Coming Out of the Closet

In honor of All Hallow's Eve I present my personal views of religion, God, and the like. About 10 years ago, give or take a couple of years, I decided that I would find out as much as I could about this God stuff. So I devoured every book, lecture, and discussion I could on religion and spirituality. I studied the origins of Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, and just about every faith that had a book written on it. Of particular interest were the Native American beliefs and the Toltec religion of South America. The first part of my spiritual education took 5 years. I read and attended lectures/readings every chance I had during my time off from work. It was one of the most enlightening and worthwhile things I have ever done. It makes me proud to know that I stayed the course and learned all that I could.

So, you may be wondering what conclusions I came up with after all this study. Well, there were several effects on me. The first one being that I can probably never belong to any organized religion. Organized religion is nothing more than a male dominated power hierarchy. It kills, suppresses and controls everyone within it. The second conclusion is that there is a God. A God that is unrecognizable by today's standards, but a divine consciousness all the same. I believe that this consciousness can only be found within each of us. It does not require the intervention of man to be known. In other words, churches, societies, covens, etc are wholly unnecessary. Their only purpose is to create yet another power structure by which they can control the thoughts, desires, and sexuality of their members.

Basically I have become a Mystic of sorts. A Mystic that believes that we do not know everything that can be known. As a species, we are still young and learning. We interpret this world through our five senses. Anyone who has studied human anatomy knows that our senses are very limited when compared to many other species, yet we think we know everything. How do we know that things don't exist outside the realm of what our senses can measure? We don't know, yet we arrogantly assume that if we can't see it, then it isn't there. Often we look at history and laugh at the ignorance of our ancestors. We wonder how they could think the world was flat. How could they not think that infections were caused by bacteria? Our ancestors thought because they couldn't see it, then it didn't exist.

I believe that more exists than is known now. What do you think?