Your Mind is Lost Because Your Spirit has been Lead Astray

This is actually a post of my brothers that I thought was interesting.

In the middle of the fit everyone is having over religion, I struggle to gain my own understandings and insights into spirituality. I wonder if things like the theory of evolution, abortion, and gay rights were issues a decade and a half ago, and I was just too young to notice or care about them,
or if they're a new phenomenon and I'm caught in the middle trying to sort things out for myself - because very few - if not no one - seems to be making enough sense for me to listen.

Don't get me wrong, I know the Earth is a few billion years old (not a few thousand), I know everyone (woman or otherwise - sexually or otherwise) should have a choice on what to do with their body -- I know that everyone follows their own path. My confusion lays with the growing number of atheists, scientists, and scholars who are very much ready to throw the baby out with the bath water and reject anything religious outright.

To be able to go though life with the idea that we are alone, that we are a chance genetic mutation, that when we die that's the end of our existence -- is unacceptable to me. I know in the very core of my being there's more to the story than we've been able to scientifically uncover thus far.

This is such a touchy issue for people, whether it be with close friends or strangers, the reaction I get when I express my opinion on spirituality is very much polarized. Either 'I've been brainwashed by religion' or 'Blinded by science' - there is no middle ground, there is no meeting point where science helps to promote your faith. Here in lies the problem.

Without going into tremendously technical details, modern quantum physics is telling us that nothing is really a solid existing entity. This is a very difficult thing to grasp, and I was going to go into more detail, but if you honestly don't believe me, you can look it up for yourself - it's not hard and everyone loves a good sub-atomic physics lesson.

"Quantum physics, very succinctly speaking is the physics of possibility." - Amit Goswami, Ph.D

Matter when you look at it, takes the form of a solid particle, but when you're not looking ('observing') they are waves. Waves of possibility. When an object is completely 'unobserved' it exists in a 'super position' - that is to say - it exists everywhere at once (and no where at once - it's all very confusing). I know it's a hard concept to grasp, but stay with me for a minute...

In a world where we're learning that our minds/observations are having a direct, measurable effect on reality, you have to ask some very profound, hard questions. This is where religion comes into the picture. The statement 'Our world, when unobserved, exists no where, and every where at once.' is very closely and profoundly related to the statement often heard in religions world
wide: 'God is in everything, everywhere'. This is what God is to me - God is not a man with a white beard, sitting on a puffy white cloud, keeping score of my good and bad deeds, whom is waiting to meet me after death - of course not. God is this universal, non-local, unobservable entity from which everything that exists as we know it springs from.

Using the aforementioned definition of God, will radically change your view on absolutely every form of religion ever (at least it did for me). Suddenly making a 'connection with God' doesn't mean you and God had a cup of tea - it takes on a much deeper profound meaning. It means you can look at the Bible, the Quran, the Torah, and all other spiritual texts with a whole new light and pseudo-scientific, non-literal understanding (metaphor, symbolism, etc).

It makes me sad to see people taking the spirituality out of religion and replacing it with a strict set of rules, ethics and morals that are to be adhered to without question. And where one to question these rules, ethics or morals automatically makes you a 'sinner' before 'the eyes of God'. Hogwash. What I see this all leading up to is a movement from the religious dogma that 'this is this way forever and if you don't like it you're not a part of my religion (or worse damned to hell)' to a new non-segregated unity that 'Our paths to God are different, but our God is the same'. Religion segregates. Spirituality unites.

Everyday I see more and more groups of atheists, agnostics, and secularists whom denounce everything that even mentions God, anything that is even remotely connected to religion. To me, this is like taking a step backwards. Taking on the world and your life with only a meager understanding of the laws of physics, biology, and cosmology to guide you will force your life into a superficial, surface only, ineffable emptiness - that may be acceptable for most, but without a spiritual element you'll never feel that connectedness to everything and everyone. You'll feel alone - when you're absolutely not. I think that many people are jumping on the 'God-less' bandwagon out of fear from religions, they see evangelicals, radicals, and fundamentalists from all kinds of religions and upon seeing the horrors of a twisted, downright evil, form of religion decide to distance themselves permanently and without question from spirituality. Promotion of this kind of spiritual emptiness is rampant and in my humble opinion is almostas bad as fundamentalists, radicals, and evangelicals that promote the polar opposite of the spiritual spectrum.

I, for example, was a self proclaimed atheist. I grew up in a very Christian household and was forced to go to church, very much against my will, every single Sunday. Force feeding me this religion did nothing but turn me off from all things religious, when I fought with the minister (whom happened to live with me as my step-father) I often resorted to saying things like 'There's no such thing as God', 'Your God doesn't exist'. I was very much an atheist. Time passed, and I went on to college, where I began to read more about physics and the scientific oddities that quantum physics had brought to the table in recent years. The more I read about the mysteries of the non-local domain, the more I couldn't help but draw comparisons to my own spiritual beliefs. Science, of all things, had painted the first stoke on the, then blank, canvas of my spiritual life. I'm tempted to go into more detail on why quantum physics made the connection to God for me, but I feel I've rambled enough already. If you're really interested, start looking up scientific studies done on bizarre things like remote viewing, telekinesis, and meditation - you'll find the results are baffling and scientifically unexplainable, yet there are thousands of such results from hundreds of different sources.
I feel like we're reaching a boiling point, or a climax where religion and science are going to finally merge ... and it won't be an easy, or clean transistion, but it's a transistion that must be made in order for humanity to take another step forward.