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Toward A Physical Theory of the Source of Religion
Author(s) -
SCHROLL MARK A.
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
anthropology of consciousness
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.117
H-Index - 14
eISSN - 1556-3537
pISSN - 1053-4202
DOI - 10.1525/ac.2005.16.1.56
Subject(s) - transpersonal , mainstream , construct (python library) , race (biology) , epistemology , sociology , environmental ethics , aesthetics , philosophy , theology , gender studies , computer science , programming language
Huston Smith has argued that the universal source of wholeness, which he refers to as the primordial tradition, is essential to a meaningful life. Indeed embracing this tradition is, said Smith, an act of rejoining the human race. Our current forms of organized religion offer us ritualized expressions of this tradition, yet often fail to provide us with transpersonal growth; it is this transpersonal growth that reconnects us with the source of religion. This essay differentiates mainstream religion from a way that we can begin to construct a physical theory of the primordial tradition–a necessary first step toward reclaiming the source of religion.