We take people to the threshold of religion. Our aim is to induce immediate experience that is beyond the odd, beyond the strange, and beyond the weird. It verges on the wholly other.
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If we admit a thing so extraordinary as the creation of this world, it should seem that we admit something strange, and odd, and new to human apprehension, beyond any other miracle whatsoever.
Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.
People are drawn to the spiritual. It has a universal appeal.
Spirituality is meant to take us beyond our tribal identity into a domain of awareness that is more universal.
There is a great interest in comparative religion and a desire to understand faiths other than our own and even to experiment with exotic cults.
I just think in this world of extreme religious pluralism, the great spectrum of things ranging from the healthy and the respectable, and the balance and the true and tried, you go down to quite bizarre things which are very risky for people, particularly people who are young or vulnerable or unable to discriminate.
The new spirituality is that it will produce an experience in human encounters in which we become a living demonstration of the basic spiritual teaching 'We are all one.'
The emotions that sustain religious belief are all, in fact, deeply ordinary and deeply recognisable to anybody who has ever made their way across the common ground of human experience as an adult.
Religion as a human phenomenon is as riddled through with potential for both good and evil as any other phenomenon.
Through some combination of culture and biology, our minds are intuitively receptive to religion.
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