Fundamental Question

‘Fundamental’ means the basics at the beginning. Everybody who goes down the road of religion goes through a fundamental stage. Yet some people choose to stay in fundamentalism the rest of their lives. We all go through school; why would some want to stay in first grade for the rest of their lives? I suppose that the further you go down the road of religion the more you approach mystery, just as the further you go with education the more you realize the less you know. For those who aren’t prepared to approach mystery – whether through ignorance, lack of ego strength, fear of the unknown, or cultivated infantile loyalty and dependence on authority to provide answers – growth of the spirit is stopped. What could these people have been? What would the world be like should more people continue to grow spiritually?

Teaching, on the family, social. and spiritual levels, is a big responsibility. To be able to recognize those more advanced than yourself is merely responsible, and humble.