On one of my subscribed-to Facebook pages, someone proposed that the most necessary solution to all the problems of capitalism anywhere must be a religious one, in fact it should appear as a healing of church doctrines. Why did I take exception to this? First you have to reflect on just which church and which Jesus, as there are at least 300 streams of christianism and about 40,000 named and practicing sects in the world, without counting other gods and other religions. So integrity can't be left to the vagaries of constantly changing religious assumptions, none of which might even vaguely reflect the perspective of the original "founder" who didn't found anything.
Never mind that his astoundingly few words can be much more viably ascribed to a perennial philosophy than anything original with him personally, even as an alleged fulfillment of a dubious prophecy parlayed into a political system in the third century CE. If there is any hope of changing our story, it most probably could happen by looking at the nature of human awareness itself. And this is not incongruent with the christianist idea that we are made in the "image and likeness of God". If that is true, then most certainly each one is capable, at least potentially, of looking at their own self to see what the template or pattern of their being is about.
This approach might have verification in that all the mystics of any religion, or lack of it, throughout history have converged through their self-work on a seemingly identical view of Unity. And as I've pointed out, these very real and tangible agreements transcend the vagaries of the insurmountable number of denominations and have the great advantage of cutting through the contentious claims each disparate group might have of being the "one, true, and only".
The argumentations, and even warring, of the speculative self-differentiated mental constructs that call themselves religions all fall before the incontrovertible fact of the fundamental nature of awareness itself as the ground of *any* experience or position it might be trained into by the accidents of time, place, or necessary but parochial familial training.Such belief systems are local and meant for initial survival purposes only. On a world stage, those positions desperately need to be outgrown and supplanted by a deep and practical experiential understanding of perhaps the only thing absolutely common to all humans and permanently endemic as their very nature. If we don't start on that common ground, we are already in ideological conflict.
Never mind that his astoundingly few words can be much more viably ascribed to a perennial philosophy than anything original with him personally, even as an alleged fulfillment of a dubious prophecy parlayed into a political system in the third century CE. If there is any hope of changing our story, it most probably could happen by looking at the nature of human awareness itself. And this is not incongruent with the christianist idea that we are made in the "image and likeness of God". If that is true, then most certainly each one is capable, at least potentially, of looking at their own self to see what the template or pattern of their being is about.
This approach might have verification in that all the mystics of any religion, or lack of it, throughout history have converged through their self-work on a seemingly identical view of Unity. And as I've pointed out, these very real and tangible agreements transcend the vagaries of the insurmountable number of denominations and have the great advantage of cutting through the contentious claims each disparate group might have of being the "one, true, and only".
The argumentations, and even warring, of the speculative self-differentiated mental constructs that call themselves religions all fall before the incontrovertible fact of the fundamental nature of awareness itself as the ground of *any* experience or position it might be trained into by the accidents of time, place, or necessary but parochial familial training.Such belief systems are local and meant for initial survival purposes only. On a world stage, those positions desperately need to be outgrown and supplanted by a deep and practical experiential understanding of perhaps the only thing absolutely common to all humans and permanently endemic as their very nature. If we don't start on that common ground, we are already in ideological conflict.
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