Religious and so-called spiritual people use uniquely person methods of
controlling their moods and perceptions. They may pray for guidance or sit in meditation or any other number of methods. Either way they seek a certain satisfaction in life and they have found a reliable means of delivering it to themselves.

Religious life in no way validates religious perceptions or beliefs, but it does make up a working-model.

From these people and their practices, we can poach.

Great explanations do not make for a rich life. As humans we are fated to play out a very limited set of human possibilities. However, within this limited set we can find satisfaction. Our freedom lies in embracing the human model with all its limits.

The brain is intimately connected to the body and to our outside environment via the body. So it does not ever exist by itself (unless removed from a deceased person). So when we speak of the brain, we don't mean a brain in a jar, but instead a brain fully clothed with receptors intimately linked to the body, its sense and organs and the surrounding environment.

Still, without the brain there is no typical perception. So however limited we are by language and no matter how reliable our understanding is of our universe, we are still locked into a completely human brain. We are brain-centric. And the brain
is a complex web which can never be unravelled. The course of our understanding will never be complete.

When one is heartsick a scientific explanation will give you no peace, but a loving gesture may.- Witgenstein

Humans are lumbering dinosaurs. The average sentient being on earth is about 2mm tall. Humans are giants. Humans consume massive amounts of fuel and destroy almost everything in their path. Vegetarianism has caused the wild overpopulation of many districts and the conversion of astounding tracts of diverse forests to homogenous crop fields. So no one is exempt. Whether you feast on blood and meat or fruit and grain - we are all brutes. You stop being a brute when you are a corpse.

Humans go to great lengths to disguise the fact that we bear a very close resemblence to dogs, moose, birds and apes. This is one reason why evolution is such a slap in the face to the very vain (religious). It unmasks them, diminishes them and steals from them their superiority and thus their many rationalizations. They react using brute tactics: denial, excommunication, lies, rumour and even death threats.

As the unknown becomes the known, and the old known becomes again unknown (lost langugages, arts), Asism expects much resentment, hostility and violence. You cannot step on new ground without crushing something. You cannot move forward without neglecting the past.

Nature is unkind to those that fail. Nature is unkind to work poorly executed. When practicing good work and seeking success you join the grasses and the birds.

Awful Lies Told to Children and Believed by Adults.

Follow your bliss (and the money will follow - etc. etc.)
There is no end to what you can do (you can become anything you want etc.).
For everything there is a reason (God works in mysterious ways).
Your heart will tell you the right thing to do.
When the student is ready the teach appears.
God never gives you more than you can handle.