As we have seen yesterday and today, such imaginary beings are rough on humanity, and we do the damdest things in their names. Worse, enlightened beings have been amongst the casualties – a real crime against humanity and the hundreds or thousands of "glowing people" down thru the ages – our own spiritual evolution avatars.
Why do you think the halo emerged in mankind’s art from the earliest ages? That representation of rare energy emanation has meaning, and one that most have yet to discover, understand, or explore. Why?
Given the fascist power of science-fearful belief systems like the Catholic Church, Euro-America’s never been friendly to enlightenment. So we never hear of it, we never discuss it, we deport enlightened beings on trumped up charges – witness the Osho (Rajneesh) episode. Witness Socrates, Pythagoras, Buddha, Lao-Tzu, et. al. – all whose communes were raided and their mystics imprisoned, poisoned or murdered.
As I see it, humanity has been driven insane, and driven out of enlightenment and spiritual evolution, by all the believers and their powerful institutions thru the ages. Terrorism and murderous Crusades seem to be the true believer’s exclusive franchise.
From the first priests who could predict the eclipses and wow the masses, to the heavily-mitred moguls of modern orthodoxies with their infallible black books, we have been worse than hoodwinked. We have been led off the path, waylayed, and rendered intolerant, egotistical, and uniformed due to our boxed-in beliefs. Onward Christian soldiers, onward Catholic dogma, onward Taliban "freedom fighters." God, what a mess!
All this in the face of the fact there is no gulf between science and religion, only between what we know and dont know. They are and should be the same thing, a simple and methodical exploration of what is, both in the external world and in our internal world. When asked what truth is, Buddha once replied "that which works" Sounds scientific, natural, and truly religious to me... I’ll go with that.
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