Jews, Christians, Muslims, they struggle through the centuries, slay each other in thousands, for the right to lay claim on the heights of Jerusalem. In the name of God, Jews and Arabs, Christians and Moslems, Catholics and Protestants regularly slaughter one another. Our planet stinks of religious massacres. Have you ever thought why? [Carlos asks]
“It has to do with mountains?” I ask [M G].
One thing to know, before you give your heart to mountains. They are powerfully jealous of each other. Pledge loyalty to one and it expects you to be faithful. Followers of religions believe they are following the one God. They are wrong. History tells them they are wrong, the Bible tells them they are wrong, but they are slaves to their partial understanding and believe what they want to believe.
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Devotees of religions worship the Lord of a mountain. They are the mountain’s cohorts, and will battle the world to proclaim dominion over the earth. Call it Islam, Judaism, Christianity, any faction, even the Mormons of America with their own message brought down from their own mountain, they are all mountain religions. Don’t think that mountains have people let go. Never think that. They have roused us with their prophets, stirred us with their myths, hidden themselves in our religions the way they hide themselves in cloud. That divide the peoples of the world among themselves, and set them at each other’s throats”
Carlos Castaneda – The Afterlife Dialogues by Martin Goodman (page 55).