You know, religion itself, Eastern and Western, is divisive and quarrelsome anyway.

All religions develop, become exclusive, become divisive and quarrelsome.

Some Western biographies are apologist, and do not portray the negative side at all.

The greatest mystery of existence is existence itself.

And for me anyway, consciousness is three components: a personal component which for lack of a better word we can call the soul. A collective component which is more archetypal and a deeper level, and then a universal domain of consciousness.

What gets in our way is history and culture and religion and economic conditions. It is part of the hypnosis of our social conditioning.