Currently, many churches are in a state of extreme confusion in an attempt to enter the next millennium considering their struggle to incorporate all the now known knowledge and incorporate it into their dogma and theology. The problem is the impossibility of reconciling the obvious flaws in most theology and doctrine. The obvious shortcomings and how political and nationalistic and other special interests and agendas have resulted in a history filled with disappointment and tragedy. I have counseled ministers and individuals who have spent a lifetime in religious practice who have never had a Spiritual Experience in their entire life. For many it has only created confusion.
Churches are full of believers and few knowers.
Perhaps the most brilliant early pioneers in modern psychiatry was William James, of the late 1800's. Dr. James was about hundred years ahead of his time. No wonder that even today most people, including psychiatrists have never heard of him. God according to many while perceived as the creator and builder of the universe and the ultimate controller of all things is also seen as being something very distant or external. The single conscious revelation by Christ and other Masters was the realization that this is not the case.