Bjorn : One Mind

Re: Spirituality or Religion ?

Bjorn said Feb 13, 2007, 12:45 AM:

 

Liquid Light a beautiful description of Holy Spirit, or Ananda. To dive within in worship and in living faith, to honor God almighty, to pray for his coming, to believe in the power of resurrection, to “be still and know that I am God”.

Life eternal is eternal life. There is power in the name of God. It turns our face towards Him.
When the Spirit manifests through humans it wants to commune, it wants to share itself with others. Communial experience of the Spirit enlarges the vision and points a way toward a saving grace among many. There and then, we have to let go of our private relationship with the spirit and allow it to flood the awareness of the group, let go of control and let it do its own business. How wonderous this communial experience is!

The structure of Religion is inevitable when people come together to share this communial Spirit. And if it is constantly being informed and renewed with this living Spirit, it will be able to carry a living message forward in time and even evolve its understanding as it grows. (not without its mistakes as we all like to point out).

To me, to be able to understand the growth of Culture, the evolution of mankind, of Gods plan, of people learning about Life, it is fundamental to come to a clear insight of the positive and true purpose of religious or spiritual structure. Then, and only then will we be able to criticize any shortcomings and help to overcome them.