The idea of the body being the source of our spirituality is just dreadful, eh? It's gotta have some grandiose origin outside of space and time. It can't have anything to do with our neuro-biology, so mundane! Sounds like some 'low-brow' pagan shit. Tsk Tsk. After all, the heart is just a muscle. 
Original sin much?
-------------------- Everything is better than it was the last time. I'm good. If we could look into each others hearts, and understand the unique challenges each of us faces, I think we would treat each other much more gently, with more love, patience, tolerance, and care. It takes a lot of courage to go out there and radiate your essence. I know you scared, you should ask us if we scared too. If you was there, and we just knew you cared too.
Edited by CosmicJoke (12/06/14 04:40 AM)
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The point of this thread is for those who wish to expose all hypocrisies that exist between what the intellect says and the body does, and more importantly to elevate biology over culture. Much of what I see as spirituality amounts to cultural ideas that exist purely as as 'spooks in the head'.
Now I wouldn't be surprised if a counterargument is coming my way to ensure me how matererialistic this all sounds; that it's all about the metaphysical or quantum foam from which matter and form emerge. That's the source of interconnectedness, acausality and synchronicities, yadda. I think that's besides the point.
We undeniably live in one strange universe, but isn't it peculiar how this all seems to be experienced when the nervous system has been synergized with certain drugs or transmuted by yogic or shamanic exercises, when the distinction between observer and observed have been broken down, and deep structures of the psyche have been activated? 
What puzzles me the most is when we start adding in all these cultural ideas about what the Universe or God is doing and why, and speculate about reincarnation or heaven. Why not let the Uverse/God worry about Its experiments, as we worry about our own? Why not take the acid, practice the variety of breathing exercises and postures, use it to explore the depths of consciousness and let the results be the basis of our spirituality? Why start explaining it all away with how we can conform our experiences into cultural dogma once we come down, as opposed to getting to work on our next experiment?
-------------------- Everything is better than it was the last time. I'm good. If we could look into each others hearts, and understand the unique challenges each of us faces, I think we would treat each other much more gently, with more love, patience, tolerance, and care. It takes a lot of courage to go out there and radiate your essence. I know you scared, you should ask us if we scared too. If you was there, and we just knew you cared too.
Edited by CosmicJoke (12/06/14 10:38 PM)
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