THIS Rhett Butler Will Never Die

 Continuing from the premise I established yesterday, the human mind perceives the outer world through lenses of perception that tint the actual reality we are experiencing with diluted theories that can lead us astray in many ways. Religion is such a lens of perception. It's also a rather dangerous one. In my experience, religion is what opened my eyes to a quicker way of remembering the divine . And that's really what I want to talk about mainly in today's posting. DIVINITY . I may end up stating that divinity  is also created by a lens. But for the most part of my experience, becoming able to recognize divinity in the world is one of the most tantamount achievements we as humans can attain. I need to be wary of causing a sense of separation to be construed. That those who practice religion do not necessarily experience the divine. This is possible, and not a hard or fast rule at all.  So basically, the material of religion, the bibles, the Sistine Chapels, the prayers,...

 but when I employ this maxim thru blog-speak, I'm sure it sounds like all I do is complain. That is not my intention. One of the big things I've learned from Lorie Ladd is that we as individuals, choose to examine the world thru a variety of "lenses"... there are many myriad types of lenses that we can view the world thru, and we can change them as frequently as our initiative to "take a fresh look at things" occurs to us.   For instance, we can view the world (and ourselves, our personal lives) thru a lens of "victimhood". Imagine this quite figuratively, that we wear a pair of glasses (lenses) that program our minds to believe that we are a victim in this world. Someone could experience some hardship in their lives that adjusted their self-opinion to believe the narrative of victimhood and begin to live underneath the power of that programming. I know I've done this at various times in my life. It takes an experience of enlightenment, viewin...