Everything physical is chaos. Everything spiritual is reason. We give reality a purpose. We "know" there is something outside here. We just sense it; we perceive that there is more than this reality of chaos. We are the reason for the chaos; if we did not exist, neither would it. It's here for us! So why is it here for us? We know that matter responds directly to an observer. In fact, without an observer, electrons behave in chaos. But when an observer (i.e. "consciousness") is present, the electron behaves according to the laws of the physical reality. There are laws that govern this place; laws that are more constricting than what we're used to! How could we not be confused by what we're doing here?! Nothing about this place makes sense to our spiritual nature! But why? Why is it even here and why did we get sent here? I believe that we are meant to be conditioned here, and that is where the chaos comes in. If the physical reality was governed by reason, there would be no way for us to learn our lessons. We need chaos to grow. Everything grows; it's the one thing that everything with life on planet earth does. Plants grow, animals grow, humans grow. We all have "life". Life, or consciousness, is here to have a growing experience. It couldn't happen without the bad. We as spiritual beings are good. We are beings of light. (We are not "sinners"; we are good sparks of light to begin with and we are here to grow, with the help of chaos, to be more like our Creator. Aren't we always praying "to be more like You"? If we believe "I'm a sinner! I'm a bad person!" that's how we will continue to act. Our belief sets the tone for our reality. Our belief is like our operating system. Everything happens inside of it and is influenced by it's nature, or "the way that it is." Our belief is our "way".) The physical place is the part where the bad is allowed to come in. It's here for us too!! And it wants us!! :/ It's okay though! It's under the authority of our Creator too. It's just here to help us grow. In a Bible story, our Creator even gave evil permission to pick on Job, but the rule was that he couldn't kill him, i.e. "give him more than he could handle." Our Creator will not give us more than we can handle. Evil is just a property of the program. It's "necessary evil!" We wouldn't be able to do much growing if we didn't have hard things happen to us that strengthen us!
A great being appeared 2,000 years ago. He knew all the rules of how to live peacefully in the midst of the chaotic environment. There were other teachers who came and taught the same basic understandings of how to live in love before and after Jesus' time. Somebody had to!! Right? What about the millions of people who never heard Jesus' teachings? Too bad for them? Nah, I think our Creator had it figured out when he sent Ghandi, Lao Ztu, Buddha and so many other teachers. God IS love. So he sent people to TEACH love! The specifics of their teachings differed a little, but they all taught the same basic concepts that apply to us living our daily life and staying on the straight path. (I like to think of it as a virtual reality game, and keeping your avatar's heart status -the thing in the right hand corner of the screen- in the green zone! Or the love zone! The red zone to me is the "fear zone". I can tell how I'm doing by how I feel. When I'm depressed, I know I'm not living in love.) The problem is, this thing called religion sprung up (actually, MANY religions) after these great teachers who basically taught the same thing (yes, I know there are differences in their teachings, but they are petty differences. The major points of how to live peacefully and in love are congruent.) We all know where this idea of organized religion brought us. Now we all hate each other and kill each other over it. Must be right!
We've been letting chaos rule. We've let go of love! Isn't it time for everyone to stop guessing who they are? We are all a mirror of each other. We are all the same! There's a Russian proverb that says "Tell me who's your friend & I'll tell you who you are." This doesn't mean "Birds of a feather flock together." It means that you can understand your friend if you understand that he is no different than you. Lao Tzu said "If you want to know me, look inside yourself." We reflect each other. No one is greater than or less than. They say someone is "one of a 'kind'". A kind is a family. The phrase "one of a kind" has always been used is a way that is a complete paradox to me. We are each one spark in an infinite ray of light. We are all unique and different from each other because we each have unique human minds. But our mind is different from our soul. Our soul is love! Our Creator is love! So why can't we just use love as a belief? Love should be everyone's operating system. Everything else would fall into place if people realized what we all have in common: LOVE! Each one of us possesses it, and God IS it, so doesn't that kind of collectively make us one?! Don't you think we could try to live with a standard of just love (what God is), instead of throwing words like "holy" and "sinners" in to confuse us about who we are?
