The hope that the future will be better is a fundamental ingrediant to human psyche. Yet there are times one can dispare of even that.
What if some central part of you life dies: Your marrage, your kids, your life's work. What if you are facing a slow deteration where you will loose your memory or your ability to function at all. What if you are driven from your home and fear for your life? Or you are convinced the world around you is headed for an end. What if we are all going to die. If Global warming, a pandemic, a economic crash, an asteroid, the sun explodes, or we just come face to face with our own mortality. Things like this can lead us into a very dark place.
Does this new religion offer any hope or reason to go on? It might. I won't promise it will help, but it might, it could. Lets explore how it could.
According to this belief system, Divinity or Life Itself is a collective. It is made up of the collective essense or souls of all who have died.
So, what help is that?
If it is a collective. It is influenced by each member. Each soul that merges back into it, brings with it certain influences. A soul that chooses to be depressed, hopeless, bitter, angry, will contaminate the collective with that just a bit. But a person who has any joy, happiness or enjoyment out of life. Or even learned to just accept life as it is, and make the best of it. That person brings that to the collective.
So, you saying I should be happy-go-lucky and not care about anything.
No, not quite. A true spirit would really feel the pain, hurt, grief, anger, what ever emotions come up. To be a true spirit you would really care and it would really hurt. But a true spirit would know that there is something more, something beyond their situation. That even if it were to all end, the life that was served a purpose. Even if that purpose was to learn to take better care of things next time.
See in this religion, what the collective needs most is a will to live. The desire to want to make it through the long dark period where this universe stops supporting life. Up to the time the next universe can start to support life. Any life essense that says life is still worth engaging, no matter what, that is helpful, wanted, desired and needed.
Anytime a person finds something engaging, even though they are feeling great pain or hurt. That effort will last. It will count for something. It will go towards the ultimate aim, the highest goal, that of keeping life itself alive.
So anytime you start thinking life is not worth it. You are not saying that just for yourself. You are saying that for every being yet to come. Not just in this lifetime, or on this planet, or even this universe but in this universe and any future universes, You are saying life itself should shutdown and stop trying.
Even if your life truly does suck and is hopeless. Do you want to say that all of live sucks so bad and is so hopeless that life itself should just die and go away? Probably not.
So any effort you make, any beauty, good feeling, worth or value that you find, you are saying that even when life is bad, Life itself should not give up.
Is there anything good, or pleasent, or beautiful that you can see? Any food that tastes good, any nice music, colors, smells, warmth? anything that is still in your control to choose? Say for instance you sat in your back yard and just enjoyed the warmth and wind. Or listened to the birds. Or put together a jigsaw puzzle.
Any ability to still engage life in a good way counts. It counts not just for your self. It counts for the pool of life your soul will be returned to. It is a statement that yes, life should preservere, life should try again.
Its not denying or dismissing the situation. Its choosing to hold on to the believe that Life itself is still good. Even if this situation is not. And that is an act of True Faith.
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