Chapter 5 Religion and faith

Perhaps the most powerful weapon in your mind's arsenal is the ability to believe in something. It can help you at any time in your life, but especially in the most difficult trials and can give you daily energy, it can give you belonging, it can guide your activity but above all it can give you an inner peace at such a high and intense level that you can become a huge ocean in which the waves move only at the surface. In the depths everything is wonderfully calm. Talking about current or past religions is absurd , because are the result of only a few thousand years of religious evolution. Current religions have attached themselves to much older religious customs, transformed them into various holidays, in a word, assimilated them. They name it religious integration in order to obtain new followers. The greater the ritual or celebration, the more followers vere targeted. Religions are created by man or majorly modified by man. The biggest argument in demonstrating this is the concept of religious uniqueness and truth. Almost all religions individually claim that only their words are true and the true creator is the one they worship. The rest of religions compared to them present lies and whoever adheres to any other religion is condemned to torment themselves in various hells with various torments. The second big argument is related to who leads the religious institution: people. People who teach that unique truth to other people.

Dear readers, nobody must learn religion and anybody must feel it. Belief in something does not come from arguments heard, told or repeated. Belief in something comes from an internal decision in which you analyze good and bad, check and then you can say: I believe. Because in fact this is the transition from religion to faith. It involves a mental process with individually established rules. And a rational person needs verified data and information to make a decision.

Believing in something can become a magical thing if you start with yourself. Believe in yourself that whatever you do and however you do it, you will manage, for better or worse. You don't have to break the unity of your being through regrets. I'm sorry I didn't do that, I was so stupid that I did that. This is the toxin of distrust that you accumulate in yourself and from a small regret today and another tomorrow you will accumulate so much distrust that you will hesitate to do any activity for fear of disappointing yourself. The good part is that things are not irretrievably lost. If you understand that no situation in life will be repeated, then you will understand the uniqueness of each memory. Why uniqueness? Because tomorrow, if it is repeated, you are already a day older. It is no longer a new story, just like a movie that you see a second time and loses its charm.

If you remove all doubt and believe in yourself with all your heart and with all your strength, you will be able to move mountains. Clear your regrets through forgiveness. You forgive yourself and promise yourself that you will always forgive yourself no matter what you do and how you behave. This does not mean that you should not set rules for yourself. On the contrary, always have the strictest principles possible. I am only talking about what happens when you break them. You have to pull yourself together, forgive yourself, and get back on the path you have set. Pay close attention to the rule, the exception, the rule. Too many exceptions to a rule make the exceptions become the rule and the rule the exception.

Clear your regrets and clear your doubts and trust that no matter how badly you do, you will be satisfied with what you have done. If you have a big staircase in front of you and you are thinking about whether you can climb it to the end, I recommend that you think only about each step. And when you haven't started , think that from that position you can't fall off the ladder because you haven't started climbing. It's the same with failures. You can fall one step, you can fall completely. When you fall one step, you know which way to go to get back up from where you fell. If you fall completely, you have two advantages – you know the whole path to follow and also you can't do worse than before. So there's only room for improvement ahead.

The first and most important : belief. Belief in yourself. There are so many arguments to believe in yourself and I'll list a few, I'll also let you search more and establish the necessary and sufficient useful reasons to believe in yourself.

First argument. Please slowly clench your fingers into a fist and notice what a smooth and elegant movement you can make simultaneously. You move them in a synchronized direction, with a certain force all established by you. During this you blink. So you don't just move your fingers. Separately you breathe. You extract the air with oxygen from the environment, process it through the lungs and send it to every tissue in the body including the fingers that you are moving now. Also during this time you digest the last meal, filter the toxins from the body and eliminate them, cleanse the body and strengthen it, get nutrients. In fact, what an organism does is of fantastic complexity and you are a living organism. It would be time to assume that you are alive, that there are processes that your subconscious does separately from the rational and does them very well. In fact, we should recognize that most of the processes are done by the subconscious and only a small part by the rational. Anyway, you have to assume that you are an organism and that you do fabulous things.

If you say that: the body know what to do but you are the body. The body and the mind are you, a team, a unified whole. However, if you do not know the complexity of the processes you are doing now, at this moment even though you are proud of them, I raise a question for you: how do you know that you cannot do something? Or how do you know that you cannot continue? Or how do you know that it is too hard? You do not even know how much you do, how much you can do, you do not know your potential and ability to adapt, so cast doubt. Think that you are the result of generations and generations of people who have lived, learned and genetically sent you their teachings. Do not think only of your grandparents but think of your ancestors who lived 100,000 years ago or more 1000000 years ago. Think that your bloodline flows from the time when your ancestors raised mammoths and fought saber-toothed tigers. When there were no countries with cities but villages and fairs. From the time when justice had to be conquered in battle. Your ancestors lived and learned and passed down the bloodline until it reached you. Draw a line on paper and put your genealogy on the sheet. You know it is written in your blood. Start with the story from the year 97800 when your ancestor met his wife. What did he do, where was he? Was he a shepherd or was he a hunter or maybe something else. He met his chosen one at a celebration, at a festival of the moon and stars. Was it a short love story or did it continue until the next festival when they gathered, danced and decided to stay together. Then they looked for a clearing in an oak forest and there they built a house and loved each other and had three children. They grew up and then became adults and went out into the world to write their story. The elders stayed at their home until the earth called them to pay their debt and rejoin the whole. Build your bloodline starting 3 million years ago. Is that a good reason to believe in yourself?

I really recommend you take a little break and think about what you are, how much knowledge is hidden in your body.

Let's deal with religion, which is the best, which is true, which offers the great reward of life after death - eternal life. The best would mean comparing them, the true would mean living each of them and we only have one life. The one that offers you life after death - all of them. Life after death is a gift of all living organisms in which energy flows like a holy spirit. This gift is a rule of this planet, a rule of life and death in which matter, your body, at the moment when the energy of life leaves it begins to decompose into the substances from which it was formed in order to resume the cycle. Vital energy, after separating from the body, enters the energy sea from where it will take over other matter and start a new life cycle again. In other words, it never ends and death is just a gate through which we pass in our transformation. Now there are a few topics that I will treat separately. One of them is the consciousness of vital energy. If it can become a conscious energy. The answer is yes. Vital energy can become a conscious energy and the rational can pass into the next cycle with all the accumulated knowledge. You may ask how? Through consciousness. The consciousness of the accumulated knowledge, one's own and universal energy consciousness. Any upgrading is achieved through suffering and perseverance over a period of time. The higher you climb, the more you will discover both the existential themes and the optimal way to approach them. I say this because each organism is unique and has a specific way of developing.

About the heavenly father, you may wonder if he exists or not. The answer is: yes. He exists. He created the world with billions of stars, planets, comets including the earth and he also created man not literally but by adding the optimal elements of creation. Evolution as a species was established as the target, the objective of each race, and the perpetuation of the race as a minimum obligation. The heavenly father is the creator of everything and is found in everything, that is why every thing around you has a divine part polished through evolution. In fact, this is your goal Evolution. The presence of consciousness is proof that you have evolution as your objective. That is why the heavenly father left a path to follow both individually and as a species.

In various religions, if you listen to the words spoken during the most common rituals, you will understand other steps to follow. Blessed are those who suffer because they will inherit the kingdom of heaven. Suffering is how we become stronger, they are actually trials of life that strengthen you and make you stronger and wiser. It is not said that all those who suffer will inherit the kingdom of heaven. So only some will be able to carry the path to the end. Suffering is both physical and psychological and you must face them all, overcome them, learn from them and bring you strength.

In religion, the indications to follow and the path are carefully hidden. The path is not pleasant. It is hard, it is long but it is worth it. Unfortunately, over the years, religions have become commercial, religious discourse has included money, earthly value and now it has become deeply and perhaps irremediably distorted. The heavenly father appears as a jukebox with surprises that people go to and ask to be given things. The desacralization of the divine is done by throwing it into the profane. 2000 years ago, there was a completely different discourse, a ritual and a different conception. There were symbolic or not so symbolic sacrifices. Old civilizations were destroyed by new religions and assimilated as part of the ritual to obtain followers. The paying followers represent the financial strength of the church. When everything comes down to money, the basic idea no longer matters. This is what the church has become now. The heavenly Father asked for evolution, consciousness, awareness, but these require time, dedication, perseverance and the work of knowledge, understanding and acceptance. Man thought that it was better to create money and then try to buy them. Unfortunately, these qualities are not for sale. There is no shortcut, there is no option to cheat or cut corners. These qualities are earned. The old stories about people who gave up all the wealth they had and went to the monastery. They went to evolve, they understood how little material things mean and they chose to dedicate themselves to evolution. Ascetics who retreated to the mountains alone to meditate on what matters. They are not crazy people, and anyone who has had the opportunity to know them will confirm this. They are people who are trying to develop consciousness, faith and awareness.

You can be too if you dedicate time to it. If not now, maybe in the next cycle of life and death. You have enough time and yet you have no time at all. Too little if you want to know and too much if you don't.