For fun: lets create a religion...

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The One Soul


All souls are made of energy, and all energy is connected, therefore, there is only one soul.

We are explorers, inhabiting bodies to experience and expand the parameters of life in the universe.


The only things we take with us when we die are our memories, so fill them with compassion, curiosity and joy. Where do those memories go? Back to the One Soul. The purpose of life is to expand the consciousness of the One Soul.



What does that mean to me?

Reincarnation and karma are laws of quantum physics, not theology.

-Whatever you do unto the least of these, you do unto yourself.

-Whatever world you leave to your enemies' children, you leave to yourself.

-Whatever harm you commit on another will come back on you, within the cycles of time.

-Treat everyone and everything as sacred to elevate the resonance and expand the reach of the One Soul.


You are a single embodiment of the One Soul.

L Ron Hubbard came up with a third rate science fiction type of religion and called it Scientology.

If I was coming up with my own third rate religion, it would require everyone to wear western outfits including cowboy hats, belts, and pointy toed western boots. Also, everyone would have a last name of Johnson and we'd all live in towns named Rock Ridge and have a black sheriff.

One where *not* fornicating is a sin.

I think our religion needs to have something very similar to Sartre's concept of "good faith" ("bonne foi") and "bad faith" ("mauvaise foi"). When people have "bad faith", they have lost the perspective that people are human enough to deserve being treated as though they have agency, a freedom of perspective and meaning-making, etc. Even though some authority figure may be - according to objective measurement - competent in what they teach, or have authority over, they don't necessarily possess "good faith".

You might assume "good faith" is some sort of freebie assumption which can be taken for granted, especially in our prospective religion's clergy/leadership. But without really nailing it down, don't assume or expect that it will be respected in the followers, longer-term. Agency will be co-opted by some opportunistic jerk who seizes power, once a chance appears.

Since autistic people can have unique things that make them happy or joyous, how can some religion, with strong views as to exactly where happiness is and is not to be found, pertain to them?

Interesting recent article:
"Autistic people seem to feel joy differently – here’s what it can tell us about neurodivergence":
https://theconversation.com/autistic-pe ... nce-273403