what if my spirituality is only a symptom of being conscious
Oooh...
Importantly, I'm not worried that I'm having religious delusions of some kind - I'm not a great believer in revelation. I'm just worried that my thinking may have gone a bit wonky. OTOH, I know my belief that the goddess is sickness is teaching me patience is a useful way of looking at things, rather than a concrete fact.
For a long time I've understood that spiritual experience is a sort of interaction between consciousness and the universe, rather than information coming in from somewhere - much as vision apparently is, for example. So the idea that spirituality arises from consciousness makes a lot of sense - especially if, as I think we've discussed, there are genes for it. (I think the simplest explanation of religion is that an intensely social species will try to theory-of-mind everything, including rocks, the weather etc. :-)
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Date: 2006-09-03 01:55 am (UTC)Oooh...
Importantly, I'm not worried that I'm having religious delusions of some kind - I'm not a great believer in revelation. I'm just worried that my thinking may have gone a bit wonky. OTOH, I know my belief that the goddess is sickness is teaching me patience is a useful way of looking at things, rather than a concrete fact.
For a long time I've understood that spiritual experience is a sort of interaction between consciousness and the universe, rather than information coming in from somewhere - much as vision apparently is, for example. So the idea that spirituality arises from consciousness makes a lot of sense - especially if, as I think we've discussed, there are genes for it. (I think the simplest explanation of religion is that an intensely social species will try to theory-of-mind everything, including rocks, the weather etc. :-)