I have to call myself a
Secular Mystic
Yes
I like that.
On a peronal note:
I can see the racism in this, a woman is a woman is a rose
But Judaism is so matrilineal, for a
Patriarchal religion
Never does matter who or what the father is
Jewness follows the mother's blood line
all eastern european jews supposedly descended from seven sisters who lived in
primeval Europe .
I was born to Jewish parents and grandparents
if there is something to the michondrial DNA and tracing the human genome from mother to daughter all the way back to the garden I suppose I was born with a certain genetic religious disposition hard wired into my nervous system
But that is so weird
But nothing I know of that is weirder than Quantum Mechanics.
I am looking for a
Quantum Theologian to enlighten me
Quantum theory was a little too weird for uncle Albert.
He called it
"spooky action"
As an adult I joined the Religous Society of Friends. That is my only cult.
Not sure if the Quakers are christians or not.
"religion is about belonging, men to the right women to the left"
quoting judih from geezer memory
Quoting Dalai Lama from The Art Of Happiness
The Dalai Lama said at another juncture, as if talking to himself, that religion was not for every day; religion was for times of pain. As I recall, his exact words were, "Religion something like medicine, when no pain no need medicine; same thing religion."
http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/chapters/14h.htm
The Dalai Lama divided major world religions into "God-religions" and "God-less" religions, with Buddhism in the latter category.2
His Holiness seemed to focus marvelously when in response to a question from the audience about how wealthy people and countries could find spirituality, he replied (again, I think, with a mischievous smile) that Buddhism, with its orientation toward comfortable situations, found it easier for rich people to be spiritual than poor ones! Tenzin Gyatso also tossed another bitter herb into the pot for those romantic souls who expected a continuous sweet presence in their lives from imported religious teaching which they felt lacking in their own, [saying, "Better not take someone else’s religion, plenty wisdom in your own."]
Ibid.
I suppose I am a
"secular mystic too"
a heretic for sure
Spinoza's god was good enough for Einstein
it is good enough for me.
nice work clay thanks
for a chance to jam it.
help help
I am typing and I can't stop
listening to PHC typinng along to the music
Somebody singing a Billie Holiday song
blame it on the music.
Freud founded a cult
too bad
not his intention
I believe
But I may still be Freudian
e-dog said once that Freud was the most influential thinker of the 20th century. Not Marx, Not Einstein but uncle Siggie.
I think so too
He tried to show us what is on the end of our forks.
Modern feminists still study Freud it seems
Freud and Lacan’s denial of the womb
Maybe as an artifact.
So many beautiful women martyred to his high priests
Funny how I ramble from religion to women
Maybe it was in The Future Of An Illusion that Freud said that all religion is sublimated sexuality.
The sacred feminine
I think Jung was more in touch with that.
I read his UFO's as a new religion a long time ago.
I might as well end this with something even more irrelevant
It is only rock and roll but I like it
If you ever feel lonesome when you're down in San Antone
Beg, steal or borrow two nickels or dime to call me on the phone
And I'll meet you at Alamo Mission, where we can say our prayers
The Holy Ghost and the Virgin Mother will heal us as we kneel there
In the moonlight, in the midnight, in the moonlight, midnight, moonlight
If you ever feel sorrow for the deeds you have done
With no hope for tomorrow in the setting of the sun
And the ocean is howling for the things that might have been
And that last good morning sunrise will be the brightest you've ever seen
In the moonlight, in the midnight, in the moonlight, midnight, moonlight
in the midnight moonlight grateful dead
