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Mysticism: a worldwide epidemic

An exception from the book Professional Nomad Maurice Marwood. See www.trafford.com/08-0776

Faith is Believin 'what you know is not Sun-Mark Twain

Religion is based, I think, especially and mainly fear. It is partly the terror of the unknown and partly, as I said, the desire to feel that you have a kind of older Brother, who must stand by you in all your troubles and disputes. A good world needs knowledge, kindness and courage, it does not need a regretful nostalgia or issued a restraining of the free intelligence by the words long ago by ignorant Männern.-Bertrand Russell

During my youth, Mother exposed me Protestant Christian theology, doctrines, beliefs and rituals. We went to church, Sunday school, church and summer camps. As a young adult I taught Sunday school and Bible study groups, and my brother, Curtis, was finally a pastor in the United Church of Canada. For the first 30 years of my life I was immersed in Christianity and its teachings. I read the Bible, sang songs, and led the rituals.

It was embarrassing. After the Christian message, I was as guilty sinner from the moment I was doomed from the womb, and no one could explain how I had deserved the condemnation. [1]

They said I was by seemingly old-fashioned to be a grim and threatening God who does not even show up mud and dust. I was in front of me, that God throw down with an attitude of submission, Fear and eternal gratitude-gratitude for what?

I was told my life on this earth was only a short break, where I was, for some unknown eternal life after death, that I might earn, if I sacrificed enough for the benefit of other preparation [2]. The so-called "eternal life" was never a big Incentive, because no one could in a way that sounded attractive to describe. At least Allah promised a bevy of young women for simply dispatching a couple of infidels in the Hell in the transition to paradise. (I wondered what the women could perhaps deserve the opportunity to be virgins?)

I wanted a productive, rewarding and prosperous career, a comfortable and interesting life-deprivation confirmed nor Christianity, humility and self-sacrifice as virtues, and those who practiced These virtues were held in high esteem. Mother Teresa is admired for its victims and charitable work much more than Thomas Edison, but in my opinion, Thomas Edison contributed far more to had done the good of humanity than Mother Teresa ever.

They said I should bow and kneel on the floor with humility. I wanted to get up and reach for the sky with Pride, but pride of place Christianity as one of the seven deadly sins, and the Bible says, [3] "Pride goes before destruction."

In his early years, I have instinctively loved and admired some people, but certainly not all have preached Christianity Agape love indiscriminate love for all. After the Sermon, I was not related to my neighbors Love her character. That seemed to suggest it might agree in order, not to Hitler's behavior, but I ought to him a big hug, forgive his actions, and invite him to lunch with family and friends.

From an early age taught me to share Christianity, was once again at random, and yet there are those who clearly do not had earned or deserved my sharing.

The Christian doctrine contrary to my hopes and sense of life in every way. These contradictions gnawed at me, as I Christianity studied on Sundays and fought to live a secular life to the rest of the week. The religious leaders were no help, she was irritated with my stubborn Questions and told me just to "faith" that God was not in the power of understanding.

At first, like most smiled, I practiced Self-deception, pushed the contradictions and maintained to avoid superficial harmony of the risk of alienating others. However, not self-deception the work, the contradictions continue to nag me and created a level of fear, and ebbed flowed. I wanted clarity, understanding, consistency and resolution so that I still looking for answers. I was the devil incarnate?

Later I came to understand that the teachings of all three major monotheistic religions were essentially The same Christianity was not unique. The common thread through all forms of mysticism was the exhortation to submission, obedience and sacrifice of the practice. They differed only in Detail the purpose and the recipients of the victims, the choice to worship the deity as the true and legitimate, the rules of conduct, the prophets of the hand, and that the Messiah has come or will. Remarkably, have millions of people about these little things died in battle, and they continue to die every day.

At a relatively young age, for a naive existence in North America, I was suddenly immersed in the pervasive tribalism and mysticism Africa and the Middle East. My sense of contradictions became especially vividly how I gained exposure to the many different cultures, religions, witchcraft, tribal beliefs and superstitions, and observed first hand their bad effects on life of the people. The many religions and practices, I met my brain bombed, shaped my thinking, and validated my ideas about the meaning and consequences of mysticism in all its forms.

It started in Nigeria. During the official ceremony to open a new training center in Kano, we discovered that several students from other Regions of the country would not attend classes for fear of being attacked by rival "tribesmen" who were also attending classes. These strains were students, educated young men from middle-class Nigeria start their new careers as service technicians. They were not savages, but practiced other members of each tribe Customs and mystic rituals in accordance with the teachings of their tribal leaders, warlords and medicine men.

Typically, these warlords have been at leading institutions educated in North America and Europe. They had the freedom and prosperity of the Western civilized societies, but despite this knowledge and understanding of experience, she returned home back and promptly to put over their own people and established the bankruptcy of their nations. They fuel used to mysticism and witchcraft, fear, and elicit loyalty and obedience from their tribal members.

According to the Economist, the corruption of the cost of the Nigerian people over 400 billion U.S. dollars, about two-thirds all aid to all Africa since the 1960s. [4] In the last 25 years has declined significantly per capita income. It is a poor country, just because the military warlords oil revenues sacked for their private profit, rather than to improve living conditions for people. Nigeria is just one of several African countries, working slowly their way back to the dark ages in this way.

In Zimbabwe, formerly Rhodesia, Robert Mugabe took over the reins of power after independence and ruled the country with brutality, burst their human rights violated, and created a disastrous economic situation of the World Bank as unprecedented for not a country at war. "Over the years, Mugabe has sold nearly a million Zimbabweans out of their homes, disrupted the training of thousands of children, so a lot of them from school and confiscated the passports as "harmful for the national good." Mugabe's brand of mysticism has brought the country close to collapse.

The Congo is not better. Dictator Mobutu Sese Seko began a comprehensive nationalization plan in 1973 and then sacked company for personal Enrichment. During the last three decades, neglect, corruption and tribal mysticism of Mobutu and his "kleptocratic" parliament-up of former warlords -to have left the infrastructure in ruins. In a 2005 survey by the World Bank rated in the Congo as the world's worst environment.

In 2007, several African countries to ask the audacity to award the World Bank and other international lending their helping them get out of their primitive existence. The leaders of the civilized world have shown to this request and empathy are probably stupid enough to fall for the scam and give the employee more money to the warlords plunder. As the oil revenue, most of that money, how the money should pay off the loan forgiven, will certainly end in private foreign bank accounts.

When my colleagues and I traveled to Saudi Arabia, Libya and Sudan, immigration and customs officials always have our luggage looking for an excuse to harass us, we were "infidels" and "non-believers"-that is, the enemies of their God. Time, Newsweek, and Playboy magazines were confiscated routinely publications these rules were too daring for the established religion. But our local contacts we are assured, these publications have also read when they were secretly by an official passed on to the next. You searched for all submitted copies to study from Playboy, and occasionally look at the other for news about the free World.

In Saudi Arabia could be the wives of the employees do not go out shopping alone or visit their friends. They could not drive a car or clothes, the naked Skin showed. In Jeddah, I witnessed men in the public square for alcohol whipped cream, and women who have not pursued adequately covered, or violation one of the many other rules of behavior. The mystic and the Saudi Wahhabis Ministry for Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice President of the Kingdom of the religious police enforced rules of conduct of the religious Sharia law and punishes non-believers and infidels. [5]

Fast forward to 2007: The Saudi authorities have sentenced a married woman from the city of Qatif, the gang of seven men had raped to six months in prison and 200 lashes, so, was the victim of rape, not the perpetrators. What did they want to earn barbaric treatment? She was in a public parking lot, a photo of a male friend retrieve. According to Islamic Sharia law, women are not allowed to go public with the men when their male relatives. The Islamic Mystique of the Wahhabi forces have strict laws on segregation of the sexes. [6] Obviously, nothing substantial has changed since I went first, before the region 25.

Of course, the ruling class's political leaders and religious clerics excluded from these rules, even if the situation is advantageous to to do so. Saudi businessmen were very hospitable, and visiting their households, we shared cocktails and hors d'oeuvres of bars and a wide selection of alcoholic Drinks tipped notwithstanding that the country officially banned alcohol in accordance with Islamic law.

Saudi customers to visit a product seminar in Malaga, Spain, with the finest champagne served and Spanish women, the money could buy, despite the Islamic Sharia rules of behavior. I was there, it was an unforgettable experience.

One day, while I fly from Jeddah to London with British Airways, my seatmate, wearing a full burqa, quietly withdrew to the Bad. [7] A few minutes later, wife returned arabic, which look like a model from Vogue, wearing a short skirt, sheer nylons, four-inch heels, long flowing hair and lots of jewelry and division. It was a transformation. No doubt, she would arrive in London and merge in the fashionable crowd in Piccadilly Circus unnoticed. Of course, on the flight back to Saudi Arabia, they would rise again and change costumes, wearing the burqa. Obviously, the mystic rules of Islam should be flexible when necessary, at least for some. I suppose if you the power to make the rules, has added a power to ignore them.

The entire Middle East is dysfunctional, a boiling cauldron of mysticism and it has for more than 2,000 years. Three of the world's dominant religions in the Middle East created. The city of Jerusalem is claimed to be holy all three to achieve in their efforts to eternal salvation. [8] It is not possible, the human slaughter in the name of these religions over the years occurred must be explained. The fundamentalists All three contributed to the slaughter, including Christians. All three have a common idea that they and only they have a "true" Religion, and therefore exclusive passageway to the "afterlife." Each of them believe their God is the only true God and their faith to prevail. The human slaughter will continue as long as the masses continue to accept the teachings, which is their version of the truth, the "exclusive" version.

Although the attention of the World is mainly due to the Arab-Israeli conflict, the majority of the focused slaughter not involved Israel. For example, 20 000 Syrian Arab Muslims killed during Crushing an uprising in Hama in 1982, Saddam Hussein killed more Muslims than the Arab Israelis ever and many consider him a hero who killed the 10-year-old Iran-Iraq war and more than a million Arabs and Persians, [9] and are over 2 million Sudanese have died in the ongoing civil war. The outrage over Israel and the Palestinians further, while the Arabs kill Arabs and the weakness of their societies and political systems are overlooked.

Obviously, the more murders Suicide money and power as the top acts of the true religious beliefs. The Muslim clerics have not bombs and killings committed suicide strapped to himself or their sons for the benefit of the glorious martyrs in heaven with 71 virgins. Instead, they send their sons to the United States or Great Britain, a to get good education. The suicide bombers are the outcasts, the orphans, the retarded, and the young hotheads. Suicide murder is just a vicious circle Form of terrorism, a weapon by those who used personal wealth and power, and mysticism is the tool used to make it happen.

India is particularly full of mysticism. Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism and were all born there, and the country has more Muslims than any other country in Indonesia. [10] Religion is an integral part the national character. I found the brand of Hindu mysticism, particularly amazing. According to the magazine National Geographic, the ranks of the company come in from a legend in which the major groups arose from a primordial being. A group of so-called untouchables to-be unclean, dirty, rank as a worthy human beings. Prejudice defined the lives of 160 million people, especially in rural areas. Untouchables are shunned, abused, banned from temples and higher caste homes, made to eat and to drink from separate utensils to be in public places and in extreme cases, raped, burned, lynched, and gunned down. [11]

The religious mystics of Hinduism expect persuasion, that these people will accept their misery and practice of self-sacrifice of it in a class higher the company could get if they are born again-of course, that their sacrifice is sufficient. I observed that children begging for food from caste groups outside the four-star hotels in Bombay, Calcutta, Madras and. Meanwhile, cows roamed freely through the market, eating what they wanted to destroy the rule, which in their way. [12] Where's the virtue in a brand of mysticism that cows values on children, and preach the basic rule that men are all that is created equal?

Further illustrates the shocking nature of Hindu mysticism, quickly disposed forward to 2005, and read about the story of a girl whose grandfather her marriage at the age of three and a quarter boy who was five years old. The marriage was the caste system caste panchayat of the Council, a powerful group of local leaders blessed. In 2005, broke the girl, now 22 years old, the rules of marriage and refused to move in with her husband. By continuing, she could be stripped naked, persecuted, ostracized, and perhaps tortured to death. Once again, the Hindu mysticism panchayat of the caste system of people's lives. Their religious affiliation was a matter of life and death [13].

After moving to Hong Kong in 1979 I had the opportunity to China shortly after the death of Chairman Mao to visit. In China, it was not a religious Mystics, the appointment had the shots for 30 years, it was a mystic of muscle Chairman Mao. He had his own divine persona, the altar, on which the Chinese People were expected to worship created. He even gave them a "sacred" text of the Little Red Book. After Mao's monotheism, people had to their to confess sins and sacrifice the regime their lives to the Communist ideology with such fervor and humility as the followers of any religious mystics. Mystique of Mao Muscle led to the deaths of more than 50 million of his own ethnic Chinese from famine and persecution during his reign of terror. Mao was not unique, many other rulers throughout history the power of mysticism and fear to the masses-Adolf Hitler, Lenin, Stalin, Saddam Hussein understood control, Pol Pot, and Fidel Castro, a few to name. [14] As the Chairman Mao did, they have total control over people's lives, and demanded absolute obedience to the dogma and doctrine of their ideology and cult of the deified personality.

In Beijing in 1979 were the engineers to participate in our seminars is not allowed, the hotel without permission slip from the Communist Party to enter. They too were our equipment in the field without travel documents to inspect them permission to it. Control of the individual Choice and personal conduct was so extreme, it was hard to tell the men from the women because they were all forced to the same drab blue Mao uniforms. Fortunately, have some economic freedoms granted since then, but political freedom in China is still not practically nonexistent.

The epidemic of mysticism is not the less developed countries is limited. killed in Northern Ireland, Catholics and Protestants each other for years about different beliefs, teachings and rituals. The same thing happened in the Balkans during the disintegration of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, where a one of modern society crumbled into chaos. Croatian Roman Catholic order is Christians to be Serbian and is to be Christian Orthodox. Here, Slobodan Milosevic, an Orthodox Christian Serbs led the Holocaust-like practice of ethnic or religious Cleansing of the Croats during the fighting on religious, cultural and ethnic differences Christians kill Christians [15].

Radical mysticism also the starting point for its ugly face in the United States, especially in the abuse of the right-wing Christian fundamentalists, as they advocate the dismantling of constitutional Separation of church and state and convert the government into a Christian theocracy. Madeleine Albright, former U.S. Secretary argues, mixing politics and religion to solve the problems of this world, [16] and President George W. Bush and Osama bin Laden, is convinced: "God is on our side."

In Canada in the 1960s, the Federation de Liberation de Quebec (FLQ) used violence and intimidation in an attempt to their control of the Quebec "infidels" not of the same were extended "family" that is often not the same religion and not with the FLQ plan of "salvation" for the province to some. Fortunately, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau martial law and brought the army to restore order before the situation out of control.

My wife tells of her persecution as a young girl while she brought up by the Catholic church in Quebec. The religious mystic of the Christian faith told her what to read, what they think and how to live their personal lives. Young students at the nuns were not allowed to read the Bible independently until they were older than 20 years, for fear they would not be sufficient to resist the doctrine and dogma, which contradictions and temptations they might encounter a brainwashing these series. Meanwhile, the Catholic priests were having a heyday sexually abused the boy in the local orphanages and tragic events, no one spoke of up to 20 years later. Today my wife is a recovering Catholic. You to control personally experienced the intimidation and mind methods similar to those used to Muslim subjecting children to a brainwashing, suicide bombers in the name of Allah, the highest mystics of the Islamic faith has become.

It is no coincidence that free Companies are relatively well off and a good standard of living, while totalitarian theocratic societies racial fear, ignorance and hate, as they struggle to cover the basic needs of survival, even those nations that enjoy the abundance of oil. The cycle of despair is not caused by poverty, repression, it is and ignorance cause that creates the vulnerability to fanatical beliefs in ancient tribal mysticism. Mystics do not want their followers to independent thinkers be educated, they want them to be ignorant and fearful, so they will blindly follow the tribal leaders, who are they, in return for loyalty and self-sacrifice promises to take.

Israel is the only country in the Middle East, which protects a legitimate multi-ethnic, pluralistic form of government, individual freedoms to a significant degree. Israel has only 1 / 1000 of the world's population, and yet its 100 billion U.S. dollars economy is larger than all its immediate neighbors combined. Israel has the highest average living standards in the Middle East, and in 2000, the per capita income of the UK In contrast to its neighboring countries practice religious totalitarianism in one form or another and much of the population are illiterate. Totalitarianism and illiteracy often appear together-a coincidence, perhaps? I think not.

India has some 150 million practicing Muslims who are more productive in general, and quietly go about getting a better life for themselves. It is the second largest Community of Muslims in the world, but we do not want to hear about them we want to kill or destroy America. [17] Perhaps it is because, like Israel, in the context a live political system (a form of democracy, perhaps) that, although fragile, chaotic and corrupt, is also multi-ethnic and pluralistic. In addition, a basic secular education widespread and most have the economic opportunities and political voice open. In addition, most individual freedoms granted, allows complaints to be expressed and treated, usually without recourse to violence.

So what's the point? The point is that the Mysticism in all its forms is a worldwide epidemic. Whether it is a self-proclaimed mystic of muscle or a mystical religion, they have a common thread-both demand self-sacrifice, Submission and unquestioning obedience. The result of this epidemic is always the same: millions of people dying in ignorance, poverty, conflict and despair. [18] I can not see the virtue in this altruistic morality. My experiences have convinced me that only a secular political system-on protection of individual freedom and may enforce the maintenance of an independent judiciary, the separation of church and state, people enjoy having different beliefs and values of freedom and coexist peacefully.

The epidemic of mysticism desperately needs a vaccine. It is, it starts with a quality, secular education, which teaches children are they sovereign individuals with inalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit after its own happiness. A worldwide vaccination program should be implemented to eradicate, the epidemic before it destroyed the companies that are still mostly civilized.

Good people do good and bad people Bad things. But good people do bad things for one, that takes religion .– Steven Weinberg

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[1] According to the Christian faith in the concept of original sin;

[2] I always wondered: If that was my purpose in life, what the purpose of the other was? Were they to be my slave and sacrifice their lives for me, although I was a stranger?

[3] Proverbs 16:18.

[4] "The Good, the Bad and the President, "Economist, 5 January 2008, 36;

[5] Robert Fisk, The Great War for Civilization: The Conquest of the Middle East (2005). Wahhabism is the strict conservative Sunni Islamic religion Saudi Arabia and Qatar, the 18th- Century cleric Muhammad Ibn Abdul-Wahhab (1703-1792) founded. The Taliban cleric products of the Wahhabi religious schools and religious schools for Muslims are financed primarily by Saudi-Arabia.

[6] Economist, 24 November 2007, 52

[7] Burka: An all-over garment with veiled eyeholes, by some Muslim women worn.

[8] It is worth noting that King David founded Jerusalem. For more than 3,000 years Jerusalem was the Jewish capital. There is no evidence that ever set foot in it Mohammed. It was never the capital of an Arab or Muslim entity. Also during Jordanian rule, Jerusalem was not made the capital. Jews pray toward Jerusalem, Muslims to Mecca.

[9] the Persian people in Iran are born and are descendants of people who lived in ancient Persia and founded an empire around 550 BC. Their language is Persian, and they are not Arabs. Their dominant religion is Islam.

[10] Edward Luce, in spite of the Gods: The Rise of Modern India (2007).

[11] National Geographic, June 2003.

[12] The government of India offered to import and swept the protection of cattle before slaughter because of mad cow disease, the Europe in the 1990s.

[13] Washington Post, 6 September 2005.

[14] See Robert Gellately, Lenin, Stalin and Hitler: The Age of social catastrophe (2007), and Andrew Nagorski, the largest Battle (2007).

[15] In the 1940s the Catholic Croats slaughtered thousands of Orthodox Christians, or put them in concentration camps.

[16] Madeleine Albright, the Mighty and the Almighty: Reflections on America, God and World Affairs (2006).

[17] Indonesia has the largest Muslim community of a single country.

[18] Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great (2007), the author provides detailed Documentation, such as mysticism, religion, belief and superstition destroy civilized society.

About the Author

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Maurice E. Marwood grew up after the Second World War as the son of a struggling, part-time farmer in eastern Canada. He eventually escaped the clutches of poverty and earned an MSc in engineering from the University of Guelph and an MBA from the University of Chicago. During his early career, he spent 20 years in increasingly responsible international positions with Caterpillar and, later, an additional 10 years managing two Caterpillar dealer organizations—first, as President of the dealership in the Bahamas, and most recently as Managing Director for the dealership in Taiwan. An expert in corporate turnarounds, he spent several years restructuring and renewing a variety of business organizations struggling for growth and profitability; his executive-level leadership has spanned manufacturing, distribution logistics, marketing, and international sales of industrial equipment and packaged consumer products.

Marwood has served as a Rotarian, Director of the Nassau Institute, Governor/Director of Chambers of Commerce, advisor to the University of Calgary Faculty of Management, and to the Conference Board of Canada’s Operating Council for Business Excellence. He has been a frequent presenter and panel participant at university and industry association gatherings, and published articles on business management, leadership, and social issues in magazines, newspapers, and websites. In 2007, he was the first “foreigner” to receive a special annual award from the Council of Labor Affairs of the government of Taiwan, for innovation in the development of Human Resources.

From a young age, Marwood instinctively knew that life was for living and discovered an insatiable appetite for experiences and ideas. He worked hard to maintain a balance between life’s critical success factors—the material and the spiritual—making time to raise a family and pursue such adventures as climbing the Matterhorn, trekking Nepal, marathoning, skiing, snowboarding, scuba diving, and cruising eastern North America and the Bahamas. Firsthand involvement in a wide variety of events and situations shaped his values, opinions, and philosophy of living that he shares with honesty and passion.

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