While the absurdly brainwashing requirements of Catholicism polluted my mind the most, simply because they were inculcated to a very young and hence very impressionable brain, my most enduring recollection from my adult forays into new-agey stuff comes from A Course in Miracles, where the real miracle is self-examination without sugar-coating. It is simply this: "Hell is what the ego has made of the present." It seems pertinent to inquire what delusions arise as a result of either our neurological structures, our societal structures — or probably both, in concert — that leads us to construct hell on earth, rather than loving, nurturing communities that may have been present in pre-agricultural societies (probably echoes of Jiddhu Krishnamurti somewhere in that statement). That's the only type of spirituality in which I'm interested. Any type that refers to our inherently destructive, non-regenerative economic system is pure rubbish because it fails to look in the mirror.
While the absurdly brainwashing requirements of Catholicism polluted my mind the most, simply because they were inculcated to a very young and hence very impressionable brain, my most enduring recollection from my adult forays into new-agey stuff comes from A Course in Miracles, where the real miracle is self-examination without sugar-coating. It is simply this: "Hell is what the ego has made of the present." It seems pertinent to inquire what delusions arise as a result of either our neurological structures, our societal structures — or probably both, in concert — that leads us to construct hell on earth, rather than loving, nurturing communities that may have been present in pre-agricultural societies (probably echoes of Jiddhu Krishnamurti somewhere in that statement). That's the only type of spirituality in which I'm interested. Any type that refers to our inherently destructive, non-regenerative economic system is pure rubbish because it fails to look in the mirror.