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Time to vent again, join me on my magical journey in the land of endless text. Let's start our magical journey with a little God experiment. Imagine the most powerful, beautiful, and wise being. It's hard to do so by picturing it in your mind but it's easier to judge it when someone produces a picture of such being. If someone brought you a picture and said that's how God looks like, you could easily go a step beyond and imagine a better picture. If someone brought you a book of words of God, you could easily outsmart the most wise being from these pages. In many cultures it is forbidden to have a picture of God or say it's name, because if you hear such an awesome name for the first time it will blow your mind, but after enough exposure you will grow tired of it. Our minds are always a step ahead so it's easier to have a blank page and say that's how God looks like. It's just a page but our minds can easily fill the gaps, even when these gaps are infinitely big. We always want to give meaning to things and come closer to the truth. We ask questions and look for answers, that's how we have the world we have today. Our minds give us an ability take in the world and then show how we think it looks like. Closer we are to understanding how the world works, the closer we are to God. We have many sciences and things we've build with that knowledge, our curiosity makes us learn more and more things about the world. Reaching out into infinity trying to learn everything. Like the story of the tower of Babel. Keep going up up, trying to be closer to God but our minds are a step ahead. The tower was never completed, the workers suddenly started speaking in different languages and they couldn't understand each other. Just like now, we have many sciences but not everyone understands what they're about. Many scientists specialize in one thing and when they discover something we don't understand, we fill in the gaps. With more knowledge comes more confusion from these who don't know. We ask questions about the world and how it works but we also have a spiritual need to ask questions about ourselves. There is one world and we have generations of people trying to learn everything about it, but there is only one you and your time is short. Only you will go on a journey to find out more about yourself. It doesn't matter if you learn everything because in the personal journey the possibilities are infinite. Even if you became immortal your journey would go on as long as you live, too. Even with a short life there is no time limit either, you just have to become content with what you have. A lot of the journeys begin when a person has a taste of wisdom from a greater master and then they want more and more and more. In the past there were masters who helped a small groups of people and then left. They say Jesus had just 12 students but now he has millions even though he's dead. What he taught was special to a small group of people and it was written down so millions of people could learn what he taught and it became a religion. That is the difference between a religion and spirituality, religion is for everyone and spirituality is personal. The story of Jesus became a part of the bible and over the years no one is sure what part of his story was real and what's not. Many people wanted to add some corrections to the books and try to make sense of them. In the past these sorts of stories were forbidden to be written down, just like the name of God. Jesus was meant to leave but the books won't let him. He just taught some simple lessons about love and kindness but because of where he was born and what the readers needed, he became a part of local religious movement even though he was against it. Same thing happened to the Buddha, he just wanted to understand suffering and the things he said were not written down for centuries, but later the people wanted more. His story even got a makeover in some versions. Making him blessed by God, having amazing powers and just having these qualities being the focus. Now instead of learning anything, people pray to these who they think got the right idea. I don't think about Christianity of Buddhism, I just imagine I'm having Jesus or Buddha sit next to me and talk about what they used to talk about. It's easier with Lao Tsu, no one knows anything about him but the stuff he wrote, but because there's nothing known about him, the religious people start to create local Gods to pray to and make temples for them. It seems like religion always trying to sell something. You give them complete devotion and in return they take care of your spiritual needs, just pray. Religions reach out to everybody and make up rules. People live in these rules and feel fine because they are told they are fine. These special services are even given to people who don't even need them, like kids. They just want to play but they are told that they should so and so. It's amazing but for most people their spiritual awakening happens when they become atheist. Religion tries to make everyone happy but that doesn't ever work, that's why we have so many of them and almost no one agrees with each other. What people need is not answers as a group but as an individual. Science is supposed to be exact and in exact categories. People cannot be categorized, there is a scientist who studies biology but there is no one who is meant to study you. Not everyone cares that there's a God and not everyone wants to give up their ability to think for themselves. Some real explorations happen when there's no one to hold you down. Some people look for purpose and what to do and get scared when they realize that maybe there is no purpose and nobody judging or looking down on them. For some it's scary but for others it's so much freedom to do whatever they want and that makes them happy. Lots of people go to some great masters for advise but sometimes they don't leave and they stay with the master and have an experience of a religious person. 'The master is so great, I shouldn't leave, yet. What if I can learn more from him?' Some even want to throw away their other aspirations and just study spirituality their whole life. They learn so much but stay with the same system. If they were passionate about anything else, they could have excelled in it. Great artist, writer, family person. The student should find the right time to leave or master should find the right time to let go. Many masters hide among normal people and many normal people learned from many masters. Guru means light bearer, a person who helps another person reach enlightenment when the time is right. Many people just stick around one guru waiting for something amazing to happen. It becomes like an addiction, you get a taste and then you're hooked. You see people coming to meet the guru and leaving happy to learn something but you already know it because you've been with him this whole time but didn't reach enlightenment. It's like death, for the moment you learn an amazing truth you are alive, but when you don't feel the same way of reading many more books and talking to many more people you just wait for just a little spark of that feeling to feel the same way you did before. Life should be full of many experiences or else it feels short. Routines are boring, that time you discovered spirituality you abolished the system, but by living your new life you've created a new one. After being sick of the society and materialist thinking or something, you might decide to return to nature because you decided that it better. You might get tired of it, too, but it's OK, you can find something else. Maybe you will decide to come back wiser, knowing the rules you will know how to break them. One day science will allows us to go into space, someday it will be the next step for many. It's important to have an open horizon. Religion wants to put you into a box, but it's funny how the so called founders of these religions don't want that. Many know Jesus was against his local religion, if he existed if he was a person if he was a he. But I think the most interesting way out of religion inside of religion is in the very beginning of the bible. Many want to scary you with God and what he might do, there are many laws that are punishable with hell and such, but you you accept the reasoning I gave in the very beginning about the nature of God then the story of Adam and Eve will look the most interesting now. The God made Adam and Eve, told them not to eat from the fruit of knowledge but they did anyway so he kicked them out. The fruit of knowledge gave them the ability to judge and understand dualistic thinking. They used to live with God but now they couldn't because it was impossible, not because God was mad. They went to the real world while God was left in the imagination, from the very start the bible was telling us the God wasn't real. Or at least he exists in nonexistence. God created the existence so since all of existence could fit inside God's palm, he could never be real like us. Religious texts want you to believe their way of thinking but a spiritual text makes you think and makes you ask yourself questions. You could have accepted the story of Adam and Eve as true creation of humanity, doubt it completely, or think of what it implies and what lesson it has. I could never have come up with my reasoning if I didn't doubt its validity. I know we didn't just come from nowhere, there is something more. Have to keep asking, have to fill in the gaps. It might not be the real intention behind the original writing of the story but I made it my own. Was that boring or what? Have a song for all your trouble