** this is a rare more serious post, I'll make it into a story later, promise :) **
Religion and war are only related because each religion threatens the functioning mental framework of the other - at the "word level" (not usually the "concept level"), to destroy a mental framework is threatening because our minds can't work without one. People have to fight to preserve their framework to preserve their sanity (and society) even if they'd like to improve it. New stories (even true ones) must have echoes of the old or the mind can no longer navigate properly (mental illness). The task then is not to destroy religion (a brutal form of culturcide) but to work out how the concepts of each are the similar and cohesive. From concept comes definition and from definition comes words, not the other way around. Peace can be as easy as weaving good stories, with peace comes healing, with healing comes a world full of love. Don't we want that?
I believe that the destruction of peoples mental frames of reference is a cause of mental illness. Thus to restore mental frames of reference would bring healing at the individual level. That's why I tell my stories, to help us all find the love that truly unites us, the one true light in the darkness. I value all religions, I see Truth and Love in the concepts of them all. If my stories can help people find love and unity, then I am truly happy and blessed.
As a first step toward promoting world wide mental health, especially for youth, the adults need to stop attacking each other's mental frameworks (often religion) and work for cohesiveness and a common story where the adults really take care of the earth instead of cat-fighting over who is right, who is smarter. Climate change is irrelevant because the things we need to do to solve it are the same as the things we need to do to stop threatening the ecosystems we depend on. Killing the only home humanity needs to live on is insanity. Telling children or youth it is their problem to solve when they have no money or influence is cruelty.
**This post is dedicated to KB, one of the good guys, a normal guy with a big heart. I wrote this after a conversation with him on the day I turned forty.**
Religion and war are only related because each religion threatens the functioning mental framework of the other - at the "word level" (not usually the "concept level"), to destroy a mental framework is threatening because our minds can't work without one. People have to fight to preserve their framework to preserve their sanity (and society) even if they'd like to improve it. New stories (even true ones) must have echoes of the old or the mind can no longer navigate properly (mental illness). The task then is not to destroy religion (a brutal form of culturcide) but to work out how the concepts of each are the similar and cohesive. From concept comes definition and from definition comes words, not the other way around. Peace can be as easy as weaving good stories, with peace comes healing, with healing comes a world full of love. Don't we want that?
I believe that the destruction of peoples mental frames of reference is a cause of mental illness. Thus to restore mental frames of reference would bring healing at the individual level. That's why I tell my stories, to help us all find the love that truly unites us, the one true light in the darkness. I value all religions, I see Truth and Love in the concepts of them all. If my stories can help people find love and unity, then I am truly happy and blessed.
As a first step toward promoting world wide mental health, especially for youth, the adults need to stop attacking each other's mental frameworks (often religion) and work for cohesiveness and a common story where the adults really take care of the earth instead of cat-fighting over who is right, who is smarter. Climate change is irrelevant because the things we need to do to solve it are the same as the things we need to do to stop threatening the ecosystems we depend on. Killing the only home humanity needs to live on is insanity. Telling children or youth it is their problem to solve when they have no money or influence is cruelty.
**This post is dedicated to KB, one of the good guys, a normal guy with a big heart. I wrote this after a conversation with him on the day I turned forty.**