Monday, August 15, 2011

Fellow Atheists; should we re-evaluate our beliefs?

Nice question and good points made here. I wonder why we need to believe anything at all. Most of the "reasons" that people give for believing or not believing in any God come down to purely ytical abstract evidence; the intelligible mentation that, as you suggest, is the basis both for monotheistic aryan-semitic religions and for modern science and athiesm. I would suggest that direct full perception, learning how to open one's attention and awareness to maximum, to experience as much as possible of each moment (instead of this thin abstract-emotional layer called "me") leads to a beliefless experience of pure knowledge, or gnosis, such as lies at the heart of Lao Tzu's teaching, and in many respects the teachings of Buddha and Jesus (before they were corrupted by mental-emotional priestifying - I recommend the non-canonical Gospal of Thomas for some of the most authentic, non-intuitive "quantum" observations of Jesus, along the lines of "lift a stone and I am under it" etc). This pure knowledge is not the mental-emotional idea of yoga-adverts and mystical nonsense, but the ultra vivid - yet quite normal - experience of mystery, the pure mystery of thisness - beyond belief and non-belief.

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