As a result, many turn away from the religious instruction of their youth or refuse to even consider any line of thinking that is metaphysical. They believe freedom from religion is the same as freedom of religion. Nothing is farther from the truth. Until we are willing to consider ideas that are new to us, ideas that stretch the way we think, we will continue to set our destiny of repeating the mistakes of our ancestors. Sooner or later we must realize the oneness of Mankind, for when we do, we can hope to embrace each other and the Universal Truths that govern all our lives.
Every culture brings to the world archetypes of enlightenment.
Their uncommon consciousness arises above the sea of humanity like the astronauts whirling above the Earth. All great spiritual teachers from Jesus of Nazareth to Siddhartha Gautama, from Confucius to Mohammed, from Mohandas K. Gandhi to Martin Luther King, have displayed this transcendent consciousness without benefit of leaving the Earth. A way that brings inner peace. It is well for us to remember that from their teachings spring what the world now knows as religion. Some complain the world's religions have strayed far from their original truth.