In order to heal and recover we have to believe in some Power greater than ourselves. Not to believe in a Higher Power drives us to atheism. Atheism, it has been said before, is blind faith in the very strange proposition (and I can say this as a scientist with a PhD in Natural Sciences from University College London, a Master's degree in philosophy and the history of medicine and science from Trinity College, Cambridge, a medical degree from the University of London, and several other higher medical degrees) that this awe-inspiring wondrous Universe originated in a cipher (cipher comes from the Arabic sifr, which means "nothing" or "zero": The word came to Europe along with the Arabic numeral system) and aimlessly rushes nowhere.
Even Albert Einstein said that "Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind." I am not religious, but I do have a deep spirituality, which essentially means 'waking up' and looking within, according to Anthony de Mello. As Galileo Galilei wrote "You can ’t teach anybody anything, only make them realise the answers are already inside them.” That is my role as a Transformative Life Coach (TLC): To see the highest version of you, until you see it for your Self.
Atheism is quite depressing and sad, and is based on unproven dogma - no one has ever proved that there is no Universal force at work. Even the Giant Hadron Collider found a 'God particle' and quantum physics is starting to prove things about a Source energy that have been told by spiritual Masters for millennia.
Atheism versus Faith
Atheism
Atheism, in the broadest sense, is an absence of belief in the existence of deities. Less broadly, atheism is a rejection of the belief that any deities exist. In an even narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there are no deities. An atheist is someone who doesn't believe in a god, while an agnostic is someone who doesn't believe it's possible to know for sure that a god exists. It's possible to be both - an agnostic atheist doesn't believe but also doesn't think we can ever know whether a god exists.
Spiritual Masters
Albert Einstein was a a spiritual Master who believed in miracles: That was the source of his Real Personal Power. He was the 'Yoda' of physics. William Shakespeare was also a spiritual Master. How else would someone be the most popular writer of all time almost 500 years after he was born? Carl Jung was also a spiritual Master, and he revolutionised psychiatry and much more. Michelangelo, who had a passion for the sacred and the divine, was a spiritual Master. Are you starting to see a pattern? Do you think that you can truly have Real Personal Power without Faith? Good luck to you if you do: It's a hustle to nothingness. Your life will turn to dust and you won't be remembered. The most famous man of all time was Jesus: It won't be the Kardashians who will be talked about in two thousand years. Do you really think that there is no meaning to your existence? Do you really want that to be the case? Really? That's practically impossible to believe.
Your Higher Power
So we turn to that Divine Principle in the Universe that we sometimes conveniently call God, but your Higher Power can be anything that provides unconditional love and awe - your family, the fellowship, Nature, the starry night sky, or a Universal force at play and at work behind the scenes. Have you stopped trying to run your own life and started to believe? Do you have Faith? Pardon my French (I am half French, so I can say this) but atheism is a load of old bollocks. It's so strange that true spiritual Enlightenment carries the same title as the Age of Enlightenment, which dates back to the 17th century, which essentially stated that there is no God and that we can only believe in science. Don't you think it's time for an update? Truth and wisdom far outweigh their lesser neighbour, knowledge. Knowledge is ever changing and bears no ultimate Truth, like wisdom. I can guarantee you that at any some in the future, most knowledge and science will be revised and disproved, as it has always been, whereas wisdom and Truth are non-changing and cannot be disproved. People used to believe that the world was flat and that the sun revolved around the Earth, and that the Plague could be prevented by the smell of herbs. Atheism is a paradoxical rebellion against sanity. Nothing more, nothing less. And like every insanity, it isn’t aware it is not rational. On the contrary, it believes itself to be the ultimate expression of rationality. Atheism is dogmatic, blind, non-sense. Faith heals and gives hope...
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