The end of religions

Patrice Julien
4 min readJun 29, 2024

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Times have changed. Many people feel it. The religions of yesterday are no longer the religions of today. An update is necessary. The “old world” is trying to hold on, either by passivity or by excess… No spirituality deserves to be excessive. No belief has the right to infringe on the physical life or freedom of the Son of Man…

Who is the Son of Man?

“The Son of Man” is not a title limited to a messiah whose pieces everyone is tearing off. This child carrying the divine DNA is not a being apart. Nor is it an orphan whose father refuses to recognise him.

Understanding that this ‘natural child’ has had a sacred name since before its very conception is the key to our freedom. Throughout history, almost all religions have inculcated a fear of the Creator, because human imaginary models were only capable of experiencing respect through this feeling of fragility and fear. How can we talk about love to minds that are used only to domination and submission?

Times have changed. Every age has its own imagination. We are no longer in the days when the plague and leprosy were the visible expressions of fear through the body. Today’s diseases reflect today’s fears: AIDS, then Covid… increasingly subtle, incomprehensible, invisible, coming from the depths of the animality that underpins our roots.

Recognising our omnipotence

We must finally realise our power as creators. Our imagination carries within it the roots of the Word, without which nothing can be created; neither peace, nor a destructive pandemic. Today, planetary diseases correspond to a planetary world.

But we still haven’t understood it, because we continue to apply yesterday’s models to today’s world… Everything has been said by the prophets, the messiahs and the awakened ones. The message is always the same. It speaks of love and light in every form and in every language. Only the level of consciousness of men varies… The question that arises in every age is: “What are they prepared to understand?”

But the darkness of human minds has still not grasped the essence of the religious message. They always have the impression that the essential is elsewhere, that it cannot be here, just in front of their eyes, at this very moment. They think that asceticism takes time and that it has to be difficult to be effective.

Some even go so far as to believe that you have to go through suffering, martyrdom and death of the body to get out of it; our own body or that of the other person in front of us. We refuse to abandon the barbarity and murderous rites of sacrifice…

Our flesh pays the price. This marvellously designed body, a living miracle that asks only for attention and love, is crucified every day for the same old reasons: ignorance and the beliefs that reflect it. Those false reasons still implant pain in the heart of the human family.

The true meaning of sacrifice

Sacrifice has never been called for by the figures of the Divine, quite the contrary. The prophets never cease to repeat that Gods await another form of recognition. The sacrifice of any sheep is meaningless unless it is in essence a GIFT OF SELF.

Separating the subject from the object, the sacrifice from the self, solves nothing… Because it’s all about SELF… As long as we stay away from our own death, it’s so easy. To choose an expiatory victim is to think that we can easily wash our hands of the blood of another being when it’s our own blood that’s at stake. We have to be able to ask ourselves where this flow that runs through our veins comes from.

To sacrifice something other than oneself is to refuse to accept total responsibility for reuniting with the Divine, with the essence of life, with the SELF.

This very idea of sacrifice, of death, of self-surrender is symbolic. No Creator is capable of demanding the destruction of his own creation as a sign of allegiance. In fact, recognising the unconditional Freedom of our being does not involve rejecting an old corrupted SELF. It involves realising that this SELF is incorruptible because it is eternally divine and deserves to be loved. It cannot fall because it is not subject to gravity…

There is no possible “separation”.

The only thing to be immolated on a sacred altar is the illusion of separation from the Source… Whe have to throw away all beliefs, all dualities and go back to zero. Where we see only the dry stones of a dried-up river, we must succeed in seeing, through the filter of illusions, that the stream has never stopped flowing and cannot be interrupted, because it is the Eternal.

It’s so easy to take this step aside and realise that the path is everywhere and that all paths lead to Rome and to all the sacred places whose prophets have nourished our imagination, so greedy for symbols.

In fact, this sideways step simply consists of realising that the ‘old world’ and the ‘old man’ who is supposed to inhabit it, this heir to a foretold fall, are just ‘beliefs’, in other words ideas… And ideas that do us ‘harm’ because it is they that create the illusion of an evil whose memory we persist in maintaining, within ourselves and in our vision filtering the entire universe.

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Patrice Julien
Patrice Julien

Written by Patrice Julien

Patrice Julien & his Wife Yuri run a retreat center by the sea in Miyazu, Japan. Patrice writes Self-Help books and gives trainings in Zen and Ho'oponopono.

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