From: Case (Case@iSpots.com)
Date: Sat Oct 22 2005 - 06:37:11 BST
[Rebacca}
The Wikipedia quote you gave pretty well sums it up. The Christian
experience seems to be analogous, except there's one big difference. When
one becomes a born again Christian, one has a vast set of static patterns to
latch onto (if you will). You have a community to belong to as well as
tenents and scripture to follow. When you're 'born again' after a drug
trip, you don't have any of those things to use as a guide to your 'new
life'. It can be jarring and disconcerting to have your world change but
not know how to deal with that new reality.
Of course it's not 'necessary' to trip out to experience DQ. You're
experiencing it now... and now... and now :). Hallucinogens help you to
abandon static patterns that get in the way of experiencing DQ. If you try
to latch on to 'static reality' when you're in the depths of a mushroom
binge, you're going to have one hell of a bad trip.
Other questions? :)
[Case]
When Jesus talked about having to be born again to attain the Kingdom of God
there were no Christian scriptures or tenants to tie you down. He may have
been talking about the Jewish law. But Jesus offered a new perspective on
that law. He said that observance of the law externally was not as important
as acceptance of the law internally. He was talking about the law written on
ones heart. What you are talking about is the mound of the bullshit (note
the clever return to the thread topic) that has been piled up around Jesus'
words ever since. The way Jesus spoke of being born again always reminds me
of the Buddhist notion of the beginner's mind.
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