I was always a free spirit.
As a kid, I was raised and educated by the Jewish religion as any kid that will grow up and get education by the religion of the family. We weren’t really religious ourselves but from time to time we celebrated the holidays, we were having Fridays dinners etc. And of course, it was depending where I was. Since my parents are divorced, I had two houses. One was my mom’s – a secular house, and the second was my dad’s – that was more religious. As kids, until a certain age. We are only absorbing information. Information regarding the social norms, what to do and not to do, what is right and what is wrong, and among others – the religion (or non religion). On my mom’s house we celebrated from time to time the holidays, and not very strictly, and on my dad’s house the celebrations were more traditional to how they should be celebrated.
As much as I loved the storied in the bible, they were still just stories. I remember I had a period of time that I started asking questions about God, if he exists or not. I don’t remember the exact reason for why I started to question in his existence, but I do remember many years of questioning it. Later, I decided that God doesn’t exist. I was an Atheist. The understanding and realization of God was happening later after I was self discovering and had my gradual spiritual awakening, as I was telling in the post “My Spiritual Awakening Journey“. Yes, at this time I also was introduced to the book “The Secret” and I understood that there are things beyond what I was learning from my family, but my awakening was very gradual, and so my understanding of what is God and what is my relation to him was coming in a later stage of my life.
I will start with the fact that I am respecting every person that chooses to live under a certain religion. I am not religious myself and I do not identify myself with any religion, and still I respect everyone. An so, no matter what is your opinion on people that are not religious or not identifying with any religion, I will appreciate you coming with an open mind
Religious interpretation and God
For me, religion is a limitation. Not because of the religion itself, but because of how people interpret it. Judaism for example is rich and full of beauty, but when people are interpret it in a certain way, generally it will be in a very extreme way that cancels people that are different or hurt them. The extreme is expressed in a lot of ways just as eating a certain thing or not. Wearing a certain cloths or not. Distance from groups of people (different sex or different religion).
Religions, with a human interpretation, are coming to scare you. It does remind me a little bit of what is happening in the news and media of today, but still, these are related more to God – if you will not do this or that, you will be punished. If you will not do one thing or another in a certain way – you will go to Hell.
It is important to me to make one thing clear – there is no Heaven or Hell. These are a states of consciousness that we choose in every moment if we stay in them or not. There is no one that sits in the sky and decides if we did enough good things to go to Heaven or Hell. All of these are a big misunderstanding of the bible and the stories that are inside of it. These two states are states of the 3D world. When we pass away, we are coming back to the source of who we truly are.
Moreover, God is not someone that is in the sky. He is not what the religions are telling, and he is not outside of us. God is everywhere, in everything. It is everything. It is who we truly are. It is our infinite consciousness. And so, no intimidation that sourced of a religion cannot affect us, only if we will give it the legitimization.
No matter what, God loves us. He is us, always. And no matter if we go after the rules or not, if we made a mistake, “sinned”, did something that is so called bad – he doesn’t judge us. It doesn’t mean we can do bad things to people, but from our being we are loved unconditionally and infinitely. God already forgave us. There is nothing that needs to be done to change it.
I am sure that behind the scenes of the Divine, there is a good reason and explanation of why there are religions in this world. Of why there is this separation and division between people because of religions. There is something that we need to learn from them.
Is it so we learn inner union? Is it to learn what is the true Divine?
The Meaning of Scripture
Scripture, the bible for example, is coming to explain to us the Creation in a decoded way. Not the Creation of the world, but creation of our reality. The truth behind who we truly are. The bible is coming to guide us, to show us slowly who we truly are. If we will read the bible as it is and in a shallow way only – we will think like this stories happened in our reality and this is a historical book. But this is not the point.
[…] "Let me state now that the bible has no reference at all to any persons who ever existed or to any event that ever occurred upon earth. The ancient story tellers were not writing history but an allegorical picture lesson of certain basic principles which they clothed in the grab of history, and they adapted these storied to the limited capacity of most uncritical and credulous people. Throughout the centuries we have mistakenly taken personifications for persons, allegory for history, the vehicle that conveyed the instruction for the instruction, and the gross first sense for the ultimate sense intended.”
– Five lessons, lesson 1 , Neville Goddard
Neville Goddard was talking about it a lot. For context, Neville was born in Barbados to a Christian family. He moved later on to the United States where he learned Kabbalah and scripture with a Jewish Rabbi for a few years. In his lectures he talked about consciousness, on imagination, on God, and of course about scripture – not as history books, but a spiritual and psychological books that are decoding the truth about creation. In his lectures he talked about how each story is covering truth that is inside each one of us and how it is important to focus on the symbolism of each one of them to learn and use it for our benefit.
I relate to Neville, since he was a free spirit himself. He did not take his religion as identity, but he used the information that he grew up on and got throughout the days he studied to break the limits and grow spiritually. And this is all the point in this life – to wake up to the fact that everything here is an illusion, nothing here is identifying us and everything depends on our personal choices.
Religions and Identity
We can choose if our religion will be our identity or not let one thing define us and be open to every possibility, whatever it is. I am not even talking about religion, but anything that we identify with and it is limiting us.
The moment I let go the definition / the identity of my religion, I have no limits. I am feeling closer to who I truly am because I am going after my heart, not after what I have been told to do. Maybe for others the religion is the best thing to identify with – and that’s great! But for me, religion is not everything. Religion is separating, more than uniting. We can see it between religions in the world, and also in one specific religion. Most of the wars in the world, if not every single one of them, were as a result of religions and low frequency of power and control.
Things go to the extreme, any extreme, especially the last few years. My hope is it getting worse so it will calm down later and make people go within and do inner inquiry.
Freedom is a very important matter in my life, hence why tagging myself or others just seems wrong to me. I don’t believe we have to choose to go after a certain religion. I am believing in the freedom of each individual, no matter where his roots are, how he got educated, which religion was “decided” for him in his childhood. Religion can be an external help, but at the end of the day what’s the most important out of all is being attentive within.
Everyone can choose which way they want to go – Listening to external dictations and a certain religion, or listening to their heart and soul, by remembering who they truly are.
Divinity's Way 
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