The Bible and other Cults

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"The Bible and other Cults" - or 

Cultivating Relationships of actual Life Value 

The bible is not 'wrong' – it is a tool like everything else - the only problem is man's interpretation of the tools that exist in this world. Do the bible cult and other religions ‘love their neighbour’? Look at the middle east, look at the far west. Everywhere we look, we see man use the tools in a way that is called ‘divide and conquer’ – this is based in fear and only creates fear.

Why do we raise our children in fear, why do we run our relationships in fear, how can we ever ever be ‘for real’ if everything we do and everything we are: is based in fear. The relationships in our world could be something that shows us what we do not (yet) see of ourselves, like a mirror held into our face so that we may see what has become of us, so that we may have a chance to change ourselves, so that we may take responsibility.

Yet we don't do that. Our relationships are based in power-games, and power-games are based in fear; and fear is mind-control working from the inside out. 

With initially a small group of individuals that started investigating the practical aspects of reality and the individual within it all, we said 'enough is enough - no more fear!', and at Desteni we come together to stop this mind-control and support ourselves and each-other in seeing eye to eye, no longer hiding from reality, no longer hiding from ourselves. Self-honesty; Man Know Thyself. 

It's not about the group in the end and Desteni as a group will eventually no longer exist – when the whole world is One group, One family, One life ...names are irrelevant. At the moment however it IS about the group because that is the reference point we have created together in value of life, and that is where we make sure that ego will stand no chance against life. Through the group each one is mirrored ten-fold to help ourselves see, to make sure we don't fuck with ourselves, but remain response-able for 'who we are'; to make sure we do not delude ourselves with self-sabotage or illusions of grandeur – but instead remain ‘here’, grounded, humble, working with whatever comes up, bringing any given point to an alignment that is supportive of life as who we really are.

This is self-empowerment; the transcendence of ego beyond polarity in practical living application. After all – it’s about ‘who we are’, and it’s ourselves we gotta live with in the end.

We’ve had enough Napoleons, we’ve had enough Stalins; we’ve had enough abused, enough abusers. 

Enough is enough! The world is full of cults and look, one can identify them as being exclusive. 

We need a CULTURE of LIFE that is all-inclusive : we need to Cultivate Life in ourselves and each-other. Life is One, Life is All, Life is Equal. The value of life is life.

Art by Damian Ledesma 

Exclusive relationships, including if not especially family and friends, are often only functional as long as one submit to them and does not change. As soon as anything goes deeper, beyond the surface of things ‘as we know them’... it is perceived as a threat.

Everyday relationships that have a ‘personal’ face-to-face reality should be a place where all back-chat can be sorted out through intimate communication.

Why is this not happening? Why do we not learn to trust ourselves and each-other? Why do we treat our ‘loved ones’ like territory?
A person should not be ‘territory’ – Each grown-up person should be able to make their own decisions about what they stand for in life, who they will be/become and what kind of world they want to bring forth for the children to come. 

We should stop projecting our own fears and desires upon our children – This has not made the world a better place, it has only passed on the ‘sins of the fathers’ that seem to loop into infinity unless something, unless someone Stop and stand-up to say ‘Till Here No Further.

How can the world really change, if all change is faced with fear...
How can the world really change if every one submit and submerge oneself to the way things have always been...
How can the world really change, if you and me, the building blocks of our world, do not change...

In this one world we share, in this space-time reality, everyone is walking the same process and is faced with the same points at different times in life. Facing oneself and one’s reality is inevitable. Blaming and pointing fingers doesn’t work; as each one is always self-responsible, each one is always facing oneself, and all will inevitably face all and everything. 

Whether one walk this life process in directive will or whether one wait for things to ‘happen’ before one is forced to face oneself – the outcome is in the end the same. The difference is in the degree of inner suffering and the time to self-realization, both points directly connected to self-responsibility.

At Desteni we are walking the path of self-responsibility, taking things into our hands and working on accelerating the process so as to prevent further suffering in the world and within ourselves.

Family and friends is the system-unit we know best.

We are born of a system into a system. Family as the first and smallest system compartment is the group that defines ‘who we are’, give us ‘purpose and meaning’ based on tradition, culture, religion, belief, society/status, forefathers: the family determines what it is one must give ‘value’ to.

Individuals are seen as the ‘keepers’ of those values, and are in fact the ‘keepers’ of the system, this world as we know it. Because see – everywhere we look, we’ll see people fight over traditions, religions, beliefs; people kill each-other over different ‘values’, while the highest value – life itself as who we all really are – is disregarded.

It seems the very fight for one’s ‘own values’ is what serves the ‘forked tongue of the snake’: it feeds the ego and at the same time preserves the status quo – the world system as we know it.

The ‘big players’ of the world stage have long understood this principle, and rule the whole world by what is called ‘divide & conquer’: let them fight, let them blame each-other, let them be weak.

Obviously any significant change in the application of the average person’s separatist behaviour and egotistic ‘human nature’ is perceived as a threat to the ‘status quo’. To deal with this sudden ‘fear’, the system will seek ways of ‘control’ and will try and make the individual submit and submerge itself to ‘its grouping’ – until the individual is put back into ‘its place’.

As long as we fear each-other, as long as accept ourselves as inFearior: the system prevails.

At Desteni we understand/realize that a change in the world cannot come forth by itself; an actual change in the world cannot come forth without change of the individual through self-will to no longer be subject to the current and seemingly infinite system of separation, fear and abuse while history is repeating.

If we don’t stop history, history will stop us – and mankind as a whole will be facing its end while it’s busy fighting itself in a trivial war against each-other.

This current system of separation exists both within and without and is the consciousness we have all accepted and allowed to be ‘this existence’ as if it’s real, as if it’s who we really are; we call it ‘the ways of the world’ and ‘human nature’, while our consciousness, our mere existence not only undermines the value of life but actually harms that which we all have in common: Life.

We see it all around, and it’s time we stop.

Art by Matti Freeman

Heaven on Earth is possible Here ...If we stand-up and stop this hell