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"Most authorities on Indigenous spirituality write about ceremonies and rituals, totems and dreamings and their social implications. It is a materialist view of what spirituality is, and although they speak about 'religion', they do not seem very concerned about the deep innermost feelings which give rise to religion in the first place." <ref>Mudrooroo. Us Mob: Australia: Angus & Robertson, 1995. p. 34.</ref>
<blockquote>"Most authorities on Indigenous spirituality write about ceremonies and rituals, totems and dreamings and their social implications. It is a materialist view of what spirituality is, and although they speak about 'religion', they do not seem very concerned about the deep innermost feelings which give rise to religion in the first place." <ref>Mudrooroo. Us Mob: Australia: Angus & Robertson, 1995. p. 34.</ref></blockquote>
 
<blockquote>The most beautiful thing we can experience is the Mysterious — the knowledge of the existence of something unfathomable to us, the manifestation of the most profound reason coupled with the most brilliant beauty. I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, or who has a will of the kind we experience in ourselves. I am satisfied with the mystery of life's eternity and with the awareness of — and glimpse into — the marvelous construction of the existing world together with the steadfast determination to comprehend a portion, be it ever so tiny, of the reason that manifests itself in nature. This is the basics of cosmic religiosity, and it appears to me that the most important function of art and science is to awaken this feeling among the receptive and keep it alive.<ref>Einstein quoted in Kuruvilla, Carol. “Albert Einstein On The Spirituality That Comes From Scientific Inquiry | HuffPost Religion.” HuffPost, March 14, 2016. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/albert-einstein-on-god-and-science_n_56e6f491e4b065e2e3d6a9d9</ref>
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Hi there. My name is Mike Sosteric and I along with help<ref>from Gina, my kids, the pets I look after, the nature that surrounds me), am the creator of the [[Lightning Path Human Development Framework]], which, if you don't already know, is a modern [[Human Development Framework]] (HDF) that I've been slowly piecing together, an hour or two every day, since way back in 2003.
 
It didn't start out like this of course.
 
I didn't wake up one morning and say "I'm gonna build an HDF." It started with a [[Connection Experience]], continued as an ethnographic study, which turned into a more systemic exploration which slowly, over the course of a couple of decades, turned into this [[Lightning Path Human Development Framework|incomplete blob of clay]] I call the [[Lightning Path]].
 
It sounds crazy, I know, but here it is laid out in some detail in this [[SpiritWiki]. I have to admit, it is still pretty rough and still requires a lot of work, but it is here if you want to have a look around.  In the meantime, I'm gonna use this page to put in some personal notes. They probably won't be that meaningful too begin with, but I'll build them up over time.
 
 
==Qualifications==
 
# [[PLT]]
# post-secondary training in psychology and sociology.
# discipline and determination to figure "it" out, <ref>and by "it" I mean the [[Connection Experience]] that got this all started. For a brief account, see Mike Sosteric, “Connection 100 – An Auto-Ethnography of My (Mystical) Connection Experiences,” Religions 13, no. 10 (2022), doi:https://doi.org/10.3390/rel13100993.</ref>
# the privilege and fortune to be able to sit down every day for a few hours and read, research, explore, and write. <ref>That amazing privilege is really important and I mention it here not only because it is important to acknowledge this, but also to say this shouldn't be a privilege, but a right. We should all have the right to sit down every day and read, research, explore, and create in some way. As I've come to believe after 20+ years of exploitation, it is who we are deep inside. </ref>
 
==Personal Challenges==
 
==Theoretical Challenges===
 
* [[Nomenclature Confusion]]
* Scholarly dilletants as experts
 
==Professional Challenges==
 
* Bias and prejudice in the academy.<ref>Samuel L. Perry, “Religion Matters (And Doesn’t Go Away When Sociologists Ignore It).,” Sociological Forum 38, no. 4 (December 2023): 1456–63; </ref> <ref>Typically you are expected to be a mystic outside of science or a scientist outside of mysticism. If you are a scientist and turn mystic, you are expected to leave the academy, like Richard Alpert, who became Ram Dass. Should you try and blend both, you become subjected to ridicule, shaming, and other “boundary maintaining” enforcements of the academy’s Boundary Police</ref>

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"Most authorities on Indigenous spirituality write about ceremonies and rituals, totems and dreamings and their social implications. It is a materialist view of what spirituality is, and although they speak about 'religion', they do not seem very concerned about the deep innermost feelings which give rise to religion in the first place." [1]

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the Mysterious — the knowledge of the existence of something unfathomable to us, the manifestation of the most profound reason coupled with the most brilliant beauty. I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, or who has a will of the kind we experience in ourselves. I am satisfied with the mystery of life's eternity and with the awareness of — and glimpse into — the marvelous construction of the existing world together with the steadfast determination to comprehend a portion, be it ever so tiny, of the reason that manifests itself in nature. This is the basics of cosmic religiosity, and it appears to me that the most important function of art and science is to awaken this feeling among the receptive and keep it alive.[2]

Hi there. My name is Mike Sosteric and I along with helpCite error: Closing </ref> missing for <ref> tag

  1. the privilege and fortune to be able to sit down every day for a few hours and read, research, explore, and write. [3]

Personal Challenges

Theoretical Challenges=

Professional Challenges

  • Bias and prejudice in the academy.[4] [5]
  1. ↑ Mudrooroo. Us Mob: Australia: Angus & Robertson, 1995. p. 34.
  2. ↑ Einstein quoted in Kuruvilla, Carol. “Albert Einstein On The Spirituality That Comes From Scientific Inquiry | HuffPost Religion.” HuffPost, March 14, 2016. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/albert-einstein-on-god-and-science_n_56e6f491e4b065e2e3d6a9d9
  3. ↑ That amazing privilege is really important and I mention it here not only because it is important to acknowledge this, but also to say this shouldn't be a privilege, but a right. We should all have the right to sit down every day and read, research, explore, and create in some way. As I've come to believe after 20+ years of exploitation, it is who we are deep inside.
  4. ↑ Samuel L. Perry, “Religion Matters (And Doesn’t Go Away When Sociologists Ignore It).,” Sociological Forum 38, no. 4 (December 2023): 1456–63;
  5. ↑ Typically you are expected to be a mystic outside of science or a scientist outside of mysticism. If you are a scientist and turn mystic, you are expected to leave the academy, like Richard Alpert, who became Ram Dass. Should you try and blend both, you become subjected to ridicule, shaming, and other “boundary maintaining” enforcements of the academy’s Boundary Police
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