Philosophy begins in wonder. Religion is similar. Through the sacred it places you in wonder, allows you to dwell in wonder.
It is through this state of wonder that we are able to begin contemplating (philosophy) or enacting ritual (religion).
It is through this state of wonder that we are able to begin contemplating (philosophy) or enacting ritual (religion).
Over the centuries there has been a shift, one difficult to summarize. One point of it: Instead of springing from the well of the world, their focal point became the individual, and this has injured both subjects.
Calculation has replaced contemplation. People worry about the result before they even begin thinking. If they really do think.
Arendt once said, "To expect truth from thinking signifies that we mistake the need to think with the urge to know."
Arendt once said, "To expect truth from thinking signifies that we mistake the need to think with the urge to know."
Religions now claim to "explain" the world and what's worse, people seem to constantly have this expectation of it. But that is something antithetical to leaving you in wonder.
It is difficult to let things dawn on you, if you are trying to make such demands from them.
It is difficult to let things dawn on you, if you are trying to make such demands from them.
There must be, I think, some way to lure the old gods back, if they will have us. To make the world sacred and full of wonder, and not just in a some individual lifestyle sense.
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