Humans, like all creatures, have a deep and spiritual need for growth, acceptance, love, direction, tradition, ceremony, ritual, all of which creates a sense of security within. Many of these people have become seekers, seeking answers, sense of tradition, and ritual and ritual that comes from deep within their souls. Questions that come from those very seeds planted so many centuries ago. This is also true of spiritual customs and beliefs. Many of these seekers fear what they find as it may go against that which they have been taught by parents, preachers, and others who sought to control them.
Many theologists agree that most religions are based on and in fear.
Fear promised the leaders of these religions the followers they needed to build their kingdom, their church, and in many cases their armies. A perfect example is the religious leaders and their armies who forced the Indians to abandon their beliefs and customs or die, and who kidnapped and forced the Indian children to learn a different language, a different religion, and to abandon even their own families. The Spanish who waged war on the Mayans. Todays government and religious leaders and their lobbyist who are again attempting to take away the religious practices of the Native American. The rape of Sacred Burial grounds today of the Navajo, and the ripping out of Mother Earth's very heart in the Black Hills.