CHAPTER 42
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Universal Spirituality
Even if you forget about the question of global warming, the environment, and the geopolitical consequences of having oil wars, the suffering that takes place in the world today because of artificial poverty resulting from the withholding of these technologies has caused hundreds of millions of deaths. This covert policy has forced billions of people to live in desperation and ignorance, without education or the basic means of a dignified life.
That suffering alone would justify a change in the current order and a disclosure of these technologies and wonderful new sciences. Because while most people worry about what kind of terrible cataclysms might befall us environmentally economically and geo-politically if we continue on our course, most of the world's population is already living in the hell of poverty and desperation. For them, it is already a catastrophe — right now
Consider this: Since before we started the Eisenhower Interstate System, we have not needed an interstate system. In the future, all transportation between cities will be above ground, through anti-gravity magnetic systems, and the hundreds of billions of dollars spent on maintain- ing and building surface roads will be freed for education, health and other useful purposes.
Moreover, the enormous amount of prime real estate and arable land that is now sitting underneath all of that concrete will be available for agriculture or recreation.
The resources that we now spend on energy, fuel systems, transportation, and surface roads will be used for real progress for human civilization. We also spend over a trillion dollars a year on military-indus- trial operations —an enormous part of world economic activity. Most of those resources will become available for other purposes.
So it is not as if the resources or the money isn't there to create an extraordinary planet. It has just all been misdirected and squandered.
Once that dynamic changes, whatever you can imagine will be possible!
All the technologies are here already. We have the knowledge to do it. And there are enough wise people on this planet to do it. So why hasn't it happened?
The structures and institutions around religion today are going to be greatly transformed and for the most part, swept away. Remember that the evolution of a priesthood -- rabbis, priests, reverends, mullahs, etc— occurred because very few people could read.
But in a time of universal education, there will be no illiteracy. Even today, most of the people can read and write. Thus, the need to have a centralized priesthood will end. This need is actually over already— we haven't needed it for 150 years.
In the near future, every person will arise to the responsibility of independently seeking the truth, reading, studying, meditating and pray- ing for their own spiritual development. There will be spiritual teachers, but not people who are elevated to the point of being "the reverend," or "the rabbi" or "the Imam," of for that matter "the Dalai Lama."
These religious structures have served a good purpose in the past, at times, but have been co-opted by men for the abuse of power and to amass power and control. This dynamic has nothing to do with the pur- pose of any religion on earth -any religion -- or any of the founders of any religion on earth.
If one wants to identify as a Christian or Jew or Buddhist or what have you, that will be fine. But the clergy will be replaced by lay-people, sharing. Societies will evolve around seeking spiritual truth and experiencing spiritual reality, and looking to the teachings of the entire knowledge of spiritual teachers -- of all the spiritual teachers. They will assemble in counsels and assemblies where there will be no central priest or reverend in that community, but they will rotate or take turns and share as a group.
Certainly people of greater capacity or experience might teach or share with others. This will always be the case. We will always have teachers. But the idea that there will be a paid professional priesthood: The time for that is over. It is over because it has been abused, and because humans have the capacity now to read, and to investigate truth on their own. It is actually very corrupting to have some other person interpret for you the meaning of truth; we can share our truth with one another, but ultimately we make the truth our own, in our own way. It is spiritually infantilizing to have a priest do those things for you -- there is an abdication of our spiritual responsibility for ourselves that goes along with that kind of relationship. People need to take spiritual responsibility for their own evolution.
Now, this doesn't mean that there won't be spiritual communities or spiritual organizations or religions. But they will be greatly changed, because if they are genuinely pursuing enlightenment and spirituality -as opposed to amassing power and controlling people- they will be looking to empower everyone spiritually.
This area of human life will focus on the experience of spiritual evolution and the genuine understanding of the divine and the sacred.
The things that today pass as big "religious issues," will be changed and refo- cused to the actual purpose that all of the great prophets, Avatars and spiritual teachers came here to give us: the knowledge of the existence of a divine Being, and the ability for people to pray to and meditate within this divinity and realize that in their lives.
The corruption of religion is intimately related to both the masses giving up their spiritual power and a priesthood that is prone to abusing power.
And no matter how many fine people there may be in the priesthood, there are always those who go into a demagogic mode— who can then affect weaker minds and bring them under their control, whether it is Jim Jones or someone who is trying to induce a jihad or inquisition.
This kind of fanaticism and thinking will be exposed for what it is, and retired, just like the thinking about nationalities or ideologies requiring massive warfare and destruction will be retired. And it will be retired permanently.
Transformed, truth-seeking religious groups will have a deep and abiding respect for others. People will discover as time goes on that truth is one - and the religious differences are unimportant or based on false- hood, misinterpretations or perversions of the original spiritual teachings.
We will eventually evolve a universal spirituality. People are simply not going to be able to hold on to the chauvinism of this sect versus that sect if they are awake. Because if they are awake, they are going to realize that there is really no difference at all -- that the Light is the same in every lantern no matter what the lantern may have been externally: whether it was Buddha or Krishna or Christ or Mohammed or any other Manifestation of Divinity. People will start searching for that Light, and they are not going to be separated by hatred and divisions due to the form of the lantern.
My understanding of what happens at the time of the separation of the spirit body and soul from the physical body, what people call death, is that there is a seamless continuity of awareness. This is what I experienced and this is what I also know from other people who have had a near-death experience. There is a continuity of your individuality— you have all your memories, all your knowledge. But you are suddenly freed. It is like a bird leaving a cage. The vast cosmos that is the astral realm, the worlds of lights and beyond, is your new home. You ascend to a level that is commensurate with the state of your evolution and consciousness reached on earth. And you openly consort with loved ones and friends that you have connected with on earth.
In that spirit form, you continue to grow and evolve through every level of the cosmology, into greater and greater realization of the astral worlds. One can say it is heaven, these beautiful worlds of knowledge and light. You continue on that path forever, until you choose, from enlightenment, to merge with the Ocean. And yet 'you' always exist: time is an illusion. The drop of your individuality can merge with the ocean of the unbounded Divine Mind, and yet you can also continue as an individual, with work in that realm.