Toward A Physical Theory of the Source of Religion

Anthropology of Consciousness 16 (1):56-69 (2005)
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Abstract

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.

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