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For those of you boffins on Archaeology and Ancient things, tell me this:

Why is it that most (if not all) Religions have such similarities in them?

Before the "new age" (if that is the right term), many civilisations were isolated from one another and yet, they all seem to document the creation similarly, most have somewhere in their history a reference to a great flood, refer to an advance society that existed (whether Atlantis or not) etc. Actually, in many instances there are some comparisons to what is written in the Bible (specifically Old Testament). Some of these civilisation's history and religion is also older than the scripts in the Bible.

Religion to me are created by achieved people. Because there is only one universal truth, anybody attained the truth would say and preach the same thing but in different ways and language. A normal person can also say the same thing without him/her having any religion if he is spiritually attained. If we are spiritually attained, we can even know the past and future without any information from the third party. In fact, any info from books and others media might not be true.

So, who copied from whom, or is the source information the same? Did the discrepancies appear because of the vast time spans and the way people used to convey history (by word of mouth) and therefore distorted actual events?

And, at some stage, did history become religion? If history indeed became religion for some unexplained reason, does this mean that there is no God?

We weren't there to witness all the past happenings, who dare to say that the Bible and its translation is 100% true. Alantis might not exist at all. However, we can spot the discrepancies easily if we know the universal truth. (I assume that there is only one truth and it is that the soul of all beings is the same irrespective of the body)

I personally think that there must have been some sort of planned creation. Actually, I see that the physical laws that govern the universe must imply a cycle for everything. Energy cannot be created nor destroyed but can only transform itself. Anything that is physical (have mass) must subject itself to this cycle. This also imply the law of cause and effect (karma). God exist because of the physical; there is something for us to see its creation to indicate its existence. Suppose we don't know about the evolution cycle and the planets placing in the solar system, we wouldn't even suspect a creator. When we look at the world spiritually, everything physical becomes meaningless and so is the concept of god. So both arguments seems to have their point.

The comment: "Because there is only one universal truth, anybody attained the truth would say and preach the same thing but in different ways and language" is possibly true, but then very few people in this world know the truth, otherwise everybody will (like in maths) get 1+ 1 = 2. In Religion (and even paranormal or occult) very few people get to the same answer (2)! Maybe it is like decimals, it depends how one rounds it off!! In which case the truth might be still the same even though the answers differ slightly. - Do you understand what I mean?

The greatest challenge of mathematics is to define a point. When we say something is small, how small? We can never be accurate enough to know all the decimal extensions. That's why we round off and the answer will still be around there. Also, we know that from the uncertainty principle, nothing physical can be calculated 100% accurately.

I think one must replace the word Religion with the word Believe. If one strongly believes in something, then anything is possible and anything can be achieved. This believe does not have to be linked to a god, spirit or other being. I think that there are powers (or energy fields) that the mind can tap into, that is totally explainable, scientifically. We just do not have the formula yet. (or maybe some do?)

Believe is the word. Religion and the concept of god is just one of the many methods to make a person believe. The key to all religion and spiritualities is concentration and it results from believe. Praying to god, meditating, practising yoga, studying...etc, its the same as the key is cultivation of concentration and nothing else. When a person concentrates, his mind is focus and so is his energy. The psi energy is then converted to other forms of energy (Conservation of energy) such as potential, gravitational, electrical...etc depending on what he is concentrating.

I find it difficult to put believe into a specific god, because there are traditionally, culturally and historically many. The Bible, for example, has God, but to me, the Bible is really the history of the Jewish people. Similarly, there are those of the East, the Hindus, etc. I do not think the Creator can be linked to a specific nation or ethic group. You will notice that I accept that there is a Creator. And on this, many (can I say non-believers) will laugh at me. But as I said earlier, this complex planet we live on, simply could not start-up by pure coincidence.

Physically, there must be a creator responsible for all the physical laws. But questions and answers are a cycle and will never end if we try to understand the creator from his physical creations. Everything in this universe is a cycle, except big or small. E.g. life cycle, water cycle,...etc. Understanding him by physical is like entering this cycle. In the cycle, we always come back to the same place and can never see anything out of the cycle if we continue this approach. That's why we need to try another approach; To understand him not from physical, but spiritual.

The physical part of the universe accounts for the reasoning and rationality. The unseen part of the universe accounts for all the irrationality and spirituality. In physical, everything is base on reasons and we only accept base on proof. In the spiritual (Unseen), there is no reasons or whatsoever, but we accept without physical proof. Indeed, most miracles today can be explained and created by science. Science can also be a platform for spirituality. As we discussed, the word is believe. We can also cultivate faith through science, not only from religion. But there is a danger here. Everything physical is subjected to changes and cannot be eternal. E.g. if we believe in Christ based on Bible, then one day when a famous archaeologist prove that Christ didn't exist at all, what then? The faith must be shaken. Hence, the better approach is to believe not based on the physical and this requires forsaking the rational mind. In fact, modern science is going into the mystic and uncertainty. It is beginning to tap the power of spirituality. The research of ESP and special powers comes out with the same result--concentration. Anyone with a soul can perform miracles, its just there for them to tap its power. Miracles only happen when concentration achieves its maximum.

I think all people have the same abilities and can in fact tap into the universal powers. I also think that some people are more successful at it, (or in their life) because of their mindset and (what I call) the false ceiling effect. That is, if you doubt your abilities or don't believe you can do, then you won't.

Do you think that we are "trapped" in our current dimension and that it is difficult to enter the other dimensions, even if it is just as a "visitor"? Do we enter one of the other dimensions when we die and do we actually re-enter this dimension again after a "resting period"? Aka reincarnation.

I'm referring to the spiritual dimension. I feel that we are trapped in the current dimension because we are lured by all the physical things in this world. We are programmed to behave and see things from certain angle since young. We promote the logical and rational(scientific) thinking. We are told not to believe things that are not proven. To understanding that dimension, we must first forsake the rational thinking. Hence, we must learn how to trust and believe without physical prove. The spiritual world is all about believing without seeing.

Taoists see all living beings in this world consisting of 3 quantities;mind, body and soul.

Body is our physical self. Soul is nothing but just the unseen force inside our body, supporting life.Mind is the link between the unseen and the physical; our way of thoughts and feelings. Soul is the same for every living creatures, but only the body and mind is different. So soul will not have karma, only the body and thoughts will.

I believe that all beings (including animals) are governed by the same universal rules and laws, therefore if we are to reincarnate, then animals do too? (I think there are different rules and laws for the different dimensions i.e. the rules governing the physical may not be valid or the same as those for the spiritual)
On above, maybe I am wrong in saying that animals might then also reincarnate. I suppose their cycle may be different than that of ours e.g. a caterpillar's cycle of life and death is not the same as mammals and we do not turn from worm to a butterfly!!

I see that reincarnation is the law of cause and effect, a validity of Newton's third law of motion. It must happen under all circumstances when we're talking of the physical. When the body dies, the soul never. I see the soul to have a spiritual weight. This weight depends on the the amount of indulgence it has on the physical world. More indulgence means more weight. It is originally weightless but when a weight is clinched to it, it sank to different level of physical planes depending on the amount of indulgence. A person that is fully indulged in this world has little self awareness and will ponder about the questions of life and death. When he dies, he will have no mind, and what is left is only the amount of physical indulgence in his soul and it will lead the way for him to reincarnation.

(Abstract from correspondence between myself and Bernard Peh)

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