{"id":2194,"date":"2018-10-03T19:02:19","date_gmt":"2018-10-03T19:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aurelis.org\/blog\/?p=2194"},"modified":"2018-10-03T21:05:58","modified_gmt":"2018-10-03T21:05:58","slug":"opening-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aurelis.org\/blog\/open-religion\/opening-religion","title":{"rendered":"Opening Religion"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is, as I see it, mainly to be done through opening related concepts.<\/h3>\n

\u2018Opening concepts\u2019<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

One should see this rationally \/ conceptually AND, even mainly, sub-conceptually: meditatively. This brings a difference in methodology<\/strong> as well as in results<\/strong>. Both are to be seen much more as \u2018creative\u2019.<\/p>\n

As any of my writing, actually.<\/p>\n

A key to \u2018understand\u2019 me better is to not simply try to understand my writing but even more: to \u2018experience\u2019 it, like an invitation to you, dear reader, towards opening yourself.<\/em><\/p>\n

Which is in this domain especially pertinent: religious people who open themselves into<\/em> related concepts (you get it?) do not have to abandon anything that they find worthwhile.<\/p>\n

I think this is absolutely crucial:<\/p>\n

People should NOT (never, ever) lose something deeply valuable in the religious domain.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I mean it: it\u2019s possible. It is of course no easy endeavor at all.<\/p>\n

It needs TONS of support.<\/p>\n

Now, concepts to be opened are the grand concept of \u2018religion\u2019 itself as well as many elements.<\/p>\n

For instance: \u2018to believe\u2019.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Is it something like: to believe in the weatherman? In Santa Claus? In anything conceptual?<\/p>\n

Or is it: \u2018to believe\u2019 without needing to rationally know<\/em> what one believes\u2026 This is: relaxing discrete control in favor of a much bigger \u2018control\u2019.<\/p>\n

No chaos!<\/p>\n

Yet something one cannot easily grasp as such, since it transcends the conceptual.<\/p>\n

He who does not understand this, should not be talking about it (in my humble opinion).<\/p>\n

\u2018To believe\u2019 has an etymological root in the old German \u2018Belieben\u2019 which contains \u2018Liebe\u2019 (love). As in the Dutch \u2018gelove<\/u>n\u2019 (meaning: \u2018to believe\u2019), you may discern \u2018love\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u2018To believe\u2019 = \u2018to love\u2019.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Isn\u2019t it immensely nice?<\/p>\n

Now, dear reader, try to feel what this may mean to you. It\u2019s very important. Please put effort in this.<\/p>\n

What does it mean\u2026<\/p>\n

What does it Mean\u2026 to YOU.<\/p>\n

Does it have the potential to change everything, without losing anything worthwhile<\/em>?<\/p>\n

This is so important!<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I want to stop this blog-text here.<\/p>\n

Instead of rambling on, I invite you to stop, also, with your flow of conscious activity and try to feel deep inside yourself, especially if you are religious, that religiosity (re-ligare, as you may be doing now) is eventually the most important thing\/action\/experience that ever existed<\/p>\n

in the entire universe.<\/p>\n

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