Recently in an article in the San Francisco Chronicle, former “Hollywood Squares” host, John Davidson “came out,” as he called it. He admitted that at 74 he joined the Openly Secular movement! He no longer took the Biblical myths as facts nor could he accept denial of modern, scientific information which could help people live healthier lives. He went as far as to say that it was clear to him that “the world would be more sane if all religions, all primitive superstitions, were abandoned.”
A Shocker....
What a shocker for some! Maybe even heresy! Not for many, however, and not for me. Long ago in my far-away childhood I felt intuitively that I belonged to something larger than myself that had nothing to do with the traditional belief systems that strapped the brains and punished the souls of non-believers. Consequently I have come to believe that we have a spiritual origin within us that is self discover-able, with little or perhaps no connection to organized religion.
Rational thought...
I also think there is a place in us where rational thought cannot take us. Yes, we may reason ourselves to the highest levels of human knowledge, but then, if we are truly adventurous, we will let ourselves be open to the depth of life that only we as individuals can know, sense or experience. Perhaps we could call it Basic Spirituality 101 and be curious enough to watch it unfold over time, perhaps in the company of like-minded thinkers, hopefully willing to be made uncomfortable at times with what we cannot fully understand
Forays into expanding truths...
I don’t think it is a question of either proving or disproving the existence of the Divine as a fact. More, I think of these adventures as forays into expanding truths rather than facts, into boundaries that are dissolved and flights into what may be experienced but are perhaps ineffable in the world of bounded information. Maybe it is frightening that we cannot know all there is to know about ourselves, but there is real savor in knowing that there will always be more of us to uncover.
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