Nothing Overcomes That Biological Basis Like a "Creator Machine". Just Kidding, "Creator Entity"

Tara Doe Antonio Calhau I don't know if there's a God if there is a God we've already abused everything that I imagine God would stand for. We're leading to our own Extinction. Maybe we're an experiment. I still believe man wrote their own religious text to have control. · 1 · Reply · 12h Mark Rego Monteiro Tara Doe What I can suggest as a guy raised atheist humanist who perceived first the relevance of a non-objectified reference to the Universe is that I was encouraged by the terms "spiritual path" of Unitarian Universalism and scholar Huston Smith´s description of the Chinese Tao. Smith is an interfaith Christian, it turns out, and described the Tao as "a creative continuum that is always accessible." That worked for me as a start and for a while. There is a way to explain God as transcendental and transpersonal, but the basis of breaking the illusion of materialist appearances is meditative practice and prayer, and study. When you say people seek power in religious texts, who does that describe? The Anglican Church supported slavery, but slavery is a human institution and was like marriage. It wasn´t really questioned. It was the Christian monastic schools that were turned into Christian Universities that spawned Christian scholarship that first spawned the Reformation inspired by Luther´s courageous and insightful conflict with the Roman church authorities. Right after Luther came the next generation of scientific philosophers like Copernicus and Galileo who loved investigating the Creator´s laws of the Universe. So, the "Creator." That there is a "Creator" is a basically universal perception among indigenous tribes, and religions. The basis, however, is spiritual-religious practice that relates to spiritual-religious experience. Zen Buddhism in Japan is a good comparison. The Samurai´s lived brutal lives that included hari-kari suicide. Zen Buddhism was toned down from Buddha´s Four Noble Truths in the first place, and then fit the samurais´ warlike lifestyle, institutionally. Christianity got institutionalized with Constantine in the Roman Empire, but Jesus taught "seek first the Kingdom of Heaven" and "Clean the cup on the inside where there is wickedness." Anthony of the Desert, meanwhile, was an 18 year old orphan who got inspired by Jesus´ call to "Follow me." He became an ascetic, and after 30 years in the desert, the Father of Christian monks as seekers sought him out. Anthony went through phases of spiritual growth something like modern psychotherapy. Freud called healing the mind, "catharsis", and Anthony later on had a breakthrough moment when he became tranquil. Monks later called that kind of moment, "theosis." Buddhists call it "nirvana," or in Japan, "satori." Anthony of the Desert had a dream after his theosis, in which he saw another ascetic in the desert. He told his disciples, and went off following the dream´s directions. He found the guy, at 113 years old, St. Paul of Thebes, and brought back a palm frond shirt that Paul had made. All because of a dream. That´s one example of perceiving the transcendental God. Follow the history up to Christians turning monastic schools into Universities, and that´s how modernization also comes into play. Many people think of the Industrial Revolution when they think of "modernization." When Clarkson and the Quakers led the anti-slavery movement, it was at that same time as the Industrial Revolution. If those Christians, with high integrity, were ending slavery, profiteering factory business owners were working people for 16 hours a day and putting many artisans out of business. That´s where Luddites showed up, and saboteurs (sabot meaning "shoe"). Just like the Anglican church supporting slavery as an institution, social movements are part of how Christians reassert Jesus´ legacy of integrity for God. That means getting clear about the meaning of integrity and hypocrisy, and worse, apsostasy like murder and Hitler-Nazi type things. Mary Baker Eddy is good to keep in mind when she grew up Congregationalist in New England. She learned that hypnotic suggestion could heal her temporarily, and then studied the Bible and broke through to the understanding that God´s reality is the Divine origin of all the abstract principles people talk about in morality. Through Jesus, that begins with Divine Love, and goes on to Divine Principle, Life, Truth, Spirit, Soul, and Mind. And Ms. Eddy healed miraculously, and wrote a book as she taught people who could do the same. Her church Christian Science grew and spread. Dissidents created things like Religious Science, and famous authors like Jos Murphy and Louise Hay wrote popular books like You Can Heal Your Life. And by looking at all kinds of people and movements, we can boil religion down to the practice of meditation and prayer, and God as the transcendental Creator Entity, and Jesus´ special life, mission, and message had 2 loving Commandments, "Love thy neighbor as thyself," being no 2. Staying clear about integrity and hypocrisy is a good start. Keeping clear that science has discovered that there are galaxy red shifts that go back to a Big Bang raises the question of where the Big Bang came from. Slightly closer to home is where scientific laws come from. A good supplementary question is, "What is love?" With meditation and prayer, we can begin to see that human beings emerged from biological evolution and are inclined to be ignorant, greedy, and hateful. The question is, what can overcome that biological basis? From shamans to modern human rights and US Freedom of Religion and University-based Comparative Religious Studies, to Gandhi´s law degree and interfaith Christian-Hinduism, the point of reference is the way that meditation and prayer makes us mentally and physically healthy and able to overcome ignorance, greed, and hatred. We humans take the action, but we are not just rock-headed bags of flesh and bones. We can perceive that we come from a Source and get revived through prayer and meditation on that Source. Is that Source of the Created Universe just a "Creator Machine"? What does a healthy mother feel for its newborn? Psychologist Harry Harlow studied baby monkeys deprived of their mothers and playmates, and saw how they suffered. He got into arguments with his fellow psychologists who didn´t want to call anything of that the need for love. Is the Creator a flintstone, or a matchstick machine? Or like a monkey mother for its baby, and the monkey baby for its mom, one example of what we humans know as "love." And if that´s the cause of what science calls the Big Bang and our evolved biological tendencies to ignorance, greed, and hatred, that has resulted in shaman healers, Buddhist practitioners, and Jesus followers like Mary Baker Eddy, that´s some love. Sorry about the length, but do you see a little more than "religion is made for power"? 1 · Reply · 2h