I wrote something today on a reply to the idea of the Abrahamic paradise, that "paradise" is the goal to aim for, I would like to share what I wrote. Most often, or rather always I don't think out what to write, it just arrives as if I had nothing to do with it.
..., dear friend. On this I do not agree, in fact I strongly disagree with it. And difference of opinion are to be meet in peace and friendship.
In old India, when two teachers meet for debate the one who lost the debate became the student of the victor and all of his students also became the students of the person who had greater wisdom. Unfortunately that is not so in Religion any more, today everyone wage war when they loose a debate, that or never enter a true discussion at all.
Imagine something very different. Human kind is a species of being who came into existence on a planet that circle around a Star in a galaxy in one of the many universes. Humans are very young, just born out of the mother Earth.
Earth, soil is the life of this planet, a planet on which all things live in a perfect balance of birth life and death. All things on this planet is dependent on all others, on the soil we walk on. Without this planet, without the life around us we go into the darkness.
We are just born as a species. We are children and as children we fight and bicker about just everything.
Growing up
So what is our future? We could grow up to become adult humans, we could learn responsibility and honesty, we could end wars and confusion. The key to doing so is to understand that the thoughts in a persons head is a part of the sensory organs and is not YOU. Thoughts are a kind of residue of the process of the sensory organs, gathering information about the world to make it presentable to us, understandable to us. So as this imaginary personality we carry around actually do not exist, not as we think, the EGO is an empty cocoon filled with lost dreams, with fear, with hate, with indifference. We could grow up and understand that being right about just every stupid idea we have is not going to get us anywhere, better then to stand with two feet in the soil and squarely and fairly work with others, as we are social beings. No one can survive alone.
As adults we could make this world into a paradise, into a garden of "Eden", but will we ever manage to become adults? Will we like children without adult supervision end our life in a cataclysm of stupidity?
As adults we could travel the stars. We could bring in an era of peace and prosperity, of unity and clarity. We are Gods, but will we ever take up the potential the human race is, or will we go into oblivion, will we disappear as a race under the burden of ignorance?
My brother, in all honesty the religions of this world are responsible for much of the confusion we now have, or one could say humans have expressed their confusion in the way they create and maintain religion. This do not mean spirituality and mysticism is not a reality.
But we have to understand that the myths and stories of old are just that, myths and stories and nothing else. And they prevent us from becoming Adults.
It is day 8 in the morning and I will have to take a break from the fasting. I have a vicious urinary tract infection that do not heal, took antibiotics before I started but it do not heal, will have to go to the doc tomorrow and start up on another cure. Last time I had it I ended up in blood poisoning and an hour to live, 6 days in intensive care, I do not want that again. So will get going with the fast after I have got well. Not very happy about it, the fast is going so well this time. Soon soon soon I will be back.
So day seven have arrived. All is well :D No worries. Sleeping is still bad and breathing is not good. I simply stop breathing and have to get going by force. But I will do more yoga and breathing practises to see if it will get better. Might also be the more weight I loose that will go away, though I doubt it.
Today is the forth day on my fast, still very early in the fast so there is not much to say about it. I feel much better today, yesterday was terrible, I almost ended my fast but now things are good :D
Spring equinox, spring is here, sun shine down on me through the window as I write here in Gothenburg, Göteborg. So I started water fasting yesterday. I will during the days to come make a v-log on how things are going. Last time I fasted, last summer, it helped me a lot, I did 14 days. This time I will try to do a longer fast, I aim at 33 days, but that is up for debate between me and this body I created and live in. On top of this I will learn more, a lot more on nutrition then I do know now, hope to grasp how to set up a way of eating that will help me gain optimal health. I am in no doubt that such a thing is possible.
