I believe all religions started from real mystical experience—a time when a person or group of people had a true encounter with the Divine, and wanted to share it. Then, in trying to translate experience into language, the essence inevitably gets lost. Eventually a priestly caste is created of those who “know” teaching those who “don’t” by creating rules and codes of conduct and setting themselves up as judges and intercessors. Is it possible to keep what is pure and good and let go of what doesn’t serve? To keep the baby, and throw out the bathwater?
