THE SPIRITUAL LIFE
IN
MODERN TIMES

What's Hot...and What's Not

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Hot: "Seeking"
Not: "Believing"

Hot: Find out for yourself
Not: Pre-packaged belief systems

Hot: Open-mindedness
Not: Fundamentalism

Hot: Personal exploration
Not: Organized religion

Hot: Questioning, examining, and thinking
Not: Blind faith

Hot: Religion as a history lesson (Eg. "Jesus went here, did this; Buddha went there, said that")
Not: What is happening here, now?

Hot: Your true self as the final authority
Not: The minister/priest/book as the unquestionable authority

Hot: Clarifying basic assumptions
Not: More and more and more information

Hot: Direct knowledge
Not: Indirect, secondhand knowledge

Hot: Following the lead of the founders of various religions.
Not: Merely glorifying the founders of various religions.

Hot: Religious tolerance
Not: "The religion I was born into is right, and the only one that's right."

Hot: Think for yourself
Not: "I'll do the thinking for both of us"

Hot: A rigorous investigation of spiritual truth
Not: Science verses religion; religion verses science

Hot: Alternative, "non-mainstream" spirituality
Not: Cults

Hot: Asking, "What do you really know for sure?"
Not: Unquestionable assumptions/sacred cows

Hot: "Why do I believe this?"
Not: "This is what I believe."

Hot: "Coaching"
Not: Preaching

Hot: "I know."
Not: "I believe"

Hot: We are evolving creatures
Not: We are fallen creatures

Hot: Bliss and ecstasy
Not: Guilt

Hot: "Look what I've discovered."
Not: "You should believe what I tell you to."

Hot: Experience
Not: Theory

Hot: Sexuality in harmony with spirituality
Not: Sex as sinful

Hot: Questioning advice
Not: Taking advice

Hot: Individuality
Not: Conformity

Hot: Lively but respectful dialogue
Not: My religion/guru can beat up your religion/guru

Hot: Religion as translational and ego-consoling
Not: Spirituality as transformational and ego-annihilating

Hot: Actively working
Not: Passively waiting (i.e. for "grace," "faith," "heaven," the "second coming," etc)

Hot: "Bridging heaven and earth"
Not: "The flesh at war with the spirit"

Hot: Friendship in the investigation of truth
Not: Sectarianism in dogma

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