16. A New Life - The Only Solution to Man's Problem¶
We humans all live from one life, even though we are different individuals. There is no exception. We all have a single origin and this lies in creation. The law of heredity was also established at creation. The Bible shows us that God created a single individual in the beginning: Adam. Through the biblical account in Genesis 2, we know how Eve was subsequently created from Adam. God took a rib from Adam and formed Eve from it. Eve also had to spiritually bind herself to God. Like Adam, she also had the right identity as a creature. All children who would have been created from Adam and Eve in this state would have had Adam's life and would therefore also have been able to live on indefinitely.
Adam was spiritually bound to God and possessed the correct identity: "I am a creature." All other humans came from Adam. According to God's plan, man was to reproduce and live eternally, i.e. indefinitely.
But things turned out differently. Adam and Eve deceived themselves by assuming that they could change their identity and become like God. This self-deception led to separation from God. However, since spiritual dependence is built into the functions of the spirit, they inevitably became spiritually dependent on one another. They could no longer put their trust in God and his unchanging law. They could no longer believe God's word. So, they both put their trust and faith in the other. However, through self-deception, people see themselves as spiritually independent. They live in an imaginary bubble, believing that they think freely and do not see that all their thoughts are only dependent on what other people say or do. I was able to detect this self-deception through physical illness because it reveals the false spiritual dependence.
The love that a person needs can only ever be drawn from the source that was intended for it from the beginning of the world. Just as God has determined from the outset where we get our oxygen from - from the air and not from the water - he has also determined where and with what we can exclusively satisfy our spiritual needs. If we still try to take a deep breath while we are under water, it will not end well. It's the same with spiritual dependence: if we try to get our love from people, it's like trying to get air from the water.
It is very difficult to make a person aware of this terrible state of self-deception, because in medicine and in science as a whole we do not have a clear understanding of the spiritual aspect of the development of illness.
By recognizing the self-deception that man believes he is God, it becomes understandable where all the teachings that deny God are derived from. But even people who do not directly deny God do not know why they need God. Unfortunately, religions are not an accurate reflection of the love of the Creator, but rather show a picture of a dominating and dictatorial God. It can therefore be said that ultimately all people are in conflict with God. They can no longer get close to Him. Consequently, humans have been trying for thousands of years and in many different ways to replace the lack of closeness to God. Many people hope to find a solution to their problem in religions or ideologies. Whether Buddha or Marx, Confucius or Gandhi, the aim is always to solve the human problem in some way. However, this does not correct man's false identity.
The life of Adam, from which we all come, is finally separated from God. This means that we are no longer permanently viable and must die. If there were no way to get out of this de facto dead state, to replace it in order to switch to a life that is unlimited in time, we would not be alive at all.
Is it possible to bring about a conversion in a person who mistakenly believes that he himself is a god?
Case 15
In Myanmar, I met a Buddhist monk. He was about 50 years old, had an extremely enlarged thyroid gland with hyperthyroidism and major heart problems. No medication helped him. Ten years ago, his wife had separated from him and taken the children with her. He then sank into depression and gambling. After some time, he had gambled away all of his parents' money, around $60,000 USD. That was a fortune, because in Myanmar people only earn about $1 USD a day. After he had gambled away the money, he fell into deep remorse because he had ruined his parents with his actions. He became a monk, meditated a lot and searched in vain for peace.
What made this person ill? Who caused the problems in his thyroid gland? The answer is himself! His spirit controls his whole body including his thyroid and heart. His spirit was saddened and he saw no solution to his problem. He was spiritually dependent on the love of his wife and children. When he lost that love, he saw no way out except to somehow get good feelings through gambling. Gambling was a substitute for love. Not the game itself, but the people he gambled with. But even they were gone when the money ran out. He didn't realize that he was bringing himself even deeper into trouble. His physical illness was a reflection of his false spiritual addiction. His spirit had no solution. Monasticism and meditation did not bring him any healing either. What did I offer him as a solution? "You need a new life with a new identity."
Why a new life with a new identity? Because the old life can only bind itself to people - and sometimes animals - for the satisfaction of spiritual needs. It has no ability to bind itself spiritually to God with the identity "I am God". If this were possible, there would be no need for a new life with a point of attachment only to God. All of man's problems can be summarized in a single question: On whom am I spiritually dependent? Dependence on God is physiological, normal and there is no alternative to it.
We have already seen that there is no choice with regard to needs and sources of needs. As soon as man loses the source of fulfillment of his needs, he cannot live. If he no longer has access to fresh water, he must die. In the same way, he cannot exist if he has no access to a source of love. The fact that we live at all for a short time, even though we are separated from the source of God's love, is His grace alone, so that we can emerge from the old life into the new life. If a person misses this temporary opportunity to change their condition, they are left only with inexistence, eternal death.
Thus, our illnesses and symptoms are both an indication and a warning that we are bound to the wrong spiritual attachment point (to other people) so that we can also recognize it as false. As a result, we are given the choice to give up the error of the old life and to bind ourselves to the true source of love and life by replacing it with the truth of the New Life.
Where does the 'New Life' come from? How was it created?