Icon wrote:I'm in midwest U.S. and would love to drink with you and hear stories of mckenna and your religious crusade. I'm not affiliated with the santo daime church, however.
Thanks. Let's get to know each other digitally and see what comes of it.
I'm not 100?% committed to the Diame thing, it just seemed like an appropriate contextual framework for me. Also, in the last couple weeks, I listened to a 3 hour podcast interveiw online with the priest (or pastor, I don't know what the term is) of the Daime church in Ashland, OR, Holy Light of the Queen. Seems like a guy who has his stuff together.
One arguement I have in
favor
of organized religion is that it gives one a grounding point, a reference from which to know where the baseline is. Also, while I don't yet have any experience with them, I think that something like the Diame could be exactly what this culture needs in order to find a way to integrate Shamanic ideals back into the wider culture in a meaningful way. While he was clearly anti-Christian, Terence DID advocate, nay, WARN us that if we did not actively work to transform our culture soon (and he was saying these things in the early 1990s, mind you), that we would be on a crash course with the end of our planet. What have we who remain done to bring that transformation upon the culture? I do not believe that 12/21/12 is really going to do it for us. We MUST be agents of change in the world, and perhaps people like those in the Diame, who are integrating their experiences in Hyperspace with the themes and archetypes of Christian culture, are just the model we need to bring what we've taken away from our days on the other side back in a way that our culture can digest them.
"Christians often ask why God does not speak to them, as they believed God did in former days. When I hear such questions, it always makes me think of the Rabbi who was asked how it could be that God was manifest to people in the olden days whereas nowadays nobody ever sees God. The rabbi replied, 'Nowadays there is no longer anybody who can bow low enough.'"
--Carl Jung