02.08.10
Self-consciousness
The criticism of religion by secularists leaves them open to the question I just got over at The Gurdjieff Con.
There is a lot to say on that, but the best answer has to come from within each person. I wouln’t answer the question, on the grounds that it would lead to the pretense of spiritual guruhood of some kind, but in fact my answer is designed around secularism, and is a critique of the failure of many so-called secularists to understand what that is.
But in a nutshell the issue is one of human consciousness, as self-consciousness. This issue is universal, at the core of all religions (before being covered up), and the real core what should be the essence of secularism as much as religion. The monotheistic religions have perhaps produced a false obsession with ‘god’, which is a metaphysical cosmological wild goose chase, when the real issue is the ‘god within’ (god forbid it should be called that), human consciousness, transformed as self-consciousness.