I find self wanting to return to the spiritualDuring peaceful times, like now, when have time to sit and think away from all of the industrial noise of the day, week, I find self wanting to return to the spiritual.
Industrial life is such a distraction, TV, commercials, stores, the brainwashed need to want to shop all of the time, buy this, buy that, it's all such a distraction.
Life is like a large stadium you enter when born, one way in, one way out (in this example), a large stadium with only one door.
You enter this stadium at birth, allowed to run around and explore, learn, but as you age forget about the entrance way into the stadium, you run around stadium, perform tasks, live, have fun, chase things, but then as you start wearing down, you realize no matter how distracted you are while in stadium, there's still only one way in and one way out.
The stadium is life, some of us have spectators, famous people, others of us do not, average day to day types, but either way only one way in, and one way out.
The older you get, the more you start paying attention to the entrance way again, or now it becomes a exit, and sooner or later you have to exit, no matter what, as such start thinking about the doorway more and more and what's on the other side.
As I age, I realize as an average person, I've pretty much played all the games I can play in life, with limited funds and support, love ext, there's really nothing more other than day to day 'noise', going through the motion of doing what a good citizen of any nation should do, and that is work to support Government and economy until physically to exhausted to carry on, to which then you're just discarded and forced back out of the stadium.
Spirituality is trying to explore what's on the other side of stadium while still within the stadium.
Spirituality can comfort, when man no longer can, when mans systems no longer can.
Spirituality is a individual thing, religion is a group thing or idea, religion is like a spiritual Government, with rules, chain of command and so forth.
As a person who's alone, spirituality appeals more to me.
Going to church and all, sitting in pews, being lectured to, just doesn't appeal to me anymore, than at end of sermon, give money away and told it's what 'god' wants you to do.
Church, Mosques ext, or more social, than spiritual, to me, you go there if want socialization or enjoy enter action with others.
But if just want to be left alone, to sort things out along, spirituality is more appealing.
Cause when I die, body expires, the whole church or congregations isn't following me through those stadium doors.
Right now, I don't have a 'message' for anyone other than myself, since alone, and besides, here on earth it seems all so called messages are proceeded by the need for money, whether Author selling a book, or Pastor preaching a Sermon, in the end it all involves the taking of other peoples money 'For the cause'...that's religion today.
Not sure how many Pastors would be preaching today if no money involved, the way Jesus spoke of in New Testiment.
Jesus sure never got rich preaching, that's for sure, or tried to, nor did his Apostles.
But in todays world, obviously you need money to survive, as an individual or as a group, so that in and of itself is not a bad thing.
Anyways, I may start 'praying' again, and asking for guidance, from whatever is on the other side of stadium.
Or there could be invisible 'beings' inside the stadium with me, us, who play right along side us.
The scary thing about prayer, to me, is making sure that whatever responds to it, isn't 'bad' or has dark intent.
To me, if not careful, prayer can be as dangerous as playing with a Ouija board, in that open self up to whatever, and trust that 'whatever' is actually good and looking out for you.
It's why Christians always pray to a specific name 'In Jesus name, Amen', and so forth, and so do Muslims, Catholics, ext.
That way identifying specific deity praying to, with known character.
Even that's no guarantee of 'peace', in that suicide bombers always pray, before then driving into Mosque, or crowded street, and killing others in the name of their 'god'...hmm.
Seems blowing up others, and self, is a command more that Satan would give, not a loving God.
And people of all faiths, and religions seem to do quirky stuff at times, and justify it through their chosen faith or religion.
to be continued.
