Sometime ago, Psychology--as a field--moved in the direction of including spirituality as an important dimension of peoples' lives, and away from the longstanding position that God [and religion] was an unimportant concept...Now there are trainings, books, college courses on addressing the spiritual concerns of clients in therapy. As I was attending one lecture on this subject It got me to reflecting on the Essentials concept...it would be foolish to reject out of hand "any good thing," such as the concept of energy meridians or recent scientific discoveries about how the body [and brain] process pain signals, or the nuances of someone's culture and how it affects their viewpoint--that having been said, I propose that holding to a set of Essential beliefs and behaviors, while helping to define a spiritual position, should not be allowed to create an unassailable, Monolithic viewpoint...there is always diversity in religion [even within denominations]...this is probab...
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Yeah, I've read this. It sounds very good, but I believe this is the
same guy who described where he was as a place with clouds floating
around, A beautiful woman whom he apparently didn't know. Then he
talked with (and I forget the exact words here, but this is the idea)
the creator and sustainer of the entire Cosmos. The clouds in
particular sound more like a popular idea of heaven than what heaven
must really be like, In other words, although there are plenty of
near-death experiences that are convincing to me, I'm suspicious of
this one.
Thanks, Jim
I also think there may be some questionnable elements here, but I did find the main points compelling--such an experience when functionally brain-dead is a convincing element...I'm not sure that heaven would not have clouds?