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(1089.11) 99:4.3 True religion is a meaningful way of living dynamically face to face with the commonplace realities of everyday life. But if religion is to stimulate individual development of character and augment integration of personality, it must not be standardized. If it is to stimulate evaluation of experience and serve as a value-lure, it must not be stereotyped. If religion is to promote supreme loyalties, it must not be formalized.(1089.12) 99:4.4 No matter what upheavals may attend the social and economic growth of civilization, religion is genuine and worth while if it fosters in the individual an experience in which the sovereignty of truth, beauty, and goodness prevails, for such is the true spiritual concept of supreme reality. And through love and worship this becomes meaningful as fellowship with man and sonship with God.
(1090.1) 99:4.5 After all, it is what one believes rather than what one knows that determines conduct and dominates personal performances. Purely factual knowledge exerts very little influence upon the average man unless it becomes emotionally activated. But the activation of religion is superemotional, unifying the entire human experience on transcendent levels through contact with, and release of, spiritual energies in the mortal life.
(1090.2) 99:4.6 During the psychologically unsettled times of the twentieth century, amid the economic upheavals, the moral crosscurrents, and the sociologic rip tides of the cyclonic transitions of a scientific era, thousands upon thousands of men and women have become humanly dislocated; they are anxious, restless, fearful, uncertain, and unsettled; as never before in the world’s history they need the consolation and stabilization of sound religion. In the face of unprecedented scientific achievement and mechanical development there is spiritual stagnation and philosophic chaos.
(1090.3) 99:4.7 There is no danger in religion’s becoming more and more of a private matter — a personal experience — provided it does not lose its motivation for unselfish and loving social service. Religion has suffered from many secondary influences: sudden mixing of cultures, intermingling of creeds, diminution of ecclesiastical authority, changing of family life, together with urbanization and mechanization.
(1090.4) 99:4.8 Man’s greatest spiritual jeopardy consists in partial progress, the predicament of unfinished growth: forsaking the evolutionary religions of fear without immediately grasping the revelatory religion of love. Modern science, particularly psychology, has weakened only those religions which are so largely dependent upon fear, superstition, and emotion.
(1090.5) 99:4.9 Transition is always accompanied by confusion, and there will be little tranquillity in the religious world until the great struggle between the three contending philosophies of religion is ended:
(1090.6) 99:4.10 1. The spiritistic belief (in a providential Deity) of many religions.(1090.9) 99:4.13 And these three partial approaches to the reality of the cosmos must eventually become harmonized by the revelatory presentation of religion, philosophy, and cosmology which portrays the triune existence of spirit, mind, and energy proceeding from the Trinity of Paradise and attaining time-space unification within the Deity of the Supreme.
(1090.7) 99:4.11 2. The humanistic and idealistic belief of many philosophies.
(1090.8) 99:4.12 3. The mechanistic and naturalistic conceptions of many sciences.
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THE TWO PERCENT SOLUTION
Nassim Haramein
author The Black Hole
I found this video on Daily Motion. It is 46 minutes long, but worth every minute. There are twvideos in this presentation. It is clearly put and easY to grasp the overall theory. Nassim is a Swiss born physicist who has had problems with acceptance of his calculations by Quantum theorists. I see his conclusions based on lots of basic laws of physics and even more common reasoning.He proposes that we are all part of one whole that is formed by patterns or waves. He recognizes the Fibinacci curve as the basic pattern of all creation and get this our universe is a Black Hole because if follows the criteria for such in every measurable way.
Perhaps he is the Einstein of the day.
See the video on http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xrp0po_black-whole-part1_tech
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