nonduality -- the religion "stripped and plain," "of simplicity and scope,"
as *H.G. Wells* described it in 1923, for new world religion and education
to unify and civilize world: Wayne Ferguson: Rich Murray 2012.07.18
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Perhaps it is nonduality as we see it emerging that is the religion
"stripped and plain," "of simplicity and scope," as *H.G. Wells* describes
it below. Thanks to* Wayne Ferguson* for sending this to us.
Not sure if I ever shared this with any of you, but I often think that
Nonduality (loosely speaking) is going to provide the context in which this
"prophesy" will be fulfilled (dovetailing nicely with Sufism &
Contemplative Christianity -- not to mention Hinduism and Buddhism).
Eckhart Tolle's popularity marked the point of critical mass -- just a
matter of time now... :-)
*The Future Role of Religion in Education, by H.G. Wells*
*Note:* This is an excerpt from H.G. Wells' *Outline of History*
The overriding powers that hitherto in the individual soul and in the
community have struggled and prevailed against the ferocious, base, and
individual impulses that divide us from one another, have been the powers
of religion and education.
Religion and education, those closely interwoven influences, have made
possible the greater human societies whose growth we have traced in this
Outline, they have been the chief synthetic forces throughout this great
story of enlarging human co-operations that we have traced from its
beginnings.
We have found in the intellectual and theological conflicts of the
nineteenth century the explanation of that curious exceptional
disentanglement of religious teaching from formal education which is a
distinctive feature of our age, and we have traced the consequences of this
phase of religious disputation and confusion in the reversion of
international politics towards a brutal nationalism and in the backward
drift of industrial and business life towards harsh, selfish, and
uncreative profit-seeking. There has been a slipping off of ancient
restraints; a real decivilization of men's minds.
*We would lay stress here on the suggestion that this divorce of religious
teaching from organized education is necessarily a temporary one,* a
transitory dislocation, and that presently education must become again in
intention and spirit religious, and that the impulse to devotion, to
universal service and to a complete escape from self, which has been the
common underlying force in all the great religions of the last five and
twenty centuries, an impulse which ebbed so perceptibly during the
prosperity, laxity, disillusionment, and scepticism of the past seventy or
eighty years, will reappear again, stripped and plain, as the recognized
fundamental structural impulse in human society.
Education is the preparation of the individual for the community, and his
religious training is the core of that preparation. With the great
intellectual restatements and expansions of the nineteenth century, an
educational break-up, a confusion and loss of aim in education, was
inevitable. We can no longer prepare the individual for a community when
our ideas of a community are shattered and undergoing reconstruction.
The old loyalties, the old too limited and narrow political and social
assumptions, the old too elaborate religious formulae, have lost their
power of conviction, and the greater ideas of a world state and of an
economic commonweal have been winning their way only very slowly to
recognition. So far they have swayed only a minority of exceptional people.
*But out of the trouble and tragedy of this present time there may emerge a
moral and intellectual revival, a religious revival, of a simplicity and
scope to draw together men of alien races and now discrete traditions into
one common and sustained way of living for the world's service.*
We cannot foretell the scope and power of such a revival; we cannot even
produce evidence of its onset. The beginnings of such things are never
conspicuous. Great movements of the racial soul come at first *like a thief
in the night*, and then suddenly are discovered to be powerful and
world-wide. Religious emotion -- stripped of corruptions and freed from its
last priestly entanglements -- may presently blow, through life again like
a great wind, bursting the doors and flinging open the shutters of the
individual life, and making many things possible and easy that in these
present days of exhaustion seem almost too difficult to desire.
[*Note:* This selection has been excerpted from the 1923 *"Definitive
Edition"* of H.G. Wells' *Outline o
