Can we get 'well' without God?

If so, why / why not?

If any of you know me, you know I’ve been looking for answers for a very long time. Since I was a kid really. The world just never made sense.

As an adult, I’ve tried many things, coaches, therapy, books, sport, plants, rituals, and programs (including 12 step, that talks about a ‘higher power’, and a ‘God of our understanding’, and even ‘Group Of Drunks’ among the interpretations). And none of them fully answered the questions.

Other wellness programs and systems use the word “Source.”

People have said to me,
“Be careful about talking about God. It will turn people off.”

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In my book, I chose to use the terms: source, universe, eternity and God. I was not fully “there” when I wrote it. So I kept it open.

Even by that stage, I’d had many profound “moments” through my life, where I not only felt God, but I came close to understanding the role of God in life. And an actual meaningful relationship to God. I didn’t fully listen.

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Looking back, the evidence for what I’m about to share was so clear… I’ve lived, worked and traveled to many countries over the years, and I can tell you, when God disappears, the places go to rubbish.

Over 20 years of travel, I saw Godless countries go to hell.
Perhaps none more so than the USA.

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In January 2024, I started to read the bible. It was research, and more so, a curiosity and calling that had been building for a while. I read a tiny amount every week, with my own eyes, from a very early version of the bible. At the time of writing this post, (Aug 2024), I’ve read about 5% of the Bible.

It has been profound.

So far, it does not change anything that I’ve written in LBT (not yet anyway), and I still believe in the diagram that forms the basis of LBT, and all the work I’ve done to explore, validate and prove the processes in the past 7 years.

Similarly, I still believe all the implications from the LBT Book 1, about our understanding of mental health, illness, consciousness, flow of life, spiritual recovery, governance, business, culture, capitalism, socialism, money, sin, and the war of good and evil. Yeah, there is a lot in that simple book. What’s in there is emergent.

I now know, without God, we only scratch the surface of our potential and how great life on this planet can be.

Not “source”, not the “universe”, not any other term, God. It is specific.

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To put it another way, I still believe that Life Beyond Thinking is the most efficient process to transform trauma and to understand life, that get us 99% of the way there. And then I arrogantly thought God was the last 1%. God was the cherry on top.

Now…

Wellness and mental health work is 1%.
God is the 99%.

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I have been around the block so many times, looking for answers, and now I am more convinced than ever, we can’t get anywhere, individually or collectively as a civilization without God.

God not only has a place,
God is essential to the future of humanity.

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We need to talk more about God, not less. To understand.

I still believe we need to do the work on ourselves, to forgive (transform trauma and integrate the lessons, the pieces, the wisdom), to learn a new way of being, to understand life, and with the right lens, that helps us understand God. Everything gets even better.

Thank you, more to come, have a great weekend.

Robert De Pinto.
Life Beyond Thinking ®
Life is simple. Make it great,

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Transformational tools:

Happy mind. Happy life. Transform your trauma, get happy for life. here

Life Beyond Thinking, Book 1 A visual guide to spiritual recovery, the secret to unlocking humanity’s potential. here

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