Usually, when one mentions “spirituality”, the first thought in many people’s minds is that of “religion”. While religion is an aspect of spirituality, spirituality is not an aspect of religion. Spirituality covers other areas of belief.
— Faith vs. Knowledge–.
While many religious zealots view the idea of knowledge-based spirituality as “agnostic”, indeed, it is not. As a matter of fact, even agnostics believe in something, which provides them an alternative stance to organized religion and gods. You have to believe in something to take a stance!
Faith-based spirituality is the belief and trust that things will be as they will be in the future. Such an approach to spirituality creates a fear-based environment based on gods who are uncaring and vindictive.
Knowledge-based spirituality is the understanding and kinship of all and the desire to progress and achieve through life toward one’s own Vision and goals. This type of spirituality invites one to set aside fears and examine the information and entities of the surrounding environment.
— Hatred and Faith–.
One of the problems of today is that, in our world, wars, hatred, and bias begin in the moral grounds established by religion and society. Religion creates a solid separation between different factions of humanity.
In faith-based factions, fear is instilled and faith that a great hereafter exists. People fight to maintain their beliefs because they’ve finally “forced” their conscious minds to accept the unanswered questions based on unfounded and invisible guesses by their “noblemen”. The battles are fought to ensure that their foundations and comfort zones are not affected by the infidels of the intruding factions.
With knowledge-based factions, fear is minimized and the great hereafter is right here and now and continues on forever. Knowledge provides the mind with a greater degree of processing information arriving at our many senses in many contexts. It allows us to look beyond the basics and outside of the accepted “comfort zones” to comprehend the ideas and ideals of other entities, both spiritual and physical.
— Opening Your Mind–.
Many people fall deeply into organized religion because it provides the camaraderie and a focal point for their community as well as a basis for the moral code of the community. By opening one’s mind and examining the many facets behind these “big questions”, one can develop and acquire the true answers within one’s own context.
Of course, “context-free” is a little strong as we must all have a context, or a point of reference, that we can use to compare information and apply our rules and belief systems. This wider view is what is called an “open mind”. The open mind has no safety zone as it is always risking it’s “comfort zones” in search of new information and new ways of examining situations and other beings.
— What’s next?–.
Acquiring this knowledge and ability to move across many contexts is not a simple task as it requires the ability to acquire, accept, and process information outside of our current context. It is a “chicken or the egg” situation; however, it is a decision that we make as humans initiate such a move.
By opening our perceptions and minds, we allow our conscious minds the ability to communicate more freely with our subconscious minds. In doing so, the vast amounts of information available in the collective unconscious, “The Grid”, “The Universal Library” is available to us, simply by “looking.” Consider the idea of opening the mind as a primer for what follows once you are able to use your mind to its fullest capabilities and acquire immeasurable knowledge from all entities across the Universe and throughout time.
This is the true meaning of spirituality. The knowledge to use this information in a way that is beneficial to you, as protecting and projecting yourself, you are providing a pathway for others and the betterment of your communities.
Usually, when one mentions “spirituality”, the first thought in many people’s minds is that of “religion”. While religion is an aspect of spirituality, spirituality is not an aspect of religion. Spirituality covers other areas of belief. While many religious zealots view the idea of knowledge-based spirituality as “agnostic”, indeed, it is not. Knowledge-based spirituality is the understanding and kinship of all and the desire to progress and achieve through life toward one’s own Vision and goals.
