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No Flaw
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Establishment Religion
Zeitgeist means roughly “mans spirit of the age“, and their concern as a body is with the social ills we now experience. They are in a sense a party to the spiritual community, because they do have views on spirituality and religion, but they are focused more on their areas of concern than criticisms of…
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Paying For It
Money is the biggest belief of all. Money is the biggest religion. In the almighty bill or coin we trust. Even before the Zeitgeist movement was founded, I recall hearing that we had the technology to terraform barren desert land, but no one chose to do it. It would make land less scarce and make the…
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Alternative View
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It Is Your Choice
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Perception of Disconnection
Envy is a pervasive force in the modern mind, and it has always been possible in human reckoning. Many human behaviours stem from envy though the connection is often denied. It is sort of like the animal pecking order, but without the acceptance. When you envy something you always disempower yourself. It’s a perception of…
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Jealous Envy
Why does envy arise? Is it anger? Is it a passion of some kind? Possessiveness? Possessiveness is something that is warped in human nature. Anger that we can’t have it? Insecurity? Yes, we naturally desire things. This is good, proper, and instinctual. We also naturally claim possession of things. Give me a sandwich when I’m hungry,…
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Enthusiasm For Life
Envy isn’t clearly delineated. You can envy in countless ways. You can envy someone’s ideas and not recognize it as envy. As you are busy envying their ability to have these ideas, you aren’t listening to them. Nor having the realization that these ideas are being shared with you and can now be called yours…
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Who Do You Admire?
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Twisting of Instinct
Envy creeps into our daily thinking, but no situation more so than intimacy. Close friendships, family, romantic relationships. Envy denies intimacy, and if you need any gauge of how much envy affects our mind, look at the divorce rate. I think it’s worse with romantic relationships, from my personal experience. Oh, I agree. It comes from possessiveness,…
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Desire for Sex
We villainize our desires like lust. Let’s say I’m very sexually driven. How does me seeking sexual gratification take anything from anyone? It may make me very attentive to my partner. They say the two biggest things that ruin marriages are these, and in this order: sex and money. Now I’m speaking to the ladies. …
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Lie, Cheat, and Steal
Bear with me please. There is a reason I will be saying things this way. The way of the trickster is to lie, cheat, and steal. The trickster is a delusional lunatic who gets everyone’s attention, and makes them all feel uncomfortable. The trickster knows nothing at all, and lies about everything, and has no…
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Your Best Friend
The shamanic traditions dealt with the trickster. The Australian aborigines, as well as really all myths, speak of a “time” or phase before anything had a real form. That scary falling place you sometimes get into before you really sleep. That fear you might really go to hell because of your desires, and yet the…
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Power of the Trickster
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Negative Feeling
Spiritual discussions and therapy don’t often cross paths. Doesn’t it seem strange they don’t cross? What do spiritual groups have to offer if they won’t accept pain and a need to heal? Platitudes maybe. They make statements implying they want to help and heal, but pain is somehow beneath them. Taoism teaches that our strength…
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Spiritual Life
The Buddha rejected the way of the ascetic, but people get hung up on his view of attachments and miss his message. Avoidance can be an attachment, and no insult intended if you are Christian, but in my experience those most concerned with Satan are Christians. They are more concerned about Satan and evil than…
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Closest to the Divine
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Shinto Views
To begin, Shintoism is not a religion, and yet it is. It’s the native belief system of Japan, and still in a sense very much alive and well, but it doesn’t identify itself as a body. Shintoism focuses on this life. They aren’t concerned with teachings to earn your way into an afterlife. Their rites…