Spiritual growth is a dangerous journey.

God, through Jeremiah, said:
"They will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest of them."
and Jesus said:
"The Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name,
will teach you all things".
Yet these statements are anathema to the Churches.
Open the flood-gates to chaos,
The spiritual tide-race.

Where there is a need for stability, a consensus of opinion, agreement
it makes no sense to seek beyond the visible horizon;
it makes no sense to challenge or confront
to undermine the function of religion
comfortable and consensual
a spiritual haven.

Yet digging only slightly deeper into what we are called to believe
and into why these beliefs arose, into how those beliefs were formed,
leads to a point where our ideas no longer fit orthodox teaching.
No longer fit the standard pattern for a congregation:
..those waiting for someone to set them free;
..those passively, prayerfully, sitting and waiting
..those held firm at the door to their personal prison.

We need either to dig deeper or return, defeated, to the surface
there is no option of remaining suspended where we are
poised on the slippery slope of superstition.

We may abandon reality, sink into the comfort of myth,
and comply verbally to the concepts of orthodox conformity,
or discard a theology shaped by self-interest and ignorance
and find our own way to the reality of divinity.

Yet to broadcast such views brings condemnation,
exclusion from the councils of religion.
Rejection.

Do we all see that the "emperor is naked",
but fear to comment for the sake of communal conformity?