My Trinity of Spiritual Balance

The concepts linked here are not exactly fixed, but I tend to associate them like this, in a right-brain way. Obviously there is room for crossover here in many ways, but don't get too caught up on the titles 'Atheism', 'Christianity' or 'New Ageism'. Those are nay more than my perceptions and associations and are anything but definitive.

Oh, and don't be paranoid over the fact that it's a triangle pointing down, which is apparently the alchemical symbol for water. I'm not trying to get inside your mind with black magick...oooooo...spooky.

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The painting, by the way, is Cruciform by Damian Callan. Yes, I turned it upside down so it would be the right way up, if that makes sense.

I think we need all three in moderation - in fact I think it's not possible to be 'sane' as we perceive it without some elements of the three. It's pretty self-explanatory what happens if one of these concepts is in excess - one may become cold and detached, as in the case of hyper-materialist scientists like Dr Eric Pianka; one may become a hyper-judgemental Fundie Christian whose favourite hobby is telling everyone else how they're going to Hell; or one may become a wishy-washy type who, frankly, has lost their grounding here on Earth (can't think of any examples right now, but if I do, I'll link it).

Classical religion has, I would suggest, created disharmony by suppressing the spiritual female and overemphasising the male, perhaps (chicken or egg) this is a cause of traditional mistreatment of women. And by 'mistreatment', I DO NOT mean what most feminists consider to be 'inequality' today...I mean back when women were actually viewed as property. Or I mean what still goes on today in the Islamic world.

That brings me to another point - naming the religions and spiritual doctrines. Obviously Christianity is my personal experience, but if I lived somewhere else in the world it would be Islam or Judaism, which both fit the same bill, IMO, as hyper-male, militaristic (homosexual?) religions. But what if it was Buddhism or something like that? That would probably belong on the left instead.

Finally, when I say 'male' and 'female', I am clearly not just talking about physical males and females. These are spiritual concepts and psychological ones too. They're just associated with males and females for obvious reasons. Everyone has some element of both, and rightly so.

I just made this as a diagrammatic representation of what I consider to be a healthy spiritual/psychological state...if you find yourself expressing too much of one concept, chances are the solution can be found in one of the other two. It's all about balance.