Dogma

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The dictionary gives the meaning of ‘dogma’ as: a principle or set of principles laid down by an authority as incontrovertibly true. Once a principle becomes dogmatic, what may have started as a set of beliefs becomes set in concrete as a set of rules is laid out ensuring the original principle stays ‘pure’.
Therefore the rules should never be broken. More often than not, once we get involved with any dogmatic principle, we are told that the consequences of breaking those rules will be enormous ~ in a bad way.

Where the original principle or set of beliefs may have been open minded and productive, once it is expressed through a set of rules there is a tendency to put the rules first; and to a certain extend forget about the original principle or set of beliefs that started it all.
From that perspective, dogma, while it keeps the original principle pure ~ it also ensures that this original principle cannot evolve. It can only function within the set of rules that was applied to said principle, which in turn are not allowed to be broken or changed one iota.

In the continually moving and changing energy of today, chances are existing dogmas become outdated.
They don’t evolve but eventually are replaced by new dogmas as new ideas, new beliefs are proven to be true.

Traditionally, perhaps the strongest dogmas exist in religion, and strangely enough in applied science; as it is dogma that protects the investments made. In a sense one could say the pharmaceutical industry functions this way.
Yet also healing itself can become dogmatic. As soon as the desire to heal a person becomes a mechanism to cure an anomaly that person may suffer from ~ rather than treating the person as a whole ~ there is a tendency to just follow a set of rules that ‘are tried and true’ without leaving room for that process to unfold in the unique, new, personal way that suits that person best…

This also means that predictions that are based upon a perceived truth that is set in concrete, may or may not be helpful.
On one hand, the prediction may well be based in empirical evidence, and as such be true ~ for most people. On the other hand, as soon as the process is shaped to fit the dogma, an ever greater group of people may feel that the results of the process are less than they could have been. This is because following dogma, the outcome is already set.

Perhaps it is time to follow the rules that are based in empirical evidence, yet staying open for the unexpected, the new, the wonderful, even the miraculous to come into being.
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