You did a pretty good job there, William Gaatjes, in my opinion. Perhaps I can tell you why I think so:
WG: In the western world the idea (and it works) is to keep the people that are restless busy. When humans do something productive, humans feel positive and have a feeling that they are contributing to society. Whenever this way of thinking disappears problems arise. While people work, they can gain knowledge. And start to see the bigger picture. Unfortunately for a large part of the humans in the (western) world, they do not wish to see it. We are lucky that some wise people made the right decisions and that our current technology actually stimulates people to learn. The human mind is a powerful tool, but similar as for example a chirurgical knife, it can be used to help people (to operate) as it can be used to kill people. If you do not use it wisely, your decision will haunt you and change you. In the east this is called karma...
M: I think this restlessness that you describe is caused by the absence of a center, a feeling that one is not complete, that something is missing, that there is something that we need. This feeling is unconscious, it drives us but we are unaware first of all that it does, and secondly what the feeling is. The feeling is self hate, and we are unconscious of the fact that we feel it because to feel it brings conscious pain.
We were born perfect, that is to say with our full human potential, we learned language which makes duality of thought possible. We were taught that there is good and evil, not that we were born perfect, and that good and evil was turned on us to make us conform to an insane and inconsistent set of cultural beliefs. We were put down with words and made to feel bad, ashamed, guilty, unworthy, etc.
And because as children we had no psychic defense, no ego capacity of denial, counterattack and blame, and because we were dependent on love and support from our elders, we were hurt the maximum possible that a person can be hurt. We were made to feel as bad as a person can be made to feel, and we would have died, physically, had we not killed that pain by walling if off behind our ego. We were divided from the perfection we were born to be and because a false being, the ego.
It is this split, this feeling we are worthless coupled with our deeply buried memory of the inner unity we had originally, that causes this restlessness, as you called it.
Because we are asleep to who we really are and exist in a false ego, motivated by feelings we do not know we have, we are in fact just walking machines, marching morons, sheep, brain dead zombies, or any of the other ways we project out their as words and concepts, who it is that is really us.
It is this mechanical, unconscious, autonomic living that is our Karma. We are mechanically walking in our sleep. We can't step off the wheel because we are unaware that we are on it.
Thus we are perfectible and we are deeply sick. We have the possibility of spiritual evolution. We can awaken. We can unconsciously feel what heals and what makes us more deeply sick and we can seek to create more love or more hate. We do so so when nothing around us is reminding us of how bad we feel, and we destroy when we are made to feel those feelings.
WG: In the western/middle east religions, humans tend to blame everything on their god or the adversary of that god. While in effect they should be looking into the mirror. According to their own religions god gave them a free will, to act themselves. Yet clearly some actions, would justify the reversal of that holy decision. As in all honesty is the case in almost every religion ever existed.
M: Religions, I believe, are past bridges to reality created by individuals who unearthed, recovered and returned to their original state of perfect. Their words, their story, and their deeds, I believe, were for their time, their place, and the local conditions of their own culture, bridges created so that their fellows around them could also recover and cross. They are like templates that describe the human conditions appropriate for a special place in time. They were ideas chosen to deal with the precise ways that those folk around them were asleep and the kind of words that were culturally appropriate to awaken them.
We are caught in the illusion of duality, of the false idea there exists good and evil. Evil actions come into being because we were taught and internalized lies when we took up language. We were put down. We are machines that act without conscious awareness as to how our self hate is motivating us, and we have created this notion of a perfect God. We can't blame Him, consciously, so we say we have free will and that our sins are our fault. Naturally we do, because we hate ourselves.
But if you were to truly see that everything that happens happens because of the will of God and God is absolute in His perfection, you are home free. Everything is exactly as it is supposed to be, as indeed it is. We are and always were perfect. But to truly surrender in faith to the perfection of God and the rightness of all that happens to us, is to die to the ego. The false self, the self divided against the truth self we were meant to be can never have that faith. You have to be a little child again to go to heaven. Jesus brought forgiveness for sins because we sin out of guilt and we were never really guilty at all. It is just how we were made to feel with put downs.
WG: In all honesty, every time a society starts out with good positive idea's. But will always fail in the end because sooner or later, the collective thinking falls apart because of individuals who like to be the alpha. Yet, they are unable to see that the desire of being the alpha automatically takes away the ability to be the alpha. It is all balance. Good and evil. One cannot exist without the other. You cannot desire to be the best and not turn into the worst.
What you call the alpha, I call the ego. It is the ego that saved us from physical death. It is our defense against the pain we can't allow ourselves to remember. But it longs to die so we can arise again to out original perfection. It longs to die but fights to the death to preserve itself and thus we are insane. Our efforts to do good are evil. What we call good is the preservation of that part of ourselves that is sick. We are insane because we are inside out and upside down.
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