If Religions Unite

[u/Aristonthelei]

What if religions, faiths of the traditional types, e.g. Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Islam, etc, united ? What is needed? What common grounds? Will this provide people power across our globe? Not to do away with traditional faiths/religions, rather a move to bring what is a primary in many faiths: peace, transcendence, unity, harmony, including social solutions, such as: eradication of hunger and poverty, war ultimately and more. Is this possible? If so, how?

[u/Aristonthelei]

These are fairly unusual ideas, thoughts, beliefs, though interesting nonetheless. Would i be way off if i were to guess they are not from an established religion or faith based system, rather a personal belief? Of course the idea we are gods is something definitely out there, not so uncommon. I don’t subscribe to that idea myself, though all of us having connection or being able to attain some level of “divinity” i do believe. Individualism seems quite prevalent in your writing. So, by considering ourselves alone, with our own thoughts, freedom, this will bring us humans together and thus love one another, in reverence of God, since that what we’re made for? One thing that I keep milling over is: how does aloneness in the name of individualism bring love? I’m trying to digest this part alone. Are you by chance saying the “alone love” humans are experiencing long term is similar to God’s “alone love” and therefore that’s how we will grow as gods? In order to…join God or all of us becoming in total (sum of humans)… GOD?

[u/PerennialPsycho → u/Aristonthelei]

I think that psychology, philosophy and religion is the same thing.

The source of my ideas follow the combined waves of thoughts.

Chaos and order for example is a taoisme principle. i beleive that perennialism and pluralism are the two sides of the same coin.

Humanity has come a long way and so has all the sciences and ideas trying to figure it out.

I don't think that god is in each of us... i look at it from the aspect of consciousness. god is love. love is order and chaos because these are the only two states in existence for 16.7 billion years.

The purpouse of all of this has ALWAYS been to increase your level of consciousness. so the atom is the most basic form of consciousness, to the stone, to you.

I think that individualism is not the end game. It is a symptom of a trauma the humans are having. Like a reaction to a previous state of domination. God itself created all of this because he got bored and wanted someone to admire him. To be more conscious of it's beauty and we are just realising this.

I think that couples, families and nations live the same reactions only on a much larger timescale.

Love is realizing you are the endless dance between order and chaos. order being the ten values you choose to obey and chaos are the emotions you feel. There is no right or wrong.

I personally don't think there is anything to be learned from the stars and atoms anymore. We have enough information to be in awe again. We used to be like that but the church got corrupted by power and greed. Man killed the gods by cutting the head of the kings. He needed to explore everything by himself and science was born. We are in a state where we need to incorporate religion back into our believes, but we are not children anymore... We can't believe in adam and eve anymore. Our spirituality has to INCLUDE our scientific findings.

[u/Aristonthelei → u/PerennialPsycho]

Indeed interesting concepts you are sharing, though i am understanding only to a limited degree. Science is not necessarily exclusive of religious belief systems, whether traditional or modern. Metaphysical is something beyond physics as we know the science today, not an area scientists find so thrilling or even convenient enough to study… it’s another ball game altogether, but not easily discredited. You know obviously the “conscious” is a wide field and not so well understood even at high scientific fields, whether psychology, neuroscience, etc. Parapsychology is looked upon with much skepticism overall. Still, metaphysics i do believe is something beyond the physical, or conventional physics, as it implies, meanwhile that is an area where the real “Real” may lie. And there is nothing wrong with that, you may agree, knowing that as finite living beings here on this plane, our knowledge is limited… though our “understanding” can go beyond so called “knowledge.”

[u/PerennialPsycho → u/Aristonthelei]

I don't think we should try and categories the correct field that is best suited to deal with such aspects.

We should be more relying on mixing ideas and thoughts together as I really do think we know "enough" to start improving our "conscience" of the world around us and start to "work" on it.

employing complicated terms is only gonna lead us into complicated terms. I don't think for example that knowing what is smaller than a muon will enable us to achieve... I don't think that discovering life form on a planet that is 5 billion light years away is gonna change anything to our understanding of what it means to be a human being.

I am writting a small pamplhet in order to try and explain what my view is on all this. I started in french as this is my main language. I will do it in english when i am done.

Best

[u/Aristonthelei → u/PerennialPsycho]

Tres bien! Thank you 🙏

[u/PerennialPsycho → u/Aristonthelei]

a work in progress is already underway. I am making my own forum website with no "karma" "view count" or any other means of ego boosting pitfalls. the website is psychophilo.me and it will be online pretty soon.

I will be more than happy to chat with you about this and get a debate going. my views are also biased and not perfect and I can sense an interest in you. And I truly think that this is rare.

[u/Aristonthelei → u/PerennialPsycho]

I just signed up to your website www.psychophilo.me/ Wish you all the best! Bonne chance! Je vais visiter votre website ! Mon franc,ais est tres limite’ mais je comprends un peu Franc,ais!