A Few Thoughts On Death and Life Thereafter

There is an awful lot of self-serving drivel written in the name of the unverified being most folk call god. Most of it is a self-perpetuating cruel con that tends to get in the way of any genuine reverence for the universe we find ourselves in. How that helps anyone's personal spiritual development is truly baffling.

It follows that most of what gets written about the personal journey all we humans undergo is either obfuscatory or simply incomprehensible. Occasionally, nestled like a hidden pearl in a rancid oyster, a thing of true beauty can be found. To my perspective the following words penned by John Spivey as comment #44 to this interesting and thoughtful article posted by Blogcritic chantal stone, who, by the way, is as gifted a photographer as she is wordsmith.

However, this is about reverence and awe so let's move on to Mr Spivey's comment to chantal's Blogcritics.org: A Few Thoughts On Death and Life Thereafter:

"I have struggled to understand how faith makes us spiritual. It has seemed to me to be the lazy person's way out of coming to grips with life and meaning, an absolution of the difficulties of the path.

Faith has never saved me, never healed the pain of my life, never provided balm for watching the cruelties of the world. When I observe what life really is and throw off my judgments and blinders, I fall into a mystery and awe that takes me deeper into being here, deeper into being human. At that moment I understand things that I can't explain. Paradoxically I feel that I come closer to something called god by becoming more deeply human. When I again fear life I suddenly lose it all."

For me, there's as much insight in that short statement as a lifetime's worth of studying the Bible, Torah and Koran - plus which you get to have a life as well!