 3, 2011
We Need A New Religion
Articulating our understanding of consciousness will ultimately require a new religion. Science cannot do it, and the older religions hardly even try because they too are clearly inept.
Our most advanced methodology for deriving an understanding of the nature of our world is constricted to external experience. In fact, early on science was apt to conclude that external experience was the only thing that could be considered real. Extreme sects of this belief system, such as Behavioralism, even became widely accepted. Such views are in decline today (though remarkably still clung to by many) because of the overwhelming number of experiments (i.e. experiences) that contradict the very existence of any external reality at all.
Science is currently struggling, as all religions do when experience begins to contradict the basis of their methodology, to find a new definition for God (a.k.a. Theory of Everything) that will conform to its way of thinking. But the inevitable is already clear: Science has failed in its mission to explain the ultimate nature of the world, and there is evidently no chance of it ever succeeding.
We need not just a new science, but a whole new way of approaching the truth. We need a new religion The holy scientific method has been exposed as another false, or at least limited religion at last. Now we can move on, forward to a better religion, or perhaps backward to a purer religion. Whatever we do, we must abandon science, for it has not only failed to provide the ultimate answers that we crave, but in so failing it has brought us to the brink of self annihilation.
We instinctively know that if we cannot grasp the true nature of our reality then we will never be able to claim our relationship to it (i.e. inherit heaven). We must know our ultimate Father before we can ever truly know ourselves.
So the search goes on, and I will humbly make this one small suggestion to those who would join the ultimate quest: Look within. And the new religion must needs do the same.
Our most advanced methodology for deriving an understanding of the nature of our world is constricted to external experience. In fact, early on science was apt to conclude that external experience was the only thing that could be considered real. Extreme sects of this belief system, such as Behavioralism, even became widely accepted. Such views are in decline today (though remarkably still clung to by many) because of the overwhelming number of experiments (i.e. experiences) that contradict the very existence of any external reality at all.
Science is currently struggling, as all religions do when experience begins to contradict the basis of their methodology, to find a new definition for God (a.k.a. Theory of Everything) that will conform to its way of thinking. But the inevitable is already clear: Science has failed in its mission to explain the ultimate nature of the world, and there is evidently no chance of it ever succeeding.
We need not just a new science, but a whole new way of approaching the truth. We need a new religion The holy scientific method has been exposed as another false, or at least limited religion at last. Now we can move on, forward to a better religion, or perhaps backward to a purer religion. Whatever we do, we must abandon science, for it has not only failed to provide the ultimate answers that we crave, but in so failing it has brought us to the brink of self annihilation.
We instinctively know that if we cannot grasp the true nature of our reality then we will never be able to claim our relationship to it (i.e. inherit heaven). We must know our ultimate Father before we can ever truly know ourselves.
So the search goes on, and I will humbly make this one small suggestion to those who would join the ultimate quest: Look within. And the new religion must needs do the same.
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