the deep calls to the deep

Each of us is born into a particular world view, into a community of "believers" who from our first insuction of breath permeate us with "the way the world is." I suspect most of us on the planet do not question this sectarian world view and go through life happily believing "this is the way the world is" and, if we even think about it, feel sorry or angry or confused about those poor ignorant slobs out there who've got it all wrong.

My predilection, however, is to look at each major world view that exists on the planet, and to listen carefully to the worldviews expressed in the language and stance of each individual I meet. It is said that the deep calls to the deep. I have found that to be so.

It is as if the Deep (I capitalize here to refer to the deepest of the deep) opens its understandings, its wisdom to all peoples, all cultures; in effect, the Deep calls to the deep in each human clustering of tribal kin with that clustering's particular language and consciousness state. Then that cultural grouping describes the Deep and the wisdom of the Deep as clearly and poetically as possible given the group's language structure and conscious awareness.

I deeply enjoy reading and absorbing the reflections on and from the Deep that differ from my birth culture. As a result I have become a Zen Baptist Hindu Islamic Sufi Taoist Abrahamic Pagan Barbarian Jesusian Humanist Wankatankan Scientist Cosmologist. All those manifestations of the Deep call with one voice. There is such a thing, my psychology and psychiatry friends, as multiple personality order.