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RELIGIOUS
FANATICISM
Psychointegration
session:
22/July/2008
By Jorge Raul Olguin.
It is
said through the revelation of the spiritual and angelic world that there is a
new paradigm, a new paradigm that claims more than a decade ago that a man has
no soul, but that man IS A SOUL and the soul has a body as if it were his
clothing. This paradigm is to be understood in the sense that only a 10% of the
spirit embodies and the other 90% of our spiritual essence remains in the
respective supraphysical plane.
This 10% has
huge strength, so huge that it can shake his 90%. I clarify it in which sense I
say it. My spiritual part said at some point and repeatedly that the physical
plane is like a gravity well, it's like a black hole that pulls us down, and it
is true because although we embody to enjoy the five senses, sometimes those
five senses play against us because they create dependency on us, the five
senses create dependency. We need caresses, we need affection, we need to feel
the warmth of the sun, etc. However at the same time, our incarnated part, we,
as humans, are prey of the ego, which is the most ferocious instrument to subdue
us, and the ego, as I have said it many times, is not an independent object of
us, the ego is part of ourselves, it’s the role that we play, and one of the
most pernicious roles of the ego is the religious fanaticism because fanaticism
takes away from us the discernment, fanaticism takes from us coherence, it takes
from us common sense, fanaticism creates dependency, it is unreasoning bigotry,
fanaticism turns deaf and blind to the religious person. One understands but
does not want to understand, if the pun is accepted.
And I want to
talk about exclusively to religious fanaticism, religious fanaticism in which
Catholic parents take to baptize a little boy and the boy says: “through my
fault, through my fault, through my most grievous fault” when that child is not
guilty of anything because in his 8 years of life he has not committed hostile
acts, let’s not talk about past lives.
Now I want to
talk about exclusively to the present life of each one of us, an 8-year-old boy,
with exceptions, commits mischief not hostile acts, then, by instilling guilt,
which means implanting engrams or instilling guilt complex to a boy or a girl,
it’s absolutely a hostile act with the aggravation that as I said in other
occasions that there are different categories of ego, one is self-importance or
superiority, which means a cocktail or whatever you want to call it, it would be
a dose of pedantry, a dose of petulance, a dose of narcissism, that famous air
of arrogance of those who supposedly represent the Father and they cannot be
objected because they are the “owners of the truth”, in this case their
truth.
As an
aggravating issue let’s not talk about the Protestant Church and its several
denominations that worship Jehovah, the Eloah of the
Old Testament, because we know very well that this “god” was a cruel and
despotic being, who was the accomplice along with Moses of thousands of deaths,
tortured people, impalements, rape, useless sacrifice of babies and old people.
No, let's talk about ordinary Catholics, not Protestants, who although don’t
have this fanaticism like the Protestant Christians, in some countries of
America they are called 'evangelical', they do have some cruelty to those who do
not share their doctrine, word that I detect as dogma.
Many years
ago, 16 or 17 years ago, I met an elderly woman who was minister of the
Eucharist in a charismatic church in Belgrano - Buenos
Aires – she helped the priests in ceremonies, masses which were good because
they were sung, they played the guitar, but I met this older person in her
private life. She was an absolutely ruthless, despotic person who subjected
physically and morally to her daughter, her daughter was forty-some years old
and she had gone when she was a child to a convent school where she was
tortured, not whipped, that would have been the top of it, but she did walk
barefoot in winter over rice, they soaked her clothes in the rain in winter as a
punishment for having prayed less, and when the daughter grew up, she reproached
her mother, and the mother said: 'it's not my fault, tell it to God'. Let’s say
that this Eucharistic minister along with others transformed herself in a sort
of Pontius Pilate washing his hands in the bowl. Some time ago, about 21 or 22
years ago, the father of a classmate who was at 4th grade elementary with my
daughter, he used to talk badly about the Roman curia, their luxuries, their
betrayals in red robes, in the golden temples, in his paintings of thousands of
dollars, and its contradictions. being that his daughter was taking communion
that weekend, he argued that he did it 50% of family tradition and 50% because
her daughter had Jesus with her, putting a limit to the love and understanding
of Jesus to a useless ceremony, thinking surely in a way so closed of thinking
and so narrow that if the child does not fulfill this ceremony Jesus will not be
with her.
It is not a
way to offend Jesus, obviously Jesus will not be offended because he is above
the ego, but.
Isn’t a way of
offending Jesus thinking that if the child does not fulfill certain ceremony
he/she is not going to be with him or the Father? Isn’t a narrow mindset
thinking that if the child does not fulfill certain ritual, no matter the
excellent behavior of the creature, he/she will not be chosen in the celestial
areas? That kind of thinking really upsets me, it disturbs my judgment, and
sometimes I doubt of the coherence of the human race, I
don’t want to be extremist.
And now let’s
talk about fundamentalism in some Eastern countries where directly they speak
about 'holy wars'. Talking about holy wars it would like flowers without scent,
like talking about light, which does not shine, like talking about water, which
does not wet, like talking about loss without pain, it makes no sense to speak
about a “holy war” it would be like talking about a merciful murderer; it does
not make sense, no coherence, no common sense at all.
As I usually
say to my patients, if they want to believe in something they don’t have to use
faith, instead they must use common sense, using coherence, and people do not
use coherence.
So I do not
want to go so far talking about this type of bigotry in a particular country,
because I do not want to be against anyone or anybody or put myself against
them, I'm just taking about my opinion, I’m not invalidating anyone, I’m not
criticizing, but if a daughter of mine blew herself up committing suicide and
killing thirty people so-called "enemies", How could I celebrate a party at my
house? As I have read in several newspapers, I have watched in TV news or from
the Internet that instead of being distressed by the pain of losing a daughter,
they celebrate the killing of thirty of their enemies. That kind of actions I
cannot understand, it’s like eating a rotten mushroom.
Now, if I
analyzed the DNA of the discoverer of a vaccine that saves many people and I
analyzed the DNA of this religious fanatic, I will find that they have the same
DNA; if some day they perform an autopsy of their brains, they are not going to
find differences. This goes for those skeptics who do not believe in the spirit,
or at least they should give a logical explanation for both cases, those
skeptics who criticize what one does, I hope they give an alternative
explanation of why these behaviors happen, and I do not talk about upbringing or
customs because I know about people whose parents were alcoholic, the mother was
a prostitute and now they are excellent doctors, parents, grandparents, great
human beings, do not put the argument: 'they were raised in an evil way, their
families were like that’, no, I do not accept it , I have known that it is not
the case, closer than they will imagine.
Religious
fanaticism is negative, I think in the Path to the Father, and I think that the
pathway to the Father is related with service, which is love in action.
What many
people have not understood yet, and I even said it many times, it’s not bad to
repeat it once again, SERVICE is rather simple, it is very simple, it is not
necessary to be a doctor in a place of war or to be like the Mother Teresa of
Calcutta, although it is commendable what they have done, because if everyone
thought that way most people would abstain and they will say they don’t have
time or they cannot do that or they don’t have that possibility.
So, I say to
all those who think that about service, which is as simple as it is. First and
foremost, one must be in a good vibe, trying to be sympathetic, but not loved
because of personal satisfaction or ego, saying 'this society accepts me', but
acting naturally as breathing. Second, be in a good vibe. Third, being in a high
tone scale, I know that on the physical plane this is not easy because we have
problems every day, every day the same people around us sabotages us, even our
beloved ones sabotage against us unwittingly or without realizing it, but hey,
we cannot rend our skin whenever we have a problem, but trying to remain aloof,
I do not want to be misunderstood, not remaining aloof from the problem, but
aloof from a rise of adrenaline. That is to remain detached momentarily from the
problem to maintain control of ourselves, being harmonious with ourselves and
then face the problem and try to fix it, that means temporarily remain aloof.
But many
people we see every day-in the religious fanaticism they live permanently-
forget the foot-washing that John describes in the fourth gospel, which says 'If
I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one
another's feet’. You see that Jesus knelt before them and washed their feet, this is not
a humiliation, this would be metaphorically a kind of service so that they know
that nothing is broken within him while doing this, so when Jesus is not with us
physically we may do the same '. The meaning of the washing of feet, which is
still foolishly performed by the Catholic priests does not mean THAT, it meant
that even the greatest spiritual man could do the simplest and the most humble
work, without losing anything. Now if you look at the customs of the current
bishops you will see that they do the opposite, they put the hand so that others
kiss the ring in the hand, and they raise their heads arrogantly so that others
incline to them, which is the opposite of what supposedly his master
taught.
So it’s enough
of “through my fault, through my fault, through my most grievous fault”. A child
is not guilty of anything, at most the fault belongs to the elderly who are
teaching him in that way, they are allowing that others create guilt complexes
in the children, they create engrams, and we have to “fight” that, I say fight
with quotation marks because I do not like the word 'fight' because it could not
be synonymous with violence, I would have to compete against such close-minded
society, so strictly closed that does not allow other opinions, even if that
opinion is the only valid opinion about service.
I will end
this session by saying, so that I can complete this short session, for men and
women who are afraid to do service because they say 'no, this is too much for
me', doing service means to open the door and let pass an elderly person with
kindness, with a smile, give up your seat to a pregnant lady or a senior on a
bus, going to pay a bill to the bank and smile at the person who collects money
from you, or start a conversation in a row when you're in line to pay for
something and talk to people and sympathize and empathize with them, being
empathetic...
Being empathic
is “higher” between quotation marks because nothing is superior to nothing-to be
sympathetic is the external, having a nice presence to the other, "empathic" is
to empathize with the other from the outside and from the inside, it would be an
inner sympathy empathizing with others, enjoy the embrace of another, that is
why I always try to spread the theme about hugging and who are not afraid to hug
because the hug, thanks to God is contagious, and the good vibes can be
contagious in the same way that negative vibration can also be
contagious.
I will end
this session with a joke: Let’s not be * droopies,
those who say 'how are you?', 'I am happy', looking like droopy. We're really
happy, we all have losses. A few months ago I had a loss and I am here at the
front, not of battle, I hate that word, in front of the Light and I am a human
being like all of you with dozens of mistakes and I still make mistakes daily
and I hope someday to learn. Thank You.
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