Abstract
Religion means to return to the root and was created to give humankind a path back to our source of existence. While religions vary and grew out of specific cultural and political contexts, all major religions are founded upon unity. For example, Ecud, in Hebrew, Ekam in Sanskrit and Unum in Latin mean one and are central to the ideology of unity. As the wave of the ocean is the ocean; it can never be separated or isolated. To establish this unity, each religion has its own Cosmogony, a parable of the creative process of the human, based on the principle, “As the macrocosm, so the microcosm.” This means the individual holds the same power and function as the universe. The etymology of the word God has Persian or Sanskrit roots and means one who comes by oneself. We will demonstrate this relationship through well-known cosmogonies such as The Turtle Island of the Indigenous people of the Americas, the Genesis of the Judeo-Christian and Islamic world, and the story of Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva-involution, evolution, dissolution of the Vedic world. We will also highlight Mary Magdalene and Thomas’ Apocrypha to exemplify Jesus’s teachings of unity. In our paper, we consider how religion can be taken back to its pristine position of unity for the further evolution of humanity where justice and equality can be established and each individual can reclaim their own creative power.
Presenters
Indrani MargolinAssociate Professor, School of Social Work, University of Northern British Columbia, British Columbia, Canada Tulshi Sen
Consultant, Author, Poet, Tulshi Sen Consulting
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Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
KEYWORDS
Cosmogonies, Unity, Apocrapha, Creative Intelligence, Imaginative Intelligence, Psychology, Creativity
