06-01-2012, 07:29 PM
> Religion is obviously a corrupted business today. However, religion by definition does not necessarily include dogma, fear and control. Rather it is a way to unify people. A sort of system to guide the individual toward God.
>I believe that religion religion is just the vessel of secure deliverance. As Wanderer stated, it becomes a means of preparation for higher understanding
These are complex issues that can only be meaningfully discussed if certain definitions are accepted; otherwise it becomes a semantic riddle. My own view is that Third Density religion is (1) a group activity, and (2) a psychic (rather than a spiritual) phenomenon.
A religion is essentially a set of doctrines encoded as scriptures, rituals and chants or hymns. Its major events are enacted in a group setting in order to strengthen the psychic elements of the congregation that tend to enhance spiritual experience. Certain individuals may eventually achieve such a heightened psychic state that they trigger a "spiritual breakthrough", after which the religion becomes ever less necessary as their spiritual insight deepens.
An entire religion that achieves the same thing (i.e. a "spiritual breakthrough") essentially triggers the change from Third Density to Fourth Density consciousness in the entire congregation.
As a child I was taught the piano from the age of five, and thoroughly hated it by the time I was twelve, refusing to continue. A few years later I discovered the electric guitar, found a quick facility with it due to the musical knowledge gained via piano lessons, and quickly became a fairly fluent musician rather than a "performer on the piano". Some years later I returned to the piano and found a greatly improved ability to make it respond to my musical instincts.
The same thing happens in many areas. A martial arts student will find himself helpless against an average street-fighter until he arrives at the stage where he can throw away rules and thinking, and react naturally and instinctively.
In the same way, a valid religious structure is essential for those early on the spiritual path in order to structure and comprehend their experiences; but it is only when they have achieved a comparable inner (subjective) structure that they are able to throw away this external (objective) crutch and begin the true, untrammeled exploration of spiritual experience.
>I believe that religion religion is just the vessel of secure deliverance. As Wanderer stated, it becomes a means of preparation for higher understanding
These are complex issues that can only be meaningfully discussed if certain definitions are accepted; otherwise it becomes a semantic riddle. My own view is that Third Density religion is (1) a group activity, and (2) a psychic (rather than a spiritual) phenomenon.
A religion is essentially a set of doctrines encoded as scriptures, rituals and chants or hymns. Its major events are enacted in a group setting in order to strengthen the psychic elements of the congregation that tend to enhance spiritual experience. Certain individuals may eventually achieve such a heightened psychic state that they trigger a "spiritual breakthrough", after which the religion becomes ever less necessary as their spiritual insight deepens.
An entire religion that achieves the same thing (i.e. a "spiritual breakthrough") essentially triggers the change from Third Density to Fourth Density consciousness in the entire congregation.
As a child I was taught the piano from the age of five, and thoroughly hated it by the time I was twelve, refusing to continue. A few years later I discovered the electric guitar, found a quick facility with it due to the musical knowledge gained via piano lessons, and quickly became a fairly fluent musician rather than a "performer on the piano". Some years later I returned to the piano and found a greatly improved ability to make it respond to my musical instincts.
The same thing happens in many areas. A martial arts student will find himself helpless against an average street-fighter until he arrives at the stage where he can throw away rules and thinking, and react naturally and instinctively.
In the same way, a valid religious structure is essential for those early on the spiritual path in order to structure and comprehend their experiences; but it is only when they have achieved a comparable inner (subjective) structure that they are able to throw away this external (objective) crutch and begin the true, untrammeled exploration of spiritual experience.
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