Cultural Anthropology

Can you step outside your culture and observe it?

You live in a cargo cult predicated on suffering. You can have the cargo without the suffering.

Every probable reality you can imagine exists. You can attract into the sequence of your official life any scenario you prefer as the probable self you are. There is wide latitude.

Your culture's obsession with real estate and its relationship to suffering is well known.

You can "own" a piece of Gaia, in your terms, quite easily. And yet culturally you are trained to believe in its often insurmountable difficulty.

Among the infinite probable sequences, the one you inhabit is one in which such things seem very very hard. "But it's true," you say. I agree, it is true, both for you personally and culturally writ large.

Just suppose, though, that your beliefs affect which probable sequences become your official reality.  There, in a revised choosing, what you think of as prosperity, that can be had on four hours (or less) of enjoyable work per day. For you. You won't be changing the whole world, just your world.

This is sheer heresy is it not? Yet, what do you think Jesus was telling people? You do not need to suffer. Suffering is a form of entertainment for people who believe in a cruel, judgmental and vindictive Old Testament God.

Atheists say, "If God is so loving and in control, why did he let WWII happen, why do bad things happen to good people, why is there so much suffering in the world?"

It is God's principle of non-interference. Your whole planet was created in love but imbued with absolute free will. You can make the mountain sing or make the angels cry. See?

In letting go of suffering there is no limit to how far you can go. Any probable reality you can imagine as your self is a reality you can summon into your official sequence.

"I'm free to do what I want any old time." It is apostasy, yes, in your cult of suffering. But you don't have to stay in the cult.

America is a cargo cult of suffering. So was Palestine in the days of Yeshua.

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