This class was precisely as I had suspected it to be, in that we would touch on various religions, their origins, their beliefs, and the philosophy behind these beliefs. I selected this class in the hope that I would broaden my frame of reference philosophically rather than religiously. And to be quite frank I dispensed with any curious thoughts about religious practices and their origins even before the class started. I make no claims to be an atheist or agnostic, I exist in pretty much the same way animals and trees do - oblivious to any spiritual dimensions in their existence. If anything I was much more akin to learn more philosophy from religion, more logic if you will. Even more I had a vested interest in Eastern philosophies, only because
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The temple was highly decorated and looked festive, a stark difference to most western Holy grounds where seems to overtly exercised. Ironically, despite the cheerful decoration of the temple and the shrines inside, what caught my attention was the presence of a mirror in one of the shrines. And as I reckon, temple guide Mohan informed us that looking at them mirror and seeing yourself was a subtle reminder that God is within us. Which was a slight disappointment for me because I was hoping he (Temple guide Mohan) would say that we’re all God’s, only that we’d suffered a serious case of spiritual amnesia and we had forgotten who we were; Gods. Then again we are all subject to our own biases aren’t …show more content…
He stated that Hinduism does entertain a certain level physics in that it recognized that we’re all made of matter, both animate and inanimate objects but exist at different frequencies I should add. This in fact got me wound up to the point that I researched on the weak link that exists between science and religion. I stumble upon a particularly interesting talk by Patricia Fara who explained that at one-point scientist were broken into two factions of belief. One faction believed that knowledge is power in the sense that if we gained knowledge about the world then we could understand God’s plan for the Universe, and the other half believed that if understood how the world works the we ourselves are gods because we could control how everything worked. All this knowledge I picked up as a result of one temple
The temple was highly decorated and looked festive, a stark difference to most western Holy grounds where seems to overtly exercised. Ironically, despite the cheerful decoration of the temple and the shrines inside, what caught my attention was the presence of a mirror in one of the shrines. And as I reckon, temple guide Mohan informed us that looking at them mirror and seeing yourself was a subtle reminder that God is within us. Which was a slight disappointment for me because I was hoping he (Temple guide Mohan) would say that we’re all God’s, only that we’d suffered a serious case of spiritual amnesia and we had forgotten who we were; Gods. Then again we are all subject to our own biases aren’t …show more content…
He stated that Hinduism does entertain a certain level physics in that it recognized that we’re all made of matter, both animate and inanimate objects but exist at different frequencies I should add. This in fact got me wound up to the point that I researched on the weak link that exists between science and religion. I stumble upon a particularly interesting talk by Patricia Fara who explained that at one-point scientist were broken into two factions of belief. One faction believed that knowledge is power in the sense that if we gained knowledge about the world then we could understand God’s plan for the Universe, and the other half believed that if understood how the world works the we ourselves are gods because we could control how everything worked. All this knowledge I picked up as a result of one temple