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Revelation & Epiphanies VS The Fast Path to Reason

Details: Written by: Rod Boyle; Category: Ideas & Questions; Published: 15 July 2024; Hits: 295

Now, this is a curious thought I'm having while reading "The Master Key". So many of these books, they all tell you the same thing, self-help, mind is key, as above, so below, etc, etc. And yet few people really believe it.

This, despite the abundant and unending substantiations and proofs.

Yet most people subscribe to some religious philosophy or another. Religion is still a far more popular means of teaching spiritual truths than any number of self-help books.

Why is this?

I think I have it. We are hard wired for narrative. We need a story. And all the spiritual teaching books the world religions are based upon are based upon stories. The commandments and strictures - whether they be to abstain from pork, alcohol, etc, these are community guidelines. But the "histories" and narratives, stories, tales and parables they tell, these are the encoding of the beliefs.

And the Truth.

Now - using the Bible for example, is encoded on a variety of levels.

For the unthinking idiot it's a marvelous trove of historical facts, people and truths that should be taken entirely at face value.

This, while contributing greatly to it's popularity is also it's downfall, as we live in more pragmatic times and people of thought and discernment are prejudiced against the book by it's devotees and audience.

But - like any good fairy tale or fable, it has within it germs of truth, has in fact codified the truth so that anyone at a certain level of thought or schooling can have an epiphany or revelation - or several - and suddenly understand what it's telling you.

It is filled with such examples, few of which are ever realized by it's readers.

Some more obvious ones: Jesus is the son of God. We are all Jesus's brothers. Therefore we are all the sons of God.

From this you could go even further: Dogs beget dogs. Donkeys beget Donkeys. Gods beget Gods. Therefore we are all Gods.

In this you see then that all the vile actions, rapes, murders and wars sanctioned by "God" were in fact sanctioned by ourselves, and deemed good. We judged ourselves and were comfortable with the assessment.

In this vein one could go on and on. But - what matters is, the fact that a series of inane or implausible stories, some of which contain germs of historical truth, have been codified or written in such a way to allow interpretations on a variety of levels. Most people won't go to the work of thinking, thinking is tough, hard, or they simply have no qualifications, and hence the Bible - and Religion - become a means for social control.

And - power corrupts, and if you have not slain the Buddha on the Road then he will surely slay you.

Back to my Master Key...

Saturday, July 13th 2024

Details: Written by: Rod Boyle; Category: Blog; Published: 14 July 2024; Hits: 237

Today, the attempt on Trump's life. Polite, politic for Biden to offer sympathies, especially after his own speech, it's what you do. The bad thing about this is we run the risk of Trump becoming a martyr to degeneracy. Trump becoming a martyr to any cause is unacceptable.

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I'm unsure how I feel. The sides - both of them - have become so radicalized that it seems this election is at best a precursor to Civil War. I would have guessed Biden would have had the attempted assassination. That Trump did surprised me. It's the MAGA folk who keep going on about guns and power and shit. I understand very well the threat to democracy Trump represents, and feel that as he has willfully incited violence (on the Capitol, for example - that resulted in deaths) that he should face some of the repercussions - which might include violence visited upon himself.

It might be time to turn off the news for a few days.

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I find it curious, everyone has done the thought experiment that if you could go back and time and kill Hitler, would you?

And maybe somebody has done it, only realizing the time is now. But that's not a media take.

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In other news, both Richard Simmons and Dr. Ruth died today. You would have hoped in each others arms, or - if not - at one of his private Aerobics classes. Sadly the news didn't offer up such fun. The take-away from it all is given a choice - Sex VS Fitness, choose Sex. You'll live longer. I'm getting neither.

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Tomorrow, innumerable creative projects to be begun. I've been stalling. Stalled. Time to get them all underway. And to start the car and run it and maybe go off and find some treasures, crystals, aquamarines, an emerald mine, anything, just enjoy the day...