I feel like it might shed some light on how much and how far religious fanatics have gone and are literally controlling and disciplining if one is seen to stray from the official line. Due to the belief in miracle and making a miracle as the core ethos of their mysticism, they have become willing and do not hesitate to deploy any and all known contraptions and know how to wickedly influence, coerce, dominate and subjugate everyone and each real. and perceived as deviant. One can scream loudly and there is no help or even sympathy despite constitutional guarantees of individual rights to worship or not to worship, to belong or not to belong at all.

I think this letter serves as a supplement to Daniel Dennett’s article on religion in “The Guardian UK Thursday 16th July 2009”. Although I do not agree with his ideas about what religion and spirituality should be and how it should be practiced, I do agree with his description of the evil practices of some and even the overwhelming majority of religious authorities. organized. Organized religion is about material interest and class and group fulfillment, not the inner search for truth and personal individual and social fulfillment despite bold self-representation. As for making the most vital decisions of our lives in consultation with our inner voices, I cannot understand the objections to that as we all make our vital life and death decisions in consultation with our inner voices and I see no exception to that. . But if our inner voices somehow become the inner voices of the authorities of our religion, as is often the case, concern is justified.

The organization presupposes classification, professionalism, specialization and division of labor on the basis of this stratification. Is it any wonder then that, like all socially stratified structures, those at the top end of the structure have an interest in mystifying the practice and making it shrouded in secrecy in defense of their acquired or bestowed status? If any irrationality in any social structure is condoned or encouraged, there is no need to explain that it could only be by those who can and are in a position to do so and it is clear who they could be that needs no explanation. However, the only important note to make here is that all hierarchical social structures are liable to encourage acts of irrationality and irrational exuberance to varying degrees (the curse of the division of labor and social stratification).

How these religious institutions and social structures gave rise to science and the scientific institution and the latter’s continuing inability to find answers to the fundamental puzzling questions of the beginning, current existence, and future destiny of ourselves and everything else; it had spawned and continues to spawn the ever-continuing allure of religious practice and spirituality. The truth of spirituality has been for Melina and I am sure it will continue for others in an effort to find in oneself the truth and self that is absent in the material and scientific world out there, here and everywhere. That search in the gaps by itself between the material realities of yesterday, today and tomorrow, what we can reach only by our intuition and what we can only imagine and could not quantify and qualify by all other means and forms still available will always draw . to individual and collective spirituality.