Myth as Religion

Myth as Religion

The methodology that we call science is relatively new in human history. Compare it to mankind’s ten-times longer quest to discover the nature of what was categorized as “spirit.” But in the brief span since Galileo’s day, science has cast revealing light on the subject which has immemorially been referred to as the Absolute. For example, no intelligent person believes, today, that a Deity created our planet, and its environs, less than five thousand years ago. A reassessment of the “heavens and earth” has been sudden and dramatic. At the beginning of the 20th Century, we knew that the universe comprised more than our sun and its nine planets visible to us. But still it was believed that our galaxy of stars was the extent of the universe. Today, we know that there are untold billions of galaxies inhabiting the universe, containing countless planetary solar systems akin to our own. Belief in a Jehovah, who labored only seven days and was satisfied with one solar system, is no longer credible. People are no longer entering churches, synagogues, temples, mosques or cathedrals in hope of coming face-to-face with anything that’s divine; presumed priestly intermediaries are now expected only to dole out old-fashioned morals and unrealistic ethics.

Yet the quest to personally know the truth of ultimate reality is unabated. Such knowledge is being sought outside of any self-identified religious institution. And what such institutions have persistently been incapable of delivering, is being discovered by increasing numbers of inquirers

whose intent is not persuasively sublimated by saccharine scriptures. Anyone, who is rational enough to know that climate change is not God’s punishment for the sanctioning of gay marriage, is capable of understanding the precepts of Self-realization—which has satisfied spiritual seekers in every time and place for millennia. Modern scientific inquiry has been an asset to sincere spiritual inquirers; and it has been a demolisher of the ancient tribal superstitions that we know today as religions. Myth is not truth. Truth is not myth.