I thought of calling it a theology, but immediately that became radically absurd. I\u2019m aware that each person\u2019s transcendent experience is, so to speak, a many-lifetime journey, and differs from anyone else. Metaphysics may be descriptive, but it doesn\u2019t presume to state how it really is. We are but tiny human-brains\u2014that\u2019s how the angels love and view us, to use a poetic metaphor. But in this widening world, theological oppression is no longer widely acceptable, though indeed it is widely practiced. <\/p>\n
Metaphysics must to begin with confess its subjectivity and willingness not to impose itself on anyone else. This opens it up to criticism, as if subjectivity were a bad thing. It was back when there was a widespread believe beyond beliefs that there was a reality, one, and we all were trying to find and articulate it. But what if the reality is that each mind creates its own deep reality\u2014and this is the radical lesson of true transpersonal psychology?<\/p>\n
Well, certainly this is not so, and cannot be so\u2014that is for sure, thought by many\u2014 most\u2014who cannot wrap their minds around\u2014or open their minds to\u2014such a paradigm shift! Still, what if?<\/p>\n
This is really weird: It is conventional\u2014not insane\u2014to believe that indeed there is out there a single, over-arching reality that all good, true, people can see and relate to. There are lots and lots of non-true believers, willfully bad believers, crazy people, etc., who don\u2019t follow this; or what if instead there is not that single reality? It\u2019s hard to comprehend, even! But then again, there are lots of things we\u2019ve learned about that are difficult to comprehend\u2014as if easy-to-comprehend were a test of truth.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s a species-centric prejudice, when one thinks about it. We have tendencies to interpret reality in terms of what we can readily understand, which is just another way of saying \u201cdumb it down for us\u201d\u2014not that we\u2019re dumb\u2014but, hey, maybe we are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I thought of calling it a theology, but immediately that became radically absurd. I\u2019m aware that each person\u2019s transcendent experience is, so to speak, a many-lifetime journey, and differs from anyone else. Metaphysics may be descriptive, but it doesn\u2019t presume to state how it really is. We are but tiny human-brains\u2014that\u2019s how the angels love […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiographical","category-spirituality-and-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2506"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2507,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2506\/revisions\/2507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}