Religion
_I: Systems. If something characterizes Capricorn, it is systems planning, the structuring of patterns in an almost architectural way. We could say that the bones, foundations, articulations of Capricorn thought are the Social Systems. I remember that in 2011, back in September, I began a journey through the western provinces of Argentina: Salta, La Rioja, Mendoza and Río Negro, descending the Andes towards the South. All this preparing the energy of the territory for the 11:11 Meeting in November of that same year in Capilla del Monte. When I arrived in Mendoza, I went to Aconcagua, to the base, and sat in front of the mountain on Lake Espejo, although it was still covered in snow. I meditated, staring at the mountain, and a being appeared, a female voice whose voice I have only heard a few other times in my life. He said that his name was Intaka, one of the voices of Isidris, an inner city of the Andes. His task is to guide the new generations of that land, to build a more conscious world. I asked what I had to do to achieve this, to make it possible for consciousness to rise. And his response baffled _I: “Unite architects and dentists, biologists and economists, scientists and religious people, musicians and doctors, educators and engineers… And when they are united, remind them of who they are, and when they are, they will have the power of being.” The power of Being? I asked. And his voice whispering from him told _I: “…Ontocracy…”.
_AM: From the Greek “On-, Ontós” (participle of the verb “eimí”: to be), that is, it describes the quality of being: “entity”, “entity”). And from the Greek “Kratos” (power). Onto-kratos, Ontocracy, is “the Power of Being.”
_I: I understood at that moment that the purpose of what I did had not to do with spirituality, but rather that spirituality was an internal path to build a coherent being that manifests itself as a responsible citizen. And then he showed me the logic of it all: universal fractality. We usually call the parts of a society as “Social Organisms” or “Systems”. We also refer to the town as “Social Body”. A country, then, is like a physical body, and its systems are the organs. He told me that one of the great human conflicts is that they live reality from utopia, that is, from the world of ideas. “Sometimes it seems that beings from other dimensions have more notion of the Earth than those who inhabit it day to day,” he told me. Probably due to the law of correspondence and polarity, those of us in matter tend to project ourselves into the subtle as an objective, and those of us who are subtle project ourselves into the dense as a path. Thus, living beings move by ideological concepts, and celestial beings move by manifested wills. This would work if instead of setting expectations, we were aware. Then he told me the key: “Go from Ideology to Biology.” Living here and now is a real concept, not a spiritual one, even more so if we consider that “spiritual” means “that which has the quality of breathing.” All of us who breathe look for the spirit in ideas, in utopias ("u-": denial, and "topós": place), that is, a non-existent place, without foundations. However, the spirit is in the lungs and bronchi, in the heart that distributes oxygen, in the veins and arteries. And the same action of breathing is what nourishes the cells and the entire nervous system. We are the spirit, the spirit is not an idea, it is biological. That is why he said that in the interaction of different areas of knowledge, the organic will be found. A body does not have a president, it has no hierarchy, it is an interconnected structure of self-referring organizations. The success of evolution is not a hierarchical or representative system, this has always failed in the history of the Earth. Plants, insects, fungi, animals, all of nature functions organically, and human society, believing itself superior, sought inorganic structures that do nothing but become a regenerative cancer, over and over again. This made me understand that my task, my mission, purpose, is not spirituality. It is remembering the innate quality of the spiritual in the human, reminding us that we are cells in a body, and that if we self-reference, we will be able to build a real body, a biological body, the most advanced technology that has ever been invented in the universe. And this was the moment, because a body works through networks, tissues, and this is the time of Networks. And therefore, it was necessary to reconnect the Conscious Network.
_AM: Logical. So... To achieve this, you have to breathe deeply, and connect to the spirit... And to do so, you have to go through the first human system that surrounds the Idea: Religion.
_I: One of the most complicated topics, since it is one of the first systems generated in human culture, and one of the most difficult to transcend. Because?
_AM: Let's get to the whys. Do you remember that hominid that stood up holding a tree in the forest, looking at the horizon to see the next tree on the savannah?
_I: Yes…
_AM: From his experience in the forest, he knew that trees bear fruit, and this generated a belief. But when the forest stopped bearing fruit, she needed to start searching for new trees. In his belief there was the idea that possibly, in another forest, he would find fruit, and this led him to communicate with others who had the same opinion even without knowing if that would be the case. They awakened, therefore, the sense of Faith. Faith, trust, that there was something beyond the horizon. And their need led them to move, advance, and every day they hoped to find that tree with its fruits. Thus was born the concept of Hope, the quality of waiting. In tradition, hominids began to share the idea that beyond the horizon, there was a tree that had fruits for everyone, and their hope and faith grew in the search for that Tree. Everyone, humans and animals, could be nourished by its branches and roots, it was an amazing idea that motivated the first humans to populate the entire world, looking for that famous tree that everyone was talking about. They called it “the Tree of Life.” But no one ever found him. Then, one day, one of them looked at the heavens, and saw the stars, and how they seemed to hang from something, from an invisible connection, then, with his imagination, he thought: “What if that tree is not in the sky?” Land? What if the stars are the fruits of that Cosmic Tree?” Then they began to see the Heavens. And they understood that there were 6 branches and 6 roots, and that along them, the Sun and the Moon danced in a specific order. They were able to measure cycles, and managed Time. Now they knew what was coming, they knew what to expect, and they learned to prepare for winter long before it arrives, to build knowing the needs of each moment. And they understood that this tree was giving them another type of fruit: Knowledge. That's how they called it the Tree of Knowledge. They said that we were all seeds of this divine tree. The Seeds were activated in the light of the Moon, and flourished in the light of the Sun. At night, they called Him the Mother who gestates the seed in the womb of the fertile earth, and in the day they called Him the Father who guides them to expand. through the territory. Faith and Hope were deposited in Heaven and the seeds of water that came from it in the form of rain. Thus water became a vehicle of spiritual life. Where there was an oasis, a well of fresh water, it would be a sacred place. And developing towns began to protect these wells of fresh, pure water, building temples around them, taking care of the water that came from the sky and remained on the earth. The stars sent their light to matter...
_I: “Ater Tumti”… Heaven on Earth…
_AM: The towns surrounded the cisterns, and shared the water as a community. They bathed in it to become divine, taking light baths. They defended water, light made matter. They were all united, connected to the water and the life that emanated from it. The shamans and wise men, homo sapiens-sapiens, described the divine qualities of the Tree of Life and its internal waters, of the stars, the sun and the moon, and throughout the Holocene period (from 12,000 years ago to today), they They developed different ways of counting their attributes. Each new shaman discovered something new by drinking its waters and eating its fruits, and narrated his enlightenment to the groups. The stories of the wise men generated spiritual thirst in the residents who came to them for advice, hungry for knowledge. And this was good, because it strengthened the individuals, because it made them belong in common union. All taking the same baths, sharing the same affirmations of wisdom, repeating words of knowledge through chanting, prayers that became mantras. The Word united them, again and again in communion, “Religious” them.
_I: This is how religion arises…
_AM: Religion comes from the Latin “Re” (to repeat, over and over again, intensely) and “Ligare” (to unite, bind, tie). Think about the ancestral context. Being individuals loose in the world was equal to death. A being alone could not survive, he needed to be united to the clan, the family, the group or pack. The only way to remain was in communion, linked, tied to each other. For this reason, every certain number of days, the group had to unite under a ceremony, in which the shaman “unified them again”, so that the group was strong and remained united. “Ceremony” is an Etruscan name, which celebrates the harvest, the moment when the Cereal, the seed, is obtained, a name originating from the goddess of agriculture, Ceres, honored in the Roman city Caere, where all the rites were carried out. , which made it the only, only altar (from the Latin “monium”: unique, one). Every ceremony arises from times of the year related to the field, life, sowing, harvesting, food, through solstices, equinoxes, lunar phases and solar cycles.
_I: And how do the religions we have today come about?
_AM: After centuries of repetition, each shaman or wise man began to tell the story in a specific way. It is not the same to eat in Siberia as in Egypt, in the Amazon or in India. In Siberia and northern Europe, the cold covers everything for 6 months, and the lands are not so fertile, so it is necessary to hunt and save blood. Thus, it is not the seeds that are honored, but the blood and horned animals such as deer and deer, or the claws of bears. On the Nile, everything depends on the floods that make the river fertile, and that is why its ceremonies are related to water. In the Amazon, food is abundant, and therefore small groups function well, without the need to defend resources, they remain in tribes using all the plant resources, imitating power animals. In India, the extensive and rugged geography divided the fertile lands into many food options, and each food was related to a divinity, the opposite of Tibet, where the peace and slowness due to the lack of oxygen meant that people had to slow down and meditate. , breathe taking them inside. Depending on geography and climate, shamans adapted the interpretation of the great Tree of Life. Until the time of human expansion arrived, and cultures met again, although many of them clashed. There began to be many different visions, and the shamans began to debate which story was the best or most accurate. This made interpretation more important than information. And from that moment, stories, speeches, sacred texts, dogmas emerged. The intention was to demonstrate that what they said was the truth, the only truth, and the unity of the settlers began to be regulated in spiritual laws, a series of religious regulations. Suddenly, what was written was more important than what was felt, the speech was more important than the truth. The people stopped looking at the sky and began to be guided by the priests, who, more than interpreters of the cosmos, became minstrels of the dogmatic.
_I: What is a dogma?
_AM: An opinion. From the Greek “dokein” (to give an opinion). But this opinion was taught, shown as truth, which gave rise to “dokto”, which generates words like “doctrine”, “doctor”, “teacher”.
_I: Opinion became a teaching, and stopped being a reading to become a law, transforming religion into a closed system.
AM: Every human needs to eat. And the need for food for the body generated the need to nourish the soul. While the Tree of Life nourished the bodies, the Tree of Knowledge nourished the soul and spirits. All the religions of the world arise from the roots and fruits of a tree.
_I: Yggdrasil for the Nordics, Sefirot for the Hebrews, Tree of Eden for Christians, the Baobab for the Africans, the Celtic Oak, Ceibo for the Mayans, the Ash Tree for the Greeks, the Fig Tree for the Buddhists, and many others...
_AM: And from them... God arises, because they understood that the tree blooms by Light, and the day was called “dyew”, origin of the word “God”. The idea that light descends to the Tree, making Life flourish, made us think that one day God could be born, in the consciousness of people, or incarnated in himself. And the traditions of the Messiah, of the Prophets, arose. Thus, the settlers stopped following the concepts of nature, and began to design the Divine Utopia of the Enlightened One, of the messiah, the savior. The spokespersons of the prophets began to expand the message, to plan this idea, saying that if they did not join the word they would be lost, and they created the idea of hell as a counterpart to those who did not follow the steps of the dogma. And out of fear, hunger and insecurity, or out of imperial obligation, the people naturalized this vision, making it their own.
_I: Something that began as a way to understand and unite families ended up being a distorted ideological imposition of the original idea.
_AM: Religions are a mirage of the universe, of how the One fragmented and distorted into millions.
_I: This means that every existing being is like a religion in itself.
_AM: Look at it this way. Everything is One, there is a single existing being, which begins to divide, creating light and shadow, day and night, and from this it branches like the branches and roots of a tree, into galaxies, stars, planets... And each world or sun is a fractal of the whole that links atoms by gravity, to form part of a self-referenced nucleus. But at the same time, it continues to fragment into minerals, plants, animals and conscious or intelligent beings like humans. They are distributed in new groups called species, and these in groups called cultures, and in turn within there are clans, which incorporate families, crossed by needs that link them. And each individual in turn is a cluster of cells linked together, creating an organism, a body of organs, each of which is unique, linking cells and molecules that compose it. And each atom links particles... And so on to the microcosm.
_I: Everything is a religion…
AM: And all is one returning to unity through distortion. The problem is not religions, the problem is believing that they are the truth.
_I: So, if all religions accepted that they are ways to reach God, the One, we could continue having religions without it affecting us...
_AM: What is a garden with the same flower?
_I: A monoculture. He he…
_AM: Exactly. For a garden to not be monothematic and boring, there must be many colors and shapes. If you like roses, that does not mean that lilies, daisies, poppies and lilacs should be discarded or eliminated. That you recognize perfection in a flower that opens seeking sunlight does not diminish the importance of all the others that do the same. A living Garden is made up of many flowers, many ways of seeing the Light, there is not just one. Various designs, colors, structures, opening at different times, some in the morning, others in the afternoon, others at night. But they are all flowers nourishing and beautifying life. The problem with religions is believing that the garden must have only one flower, it must be monochromatic, and do you know what a flower like that turns into?
_I: In what?
_AM: A pest.
_I: Today we live with several pests that suffocate other species of flowers...
_AM: Because they have forgotten the most important thing a flower should do: seek the Light, not prevent others from finding it or force them to do it their way.
_I: It's as if the Sunflower or the Daisy forced the Baobab or Lady of the Night to bloom at noon when they both bloom at night...
_AM: Their flower would die, and we would lose a beautiful and important vision, the shine of these flowers during the night capturing the most subtle of lights.
_I: How to transcend religion and be able to live with all of them?
_AM: On the one hand, it is necessary to understand that religion is not bad, what is bad is believing that it is the only possessor of the truth. It is essential to remember that they are paths to understand and receive light in a varied garden, and that floral diversity nourishes the soil, monoculture destroys the Earth, it is diversity that nourishes the soil and makes it fertile like the Amazon. Religious people must remember that premise, and thus religions will be useful to evolution instead of a conflict. And the anti-religious must remember that by believing they have the truth above religions, they are doing exactly the same thing. Remember, it is the light that a flower seeks.
_I: And the Lotus flower blooms when night comes…
_AM: Because it is the flower that reminds you that the greatest brilliance of all is when you find the Light within you.
_I: I bloom like the Lotus, enjoying the fertile garden in which I find myself, and unconditionally loving each free flower, I enjoy existence and divinity here on Earth.
_AM: “Turn Faith into Wisdom, and Hope into Responsibility.”