amorphous_constellation
Well-Known Member
There are two ways to perceive religion, one is as a frozen block of rules and ritual processes that you are to reflect as exactly and as consistently as possible. The second way is to view religion as a living artistic event, incapable of being anchored somewhere in the past or future
The people who wrote down all the religions were connecting to it in a way much closer to the second reality. In that second world, the world had spiritual canvas space upon it. From a postmodern perspective, we are the fallout of their once fresh inspiration, our lives were being molded as the very ink they wrote with began to dry. So long as we follow all of them, can we ever the see the stars like they did? Can we ever approach concepts truly anew, for haven't they chipped them out of the marble for us?
I think what the writers of our religions used was their simple sense experience to write what they felt, all of us have that. A creative writer in the bible for example, merely thought about what came to mind when contemplating life in a desert, or his take on whales, or what paradise should be like. Any of you can do that. Christianity may have alternately even went this direction with gnosticism
So long as we don't become spiritually creative, it seems that we will only reflect the rituals and rules that sprang to someone else's mind, very long ago they all began as mere thoughts in someone's head. Losing the connection with that long since deceased person, we may never even know why these thoughts even arose that we hold so dear
The people who wrote down all the religions were connecting to it in a way much closer to the second reality. In that second world, the world had spiritual canvas space upon it. From a postmodern perspective, we are the fallout of their once fresh inspiration, our lives were being molded as the very ink they wrote with began to dry. So long as we follow all of them, can we ever the see the stars like they did? Can we ever approach concepts truly anew, for haven't they chipped them out of the marble for us?
I think what the writers of our religions used was their simple sense experience to write what they felt, all of us have that. A creative writer in the bible for example, merely thought about what came to mind when contemplating life in a desert, or his take on whales, or what paradise should be like. Any of you can do that. Christianity may have alternately even went this direction with gnosticism
So long as we don't become spiritually creative, it seems that we will only reflect the rituals and rules that sprang to someone else's mind, very long ago they all began as mere thoughts in someone's head. Losing the connection with that long since deceased person, we may never even know why these thoughts even arose that we hold so dear
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