12000 years ago... (and the tectonic shift that occurred 2025 years ago)
Thinking on religion and religious thought whilst NOT paying attention in church this last Sunday. Our religion is very, very, very old. The signs and symbols in the current Christian churches, Catholic, Protestant, Eastern & Orthodox, though altered slightly in outward form, have remained unchanged for over 12,000 years. They echo & still proclaim the same thing our ancestors at the end of the Younger Dryas period were proclaiming. They share this echo with every other religion on the planet; Judaism, Buddhism, Jainism, Islam, Hindu, Shinto, and native pantheism. What is that proclamation? Something, something, something, the pattern. There is an order to the universe; an iron law to which every thing in the physical and spiritual world of necessity must give obedience. It is an exquisite order, crystalline, breath-taking, immense and unpredictable. It has been, is and always will be, saecula saeculorum. It is an order expressed through the idea of the LOGOS; a mat...