I was watching a
video filmed in some dead poet's tomb. The people spoke Persian. Someone was
reading the poet's words
to some others. I listened intently, but all I could hear was
meaningless gibberish. I saw that the listeners were very intense and one lifted
an arm to wipe off a tear. The reader's voice quivered with emotion. I became
serious, respecting what
this people, on the screen of my computer, are feeling. They are emitting and
receiving combinations of sounds that they all pre-agreed mean something. Those
are words in Persian language that is older than Hebrew, which I used to believe was
the language of creation. God told Man to name all the animals and plants, and man gave them Hebrew
words. The words, combined with other words, communicate an idea. The
ideas combined with other ideas form into human emotions. Emotions have a way
to translate into actions. Actions are described with words and again stir up
emotions that may become
actions. If you don't know the language, you can't participate until someone
translates for
you, and even then you will
not have the same feelings. There is no way to portray a feeling in another
language. It will be close but not the same. Elohim, Adoni, does not describe
accurately Ahura Masda. Both were names for a single entity who created the
whole universe. A biological being, called Adam, made out of the earth, named
all things and all things were created. Job complete and humans existed, where
humans did not exist before.
Before the poet
writes the words, the heart of the poet sends a message that will be communicated to
other people. We say "the
heart," but it is not a
flesh and blood organ that initiates the feeling. The muscle called heart is
actually reacting to a thought. The thought is nowhere in physical form before
it is put into words.
Surprisingly it communicates itself into other people's hearts in a form of like
or dislike. I may like another human, but I feel that the other
human does not like me. I avoid that other human. The reasons for that dislike
may be revealed later on as-need basis. Those reasons will
be described in words and communicated by exhaling through vocal cords,
producing sound vibrations that carry on in our atmosphere and stimulate the ear
drums in another human. The sounds will be interpreted, converted into tiny
electrical signals, and
form a meaning in my main computer called the brain. The brain receives the
signals and converts them back to feelings; this time those are my
feelings which were initiated by the thoughts of the individual who communicated in the first
place. This happens many times, engulfing whole humankind. Almost all the humans
adjust the thoughts to suit their individual preference depending on their
current physical situations.
People express themselves not only with wards
but often with physical actions. Dance is an example. Hugging, genuflecting, prostrating or lifting two
spread fingers to symbolize victory, or at times, peace are also examples. The people of
some cultures developed complicated poses that will help them express their
religious or spiritual understanding of creation. The understanding will be expressed mostly to themselves in a feeble attempt to
connect with the soul that is not physical nor attached to this earth. Yoga is
famous for that. The dance of a, so called, primitive culture is designed the same way.
Sometimes the dancers will
become exhausted; other
times they will spin to delirious heights and others will bow so quickly and furiously that they will
be light headed. All of that for the same reason. The physical body loses its grasp - and the soul, for a duration,
is as free as it is prelife or post-death. It is one with the
creator and not submitting to the laws of planet Earth. Being creatures
of this planet, we have
but a few methods of sensing our souls. The modern people have
none.
In a
gallant attempt not to believe in what we call God, our society divorced itself
from the universe and became completely dependent on what can be physically
proven. This group of people were fooled to the limit by religions and will not
submit again. Some are still following rituals and books from days gone by, but
they have to make themselves believe things that they know are not true. They do
it more for political reasons then spiritual. Some mainstream churches comes to
mind. They "believe" things that they have to hide from the believers since no
sane modern person would believe it. Every religious organization is doing this,
to some degree, but none direct people towards a non-materialistic spirituality.
This phenomenon has been given new names and is widely exploited by some
self-declared
"enlightened" individuals who often make it look like some
kind of a hoax.
The
people who believe that
there is a cosmic spark within each individual are banished to a nonbelievers land. They are not
useful to the old religions that compete with each other for power that no longer exists, and they are not welcome by
those who declared that there is no God and are actively trying to prove it. It
is simple. Humanity has
outgrown the old explanations but isn't yet mature enough to
understand the latest spiritual concepts.
