by Paul Von Ward
The Hebrew word "azazel" (scapegoat) connotes a symbolic entity who takes away sin or responsibility for human actions. Why do so many humans need to worship MANufactured (anthropomorphic) constructs? Does the act of obeisance meet an inherently human psychological need? Or is it a learned response? One so deeply imbedded that "vassal" societies have forgotten its origins. Since not all cultures feel themselves subject to invisible and unverifiable personalities, such deification appears based in local historical experiences.
The anthropomorphic gods of Western religions (Jewish, Christian, Muslim, New Age Spiritualism, and smaller groups) have evolved through the accretions of succeeding generations. We no longer understand how they gained acceptance and their emotional charge. Yet, three fifths or more of the world's people look to imaginary powers to assuage their sense of being weak and non-responsible creatures.
Flocks of believers who believe they cannot directly know truth
Flocks of believers who believe they cannot directly know truth fill churches, synagogues, and mosques. New age charismatics who claim to have discovered the latest divine insights, unverifiable shifts, benevolent ET's, imperceptible dimensions, etc., also have devotees flocking to them. Both groups are not unlike the gullible rural folks of my youth who rushed to the "revival tents" of traveling evangelists. All manifest what I label a "colonized" psychological profile: Acceptance of simplistic answers, outside themselves, which by their nature are unprovable and, therefore, dependent on the assertions of those believed to be more powerful.
Among humans, lesser developed societies exhibit the "colonized" profile when conquered by more developed ones. Vassals, at the mercy of the alien colonists, come to believe that their way of life does not measure up to advanced standards. With more primitive technology, they perceive a lack in materialism and deficiencies in power over the physical world. Dependence and subservience lead them to devalue their indigenous social and cultural principles. This childlike reaction appeared on every continent during past centuries, as dominators crushed technically weaker civilizations.
The mental, emotional, and behavioral patterns displayed by the colonized vis-a-vis the conquerors are the same as those exhibited by the conquerors toward their "gods." As those on top worship and obey their "lords," they consider it natural to lord their apparent power over lesser beings. Seen in this context, it appears that worship and followship are learned behaviors. So how did the conquerors learn to worship imaginary lords, with this hierarchical-pecking-order approach to relationships?
The answer may lie in human experience with nonhuman, advanced beings (AB's) of the Yahweh type (strict behavioral controls, with hostility toward nonbelievers, exercised indirectly through blind faith). The current societies most addicted to the worship/followship syndrome seem to be the ones most affected by the presence of arrogant and patronizing AB colonists (the Nefilim of the Bible) during the formative years of their civilizations. They taught us! According to the Sumerian material so well presented by Zecharia Sitchin, and others detailing human interactions with extraterrestrial or other dimensional colonizers, humans learned obeisance at the feet of these AB's.
We learned these patterns so well that when
According to ancient Sumerian tablets and other historical sources, the AB's forced humans to serve their needs, obey their commands, and curry their favor for protection from other AB's. We became dependent on their advanced knowledge and technology, replacing the human sense of internal power with the expectation of patronage. We learned these patterns so well that when the AB's apparently departed we transferred obeisance to their would-be stand-ins: kings who claimed divine origins, priests who said they could communicate with the absent gods, and scholars anointed by the kings or priests. (Some individuals now self-anoint by claiming special channels of information.)
The spread of civilizations under the hegemony of these alleged AB's can possibly be traced through the migration of Indo-European languages. Cultures with those languages, and language groups conquered by them, account for the patriarchal, divine-authority systems of political and social control evident on the planet today. Preliminary mitochondrial DNA research points to a similar dispersion of peoples.
Religions (and their nation-state derivatives) that offer a savior, a scapegoat, to avoid personal responsibility keep people trapped in the egoism of childhood. New age and new thought theories that substitute comparable concepts (inventing unprovable figures or sources of power) continue to play the same role. Psychological theories that suggest independent unconscious, wiser dimensions or parts of ourselves (including Freud, Jung and other higher-self theorists) fall into the same trap.
"placebo beliefs"
It may upset some people to consider that aliens could have taught us the worship/followship syndrome, for their own benefit. Others may be frightened to think that perhaps aliens and certain humans still use it to maintain societal controls. Some may not want to believe it because they like the security blanket of "placebo beliefs." Whatever the historical truth, by combining knowledge from prehistory and frontier science we have moved into the age of accountability. We can no longer blame scapegoats for our faults or failures. We are all like individuals who were abused children, but whose coming into adulthood deprives them of an excuse for current misbehavior. .
Until we recognize that worship/followship is a MANufactured, self-deluding way to escape personal responsibility for the impact of our behaviors, we will continue to be irresponsible children of the cosmos. As adults we would accept the possibility that there is no "divinity" or "devil" of higher appeal. We would be prepared to "take our medicine" if we failed to engage in prophylactic thinking.
Frontier science tells us we are co-creative parts of the universe. Every thought, feeling, or action reverberates outward from us, affecting the whole. The opposite is true as well. Although we are influenced by the whole in this circular process, we can always choose how to react. The principle of uncertainty (Werner Heisenberg-1927) and quantum collapses of probabilities (built into the fabric of the universe) provide scope for free will. As conscious beings, we are responsible for the impact of our decisions. Therefore, how we choose eventually defines our reality.
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Paul Von Ward
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