That's very cool. So many religious share values, and even beliefs or texts, that it can be disconcerting to realize the ways in which their differences separate them. I heard someone on NPR speaking about this (I can't remember if this was an interview, or Talk of the Nation, or something else); he said that there is one universal, or almost universal, rule that is shared by the world's religions, that being The Golden Rule, which Wikipedia disambiguates to the ethic of reciprocity (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethic_of_reciprocity).
You've added another book to my growing to-read list. *g* Even though I knew that people in the US may have very different views of medicine and that those views may be connected to their cultural outlook, and also that people in different parts of the world may have different approaches to medicine, I've never put these together in a truly coherent way. This sounds like a fascinating look at the subjectivity of medicine.
Interesting to see the ways in which people respond to the culture around them, even when it's not the one they grew up in. The people who share similar dreams makes me think of Jung's collective unconscious.
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As a child, I was a religious syncretist.
That's very cool. So many religious share values, and even beliefs or texts, that it can be disconcerting to realize the ways in which their differences separate them. I heard someone on NPR speaking about this (I can't remember if this was an interview, or Talk of the Nation, or something else); he said that there is one universal, or almost universal, rule that is shared by the world's religions, that being The Golden Rule, which Wikipedia disambiguates to the ethic of reciprocity (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethic_of_reciprocity).
You've added another book to my growing to-read list. *g* Even though I knew that people in the US may have very different views of medicine and that those views may be connected to their cultural outlook, and also that people in different parts of the world may have different approaches to medicine, I've never put these together in a truly coherent way. This sounds like a fascinating look at the subjectivity of medicine.
Interesting to see the ways in which people respond to the culture around them, even when it's not the one they grew up in. The people who share similar dreams makes me think of Jung's collective unconscious.