{"id":455,"date":"2011-03-01T04:49:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-01T04:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scarletjinn.com\/blog\/?p=455"},"modified":"2011-03-01T04:49:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-01T04:49:00","slug":"some-thoughts-of-consciousness-and-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scarletjinn.com\/?p=455","title":{"rendered":"Some Thoughts of Consciousness and Religion"},"content":{"rendered":"

For those of us who follow the \u201cRoyal Road\u201d of Direct Experience, accounts of other people\u2019s insights, legends, and myth based religions have little appeal.\u00a0 We may resonate with the person(s) who had the original insights, but we understand that each time someone has a direct experience of consciousness, Oneness, divinity\u2026LIFE, (whatever you choose to\u00a0 call it) there are inevitably blind followers who create empty rituals and adulterate the original insights.<\/p>\n

You can tell how far the followers are from the original vision by the rigidity if their rules and the intensity with which they defend their position.<\/p>\n

While Direct Experience is a living<\/strong> thing, followers create religions, which are dead<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Religion clings to the empty cocoon after the butterfly of direct spiritual experience has flown.<\/strong><\/p>\n

For followers, sadly, it is often true that the longer they follow religion, the more rigid they become<\/em> \u2013 and fluidity and openness to the NOW are necessary for Direct Experience.\u00a0 To be fully awake and alive in the moment is a gift \u2013 a moment\u2019s insight can open up a whole life.<\/p>\n

In fundamentalism rigidity is a curse and a sadness, leading to intolerance and hostility.\u00a0 In some \u201cNew Age\u201d circles, the rigidity and religious spirit still creeps in, as followers sometimes echo talk of \u201csacred sites\u201d or \u201cchanneling\u201d or \u201chealers\u201d with no Personal Direct Experience.\u00a0 They say it because they\u2019ve been told, and they BELIEVE, but not because they KNOW it from experience.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cYou\u2019ve got to find it on your own, walking along the Royal Road.\u00a0 It\u2019s why you do what you do\u2026 – From Whatcha Do, Jinn-Elliott<\/strong><\/p>\n

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There really isn\u2019t anything wonderful or admirable about having \u201cfaith\u201d in something somebody told you, or that was written on some bronze age scroll…expecially if it contradicts your own direct experience.\u00a0 Come on.<\/p>\n

The beautiful present moment is always right HERE for us to BE and to EXPERIENCE it ourselves.<\/em>\u00a0 We really need to stay alive in the moment, and stay present and awake.\u00a0 And we need to be aware and watch our own inner reality for signs of rigidity, ego, superstition, hostility and religious tendencies.\u00a0 Because as is often pointed out religion and true consciousness\/ spirituality are very different things.<\/em><\/p>\n

It\u2019s a\u00a0 conundrum.\u00a0 For many years quantum physics had been confirming that there are multiple levels of reality other than the material level\u2026the (current) world view will change.\u00a0 It always does.<\/p>\n

Perhaps this will end the domination of stiff fundamentalist\/Dominionist style religion and bring about the openness that allows insight and personal expansion.\u00a0 That\u2019s what I believe is happening now\u2026and the rigid fundamentalist people are clinging ever more desperately to their rituals laws, dogmas and books.\u00a0 It\u2019s a sign that our species is preparing to finally outgrow this prison.\u00a0 Look for the most regressive among us to scream all the louder and try to take over our political process even more as progress moves slowly forward.<\/p>\n

Yet, as science and genuine consciousness\u00a0 reconnect, it empowers us.\u00a0 Remember that during the reign of the Dark Ages, when the church ruled the known world, these two schools were most persecuted: spiritual mystics and scientists.\u00a0 To finally see these two studies empowered\u00a0 and rejoined once again is a beautiful thing.<\/p>\n

You can make sense of this world view only if you base the world on consciousness.<\/p>\n

Consciousness is the ground of all being, and quantum physics makes this as clear as daylight.”\u00a0\u00a0 Amit Goswami, Quantum Physicist<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For those of us who follow the \u201cRoyal Road\u201d of Direct Experience, accounts of other people\u2019s insights, legends, and myth based religions have little appeal.\u00a0 We may resonate with the person(s) who had the original insights, but we understand that each time someone has a direct experience of consciousness, Oneness, divinity\u2026LIFE, (whatever you choose to\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[35,125,173],"class_list":["post-455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random","tag-consciousness","tag-personal-evolution","tag-spirituality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scarletjinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scarletjinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scarletjinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scarletjinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scarletjinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scarletjinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scarletjinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scarletjinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scarletjinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}