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 ==== The Religious Value of the Unknown ==== ==== The Religious Value of the Unknown ====
  
-Excerpts from //"The Religious Value of the Unknown"// by **George Prochnik**+Excerpts from //[[https://emergencemagazine.org/story/the-religious-value-of-the-unknown/|"The Religious Value of the Unknown"]]// by **George Prochnik**
  
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 At our moments of most intent receptivity, we no longer know the source of the voice that leaves our own lips—only that it is part of a greater collective lineage of truth seeking. Not knowing exactly what speaks through us, other fatalistic certainties blur as well. The consciousness of our historical doom takes on something of the plasticity Scholem invokes—perhaps enabling us to say something unexpected: I do not know what happens next becomes an iteration of hope instead of helplessness. At our moments of most intent receptivity, we no longer know the source of the voice that leaves our own lips—only that it is part of a greater collective lineage of truth seeking. Not knowing exactly what speaks through us, other fatalistic certainties blur as well. The consciousness of our historical doom takes on something of the plasticity Scholem invokes—perhaps enabling us to say something unexpected: I do not know what happens next becomes an iteration of hope instead of helplessness.
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 ==== Psychedelics and religious experience ==== ==== Psychedelics and religious experience ====
  
-Excerpts from //"Psychedelics and religious experience"// by **Alan Watts**+Excerpts from //[[http://psychedelic-library.org/watts.htm|"Psychedelics and religious experience"]]// by **Alan Watts**
  
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 Basically, therefore, there is simply nothing to worry about, because you yourself are the eternal energy of the universe playing hide-and-seek with itself.  Basically, therefore, there is simply nothing to worry about, because you yourself are the eternal energy of the universe playing hide-and-seek with itself. 
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 Dust and Shadow Reader [[reader_2|Vol. 2]]. Previous: [[attuning to plants]]. Next: [[planet centred design]] Dust and Shadow Reader [[reader_2|Vol. 2]]. Previous: [[attuning to plants]]. Next: [[planet centred design]]
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