Spirituality

I read a friend's published content today, and a recurring theme in a lot of his work has to do with believing in God, but not Jesus. I believe he is a step ahead of most people taking part in organized religion, and allowing their faith to lie in fallible people's written interpretations of this mystical "God".

There is a universal power amongst us that can be utilized for our benefit, betterment, and manipulation of our physical realities. This power is just energy that runs on faith. It is very simple, and very personal, and I think people make the mistake of turning away from understanding it completely and separate themselves from it by putting it in the hands of someone else. This power, this magical energy, is what we call God. Although there are countless interpretations of this energy, God, Jesus, Buddha, Allah, etc, they all basically revolve around the same set of principles: Give rather than take, be good rather than bad, and you will have this power in you. This is completely true minus all the other things that go along with religion like guilt, Heaven and Hell, Jesus, etc.

As far as Jesus goes, I believe he was just a person who had tremendous faith and was thus able to tap into the power that lies in all of us. People of his time were very ignorant of quantum physics and the smallest fractions of matter which we have found to be just energy. Our thoughts are made up of energy as well. As such, we can manipulate other energy (read: everything in our physical world) with our thoughts. This doesn't work for a lot of people
because our thoughts are simply the car, but our feelings are the gasoline.