{"id":3676,"date":"2020-01-01T01:47:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-01T01:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aurelis.org\/blog\/?p=3676"},"modified":"2021-07-11T11:26:07","modified_gmt":"2021-07-11T11:26:07","slug":"the-religious-feeling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aurelis.org\/blog\/open-religion\/the-religious-feeling","title":{"rendered":"The Religious Feeling – What Religion Has Always Been About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The religious feeling lives deeply inside and everywhere. It is ubiquitous and invisible. It can be supported and downplayed without anyone’s knowing. It is very much Open.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

What I dare say<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

One can have full-blown religious feeling without believing anything conceptual. There is no need to lose anything of this feeling by ‘not believing.’<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The question is about conceptuality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One can keep one’s religion of birth. There is no need to relinquish it. There is no need to stay with it for the religious feeling to flourish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anxiety has no place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What I dare even say<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Conceptual belief can stand in the way of full-blown religious feeling. What one can deem of the highest importance in religion can sometimes better be served by not believing anything conceptual.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, this is mysticism<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The thing is:<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

One can lose one’s conceptual belief and not lose anything worthwhile. Many people can do so. Humanity can do so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One can read some Holy Book, get deeply immersed in it, see it as purely symbolic, and not lose anything worthwhile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The reason why people don’t<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The reason why people don’t is the general basic illusion of living an X-dimensional life whereas reality is (X+1)-dimensional at least. In the +1 additional dimension, one can make contact towards inside. This is the way towards God in any case, no matter how one experiences religion. I mean: anything that is anyhow a path toward anything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not being merely 2-dimensional characters on paper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

COVID<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The same illusion makes people blind to a profoundly physical influence from inside, even if it throws them in a societal whirlpool of unnecessary disease and death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Including huge economic havoc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also, the same anxiety has no place, even though it’s everywhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It may not be the most popular thing to say, but the whole world is suffering right now through a lack of religious feeling. This, while the world is still inundated with a flood of contradictory religions of many makings, ages, places, concepts, and whatever. This alone should ring a bell<\/p>\n\n\n\n

of a uniquely different church.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We can do better<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Religion could help in the sense of ‘true religious feeling.’ This could guide people like a path being traveled upon, as well as constructed while traveling. Responsibly religious people could take the lead. It would be nice for them to cultivate, themselves, the religious feeling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yes, even the Pope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or is it asked too much that someone who dedicates his life to religion grows in the same?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is such growing ever finished, even while taking the risk of finding oneself \u2013 sometimes suddenly \u2013 in a distinct space of religious feeling?<\/p>\n

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