This is one of the subjects closest to my heart and it frustrates me how little appreciation or even thought goes into it. I'm guessing it won't provoke so much interest as usual with these things, but you never know so I thought I'd might as well give it a try. But this is some of my heavier stuff, I can also be really serious.
So what I find so frustrating is the artificial divide between science and spirit. This is something unnatural and man-made and has made such a mess of things. Peter Deunov was a great scientific thinker who inspired Einstein and others in their work, but most of all he was a spiritual teacher and lived his life as a kind of religious leader. He taught an holistic system of thought with science, psychology, and spirituality as one, as it should be, without the artificial divide we now have is in our culture, which achieves some of the same as keeping people illiterate.
Meaning, all fields of knowledge are kept separe from each other, and condradict each other all the time, which inspires ignorance. Or if you buy into one you have you reject the rest and end up limiting yourself by choosing one and keeping the rest out of your field of awareness. So if you've been trained in material science and believe in it you might feel you have to reject things of the spirit as "irrational" or "superstitious" (although not all, there are also some scientists who say they can see no contradiction between modern science and their belief in God, but most fall into that divide).
I see this all the time, in people who are spiritual seekers but afraid of being branded as stupid if they open themselves up to too much, when there is no need for this. There is also a spiritual science, as with everything else in life, everything that exists naturally has to have a science behind it. For instance, there is a science to beauty, but someone who hasn't been educated in it might see a beautiful sculpture or piece of music as a miracle and view it in a supersitious way, as they haven't been educated in things like symmetry, colour, and harmony. And this is the level humanity as a whole are still at when it comes to the spiritual.
This is a field which has been attempted to be described to us through various religions and belief-systems (any spiritual movement that doesn't belong to the main religion of a culture will usually be classified as a "cult" and this also contributes to limiting new initiative and our search for the truth) and personal, subjective spiritual/mystical experiences which can be achieved through various means. One of the main problems with this is that we tend to become more attached to the different systems of belief or religious/spiritual movements than the search for truth itself or the underlying reality they are trying to describe.
This is only natural, in that our desire for things like belonging, having a sense of identity, or just fun and entertainment is fundamentally stronger than our desire for finding the truth about things and making the spiritual dimension of life reveal itslf. Which is complex, takes time and effort, and doesn't offer much in the way of instant gratification. There's also nothing wrong with people coming together this way, although in our world it has been used in very negative ways and it's almost impossible to think of any movement which has been used only for good of people or to foster their enlightenment. As none are perfect, all are fallible, and no one, or very few, are able to room all of the truth within them. It would take immense awareness, and an enormous amount of energy, so naturally these are very few.
After studying theology all my adult life I've found that all the movements that have taken hold in our culture hold some truth in them and that is how they've managed to get a hold of the public consciousness. But there's none I've found to contain no untruths. The great Bulgarian teachers are the closest I can think of but their teachings have been kept very underground (I sometimes wonder what the world would be like if the Bible teachings were exchanged for that material). The trouble comes when people choose to identify with one system of belief and reject all the rest, or all that is opposed to it, as they think that's how it has to be done, so most of their energies are spent arguing with those who hold different beliefs rather than furthering their own spiritual development, and this is holding us back.
So this is a real problem, but the greatest problem of all is how all the sciences are kept separate from each other which keeps us from seeing the bigger picture. It's like we can't see the wood for the trees as we're been conditioned to believe one field of knowledge is separate from the rest. You could also say one who masters one field of science is knowledgable, and one who masters all is truly enlightened, but this isn't encouraged. Am I the only one who thinks like this, or are most just comfortable with the system we have and what we've always known, even though it's uneffective?
So what I find so frustrating is the artificial divide between science and spirit. This is something unnatural and man-made and has made such a mess of things. Peter Deunov was a great scientific thinker who inspired Einstein and others in their work, but most of all he was a spiritual teacher and lived his life as a kind of religious leader. He taught an holistic system of thought with science, psychology, and spirituality as one, as it should be, without the artificial divide we now have is in our culture, which achieves some of the same as keeping people illiterate.
Meaning, all fields of knowledge are kept separe from each other, and condradict each other all the time, which inspires ignorance. Or if you buy into one you have you reject the rest and end up limiting yourself by choosing one and keeping the rest out of your field of awareness. So if you've been trained in material science and believe in it you might feel you have to reject things of the spirit as "irrational" or "superstitious" (although not all, there are also some scientists who say they can see no contradiction between modern science and their belief in God, but most fall into that divide).
I see this all the time, in people who are spiritual seekers but afraid of being branded as stupid if they open themselves up to too much, when there is no need for this. There is also a spiritual science, as with everything else in life, everything that exists naturally has to have a science behind it. For instance, there is a science to beauty, but someone who hasn't been educated in it might see a beautiful sculpture or piece of music as a miracle and view it in a supersitious way, as they haven't been educated in things like symmetry, colour, and harmony. And this is the level humanity as a whole are still at when it comes to the spiritual.
This is a field which has been attempted to be described to us through various religions and belief-systems (any spiritual movement that doesn't belong to the main religion of a culture will usually be classified as a "cult" and this also contributes to limiting new initiative and our search for the truth) and personal, subjective spiritual/mystical experiences which can be achieved through various means. One of the main problems with this is that we tend to become more attached to the different systems of belief or religious/spiritual movements than the search for truth itself or the underlying reality they are trying to describe.
This is only natural, in that our desire for things like belonging, having a sense of identity, or just fun and entertainment is fundamentally stronger than our desire for finding the truth about things and making the spiritual dimension of life reveal itslf. Which is complex, takes time and effort, and doesn't offer much in the way of instant gratification. There's also nothing wrong with people coming together this way, although in our world it has been used in very negative ways and it's almost impossible to think of any movement which has been used only for good of people or to foster their enlightenment. As none are perfect, all are fallible, and no one, or very few, are able to room all of the truth within them. It would take immense awareness, and an enormous amount of energy, so naturally these are very few.
After studying theology all my adult life I've found that all the movements that have taken hold in our culture hold some truth in them and that is how they've managed to get a hold of the public consciousness. But there's none I've found to contain no untruths. The great Bulgarian teachers are the closest I can think of but their teachings have been kept very underground (I sometimes wonder what the world would be like if the Bible teachings were exchanged for that material). The trouble comes when people choose to identify with one system of belief and reject all the rest, or all that is opposed to it, as they think that's how it has to be done, so most of their energies are spent arguing with those who hold different beliefs rather than furthering their own spiritual development, and this is holding us back.
So this is a real problem, but the greatest problem of all is how all the sciences are kept separate from each other which keeps us from seeing the bigger picture. It's like we can't see the wood for the trees as we're been conditioned to believe one field of knowledge is separate from the rest. You could also say one who masters one field of science is knowledgable, and one who masters all is truly enlightened, but this isn't encouraged. Am I the only one who thinks like this, or are most just comfortable with the system we have and what we've always known, even though it's uneffective?
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