desacralizing

I've been desacralizing my consciousness. We all tend to retain a sense of the sacred in our lives since we all conform to some degree to the dictates of the Superego.   This aspect of our psychological structure gives us our sense of moral certainty -- it is the force of "God within".

Even atheists will have their own version of the sacred.   Sometimes atheists can be the most extreme moralists of all, because the subscribe to various systems of ideas that require others to be very sensitive to them, for instance with regard to certain facets of their identity.   Why is identity so important to them?   Well, because it constitutes the sacred, inviolable essence of meaning that must be defended with moral fences and alarms.

To understand how deeply the meaning of the sacred enters each of our consciousness would take a lifetime.   There is always some prohibition against questioning those aspects of one's being that have been given a sacred meaning.   A limiting line is drawn against any experimentation.    One does not question anything, here.  Others are also warned off.  This is entirely normal.  We all do it without reflecting about it.

A powerful mind, however, questions everything, and thus desacrilizes her consciousness.

The other side of a desacralized consciousness is the freedom to develop a more realistic understanding of the world.  People are by no means infallible, although they like to maintain that their opinions are absolute and justified at all times.   To grant people's opinions a sacred status is to misread the nature of humanity.   What is often dressed up as a sudden, intuitive insight is usually, if not always, simple prejudice.  One does not have sacred vision into reality, rather one's perceptions are inaccurate in many instances unless one has trained them to avoid the pitfalls set for the unwary.

Desacralizing teaches one that nothing in reality is inherently rational.  Everything is suspect, for there is no "God" maintaining it or organizing it.