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What is the Difference Between Religion and Spirituality?

I personally see religions as belief systems and some are merely social clubs. Most religions are mind-driven, running off of guilt, fear and sin, and are taught from books of ancient doctrines that were made to accommodate the heredity and environment of a nation or a group, including their folklore and common cores of experience.

Spiritualism is a primal instinct that is heart-driven, running off of truth, peace, and tranquility (TPT).

Welcome all! I hope you are living your life to its fullest, and I hope you reap the full rewards of your own abilities.

Focusing on a possible afterlife puts restraints on the life we live right now. I myself try to focus on spiritualism, the here and now, and the things in humanity I can experience. I suggest that helping is sometimes a double-edged blade. When looking at a person's situation and feeling sympathy and then trying to mold the world around another being the way you see fit may cause more harm than good. Possibly, we should put a lot of our sympathy on the back burner and apply a little more empathy. Religions all have some beautiful comments from what I consider the masters (Spiritual Philosophers) people that talked about life and love and living, this was a innate thing. You're not taught to be a humanitarian or a philosopher or a prophet; you are born to be that way. Joan of Arc said "I'm not afraid... I was born to do this." I myself have a few of my own concepts. I enjoy them they work for me, yet I in no order am here to try to change anyones ideology, I'm simply providing food for thought so that one may enhance their own beliefs possibly. It's your personal belief that counts, not a clergy, not a bible study, but your dissections of life, love, nature, and humanity.

The concepts we have in humanity presented in other nations, in their own books, are important. Simple example: in the Old Testament, they speak of pork being unclean. After raising pigs, I discovered, here in America, they need to have a parasitic medicine given in their water at prescribed intervals. Parasites flourish in heat, and at the time the old testament was written most civilizations lived in extremely hot desert regions. It would only make sense that swine, as labeled in the Old Testament, were definately unclean and could lead to severe sickness and even death from the parasites.

Belief systems are okay for some and not for others. Even Atheism is a belief system. Bibles are nothing mystical, magical, or holy sitting on a table or a shelf until you open it and insert your heart and mind, just like any other book. St. Thomas Aquinas said, "Beware the person of one book." At the time he said this he could of been put to death. It's strange how so many people, all over the world, in all belief systems have had their own consensus of an interpretation and were tortured, tormented, shunned or even killed for their interpretations. Even more ironic in over 2000 years there have been many that claimed to be Christ that suffered the same fate. Strange that almost every belief system is looking for a Messiah of some sort, yet if a person professes to be that Savior, even now, they are drugged back to a point were the doctors see them socially correct and fit to walk amongst humanity. Unfortunately some never walk amongst humanity again.

I am bipolar. I don't try to hide it.  It is a gift and a curse. Many bipolars exhibit a Christ consciousness persona; they are not angry, violent or anything. When I was manic one time, I took off my clothes in the "delusion", as it was called, and I draped the bed sheet from the hospital on me in a toga fashion. I ripped up the pillow case and tied it around my head. I was in a very peaceful state. I do remember talking in what might be called parables. Mania is strange. It's like there's two consciousnesses:  one performing an act and one observing the act. Discussing this with my psychiatrist, I asked, "Am I a split personality or two seperate consciousnesses?" She replied, "Two consciousnesses." I will admit there are some memories I don't have any record of. Luckily, in my case, up to now, I have never been violent, even though I often have the thought that I am the only real person here. The world wants me dead, because if I die, they become real. It makes it hard to fight this thought when someone is holding out pills or coming at you with a needle. The night I ripped up the sheets, I was transfered from a public hospital to a VA hospital. I did something, I don't remember what, but they threw me in the quiet padded room. It had only one window up way high. My only memory of the room was looking out the window and yelling "Oh Lord, why have you forsaken me?" The next conscious memory I has was being strapped down on a bed with a four-point restraint. To this day, I wish I knew what kind of concepts I was sharing with the hospital staff and police. They told me that they found quite funny. As I said, I have never been violent, as far as I can recall, yet they always post guards at my door. I am a big man, six-foot four, and, at those times, I weighed more than 400 pounds.

Now, you're probably wondering why I elaborated on my experiences. Well, I wonder how many great quotes and concepts have been laughed away from humanity during these divine feeling episodes. After my many experiences with being in Ward 7 at Danville, I started talking with people all over the world, from all the places Yahoo goes, to discuss life, religion, and spirituality. I chat as a release and try to give humanity back some of the blessings it has given me. I write poems, quotes and analogies about life. I know what they mean to me, but you will never catch me telling anyone what they should mean to them. Religious books are an account on how to live a possible happy afterlife and present life. For myself, I choose to concentrate on the now, rather than the afterlife as some religions do.

Just a question: If anything to excess is a "sin" wouldn't trying to make everyone follow the same religion be a form of excess? And if Christ was God, would he not have also been the Creator? So if he said, "Everything I have done, you can do and more." Wasn't he saying we are one step under the creator on our own way to becoming creators of our own? Isn't it every parent's dream that their children will aspire far past their own abilities?  You may disagree but "i was born into a sinful world on some aspects, yet i myself am a perfection, i am a singularity in the universe there has been no one exactly like me in the past, or will be exactly like me in the future, and definatley there is no one exactly like me right now.