Even unexplained experience doesn't nec. lead one to the leap it takes to believe in some supernatural / divine causation. & I'm frankly truly puzzled as to statements I've heard here & elsewhere about *belief that there is nothing more*. I'm sincerely not trying to be snarky but ... nothing more than what?
AFAIK, my senses feed me as much information about the universe as I can ever encompass-- they may well be able to feed me information about everything in the universe. What *more than everything* is there? & how can *everything* not be enough to satisfy me?
I don't mean to offend, but what if the "longing for connection" that some people feelin in regards to their spiritual drives isn't much more than the unresolved emotional longings from childhood seperation anxiety? Need for human love that went unfulfilled that gets interp. as "I feel a longing for something more, therefore there must be something more".
I admit quite openly here, my own bias as someone who deeply explored spirituality for years & eventually came to a place in myself of contentment such that the known & knowable universe has more than enough beauty & wonder to satisfy me, so I may just not be able to *grok* the place of spirituality in others lives...
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Date: 2006-04-13 03:47 pm (UTC)& I'm frankly truly puzzled as to statements I've heard here & elsewhere about *belief that there is nothing more*.
I'm sincerely not trying to be snarky but ... nothing more than what?
AFAIK, my senses feed me as much information about the universe as I can ever encompass-- they may well be able to feed me information about everything in the universe. What *more than everything* is there? & how can *everything* not be enough to satisfy me?
I don't mean to offend, but what if the "longing for connection" that some people feelin in regards to their spiritual drives isn't much more than the unresolved emotional longings from childhood seperation anxiety?
Need for human love that went unfulfilled that gets interp. as "I feel a longing for something more, therefore there must be something more".
I admit quite openly here, my own bias as someone who deeply explored spirituality for years & eventually came to a place in myself of contentment such that the known & knowable universe has more than enough beauty & wonder to satisfy me, so I may just not be able to *grok* the place of spirituality in others lives...