i.e. how do you now understand the world... and your place in it?
I personally believe in evolution... and also a "higher power"... it seems more and more people are drifting away from organized religion, but they are then left searching for meaning and purpose....
going to college/university and studying a normal curriculum, one is exposed to philosophy, the socrates and platos of history, who in many ways started widespread discussion on such topics as above. Some sort of philosophy has to be studied I believe, just so one can understand the history of man, from that point in time and how we came to Christianity in the first place.
However, it is a very personal matter, as we must all find our own answers.
I believe it is natural for people to be drawn to ponderings of purpose and god, and there are many ways to seek connection to that souce. But upon achieving a connection, one must still deal with day to day struggles and routine, or the state of the world.
I would like to inspire people to think about their level of awareness and consciousness. Mainly, because people who are ignorant to their spiritual selves tend to cause the most damage to other people and our planet. The way things are continuing man will one day indeed destroy the earth and that saddens me. It saddens me greatly that life and our planet are treated so callously. That their are people who were taught to think about "power" the way we were taught to think about "serving Jah". So their whole life is centered around building and maintaining their power (think governments, large corporations, monopolies) at any expense to our environment and populace(deforestization, endangered species, oil spills in the oceans, dumping garbage, waste, toxic chemicals, the dying barrier reef, polluted air, depleted ozone, mutating bacterias, man-made diseases, not finding a cure for aids (and other ills) because the drugs one takes to suppress it is such big business, children starving, people starving...)
If your beliefs lean more towards zen, then you'll see the troubles with the world and people as part of the balance of yin and yang. That we must know the evil, to understand the good. We must feel the pain to know the love. But why if god is love? Or is the belief that god should intereven or that the higher power is really that personified part of the disillusionment of religion. That god is there, but not going to get involved? That god is just energy, and we were not made in "his" image. Is this all just an illusion. Suffering only exists in the mind
Would like to hear what you think.
I haven't seen the second Matrix movie yet, I own the first one... do you think that'll help me, lol (smile)
thebeliever