Pachinko Minds
( Copyright 2021 Don Ray. Feel free to print and share.)
Our minds rattle through their pachinko (a Japanese vertical pinball game) path of development, bouncing this way and that, sometimes literally bouncing, starting from circumstances of childhood. From that starting point the aggregate human perception evolves as inexorably as biological evolution, a progression (as distinguished from progress) dictated by a statistical mish-mosh of influences subtle and jarring. Along this path, a new philosophy, religion, or life-perspective may be as useful as tapioca to a tomato..
The fracking field worker beaten by their alcoholic father, the woman raised with a mother’s emotional denigration, these and countless victims of human parents, each and all of us, have trodden their spiritual evolutionary path to their specific point that can accept only certain forms of spiritual nourishment.
Evolutionary selection also shapes spiritual messages, incomprehensible foundational truth being filtered, distilled, and distorted to accommodate the capacity of the populace.
An accidental mutation in a random environment allows a lucky species to thrive. An eccentric teaching in a destabilized society allows a religion to take root.
Ironically the statistically random results are majestic, revealing a structure of Life embedded in the primal foundations of the universe, unveiling loving Purpose patiently waiting on the free choice of its battered and misled children.
( Copyright 2021 Don Ray. Feel free to print and share.)
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