What in my opinion, is the difference between Religion and Spirituality?
Religion is
RELIGION = a set of rituals with several purposes: 1) Engage the lizard brain with a repetitive task or chant or prayer so the higher brain functions can be accessed.
2) Dazzle the mind and body to engage the pleasure centres to addict the participants so the leaders can talk them into almost anything
3) Guilt trip or punish the mind and body to addict the participants so the leaders can talk them into almost anything
4) A way to cope with a loss
5) the smile on a dog/light in a fog
6) a set of actions to navigate life events – birth – coming of age – mating – illness – death
7) a way to handle guilt or responsibility sometimes without making amends with the hurt party only with one’s deity.
8) To create a granfalloon for a tribe or neighbourhood.
9) Establish righteous manipulations and solicitations that create obligations to maintain a luxurious lifestyle for the leaders. ETC.
Spirituality
- a personal experience of something outside your everyday experience
- A feeling or idea gained through thought
- A sense or idea gained through meditation
- An understanding or idea gained through an unusual event
- An understanding or idea gained through a desperate need to KNOW
- A possible delusion firmly held outside formal beliefs
- What appears to be coming at you is likely coming from you.
- A deep appreciation for the “Magic of Reality.”
- The comforting recollection of a perfect moment
Bottom line
Religion comes from without to (sometimes) within.
Spirituality comes from within to (sometimes) without.
What do you think?
moldred