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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (24192)	8/10/1998 8:35:00 PM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Alex, I hope that not much hinges on the answer, because the only answer I have is that I don't know. I'm not even sure that these two alternatives are in any way exclusive. <<The mythology and faith at the core of any religion is a prescription for how to be in tune with that presence.>> I've felt for a long time that organized religion is an enormous obstacle - and a conscious, intentional, obstacle - to getting in tune with that presence. What would the men in robes do if religious experience became a personal phenomenon? If it is a human thing, it would go way beyond positive thinking. I could prattle about the collective unconscious, but I haven't read Jung in many years and I'm sure that others on the thread are far more informed on that side of things. Some have debated whether God is Humankind's greatest creation, or the other way around. I'd have to ask if it really matters. As on most of the grand religious/philosophical questions, I find myself ambivalent. It is said that there are three stages of human inquiry. In the first, we ask "how do I eat?". In the second, we ask "why do I eat?". In the third, we ask "where shall we have lunch?". Steve