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Mar. 2nd, 2004
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Mar. 2nd, 2004 01:03 pmIt is long past time that a new model of divinity be defined.
In the past, when one said, "This is God's will," (for whatever this happens to be), the statement was not merely what we think of as a religious doctrine. It was also a statement that "this" was supported by the current government, was economically beneficial, defined one's nation and culture, furthered the ends of the aristocracy and the priestly class, and matched current understanding about what was proper and natural. Such statements were entirely wrapped in a prevailing cultural paradigm that defined rigid roles for people based on age, wealth, gender, class, race, and nationality.
If thinkers like Erich Neumann, Ken Wilber, Julian Jaynes, and Leonard Shlain are even partially right, then over time there has been more than just a "paradigm shift" which we might think of as "software updates"; there have been fundamental changes in the nature and experience of human consciousness, and in the way the brain works and processes information. In other words, there have been "hardware updates" too.
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In the past, when one said, "This is God's will," (for whatever this happens to be), the statement was not merely what we think of as a religious doctrine. It was also a statement that "this" was supported by the current government, was economically beneficial, defined one's nation and culture, furthered the ends of the aristocracy and the priestly class, and matched current understanding about what was proper and natural. Such statements were entirely wrapped in a prevailing cultural paradigm that defined rigid roles for people based on age, wealth, gender, class, race, and nationality.
If thinkers like Erich Neumann, Ken Wilber, Julian Jaynes, and Leonard Shlain are even partially right, then over time there has been more than just a "paradigm shift" which we might think of as "software updates"; there have been fundamental changes in the nature and experience of human consciousness, and in the way the brain works and processes information. In other words, there have been "hardware updates" too.
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