That’s the whole point. Don’t get too fussed about literal truth.
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Excessive scientism being applied to religious texts is turning everyone against the texts. But like, we answered that question, when we confirmed that the Earth traveled around the Sun.
I suspect our ancestors just had brains that could think on different wavelengths and we're all getting mentally cropped-down and dulled.
Probably why everyone is getting into shrooms. Trying to tap into their inner mystic, with a shortcut. But, that mystic is actually already there, we've just cut it off.
If you are interested in getting in touch with your inner mystic in a well thought out method try Anthroposophy. The guy who started it had all the credentials of a top scientific scholar and had deep training in the esoteric schools of his time.
I heard a discussion a while ago between Jordan Peterson and Bishop Robert Barron that touched on psychedelics and mysticism.
Bishop Barron basically suggested that a psychedelic trip might be akin to a mystical experience, but without the framework of religious values, and the discipline of fasting and prayer, we have a harder time making sense of it.
Well, it's like sleeping with a prostitute instead of your wife. For the clueless, it looks like the same thing, but one is just a mimic of the other and engaging in it too often will damage you
In both cases, it's the commitment that makes the difference.
St. Theresa, for instance, had crazy mystical experiences, but it went hand in hand with her deepening commitment to Our Lord.
Man, wait till we do the Theresa reading club with #Alexandria. She's so awesome.
Can't get over how much we share a writing style.
Have you ever tried a psychedelic?
Nope.
Everyone single experience is different. Religion is completely irrelevant when trying a psychedelic.
That's what I've heard.
I was talking about how psychedelic experiences seem to share some commonalities with the experiences of religious mystics. Perhaps psychedelic experiences are all so different because they don't necessarily take place within the framework of spiritual devotion.
They are similar, but not the same.
Trying certain psychedelics activates the part of the cerebral hemispheres that conduct memory. Those random memories become imbued with everything you see and do. Religion has nothing to do with it.
What drove the Bishop to make such a comparison?
Device-free worship is the best!
I also think, for myself, that this is what Jesus meant, when He said we should be like children. Children don't overanalyze everything. They just accept that they can't understand everything, but they trust the persons in charge and it will all be fine.
That’s wild.
trust it, don’t question.
I’m a kind of person who could never accept that.
That’s the vibe I get from all religions and their believers.