<<We are born, have children, grow old, then die. That's it.>>
<<they find there is more to life than that brief outline. The inner world of the psyche seems to be missing.>>
Good God, how much more could anyone want from life then that? The thing I find appalling about those who espouse devotion to the psyche is their apparent disregard for the depth and wealth of experience and feeling that is possible in life.
Want a religious experience? Take a child for a walk up a river. Teach the child to skip flat stones across the water, to catch a fish and let it swim away, or cook it over a fire and eat it. Teach the child to swim like a fish and jump from rocks into deep pools. Watch an animal, or a person, giving birth. That is religion, far more than burying yourself in musty books and dusty churches. If the psyche is missing from life, it's the fault of the person living the life. No distinction between the two is needed. I can't fathom why some people think that a life spent in contemplation, hidden from the real world, is psychically richer. I think it is psychically poorer by a long damned shot. Birth, growth, parenthood, aging, death... that is what we've got, let's make it worth living. As for life after death, who gives a damn. None of us know what happens after we die. All of us are going to find out sooner or later. When the time comes for us to know, we'll know, it's that simple. We're alive, let's live!
When I used to write film scripts, I was sometimes accused of writing characters that were "larger than life". My reply was always that life is pretty damned large. You just need a wide enough field of vision to see it.
Steve
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