Fr. Seán ÓLaoire

Are you concerned about yourself?

You know, are you kind of concerned about the world or?

Is it a halo you're wearing right now or a tulpa?

So what kind of energy are you bringing to your day?

So that sense of an expansion of the notion of the self.

Because we're a cosmic being.

We're not even just a global being.

We're a cosmic being.

Right.

So it's interesting.

There's this notion of two kinds of religions, ascending religions and descending religions.

And it's interesting, if you put the two triangles together, you get the Star of David.

And so the ascending religions tend to be kind of more the monotheistic,

which is a kind of a Gnostic kind of reprehensibility about the body, that the body is evil and we're locked in these kind of suits, you know, sensual suits to get angry, whatever, and that we need to liberate ourselves, you know, and focus on the light.

And that's kind of the Luciferic impulse of kind of asceticism, you know, and the demeaning sensuality in all its forms, and trying to escape from it.

So that were the ascending religions.

The beauty of those is that, you know, there's a focus on the eternal life rather than just the physical life.

The descending religions tend to be more female and more polytheistic and much more based on a love of planet Earth, you know, and the delights of planet Earth, whether it's good food or good wine or good sex or whatever it is.

but kind of the eschewing of the notion that there's anything beyond.

You know, there's just about here and now.