28 Friday Aug 2015
Posted in nature, religion, Uncategorized
“According to every churchly doctrine, nature had been so corrupted by the Fall of Adam and Eve that there was no virtue in it whatsoever”.
Joseph Campbell, The Masks of God: Creative Mythology
25 Tuesday Aug 2015
Posted in civilization, religion, technology
“Technological idolatry is the religion whose doctrines are promulgated, explicitly or by implication, in the advertisement pages of our newspapers and magazines – the source, we may add parenthetically, from which millions of men, women and children in the capitalist countries derive their working philosophy of life… So whole-hearted is the modern faith in technological idols that (despite all the lessons of mechanized warfare) it is impossible to discover in the popular thinking of our time any trace of the ancient and profoundly realistic doctrine of hubris and inevitable nemesis. There is a very general belief that, where gadgets are concerned, we can get something for nothing – can enjoy all the advantages of an elaborate, top-heavy and constantly advancing technology without having to pay for them by any compensating disadvantages”.
Aldous Huxley, The Perennial Philosophy
29 Friday May 2015
Posted in life, magic, religion, spirituality
“The biblical representation of God as somebody ‘up there’, not the substance, but the maker of this universe, from which he is distinct, had deprived matter of a divine dimension and reduced it to mere dust. Hence, whatever the pagan world had regarded as evidence of a divine presence in nature, the Church interpreted as of the Devil”.
Joseph Campbell, The Masks of God: Creative Mythology
29 Wednesday Apr 2015
Posted in existentialism, Quote, religion, spirituality
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“The Outsider’s way of thinking is called existentialism. But it might as easily be called religion. It is a way of thought which, like the religious way, regards man as involved in the universe, not just a spectator and observer, a sort of naturalist looking at the universe through a magnifying-glass and murmuring: ‘Mmm. Most interesting’”.
Colin Wilson, Religion and the Rebel
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