11-29-2021, 05:04 PM
Am I summing up your argument fairly, Diana, that a bunch of people have tainted the word "worship" over the years and this has sullied it for you? If so, I find that understandable....and irrelevant.
Bear with me please.
I say "irrelevant" because I view the act or experience of worship as--using Q'uo's jargon--"purified emotions" vibrating in tune with the Creatrix to a greater degree than we normally find. In that sense it's a wondrously beautiful thing, regardless of the unfortunate history of this or that word.
What can irk me about complaints regarding historical religion is that I often see this used as a means to avoid discussion of the more relevant aspects of a person's own spiritual seeking. That is, how does the topic at hand relate to one's own aversion to Divinity or to one's attraction to it or to what special places the experience of worship can lead the seeker in their meanderings? Asking how the pursuit of one's own purified emotions serves the Creatrix is a far more relevant topic (relevant to seeking) than how humans have screwed things up over time, in my view. Another example would be discussing, let's just say, your preference for using "OIC" compared to mine for using "Creatrix." Each term has little relevance to the experience of seeking compared with the experience we have of it and how that experience may enhance our being.
My point is that worship (and the purified emotions) can be a very profound element in the experience of a seeker, and this fact far outweighs the others.....in my personal estimation.
Bear with me please.
I say "irrelevant" because I view the act or experience of worship as--using Q'uo's jargon--"purified emotions" vibrating in tune with the Creatrix to a greater degree than we normally find. In that sense it's a wondrously beautiful thing, regardless of the unfortunate history of this or that word.
What can irk me about complaints regarding historical religion is that I often see this used as a means to avoid discussion of the more relevant aspects of a person's own spiritual seeking. That is, how does the topic at hand relate to one's own aversion to Divinity or to one's attraction to it or to what special places the experience of worship can lead the seeker in their meanderings? Asking how the pursuit of one's own purified emotions serves the Creatrix is a far more relevant topic (relevant to seeking) than how humans have screwed things up over time, in my view. Another example would be discussing, let's just say, your preference for using "OIC" compared to mine for using "Creatrix." Each term has little relevance to the experience of seeking compared with the experience we have of it and how that experience may enhance our being.
My point is that worship (and the purified emotions) can be a very profound element in the experience of a seeker, and this fact far outweighs the others.....in my personal estimation.