Spirituality, Religion, Idolatry & the Bananna

[Guest guest]

i have heard it said, that spirituality is the bananna and religion is

the bananna peel. i don't see it like that. i don't give religion

that

much importance. spirituality is the ENTIRE bananna, peel and all --

our experience itself, our existence and the experience that arises

out

of it, of existing, anywhere at all, here, in the here and now.

spirituality is orgnic experience. religion is something fabricated,

not

organic to the bananna. religion is a story the bananna tells itself

in

it's meandering dreaming of itself -- religion is a dream that arises

out of the bananna's sleeping, and waking of itself, an attempt to

make

meaning of experience. idolotry is not so simply the worship of graven

Images as in pictures, statues, but also graven Forms, and religion is

one such graven form. first the bananna dreams it's dream of itself,

and then, the bananna isolates certain parts of the dreaming and makes

them static. religions are stories we tell ourself about our

experience,

and it is idolotrous to put religion above people. people have the

sacred life force moving through them. religions are like idols,

static

forms, created by humans, it seems to me, and when we make religions

more important than people, we are in idolotry or false worship. it

seems to me, it is better to worship the life force itself, which is

the

source, which comes from the source, and moves back to the source,

which

is another story the bananna told itself upon waking from the dream.

then the bananna went back to sleep. i guess i've got about as much

as i

can get out of mythologizing the bananna. thanks for listening,

cathie