RELIGIOUS HALLUCINATIONS SYMBOLIZE OBJECTIFICATION OF WISHFUL THINKING !
Since time immemorial,credulous religious followers have suffered from several kind of hallucinations.Accordingly dependence on religious hallucinations have caused widespread 'divine' disappointments from time to time.Today,it is well known that psychedelic symptoms and signs observed in drug addicts and visions of delirious patients are also hallucinations.
Here in this part of country,there exists related tradition of 'chowki' and subsequent 'darshan' of 'devi-who takes over the subject'.It is quite interesting to know that during the period of supposed divine take over,subjects see the vision of god only in the forms familiar to them and receive revelations of message,in Dogri language,which they know.Now generally speaking,a Hindu sees the vision of 'god' with four hands[only Hindu 'gods/goddess'],whereas a Christian sees only Jesus on the cross or carrying a lamb or healing a leper.A Muslim devotee hears the message of supposed brotherhood or of Jihad according to concrete shapes to any imaginations.It is quite 'logical' too,as respective followers have been indoctrinated in their childhood and hallucinations are strictly in accordance to childhood indoctrination.
I have read somewhere one interesting and related anecdote.A Christian girl who could not make up her mind,whether to marry or not,finally listened to the Church bell,telling her 'ma-rry'[based on sound of the bell].After some years,when her marriage proved utter failure,she again went to Church,again listened to the same ding dong of the Church bell,telling her 'di-vorce'.And here was divine command to act.
Religious hallucinations are therefore subjective realities and objective falsehoods.
Since time immemorial,credulous religious followers have suffered from several kind of hallucinations.Accordingly dependence on religious hallucinations have caused widespread 'divine' disappointments from time to time.Today,it is well known that psychedelic symptoms and signs observed in drug addicts and visions of delirious patients are also hallucinations.
Here in this part of country,there exists related tradition of 'chowki' and subsequent 'darshan' of 'devi-who takes over the subject'.It is quite interesting to know that during the period of supposed divine take over,subjects see the vision of god only in the forms familiar to them and receive revelations of message,in Dogri language,which they know.Now generally speaking,a Hindu sees the vision of 'god' with four hands[only Hindu 'gods/goddess'],whereas a Christian sees only Jesus on the cross or carrying a lamb or healing a leper.A Muslim devotee hears the message of supposed brotherhood or of Jihad according to concrete shapes to any imaginations.It is quite 'logical' too,as respective followers have been indoctrinated in their childhood and hallucinations are strictly in accordance to childhood indoctrination.
I have read somewhere one interesting and related anecdote.A Christian girl who could not make up her mind,whether to marry or not,finally listened to the Church bell,telling her 'ma-rry'[based on sound of the bell].After some years,when her marriage proved utter failure,she again went to Church,again listened to the same ding dong of the Church bell,telling her 'di-vorce'.And here was divine command to act.
Religious hallucinations are therefore subjective realities and objective falsehoods.
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