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these two types of religion
one the mythic dogmatic
narrative form
and one a psychotechnology of changing
consciousness
actually waking up
through doing internal scientific
experiments on your own mind
western culture knows almost nothing
of the contemplative form
and so as soon as you talk
religion
at all
it's assumed
that it's all of this one type
fundamentalistic
um
the bible is the literal
concrete truth of god
uh
you have to believe that if you believe
that you go to heaven if you don't you
go to hell
and that's still
our general understanding
of what spirituality is
which is a disaster
um
because that first form is really based
on modes of knowing that frankly in no
offense to
our brothers
in fundamentalist
religions
but
it's common from age 7 to 11.
in today's world
that's when those types of beliefs
are spontaneously part of the mind
and so
that still just helps reinforce the
media's notion
that oh if i see this sort of
fundamentalist kind of belief or
therefore any religion
it's infantile
it's childish it's for its future of an
illusion
and that
is
i think just a true
disaster for our culture
because this one
other form the psychotechnology
of changing consciousness
is a way to literally wake up
to literally find out your true self to
find one spirit
and that is
all the contemplative traditions
maintain an alleviation
of human suffering
when you find out that you are one with
everything that's arising
first of all there's nothing outside of
you
that can hurt you or threaten you fear
drops off enormously there's nothing
outside of you
that you are
thirsty for or
can't wait to get the addictions
die down
these paths are known as the paths of
liberation
and the great liberation
is the
realization the understanding
that at the
deepest part of yourself
is the self of the universe
put in
some more graphic terms
your true self is godhead you and
godhead are fundamentally one
and that again is not a belief
it's an actual realization that you have
upon practicing
that contemplative injunctions
and exemplars
and like i say i have yet to see
an educated masters or doctorate
person go through that training have a
satori and then say oh that's nothing
it's just subjective psychosomatic hui
every single one of them that i know
goes
my god
this is reality
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