Divinity and the Concept of Love

Content unavailable Avatar jeremy Morfey • 5 days ago I have argued many times and will do so again here that the only point of religion, any religion, is to enhance one's capacity to love and to be loved. All the rest of it, the mythologies, the rituals, the beliefs, the incense and the candles, are a means to this end. Maybe it is a rationalistic approach to this, and certainly there is no conflict with the rigours and disciplines of science, but is also founded on an intangible - the concept of Love. If one can grasp that, one can grasp the essence of divinity. 1 • Reply • Share › − Avatar greenpeaceRdale1844coop jeremy Morfey • a few seconds ago I think you have the beginnings of a strong argument. "the concept of Love .... as the essence of divinity." The key that appears in analyzing the nature of "rationalism" and "science" leads to the foundations of all of that as philosophical scholarship, itself modernized originally as a spiritual practice by Christians, centrally around the monk Thomas Aquinas at the University of Paris. Modern empiricism is the spiritual philosophical method that emerged at that time, building on and transforming its ancient Greek and eclectic origins. Thus, "rationalism" as a term, like "science" needs to be clarified. Rationalism actually means an exclusionary ideology. Rational thinking is itself philosophical in nature, and the significance of empiricism, ie observational methodology, is that it underlies "science" ie scientific natural philosophy, and the rest of University-based philosophical scholarship. Scientific phil goes for the physical and its physicalist concepts, to be clear. Empiricism encompasses it all, but is what then is involved in psychosocial studies disciplines developed out of moral philosophy and Aquinas´ area of "human laws" and phenomena. How can that be captured in an empirical reference? Thanks to the philosophical empiricism in comparative religious studies, I chose the Chinese Tao described by scholar Huston Smith as "a creative continuum that is always accessible." I also benefited from Unitarian Universalist interfaith members´ use of related educational resources to create principles with which they supported all individuals´ spiritual paths, according to their principles and sources (mutual respect, etc). I was introduced directly to the concept of healing love when I was working in social services, when a colleague introduced me to Louise Hay´s technique of self-care loving self-talk. She was studying to be a minister in the Religious Science church (now by another name....) of E Holmes, and derivative of Mary Baker Eddy´s Christian Science church. Indeed, Christian Science has demonstrated amply that the study and applied visualized understanding of related concepts to Divine Love, including God as a living Divine Mind reflected in us, provides a powerful example of spiritual-religious phenomena through practice, experience, and knowledge. The specific kind of event of medically attested, medically impossible healing with spiritual religious testimony provides the legitimization of the framework not of "science" or "rationalism", in fact, but their empirical and philosophical nature as part of what necessarily needs to be labeled "multidisciplinary philosophy with empiricism", that originated in Christian University-based culture. It now operates in its naturalized, universalized form in secular society of the UN human rights community and its structured pluralism. Shifting that emphasis from ideological materialism to spirituality is necessary, with personal effort in spiritual practice for personal growth and understanding of four psychological relational levels, up to interdependence.