What Is the Difference Between Religion and the Experience of the Sacred?

i was deeply interested in this idea of creating a new myth or a new religion, and these are always problematic terms. What is myth? You know? It's like somebody else's religion. And then, as i was saying earlier, what's the difference between religion and the experience of the sacred? Well, the difference is an institution, right? A religion is a thing that that becomes a in sacred canopy, becomes a protective shield thatis organized around us by others. That can last ina certain way. There's a lot to say about that, then, i think it's probably too big for what we're talking about right now. But, you know, beti's

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