F.: For thousands of years, the Greeks and Romans believed with total faith that a god (or gods) existed in some other realm and controlled all things on earth. So thoroughly were they convinced by priests that those gods were real that they built temple-after-temple for worship, they sacrificed valuables to please the gods, they begged the gods to bless them, they pleaded with the gods to give them things desired or to spare them from things not wanted, they believed all misfortune or acts of nature were punishments handed down from the displeased gods, and they attacked or killed critics who suggested that their gods were nothing more than concepts dreamed up by men. Priests, along with politicians and military men, were the most influential persons in their communities, but eventually, the masses of that day came to see that the critics were right and that the gods were just mythological concepts.
Today, tourists walk through the remains of the Pantheon temple in Rome and the ruins of the Parthenon temple in Greece. Now, no belief in any of those gods remains, none of the priests who moved masses to believe in their concepts now hold power or influence, and no congregations gather regularly to worship those gods. Over the centuries, the people became aware…aware of the fact that all the stories were all made up by men inspired not by celestial beings but by their desire to have power over the masses and to control them. Seeing the truth, they were no longer being fooled. Since they were no longer fools, the institutions that had fooled them crumbled. The cycles of being fooled and being enlightened happen over and over among humanity. One day, if more and more persons here become enlightened and no longer fooled, then tourists may walk through the ruins of the churches and temples and mosques that are now deemed holy and that hold such power over the masses that persons die daily as a result of the emotional intoxication generated by their beliefs. More likely, businessmen will develop new projects on the properties. Someday, children who understand scientific facts will marvel that so many persons in the year 2006 believed that hurricanes were used by an angry god to punish people and that the forces of favored people were used by a vengeful god to wipe out people of other religions.
As in ancient Rome and Greece, certain people are awakening to the fact that they have been fools, fooled by those who have sought positions of authority and influence and are telling them once again the olden stories about power sources that are based in Roman and Greeks myths and the pagan religions before them that provided the stories originally. Read a story that was well-known for 500 years before Moses in which a god freed his enslaved people, led them through a desert, used a magical staff to make water pour out of stones, and then led them to a land of “milk, honey, and wine.” Read the stories that were told hundreds of years before Moses about great floods that killed all but one family. Read about the fact that the term “I AM THAT I AM” had been discussed for thousands of years before Moses claimed to have been the first to hear those words from a bush on fire. Read about the religions that were founded to worship saviors that were born of virgins (22 of them before Christ.) And then have an epiphany. Hear Your Self say it to your self: “Oh my gosh! And I thought all that was so unique, so different, so holy, so inspired! I had no idea it was all plagiarized!” To stop being fooled requires that persons be free of the influence of those talking about ancient Greek and Roman and pagan gods that were later combined by Abraham into one entity. Here’s the way that Kirk explained how he got free of being fooled in The Twice-Stolen Necklace Murders:
The breakthrough to Realization, to happiness, to sanity and to living spontaneously from a position of neutrality came with the dissolving of two concepts in particular: (1) the concept of the infinite existence of this physical body; and, (2) the belief in a 13.5 billion year old male-god who practices simultaneously (a) “unconditional” love while (b) being willing to burn and torture his children for eternity. Those allowed for shifting beyond all my efforts to try to live in the realm of the spirit with its three ulterior motives (to receive benefits now, to receive future rewards, and to avoid future punishment.) That shift allowed for fixation instead in the Great Reality, NOW.
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Today, tourists walk through the remains of the Pantheon temple in Rome and the ruins of the Parthenon temple in Greece. Now, no belief in any of those gods remains, none of the priests who moved masses to believe in their concepts now hold power or influence, and no congregations gather regularly to worship those gods. Over the centuries, the people became aware…aware of the fact that all the stories were all made up by men inspired not by celestial beings but by their desire to have power over the masses and to control them. Seeing the truth, they were no longer being fooled. Since they were no longer fools, the institutions that had fooled them crumbled. The cycles of being fooled and being enlightened happen over and over among humanity. One day, if more and more persons here become enlightened and no longer fooled, then tourists may walk through the ruins of the churches and temples and mosques that are now deemed holy and that hold such power over the masses that persons die daily as a result of the emotional intoxication generated by their beliefs. More likely, businessmen will develop new projects on the properties. Someday, children who understand scientific facts will marvel that so many persons in the year 2006 believed that hurricanes were used by an angry god to punish people and that the forces of favored people were used by a vengeful god to wipe out people of other religions.
As in ancient Rome and Greece, certain people are awakening to the fact that they have been fools, fooled by those who have sought positions of authority and influence and are telling them once again the olden stories about power sources that are based in Roman and Greeks myths and the pagan religions before them that provided the stories originally. Read a story that was well-known for 500 years before Moses in which a god freed his enslaved people, led them through a desert, used a magical staff to make water pour out of stones, and then led them to a land of “milk, honey, and wine.” Read the stories that were told hundreds of years before Moses about great floods that killed all but one family. Read about the fact that the term “I AM THAT I AM” had been discussed for thousands of years before Moses claimed to have been the first to hear those words from a bush on fire. Read about the religions that were founded to worship saviors that were born of virgins (22 of them before Christ.) And then have an epiphany. Hear Your Self say it to your self: “Oh my gosh! And I thought all that was so unique, so different, so holy, so inspired! I had no idea it was all plagiarized!” To stop being fooled requires that persons be free of the influence of those talking about ancient Greek and Roman and pagan gods that were later combined by Abraham into one entity. Here’s the way that Kirk explained how he got free of being fooled in The Twice-Stolen Necklace Murders:
The breakthrough to Realization, to happiness, to sanity and to living spontaneously from a position of neutrality came with the dissolving of two concepts in particular: (1) the concept of the infinite existence of this physical body; and, (2) the belief in a 13.5 billion year old male-god who practices simultaneously (a) “unconditional” love while (b) being willing to burn and torture his children for eternity. Those allowed for shifting beyond all my efforts to try to live in the realm of the spirit with its three ulterior motives (to receive benefits now, to receive future rewards, and to avoid future punishment.) That shift allowed for fixation instead in the Great Reality, NOW.
[http://floydhenderson.com/twicestolen.htm]
Freedom from concepts prevents being a fool. The nations that originally dreamed up the ancient myths and superstitions no longer believe in the tales of their own ancestors, yet billions worldwide still buy into the modernized versions of their stories and are thereby fooled. Rather than seeking more power, might you suffer less if you took away the power that persons are exerting over you in order to fool you and control you and make you dependent on things dreamed up by ignorant men who lived thousands of years ago? Being a fool ends when enlightenment breaks a person’s attachment to foolish ideas. Real freedom begins when beliefs about foolish myths and man-made concepts come to an end. Real freedom happens only when all dependencies end. Please enter the silence of contemplation.
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