The Sacred Myth of Freedom! posted by Ed and Deb Shapiro.
These two parts, to me, stood out most:
As the Christian theologian, Matthew Fox says in our book, Be the Change, “If you think of God as a being in the sky, if you think theistically that I am here and God is out there some place and I am talking to this being called God, then I am asking this being called God as some kind of Santa Claus… So what is prayer in that context? It is not about asking for something or projecting onto another being out there someplace. Jesus taught this when he said the kingdom of God is among you and is within you.”
The myth of freedom is that someone else can act as an intermediary between ourselves and God, making him or her intermediary sacred. In fact the truth—God, the Universe, the Divine—is already within us. It is simply our own limitations that bind us, the dust on the mirror that prevents us from seeing our true reflection, for are we not God’s image in human form? Is the idea not to find God or Reality in each one of us?
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