Im not a member of any religon, but i would say buddisim was one of the best in terms of what they believe.

There are universal churches and New Age churches, but you said in your last post that you don't believe a person should try to fit himself into a specific system.

The togetherness and community spirit of a temple/church can be very important to many people.  Whether you believe chapter and verse in the philosophy.


Oh, BTW, how did you get the name Mr. Satan?
M

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Satan

Spiritual Seeker,

If you are seeking, be happy seeking.  How wonderful that your heart is open and you are on your path!  I am happy for you.

love, blink

Hi Bob,

When I lived in Oregon last year for 8 months, I went to a Unity Church. I had heard how liberal they were and went to see for myself. It was amazing. They have meditations every Sunday and no fire and brimstone preaching but everyday life discussions. We ended every Sunday with everyone holding hands and singing "Let There Be Peace On Earth". I always got teary eyed singing this.

Now I'm 100 miles away from the closest Unity so I don't go to any. But it's worth checking out IMHO.

Love, Mairlyn

The real thing is our relationship with the self and with the others and with God.

The main thing is to be conscious of what we really are. This is our main pursuit and it happens within our selves based on our experiences with our selves and the others.

RELIGION in my opinion is a human made PROCESS to create HUMAN rules to drive us during our consciousness awakening process like that little wheels we put into a bicycle to avoid a child from falling of it. Hence its cultural geographical and time based and not perfect. So some day each one of us (each one has your own time) will feel the need of going ahead without those little wheels.

And yes I feel some thing great acting at C1 energetic I’m note sure about what it is…

Take care.

Mairlyn,

I will look into Unity. I live now in a remote area and I don't think there are any Unity congregations here. No spiritualists groups either.

Everyone:

Aldous Huxley wrote about the Perennial Philosophy, which he described as the highest common factor at the core of the world's major religions:

At the core of the Perennial Philosophy we find four fundamental doctrines:

First: the phenomenal world of matter and of individualized consciousness-the world of things and animals and men and even gods-is the manifestation of a Divine Ground within which all partial realities have their being, and apart from which they would be nonexistent.

Second: human beings are capable not merely of knowing ABOUT the Divine Ground by inference; they can also realize its existence by a direct intuition, superior to discursive reasoning. This immediate knowledge unites the knower with that which is known.

Third: man possesses a double nature, a phenomenal ego and an external Self, which is the inner man, the spirit, the spark of divinity within the  soul. It is possible for a man, if he so desires, to identify himself with the spirit and therefore with the Divine Ground, which is of the same or like nature with the spirit.

Fourth: man's life on earth has only one end and purpose: to identify himself with his eternal Self and so to come to unitive knowledge of the Divine Ground.

He wrote this around WWII, so please forgive his lack of gender inclusive language.

I think what he says about intuition is very important. I think most people wholly underestimate their potential abilities.

I don't agree with the Fouth. I understand that we are here to learn thru a variety of experiences unique to physical existence.

Huxley notes that orthodox Christianity does not identify the Spark as being identical with the Divine Ground, rather, as something that when perfected, is merged with the Divine Ground through Grace.

With this bottom line in view, and knowing that several Acended Masters have come and gone to tell us this and more, I find it difficult to accept the idea that religions are mere human inventions, at least at their core. I think theologies are, though.

Even the most liberal groups would still, I think, be populated by many who are accepting of others but still differ in their particular understanding of wider reality. No matter where one may turn, I think, there will still have to be compomise and the occasional turning of the proverbial deaf ear.

I though I would throw this in here. Thoughts?

with Love,
Bob

Source: Bhagavad-Gita: The Song of God
Trans: Swami Prabhavananda and Christopher Isherwood. Intro  by Aldous Huxley. Signet Classics,  2002.