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Second Interlude
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The INSIDE of a Circular Room During my research, as I was tracing similar descriptions of this grand, riveting experience in numerous religions and philosophies, in ancient as in recent cultures, one thought slowly, but persistently began to form in my mind:
Could it be that religions were portals.. were entrances to one and the same circular room, - and that they provide the same grand experience to all who enter?
The word 'religion' originates in the Latin verb 'religare', which means to 're-connect', - 'to again become aware of something we were conscious of before, but somehow forgot or stopped thinking about for a while'.
The same idea is at the heart of the term 'Yoga', - which also connects two things - that part of us experiencing the material world and the Grand Awareness we truly are beneath our currently manifested (small) self.
