User:Michael
https://kundalinisoftware.com/lpconsole/definitionsToUpdate.html
"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
- 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=
- Nomenclature Confusion
- Scholarly dilletants as experts
Professional Challenges
- ↑ Mudrooroo. Us Mob: Australia: Angus & Robertson, 1995. p. 34.
- ↑ 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
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Samuel L. Perry, “Religion Matters (And Doesn’t Go Away When Sociologists Ignore It).,” Sociological Forum 38, no. 4 (December 2023): 1456–63;
- ↑ 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
