Specifically due to lack of knowledge and understanding of such phenomena as “God” and a Human, as well as real evidence, many spiritual movements, including religious invite only to believe. This only leads to the fact that they are continuing to lose their positions in modern social life. And, if this trend continues, the existence of religion as such, as well as religious institutions, and especially their impact, will end sooner or later.
We suppose that it is necessary to do everything to ensure that this never happens. Therefore, we propose a new ideology of religions and its practical implementation. We propose to finally determine the answer to who is, at least, a Human. And, to move the theory of existence of “God,” the human “Soul” from the status of a theory, which can only be believed in, into the status of a theory that any interested person can test. Of course, also providing proof that “God” really exists.
In our opinion, in order for people to be able to live a spiritual life, the Church must become the main place where they can get information about themselves, other people, answers to their questions, recipes. In other words, where they can obtain information about the “Soul,” as knowledge about the “Soul” contains information about everything listed above.
Then, Church will have a primary role in people's lives. Note that church did not play a primary role in the lives of people in previous centuries. Yes, its significance in people's lives used to be much higher. However, in addition to secular social institutions that have always shared "power over the minds" with the church, another significant competitor was magic. Healers, sorcerers, shamans had a huge recipe base, along with great power and influence on the human society. As it is documented in numerous sources, they helped people solve their problems in reality; for example, health issues.
A new ideology of religions, created on the basis of evidence for “God's” existence produced strictly by scientific methods, can bring people back to “God.”
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A human needs “God.” As already mentioned, from our point of view, the source of all human misfortunes, sufferings, and problems is the lack of true Spiritual Life. And, its absence is a consequence of absence of specific, authentic information about what “Soul” is. The presence of contradictory information in this regard leads to a conclusion by human intellect that “Soul” is a phantom. And, if “Soul” does not exist, then what is Spirituality? After all, the concept "Spiritual" is a derivative of the concept of "Soul."
The crisis in this direction worsened so much that it reached a point when even priests began to allow simply formal engagement with Spirituality. From our point of view, formal attitude towards religion takes place in a case when a person who fulfills all religious rituals, does not consider “God” as an example, as a model for his or her personal life, for his or her own behavior, for mimicking. But then, in this case, where is the fulfillment of the “Divine Will”: "And God said, “Let us make humanity in our image, according to our likeness?"
People perceive “God” in a variety of ways: as a benefactor, who must continuously give something to people; as a punitive authority; as 24-hour surveillance; etc.; but in any case, not as a creature to take an example from, to imitate, to follow. People love to speculate about merging with “God,” but in real life and in their consciousness they always divide “God” and themselves. And, consider “God” as “Santa Claus,” in whom they want to believe, although it is a fairy tale. And, most importantly, supposedly “God” is irrelevant in their real lives.
The result of this position is presented and well illustrated by people's daily lives. Even those who call themselves believers lie, cheat, act meanly, are lazy, do not want to work and learn, fight, transgress the moral laws, harm themselves, people around them, as well as nature. Some even show overt violence—they destroy, rob and kill. Would this happen if people perceived “God” as the only example, a point of reference in their lives? Or, would they at least try to be like him?
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While engaged in analysis of the situation in the sphere of the spiritual life of this civilization, we noticed a number of problems, which, from our point of view, can be addressed by introducing a new ideology of religions.
The main problem has already been mentioned above: none of the existing religious and philosophical-religious trends and directions provide an opportunity to get answers to questions like "Who am I?", "What am I?", "What was I born for?" to any person. They cannot provide strictly individual, personalized recipes to every human. As already mentioned, at the present time the only help that church offers is mostly emotional support to sufferers. However, an opportunity to be comforted in sorrow, sadness, and anxiety is certainly good to have, but this does not provide information or recipes. Compassion does not replace information. Emotions do not replace purely intellectual needs of a human. Therefore, many people simply do not need such help from the church.
People need something else. While in response religion and philosophy offer them to search on their own for their selves, their individual “Paths to God,” to Spirituality. To search anywhere: in this or that doctrine, in “God” or “Gods,” within their own selves. And, this does not give the desired results. If this technique worked, people would not have any problems with self-knowledge or self-determination, as well as all other aspects of their lives. All people would be healthy, live long, without creating problems for themselves and others, and there would be peace, prosperity, harmony and happiness. However, this is not seen in real life. On the contrary, all of humanity’s problems are multiplying and multiplying, like mushrooms after rain.
From our point of view, another problem, based on which a crisis of religion occurred, is the difficulty of use of existing religious recipes in people's daily lives.
For many people this is the basis for rejection of religion as a provider of recipes, which in practice are either insolvent in terms of achievement of desired results, or are just impossible to follow. (An example of this was given above in regard to sex.) Such recipes can hardly be highly appreciated. This is another source of human unwillingness to participate in church life. For the Supreme Being, the Creator, by definition, cannot create non-working schemes, tools, recipes, as well as impossible objectives and requirements. That is contrary to reason and logic, and it is difficult to suspect that our Creator is irrational and illogical. The conclusion made is simple: there is no “God.”
Puzzling proposals, existing religious recipes make modern people turn away from the church. And, it is not surprising. Not knowing specifically what to do, a person constantly makes mistakes, which he is forced to pay for, and sometimes they are very expensive. Often, the result is annoyance with religion and church, and sometimes even outright blasphemy, an attempt to blame the Creator for one’s troubles and misfortunes, as well as other deliriousness. A human does not want to suffer; he wants to live a good, happy and prosperous life, no matter how much you tell him that "God suffered and told us to." Not finding the recipes on how to achieve this at the church, a human tries to get this information from secular institutions.
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Human consciousness and his interests are anthropocentric. For as long as people exist, they primarily want to know everything about themselves, their purpose and problems. According to our research, the desire to know oneself is based purely on pragmatism. It turns out the reason is in that “God” created a human in such a way that he is not able to function effectively, behave correctly without clear knowledge and understanding of what he needs to do, without an instruction, without a clear program of actions.
“God” made representatives of, for example, the animal kingdom much simpler: they are born and exist on the level of living machines with a clear program of their lives inside them; it is possible to say that they have an innate knowledge of what they are and a complete collection of recipes on how to survive in this or that situation. Therefore, animals do not need to think or discover themselves, to study or to improve. However, humans “God” created differently. A human is given an opportunity to think, to learn, to study and to change, to evolve, which is impossible for any animal. (In any case, to evolve not from an ape to a human, as, for example, Charles Darwin mistakenly believed, but to evolve towards his main guide—“God” the Creator.)
Hence, the constant human desire to acquire knowledge, and mainly about his own self. Apparently, the desire for self-knowledge is inbuilt in a human being by the Creator since he did not give people intuitive knowledge of their natural program, as it was done with animals. Therefore, he stimulated their desire for knowledge as a process, as a function of a human being that distinguishes him from an animal. Since it is the natural program that allows both animals and people to survive and to thrive.
Representatives of other biological types in nature clearly demonstrate that the program that is given by “God” to every living creature is the source of his success and survival. If the subtype program of any animal gets wiped out, then it will not know how to behave, how to survive, and, as a result, perish very quickly. It turned out that this principle works in relation to human beings. If a human does not know himself, who he is, or in other words, what is the program that “God” implanted in him, then that person is lost, makes mistakes and sooner or later dies as a result of these errors.
Today, religious institutions, church unfortunately do not provide people knowledge of their natural program. It is no wonder that in search of instructions on how to act people turn to secular specialists, and have more hope for science, technology and secular tools. Although it is quite obvious that non-religious, secular toolkit in many cases does not work. In many cases, modern science is also of little assistance. Especially since at its current stage science is increasingly aimed at solving technological problems, which, unfortunately, are often solved at the expense of human problem solving. Whereas a human is “God's” creation. A human was created through Nature, which was created by “God” the Creator, so it is not a surprise that most human problems cannot be solved by technological progress.
Moreover, technological progress by large suppresses the process of unfolding of human potential. It is possible to unfold this potential, those talents and abilities that “God” awarded to each person, only through knowledge of his natural program, i.e. how “God” created and wants to see him. Untalented, incapable people do not exist in nature—there is only lack of information on which talents a person has and how to develop them. As we know, Jesus Christ did not need any tools of modern communication, modern transportation, medical equipment, computers—nothing of that what is offered by what became a technogenic civilization. But, does a Human really need this? Or, after all, would it be more useful to get instructions on how to become a creature that can easily do without all this technical variety?
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We agree with the opinion of the Church that all people must finally become “Disciples of Christ,” and not formally, or in their fantasies, but in reality. For “God” made humans "in His image and likeness,” and Christ, “His Son,” convincingly demonstrated by his own example what sons and daughters of “God” (people) should be like. However, unfortunately, Christ did not leave people the methodology on how he reached supernatural (divine) abilities, which he possessed. We mean that the “Son of God” did not leave textbooks, instructions detailing the steps on how to become like him; that what is left are only stories about him and his teachings, passed on orally. This is very unfortunate because for this reason second Christ did not appear in the human society.
The Church seeks to communicate to people the idea that their purpose in life, their “Path” must be Evolution. And, that this evolution must take place due to a one’s own efforts. And, this is right. For evolution, as a qualitative change in personality, its level, its capabilities, is the essence and the result of a human’s Spiritual Path. However, in practice, religious institutions do not have specific, detailed, personal methods for every person who wants to evolve.
Evolution as a mechanism is innate in each person; this is another purely human characteristic, absent in other biological types. And, people would be happy to do it, but they are offered ways and recipes of self-improvement that are common for all. Although it is obvious that everyone is different and for evolution to take place, individual personal recipes are required. Otherwise, as almost 2,000 years of history have shown, there was no one among people equal to Christ, the “Son of God,” by qualities and abilities, and there will be none. And, this situation contradicts the will of “God,” who said that He creates a human in his own image and likeness, and thus made it clear that he expects human beings to match Him. Actually, we think that the achievement of Likeness—that is "Unification with God", "Dissolution in God," and not fantasies based on feelings that people are comfortable with presenting as a process of “Unification with God,” while believing themselves to be already equal to “God.”
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We suppose the church must have a method of providing spiritual growth in its hands. And, what is no less important, is that this method must be based on a source of knowledge that is not a source of subjective views.
From our perspective, possession of such a method by the Church has a great practical importance since only through Spiritual Growth people can achieve health, prosperity, harmony with the world and with other people, and develop their full potential. “God” created a human differently from all other living creatures, to which a primitive life (food, reproduction, etc.) is enough to thrive and be healthy. In the case of homo sapiens, it is not sufficient to execute according to only these conditions, as “God” expects more of humans. As already mentioned, our research results can help the Church in this matter.
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As for solution of another objective of the Church, namely, to make people love each other, live in peace—currently this task is not feasible. It is unfeasible only because people do not have any idea about each other’s real needs. In view of this, even when a person sincerely wants to help someone, the maximum that he can offer to another person is the same thing that he would like to get (to have) himself.
However, at best, such method leads to dissatisfaction on the receiver’s part, and at its worst causes the receiver real harm instead of good. By analogy, it is the same as if you take a fish out of water and thrown it the air where the birds fly, and submerge a bird in the ocean’s depth where the fish live. If you were to use this method on practice in nature—both animals would die. As for the giving side, a similar experience, often even out of sincere caring, leads to a deep disappointment in people, and a lack of desire to help anyone else. Also, such experience often leads to a negative attitude towards other people in general, and, as a consequence, to aloneness. Although in fact, the problem has a very simple solution through knowledge that every person is different, that people have different characters, life algorithms, basic needs, objectives, goals and dreams. But most importantly, through specific knowledge of who the other person is. Then, it would be easy to offer him only that what he really needs, that what is desirable and useful to him.
However, at present day, people are simply unable to love each other, and this is happening only due to the fact that they absolutely do not understand the other person. And, they do not understand because they have nowhere to get information about him or her. It is impossible to fully know another person intuitively; intuitively it is only possible to trace a tiny fraction of his or her true needs, but even that is not accurate. And, an inaccuracy is already a mistake. For if a person is not familiar with a dog-care guide, but only heard somewhere that dogs love bones, then he will feed the dog chicken bones, from which the animal might die. Therefore, one person trying to judge what the other person is like and what he needs based only on his subjective perceptions is a 99.9% guaranteed error. If people need information from encyclopedias on how to handle animals or plants, an encyclopedia about humans is needed as well. Or, is a human being more primitive than, for example, a dog or a cactus?
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Unsolved problems deprive people of the two most important sources of normal, prosperous, happy life, which are: their “Soul” and their “Longing for God.” Religious institutions of any direction are very concerned with this situation and they are trying to help people. However, to date, it is extremely difficult to call this process successful. Intoxicated by achievements of secular civilization, humanity is moving farther and farther away from “God,” religion, and church. Not finding recipes and answers to their questions within their religion, people often look to other religions and religious cults, sects. Or even become disappointed in religion and believe only in science. Or do not believe in anything except the "Golden Calf."
We think that this is not right. “God” created a human, and he or she should be with “God” all of his life. He or she must follow the way that “God” intended for him or her. And, follow it clearly, without going off the path, and without interruption for any secular temptations. Then, a Human will be saved. We think that salvation of a Human begins with salvation of his “Soul.” “Soul” is the foundation of a Human. Spiritual life is the foundation of all human life. However, in order to revive the spiritual life of modern people, a new ideology of religions is needed. Otherwise, religion will not be able to fit in with the modern conditions. And, one day it will simply be removed from life of human civilization.
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First of all, from our point of view, church should stop being only a place for worship and a place for conversations with a priest. As practice has already shown, an attempt to overcome the crisis by modernizing the church, does not give the results that were expected. For this reason, it probably makes sense to stop "flirting with people" and trying to involve them in religious life by any means (it has already come a point that services almost turned into discos).
It is not a surprise that in connection with such politics, many parishioners see the Church as a place of entertainment, another show. Parishioners come to church to listen to the preacher, to hear music and singing, to smell the olibanum, to admire images in the temple. In other words, church is perceived as a lecture, a trip to a museum or a concert. Or as another networking event because Church is increasingly becoming mainly a place of leisure, a place to meet people: "I will go to church, talk to people." But where is the most important thing—communication with “God?”
Seeking a way out of the crisis, church is often ready to transform itself into anything. From our point of view, such an organization of church life leads to the profanation of Spirituality. It is no wonder that instead of going to church, the vast majority of people prefer secular lectures, a real museum or an art gallery, a musical show or a concert, or a crowded social networking event. People realize that there is no spirituality in either place, but social events are much more diverse, colorful, interesting, more attractive. And, as far as going to a priest, people prefer to visit a psychoanalyst, a psychotherapist or simply meet with a friend(s) with whom they can talk, get sympathy, support, and advice. We think that this is not right. Lack of true Spiritual Life is extremely detrimental for a human; that is, for an individual and for humanity as a whole. A human is not an animal. A human differs from animals by having a more complex psychological structure, in which Spiritual Life must be present. Spirituality must be the basis of human life.
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We could continue to further list problems that are currently present in the arena of religious life. However, it seems to us, that it would not make sense. Religious institutions are well aware of them without us. We would like to contribute to the solution of these problems. And, we are capable of doing it based on research and discoveries that we have made and continue to make.
We are ready to help the Church bring people back to “God” as a beacon in their lives; to religion and to Church as the main helper to believers because we have found real proof of existence of “God,” and proof of existence of human “Soul.” Due to this discovery people can strengthen and regain their True Faith; no one would even consider doubting that “God” exists, that “God” created human beings and that they should follow Him, the “Divine Way.” And, in turn, the church can help people follow this “Way.”
Based on our research, and as a result of our research activities, which meet all existing standards of scientific research, we are ready to present people with the answer to the question: "What is the “Soul” of a human, and what is its structure?" Thus, confusing, unclear, and vague definitions of "Soul" and "God" of the past will finally have specific meanings, and through that—become valuable in lives of every human being. For any modern educated person will be able to not just believe, but to know for sure that human “Soul” does exist, and that there is “God.” From our point of view, acquisition of such confidence is the best, the firmest foundation for Church (as a guide on the Path of Spiritual Life and Self-Development) to gain primary importance in every person's life.
In this case, there will no longer be a need to exhort and persuade people to believe in “God,” to follow his commandments, and to visit the “Temple of God.” Entertainment, shows also will no longer be required. Church and churchmen will be really needed by people, as the only helpers and advisers in their lives. The church will no longer have a competitor in the form of science, as currently secular science and secular culture are not able to solve most of the problems that humans have.
Part 3.
Basis Of New Ideology Of Religions—А Book That Proves The Existence Of Creator
It seems to us, we managed to find the solution to the problem of how to bring people back to “God,” to make “God” the only beacon in every person's life. We have found a book that (not only from our point of view, but also based on many objective indicators) is the proof of existence of the Creator, “God,” the Great Creator Architect of the Universe, in other words—the Supreme Force.
A Russian researcher, Andrey Davydov has been studying ancient manuscripts since 1975, and has managed to decrypt one very ancient source. Andrey Davydov is a sinologist and research supervisor of a Special Scientific Info-Analytical Laboratory. During the time of his work at the RAS (Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow), he suggested that one of the earliest treatises is nothing other than a description of structures of the human psyche. This marked the beginning of his study of this book as the Catalog of human population. Although at that time it was only a hypothesis.
For nearly 20 years, Andrey Davydov gathered keys to the mysterious code of this manuscript. By the mid-90s of the ХХ century, scattered elements of the puzzle came together, and research related to the selection of correct keys was over. At that point, the process of decoding of the content of this treatise has begun: translation of descriptions obtained therefrom to human psychophysiology and practical experiments.
As a result of decryption of this ancient manuscript, Andrey Davydov uncovered belongingness of any person to a particular subtype within the type homo sapiens through certain laws of mechanisms and work of psychophysiology. It turned out that each representative of the 'human' biological type has certain stable qualities, which distinguish him, as a representative of one subtype structure, from representatives of other subtype structures.
Extensive knowledge in a variety of scientific disciplines helped Andrey Davydov decrypt the ancient manuscript: sinology, biology, soil science, geography and physical geography, mineralogy, geomorphology, ichthyology, ornithology, ethology, and other natural sciences; as well as his knowledge of cultural studies and mythology of different countries.
As a result of decryption of the ancient book, Andrey Davydov got descriptions of existing qualities of existing real people, and proved that the Catalog of human population exists.
Descriptions, which he presented have been compared to qualities of real, specific people within strict scientific experiments. According to estimates of professional psychologists, descriptions submitted by Mr. Davydov correspond by almost 100% to qualities of subjects, which were easily observable or uncovered using other scientific methods. Psychologists at the MSU (Moscow State University, Moscow), as well as psychologists at the ministries of power structures of the Russian Federation, were forced to admit that the methodology of uncovering of subconscious structure of psyche developed by Andrey Davydov surpasses methods and technologies, which they use to determine personality traits of a person.
Also, experts admitted that prior to experiments with the use of information from the Catalog of human population, not a single precedent existed when a psychologist would provide such an in-depth, detailed description of people whom he did not know, never met, did not communicate with, etc. Thus, Andrey Davydov’s research product was verified according to criteria accepted by science. With application of a standard test in the form of direct experimental verifications, Andrey Davydov’s hypothesis that the treatise that he researched for over 25 years, is the “Catalog of Human Souls,” turned from a hypothesis into a theory that has proof.
Between 1997-2002 Andrey Davydov introduced the scientific world to the discovery of the Catalog of human population. For example, in 1997, there was the First Russian Philosophical Congress “Human Being-Philosophy-Humanism” (Volume VII, The philosophy of human problems, edited by corresponding member RAO L. A. Verbickaya, and by associate professor B. G. Sokolova Saint-Petersburg, 1997). He also spoke at events like round table discussions, scientific conferences (including international) devoted to anthropology, philosophy and so on. For example, in 2002 he presented one of his papers about the discovery of the Catalog of human population in Moscow at the International Conference of Prospects of Preservation and Development of Uniform Planetary Civilization: Culture, Ecology, Cosmos. He also published articles about the Catalog in Russian magazines. For example, for some time his works were published in one of the journals published by Bauer in Moscow. Between 2005-2006, presentations took place on the Russian television, and included a series of talk shows featuring Olga Skorbatyuk (a professional psychologist and Andrey Davydov’s research partner), in which she shared this scientific discovery with wide audiences. During the talk shows, Olga Skorbatyuk told