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Steve__Anthony says,

Still trying to connect those dots

illuminatrix says,

What I was thinking about is how people's views on religion and spirituality are a combination of things they were exposed to (and in some cases, programmed with) and personal philosophical choices they have made. So, a person's religion or simply a person's view(s) on religion and/or spirituality (in any form, traditional or no) say many things about that person, even about the deepest and most holistic person that they are, beneath the crust of the ego in the subconscious. Well, maybe that's pretty obvious.

But also, I was thinking about the notion of demons, things that haunt, scare, terrorize or otherwise psychologically bother people. I mean 'demons' in its idiomatic usage to mean a similar thing as the metaphor of 'baggage', as well as demons in the other senses, and of course being both literal (as much as that can be for any individual's reality tunnel or worldview) as well as figurative senses. Even in the sense of what really terrifies you, your darkest fears as you dream at night and your subconscious comes to spin webs of larger truth, are quite telling as to what kind of people people are. This might seem obvious as well.

This is of course why people guard their fears sometimes with great fervor. Although I'm not in the habit of prying anything out of anybody (being a big fan of personal privacy myself), but it's okay to wonder about other people, trying to connect them to yourself, finding points of philosophical crossover, even over 'religious' lines.

So I guess I'm basically saying that decisions, actions, beliefs, morality codes, rituals, everything deriving from what someone does in their life in a religious sense is remarkably telling as to people's inner make-up. Who's to interpret that is another question. There will be as many interpretations of any one person's 'spirituality vein' running through their crust and mantle as there are interpreters, as with anything, I suppose.

Another interesting side note is that various eras and epochs are marked by what religions are collectively followed/participated in in any given area. Religion flows mightily in the torrent of culture. But even concepts like religion become too bound up in semantic specificity and codes of tradition. Many people (if not most) seem to me to think that the main point is in identifying the one true way. I prefer the multi-model approach, drawing from every branch of thinking and human capacity and experience, the metaphorical, the mythological, the scientific, the speculative, the iconoclastic, the traditional, etc. Light is both waves AND particles, depending on how you measure it. Multiple, overlapping, seemingly mutually exclusive models are necessary to understand even facets of the grand fractal of reality.

Now I don't know if I've connected the dots, or stippled the page with a crapload more. Hopefully, the former.