Truly Sacred Things
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Truly Sacred Things
“The sacred is the effect of a momentary uniting of individuals into a jointly acting collective.” These moments act as liminal spaces where inner experience is externalized, reshaped, and received in a shared field of attention by turning feeling into form, and form into meaning.
the future will be mystical
In a sense, tribalism and religion and the rest of it use a separate processing system. As Hamid, Atran, and their coauthors wrote, “Sacred value choices involved less activation of brain regions previously associated with cognitive control and cost-benefit calculations.”
Jacob Ward • The Loop: How Technology is Creating a World Without Choices and How to Fight Back
Revitalising spirituality to address 21st century challenges
The document explores the complexities of spirituality in modern society, discussing its diverse definitions, its relation to religion, and its importance for personal, social, and political transformation.
thersa.orgWe normally think that theist religions sanctified the great gods. We tend to forget that they sanctified humans, too. Hitherto Homo sapiens had been just one actor in a cast of thousands.