I agree most of that. The religious experience is mostly dead for me unless it is interfering from old prejudice. Literature is full of fictions and tricks, with the fictional structure forgotten as in psychoanalysis or Marx's laws of history and god of economics (modern economics is even worse).
The Dawkins' delusion is very old. We might see it emerge in Compte and the desire for a positive religion (sociology) of science. There was even a free-love, hippy positivist, Enfantin. The gratest chat up line in history is not 'Molly, I really love the way you regress to a foetal condition in meditation'! We should dispute honestly in argument, yet so-called rational argument is produced after the event. We would not find much rational at the key-hole of scientists discussing how dumb religion and mystical experience is with nothing measuring their smug index. On Friday, March 20, 2015 at 10:12:05 PM UTC, Molly wrote: > > "The primary purpose of a dynamic mythology, which we may underscore as > its properly religious function, is to awaken and maintain in the person an > experience of awe, humility, and respect in recognition of that ultimate > mystery that transcends every name and form, 'from which,' as we read in > the Upanishads, 'words turn back.' In recent decades, theology has often > concentrated on a literary exercise in the explanation of archaic texts > that are made up of historically conditioned, ambiguous names, incidents, > sayings, and actions, all of which are attributed to 'the ineffable.' > Faith, we might say, in old-fashioned scripture or faith in the latest > science belong equally at this time to those alone who as yet have no idea > of how mysterious, really, is the mystery of themselves. > > "Into how many of us has the weight described by the physicist Erwin > Schrödinger been born that 'this life of yours that you are living is not > merely a piece of the entire existence, but is, in a certain sense the > WHOLE; only the whole is not so constituted that it can be surveyed in one > simple glance. This . . . is what the Brahmins express in that sacred, > mystic formula that is yet really so simple and so clear: Tat tvam asi, > that is you.' " > > Joseph Campbell, Thou Art That, p. 12-13 > > On Friday, March 20, 2015 at 4:15:55 PM UTC-4, Allan Heretic wrote: > > Get real Tony.. > Every one is part of God.. actually your statement is very insulting to > the beliefs you claim you have. > > But you might consider to try reversing your statement to read: > Allan does God keep you in his pocket? > To that the answer is yes. > > تجنب. القتل والاغتصاب واستعباد الآخرين > Avoid; murder, rape and enslavement of others > > -----Ori > > ... -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
