reply to post by artistpoet
That's quite the story about Egyptian history. I think Jesus, too, pursued a true spiritual invocation that threatened the hegemony of the religious
and political leaders of his time, and was executed for it. And even today, people blindly worship the Jesus taught to them by the church, but not
the actual man or his own ideals. Such false worship is possible generations after the fact, when the followers have no ability to actually remember
the truth and so they rely on a specific hegemony to provide them with the answers.
I was never really a fan of organized religion. I was brought to sunday worships a few times as a kid but even at that young age, I could not grasp
the follower-leader mentality of it.
Spirituality is one third of our entire existence, the other two being mind and body... though I do see the mind as being a state in between body and
spirit. For all of the physical space that I have traversed, I have always found my mind to be infinitely more expansive. To understand our spirit
is truly the quest of life, because it is something only realized in those short, yet profound moments that occasionally occur where we act on
instinct without even having to think. I would partake on this journey alone, than to be a sheep doctrined by the shepard.
This is why I have chosen the left-handed path (the "goat" (left) vs "sheep" (right); ironically also applies to politics). It is lonely and my
insights are my own, but the final destination is the same.

