Peak experiences
Was reading Manley Hopkins there and this morning Mervyn was discussing Newton. How must is Newton's view of the world based on his belief in God? It has everything to do with his belief in a monothestic god, was the reply. Then reading Hopkins, i can see where the idea of a peak experience and monotheism feed off each other. If you are going to create a god, a being, in which supremacy is attached to the tip of a pyramid, you are certainly going to be more inclined to have a frame of mind that WOULD put all your eggs in one basket emotionally, spiritually, mentally. I can see that. Whereas if your view of spirituality is less concentrated and more spread out - such as in animism, where rocks, trees, rivers, all have a spiritual existence - you're more likely to have a less hiearchical sense of the world. It would be Anarchic, in the real sense of the word. I love anarchy. Anarchy is real responsibility. It says, i do not divest myself of culpability - nor do i take power away from others. I respect others, respect myself, and trust that we can make it. It is long and slow burning. And sometimes frustrating. But it is organic and real. In the way that growing a seed is real.
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