Putting some belief back in secularism — part 1

It is a modern case.

I am asking: where have all the angels, demons and the magical — maybe call it mysticism- gone? For They seemed all too real for our ancestors. Our fascination with the other dimensions is history. It is the very thing that caused the urge of history and has been prominently present ever since. But the mystical seems to take a very cold corner in our secular modern world.

With the advent of the scientific method and technology, have we simply enlarged our perspective and sight to a point where we see how irrelevant spirits&co are (and always were)? Or have we been narrowing our perspective and outlook for so long that we even forgot the sight of the other world or its existence?

Religions are supposedly the most devoted guardians at the gates of the mystical. In the secular modern state and way of life we inhabit however, even religions become dull and their angels and demons mere legends exclusively living in the ancient scriptures, but never outside, now and in the “real world”.

Every day “Religious people” _I admit, extremely crude categorization there_ can picture mystical narratives in ancient times as they are told to believe, but the overwhelming majority barely “believe” in the daily. Where it matters. The mainstream rituals of the dominant religions cultivate a postponed faint belief in the otherworldly. Suspended in perpetuity by the daily exercise of practicality.

The idea of lacing math with poetry, for one, sounds preposterous to us. For math is a “hard science”, the hardest of them all actually, having very pertinent repercussions and value. Poetry, let us be honest, is an exercise in futility only warranted in “spare-time” and for “entertainment”.

Clearly, many of our ancestors have a different idea about math and poetry. For mixing the two (and many others) is “commonplace” in Islamic science writings for example.

To actually belong and be practical now, one needs to be serious. Practice and and live in a manner official, scientific, socially sanctioned, legal(?)…

Poems and Genies don’t have any covenant or business to do in that lifestyle. Logic, math and science inspire the modern state, and as such the modern secular state and its acceptable lifestyle needs not idols nor Gods to justify it.

I do not debate the realness or existence of the other world. There is no debate or opposition to be had between “the mystical people” and the “science people”. “Science” is nothing short of being magical, thus not antithetical to the mystical in essence, just in pretense.

I Am just into bringing the other, here. and that’s for Part 2.