Good Religion

The people of the times that are at hand, need to take the tradition handed to them—whether Judeo/Christian, Buddhist, Hindu, Taoist, Muslim or any of the other traditions—and revise it according to the worldview of the Age in which they live. “You have heard it said, but I say unto you,” does not abolish the Law or the Prophets, but fulfills them—for that Age.

We are always about the business of bringing the Law and the Prophets up to speed in the Age of our living. If people held slaves, or were slaves, in previous Ages, they are not going to have, or be, slaves in our Age! If people of color, and gay people, and women, etc. were disparaged and disenfranchised in previous Ages, they are not going to be so treated in our Age!

In setting the scriptures (of whatever religion) as they have been understood aside, and revising the way they are to be understood, we do not abolish the Law or the Prophets—we fulfill them, and create conditions in each age in which the people are able to be perfect as their Father in heaven is perfect.

Good religion would connect all the sacred symbols of every faith tradition, and reinterpret them in light of the spirit of the age.

The task of good religion in every age would be upgrading sacred symbols of all faith traditions in each age to stand as doorways to unconscious (So called because we are not conscious of it) reality.

Good religion hands us spirituality without any theology, dogma and doctrine attached.

Good religion hands us spirituality straight from the heart—

From the heart of good religion straight to our heart—

Without any of the embellishments, improvements, alterations and enhancements

That bad religion is so proficient in producing and providing.

I wish we had another word for “spirituality,”

Because it is so encumbered with theological augmentation

That you can’t possibly be a spiritual person without “good theology,”

Which is always the theology of the person examining our theology,

As though what we think is more important than what we know.

Spirituality is knowing that can’t be thought, told, defined or explained as in:

“The Tao that can be said is not the eternal Tao.”

Spirituality is the experience of our connection with the Invisible World—

With the world of unconscious reality,

Unconscious because it is more than can be made conscious,

Except through symbols and metaphors.

We have to talk about the unconscious world of Spirit,

Of Spiritual Reality,

With symbols and metaphors because we cannot say directly

What we know to be so,

Because what we know cannot be said.

So we talk about “the wellspring of living water,”

But it isn’t an actual well,

Or actual water,

And how can water be alive, anyway?

The entire vocabulary of spiritual discourse is such

That you have to know what I mean

Before you can understand what I’m saying,

And without the experience of the Invisible World,

There is nothing that can be said

To enable you to understand

What I’m talking about.

But, that doesn’t keep me from talking.

Jesus said, “Let those with ears to hear, hear!” and talked on.

We talk to those who can hear what we have to say,

and, in so doing, we say what we need to hear.

Growing our way toward being perfect as “our Father in heaven” is perfect.