Spiritual Research

What have you tried in an effort to tap into the God presence in you and around you?
Why not try?  Test and see... seek your own supernatural experience of tapping into the spirit.

How? Try the following, but not as an act to be accepted by people or God but just to experience your own real connection with your spiritual source.

Try praying. Simply acknowledge God during some quiet time alone and speak your heart.  If you are a little to jaded from all the misrepresentations of God to be sincere in praying to "God" (the old white haired guy in the sky), then verbally call out to know the unknown God or your ETERNAL SOURCE.

Try fasting.  Simply set some healthy constraints on your eating with a focus of experiencing a supernatural expression of love, peace and joy.

Try open and honest conversation. Don't be afraid to talk to people about your God experience or spiritual life.  HOWEVER also be BOLD enough to end the conversation when it seem to take an unhealthy or negative turn.  Don't waste time with arguing or debates.

Try anonymous acts of kindness.

Try giving sacrificially.  Give up something you enjoy or value to contribute to the well being of someone else (EVEN IF IT SEEMS THAT PERSON IS BETTER OFF THAN YOU).

Just try any or all of these 5 things and observe, note and share your experience with us.

PERFECT religion?

What would be the PERFECT religion?

If you were God and mankind was your offspring what rules would you set as a divine parent?

Who needs another religion?

The first definition of "religion" as listed by Dictionary.com:

a set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe, especially when considered as the creation of a superhuman agency or agencies, usually involving devotional and ritual observances, and often containing a moral code governing the conduct of human affairs.

Does the world need another religion... Do we need another reason to debate, to judge or to hate.  In uncertain times with economic instability, political mayhem, social unrest, widespread disease  and pandemic apathy what do we need; more to believe in or more to doubt?

Honestly, "religion" may have earned a bad rap but practically speaking doing things "religiously" is important to the integrity of human society.  Imagine an employee that only shows up to work sporadically and not religiously.  Or a relationship without the ritual of religiously communicating (both verbally and sexually).

Yes its true,... There are so many annoying if not dangerous attributes of religion that it's masses of devoted slaves seem to happily endure at the expense of humanity.  But before we through this baby out with the dirty diaper... is there any aspect of having a standard that has value.  Is there any redeemable value in the concept that there is something more to us than us.  Ok, for the intellectual it may be hard to swallow that the force that is the canvas of all reality has a personality...but wouldn't it be cool if it did? And if it did, making nice with it wouldn't be a bad thing.

Whether we call it "religion", "faith", "belief system", "opinion" or "mantra"; Human beings are gonna have them until we evolve to the point where we no longer have butt holes.  So why not find a way to live with them in a way that doesn't make the world (or media airways) a cesspool.

For all those that hate the intolerance of religion... how 'bout a little tolerance.  We'd love to have your intellect help us explore the positive potential of faith.

Spirituality Basics

The objective of ALL spiritual truth is encapsulated in the greatest commandment or spiritual law referenced by Jesus Christ: Love God, Love your neighbor, as you Love yourself.

Practically speaking, human "spirituality" is system of natural and supernatural principles that govern the 3 primary types of human Connections:
1. the invisible, intangible, yet real connection that we have to God
2. the invisible, intangible community connection we have with others (and the world around us)
3. the invisible, intangible connection we have with our physical bodies and personal identity (self)

Christ's "Law of Love" is the key to mastery of these connections. However, the challenge to fulfilling of this "Law of love" is power of the "sin" concept.

The consideration of the "sin" concept provokes the discussion of right and wrong. This discussion is an important endeavor of loving God, neighbor and self.  A healthy discussion should lead to mutual understanding and greater harmony.  Unfortunately, the concept of sin is one that isn't naturally easy or comfortable to address.  The solution is the Christ Concept.  The difficulty is the guilt, shame, offense and the defensiveness that are natural reactions to typical understanding of sin as the indictment of human weakness and frailty.  The Christ Concept offers conviction that can lead to change rather than condemnation that only produces shame and separation.

Through the mindset of the Christ Concept "sin" can be considered, addressed and once this concept is understood and believed sin is overcome to produce a consciousness in harmony with God, "neighbors" and self.  This consciousness lived out produces righteousness, peace and joy as intend in the design of mankind's purpose: Connection.

Overcoming sin (or overcoming evil with good) is such an important human responsibility because of the true power and detriment of sin is its negative impact on the connection that is inherent with human experience.

Think of sin as this: Anything that causes a perceived or real RIGHT to live as if we are not CONNECTED.

the Problem with God III

The problem with God is you can't see Him (Her or It).  Feeling and hearing Him is arguable.  Tasting Him is just plain weird.

How can anyone with the good common sense "God" gave a ground hound invest any hope in such a concept of a God?

Well, Its been said that God is Love. So lets consider love. 

The answer to "Why believe GOD?' maybe answered with the response to the question "Why believe LOVE?"

Horrific acts have been done in the name of both.  Both, seem to make humanity vulnerable to the protection that logical behavior and scientific fact offer.  Both are intertwined so deeply with our emotions that belief in either one of them could be a symptom of a uneducated,... unsophisticated,...weak mind.  Do they really exist?  Can they be proven?  And considering all the trouble they cause, wouldn't our society be better without them?  

So why GOD?  

Why LOVE?

Simple Truth 1

Your life has infinite purpose and power because of the lives to which you are connected.  The source of all your need is within you and the access to all your wants is around you.  You have permission, NOW, to life full, significant and meaningful.

Don't waste another day living anything less than confident that your life is YOURS, and that makes it worth living.

Every moment is a treasure and every day a gift.

Unwrap your gift!

the Problem with God II

The problem with “God” is that in seeking to understand God we define him and believe that what God is can be constrained by our label. Most of us are humble enough to acknowledge that there is more to existence that us.  There must be more creative intention that what is produced by human consciences.  And in effort to find greater or even some thing similar to human capacity, we anthropomorphize EVERYTHING. But somehow after the years, and years of reducing things to us, does it seem that its getting harder to believe there is more than us?  Do we still need God? But which God do we need?  The one the we created with our attributes or the one that has been and always will be.... MORE.    

The force, the system, the power, person and intellect that is God will always be more than we perceive.  This is why seeking and studying and questioning God is as natural as seeking, studying and questioning our parents.  One a biological source the other a spiritual source.

the Problem with God

The problem with God is that the term “GOD” has been so misunderstood, abused, counterfeited and/or poorly defined that it has all but lost complete credibility.   And unfortunately, for many who say they “believe, the conceptualization of the most powerful force has been reduced to fable or a cosmic lottery.   

Truth is “God” is a term given to the same intelligent force that creates and sustains all life.  There is some more,... something bigger than us... there is something greater than us...there is God.  But the problem with God is that we ascribe human characteristics to God in order to better understand and relate.  This tendency isn’t entirely bad as we do this with many other things from cars, to cloths, to pets, to body parts.  We give names, a attribute personality and begin a relationship story with most things. However, doing this to God without seeking to know the more there is, is to limit all that God is and exists to be.

Connection vs. Separation

There are many reasons why it is so important to resurrect the awareness that we, the human race, are connected to God and each other.  One of the many fruits of this resurrected perspective will be the fundamental change in how we expect our needs to be met.  With the separation from God or the source of all that is needed, there emerges the drive to toil, struggle, compete and connive to ensure survival or achieve “success”.   But what if we believed that we were connected to an unlimited source of all that we need to live and have EVERYTHING that we enjoy?

What would be different if you believed the you were connected?

The Christ Concept

The “Christ Concept” as defined in Connectionism is the message that God is connected to and partnered with humanity to improve life through community.  This concept is the motivating force of the Connectionism movement.  We believe Jesus Christ is a message (or “word”) from God. The meaning of this "word" and the point of the message in Christ is the offer of permission, provision and purpose for the power that comes by believing we are one with God (the way Christ is one with God). 

The point is to fulfill the unique Christ call that comes with life at birth to perpetuate the message of connectedness which calls people into responsibility and accountability for our connection to God and each other. 

Understanding, acknowledgement and affirmative response to Christ as an invitation to live as a “relationship partner” with God empowers those who believe to explore that connection to supernaturally benefit the world while our own needs are met.  

The Christ Concept is a wake up call from God to all of humanity, calling us out of the death sleep that begun in the Garden of Eden.   The awakening is to the fact that we ARE connected to God and to one another.  Not Guilt, shame, hiding nor our personal cover ups change this fact but do perpetuate the denial of this truth. Mankind’s original (intended) perspective was one towards God and over creation as stewards commissioned by God.  But after the famous or infamous fruit eating the perspective became one of judgement and prejudgement: judgement of self and our neighbor(s) and prejudgement as to what God finds desirable. indeed, what “died” in the Garden was our identity... a people comfortable with the presence of our Heavenly Father, a race that took the responsibility of dominion seriously, beings that co-labored together with God to make his “good” creation better.  

And this all begins when you believe.  Questions is, "Do you believe?"  

Better question, "Do you choose to believe or do you simply awake to the fact that you are a believer or both?"

Belief, is it in you yet?