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We’ve been discussing scientific revolutions - the type evidenced in the change from Ptolemy to Copernicus, from Aristotle to Newton, from Newton to Einstein. These upheavals have changed the way we’ve understood the world to be. Similarly, we could identify political revolutions, when there has been a change in ideology, governance and leadership. We speak of the Socialist or Communist revolution of the last century. Religious conversion sometimes happens in such a discontinuous way. Suddenly we are thrown into a crisis in which our old ways of understanding and believing are no longer sufficient. We try to solve the puzzle in relation to our old successful way of doing. Perhaps our religious system is satisfactory to respond to the demands, perhaps it is laid bare as inadequate to the task at hand. We then become open to considering alternate systems of belief which more closely correspond to reality. Perhaps we even experience a conversion. We see things which we heretofore hidden from us. We understand the world in a new way and fix our beliefs accordingly. Today, consider your own system of religious beliefs. Are you experiencing a period of stability or crisis? If the latter, how do you go about your search for a more adequate paradigm? Questions? Email us at:
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