Belief Systems AND Psychosocial Maturity?

      "Religion is important to people. Returning to the words of William James, it deals with 'whatever is seen as most primal and enveloping and deeply true'.
     However, if religions are captured by the ego habits of the outer mind and used to comfort and aggrandize the outer self, the mixture can become explosive. The dualities of a good me & mine versus an evil other soon follow, and shortly 'ignorant armies clash by night.'
     Yet religion may also be the institution in society that most readily specializes in the center of the mandala, in those faculties of the human that might lie below the surface of the mind or dwell beyond the mind altogether (which, as we have seen, does not have to be given a theistic interpretation). There are presently spiritual renewal movements in all the major religions. What magic might happen were each religion to find and embrace its own inner wisdom path?"
       Eleanor Rosch, Professor, University of California, Berkley
       "Beginner’s Mind: Paths to the Wisdom that is Not Learned" in Ferrari M, Potworowski G, eds. “Teaching for Wisdom: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Fostering Wisdom.” Heidelberg: Springer. 2008.

      See also "Faith?": http://healthyhealers.blogspot.ca/2012/03/faith.html

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