Theme: Religion

WHY THE NEW AGE SEARCH FOR PSEUDO-RELIGION, OR, CONVERSELY RELIGIOUS REGRESSION?

Complaint: “Our science is ahead of us, and we are disoriented by the lack of emphasis on the human experience.”

That’s false. Let’s understand the problem correctly:

Our experiment with supernatural religion failed – hard. It produces the mysticism of the jews, who despite their literacy contributed nothing to knowledge until included into the european mainstream. It brought the Muslim destruction of seven great civilizations of the ancient world to ashes of ignorance and dysgenia, and plunged the European civilization into darkness that was not fully recovered until the age of Napoleon. And we still suffer it’s effects today, despite it’s rapid decline, because we are unable to produce a non-false substitute that will satisfy those who are most dependent upon the mindfulness provided by the false religion.

But, why are we in this position today?

We are no longer training mindfulness in education because the church taught it thru feminine Semitic superstition rather than masculine European stoicism ( which is the positive discipline version of the negative version we call cognitive behavioral therapy) .

In the search for human training and experience both the Greek way was and is, like all other Greek inventions, the optimum for human being because it is unlike all other methods, not false. Every other method is false.

In other words, there is a science of training the mind for the optimum human experience. And the Christians destroyed it purposefully and we are still trying in modernity to resurrect it because it is compatible with both science and human experience. Because it is the science of training the human experience to tolerate the anonymity and alienation of post-tribal hunter-gatherer human experience.

Sorry, but that’s the answer. It’s just expensive, so it requires the same institutional support and services as Stoicism, Buddhism or any of the less desirable, more false religions.

Because the purpose of religion is exactly the provision of that mindfulness. So we must train the body thru sport, the intuition into mindfulness, the mind through general education, and the citizen through employable skills.

So, the belief we are ahead of ourselves in science is as false as it was in antiquity. Instead we are behind in non-false reformation of religion that teaches mindfulness, physical fitness, and citizenship to take advantage of the innovations of science.

And the obstacle to reform is the federal control of education and the entrenched interests, particularly the negative influence of women and activists, producing infantile snowflakes instead of train competent adult human beings.

We do require a reformation, but not as these and other authors suggest by further abandonment of responsibility and competence that continues our evolutionary velocity and resulting prosperity, but instead to provide training of the whole person such that we prosper and enjoy the possibilities our discoveries have provided for us.

No more regressions, please.

The last dark age was bad enough. And we are just as close to another dark age and for the same reasons as the Romans, as we are to that promised future of the Jetsons and the first Star Trek series.

It’s an easy choice.
It’s just the choice of responsibility rather than regression.

Cheers.

Curt Doolittle
The Natural Law Institute
The Science of Cooperation