Fatwa and Religion

Muhammad Tahir ul-Qadri, head of the Minhaj ul-Quran religious and educational organisation said " Islam was a religion of peace that promotes beauty, “betterment”, goodness and “negates all form of mischief and strife”.

“Terrorism is terrorism, violence is violence and it has no place in Islamic teaching and no justification can be provided for it, or any kind of excuses or ifs or buts.”

The above and more appears in : http://www.minhaj.org/english/oid/10276/Ian-G-Anderson-:-The-Anti-Terror-Fatwa-and-Religious-Arguments-for-Non-Violence.html.

Clearly, from "Thou shalt not kill," "Love thy neighbor, and we are all one, spiritual doctrine says NO to violence, hatred, terror, racism, bigotry and intolerance. I use the word spiritual instead of religious because the words of the prophets were never really supposed to be tied to a religious organization-in fact, most opposed such organizations and many prophets were murdered by them.

In WAKING GOD we see the outcome of religion gone insane. We see the dogmatic hold they have over their followers. We see the absurdity of it all. Muhammad Tahir ul-Qadri is a modern day prophet who understands intentions, inner meanings and the obvious-religious institutions have not only failed their flock, they lead them down a path of destruction.

As we approach 2012, new voices are calling for a basic transformation of human thinking. They are calling for all to seek the true meaning of the prophets that have gone before us.

Ian says, "Religion is thus the low road precisely because it claims to be the highest road, a ready-made unachievable standard by which to compare (and conflate) all lesser thoughts and actions."

Just nod if you can hear me!

LIVING EARTH COSMOLOGY AND CHRISTIAN DOGMA

I cam across a wonderful post, part of which is posted below. In the WAKING GOD series we talk about a 'god seed' that is part of our DNA. We talk about how religious dogma has kept humanity in mental chains and how it has hidden fundamental truths about the true nature of the Universe. WAKING GOD is about a great awakening, the rebirth of humanity, HUMANITY'S SECOND COMING. Read the article below and see if you do not feel that the writer's hypothesis makes more sense than the 'you are all condemned unless you bow down to god' dogma. As we approach 2012, do you want to see a world where the god seed is activated and we all live in peace and harmony, or do you want to believe that on 144,000 are saved out of 7 billion humans?

It is interesting that Christianity and Islam have long suppressed the Goddess and feminine wisdom in their dogma. The patriarchs have made a rather large mess of the world. Time for Wisdom to return.

Living Earth,
Living Relations

by Zacciah Blackburn
Director of Education at the International Sound Healing Network

Having a symbiotic relationship with the Earth as a living Conscious Being is an everyday part of life for most indigenous and wisdom based cultures of the world. Whether it is the Hindus, who state that "all is consciousness" (that which has the ability to directly perceive), the Tibetans, who say, "all is mind" (and, "the mind is in the heart,"), or the Qero Indians of central Peru, direct descendants and wisdom keepers of the Inca, who say, "all is living energy," indigenous cultures of the world honor and engage in living symbiotic relationship with the Earth, its elements, its stones, its waters, its trees and vast plant and animal life, in dynamic ways that defy the logic and normal sense of the Western rational view of the world. But even modern science has now been peering into the sub-atomic quantum world for decades, mystified that thought and expectation affect matter. The popular new science of Dr. Maseru Emoto, which suggests water either is conscious, or at least holds and is effected by consciousness, proves to us that the world is more than we imagined it to be in our modern pursuit of happiness according to the current consumer based society.

The reality is, that practically every culture alive today, still based in its ancient wisdom roots, is telling us that the Earth and Cosmos are vital living energies, and that we are in the midst of a vast awakening of human consciousness that is unlike anything this world, and possibly the universe, has seen before. This awakening is being made possible, in a large part, by the great re-alignment with the truths of the Divine Feminine, hidden and dormant through its suppression primarily by systems of male-based faith and logic of the past several centuries. The wisdom, intuition, and deep mysteries ready to reveal themselves to us, through the uncovered treasures of cultural wisdom and the Divine Feminine source of life itself, is here at our threshold. Since 1987, and the foreseen "Harmonic Convergence" (part of Maya prophecies), the alignment with, and awakening of, the Divine Feminine aspects of consciousness have especially become more readily accessible to human consciousness.

One aspect of that Feminine mystery and wisdom not yet fully understood or embraced, is in the Earth herself, and in all manifest creation. At all levels of our `physical' existence, from elemental consciousness (earth, air fire, water and ether/space, which compose all matter) to our sub-atomic structure, our DNA, and every cell, tree, rock, bird, earthworm, and human being on the planet, our body, and `bodily' consciousness are waiting to engage us in a symbiotic relationship of living consciousness, breathing vital life and energies between all forms of life in harmonic, resonant relations, in which we all can easily engage.