August 27, 2008
This is my initial, opening post to my blog site. Have you ever wondered about life, life before physical life, life after physical life? Have you questions about the cosmos, the universe, how it started, where is it headed? What is birth? What is death? Beyond this physical life and our individual, personal identities is there something more, and greater. I don't pretend to have the answers to these questions, but I wish to pose questions and give my opinions on these matters that are beyond our normal, apparent physical life existences and that I think should be investigated while we are still in our physical bodies so as to prepare ourselves and, perhaps, others, for the continuation of our cosmic journey. I don't wish to disturb anyone by suggesting that their religious beliefs, what they have been taught all their lives, falls short in describing the true nature of things, but they do. So please read no further if you are likely to become overly upset or angry. If you are satisfied with what you have been taught to believe, if you are comfortable with it, if it fills your needs and are satisfied, please enjoy your beliefs, be happy, go in peace and God bless you.
September 2, 2008
I must apologize for the adamant statement above regarding the possible shortcoming of conventional earthly religious organizations. I am no one to judge, but I must offer my opinion. Also, I am only familiar with the Christian religion with its Judean background. According to that belief, the world is only 5700 years old, if taken literally. We believe now, from scientific study that the earth is 4.5 billion years old and the universe is 13 billion years old. Therefore, we should look more favorably on a religion that presents a more distant origin (perhaps the Hindu religion.)
We also tend to look at existence from a very local limited view (from our own little planet, orbiting an average star.) Consider this: Astronomers have now detected planets orbiting other stars. They state that there about one billion galaxies in the observable universe and that there about one billion stars in the average galaxy. If we estimate, very conservatively, that only one percent of stars have planets, that only one percent of those planets have life, and that only one percent of these have intelligent life, that gives us one thousand billion planets (one trillion) with intelligent life.
If we logically realize that there may be a trillion planets in the universe inhabited with intelligent life, we should have a vastly different perspective of existence than that with which we have grown up. We can also conjecture that half of these planetary inhabitants are more developed than we are (mentally, technologically, perhaps even spiritually.) I am not saying we should throw out all the major religions of this planet, with much good that they preach and practice, but we should evaluate what they put forth and our own understanding of the universe and existence from a broader perspective.
For example, is there just one God for a trillion planets with, perhaps, several billion trillion inhabitants? Are there various levels of a spiritual hierarchy? Some believe that the God (Brahma, Yahweh, Allah or whomever) of our solar system is a spiritual being named Sanat Kumara. Below him, it is felt, are the great spiritual masters Lord Maitreya, Lord Sananda (Jesus, the Christ.), Lord Buddha and others. Is it possible that each star with its satellite planets has its own spiritual head master (God) and spiritual master guides and teachers? Is there a galactic hierarchy over all the billion stellar leaders? Is there a universal hierarchy over all the billion galactic leaders? Interesting questions, are they not?
I’m interested in what you think. Please, if you wish to voice your opinion, email me at:
jack_keller@mindspring.com. Please put “Blog” in the subject line so I can pick it out of all the other, less important stuff I receive. Thanks.
I hope to cover many topics in future blogs such as:
Reincarnation
Past Lives and Karma
Astrology
Shroud of Turin
UFOs and space visitors
And many others, including a list of books that I feel to be important