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FROM A SITE VISITOR: Hey Floyd, I love your site!! Well, I was programmed by catholicism and I'm still having trouble realizing that there is no heaven/hell... I still have a fear that I may create my own hell or that there might be a hell.. How can I deprogram myself from this fear? Are you positive there is no hell?? peace and love alex
F.: Before continuing, please note these comments offered at http://advaitaclasses.blogspot.com/ where you can find information on the Advaita classes that many seekers are currently enrolled in online:
While the subject matter in the Level One readings might be considered radical by some persons, others consider many of the beliefs that are taught to young children to be fairly radical as well. These readings merely invite the seeker to enter into a mode of questioning, or at least to revisit in an objective fashion some of the beliefs held by many persons that, in turn, hold surprisingly-powerful sway over them.
During Level One lessons, some discover that charges of Advaita being "anti-religion" are unfounded, especially when it is learned that Christ offered the Advaita Teachings during the last three years of his life. In fact, it will be learned by those who complete all four levels of the course that there are “Seven Steps in the Journey to Reality” and that the end of the third step is the religious or spiritual step.
So some of the readings in this section will invite an impartial look at some of the sacred cows in this and other cultures; other readings will present information that will assist seekers in answering some of the oldest questions of all, such as, “Who am I, really?” and “How did I get here?” and “What happens when this life in the relative existence ends?”
That applies to this discussion as well. Now, to continue: The result of religious indoctrination is a tendency to try to live supernaturally. The result of trying to live in some supernatural fashion is unnatural living…the type of living where natural acts are thought to be unnatural, such as religion teaching that the natural act of masturbation
While the Advaita teachings invite persons to cast aside ignorance and to tap into the inner resource that allows logic and reason to direct actions, dogma and doctrine would prefer that persons operate under the auspices of blind faith rather than rationality. The insane results after people are programmed with the dogma of the sky cults is obvious, relatively speaking:
Considering the fact that the planet cannot now sustain the numbers of people walking about the globe, might it not be logical to “waste” a few seeds?
Millions of people are dying from AIDS because of the illogical conclusion drawn by some religions that it’s better to die of AIDS than to use contraception and waste the seed.
Whereas most modern cultures frown on cannibalism and vampirism, it is modeled weekly for billions of children as if it is normal. In fact, the message to children and adults is that such behavior is not perverted at all but that it is “holy” to eat body and drink blood (but only during religious rituals).
While some are told by the one they take to be their “savior” that “a dual-minded person” is unstable in all ways, they can nevertheless accept the contradictory teaching that their god can (a) love unconditionally but has (b) set forth ten conditions that can lead to eternal punishment;
that an “all-loving” but obviously angry god can commit the largest act of genocide and drown all of humanity except for one family (and that is unquestioningly accepted as “okay”) while thinking that Hitler’s far more limited act of genocide was most certainly “not okay”;
that a god who loves unconditionally would need to create a “hell.”
Note, then, the success that religious programmers have at warping those persons whom they subject to their programming:
in spite of how illogical all of the above examples are, and how impossible it would be for “unconditional love” to co-exist with a need for a geographic hell to be used for the punishment of those that are said to be loved “unconditionally,” persons programmed with that contradictory message cannot reason and see the lack of logic or plausibility.
Instead, they will write to this site and ask if I am “positive there is no hell??”
Those separated via programming from logic and reason can be taught that…
all is energy and matter;
neither energy nor matter can be created; and
neither energy nor matter can be destroyed.
In spite of being taught those scientific facts, they can write to this site and reveal their belief that there is a creator even though nothing has been created; can think some creator is channeling through them; and can believe that “there’s only God’s will, so it’s all good.”
Only after reaching the understanding of “no creation-no destruction” can persons begin to get free of the programming that drives them to believe that a creator can exist when nothing can be created or destroyed.
The only thing happening is that certain elements and energy are coming together and later coming apart. Please enter into the silence of contemplation. (To be continued)
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