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All Gods are Welcome


    He was a wise man who invented God.
Plato


It's not unusual for many people who are looking for a particular spiritual path to do so first by knocking on the door of mainstream, organised religion. After all, mainstream religions have achieved the impossible at least on one level: they have made the belief in the supernatural acceptable to an extent. Yes, they have sought this through unscrupulous means at times and by finding strength in numbers. The problem, of course, is that exclusive belief in one religious paradigm is at best hugely limiting. At worst, it's unadulterated fundamentalism. And fundamentalism, regardless of the particular flavour and packaging it comes in, is normally always a dangerous thing. Somehow, be it through the work of the crusaders or of  Buddhists killing Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar or ISIS and their campaign  of terror in recent times, people always end up dying. 


So, the most discerning spiritual seeker will end up rejecting the mainstream. Total commitment to any one metaphysical paradigm has to be the wrong course of action in a world beset by the deepest mystery. 

Equally, one must be careful with non- mainstream,spiritual paths  and should  avoid replacing one absolutist belief or paradigm with another one, for this would achieve nothing.

What  is the source of this mystery? Call it God, the universe, or whatever you choose to. The answers to the four rethorical questions have never been answered satisfactorily. And God- the gods- is a human creation. We understand how the universe works at least partially thanks to science. But science in it's most extreme form- positivism- is another rigid paradigm. 

There is a field that can be found between science, philosophy and theology loosely called the occult. Frowned upon by the establishment and mainstream society, this field of weirdness is the only one that accepts by default the absolute weirdness of the human condition. And most importantly: IT CHALLENGES IT. 


Belief is a tool. All the gods are nothing more than human creations that respond to different stages of humanity's development, representing  the distinct needs of each one of these stages. 

Am I an atheist? No. Not at all. I love all the gods within and without. I don't affirm or dispute any God or belief system, at least not on a permanent basis. I leave this open to debate, exploration and exploitation. 

In the study of the occult ALL GODS ARE WELCOME. 
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