The following insights are from Jung and the Lost Gospels , Stephen A. Hoeller. The Behavior and Beliefs of American Catholics , Andrew M.Greeley. These insights serve as ground or point of departure in experiencing the attitudinal predisposition of the White Robed Monks of St. Benedict. These insights are neither dogmatic statements nor statements of belief, neither are they right nor wrong. Concerning Religion Religion is imagination before it is anything else.
Religion results from an experience of the holy or the sacred.
Religion originated with experiences that renewed hope. Religion is encoded in the personality by symbols. The ideas which form the content of every religion are not primarily the product of an externally originating revelation, but of a subjective revelation from within the human psyche. A Child's faith is comprised of belief grounded in the structures of existence fear. If there should be a new assurance of meaning, even of security, it must come about as an achievement, as the arising of a new kind of certainty wrested from acute insecurity and alienation.