Without taking a neutral approach to the question of why we are here, we won’t be able to identify the contradictions within and across religions and our actions.
This reductive approach to ‘a personal path’ leads to picking and choosing according to ‘intuition’ or ‘feeling’.
You could argue it’s at the root of every problem we’ve faced since recorded history. It’s evident w the vast number of belief systems we see today.
We’re lost and destroying each other in our pursuit for meaning.
In modern times most pick and choose from their preferred religion(s), adopting an individual set of believes and practices, often as contradicting as the ideas guiding them.
I’ll refrain from giving examples to avoid offending any group, but the truth is, overwhelmed by the immense amount of literature, the above process kicks in to protect the Ego. A belief system w little scientific rigor is formed and actions are taken. The Pursuit of Truth placed secondary. Divisions are made and wars are fought.
It’s why we have divisions and the idea we need to defend our sovereignty from inferior, external, beliefs. When in fact we are all here together, and the Truth concerns us all.
So to achieve the answers to the Universe the key seems to be the Socratic method, “I don’t know” and not adopting an exclusive finite belief system a priori to the scrutiny of the required amount of evidence.
And who can say they can dedicate their lives to an Academic scrutiny across religions, correlate the data and show the overlaps? And match those overlaps with modern research?
That is what’s required to arrive at the Most Appropriate Religion and Practices. The Socratic and Academic Process of comparing and correlating the available evidence for each piece of evidence.
It’s what we’ve seen happening with the Eastern traditions since the 1800’s. Our instruments and techniques improved and we now have more correlates with Eastern traditions than other religions.
This brings me to my reason for reaching out to this community:
The contradictions that arise in Eastern traditions if you don’t assume an optimistic / benevolent truth, sticking to the above model, remaining neutral in your search.
I’m trying to say that every religion has things you can pick out as just not being right, and need to be excluded after comparison to Theological and Scientific Research.
One contradiction is the idea that the ultimate goal is to escape the Reincarnation Cycle, whilst simultaneously accepting the idea that we are one Universal Consciousness. Idealism.
How can it be beneficial for the self to cease its sentience once unified? It’s like the answer becomes an Atheistic “there’s nothing after death”, if escaping the Reincarnation Cycle leads to no Sentience.
Suggesting in some ways that the point of Samsara is to exit, never come back and cease to have consciousness, as there is no self no sentience once unified w the Universal Consciousness.
It’s like the biggest Koan.
But it’s evident negative ideas don’t lead to good thoughts and actions so most retreat out of these questions in unconscious Ego driven panic.
I personally entertained this Idealist view for a while but I now believe in a more Dualistic reality, where we exist in a substrate we could call a Consciousness Network, like Donald Hoffman describes.
So just like we are all contributing to the Internet, we are not one with the Internet. We have the potential for maintaining the individual Essence after death is what I’m saying.
The more difficult contradictions arise when asking innocent, naive and Socratic questions w the advantage of retrospection:
“Who or what is benefiting from my activities on Earth?”
“If the point is to learn, why do those w the ‘most truths’ go within and engage the least in this world?”
Closing their eyes for most of their lives, in order to have the clarity to go towards the light at death, and on Earth (being good to others). Avoiding the distractions of Samsara. All forms of experience involve the Ego, like a muscle, it develops the more e experience and engage w this plane of existence.
“Why is there an increasing amount of modern research showing once you go within and meditate you emit gamma in wake states, your brain is optimised, and reports of Parapsychological Phenomena, many included in the list of the Siddhis, Vatican texts and across other ancient texts begin to appear?”
“Why does it seem beneficial to not engage in reality, feeding the Default Mode Network where the Ego lies?”
“If we suppress our consciousness the more we contribute to this plane of existence, then who is benefiting from our engagement and suppression?
I hope I’m met with friendliness and open minds keen to help me think deeper. I made a related post on the Buddhism sub before which was taken down. It included a bunch of links to all my references to my thoughts guided by modern research of the brain and consciousness, studies of religions, sociology, psychology, parapsychology, and The Phenomenon. I was simply asking for guidance from people which I hope will be as neutral as I find myself to be. Shows how afraid people are to make a serious enquiry into their belief systems.
I’ll refrain from posing the more blunt questions I think my post implies well, but will be happy to discuss in the comments if the mods allow my post 🙏🏼
Submitted July 09, 2022 at 04:07AM by Competitive-Cycle-38 https://ift.tt/KcJPhoi
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