Mans' Misconceptions Poem by Janice M Pickett

With the creation of the World and the creation of man,
came free will, superstition and confusion.
When starting school of any kind, lessons will be learned
mistakes will be made and conflicts will arise.
Spirit forgets all it knows before arriving here as a child
empty of preconceived notions and any form of conscience.

Spirit becomes Man who then struggles to find his way.
He searches and complicates and fears that which is new,
so he invents his own world filled with superstition.

So in the beginning

Man comes up against Man, Animal comes up against Animal,
Do or die, fright and flight, Man is lost for direction.

Banding together with others, becomes the way, and tribal
bonding occurs, bringing with it something they called Religion.
Based on the feelings of these now superstitious men,
these religions grew.
Fighting began and conflicts ran high. power became the
order of these groups.

Lessons about life were being learned based on these superstitions,
of the religious who banned together,
convincing their followers through their version
of what life was all about.

Religion caused and still causes many wars.
It stops those who have been
closed in its grip from seeing the truth
and understanding what is real
They still have superstitions that control them.
Threats of punishment if they do not obey.
Behaviours that they have to be part of or
else suffer wrath.

Luckily today many are seeing the light and

understanding that the one God in heaven
is part of who we are.
Humans created in his image
(with the same abilities to live a life of abundance)
Call God what you like..many call him the universal power.

The choice is ours and the only religion
is believing in one universal power
and not in the thinking of a
hypocritical and established cult
which is what I consider most Churches to be.