As fragile humans we find it easy and a requirement to believe in some Religion as the way to God, a promise of an overseer that guides us, watches over us, and of course keeps track of our discretion’s.  In some cases religions promote a spiritual leader as a go between savior.  They promise help through their divine connection to the savior, along with the promise of salvation and eternal life, of course, they say their way is the only way possible for this salvation.

I think that would be great if it were true, I would love someone to stand by me throughout life and death, I won’t have to do much of anything except believe, and once I do, this ultimate redeemer will save me.  Wow, that sounds great and easy to do, but is that at all possible? No it’s not, nothing is easy in life and neither is this. They have some sort of spiritual Ponzi scheme with no spiritual equity for your investment, these types of spiritual institutions do provide help in the community but not spiritually. I wish they were more responsible when it comes down to helping us with our spiritual practice.  They have a spiritual duty to help you progress towards Self-realization but they don’t, and they fall back on old dogma, promises and scare tactics as a substitute. In the end this doesn’t help anyone nor does it help them.  This glaring misstep reduces their legitimacy by downgrading spiritual progress to a slow crawl, causing them to rely solely on promises.

The Religions have missed their call spiritually by totally relying on old scripture, and promises which really don’t help. I believe their promise is centered on them to give them an edge over other paths. They gave a promise of divine help that is really not theirs to give.

The real truth is our Soul doesn’t need saving because it’s already Eternal and Perfect, and we have the innate ability to uncover this eternal treasure.

The religions help in the community by helping folks find their way through the tough times in life, but riddled with control and a total let down spiritually. There is a tremendous need in that respect, and they should find the added responsibility motivating and beneficial to them too.

Spiritually speaking, no one can help you, unless you help yourself, contemplating isn’t enough.  It just doesn’t do the work on its own and you have to go in with a steadfast determination, however you need to know what to do and how to do it, and it takes practice.  In the process it promotes a sense of wellbeing, grounds you to your spiritual path and creates stability in life. There is no help from beyond, the personal God is a myth, just a vain thought, to think the ruler of the universe comes here to help or watch you is ridicules.  

The only real help that can come is from a teacher (preferably Self-realized) who can only coach you while living.  It is entirely up to you to do the work, the Afterlife just reinforces this rule. In reality no one actually needs saving, just Eternity needs saving from the person you’ve become.

That’s the issue here, however blunt it is, you have to break free from this new identity, this connection to life and who you became must be severed in order to be who you really are in Eternity. Birth has given us almost total independence, It’s your life, your creation and your illusion, and it’s your problem to deal with, waiting for a Deity to save you is handing down a life sentence of imprisonment and death.

You carry all your imbedded personalized illusions in tow after death and you must voluntarily release them or you’ll be stuck in the revolving door of drama, confusion and death.

The thinking mind is the pilot throughout life, at death the pilot needs to hand over its reigns to the Soul.