The duality of religion, regardless of which religion that we're speaking of blinds us to the richness of the Spirit of God. God didn't just create Christians and say that everyone MUST believe as Christians do. Nor did God create Hinduism and say that millions of Gods are to be worshipped. Each religion and their tunnel vision has made it so: though it is NOT!
The deeper things of the Spirit can be found everywhere and in everyone if we'll but removed the religious bias blinders that we wear with such pride. Blinders which say "my way or the hell well". Tunnel vision that can only see what the neural grooves that we've created allow us to see!
Fundamentalists, of any religion, have few, but deep neural grooves! :-(
When the Bible says that we're to be like children to enter the Kingdom, it means we need to be OPEN to ALL of life, not just the little petty world of religion that we've built an altar around. Children have 10x the number of synaptic connections in their brain as do adults. Synaptic connections are the pathways through which we process information. As we grow and LEARN as adults (whatever it may be), we fall into "patterns" of belief: not all learning is good.
The deeper our convictions, the greater the egoic need to be RIGHT, the fewer neural grooves we need or use and we thus use less and less of our brain. The more RELIGIOUS we become the more spiritually IGNORANT we become as well.
For many of you, your ego is getting defensive and rejecting my premise right now!
A child explores without doctrinal stop signs, without a dogmatic bias, and without fear of losing their faith (which they've yet to acquire- thank God). A child simply explores textures, colors, looks under stones, ask questions about all things, and doesn't rely on LOGIC! Don't hear quit being logical, but ask what's logical about spitting on some dirt and rubbing it on the eye lids of a blind person?
Tell me, what's logical or doctrinally sound about doing that?
We need to pay more attention and explore the spirit beyond the BOOK, beyond our current belief structure(s). Can you understand what the Seneca Indian is realizing when he goes to the Kaw River for a drink? When he dips his cup in the river he doesn't say "This is my water, my drink". Instead he says, "The Kaw river is runing through me". It's the same thing an Inkan says when dipping her cup in the Amazon, "The Amazon is running though me."
What's is running though you?
You may have to take off your blinders and come out of the tunnel of religious absolutism to know!
Ernie Fitzpatrick
Author Bio
As a spiritual-futurist, I have a BA degree majoring in history. One cannot know the future without knowing the past which holds clues to what is on the horizon. The world is in such a rapid expansion of knowledge that we are close to entering a tipping point that will forever change earth as we know it.
