Should I start my own religion? pt2

I firmly believe that if there is an after life people that live positive uplifting lives will have a good after life. But my religion would not focus on or in fact even have any mention of such things. Since my faith revolves around making the world a better place and improving life for all, there would not need to be anything about guilt or original sin.

Things that I believe. The universe provides. We are never given more of anything than we can handle. We are all here for a reason. Worship of a deity is not necessary.  The whole universe is one being. Though it does not have its own arms and legs, the universe is alive. It seeks to express itself and to continue growing through enrichment of life everywhere. Prayer and gratitude bring you into oneness with the infinite all mind that is the universe.

There is a book, called The Science of Getting Rich,  that very clearly states the formula for getting exactly what you want out of life. It was written a little over a hundred years ago but the words and ideas expressed within it are timeless. In reading it recently, certain things resonated with what I already believe to be true. I have ever since I was a teen believed in the concept of resonance that I mentioned in a previous post. In short what it boils down to is if you think about positive things the universe brings you positive things and if you focus on negative things, you get negative things back but the way the book words it made it so much more personal.

1.     There is a thinking stuff from which all things are made, and which, in its original  state,  permeates, penetrates, and fills the interspaces of the universe.
2.     A thought in this substance produces the thing that is imaged by the thought.
3.     A person can form things in his thought, and, by impressing his thought upon formless substance, can cause the thing he thinks about to be created.

I always thought of the universe as far away and kind of disconnected like Alpha Centauri or the Crab Nebula. The energy that I sent out to it, I always envisioned as covering some vast unknowable distance, finding harmony somewhere out there and then making this enormous trek back to me. This quote however, allowed me to see that it is more like the universe is all around me at all times, constantly supporting and uplifting me and waiting for me to impress upon it my thoughts and desires of the way life should be.

So I wondered, as founder of this religion, about increase of life to all and positive harmonic resonance with the universe, what would my title be? Many of the typical religious apellations seem haughty and presumptuous. Priest would be an acceptable term, except to me, it implies one who is too religious and not worldly enough. Reverend comes from the idea of a person who is to be revered. As humble and unassuming as I am, I want no such thing. In fact I believe and want to promote the idea that we are all equals, no man or woman any  better or worse than any others. Father implies an authority figure and that those without the title are in some way not equals. Though it does bring to mind the average monks in olden time who were called simply brother. If we are all equals then we could all be called brothers and sisters. So I would be Brother Jim. The only greater title would apply to the universe. It would be our Big Brother and to it we would all be little brothers and sisters.

The key thing here is that there would be no real priests. Yes speeches would likely need to be given and instruction set forth as words on paper. But we are all always already doing the great work of the universe. As we strive to live and succeed we give breath to the desire for increased life that drives the universe.  It would be less religion than simply a positively focused way of life.

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