— THE BLOG —
The Rowanwood Blog delves into a variety of topics related to spirituality and personal growth, offering unique viewpoints and insights from a metaphysical perspective. By exploring these subjects, we aim to foster unity through understanding, encouraging readers to reflect on their own beliefs and experiences. Each article serves as a resource, providing valuable information that inspires personal exploration and growth, while promoting a deeper connection to the self and the universe. Through thoughtful discussion and shared knowledge, we create a community committed to enlightenment and transformation.
RELIGION-Dogma Demystified
Dogmatic religion stems from a psychological need for group identity and belonging, together with a need for certainty and meaning. There is a strong impulse in human beings to define ourselves, whether it’s as a Christian, a Muslim, a socialist, a citizen of a country, a member of a political party, or as a fan of a sports club. This urge is closely connected to the impulse to be part of a group, to feel that you belong, and share the same beliefs and principles as others. And these impulses work together with the need for certainty—the feeling that you "know," that you possess the truth, that you are right and others are wrong.
THE COMMON THREAD-The Ethic of Reciprocity (Part 1)
The Ethic of Reciprocity is actually a philosophical term for the basic moral principle which states that individuals should treat others in the same manner that they wish to be treated. Most of us are more familiar with this concept as the “Golden Rule”.
Have you noticed how great ideas are sometimes put forth by different people in different places, at the same time? This happens in science, when two independent sets of researchers come up with the same “breakthrough” at the same time, halfway around the globe from each other. It happens in songs or stories when two independent people or groups come up with a similar song or storyline at similar times.