syncretic streamings (--- or: body, gnosis & human adventure)

[Terrance]

Lorentzen / Nicklaus wrote:
>   "all true religion corresponds to the cosmic, 'oceanic' experience of man. all
> true religion contains the experience of a unity with an omnipresent power, and
> simultaneously of temporary painful seperation from this power. the eternal
> longing for return to one's origin ('return to the womb'; 'return to the good
> earth from whence one came'; 'return to the arms of god' etc), for being
> embraced again by 'the eternal', pervades all human longing. it is at the roots
> of man's great intellectual and artistic creations; it is the core of his
> longing during adolescence; it pervades all great goals of social organization.
> it appears as if man yearns to comprehend his separation from the cosmic ocean;
> such ideas as 'sin' have their origin in an attempt to explain the separation.
> there must be a reason for not being united with 'god'; there must be a way to
> unite again, to return, to come home."
> 
>               (wilhelm reich: ether, god and devil)
> 
>  ... blue wax is bubbling in my rocket-lamp ... kfl ...
> 

This is an excellent summary of the longing in GR that leads
to annihilation and death. This longing to unite (S I N btw,
for the scientific attempt to return by understanding,
revealing, controlling the mysteries of Earth, is
JAMF'S--Jiveassmotherfucker's formula) with the whole, to
return home (religious--Slothrop the Prodigal son returning
to Mass., etc.).