Modern spirituality
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Modern spirituality
Feeling seen · Molly Mielke
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According to him, the word “natural” has become a “sort of a secular stand-in for a generalized understanding of goodness, which in religion you’d call holiness, or purity, or something like that. “Nature,” with a capital N, [has taken] the place of God. In a secular society, we don’t look to religions to tell us what to eat or how to heal
... See moreJasmine Bina • A Time to Build Tight Brands in the Chaos of Loose Cultures
You can never have a happy ending at the end of an unhappy journey; it just doesn’t work out that way. The way you’re feeling, along the way, is the way you’re continuing to pre-pave your journey, and it’s the way it’s going to continue to turn out until you do something about the way you are feeling.... See more
instagram.comOptimistic Nihilism
youtube.compeople who leave organized religion quickly become eager to replace the void with another system of meaning—a dimension most atheist groups have failed to consider.
Jasmine Bina • A Time to Build Tight Brands in the Chaos of Loose Cultures
The main problem with Burning Man — and with the current psychedelic renaissance — is the lack of a meaningful systems-level critique. Such a critique would understand humanity’s natural vitalizing impulses — our innate yearning for ecstasy and transcendence through altered states, eroticism, liberated movement, and community communion — as... See more
Daniel Pinchbeck • How Burning Man Failed
hen there is a decrease in government stability, there is an increase in religiosity in both Eastern and Western cultures.