Daily The World Grows Smaller, Leaving Understanding

...conversation Can Be As Mutually Incomprehensible As Foreign Languages. We Need The Different And Complementary Perspectives Of The Various Yogas - And Ideally Of All Religions - Not Only To Reach God But To Reach Each Other.

The Notion That Western Religions Are More Rigid Than Those Of Asia Is Overdrawn. Ours Is The Most Permissive Society History Has Ever Known - Almost The Only Thing That Is Forbidden Now Is To Forbid - And Asian Teachers And Their Progeny Play Up To This Propensity By Soft-pedaling Hinduism's, Buddhism's, Sufism's Rules.

Entheogens Are Not To Be Lightly Trifled With... However, If Taken With The Right Attitude And In The Proper Setting, Psychoactive Drugs May Produce Religious Experiences. ...it Is Far Less Clear That They Can Produce Religious Lives.

Religion Is The Call To Confront Reality; To Master The Self.

Seen Through The Eyes Of Faith, Religion's Future Is Secure. As Long As There Are Human Beings, There Will Be Religion For The Sufficient Reason That The Self Is A Theomorphic Creature - One Whose Morphe (form) Is Theos - God Encased Within It. Having Been Created In The Imago Dei, The Image God, All Human Beings Have A God-shaped Vacuum Built Into Their Hearts. Since Nature Abhors A Vacuum, People Keep Trying To Fill The One Inside Them.