Chapter 5 Religion and Faith
Believing in something
Perhaps the most powerful weapon in the arsenal of your mind is the possibility of believing in something. It can help you at any moment in life, but especially in the hardest trials, and it can give you daily energy. It can offer you a sense of belonging, guide your activity, but above all, it can gift you an inner peace at such a high and intense level.
The calm ocean deep within you
At this level, you can become a vast ocean where waves move only on the surface, while in the depths, everything is wonderfully calm. To speak of current or past religions is absurd, because they are, in fact, the result of only a few thousand years of religious evolution. Current religions attached themselves to much older customs, transformed them into various holidays—in a word, they assimilated them.
A short story of transformation
This process is called religious integration aimed at gaining new followers. The grander the ritual or the holiday, the more followers there were. Religions are created by humans or majorly modified by humans. The strongest argument proving 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.
Beyond words and rules
"The rest of the religions, compared to them, represent lies, and whoever adheres to any other religion is eternally condemned to suffer in various hells with various torments." The second great argument is related to who leads the religious institution: people. People who teach that "unique truth" to other people. Dear readers, religion is not learned; it is felt.
The internal decision to choose to believe
Faith in something does not come from arguments heard, told, or repeated. Faith in something comes following an internal decision in which you analyze good and evil, verify, and then 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.
Believe in yourself - part I -
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 must not break the unity of your being through regrets. "I'm sorry I didn't do that," "I was so stupid to do the other." This is the toxin of self-doubt that you collect within you; from one small regret today and another tomorrow, you will gather so much mistrust that you will hesitate to do any activity for fear of disappointing yourself.
The uniqueness of every memory
The good part is that, in any case, things are not irremediably lost. If you understand that no situation in life will ever repeat itself, then you will understand the uniqueness of every memory. Why uniqueness? Because tomorrow, if it repeats, you are already one day older. It is no longer a new story, just as a movie you watch for the second time loses its charm.
Believe in yourself with all your soul
If you remove all doubt and believe in yourself with all your soul and all your strength, you will be able to move mountains. Cleanse your regrets through forgiveness. Forgive yourself and promise that you will always forgive yourself, regardless of what you do or how you behave. This doesn't mean you shouldn't set rules for yourself. On the contrary, always have the strictest possible principles. I am only talking about what happens when you break them. You must pull yourself together, forgive yourself, and return to the path you have established.
Rule - Rule - Exception - Rule
Pay close attention to the "exception to the rule" rule. Too many exceptions to a rule cause the exceptions to become the rule, and the rule to become the exception. Clear away regrets and clear away doubts, and have faith that no matter how poorly you manage, you will be satisfied with what you've done. If you have a tall ladder in front of you and you wonder if you can climb it to the very top, I recommend you think only of each individual step.
How to become better
It is much the same with failures. You can fall one step, or you can fall completely. When you have fallen one step, you know the path to get back to where you fell from. If you have fallen completely, you have two advantages—you know the entire path to follow, and also, there is no such thing as managing worse than a complete fall. Therefore, ahead of you, there is only room for improvement.
Believe in Yourself – Part II
The first and most important belief: belief in yourself. There are so many arguments for believing in yourself, and I will list a few; I will also leave it to you to search further and establish the useful, necessary, and sufficient reasons to believe in yourself. The first argument: please slowly clench your fingers into a fist and observe what a fluid and elegant movement you can perform simultaneously. You move them in a synchronized direction, with a certain force, all determined by you. During this, you are blinking. So, you aren't just moving your fingers; separately, you are also breathing.
You have an extraordinary organism. Do you know what it does?
That is, you extract air with oxygen from the environment, process it through your lungs, and send it to every tissue in your body, including the fingers you are moving right now. All while you are digesting your last meal, filtering toxins from your body and eliminating them, cleansing and strengthening your organism, and obtaining nutrients. In fact, what an organism does is of fantastic complexity, and you are a living organism. It's time to accept that you are alive—that there are processes your subconscious performs separately from your rational mind, and it performs them very well.
The unity between body and mind
Actually, we should recognize that most processes are carried out by the subconscious and only a small part by the rational mind. Regardless, you must accept that you are an organism and that you do fabulous things. If you say that "the body" does this, know that you are also the body. You are both body and mind: a team, a unified whole. However, if you do not know the complexity of the processes you are performing right now, in this moment—even though you take pride in them—I ask you this: how do you know you cannot do something? Or how do you know you cannot continue?
Imagine a story
Or how do you know it's too hard? You don't even know how many things you do, how many things you can do; you don't know your potential or your capacity for adaptation, so cast away the doubt. Think of yourself as the result of generations upon generations of people who lived, learned, and sent their teachings to you genetically. Don't just think of your grandparents; think of your ancestors who lived 100,000 years ago. Think of the fact that your bloodline flows from the time your ancestors raised mammoths and fought saber-toothed tigers.
The inheritance in your blood
Back when there were no countries with cities, only villages and marketplaces. From the time when justice had to be won in battle. Your ancestors lived and learned and passed down the bloodline until it reached you. Draw a line on a piece of paper and put your genealogy on the page. You know it is written in your blood, or you can put a story in its place. Start with the story from the year 97,800 BC, when your ancestor met his wife. What was he doing, where was he? Was he a shepherd, a hunter, or perhaps something else? He met his chosen one at a celebration, at a festival of the moon and stars.
The end of a story? Perhaps a beginning...
Was the love story short, or did it continue until the next festival when they gathered, danced, and decided to stay together? Then they sought a clearing in an oak forest, and there they built a house, loved each other, and had three children who grew up and then went out into the world to write their own stories. The elders stayed in their home until the earth called them to pay their debt and re-enter the whole. Build your bloodline starting from 3 million years ago. You are its result; isn't that a good reason to believe in yourself?
I truly recommend you take a short break and think about what you are, and how much knowledge is hidden within your organism.
Religion - part I -
To choose, how to choose?
Let's address religion: which one 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" one would mean living each one, and we only have one life. The one that offers you life after death—all of them do. Life after death is a gift to all living organisms in which energy flows like a holy spirit.
From nature, I learned that energy transforms
This gift is a rule of this planet, a rule of life and death in which matter—your body—the moment the energy of life leaves it, begins to decompose into the substances from which it was formed, with the aim of restarting the cycle. Vital energy, after separating from the body, enters the energetic sea, from where it will take on other matter and begin a new cycle of life.
Rhetorical thoughts and perhaps more...
In other words, it never ends, and death is just a gateway through which we pass into our transformation. Now, there are a few themes I will treat separately. One of them is the consciousness of vital energy. Whether it can become a conscious energy. The answer is yes. Vital energy can become a conscious energy, and the rational self can pass into the next cycle with all the accumulated knowledge.
About consciousness and awareness
You might ask how? Through awareness. The awareness of accumulated knowledge, one's own energetic awareness, and universal awareness. Any upgrade is achieved through work, suffering, and perseverance over a period of time. The higher you climb, the more you will discover both existential themes and the optimal way to approach them. I say this because every organism is unique and has a specific way of developing.
Religion – continued –
About the Heavenly Father, you may wonder whether He exists or not. The answer is: yes. He exists. He created the world with billions of stars, planets, and comets, including Earth, and He also created man—not in the literal sense, but by adding the optimal elements of creation. Evolution as a species was set as the target, the objective of every race, and the perpetuation of the race as a minimum obligation.
Discover the divine spark in your soul
The Heavenly Father is the creator of everything and is found in everything; therefore, everything around you has a divine part polished through evolution. In fact, this is your purpose: evolution. The presence of consciousness is proof that your objective is evolution. 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.
Your power is born from every trial
"Blessed are those who suffer, for they shall inherit the Kingdom of Heaven." Sufferings are the way we become stronger; they are, in fact, life's trials that strengthen you and make you wiser. It is not mentioned that everyone who suffers will inherit the Kingdom of Heaven, so only some will be able to walk the path to the end. Sufferings are both physical and psychological, and you must face them all, overcome them, learn from them, and let them bring you strength.
The journey to truth is worth the effort
Within religion, the directions 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 the financial side, earthly value, and now it has become deeply and perhaps irremediably distorted. The Heavenly Father appears like a vending machine of surprises where people go and ask for things to be given to them. The desecration of the divine happens by throwing it into the profane.
The values that matter
Two thousand years ago, there was a completely different discourse, a different ritual, and a different concept. There were sacrifices, symbolic or not quite symbolic. Ancient civilizations were destroyed by new religions and assimilated as part of the ritual to gain followers. Paying followers represent the financial strength of the church. When everything boils down to money, the core idea no longer matters. This is what the church has become today. The Heavenly Father asked for evolution, consciousness, and awareness, but these require time, dedication, perseverance, and the work of knowing, understanding, and accepting.
A destiny through patience and wisdom
Man thought it better to create money and then try to buy them. Unfortunately—or rather, fortunately—these qualities cannot be bought. There is no shortcut, no way to cheat or cut corners. These qualities are earned. There are old stories about people who gave up all the wealth they had and went to a monastery. They went there to evolve; they understood how little the material means and chose to dedicate themselves to evolution.
Be ready to step onto your own path
Ascetics who retreated into the mountains alone to meditate on what matters. These are not madmen, and anyone who has had the chance to meet them will confirm this. They are people trying to develop consciousness, faith, and awareness. You can be one too, if you dedicate time to it. If not now, perhaps in the next life-death cycle. You have enough time, and yet you have no time at all. Too little if you want to find out, and too much if you don't.
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