Religion is filled with beliefs that were created in a different time to explain the unexplained. But often people find it hard to drop religious beliefs even when they sound ludicrous because they learned the belief from an authority figure who often used guilt, shame, or fear to cement the belief in their mind.
The Lord's Version Today is my 200th post. In honor of that milestone, I thought I'd write about my favorite fucked-up Bible story, the Tower of Babel. It's sad that…
Beliefs and Believers Beliefs aren't really a problem if we truly understand that they're all false. Believers of all sorts fear other peoples' beliefs; they think the others' beliefs can…
Several years ago, I was deep into researching the roots of all religion. I had my nose in books most of the time, I'd gathered lots of knowledge and…
A Man Called God Yesterday, I saw an amazing film at the "San Diego Black Film Festival" entitled, "A Man Called God." The description read: "India's most infamous Holy man, a…
Shortcut to Freedom A powerful shortcut to freedom is to take the concept of win-win to the extreme. This is especially true if we need to see our religious, social,…
Initiation was All About the Mind People are surprised to learn that one of the best patterns of initiation is the story of Jesus. No one knows for sure if…
By Cathy Eck Judgment Day Years ago, I was giving a "No Labels, No Lies" presentation. A Fundamentalist Christian woman stood up and said, "It sounds like you're doing…
By Cathy Eck Fear of Freedom A long time ago, religion did a very clever thing. They associated freedom and reward with death. This confusion keeps many people from…
By Cathy Eck Guns or Unconditional Love We live in a crazy time where people who say they love Jesus shout words of hatred to those who are different. Many…
By Cathy Eck No Victims/No Perpetrators If you understand the nature of true and false selves, it's clear that victims and perpetrators are two sides of the same coin…
By Cathy Eck Superhero or God Last year at Comic-Con, the fundamentalists were protesting with vengeance. One person had a sign protesting the protesters that said, "People in…
By Cathy Eck Symbols The Star of David, like any symbol or story produced by initiates, can be seen from the True-Self or the false-self perspective. When you know the…
By Cathy Eck What's Your Heaven on Earth? I often give people I mentor the task of writing a description of Heaven on Earth. I ask them to write from…
By Cathy Eck Understanding Holy Text To understand any holy text, you must read it from your True Self. Standard interpretations rest on a flawed foundation of good and evil.…
By Cathy Eck Leaders with a God Complex In a recent History Channel documentary on John D. Rockefeller, H.W. Brands, a historian, said Rockefeller had the ruthlessness that…