This is a rather succinct dissection of religious thought and religious evolution.

I have no issues with religions and philosophies evolving. I think where most of us get in trouble with things like this is that we resist change. But casting change and improvement aside for a moment, it is clear that there is far more unknown about life and the universe than is known. Hence, it makes sense that our opinions and paradigms will shift.

The question becomes, what are we shifting toward? Are we shifting toward even more and continued group-think? Where neither man nor woman questions for themselves? Where we fail to insist on answers that address fundamental human conditions?

We need to disrupt our habits of “being one with nature” when nature is defined as a nation, or some kind of power or ‘way of being’ that corrupts and that dilutes our ability to trust our own inner discernment.

Put another way…

In human behavior we can often predict the results. But the uncertainty principle states that there is a possibility, however slim, that a completely unexpected result can occur. If we keep repeating “life is good” or “live the American Dream,” we have clear evidence that most people will react predictably. Similarly, if we keep allowing the one-tenth of one percent to own most of the world, people will keep going along with it. But then the unpredictable occurs.

When people react against the majority’s reaction, the minority reactions are also predictable. The uncertainty principle accounts for unpredictable outcomes. When those kinds of rare outcomes occur, they tend to pass unnoticed, or we tend to debunk them as impossible or the result of a biased or perhaps a deranged mind. It is from this kind of uncomfortable perch, we peer down into the curse of a self-reliant person. And condemn and disparage those who may have the keenness of insight to shine a way out of overwhelming odds.

In other words, we tend to disparage the uncertain outcomes that emerge.

The point I am driving at here is that reason has been abducted — whether through subjective manipulation of thoughts and emotion or through objective manipulation of markets. And the only way to overcome the abduction of our collective and individual minds, once we are aware we have a problem, is to solve the problem. See the solutions when they emerge. Recognize them and rally behind them. Stop talking or bitching about it, and solve it.