I love to play with words! And worlds come to that, since words which become languages of different kinds, become stories which in turn become the worlds we see and hear, smell and touch, experience each uniquely as they are processed through uniquely conditioned brains or minds.
So, why you might ask, do whole swathes of human beings, agree on particular and often peculiar realities, more or less? Taking a standpoint of ethics, for example, killing each other has generally been forbidden for most of the societies on Planet Earth for at least three thousand years. Exceptions are made at different times in different cultures. For example Governments reserve the right to kill those they perceive as dangerous to the interests of those who control the Government. Cynics sometimes sneer at uncivilized societies who not only fight each other tribally but also eat the dead bodies of casualties. A more rounded view points out that the practice is justified since it honours the slain and saves the effort and danger of hunting wild animals for meat. Meanwhile, hypocrites from more advanced civilisations happily execute legally transgressors of their laws, especially those who can't afford top lawyers, whilst espousing Christianity fervently and committing innumerable atrocities; perhaps the most egregious example being the high level dropping of nuclear bombs on two cities in Japan. These were clearly war crimes, justified by the sadistic nature of the guards in the Prisoner of War camps in Burma and other places.
Now it is not unknown for women to be violent, but Herstory might say compassion and forgiveness are vital and ethics essential along with cooperation, whilst History tends to favour competition and the consequent violence seen in regimes especially those holding Judao-Christian views, with a Creator God, always male, often smiting or allowing world wars, earthquakes, capital punishment despite claiming omniscience and omnipotence.
Atheists reject the whole system, but that's throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
Where then does Mystery enter the story?
Well, Mystery as a word of course is often used by religious fanatics to justify the ubiquitous violence described above, but that's false. In fact any attempt to organise the Truth is doomed to fail, since it seems what some call God and others not is impossible to describe or nail down. Religions as fellowships are fine in moderation, but appointing bossy blokes and, even women in some non-conformist organisations, undermines the integrity of the follower as well as the leader or guru.
Mystory on the other hand infers that Truth may better be approached through the Consciousness of each and every human being, an ancient heresy often rewarded by men and women finding themselves tortured and burnt alive for expressing their opinion. The heresy, or mystery, is gaining ground these days by mystics and scientists alike, confident to embrace the amazing and inspirational idea that God, Allah, Jehovah, Dao and so on exists in each of us and everywhere in Nature, in every atom, not separate, interconnected.
Immanent ...
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