All the great religions are centred on walking: Jesus in wilderness, Buddha walking, Mohammad crossing Arabia. The divine spark comes from the primal human need to walk: rhythm and ecstasy and closeness to death (harsh nomad life).
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This is where God or the divine is found. It’s why Nietzsche walked and Kant walked etc. Walking the path (the Tao is a path) to God. Religion comes with the cities and settlement. It is the husk or leavings of the divine.
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This is not to say religion is not important. It’s just that God isn’t where he says he is, he’s in the other place. That’s fine. People need their rituals, and God returns in a new wave of walking, nomadism, and, possibly, destruction.
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This is why even secular leftist movements are religions. They are the leavings of what was once a genuine divine mark, a degraded form of some really great mystical and divine experience. Decay and renewal. Decay and renewal.
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Motion and time are inextricably bound, and are the only "places" where we can feel the divine.
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