In today’s world
Why should religion still be defined by superstition?
Why should spirituality still require a belief in the
supernatural?
Today
We know we have an inner world, and an outer world
Our conscious minds, and our cosmos
At long last, that’s all we have data for; thoughts and
things
And so our inner data has given us the insights of
psychology
And our outer data has shown us the laws of physics
And yet science itself has shown us
That these are not two worlds, but one
One coin, with two sides
So why should we still imagine an extra third world
To make sense of the amazing two-sided one we’re clearly limited
to?
Why should we keep imagining some extra heavenly realm
that we have no data for?
Isn’t it about time we found religion without
superstition?
Isn’t it about time we found spirituality without the
supernatural?
Isn’t it about time we found God right here, right now,
gleaming with reality?
Can’t God just be the great unity of the reality inside
us with the reality outside us?
Can’t God just be the way the majesty of the universe
relates to the wonder of our hearts?
And vice versa?
Can’t we just be still and know that God is simply the reality
of reality?
And that reality itself will always hold and reveal the
truth and goodness we seek
Even though we may lose track of it sometimes –inside or
out
Thus, in today’s world
Shouldn’t religion simply be the outer practice of the
inner good we find and cherish?
And spirituality, the collective science of how we can do
this together on one planet?
Perhaps today
Can finally be the day
When heaven comes down to earth
But then again, this has been preached for two-thousand
years
So maybe, could this, just maybe, be the return of Christ
for our age?
Last time: freedom
from the legalistic trappings of Law and sin
This time: freedom
from the literalizing of Lore and superstition!
And yet at all times the same Kingdom, always at hand.
And yet at all times the same Kingdom, always at hand.
“Lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” -Matt. 28:20
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