Listp. 34.1

Religious Naturalism

What religious naturalism includes: spirituality as deepened perception, no sky-deity, no leap of faith, new metaphors for the Divine.

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at rarsm includes, embraces, suggests: • Spirituality as an added or deepened perceptionof the world (complementingnot contradictingordinaryperception) • No belief in a sky-deitythat is wilful or active in human affairs • A passionate mode of reactingto the wonders revealed by science • No demand of a Leap of Faith." • Openness to new metaphorsfor the Divine Enterprisearisingfrom explorationsin consciousnessand the nervous system • Study of the mysticaltexts which speak of Divine Immanence • Suspensionof cynicism,sarcasm, and skepticism • An appreciation for the rich religious moments we have in our lives in ordinary circumstance.

Reb David’s note

is the result of a conversation with a MetaSubscriber who felt cramped by the extremely ubiquitous references to a personal-national God in Jewish Texts. This theistic insistence, I tried to explain, was not pervasive in Judaism, and particularly in Hassidic teachings, we find the theistic and non-theistic as at least separate and parallel tracks- actually, as I write, I feel I must state that the theistic track is, in Hassidic and Kabbalistic thought, a subset of the non-theistic. The wording of the title derives from page 35, no. 11, which is a rewrite from several articles on Hassidic thought, this part from Art Green. The same influence of Art's writing expressed itself in the title of the next page,
On p. 34.1 · his notes, p. 190

Machine-read from his typed notes; the original page is linked.

Threads

44.1Or Ayn Sof: Unending Light 108.4Metaphors for the Complexities of the Great Oneness That We Are 80–81Beliefs: Mine and Yours 86.8Modeh Ani: Addressing the Boundaries of Consciousness 108.1Yah Our God, Yah One✦

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