Orthodoxy Transforming Spirituality

Most religious systems demand and teach behavioral norms and use fear as an incentive. If you do a bad deed, one can be expected to suffer at the hands of God. Therefore, if you do not want to be punished, do not do the forbidden deed. The laws of most countries are the same way — fear driven. Break the law and get the punishment – if you get caught.

However, spirituality seeks to participate in right actions and discontinue negative actions not based on fear but on a person’s own best interest. This is a great difference. Fear only causes us to want to do things and see if we can get away with the action. Fear is a negative emotion and causes resentment and lack of freedom to act.

However, if we really believe what we have studied in these podcasts so far, then doing right actions and avoiding negative actions do not flow from fear, they flow from wanting to grow in spirituality and flowing with the way things really are.

What we do, good or negative, every little thing we do, pushes over dominoes that go in every direction pushing over other dominoes. Finally, the ring of dominoes will come full circle and hit us in the head. The difference between our push of the first domino and the one that hits us in the head is that the one that finally makes full circle has momentum behind it. In other words, the things we do will come back to us with much greater force than our original action induced on the first domino.

We, as we have seen in the past podcasts, live in a closed system. Everything is connected. Therefore, there is no such thing as an act simply flying out into space with no consequences. Every act will have its consequences. It is not a matter of getting caught, it is a matter of the way things are.

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