Haunted

No horror or ghostly tales here. I'm talking about a holistic programming based on love or lack of love. By love I just mean acceptance without question or limits. Sound too good to be true? If so, you are probably holding on to the conditions under which love was allotted to you once upon a time, and it has become normal. We all live conditionally.

Any pain associated with the conditions become buried so deep that it haunts and weighs on everything we see, feel, think and decide. It is a sort of human program we get from Nature, society and our own input. Fear is the basis of any haunting be it supernatural or natural. Whatever we believe, the fear is the same. But anything supernatural is completely subjective so can be super encouraging or super derogatory. 

No wonder Halloween and other tales of the unseen are so intriguing. Some say religion is just another tale. The conditions for acceptance in any religion is just formalized for the view of the unseen spiritual world we prefer. Of course for any group of strong convictions, my last sentence is close to heresy. 

I just want to underline the difference between faith and religion. Faith is personal for no one knows our heart but ourselves and God (defined as the source of Life and the Universe). But religion is a set of beliefs to define God and his relationship with us. We need to formalize Him so we can talk about him and interact with him as a group.

A haunting is about something undesirable and unwanted. If we see God as just as arbitrarily conditional as any random person, no wonder we fear the unknown. But if God who is the source of all of Life, the acceptance was guaranteed when were born, the moment personal life began, there is no haunting; just life.

Somehow, we learn about acceptance dependent on conditions (no matter how liberal or conservative) so early in life that it convinces us our living value is limited. It's about comparing, earning, self assessing...: just a whole lot of work. 

Working hard at something can be liberating or enslaving depending on whether we are haunted by conditional deficiency. If only I were better. If only he/she would accept me. I cannot live without him/her. I'd die to be poor. I'm nothing if it weren't for money. I live for my family. They are OK if they are just goal posts. You can strive for whatever you like in life.

But if they become life itself, that's where the haunting begins. No wonder "perfect love casts out fear".