Deepak Chopra & Intent

Meet the Unaffiliated (by Gotham Chopra)

Wednesday February 27, 2008

Categories: Spirituality
On Monday the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life released a study in which they chronicled the state of faith and organized religion in America. The news is not good if you are a God lover, worst of all...
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Char
February 27, 2008 7:38 PM

Thanks Gotham, as I was wondering about the percentage yesterday and here it is! Thanks. Love,Char

Deb
February 28, 2008 11:58 AM

Enjoyed your commentary. You are so right on all points. Glad I found your blog. I will check in to read your POV more often.

Mukesh Mehta
February 29, 2008 6:00 PM

Today we are dicussing regarding each others faith because we find ourselves in the world of hate, anger, desparation and frustration. We forgot the basic understanding of a CREATION of a HUMAN through a relationship of a MAN and a WOMAN of ACCEPTANCE, DEPENDENCE and CONSIDERATION. We forgot that we are creatures of habits.We never accepted ourself, hence never acceted others. We spent our energy on trying to understand the issue of soul and its relationship to human body. Todate we are stil dicussing and still asking that very important question, Why I Am Suffering? OR Why I Am Not Happy?.

We seized to understand something that all we have (HUMAN BODY). IT IS NOT HOW WE LOOK AND IT IS NOT WE BELIEVE, IT IS WHAT WE SAY AND HOW WE ACT MAKES THE DIFFERENCE TO THE WORLD. We can all comfort ourselves through a dialogue of our own life experiences and understanding. I would be humbled to have a dialogue to try to comfort humanity.I would be humbled to visit my website WWW.CONSIDERATEWOLD.COM.

David Walters
February 29, 2008 9:12 PM

Thank you, Gothom. I have belong to an "Unaffiliated" church here in Fort Lauderdale, Florida for many years now. Although raised Methodist, I have evolved far beyond the "standard thinking" of religion, period. Contrary to most organized religions, I believe I AM a good human, and I DO deserve the love and understanding of God/Jesus/whomever. The ultimate higher power - whomever that may be for us individually; including Muslims, Buddahists, etc al - knows US INDIVIDUALLY. I have NO need for an "earthbound human being or organized religion" to decide if I shall ascend to "heaven" upon my demise. Bless YOU and Thank YOU, Gothom.

redhead57
February 29, 2008 11:09 PM

Perhaps now that so many people are finding the God within, we will be able to express that Godlike nature to one another. I spent decades allowing others to define my relationship to God and never once really connected with him/her. Once I was able to shake the concept of the need for a mediator between my Creator and myself, I was able to make the connection to the Spirit and my life has not been the same. Releasing the idea that I was born under the curse of "Original Sin" I was then free to find the wonders of existence, and accept the love of the Creator without fear of reprisal. I can only hope that others in great numbers will find this freedom and discover self love. If that trend continues we may see real change for the better in the midst of our world.

Larry
March 8, 2008 2:12 PM

unaffiliated is as you seem to say, another form of categorizing. I don't think its a very good way of categorizing, as its really a category of elimination, and not really descriptive of beliefs as it were....know what im getting at? If it is necessary to describe for the comfort of others, what you believe to be true, and categorize it in a way that others of a similar belief can find you, and converse in the same 'language set' I guess in this group, some form of deepakology or chopraist could be descriptive, at least on this group area. I'd hate the idea of being a 'member' of the church of the unaffiliated, because I'm sure they'd allow riffraff like myself to join :-). All kidding aside, is there a common denominator used to describe, or some name descriptive of a belief pattern like deepak? It would be enjoyable to check a box other than unaffiliated when the religious police become interested.

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