I am a non-believer. Institutionalized faith has never inspired me. I see it as nothing more than opium for the masses.
I see the opium of religion being replaced with many others – mindless music, mindless devotion, mindless battles. People are given a cause to fight for, which does not really impact society and life, but keeps them distracted from real life manipulations of a selected few. Conformism is the path to slavery.
But … where is the anchor I need to feel whole, to feel the connection between mind, body and spirit? I need to start a new un-faith movement, a non-cult of objectivity, of seeing beyond edited highlights of leadership and movements.
can sky and water
turn transparent to reveal
possibilities beyond?
Creative Experiments and More 
I agree with so much you say here. Religion does not impact me, only spirituality moves me.
I challenge you to read “Dying to be Me” by Anita Moojani and “E-squared” by Pam Grout (both are on kind and, I believe, in print). Read and do a bit, then decide if there is something to feed the masses…I believe there is.
Scott
PS- “Conversations With God – Book 1” by Neale Donald Walsh is the really book that helped me totally change my beliefs. I am so much happier now.
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Thanks for the references! I have seen Anita Moorjani’s videos, and read about Neal Donald Walsh. Will check up E-Squared for sure.
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Great! And…she has videos?!!!! Great!
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Thanks for the poem-comment! Appreciate the effort and the sentiment.
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Institutionalized .. make me think of madness… maybe faith can have a lot of common with that… But I do have faith of morality… we need that to live together… and part of the scriptures actually contains good guidelines, I have faith in other humans thinking for themselves actually.
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The irony is that we cannot survive without faith. Every step that you take is based on the faith, that the earth will not sink. Thanks, Bjorn!
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Me too, Reena – institutionalized faith has never inspired me. I agree that ‘People are given a cause to fight for, which does not really impact society and life, but keeps them distracted from real life manipulations of a selected few’ – we see it all the time. I also agree with your ‘But’ – we need some kind of anchor ‘to feel whole, to feel the connection between mind, body and spirit’. And what we all do here is write, which seems to be a pretty good anchor to me.
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Thanks for making me feel ‘whole’ – as a part of the tribe! 🙂
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Anything mindless is worthless. You are seeking something meaningful, and you will find it, because you are you.
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Thank you so much 🙂
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A beginning ends what an end begins.
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Insightful!
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“Mindless battles” should be avoided as you mention.
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The ones where string are pulled by others ….
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I think writing has become my faith and I imagine that is so for most of us posted here.
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That is a great thought! Writing as a faith ….
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Thanks for sharing your views. A thought-provoking piece. I do believe that there is so much more than institutionalized faith. I think the purpose of our life runs much deeper than that.
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Agree. Thanks a lot!
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I think they might be able to. I agree with you. People seek for something. No one can tell you what that is. Keep seeking.
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Thanks for seeing the perspective!
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