A way forward for humanity
A new way for humanity to progress
Part 1
In the East we have seen humanity curtailed from progress by excessive religious and tradition based impositions that imprison the mind instead of freeing it.
In the West, where we think that freedom has been achieved, I have recently found that actually it's under a new religion. Instead of having a church and priests pretending to worship God, we now have a clear instruction to be materialists. That only matter exists and so this must be our life's focus. To avoid the spiritual.
The result of materialism is greed. We become individualistic greedy elements in society I believe. Everyone cares only about their selves. A more depressing society. All outward expressions become fake. A major achievement, it is claimed. Some even celebrate it, especially the right wing eg conservatives. Those who worship money and greed. The left wing try to fight it but always lose in general, because the underpinning ideology/religion is matter worship (materialism). And matter worship only leads to greed. Sharing doesn't feature in the religion of matter. Helping others doesn't feature in this new religion. You need a spiritual dimension to think in terms of sharing and caring and helping.
So if we accept the supposition that we have indeed been living under a new and toxic religion called matter worship (or materialism) that may not be that much better than the old priesthood based religion then where do we go from here ?
Enter the new idea. Which isn't really that new but that it had been lost and buried for quite a while. What is it ? To mix in spirituality to matter. So we accept that there is a non material counterpart to our life and our existence. In this way we live a more balanced life. And more more fulfilling one. Because instead of repressing and suppressing our spiritual nature we accept it and let it loose. And now we have something new that we can explore. How does this spiritual side mix in and affect the material side? How does it alter the balance of our life ?
Part 2
So how does having a spiritual side alter the balance of our life ?
Let's look at the current western educational system. Children are not to question why we are here ?
Why we are on this planet ? What the purpose of our existence and life is. These questions are not at all encouraged. In fact I think they are deliberately avoided or side-stepped. Why? Surely if you wanted to created inquisitive minds these would be important seeds to implant in all human beings' minds. To keep them questioning and open to ideas and theories in that realm. Doing this helps preserve an open mind. Because such questions are hard to answer in an absolute manner and so a truthful individual should realize that they may stay with them for a long long time. And this trains their open mindedness. And helps them investigate many theories and ideas that circulate in society. And makes life more interesting. But instead these questions are not addressed in education and instead they are just taught maths and science and they have a subject called Religious Education where they are taught about what religions exist today and why some people adopt these. Which is actually completely different from inspiring them to think about their own decisions and thoughts. To help them develop their own journeys into reality. Instead they are just given a block of facts to memorise. And the inquisitiveness of the mind is not ignited. How very very sad ( from my point of view anyway). This is the exact spark that kids need to trigger their curiosity to start learning and exploring this reality they have been brought in, and our education system seems to deprive them of this. Very sad indeed. Tells them here are some facts for you to learn. Learn them and then go to the next class in the next year and so on. Something is definitely wrong here I believe. And yes this is a major critique of the current education system. It will not change anytime soon though. It has been planned that way I think. Or designed that way. To inhibit natural curiosity and create humans devoid of spiritual activity. The religion of matter is in force. But it is not spelled out. We are deceived that we are giving our children an education that develops open minds. But this is far from true I believe. We are just sold deception. And deception is what we have unfortunately. And my views may we'll be looked at as ridiculous. Even though they make a lot of sense in my eyes. To be open minded and encompass the spiritual is looked down upon in our current educational system. Maybe there is a belief that this is something that teachers cannot handle. Or that we shouldn't handle.
Where does this leave us ? It leaves us in the religion of materialism. How to escape it and free ourselves from it?
Part 3
How to escape the current world religion of materialism and free ourselves from it ?
Starting points:
1- Assume we had a good education system that taught us as children to question why we are here. What is the point of our lives, and so on. That taught us to look at all the alternative theories that exist and try to see which made more sense to us. To be open minded and keep exploring all possibilities so that we can make the best judgement. To look at the arguments people use to justify the choices they have made. This way we teach children to fully open their minds. Not just partially open them. And now imagine that this is what happened to us as children. Our minds were fully opened. What choices would we have made? What paths and options would we have fully explored ? I think it would have been an amazing time. This is true education. It teaches enquiry. And even the teachers may have been struggling with those questions. How many teachers can handle this? This is why such teachers are extremely valuable.
So now imagine that your mind was fully opened by such amazing teachers. What is next?
2- The subject of spirituality
Do we have souls or are we just matter? Is there a non material part to us? If we were souls what would the world look like ? Would we be sent from one place into this world on this planet as souls that enter a body of a baby in its mothers womb. And then grow up and learn from the parents and learn to ask questions and to find answers. As well as learning to move the bodies we are in. To experience the world our bodies have been made to see. So we get the information and we experience the world as our bodies perceive it through the senses they have been given. How we, the souls, are able to see those images that the bodies produce I don't know. Or how we hear the sounds it picks up I don't know. All I know as a soul ( or as an entity of awareness or consciousness) is that I do see and do hear. How , I'm not sure. There is obviously the option that there is no soul and that we ARE the body. That's another idea to explore and this is what today's science seems to assume is how things are. Why it does not allow an alternate view is another question to ask. Probably because it fears that priesthood based religion will return and so it is reluctant to open that door. Fear maybe what drives it into materialism. And to avoid the spiritual. In a way this is understandable but it's time for science to grow up and be more mature. To overcome fear. To have confidence in itself. Explore all options. Don't hide behind just one view. Grow up please. My message to today's science.
If we go back to the soul view of humans what else can we see?
What is human interaction here? People experiencing each other's presence. Witnessing their mutual and collective presence. What is this experience that we are getting ? Is it a physical material thing or is it a non material awareness type thing ? If physical is it just neurones firing or is it more than that. Today's science may want to say that no it's only material. If it's non material then what would awareness be made of? How do we look at awareness? Who is being aware of awareness ? Can awareness be aware of its awareness ? What does that mean ? ( assuming there is meaning to it). Is the soul aware of its awareness ? (Assuming there is a soul). For me these are very interesting questions. What then is the difference between the soul and its awareness? To be able to ask such questions is a skill I think. A high frequency skill. Because it relies on being very perceptive in your awareness and also able to consider that souls may exist. Not everyone may find contemplating this easy. It becomes like crazy stuff. You are into the twilight zone. A distant place. The zone of esoteric/ mystic language. How many can live in this zone ? And how many can enter it? Perhaps this is what meditation helps us achieve. To come close within and into ourselves. So that our awareness becomes more fine tuned and discriminating. Becomes higher frequency. The more we practice it the better, and the higher our frequency becomes. But silence and seclusion is required. So that we can immerse ourselves inside ourselves, and look around, inside. What images do we see? What concepts float around, and so on. The realm of the Inside is vast. Plenty of time is required to explore it. The Inside may actually be larger than the outside. This is a common claim I think. And where people end up travelling to far places inside themselves. Internal mind journeys across many thoughts and concepts. A form of surfing. Is this mind travel material or non material ? Is it just neuronal firing? Or is the soul connecting to the brain and accessing it like a computer cpu (central processing unit) accesses its hard disc ? Could the brain just be a storage area ? And the soul like a cpu with free will? Questions worthy of contemplation I believe.
So if one contemplates a soul then what is this world of the soul ? Some call It consciousness. Some infinite awareness etc. But what is it? And what is consciousness/ awareness ? Physical or non physical ?
Also, do the souls come to visit and then leave? Is that what death is? Is it like the reincarnation theory that some believe in? Something to do with karma etc? Are we actually then not of this world but just in this world when visiting it? Where do we travel to next ? What's the journey like ? How long have we been existing and how long will we continue to exist? Who , or what, set up this environment that we come to on this planet? Did it really just appear by chance over a long long time or is there some force or power or intelligent entity behind it? How can we find out? What can we think about regarding this ? Are there many intricate systems in this environment ? In nature for example. Does it contain many intricate designs ? Many intricate and amazing systems? Eg one that turns soil into oranges. Another that turns soil into a banana. Another that produces wood for us etc. Who made all these systems ? What made them, and why? Why do we not think in this way ? Why do we assume it just happened by chance? Why are we told this ? Who is telling us this ? And why? What's going on ? Does it look like there is an attempt to fool us? Why and for what benefit ? If there is an intelligent force or entity why do we not want to meet it? Or at least to contemplate over it?
What's it's name? Has it tried to communicate with us in our past ? Has sent any messages or messengers even? Any books ? Any words ? And do the majority just dismiss this ? Have we been conditioned to dismiss this matter ? If yes then why ? Is there a desire to make us forget this entity? If so why ?
The above are all questions any living human can ask and look into. And see where it leads them ? Maybe nowhere. Maybe many where.
This is the spiritual realm. The spiritual dimension. Taking it may greatly affect our lives. And take us to far, unknown places. Especially deep within our selves. And within our thoughts. Those who practice this, I feel, are special humans. Special souls ( yes I believe in souls). They travel far whilst being with us. And they may possess high tranquility.
The spiritual realm is there for us to look into if we want to. How many will step into it and take a dive ? I think very many. As you can see it's very open and free from priesthood oppression and fear based religion. It's a realm people used to visit in the far past. But nowadays under the religion of matter it is not visited much. In fact that religion seems to have nailed a no entry sign on its door. But we can still enter it and break that sign.
Part 4
More on the soul view.
If we believe the soul view of reality i.e. That we are souls residing in boxes called bodies, then as we move these boxes around each day we interact with other souls (who can be from all races and thus have different colour boxes and differently designed ones too) and we get to experience each other. How does the colour and shape of the box they are in affect our view of them ? Did they choose that box colour or shape ? So if we ignore the outer box and just see each other as souls how will this change our view and thinking about each other? Will it make us one humanity or will it lead to division ?It is clear to me that looking at us spiritually can make us more united as one type of being; Human. As the outer boxes become irrelevant. We could easily have been put in different boxes. And when we look in the mirror we don't really see ourselves. We see just the boxes we are currently in, while in our current visit on this planet. These boxes disintegrate after death and our souls may move elsewhere. To other worlds and in new boxes. I hope I have presented a taster of the soul view of reality.
Part 5
Some Analysis of Reality Today (my personal perspective)
My aim is to try to correct the current biased situation were people are conditioned to only see reality as matter. And to ask that people are presented all the options and to open up the option of the spiritual or non material realms to the human minds and allow and encourage exploration in all options and views. I believe the human mind can cope with this and in fact has been designed to cope with exploration of multiple ideas and theories and to be free and unrestricted. Thought is very powerful and is a key to our thriving on this planet. Thought eventually links to action. So curtailing it curtails and limits action. That means humanity today, despite all the scientific advancements, is operating at a very restricted level of innovation and mind expansion. And it explains why scientists say we are only using 5 or 10% of our brain capability. It's because of the material restriction I think. So if we become open minded to the spiritual realm then expect to raise your brain capacity to much higher than 5. Maybe to 90 or higher.
But we should ask why we have been put under this material religion matrix ? Why has the spiritual been deliberately hidden ( this is how it seems to me) ? Is it because we got such a bad experience from the dark ages that we decided that we need to over react and dismiss anything that could even remotely connect us back to it? Perhaps this is a factor. Or could there be a plot or even a conspiracy to move humanity this way? And that we are not allowed to think that conspiracies can exist. Why is considering conspiracies not tolerated? Why is it negatively labelled ? And what if there is a conspiracy ? If so then who is behind it and why?
All the best.
Peace
Ali Twaij
Sufi Muslim thinker
12 mar 2017
Part 1
In the East we have seen humanity curtailed from progress by excessive religious and tradition based impositions that imprison the mind instead of freeing it.
In the West, where we think that freedom has been achieved, I have recently found that actually it's under a new religion. Instead of having a church and priests pretending to worship God, we now have a clear instruction to be materialists. That only matter exists and so this must be our life's focus. To avoid the spiritual.
The result of materialism is greed. We become individualistic greedy elements in society I believe. Everyone cares only about their selves. A more depressing society. All outward expressions become fake. A major achievement, it is claimed. Some even celebrate it, especially the right wing eg conservatives. Those who worship money and greed. The left wing try to fight it but always lose in general, because the underpinning ideology/religion is matter worship (materialism). And matter worship only leads to greed. Sharing doesn't feature in the religion of matter. Helping others doesn't feature in this new religion. You need a spiritual dimension to think in terms of sharing and caring and helping.
So if we accept the supposition that we have indeed been living under a new and toxic religion called matter worship (or materialism) that may not be that much better than the old priesthood based religion then where do we go from here ?
Enter the new idea. Which isn't really that new but that it had been lost and buried for quite a while. What is it ? To mix in spirituality to matter. So we accept that there is a non material counterpart to our life and our existence. In this way we live a more balanced life. And more more fulfilling one. Because instead of repressing and suppressing our spiritual nature we accept it and let it loose. And now we have something new that we can explore. How does this spiritual side mix in and affect the material side? How does it alter the balance of our life ?
Part 2
So how does having a spiritual side alter the balance of our life ?
Let's look at the current western educational system. Children are not to question why we are here ?
Why we are on this planet ? What the purpose of our existence and life is. These questions are not at all encouraged. In fact I think they are deliberately avoided or side-stepped. Why? Surely if you wanted to created inquisitive minds these would be important seeds to implant in all human beings' minds. To keep them questioning and open to ideas and theories in that realm. Doing this helps preserve an open mind. Because such questions are hard to answer in an absolute manner and so a truthful individual should realize that they may stay with them for a long long time. And this trains their open mindedness. And helps them investigate many theories and ideas that circulate in society. And makes life more interesting. But instead these questions are not addressed in education and instead they are just taught maths and science and they have a subject called Religious Education where they are taught about what religions exist today and why some people adopt these. Which is actually completely different from inspiring them to think about their own decisions and thoughts. To help them develop their own journeys into reality. Instead they are just given a block of facts to memorise. And the inquisitiveness of the mind is not ignited. How very very sad ( from my point of view anyway). This is the exact spark that kids need to trigger their curiosity to start learning and exploring this reality they have been brought in, and our education system seems to deprive them of this. Very sad indeed. Tells them here are some facts for you to learn. Learn them and then go to the next class in the next year and so on. Something is definitely wrong here I believe. And yes this is a major critique of the current education system. It will not change anytime soon though. It has been planned that way I think. Or designed that way. To inhibit natural curiosity and create humans devoid of spiritual activity. The religion of matter is in force. But it is not spelled out. We are deceived that we are giving our children an education that develops open minds. But this is far from true I believe. We are just sold deception. And deception is what we have unfortunately. And my views may we'll be looked at as ridiculous. Even though they make a lot of sense in my eyes. To be open minded and encompass the spiritual is looked down upon in our current educational system. Maybe there is a belief that this is something that teachers cannot handle. Or that we shouldn't handle.
Where does this leave us ? It leaves us in the religion of materialism. How to escape it and free ourselves from it?
Part 3
How to escape the current world religion of materialism and free ourselves from it ?
Starting points:
1- Assume we had a good education system that taught us as children to question why we are here. What is the point of our lives, and so on. That taught us to look at all the alternative theories that exist and try to see which made more sense to us. To be open minded and keep exploring all possibilities so that we can make the best judgement. To look at the arguments people use to justify the choices they have made. This way we teach children to fully open their minds. Not just partially open them. And now imagine that this is what happened to us as children. Our minds were fully opened. What choices would we have made? What paths and options would we have fully explored ? I think it would have been an amazing time. This is true education. It teaches enquiry. And even the teachers may have been struggling with those questions. How many teachers can handle this? This is why such teachers are extremely valuable.
So now imagine that your mind was fully opened by such amazing teachers. What is next?
2- The subject of spirituality
Do we have souls or are we just matter? Is there a non material part to us? If we were souls what would the world look like ? Would we be sent from one place into this world on this planet as souls that enter a body of a baby in its mothers womb. And then grow up and learn from the parents and learn to ask questions and to find answers. As well as learning to move the bodies we are in. To experience the world our bodies have been made to see. So we get the information and we experience the world as our bodies perceive it through the senses they have been given. How we, the souls, are able to see those images that the bodies produce I don't know. Or how we hear the sounds it picks up I don't know. All I know as a soul ( or as an entity of awareness or consciousness) is that I do see and do hear. How , I'm not sure. There is obviously the option that there is no soul and that we ARE the body. That's another idea to explore and this is what today's science seems to assume is how things are. Why it does not allow an alternate view is another question to ask. Probably because it fears that priesthood based religion will return and so it is reluctant to open that door. Fear maybe what drives it into materialism. And to avoid the spiritual. In a way this is understandable but it's time for science to grow up and be more mature. To overcome fear. To have confidence in itself. Explore all options. Don't hide behind just one view. Grow up please. My message to today's science.
If we go back to the soul view of humans what else can we see?
What is human interaction here? People experiencing each other's presence. Witnessing their mutual and collective presence. What is this experience that we are getting ? Is it a physical material thing or is it a non material awareness type thing ? If physical is it just neurones firing or is it more than that. Today's science may want to say that no it's only material. If it's non material then what would awareness be made of? How do we look at awareness? Who is being aware of awareness ? Can awareness be aware of its awareness ? What does that mean ? ( assuming there is meaning to it). Is the soul aware of its awareness ? (Assuming there is a soul). For me these are very interesting questions. What then is the difference between the soul and its awareness? To be able to ask such questions is a skill I think. A high frequency skill. Because it relies on being very perceptive in your awareness and also able to consider that souls may exist. Not everyone may find contemplating this easy. It becomes like crazy stuff. You are into the twilight zone. A distant place. The zone of esoteric/ mystic language. How many can live in this zone ? And how many can enter it? Perhaps this is what meditation helps us achieve. To come close within and into ourselves. So that our awareness becomes more fine tuned and discriminating. Becomes higher frequency. The more we practice it the better, and the higher our frequency becomes. But silence and seclusion is required. So that we can immerse ourselves inside ourselves, and look around, inside. What images do we see? What concepts float around, and so on. The realm of the Inside is vast. Plenty of time is required to explore it. The Inside may actually be larger than the outside. This is a common claim I think. And where people end up travelling to far places inside themselves. Internal mind journeys across many thoughts and concepts. A form of surfing. Is this mind travel material or non material ? Is it just neuronal firing? Or is the soul connecting to the brain and accessing it like a computer cpu (central processing unit) accesses its hard disc ? Could the brain just be a storage area ? And the soul like a cpu with free will? Questions worthy of contemplation I believe.
So if one contemplates a soul then what is this world of the soul ? Some call It consciousness. Some infinite awareness etc. But what is it? And what is consciousness/ awareness ? Physical or non physical ?
Also, do the souls come to visit and then leave? Is that what death is? Is it like the reincarnation theory that some believe in? Something to do with karma etc? Are we actually then not of this world but just in this world when visiting it? Where do we travel to next ? What's the journey like ? How long have we been existing and how long will we continue to exist? Who , or what, set up this environment that we come to on this planet? Did it really just appear by chance over a long long time or is there some force or power or intelligent entity behind it? How can we find out? What can we think about regarding this ? Are there many intricate systems in this environment ? In nature for example. Does it contain many intricate designs ? Many intricate and amazing systems? Eg one that turns soil into oranges. Another that turns soil into a banana. Another that produces wood for us etc. Who made all these systems ? What made them, and why? Why do we not think in this way ? Why do we assume it just happened by chance? Why are we told this ? Who is telling us this ? And why? What's going on ? Does it look like there is an attempt to fool us? Why and for what benefit ? If there is an intelligent force or entity why do we not want to meet it? Or at least to contemplate over it?
What's it's name? Has it tried to communicate with us in our past ? Has sent any messages or messengers even? Any books ? Any words ? And do the majority just dismiss this ? Have we been conditioned to dismiss this matter ? If yes then why ? Is there a desire to make us forget this entity? If so why ?
The above are all questions any living human can ask and look into. And see where it leads them ? Maybe nowhere. Maybe many where.
This is the spiritual realm. The spiritual dimension. Taking it may greatly affect our lives. And take us to far, unknown places. Especially deep within our selves. And within our thoughts. Those who practice this, I feel, are special humans. Special souls ( yes I believe in souls). They travel far whilst being with us. And they may possess high tranquility.
The spiritual realm is there for us to look into if we want to. How many will step into it and take a dive ? I think very many. As you can see it's very open and free from priesthood oppression and fear based religion. It's a realm people used to visit in the far past. But nowadays under the religion of matter it is not visited much. In fact that religion seems to have nailed a no entry sign on its door. But we can still enter it and break that sign.
Part 4
More on the soul view.
If we believe the soul view of reality i.e. That we are souls residing in boxes called bodies, then as we move these boxes around each day we interact with other souls (who can be from all races and thus have different colour boxes and differently designed ones too) and we get to experience each other. How does the colour and shape of the box they are in affect our view of them ? Did they choose that box colour or shape ? So if we ignore the outer box and just see each other as souls how will this change our view and thinking about each other? Will it make us one humanity or will it lead to division ?It is clear to me that looking at us spiritually can make us more united as one type of being; Human. As the outer boxes become irrelevant. We could easily have been put in different boxes. And when we look in the mirror we don't really see ourselves. We see just the boxes we are currently in, while in our current visit on this planet. These boxes disintegrate after death and our souls may move elsewhere. To other worlds and in new boxes. I hope I have presented a taster of the soul view of reality.
Part 5
Some Analysis of Reality Today (my personal perspective)
My aim is to try to correct the current biased situation were people are conditioned to only see reality as matter. And to ask that people are presented all the options and to open up the option of the spiritual or non material realms to the human minds and allow and encourage exploration in all options and views. I believe the human mind can cope with this and in fact has been designed to cope with exploration of multiple ideas and theories and to be free and unrestricted. Thought is very powerful and is a key to our thriving on this planet. Thought eventually links to action. So curtailing it curtails and limits action. That means humanity today, despite all the scientific advancements, is operating at a very restricted level of innovation and mind expansion. And it explains why scientists say we are only using 5 or 10% of our brain capability. It's because of the material restriction I think. So if we become open minded to the spiritual realm then expect to raise your brain capacity to much higher than 5. Maybe to 90 or higher.
But we should ask why we have been put under this material religion matrix ? Why has the spiritual been deliberately hidden ( this is how it seems to me) ? Is it because we got such a bad experience from the dark ages that we decided that we need to over react and dismiss anything that could even remotely connect us back to it? Perhaps this is a factor. Or could there be a plot or even a conspiracy to move humanity this way? And that we are not allowed to think that conspiracies can exist. Why is considering conspiracies not tolerated? Why is it negatively labelled ? And what if there is a conspiracy ? If so then who is behind it and why?
All the best.
Peace
Ali Twaij
Sufi Muslim thinker
12 mar 2017
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