Sannhetseeker for Monday, September 27, 2004

Religious Conviction. Blaise Pascal said this. And he had it right, for the most part. Today's religion is not the way to a closer connection to "God". Religion, as we know it today, is an administrative bureaucracy that works to control one's ability to get closer to "God". Mark Twain said, "Man is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his religion isn't straight (the "correct" religion)." Today's religions, in the form of going to church, performing rituals... Sign in to see full entry.

them, they can't help it. It is the level of spiritual evolution that they have reached that determines their ideas. Ken Wilbur, an American psychiatrist and Christian Mystic identifies a nine-stage process of consciousness/spiritual evolution. I am going to give a brief description of each. To truly explain each stage would take many pages from this blog. If you would like to learn more read Putting on the Mind of Christ, by Jim Marion. The information that follows comes from that book. The... Sign in to see full entry.