To all you ex Roman Catholics, and being taught of 'purgatory', a place where the penitent are cleansed, or purified!
What do I understand it to be now? Just look at the word base 'purge'! It means to expel, clear away, remove, purify. So everyone goes there!
The eastern religions believe in reincarnation. Meaning we keep returning to a life on this earth until we realize why we are here. Each time we return we have no memory of who we were, or what we done, we are given a fresh start, so our memory is purged, hence we visit purgatory.
So the Romans Catholics, are only half right, or only giving us half the truth, part of their original sin, not our original sin, our only sin (mistake) is that we follow them. They also tell us we have only one shot at getting it right.
We are here to learn that god is everywhere, in everything, in everyone. So we are not separate from god, god is not out there somewhere, he is around us, and in us. We all have a direct connection to god, we don't need anyone to do anything on our behalf. All we need to do is go within, and establish our own connection, and learn to communicate, learn to listen to ourselves, and god.
As you were taught, the kingdom of god is within, so who resides within us? As each of us has a soul, or spirit, are we a piece of gods divide soul. So what you do to one you do to all. We are to learn to love ourselves, others as ourselves, and love this earth, this is the most powerful force in the universe, and is what takes us back to our origin, the source of all there is.
