Worship?

[Diana]

Thank you for sharing your thoughts on this topic. I agree that it is best for each individual to seek to make choices for themselves. However, I have found that this may be easy to say for those who are born with a certain level of intelligence or capability, but I've also met people who genuinely struggle to understand reality and make effective choices. They often find that following leaders or group consensus is a better approximation of the right choice rather than following their own understanding. Unfortunately, this makes them easy targets for manipulation, but I can understand how such a system makes sense if one struggles to understand reality.

For these kinds of people, I could see it as making sense for building a simplified system of knowledge and reasoning that could be formulated as a religion for providing guidance on decision making and behavior for those who don't know how to determine that individually. For example, understanding densities, polarities, and harvests is non-trivial without extensive study and spiritual exploration to validate the truth of these ideas. Breaking it down into terms such as God, sin, forgiveness, faith, heaven, and hell can be easier approximations to understand and just as effective at guiding one to polarize positively enough for harvest. It is not necessary to have knowledge of unity or the Law of One for harvest, and I believe harvest is the main goal of any entity incarnating in third density and often a more realistic goal than becoming an adept or learning the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

We can also leverage existing belief systems to help others polarize in the direction of their choice without appearing as a 'threat' to their sacred beliefs by accepting the parts of their beliefs that contain abstract truths. For example, I identify as a Mystical Christian and encourage other Christians to go vegan because factory farming is harming God's creatures, and most Christians agree because they believe that it is our responsibility to be good stewards of the Earth and protect all of the creatures and environment.

All that said, I agree most religions become less effective when they claim supreme correctness and eternal damnation for anyone who disagrees with their theology or dismissing any idea that contradicts sacred scripture. They also become less effective when people use the religion for purposes of control rather than guidance. But my main point is not to throw the baby out with the bathwater because I believe it is possible to use religion to help people especially those who have less capability to understand reality or who are 'married' to their particular religious distortions.

Are these thoughts helpful for your consideration? I'd appreciate to hear your thoughts in response if it is your desire to share them.

Yes, your thoughts are absolutely worth consideration. You make a good point, and it shows me how easy it is for me to judge others. It's very true that not everyone has the same critical thinking capacity or ability to think things out. I actually do what you described when conversing with Christians or other religious or very biased or indoctrinated people—that is, I meet them on their own ground and honor their mindsets. I don't do this to condescend, which may sound counter to my earlier comments, I do it out of honoring the other person's mindset and unique journey. So I appreciate you making the points you have made.

When I come here to comment, my approach is different. I make some assumptions, such as, members here have read at least some of the Ra material. If they have, I then assume they in fact do have the critical thinking skills if they were able to get through the material. It is pretty dense thanks to Don's ability to comprehend Ra and ask intelligent questions. So I feel it is a proper platform to speak authentically without tailoring my comments to the degree I do with most people. I feel that I may come here and speak in generalities about Earth and the life on it. In my personal life, it is extremely rare that I talk about anything which may confront a person's beliefs.

My general life perspective is almost always global; in other words, I don't think all that much about personal relationships or lives, I tend to think about the world and all the life on it. My career even is predicated on this. When I say the human species needs to evolve, it is this global, planet Earth, view that drives my thinking. We are at a point in human history where we are massively destroying life and have the ability to do catastrophic damage due to our technology. The general consciousness of humankind is out of sync with this technology in my opinion. It leaves me with little patience for individual needs when the whole planet (including all the individuals) is threatened. I simply can't feel good about honoring the thinking that kills, maims, and destroys (all life not only human) in wars for example—and this includes those who can't really think for themselves and just follow the governments out of "patriotism" or xenophobia. On the other hand, it is what it is, and while I generally do not get "caught up in the maelstrom" I don't ignore it either.

My hope is that enough people will outgrow the need for outside authority to guide the way. 

Addressing another note, I don't care about harvest. I may leave this life and see it from another perspective, but down here in the trenches under the veil I think it was a bad idea to veil this density just because entities weren't evolving fast enough. It is very hard to see the suffering that results from it. And to what end? To serve the Creator? I don't see why a timeless, infinite source would care whether a M/B/S entity took thousands of or a trillion years to advance. Just my current thinking on that matter. The harvest will be what it will be. The complication of the veil I think is what has prevented "successful" harvests in the past. It also seems counter to free will. But since I am under a cosmic veil, my musings on this subject are likely as ignorant as the mindsets of those who follow religions blindly. 

And yet, it is fun to canvass perhaps unknowable things even if we find ourselves laughing at ourselves when we are on the other side of that veil.