Re: The reason behind divine religions...
I entirely agree with CFT, but want to add that the reasons for the different styles, flavours, moods, etc., of religions is simply the cultural framework in which they arose. A mystic can only describe what s/he sees using terminology that s/he understands. While many or even most mystics might be seeing and experiencing the exact same things, the framework around that, what they call it, how they perceive it, etc., is going to be different. In some cases, it's so very different that unless one has done a fair bit of comparative religious study and is also able to step back and look at the bigger picture on a meta level, it's easy to think that religious traditions have little to do with each other, when, in fact, it's only the cultural trappings, dogma, and terminology which makes them seem different. The inherent mystical perceptions and experiences are the same, or as close to the same as people from very different eras, cultures, and outlooks can come to having the same experience.
May the light surround you, may you be blessed. May the light surround us, may we be blessed. May love and light surround us all, and may we all be healed and blessed. And so it is, and so it shall be, now and ever after.
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