Chapter 11 - The Science of Ritual and Ethics

Question 1

Rituals

Answer 1

Slow us down and shifts consciousness away from immediate local signals, allowing it to expand
Help identity shift more readily from ego to quantum self. With slowing down, gap between thought and action increases, and freer exercise of choice of quantum self is possible.

Question 2

Slowing down

Answer 2

Key to going beyond identification with end product of secondary-awareness processes of collapse, which is ego. When actions originate in preconscious awareness, time seems to slow down

Question 3

Utilitarianism

Answer 3

Ethics ensures greatest good for greatest number

Question 4

Why do bad things happen to good people?

Answer 4

Opportunities to burn up past karma

Question 5

Liberation

Answer 5

don’t become unethical or immoral; rather their union with truth transcends laws of ethics and morality. They see beyond laws to reality that laws reflect.