The Collective Trial
If we were to take all religions and view them as a single human, each of these being's would be sentenced to life. To dissolve the macro into the micro it makes it easier to understand what steps need to be taken, but we live only in the largeness of it and don't make the turns and changes in direction that are required. The first thing that needs to be understood and acted upon is the marriage of religion and politics. It is incestuous for the two of them to be wedded but here we are. Until we begin the process of untangling this relationship and separating, we will have a difficult time seeing clearly the mess in which we collectively live in.
The religions of the world must be on trial and they are in this moment, they have a responsibility, or had a responsibility and they failed when they said yes to politics. They sold themselves to the highest bidder. But there is a way to untangle this and it will not come from those who hold the keys to the macro. It will come from you and me. Until we untangle it, all the activism and protests will make small changes. It's time to understand and locate the root, the depths where the seeds of darkness and betrayal have been planted.
It's not about condemning religion. This is another version of extremism and this version only feeds the other side and we get into the same cyclical battle of the egos. I'll give myself as an example. I'm 45. Up to the age of 25 I was constantly programmed to be a particular way. At the age of 25 I began to wake up and started the deprogramming process which took a long time and here I am now. The irony is, by removing the beliefs and structures that formed around and within me, speaking from a religious and spiritual perspective because there are of course many other beliefs and structures that have also been planted, some that I'm likely still living unconsciously. I was able to reach a place of emptiness and connect more deeply within not just my self, but also more deeply to the supreme, call it God, Allah, the Divine, the Universe...whatever suits you best. I am more connected and spiritual today with much less.
We are sold to walk the path of God and this simple teaching is the shackles that the higher powers wrap our minds with, but the truth is this, the path in which we are here to walk is the path of our soul and only when we walk the path of our soul can we truly connect to God, to the divine. By simply following the masses, by obeying and living the illusion of one path, we not only destroy ourselves and waste this precious life, we risk destroying the collective. The greatest and most powerful form of activism is to walk the path of your soul. To unravel the shackles that your mind is wrapped up in, loosens the shackles for the collective. The power that others have over the masses will no longer be able to hold.