Striving To be Humanexamines what our moral values are, how we came to have them, and how we can add a spiritual dimension to them.
Westerners live in liberal, secular democracies. The religious and moral certainties of the past have lost their influence on us, replaced by liberal freedoms that have led to a culture of moral relativism. The plus about this is that it gives each of us the freedom to decide what is right and wrong. But if moral relativism considers all moral choices to be equal, as a culture what moral values do we end up collectively sharing? Is our morality no more than a grab-bag of values taken from consumerism, power politics, and self-interested ambition that justifies the view that we deserve whatever we can get, all softened by traditional religious ideas that it is good to be nice to others? Or is there is an objective scale of right and wrong that transcends our own individually-centred thoughts and feelings and that can definitely tell us what is moral and what is not?
This book is a search for a moral yardstick that we can use to decide what is truly right and wrong, and that offers us a guide to living together in contemporary Western secular democracies, while we remain true to our individual sense of spirituality and to our shared humanity.
Описание: It often seems that our biggest problem with being human ... is being human! Here you will find down-to-earth and compassionate comments on some of the biggest issues that trouble us as we attempt to live fully and make sense of our lives. In often humorous responses, the guides talk plainly about the spiritual complexities involved in being human.
"We'll start by introducing ourselves. We're spiritual beings like you. Except we don't have a body. But we did in the past, many times. We have repeatedly lived through the experience of occu-pying a human body and dealing with all the exciting, boring, wondrous and excruciating experiences that go with being human. We have been delirious with joy. We have suffered unimagin-able pain. We have given birth. We have raised children. We have lost children. We have been slaves. We have been masters. We have oppressed. We have fought against oppression. We have experienced everything available to human beings. This is the experiential basis for our claim to authority on what you're living through now. We know because we've done it all."
Topics include:
-Why human beings are confused about their spiritual nature
-The rationale and implications of reincarnation
- Does God really punish us when we screw up?
-The difference between gut feelings and deep insights
-A non-embodied view of what happens to us between lives
-Is more than one of us here right now?
-How can we know whether or not our pets have souls?
-The different varieties and roles of spirit guides
-If we're intrinsically good why is there so much evil?
-What we are to the universe and its enveloping consciousness
Описание: "Origins have always fascinated human beings. Many wonder at their personal origins, who their forebears were, how they came to be the person that they are. Of course, underneath it, usually unperceived, is a drive by the individual's own spiritual self to make itself known to the personality it has chosen to co-associate with this time round. Because anyone's ultimate origin is not familial, tribal, social, or genetic. It is spiritual. The search for kosmic origins, the beginning of all that is, is an expression of that same drive emanating from your higher spiritual self to know where you came from ... " So speak spirit guides in this revolutionary channelled book, in which they offer a series of wide-ranging, fascinatingly detailed explanations of human nature, the structure of reality, and the intent behind exist-ence. Using current scientific and cultural concepts, but giving them often novel twists, the guides present fresh ways to view the relationship between the spiritual and the physical. For anyone who seeks to understand the what, how and why of their existence, this book offers significant new perspectives on age-old conundrums.
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