This statement cracks me up! So true. I spent way too much time in the deliverance stuff in years past. Was there any difference in people AFTER they were dramatically and quickly delivered? Not much, if any. Contemplation of and time with the Divine is key. These quick fixers don’t usually want to hear that though. “Just let me pay for it or let me go through a tremendously embarassing deliverance ordeal and be on my way.”

Religion certainly has its place as a cohesive unit, but it simply fails to be adequate in so many areas. Even so, I continue to learn that “God has made everything for its purpose–even the wicked (can you say religion?) in the time of trouble.” Neville reminds us that true Inner Vision tests the individual’s ability to enter into and partake of the nature of the opposite.

Increasingly I see the church as an organization for the spiritually immature. Please do not misunderstand me. I am not saying this in an elitist way, thinking I am better than others. I am not. However, the traditional church seems to be like a body of children vying for the approval of a heavenly parent. Also, it is engaged in a medieval attempt at the manipulation of the divine, for their benefit. I see the church increasingly retreating into unreality.