From the perspective of how most Americans were raised;

We are born into fundamental belief systems that our parents
hold, and they have their thoughts as they too were passed down
from parent to child. These beliefs include politics, theology,
morals and work ethics among countless other attributes. It is a
rare one of us who challenges these systems of beliefs by using
logic or common sense. We hear the same information and
arguments so often that they simply merge into who we are and
we adopt them before we are truly old enough to evaluate them
for ourselves.

This transference of beliefs naturally resulted in the passing
down of negative things such as racism from family member to
family member. There were also things of high merit passed
down, such as patriotism and belief in the American dream etc.

In the history of the world, it is only those who had the courage to
rise above the way they were taught, to rise above the beliefs of
basically the whole world, who led us kicking and screaming the
whole way to higher forms of understanding and knowledge.
These people showed us that the would is not really flat. That the
earth is not really the center of the world, and that it may be
possible to fly in the air. These people took us out of our comfort
zones and through all of the protest and in some cases they were
executed, these people eventually led us to truth.

While we have made progress, there remain grand illusions that
continue to slow the growth of mankind toward spiritual
enlightenment. The greatest of these still surviving illusions is
that of mans relationship to God, and to each other. The
establishments of this world have continued to pass down
generation after generation information that is simply incorrect.
This information has been passed down for so long, that it is
likely that none of the participating parties even have any
awareness of the misinformation that they continue to spread.
Perhaps the Vatican may still know the truth as they have
remained such a powerful ally to the misinformation and have
kept meticulous records for thousands of years.

Yet the fact remains that the churches manipulation of information
to control the masses still rolls strong even to this day. The public
is told that the word of God has been given, albeit always to
someone else rather than you. This word will confound your
common sense, yet you are repeatedly told equally illogical
beliefs to smooth over the original confusion.

Religion in this modern day will still hold to the notion that man is
separate from God. You may have to be baptized to enter into the
kingdom of heaven, or you may have to follow Jesus Christ, or
Ala or any number of other dictates, yet the point being that you
are separate from God. The point being that in your natural state
of being, that God is somewhere else and separated from you.
This is the single most misleading argument of modern religion. If
in the beginning there was nothing, then the universe was
created by God, then from nothing to God has to mean that God
created EVERYTHING. Everything that was created was created
out of God, by God. Planets, Stars, Humans, Dogs and even
chickens were all created out of what could be nothing other than
God its self. Could God create other substances that were not of
God? Can your body grow hair that is not your hair?

Gods connection to us is as steady and unbroken as our own
connection to our skin is. There can be no separation between
each person to God, anymore than there is between a fish and
the ocean.

Religion will suggest that you must be saved, as if you were
created by something other than God, or that perhaps you once
were of God but then fell into a hideous transformation to
something ungodly. And what of being saved? What is one to be
saved from?

But of course that is the second part to the grand illusion that is
passed down and reinforced throughout modern religion. You
must be saved from evil, the devil and ultimately hell. If not for the
existence of these things, then one would not need the church to
find their own relationship to God. One would not have to be told
from another person what God wants them to do. If it were not for
these boogey-men, then a person could find the inherent natural
relationship that always exists between each person and God.
You would not need a middle man to sell you the new car. You
would not have to assume that God told the salesman everything
he needed to know to sell you that car. If it were not for these
boogey-men, you would be able to create your own new car.

Doesn’t it pass your common sense to think that surly God would
have given you the same connection to guidance and wisdom as
every other human on earth? Doesn’t it pass your common sense
to understand that this information would come to you in
inspirations, intuitions and in simple but powerful understandings
that just envelope you? Doesn’t it pass your common sense to
understand that God wouldn’t need salesmen to promote his
product?

Satin, the Devil, Evil and Hell; all powerful emotional tools that
are easy to wave around and instinctively scare the Hell out of
those who came to hear sincere genuine advice on how to live
better lives. These are of course tools that the religions use to
legitimate their own existence. Sort of like, insisting a country has
weapons of mass destruction to validate the need to go to war.
Fear is a powerful catalyst that can not only move congregations,
but of course an entire country.

Humanity is now experiencing the highest level of knowledge that
we know of. Our society is now more advanced than any in
recorded history, and still growing at an astonishing rate.
Humanity is ready to take back their own relationship to God, to
take it back from those who want you to believe that they know
more than you do. The truth is that they do know more than you
do about the dogma they learned, the dogma that has been
passed down from century to century, person to person. The
dogma however is actually what is preventing you from finding
your own knowledge and your own spiritual wisdom that you
have an innate connection to.

I have written other articles on Satin, Evil and Hell, but will
address all these here in this way. We should not gauge our
Godliness or spirituality based against any of these words just
mentioned. These words should not invoke fear or worry. They
should not be held over you as punishment to control your
actions; For ultimately you are always as connected to God as
sap is to a tree. It is simple understanding of this that awakens
your memory of this fact. If you will read my other articles I think I
factually presented the case that there is no Hell or overlord Satin
that is hiding behind a bush to steal your soul. You should not go
through life evaluating how many sins you or your neighbor have
partaken. This way of thinking, only serves to farther separate
your state of mind that you are divided from God.

Understanding God has nothing to do with keeping score, and
especially not in judging others. God is within all things! God
created all things, all things come from god, and there is no
separation from God to anything ever created! God dwells on a
certain level of vibration, of feeling. God will not lower its self to
you when you judge others or when you judge self. God will
never lower his vibration for anyone, at any time. God allows you
the freedom to exist in any state of mind that you desire. But to
experience God, one only has to adjust their vibration to his
station. This station is all about allowing others to be who they
are. This station is about seeing in others things that you can
love about them. This station is about looking over or past the
things you find fault with and embracing the things they have that
make you feel good inside.

God is woven through the fabric of all that is. Its vibration is that
similar to Love, although its true vibration is much higher. Love is
the one emotion that we have access too that allows us to bath
with God in its expression. This vibration is the only thing we
need to be concerned with in our relationship to God. We do not
have to be concerned about sins, about the devil or about
everlasting fire.

On this journey of life, all we have to do is find that vibration in all
of our experiences and with all the people we encounter. Its just a
matter of tuning in to where the harmony of the universe is. When
a person lives in this place, in this state of mind, all ones actions
are immediately directed toward harmony with God, with the
universe.

The grand illusion of man must come to an end so that we can
take the next step in spiritual evolution.  I would like to inspire you
to take back your divinity from those who claim to know what you
should do. Take back your power from those who are controlling
you with fear. But above all begin to honor your common sense,
and your own power to connect to this source and find your own
wisdom.

Keep in mind that ages ago, mankind worshiped the stars and
sun and moon. This was simply the closest way mankind could
understand God at this time. God was basically nature, which
really isn’t a bad way to acknowledge God.

After that, mankind turned God into different personalities who
lived on the clouds, in Greek mythology. These characters were
as naughty as the worst characters on a soap opera. Man had
began to change god into a more human form, yet with all the
vices and malice that mankind had at the times.

The last revolution was in turning God into a more family oriented
hierarchy “father son and holy ghost”.  Yet even with the
progress, this God still carried very real human traits of being
vengeful, of mass murdering of his people and of course to the
possibility of all eternity in a fiery hell.

Fortunately we are on the brink of yet another revolution of God,
which I’m hopeful will bring us closer to the true reality of God
than anything in history has allowed us. This God will not have
the elements of humans who are acting out of harmony with God.
This God will be about liberating humans to accept their innate
divinity and oneness with all things. This God will not be a
murderous God, nor a vengeful God. This God will be all about
realizing that we humans are God incarnate.
The Grand Illusion
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