RyanThomasMcBride

People who subscribe to rites and ritual are often, although not uniformly, people who subscribe to a religious and/or spiritual tradition of some form. With the following idea, I hope to ignite a conversation about one element of rites and rituals, that being the human ‘need’ for God / god / a higher being / a spiritual other.

At this juncture, I am not talking about philosophical ideals and/or ideas, but the ‘other’ that comes with the “I-Thou” relationship.

Please, comment about any element of the lead up to the idea (... subscribe…), the idea itself (... need...), the caveat (... juncture…) and the following set of questions, thus:

Why do we search for meaning and purpose?
What drives us?
What holds us back?
How does the search for meaning and purpose play itself out?
What is the result of this search?
What does the search for meaning and purpose draw/call us into?
Into where does an authentic search for meaning and purpose actually bring the human person?