RELIGION THOUGHTS

(after a Dennis Slattery ritual weekend)

 

Religions are how we express our spiritual opinions.  We pass down generation to generation our opinions , practices, DNA

 –for better or worse-- with them humans build cultures.  At our best we build on, refine, clean up, add to, go deeper into, what we’ve been given, spiraling from the material/literal to the spiritual/metaphorical and back because that is the way our brains are made.  There is a species blueprint.  Perceiving Truth, Beauty, Justice, Compassion is valued regardless of practices, speciewide.  Our wisdom traditions are imbedded in our religions.  (So if you don’t consciously replace one religion with another you risk not transmitting a coherent body of wisdom.)  Our mythologies are the means by which our deeper layers of consciousness are formed and organized.  The archetypes we perceive and play out are how our lives are guided.  Perceiving them is an act of piety.  “God” is  Mystery.

 

 

pcraig  12-5-11