Religious Beliefs Became The Crutches For Our Spiritual Poverty

Religious beliefs haven’t always been a part of human life on Earth. In fact religious dogmas only began to emerge after we experienced ourselves as beings separate from our Higher Source Self or God. Instead of being mostly centered within and functioning primarily as light beings, we started to look outward and perceive ourselves predominantly as physical beings.

As our soul began to increasingly identify with the physical self (ego), our Higher Self went as if to sleep like a caterpillar in its cocoon. Subsequently, we lost our ability to use our light bodies and function in the quantum world, which had previously made living and creating so effortless and joyful. Identifying with our physical selves dropped our frequencies to a slower rate and made us denser, heavier and slower.

Before the soul ‘distanced’ itself from the Higher Self, physical matter offered no resistance to our bodies, allowing us to pass through objects like a butterfly moves through the air. With the increasing identification with the denser physical body, however, we began to bump into things and life became hard and difficult. Instead of living in accordance with the laws of nature that ruled over physical existence on this planet, we began to live against them, like swimming against a current rather than with it. The more we violated natural law the more we struggled and experienced wider and increasingly distressing extremes of duality. As we increasingly saw ourselves as ‘body,’ all emphasis, challenges and focus were on physical survival and reproduction.

From time to time, extraordinary souls incarnated in human form with full awareness of their Higher Self nature to remind us of our true heritage. They outlined for us the laws of nature and what happens when we violate them. They spoke of a Higher Being (God) that is the Source of the universe and all living beings, and told us that reconnecting with this being was our highest priority and purpose in life. Their words and teachings turned into guideposts of living and were recorded in books for others to read and follow.

Since we weren’t aware of our own Divine Essence, we became fascinated by those who were. We began to worship them as Gods and built churches and temples where we could praise and revere them. They became the crutches for our spiritual poverty. We had no idea that by putting them above us we deepened the rift between us and our Higher Self or God. Instead of identifying with our God Self we distanced ourselves from It. God became an idol of worship, a supreme being we could never be, and we knew ourselves as ignorant sinners who needed to pray for mercy and forgiveness.

The gap between God and us widened so much we actually started to fear Him. Religion, which was meant to be a means of literally ‘binding us back’ to the Source of All and reuniting us with our origin, instead became a way of ending our relationship with God. Dogmas, rituals, and endless interpretations of the holy texts made us believe that we needed to slavishly follow them to ‘secure ourselves a seat in Heaven by the side of God for all eternity’. We had replaced God, the ever-present substance of consciousness permeating every fiber of creation, with the idea of God. God became a fiction in our mind, a concept as big or small as a human thought. We gave our power away to a concept that others told us about, that books were written about, and idolized the concept as God. During this phase of human development, the collective focus moved from survival and reproduction as the basis of relationships to the exploration of emotions. This phase is characterized by the period of the Renaissance, which produced so much emotionally charged art and creativity.

The building of emotions as a way of knowing who we are was followed by another extension of ourselves: the development of the intellect. We began to explore our mind potential as a new way of defining ourselves. The information age is a product of this mind exploration, but at this point, it is coming to a closure. Now, we are beginning the process of discovering our true identity and the infinite creative power which that embodies.

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This is an excerpt from my book LIFTING THE VEIL OF DUALITY