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Perfect synchronicity: Just as I was parking the church bus I drive to shuttle folks from a retirement village to church, a moth landed on inside of my driver’s side window. I rolled the window down to “liberate” it, Out it flew, free as a bird (or should I say “moth”)!

If you think of developmental stages (as many have), the fear tactic was of a tribal DEPENDENCY stage. In terms of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, the dependency stage meets group survival needs. Better to be afraid than dead! But as relative mastery of survival occurs, humankind can advance to...

I agree up to a point. Certainly stuff men made up to approximate their experience of an unknown that seemed useful, like creative solutions appearing out of nowhere. The God function was discovered during times of limited resources and means, along the lines of necessity is the mother of...

That was the God Function (or simply God) disguised as an imaginary friend so the child could relate to (whatever is) God in an intimate and effective manner.

I get your logic on the Big Bang, as the explosion was likely the result of a Greater Reality (Or non physical dimension) coming into a lesser reality, physical dimension. The physical dimension cannot adequately contain the other dimension, so, Bang. And with the explosion everything stretches...

Somehow I got my reply in the wrong place. Looked like Light Within was saying it. Here is my reply: The alternate belief is that the path back to God (heaven?) is much longer for the non-righteous. No eternal hell, just the hells of bad karma/consequences. I’m with Rob Bell on that one. All...

And if it is useful, works to make us feel and be more whole, more abundantly alive, how is that not a real thing? God is because God works. As you say, faith in God is useful, so God functions in our lives in a very real way. That doesn’t tell us the details of the reality, just its effects...

I totally agree. Well educated people whose basic needs (and then some) are met may need a little Buddha (who had it all but saw there was more) in the mix as well.

I agree that we do need to glean wisdom from the inspired text, but also believe that the Bible is mostly a divinely inspired meaningful myth (with some historical facts also). It is open to interpretation because, like Creation itself, much of its beauty and usefulness lies in the fact that it...

Speaking of potential being gradually actualized, it dawned on me that the way I interpreted the premonitory dream as saving MY life was/is egocentric because it is more likely that it saved the life of the farmer on a tractor that I would have run into on a curve in the road if I hadn’t had a...

Wisdom was mostly packed into Creation in the form of potential, potential for humans, the humans having the potential to become wise. I do think there is some information given from the “other side.” One premonitory dream saved my life. But mostly heads up on things that could help me grow...

Longfellow, you asked this; “Are you thinking that there actually is an Unknown Source, and the founders found it, or just how think that they imagined it?” I do believe there is an Unknown Source they found, but specific ways of conceptualizing the Source and ways of utilizing the Source was...

All religion is in my opinion anthropological and psychological, but that does not mean there is no metaphysical referent behind the human evolution of thought and experience and ways of being. At best, any religion is figuratively true because it approximates a true pattern of God working...

I have been contemplating the “project”. The founders of Abrahmic faith tradition lacked resources and went deep to find a means to survive and if possible even prosper. Resources and means to use them had to be Created, so their minds found an Unknown Source of creation. The unknown-ness of the...

I must have heard of it and conflated with Clark’s book. Clark’s God Reach is the one I read and am impressed with.

The human mind can sense Oneness and it also can sense difference. And apparently we need BOTH, not either/or. So, a depth dynamic view of overall reality that posits a difference in levels of convergence deep in vs out at the surface seems a good metaphysical concept that allows for a...

I agree. Down or in deep at our base is probably a non dual highly convergent Reality. That deep in, “self” or “other” does not apply, as they are from the relativistic surface of overall reality. In page 6 of the book Paths to Transcendence, that Thomas recommended to me, it says it a bit...

True. We don’t do well with the null hypothesis. We do tend to use reasoning to support what we want to believe. As a psychological defense mechanism, it’s called rationalization.

Yes, That’s the one I read. Fascinating use of concept of different dimensions, from two dimensional consciousness of animals, all the way up to a seven dimensional consciousness. Awareness of interactive energy flows and fields is a step up from regular view of a three dimensional reality. But...