tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4795295964422546721.post5635098322777295948..comments2019-10-01T05:29:35.941-07:00Comments on Adventures in Cuzco: Pago a la TierraAmy Royse Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622924358759529559noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4795295964422546721.post-64231559560015051712011-08-16T11:20:06.957-07:002011-08-16T11:20:06.957-07:00Uh oh, I better get you back here right away!
Hum...Uh oh, I better get you back here right away!<br /><br />Human beings are naturally attracted to superstition and the mysterious and lived for hundreds of thousands of years yielding to it and building huge mental castles in the air that had no basis in fact. It was institutionalized into churches and religious doctrine from the simple roots that you experienced. Everyone feels this pull to go back at one time or another. But we know the result was a huge dead weight that, far from expanding life, blocked the mind from rational thought.<br /><br />Only in the last 400 years has the candle of reason been kept steadily burning in the vast darkness of mystical thought that actively sought to extinguish it. Don't forget that science was actively discouraged by the church and those who dared to use their reason were terribly persecuted if not executed.<br /><br />The Founding Fathers knew that church and state had to be separated because experience showed when God and Spirit are in play, nobody and everybody is an authority with no basis to settle things one way or another. It invites discord and ultimately warfare.<br /><br />Rudimentary spiritualism in the form you experienced is harmless and pleasant but be on guard as it is a temptress that plays upon our natural inclination to want a higher power and to be relieved of responsibility! <br /><br />Ignorance attributing cause to spirits and gods has given way to real understanding of how the universe works. The benefits have been overwhelming. Aztecs are no longer ripping living hearts out on stone altars. Puritans are no longer putting witches to death. The Enlightenment was so very very very long in coming. Resist the siren song of the belief that things unseen are acting in the world, because when the curtain is pulled aside you will always find some real live human beings are using such beliefs to further their own very real power - just as did the priests, shamans and clergy of old. To be credulous is to be open to abuse.<br /><br />Carl Sagan wrote an excellent book about all this called "A Demon Haunted World: Science as a candle in the darkness" that I recommend.<br /><br />Love you lots!<br />DadClif Brownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17561437041148734569noreply@blogger.com