Journal Entry--1-10-2012:
As the reader well knows, I favor rational religion. To utilize concepts, language, worldly experience, theology, and intellectual bracketing of actual reality into cognitively labeled and defined categories is not to distort ultimate reality, but it to reveal it as it is in an intelligible way.
The alternative, mystic, intuitive, irrational way of knowing God, Beings, and the angels is a very viable, informative, emotionally and spiritually rewarding means of encountering what is. The mystics of the world, who advocate that personal attention be utterly directed inward like yogis do, merge their once separated ego and soul into the Divine Soul. This is an arduous but legitimate means of coming to know God, likely the profoundest understanding of what is is gained this way.
Most of the time, the practitioners of rational religion theologically capture what is about as well as can be accomplished. Deism fills the theological space from where the lowest spiritual sensibility ends (emotional, fundamentalist faith) all the way to the very highest sensibility of the yogi, that irrational, felt union with the Divinity.
Reason will provide the most wholesome, and about the profoundest intellectual and spiritual contact, communication and understanding between God and the individual communicant.
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