From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Davis Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 8:02 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Advice Sought
Hi OffWorld, >> Moreover, when meditating I am in effect praying to a god not of >>my culture, >> and of whom I have no knowledge, which leaves me deeply >>uncomfortable.>> >Why are you afraid of Gods? You are human for chrise sakes ! >Grow-up man. Afraid? No, that was not my meaning at all. But rather, seeing no reason to believe in the existence of an anthropomorphic interventionalist god or gods, the act of praying to one natrually leaves me feeling uncomfortable, both as sitting uneasily with my own beliefs, and as being potentially insulting to one who does believe. John Try thinking of gods not as they are depicted in Hindu mythology, but as higher, more fundamental or more comprehensive impulses of organizing intelligence. For instance, just as a liver cell might think of the entire liver as a god, or the liver might think of the entire body as a god, perhaps there are intelligent systems, conscious beings actually, who have a broader range of responsibility than we humans. They govern or coordinate the universe from a deeper or more comprehensive perspective. That's how I understand gods, as best as I can explain it. So I don't feel that I'm praying to or worshiping some dude with four arms and a lot of beads, rather that I'm attuning myself to a more cosmic expression of nature's intelligence, and thereby benefitting from that association.
