Temples of the imagination in the mythical world that has been designed, there are no physical temples or churches; they don’t exist, perhaps they once did. If there is any spirituality, it’s in mind; there are no mass thoughts, no dogma. Even if there is none, a tree on the hill is imagined by each individual practitioner that is his or her personal spiritual thing; the closest in our world is the animist religion, but that is still far away from what the people of that world think. A bowl of water near a window is all needed for the imaginative temple of the mind. It’s enough to be in communion with nature and everyday reality as it is. Nothing is more important than the here and now. There’s a reality of doors opening in the open air as if the world was cut into with an imaginary knife. In our world, entries to other planets are considered impossible. But in the mythical, it’s an everyday routine. Perhaps what other people say about an imaginary temple or thing other people can’t see is real. Things are known to talk to unseen people. But some previously unseen things revealed themselves as a vertical shaft of light in the dark and the ringing of distant bells or music with no origin in mechanical or human means or anything physical. People know what has been imagined is a reality, yet they don’t doubt the sincere existence of imaginary spirituality. Such practitioners are well educated and versed in mathematics, the sciences, the arts, and the humanities of their cultures and time in the mythical world.
The rulers and administration of the mythical, it doesn’t matter what country, village, town, or city, they never interfere with the people’s spiritual beliefs because they have their own and don’t wish to interfere with other people. Council members know nothing of other people’s spiritual stuff, and some philosophers speak out about things they read and listened to. People add some of these elements of the philosophers to their spirituality.
Philosophers are not religionists or spiritual leaders; they only teach and have no leadership of anything spiritual or religious or government at all. They are similar to the shamans of the mythical world. People don’t often listen to them, or they get mocked; they mainly teach others philosophy. For example, people in a city are all considered philosophers. Professional philosophers have studied many books and scrolls; there are also the viewing of stone tablets and other devices that impart knowledge. Sometimes the ongoing study has stagnated them. The people’s philosophy was living life as it is, with no fancy stuff. People confuse psychology, religion, and politics as the same concepts. In all forms, psychology, psychiatry, political philosophy, philosophy and religion are and were considered nonsense by the people of the mythical world.
There are personal, those individual people in their secretive spirituality speaking with beings who give them advice and guides them throughout life. Within a room and meditation, they talk with them, these beings are teachers, and they teach only that individual.
People are not allowed to gain power through anything spiritual, religious, or political; this is punishable by lengthy imprisonment; in the past, it was the death penalty. No one is permitted to gain followers without proven intelligence and long years of study approved by the people.
The arts are the closest thing to a sort of organized religion; art is considered a form of spirituality communicating with nature and heaven. Artists are considered gods because they are creators. It’s been asked people, does art create the artist, does the artist make art or both? A physical temple could be considered a builders temple. People in the arts are considered builders, and the building is spiritual. People can feel many things as spiritually as they wish; there are no limitations. When an artist builds something, it comes to life: a being with thought, independence, and power.
Most people in the mythical world don’t care about philosophy or spirituality. Whatever daily existence gives to them is philosophy; because of the struggle, they develop a type of wisdom that could lead them to a better life. They open their thoughts and feelings to other people, listening and giving their opinions, that back and forth creates a philosophy through shared lives.
They look into themselves, realizing they are one moment of a raindrop; that is why a wise ruler of the mythical world never became autocratic because the people’s experiences are a philosophy they listen to and use to shape their lives. From rulers to everyday people, life is looked at and experienced, forming pools of wisdom.
One temple existed thousands of years ago; some say eons, but no historian knows when. A legend says a temple came to the earth from a place before the earth’s sun was born. They may have been celebrating the newly born sun, but the temple awaited the physical existence of the human race before appearing; it was not particular culture; it was a tree with a shaft of concrete shaped into a basic shape of cubes stacked vertically, surrounded by ocean, the tree was of no particular species, it appeared to be as it was never described in writings from that time. Philosophy was imparted to the people from the tree, and from such a place, they developed their philosophy. Eventually, the temples disappeared from the world. Perhaps it’s still in the world ready for a return when evil philosophies come that mislead the people, but that time hasn’t come. As it was said and written, what is dishonorable and good is subjective in many words. Eventually, many temples settled on the earth in a way that served as parts of the whole temple separated by time, distance, and place; the pieces were the whole, and one was not better than the next separate but whole. Eventually, as the temples didn’t come anymore, the natural things associated with where the temple once resided became a thing of reverence. Such as water, soil, grass, stone, and anything associated with that place. People came to view themselves as the temple of the self, religion, spirituality, and all things to what higher thing they were praying to or believing in, and evolved into a personal “celestial father.”
A device put people into a trance; they meditated in front of this thing and could read, think, write or draw. As the practitioners called them, thoughts or voices received ideas and inspiration. Another device shaped like a window was probably a window; some called it an oracle, and the power of the practitioner’s mind made it “speak.” That was how it was activated, but it had an independent reason if it didn’t like the practitioner, it wouldn’t answer.
In this part of the mythical world, no masses are coming to a place of worship; they are connected through the mind in the practice of telepathy. The various connections, parts that are all different with their path, never physically connected, only communicating sense to reason with only a few.
Robert J. Matsunaga
