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[dr del]

Hi,

I guess it depends on how much of an open (or closed) mind you have to spirituality over religion. It's along the similar lines of the buddhist belief of reaching enlightenment, once you learn to disconnect yourself from material possessions etc. etc.

Personally, I don't live with the goal of achieving 48 chromosomes, it's the idea behind the meaning. The concept of "reaching enlightenment" is far more intriguing to me than any religious material I've ever studied.

I have no problems with the spirituality and striving for betterment aspects - it was the bad science shoehorned into it that got on my goat.

I always get jumpy when people misunderstand the science they are using in arguments that shouldn't contain any at all - and doubly so when it enables some repugnant prejudices to seem sensible and accurate.

I have also been intrested in the concept or reaching an enlightened state of being many times in the past.

But how something which is described as trancending the physical can be tied to some fairly low level ( as in foundation ) biological characteristics escapes me.

If you tie biological evolution to spiritual evolution then you deny the possibility of individual growth or change. The species can get better as the generations pass but those born into a generation are fixed with a finite level cap at birth.

The mortification of the flesh is a fairly widespread concept in all spiritual paths but, if the two aspects are linked in a fixed way, it is absolutely the wrong approach.

Which means almost all religions with fasting, denial and scourging in the history of their founders, prophets and leaders are hampering the spiritual growth of the species.

The only possible get out clause would be transmogrification.


dr del