Happiness, Religion & Spirituality
___ Everyone desires to experience happiness in some form. Even
people who wallow in a tragic-mode of depression & melancholy, do so
because they find in it some sort of satisfaction for their tendency toward
psychological-masochism. So the ultimate purpose of spirituality (a.k.a., ultimate-concerns, moral-values,
transpersonalism, transcendentalism, beingness) is to:
~ deal with pre-existence & yesterday’s-regrets & guilt,
~ fears & worries about tomorrow & the-after-life,
~ and most of all, today’s pursuit-of-HAPPINESS, i.e., present-day self-actualization.
Humans, being social animals, explore spirituality by banding-together in a social-milieu with other
seekers resonating at a similar level of vibration, which in its true
definition, is called religion.
___ Religion is
like a sleek sailboat-hull designed to move seekers of spiritual-HAPPINESS (happiness which is immune to outside circumstances)
forward through the waters faster than they could swim or row-a-boat alone.
Unfortunately, every boat eventually develops barnacles (crustaceans that attach to
hulls). The more barnacles that form, the slower the boat moves. If
those barnacles are not scraped off from time to time, the boat’s progress is
seriously impeded. “Barnacles” are what little-brains attach overtime to all religious-movements until those
get so bogged-down that they cease to be movements, and actually become a drag
upon the progress of society. Seeing that, many understandably get disgusted
with religion and turn
to atheism, materialism & anti-religionism, unwittingly making
anti-religion itself, into a religion.
___ So instead of polarizing into 1 of the extreme camps of either:
~ anti-religion-religion, or
~ barnacle-apologetics-religion (defense of some doctrine),
how about scraping-off the “barnacles,” the 80% that impedes progress,
and speed along to win The-America’s-Cup with a team (band, legion, Latin=religāre)
in a “smooth-hull” (the 20% that actually works).
