Beautiful.. Omnipresent actually is fascinating word.. presence to me is much more gentle .. omnipresence seems to have an over powering feeling. I do think a lot of the problems with religions is the dogma and doctrine that people are adding.. beyond what is there. To accept the existence of God or presence is enough. Why is it needed to try and make God more important? The creation of the entire universe is attributed to God, how much more important can you get?
تجنب. القتل والاغتصاب واستعباد الآخرين Avoid; murder, rape and enslavement of others -----Original Message----- From: Molly <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wed, 25 Mar 2015 12:12 PM Subject: Mind's Eye Re: Transcendental and Transactional Social (religion is no special case of either) In the sea of love, I melt like salt, Faith, Doubt - they both dissolve. A star is opening in my heart, The worlds turn in it. Rumi On Wednesday, March 25, 2015 at 2:13:48 AM UTC-4, archytas wrote: > > http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/363/1499/2055 > > Once we realize this omnipresence of the imaginary in the everyday, > nothing special is left to explain concerning religion. What needs to be > explained is the much more general question, how it is that we can act so > much of the time towards visible people in terms of their invisible halo. > The tool for this fundamental operation is the capacity for imagination. It > is while searching for neurological evidence for the development of this > capacity and of its social implications that we, in passing, will account > for religious-like phenomena. Trying to understand how imagination can > account for the transcendental social, and incidentally religion, is a > quite different enterprise to accounting for the religious for itself in > terms of modules, or core knowledge, which, in any case, we share with > other primates. Unlike this, imagination does seem to distinguish us from > chimpanzees and perhaps also distinguishes post-Upper Palaeolithic humans > from their forebears. > > This is from a paper by Maurice Bloch. I have no problem in accepting > imagination. I wonder what we should do about religious stupidity in the > transcendental social and that stupidity that cannot distinguish the > transcendental and transactional social domains? Less corruption in both > would make life better. > -- --- 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. -- --- 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.
