Spiritualityvs. Religion

By Marilyn L. Redmond

Currently, people are more aware of the expression spirituality.It can be easily confused with religion, However they are not the same. Thisarticle attempts to explain the differences. I attended a church for 50 yearsand never heard the word spirituality. I came to understand they are inopposition.

 Simply, spiritual is. It is the highest vibrations andfrequencies of a beneficent energy force or coconsciousness that createseverything and is within everything. In meditation, you tap into this highenergy of truth and love. This very high vibration is not visible to the nakedeye. Therefore it has been discounted by many. Whereas, in religion you arelistening to the dogma, doctrine, and belief system to which you are to adhere.

 Religion is from the realm of visible sight. In the materialworld, everything is observable with the naked eye. Science can measure it forsize weight, or years, recreating the same results. Schools, religion,medicine, and culture continue to teach what you observe in the perceptibleworld as if that is the truth upon which to build.

Framing our knowledge in life on what is tangible or told tous from experts, authority, and powerfully rich has been unquestioned foryears. Therefore, the agenda behind the surface continues to be accepted untilnow, Quantum Physics has brought a deeper insight to the origin and meaning ofour beingness and origins. Truth is changing from what we have been taught ortold for centuries to revealing an additional truthful explanation. Themetaphors and language from ancient times are being explained in a new understanding.The old words and images were purposely used to deceive the people.  

Terms were invented to reframe the truth with judgment thatblocks reality. People are programmed  tobe fearful, unworthy, shameful, worried, powerless, helpless, and more. Languageis used against us with meanings that are not truthful about our real heritage. Peopleare awakening to these lies and manipulations that have become common to controlthe masses.

If people feel powerless, a lack, insecure, abandoned, or shamefulthen they can be taught to look outside themselves for a savior, superman, government, or medication to "fix" them. This is where religion, government, education,and later medicine got their power over the people. Mistakenly, people thinktheir answers are from others. They will supply their needs. However, thismakes the person a victim and dependant on something or someone external tosave them. Creeds, rituals, and beliefs become the answer to those that buyinto someone or something to have the answers, "fix", or rescue them. Now media,television, news, and organizations have bought into this deceit. It has becomea full-blown propaganda to keep the people in a mental bondage where you arecriticized for asking questions, having a different opinion, or finding a diverseperception.

For eons of years, this indoctrination has been a constantbut a subtle way to form an oppressive civilization for the benefit of the privilegedand rich. The goal to depopulate the planet for their benefit is the hiddenagenda. Creating diversions, wars, and now bioweapons called vaccinations isabout fewer people to control. The ultimate goal of the depopulation is to implanttechnology for programming those left to be subservient and benefit the prosperityof the rich. Ultimately, this would eliminate the God source within everyperson. Without the light of the Creator within only darkness is left. Evil isa lack of light.

Spirituality differs in the aspects listed above. Simply,spirituality is the source of love. Tesla said, "If you want to understandthe universe it is energy, vibration, and frequency"   God is a label for this energy. Two thousandyears ago, people did not understand energy or love and therefore the word God came tobe a common word for this power or consciousness within everything, includinghuman beings. . 

Originally, many sacred texts were left out of the Bible.The remaining manuscripts were rewritten several times to disempower thebelievers. Some truths were left to allow life. Love sustains life. The editinginserted what the followers were to think from the dogma and doctrines that areman-made. The pulpit cherry picks the dogma for sermons. For the most partpeople do not read the Bible with the truthful passages of each person being achild of a loving universe.

The word belief has the word "lie: in it and comes fromego thinking based in fear. With a small amount of truth along with falseinformation, people were to depend on the church for their answers andsalvation, Thus looking outside themselves for redemption rather than withintheir hearts, brought the ultimate fall of man. They were separated from theirCreator.

With most religions, people can never be saved except by anoutside means as a personal redeemer. This idea continued into having a hero includingthe government, education, medicine, etc. Looking for someone to liberate ushas kept people victims and believing we are powerless over our own lives. Thetruth of our own authority and worthiness is missing and not told of our owninheritance. .

Accepting spirituality is not easy when trusting yourself isnot acceptable if you are taught to trust someone else. It comes in stages of changingyour perception to trusting yourself. To move from the false information intomore and more truth can be shocking. However, the truth does set us free.

Many do not see themselves as a cherished person, created inlove, from the programming of being a sinner, unworthy, and destined for hellsubtly promoted for centuries,. Added to this the factor that ancestors extend their generational abuse and misinformation to the younger ones in the family.This lack of reality is passed on. We are waking up to this lack of truth. Livingyour own life rather than the family patterns brings freedom to be yourself.

Since fear has kept us in our head where fear rules ourlives, to allow a new message of love is not easy. One by one releasing thefalse for the truth allows the heart to open to receive the love of the Creator.In fear, the walls of our heart kept out the love. It is a complicatedemotional readjustment to accept the love in your heart to enter and fill you. Becominga love-based person instead of our reacting from our fear-based life, is anopportunity to move into reality and maturity. However, it is a slow andsometime painful experience to open up to the truth. The results are joy andenlightenment,   

Fear is a form of insanity. A lack of self-honesty broughtmy misery. When I found this out, I vowed to be as honest with myself as Icould be, as I did not want to be mentally ill like my mother. Spirituality isbased in honesty with yourself. I am a child of a loving Creator, who like aHeavenly Father guides and protects me in all ways. The love within gives meworthiness, power, courage, self-confidence, and self-love. I am reborn intoreality. Love is realty. Knowing today that there is nothing wrong with me andthere never was brings a new life.

I looked very good while I was dying inside. I had neverlisted to my heart. Previously, I only had listened to others tell me how bad Iwas. I had worried about what others thought about me, instead of being true tomyself. The more I released the negative emotions and replaced them with loveand grace, the better my life improved. I started liking myself, instead ofsabotaging my life. I started making decisions from my intuition.

I know today that I need the light from my soul to sustainlife. I was actually told by a doctor that I was dying thirty-nine years ago. Withoutmy soul shinning as a flame in my heart, I lived in the darkness. Nothing can grow in the dark. The depressionleft as the rays of light filled me. The more I allow the divinity within to guide my life the difficultieswere less. Moving into the light of the Creator brings  daylight into my lifefor reality. I found the love within. Love and light are reality.

I tried faith and found it brings prodigious results. Theanswer was total faith in a higher power of PURE LOVE. I am growing in faithtoday. The universe supports me in all things. I trust the universe to takecare of me and bring my needs. The commitment to turn my life over to a lovingenergy was not easy for me. 

Now each morning, I turn my day over to the care ofmy Creator. My Creator takes better care of me than my parents, husband, boss, or husband ever did. I have been blessed. I pray and meditate for my answers. When releasingmy past, my ego, fear, and judgments, I identify each issue to release as the universeworks best, when I am specific. Answers come to me, when I am open to receivingthem. If I have no worries of the future and have forgiven my past, living inthe now is possible.

My inner knowing is truth. I feel joy, forgiveness,compassion and love as I accept the perfect love of my Creator and know that Iam dearly loved. When I live in the moment, it is a gift and that is why it iscalled THE PRESENT. I am now living in the Presenceof  God. I allow that energy of loveand grace to fill me and my day goes well. Love never fails. I have moved intoreality.