heeck schreef: ↑20 jan 2019 14:50
Petra schreef:Gelukkig ben ik immer optimistisch en is er nog 'n Susan Blackmore, die o.e.a. manier toch nog het spirituele gezellig in 't leven weet te houden ondanks alle scepticisme.
Heb je voorbeelden van haar spirituele gezelligheid van na de datum (<2000) van haar afgevallen oogschellen?
Die heb ik duidelijk gemist zodat ik me baseer op Wiki's:
Ik ben fan, dus struin graag door haar eigen website.
En ja, het is maar weer wat je eronder verstaat natuurlijk. Zij legt het m.i. prima uit.
https://www.susanblackmore.uk/chapters/ ... questions/
There’s a brain and a body and a world that are all interacting with each other and somehow they give rise to this sense that I am separate from all of the rest of it. That is the illusion. There is no separate “me.” There is no separate “self.” The interesting question then becomes why does it seem that way? This is a question I am endlessly playing with, from both a scientific and a spiritual point of view.
This leads me to one final part to my answer, which concerns spirituality. For all I’ve said against religions and the horrors they commit, I think most of them have, deep down in their core, deep spiritual truths. I have difficulty with that word “spiritual,” because it implies there must be such a thing as a spirit. I don’t mean that at all and yet I don’t have a better word for it. I mean something that leads some of us to pursue meditation, to train our minds to become gentle and peaceful, to have mystical experiences in which the self dissolves into the universe, to allow experiences of non-duality.
Right in the heart of Christian mysticism, and in Sufism, and in the Advaita tradition of Hinduism, you find the same ideas of letting go of self, of being one with the universe, of surrender to what is. Yet the popular versions of all these religions are quite different. I think we can therefore see the process I described in terms of Buddhism and reincarnation as quite general. Difficult spiritual insights get washed away by popular ideas of self and gods backed up with clever tricks.
If it is true that there is no persisting self, no free will, no stream of conscious experiences, and the universe is just as it is, that’s tough for any of us to accept. So the popular memes of God, the afterlife, souls, and spirits that form such an important part of religion, will nearly always win out. Nearly always! Not quite. I hold out some hope that maybe they won’t always win.
The challenge is to help people to escape from the oppression of the religion they grew up with. And we need to do that in such a way that doesn’t oppress those who still want to believe, that doesn’t throw out natural human curiosity or human awe, and doesn’t throw out what I have to call, because of lack of a better word, our spirituality, our spiritual nature. I hope that we can retain the capacity to follow a spiritual path, to practice meditation, contemplation or mindfulness, to work towards a different relationship between self and others. I hope we can strive to become more compassionate, more understanding and freer from the oppressions that the memes put on us all the time.
Met zowaar weer een smilie. Je gaat jezelf weer helemaal te buiten hiero.
