Post #206,"Creating Religion"

 Consciousness Observes or Perceives.
Reality IS.
Reality can only be Observed.
As Non-reality IS NOT, Non-reality can only be Perceived.
Non-reality exists in its own created realty, but does not exist in Reality.
Consciousness Observes or Perceives itself.
Consciousness Observes or Perceives Reality.
As Consciousness Observes or Perceives itself, it Observes or Perceives Other
-------the Singularity in Reality.
In this Choice, Consciousness accepts or rejects Other.
By Choosing to reject Reality, in and for itself, Consciousness takes control
over the Other, the Singularity in Reality.
In Reality, the choice of Consciousness has absolutely no effect on Reality.
To itself, however, this Choice greatly alters the Being of Consciousness.
In Choosing to take control over Reality, to eliminate Reality, Consciousness
Chooses to not exist in Reality but to exist in the pseudo-reality of its dreams and desires.
Consciousness dreams and desires to Become Reality, to regain within itself the
relationship of self and Other, thereby existing as self and other,
in its own pseudo-reality.

For it is the Observation and Witness of Consciousness by the Other of Reality that
Validates Entity as Entity, that Validates self as Self.
Infiniteness is the condition of Entity.
What has Entity is Infinite.
When Consciousness Chooses to eliminate Reality, it eliminates Entity.
Wholeness as a sum total of parts results.
Consciousness becomes a whole, no longer Entity, as it becomes a sum total of many
parts that continues to divide and subdivide throughout history.

Consciousness divides.
Consciousness divides itself as it Perceives Reality to be divided.

Consciousness divides itself into self and other-than-self.

Consciousness Perceives Self and Other as division.

Consciousness Perceives Other through itself, so that other is not Other but a part of self.
Other is now perceived as part of itself, existing in itself.
Self fears that its other will take control.
What would happen to self if self's other takes over?
How much of self could be lost and still exist as self?
History is providing the answer to this question.

Consciousness is aware of self as self but is aware of the otherness of itself as distant,
as beyond itself.
History is made up of this division of Consciousness.
History eventually defines this division as natural and supernatural;
of its nature and beyond its nature, but confined within itself.
Here is the basis of conflict and emotions in Consciousness within itself.
These are very common and basic emotions of: awe, of a sense of mystery, a sense of guilt,
the need to worship.....
We can see here, that Consciousness is aware of itself as self and of itself as special
and set apart.
How does the self handle this division within itself?
Actually, the way Consciousness reacts and handles its division determines the view of itself,
the world view as a whole (as made up of many parts) and the place of the individual in the
world as to purpose and Choice to accept or not to accept.

Religion is the relationship of self and other within Consciousness and then, within creation.
Self cannot truly know the other in itself because it cannot identify, through Observation,
itself and itself's other.
It can only Perceive and so it views of its other are often with suspicion, impacted by its own Perceptions of itself and the other-than-self within itself.
Basically, the self of Consciousness cannot know itself.

Religion is the relationship of self and the other-than-self within Creation.
When Consciousness chooses to divide itself through perception rather than accept the
Observation of Self and Other of Reality, it no longer IS but BECOMES.
Reality IS. Reality does not Become.
Becoming is the instigation of the process of creation.
Time ticks a beginning and Time ticks the ending for Becoming is not of Reality.
Creation imitates the Choosing of Consciousness and creates the self of creation and the
other-than-self of creation----the divine, the supernatural, the heavenly.

So the Second cause makes its presence known as in the division of creation into the
elements of Creation, Time, Place, and Matter and that which is Perceived as
outside or beyond creation; Time, place, and Matter;
Creating basically, the natural and supernatural.
All lies within Consciousness as Consciousness wavers between natural and supernatural.
Self and the other-than-self also waver between the natural and the supernatural.
There is an affinity between the other-that-self and the other of creation/the supernatural.
Religion becomes the relationship of the self of Consciousness and the natural to the
other-than-self and the supernatural.
The relationships build up huge dichotomies.
Consciousness witnesses within itself the beyondness, of the other-than-self, and the
supernatural to the subservient, inferiorness of self and the inferior of the natural
to the supernatural.
The sense of the 'beyondness', the 'awe', the 'vastness', of other-than-self, of the supernatural
demands appeasement, demands worship, and demands obedience from the lesser.
This relationship creates religion.
This is religion.
Religion is the way of life on planet earth and sets all history in motion.
Religion calls forth the acknowledgement of other-than-self and the acknowledgement of
the supernatural in creation
and creates the divisions of earth and heaven and fills earth with categories of humanity
and heaven with God and unearthly beings.

Now comes the Genesis story:
God creates heaven and earth.
Humanity abides on earth. God abides in heaven.
God forms relationships that further the unbalance and division.
Special places like gardens contrast with wilderness.
God creates male with female emerging from a small, inferior, unimportant part of male.
Religion contrasts male to female and finds female not even human.

The dream of becoming the Entity of Infiniteness is never lost.
The dream of taking over and claiming the prizes of Reality is ever present.
The other-than-self is the only part of Consciousness that could even
survive the divisiveness, the hatred and destruction.
The other-than-self will be God as soon as Entity and Infiniteness is attained.
How to do this?
Easy, just follow the pattern.
Divide self into self and other-then-self.
Other becomes self through destroying part of itself.
Male destroys its other part---female. Female is becoming extinct.
Male has proved female to not have purpose.
Male divides self into male and robot
Robot proves male to not have purpose
Robot destroys male and divides itself, until...............

All worship!
All religion!