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Religion and Religiousness - by Eric Allen Bell
No religion is entirely wrong.
And no religion is entirely right.
Each faith tradition,
those that have passed on
and those that live on,
are an attempt to organize
the mystery into a
knowable form.
Religion is not entirely all good
or all bad.
The sentiment can often be beautiful
while the trappings are a trap.
Religions, at their best, are vessels
that carry an essence.
A canoe that carries you from one shore
to another.
But once one has arrived at this other shore
why drag this useless canoe around
through the jungle
and the desert
and other unknown territories?
At their worst, religions are used as structures
to build and destroy power
and perceptions
of power.
And yet there is something unknowable
that is always ever present.
The invisible thread
which weaves its way through everything
is the essence of religiousness
and the essence is always
at ease.
Faith is useless
when direct perception is right there
right here
right now
Once the mystery is perceived directly,
religion
is no longer needed.
Religiousness is all that is left
and one's entire life
becomes a
prayer.
Peace,
Eric Allen Bell is Founder ofwww.GlobalOne.TV
Multimedia for Mystics
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Comment by Lori Crockett on October 28, 2012 at 4:16am -
This is wonderful!. You have expressed it so well That is the way I see it, too. http://www.mindbodyheartandsoul.com
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Comment by Pamela Fill on November 7, 2011 at 1:38am -
In this wonderful writing you have expressed how I have felt all my life. Never able to put it into words, I thank you for your wonderful writing..Please continue sending Truth..Peace and Love, Pam
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Comment by Alexi on November 6, 2011 at 11:32pm -
Yes! Great post! This is why I do not like to co-mingle a "vessel that carries an essence" with the nut-balls who use religion for power and spread ignorance, fear and hatred. Putting Ann Coulter in the same sentence as religion is like blasphemy to essence of religion. Those who push their distortion of reality based on what THEY call "religion" and the literal definition of "religion" are not the same things.
And Eric, before Sheeple start to perceive directly, there is a faith that a mystery, or some kind of essential truth, a "oneness" if you will, exists at all. For me, it was a kind of faith (yes, based on a nagging direct perception, I'll give you that) that led me to inquire about my own personal programming in the first place. Again, it's just my (limited) view, yet I believe the nut-balls have co-opted the words "faith" and "religion", and the more we attack those words, the more credence we give to their definitions.
Namaste - Alexi
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Comment by Pamela Fill on November 4, 2011 at 2:38am
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Wonderful....
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