[MD] Religious experience & thinking in an MOQ context

[David M]

Hi folks

For me there is plenty of scope for religious thinking and experience in the 
MOQ.
In fact I think we can improve the quality of both in such a context.

Like science, I think fundamentalism makes the mistake of being obsessed 
with SQ
and even worse, fundamentalism fears DQ and its constant change and 
development.
Of course, science does much to master SQ (the order of things), its 
limitation is
that it can act as a block to recognising DQ (the disorder and creativity 
that allows
for change and development).

In the past life was much harder, grasping the very limited amount of order 
and control
available to human beings was crucial. Understanding and social order 
required a keen
grasp of SQ and even an attempt to increase the amount and levels of SQ to 
protect
human beings against the power and disruption of DQ.

In the beginning came a new word and a new authority to bring a new order. 
This came
with a whole ideology of gods and morals and laws to justify and explain the 
new order.

In this sense DQ comes first and last. SQ is used to limit the DQ, so that 
something can
be built, a foundation laid, a level created. But then DQ returns on a new 
level, bubbling
forth a new level of SQ, with a new levelof creative power and complexity.

After the religions of SQ, order, control, authority it is possible for new 
religious thought and
experience to emerge. New religious thinking, like new science, is starting 
to open its eyes
to DQ. Experience is not full of order, there is very little order in 
experience and the world.
We are much more aware that we are not protected by some divine force today, 
we face
all kinds of personal, social, political, global, cosmic risks. But equally 
we have vastly more
possibilities than earlier ages. Modern religious thinking is about the 
contemplation of
experience and a reality that is vastly free, contingent, open and risky. 
Modern religious
thought is about our human relationship to the dominant dynamic quality of 
experience and
existence. It a a vast sea change from the old religious thinking about what 
is permanent
and beyond the reality of experience in some rather dull transcendental 
realm.

Over to you.........

Regards
David M