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Survival is ongoing, day and night, in the world of commonsense . Is there a goal or purpose? It obviously takes faith to counter the everyday recognition that life is just a conscious process, folding and unfolding as part of an aimless flow. Is there an end or destination? It undoubtedly calls for religion to resist the routine observation that living is just experiencing, pain and joy, for the sake of self-consciousness. This chapter follows human evolution with emphasis on spirituality . Under “subject,” it finds an organized team on an orchestrated journey toward an ultimate destination. An almighty authority envisions and plans the trip. An omnipresent power guides and monitors the journey. The mass of the humans undertake the voyage. Individuals tramp the trails and perform the deeds. Naturally, some drop off the tour, becoming atheists or antitheists while others fall off the trip, joining the disabled or diseased. The grandiose scheme nonetheless unfolds as envisioned just as the ultimate destiny lies ahead as predestined.
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Shaw, V.N. (2019). Ultimate Destination. In: Three Worlds of Collective Human Experience: Individual Life, Social Change, and Human Evolution. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98195-6_14
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