It is alarming, how far our culture has come from its spiritual origins, how strongly it embraces the very technology that is the very antithesis of our truest self. All data, all the time is information without application. Lethal to the human spirit.
Two things come to mind - the NSA & the G.C.
The NSA boasts unimaginable information harvesting capabilities, yet never has our on-the-ground intelligence abilities been lacking. All data, very little effective information. Agencies that gather without sharing, that spin its spycraft without producing a safety net to protect the people whose freedoms they've trampled in the name of liberty.
The General Church isn't much better. The leaders don't even seem to be able to read their own resource materials. First up - Emanuel Swedenborg never set out to establish an organized religion. He was a revelator, not a religious figure. To base a worldly religion on the Writings is to use God's revelation for purpose it was never designed to serve. Second - read the Writings. Without the benefit of feminine perception, men are capable of intelligence without wisdom. Where does that leave a male-only priesthood? Just asking.
The NSA seems to feel that the more data we get, the safer & secure we will be. The G.C. seems to feel that the more we read, the higher our understanding, the deeper our spiritual life. Neither makes any sense.
The NSA is an example of testasterone-driven thinking gone wild & ultimately amuck. The G.C. is an example of testasterone-driven thinking cocooning itself into a space where it can only go so far, where it can never transform into a butterfly.
sigh...
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