The brain needs security, otherwise it cannot function. So it finds security in a belief, in an image, in rituals, in the propaganda of 2,000 or 5,000 years. And there, there is a sense of safety, comfort, security, wellbeing, an image of somebody greater than me who is looking after me; inwardly they is responsible. When you are asking a human being to negate all that, one is faced with an immense sense of danger and one becomes panicked. So to see all that, to see the absurdity of all the present religions, the utter meaninglessness of it all, and to face being totally insecure, and not be frightened. from Dialogue 15 with Allan W. Anderson in San Diego, California, 27 February 1974 Read more |