The Transcendental: The Church Project

The Co-Creator

March 10, 2024

Moral flexibility is water for rigidity. I don't think Judeo-Christianity is against flexibility in terms of rehabilitation and reconnecting with the divine. I already wrote something about flexibility but that's to do with developing discipline. This one is to address guilt or shame related to rehab and reconnecting or establishing a relationship with the divine.

Again, I don't identify with a religious affiliation, but I still practice and observe religion with family members. And I find that happens some time around the lent season where Judeo-Christians observe the memorial of Christ's death and rebirth and ascension and take this period as a time for reflection, examining how they're living their lives so far and if that's in line or in alignment with Christian values. Being a spiritual worker doesn't separate me from Christian icons of spirituality like Jesus and Mary, the saints and the humanitarians. I acknowledge and value the ascended masters' guidance and support in developing spirituality or assisting people in reconnecting with divinity.

Mary is an icon that I remember working a lot with the times that I got sick. My mother told me that as a mother myself, Mary is kind of the divine assistant for someone like me needing guidance and support in healing. In particular, that would be our patron saint Mary known for the rosary, then there's the mother of perpetual help, and just recently, the undoer of knots. That's all Mary.

Spirituality doesn't separate people from icons of divinity. But I could see spirituality separating or disconnecting people from, in this case, kind of this blindspot in some Christian communities' I suppose beliefs or approach to spirituality, to encourage people to develop it.

The Judeo-Christian approach owes it to 'being organized', but these are religious organizations and groups we're talking about, and you have to have some form of organization when it comes to this. You have to have schedules, like Sundays for making extra time to commune with the spirit 'cause of course, Christians don't just commune with the divine on Sundays, they don't just pray on Sundays, they also pray on weekdays but on Sundays, 'cause it's a day of rest for working people, organizations find it a good time for gathering people and guiding them, officiating the communion with the spirit. Where I see rigidity coming up as a problem is when somebody starts talking about not going on a Sunday being a thing that upsets or offends the divine or not giving a certain percentage to the church from your wages. 'Cause that's where guilt or shame comes in, and in spiritual communities, again, workers are working with people to eliminate these things. Guilt and shame don't have a place in developing spirituality except for getting purged. Why? It's bad for the spirit. It's not healthy. We don't want guilty and ashamed people, we want people freed of those things. 'Cause that's how we support them to wellness.

God or the source, the divine, doesn't get offended or angry or just upset at all. How is that? When Christians say God welcomes all 'sinners', they mean God is merciful, forgiving. But when you get deeper into spirituality, you will see that when bad things happen to people because of their excesses, like greed and materialism, that's not an act of God or God punishing them. That's more like cause and effect. When people aren't aware of their excesses, they kind of just get hit when things go down or fall apart. But God doesn't break families apart, it's the imbalance or disharmony that does that. God won't have you falling down on your knees asking for forgiveness, it's your excesses that would do that minus the forgiveness part. 'Cause you would have already tipped the balance somewhere. It's like when you're not focused and you spill things, you get surprised or shocked when you see that you spilt. Spirituality talks about nurturing the spirit so you have the focus, so you don't lose that, so you don't fall that way when something you do upsets the balance or harmony in your life.

You don't offend God, but you could upset the balance. People who are not aware of their excesses don't just upset the balance and harmony in their lives, that neglect of the spirit could also affect other people's lives, people they interact with. So, perhaps, a person would go: I am not upsetting the balance and harmony in my life. I am not going overboard, but these things happened, and I don't understand. Well, one reason could be that you're surrounding yourself with people who have upset the balance and harmony in theirs. Their excesses impact your life somehow. Or two, you're not aware of how you're upsetting the balance or harmony in your life. An example of that would be a typical relationship between a martyr and somebody abusive. It's not just the abusive person who has excesses that upsets the balance, the person who takes the abuse also has excesses, it's just that it comes in the form of martyrdom. But a relationship is between two people. You don't get an abusive person without somebody taking the abuse. So, it's not just about knowing about abuse, knowing the other person's excesses, you have to make sure you are not taking the abuse. 'Cause if you are, it won't matter if you have the values in your pocket, because you would not be using them, you would not be incorporating them in that case. You would not be valuing the opposite of abuse which is caring or nurturing, loving.