{"id":164,"date":"2014-07-07T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-07T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imaginarycartography.com\/artblog\/when-i-was-21-i-decided-to-create-my-own-imaginary\/"},"modified":"2017-09-04T00:54:36","modified_gmt":"2017-09-04T00:54:36","slug":"when-i-was-21-i-decided-to-create-my-own-imaginary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imaginarycartography.com\/artblog\/when-i-was-21-i-decided-to-create-my-own-imaginary\/","title":{"rendered":"Now is the Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I was 21 I decided to create my own imaginary religion. I call it \u201cThe Way of the Pattern\u201d. After more than a decade, the primary text of the religion is complete, but for some editing. You can read the pdf form at this link.<\/a> Html and other formats to follow.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/b>What kind of religion?<\/h6>\n

Its kind of a form of materialist mysticism. Kind of like\u00a0Taoism, Sufism, christian ethics\u00a0and modern philosophy had come from the same culture, rather than many different ones. Like other philosophies it claims to\u00a0explain the deal with\u00a0existence, fate, causation, reality, mind, ethic, art, ecstasy, etc.. But it does so without recourse to anthropomorphized first causes (god) or disembodied wills (spirits or souls). It aims to give life deep meaning\u00a0without claim to knowledge of external truths, or definitive answers about an afterlife.\u00a0It is an esoteric religion, meaning it requires\u00a0faith\u00a0that the way things seem are not necessarily the way they are, and some\u00a0\u201ctruth\u201d\u00a0is intentionally hidden. Like many religions it contains some contradicting strains, and different subtexts provide very\u00a0different\u00a0perspectives on the whole. The book, and the faith it presents are an exercise in pastiche, research and creative analogy, rather than a true theological program. A\u00a0post-modern religion, built\u00a0consciously\u00a0as a work of art.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I was 21 I decided to create my own imaginary religion. I call it \u201cThe Way of the Pattern\u201d. After more than a decade, the primary text of the religion is complete, but for some editing. You can read the pdf form at this link. Html and other formats to follow. What kind of … Continue reading Now is the Time<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imaginarycartography.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imaginarycartography.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imaginarycartography.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imaginarycartography.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imaginarycartography.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/imaginarycartography.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":661,"href":"https:\/\/imaginarycartography.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions\/661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imaginarycartography.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imaginarycartography.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imaginarycartography.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}