Which religion should I pass on to my children?
This blog is taken directly from a Q & A session
of a group connected with Monjoronson Com. The questionner is anonymous, and
the answer is given by Charles the Mighty Messenger, a Trinity Son who was once
a mortal human like us.
Q: I feel that I'm still a spiritual infant and just
learning how to find out myself yet at the same time I have several children
I'm trying to raise and my wife and I decided we don't want to limit them to a
certain religion or belief system. We want them to be open to all possibilities
so that they can accept something like this. My question is, after leaving a
religion, how do we guide ourselves, how do we teach them spiritual values?
What is the best way of going about doing that?
Answer from Charles, the Mighty Messenger:
Charles: What an excellent question, thank you my dear one. This aspect is of absolute primal importance. Without understanding this significant aspect of the human experience, you can never rise to true spiritual awareness. Children are simple. When they are first born they are imprinting everything that happens to them. They are absorbing like a tape recorder everything that transpires around them. This is how they learn to assimilate into life, they experience it around them and they develop their personal relationship to it.
Up until the age of five or even later, this imprinting is of extreme importance. As they grow up they turn this imprinted material into the very life that they live. They go from record to playback, they switch their mode and things automatically arise from within them that were put there during the imprinting mode and they will just mimic activities that they have seen around them. Much of this imprinting that is done is difficult if not impossible to alter once it is 'in print.' That is why it is so important to raise children in a loving and kind and supportive and nurturing environment at all costs. That's what needs to be imprinted, that they are loved, that they are nurtured, that the world is a good and kind place and that they have a relationship to this good and kind and loving world. Those are the values that need to be imprinted into the developing child.
When you ask about a relationship to a religion, I will tell you simply one thing, your life is your religion. It is the demonstration of your faith. The way you live your life, the way you carry yourself, the way you show yourself to the world is what your children will observe and learn regardless of what formalized house of worship or religious activity you engage in. It will be the religion of your life that your children will respond to. This religion may be transferred over into any formalized doctrine but it will be primarily the religion of you, the parents, that will become the religion of the children by default because they are imprinting it as you live it. It is not so important to maintain a rigid affiliation with any sect or creed or group of religionists, rather what is important is your character, your integrity, your honesty, your kindness, your peace.
Those things will manifest in whatever religion you were to bring them into. So the most important thing you can do is to do what you think the most divine thing at all times is, the best and highest choice you can make. It is as simple as that. You have a little voice inside which always can differentiate for you between choices as to which is the higher and better choice. You know it in your heart, you feel it in your very body when it's right. By making these choices consciously and by bringing these values into your decision making process, you exemplify to the world and to your children, what your religion is. Is your religion of peace, is your religion of love, is your religion of faith, is your religion of trust?
These are things that must be personal to you, that must affect you individually and personally and become part of who you are and then your life is simply an example of the religion that you have created for yourself. There is no set standard of how this is done. You are an individual here on the world to make your own choices and to put together a combination of experiences and values and awarenesses into the being that you are. This will be unique because no other being can possibly have your perspective, your position in this life. You are the only one that will represent this unique combination of perspectives and experiences.
That my friends is why God loves you so much. That is why you are cherished as an individual spiritual being, a part of the whole, because you contain a piece of reality that only you can contain. You were the only one there at that time, in that place, in that space, to have that experience. It can never happen again, it's never happened before, the unique juncture of time and space that is your life. That little fragment of reality, of truth, beauty, of goodness, is what God wants to weave into the fabric of the whole. It is a necessary piece of the entire fabric. That is what you can give back to The Creator who has given you everything, is a willing accounting of your experience, a sharing of your unique in all of time and space perspective.
Thank you for this question. It is indeed a basic, foundational point when discussing the human condition, the proper perspective that children and adults should develop towards each other, thank you. [Thank you.]
Charles: I sense that our evening has run long, so if there are no other contributions at this time I would bid you all have a good evening and a good week. It is with great pleasure that I join you in this exercise. I hope it has been as rewarding for you as it has for me. I will see you all at some other session, thank you, bye now.
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Charles: What an excellent question, thank you my dear one. This aspect is of absolute primal importance. Without understanding this significant aspect of the human experience, you can never rise to true spiritual awareness. Children are simple. When they are first born they are imprinting everything that happens to them. They are absorbing like a tape recorder everything that transpires around them. This is how they learn to assimilate into life, they experience it around them and they develop their personal relationship to it.
Up until the age of five or even later, this imprinting is of extreme importance. As they grow up they turn this imprinted material into the very life that they live. They go from record to playback, they switch their mode and things automatically arise from within them that were put there during the imprinting mode and they will just mimic activities that they have seen around them. Much of this imprinting that is done is difficult if not impossible to alter once it is 'in print.' That is why it is so important to raise children in a loving and kind and supportive and nurturing environment at all costs. That's what needs to be imprinted, that they are loved, that they are nurtured, that the world is a good and kind place and that they have a relationship to this good and kind and loving world. Those are the values that need to be imprinted into the developing child.
When you ask about a relationship to a religion, I will tell you simply one thing, your life is your religion. It is the demonstration of your faith. The way you live your life, the way you carry yourself, the way you show yourself to the world is what your children will observe and learn regardless of what formalized house of worship or religious activity you engage in. It will be the religion of your life that your children will respond to. This religion may be transferred over into any formalized doctrine but it will be primarily the religion of you, the parents, that will become the religion of the children by default because they are imprinting it as you live it. It is not so important to maintain a rigid affiliation with any sect or creed or group of religionists, rather what is important is your character, your integrity, your honesty, your kindness, your peace.
Those things will manifest in whatever religion you were to bring them into. So the most important thing you can do is to do what you think the most divine thing at all times is, the best and highest choice you can make. It is as simple as that. You have a little voice inside which always can differentiate for you between choices as to which is the higher and better choice. You know it in your heart, you feel it in your very body when it's right. By making these choices consciously and by bringing these values into your decision making process, you exemplify to the world and to your children, what your religion is. Is your religion of peace, is your religion of love, is your religion of faith, is your religion of trust?
These are things that must be personal to you, that must affect you individually and personally and become part of who you are and then your life is simply an example of the religion that you have created for yourself. There is no set standard of how this is done. You are an individual here on the world to make your own choices and to put together a combination of experiences and values and awarenesses into the being that you are. This will be unique because no other being can possibly have your perspective, your position in this life. You are the only one that will represent this unique combination of perspectives and experiences.
That my friends is why God loves you so much. That is why you are cherished as an individual spiritual being, a part of the whole, because you contain a piece of reality that only you can contain. You were the only one there at that time, in that place, in that space, to have that experience. It can never happen again, it's never happened before, the unique juncture of time and space that is your life. That little fragment of reality, of truth, beauty, of goodness, is what God wants to weave into the fabric of the whole. It is a necessary piece of the entire fabric. That is what you can give back to The Creator who has given you everything, is a willing accounting of your experience, a sharing of your unique in all of time and space perspective.
Thank you for this question. It is indeed a basic, foundational point when discussing the human condition, the proper perspective that children and adults should develop towards each other, thank you. [Thank you.]
Charles: I sense that our evening has run long, so if there are no other contributions at this time I would bid you all have a good evening and a good week. It is with great pleasure that I join you in this exercise. I hope it has been as rewarding for you as it has for me. I will see you all at some other session, thank you, bye now.
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Submitted by John Robert Thwaytes of Malbazar on May 29,2012.
