Thanks for your comments. I have a minor clarification:

 

(You enumerate "nationality, ethnicity, gender and other territorial [imperatives]" as if these are vital criteria for human emancipation ….)

 

I may not have clearly stated but rest assured please that I consider nationality, ethnicity, gender and all similar classifications as an impediment to human peace and undoubtedly my focus is human first and foremost – you, I and us. I am sure, if you read my comments again, you will grant me that.

 

I am totally in agreement with you (in reply to my friend Farzana Hasan), that religious paradigm with interpretations and re-explanations that it needs all the time, both for theory and practice,  is very difficult for anybody to understand clearly. History, (distorted at times), that is a conclusion-statement after application of religious theory, is not very heartening.

 

I need your help on somewhat different issue now. The following is from your comments:

 

(…..Toronto-based cancer specialist, professor, author, broadcaster and passionate humanist who believes that religious convictions, especially human beliefs concerning God, are the cause of untold human suffering.

…. Dr Robert Buckman argues strongly that the human brain is "set up to tell us that there is an external deity" and that the need for a relationship with something called God is "hard-wired into the human brain." 

St Augustine, some say, proposed this theory, in almost the same terms, nearly 1700 years ago but Dr Buckman maintains that experiencing God (say, for example, by way of mysticism) is not proof of His existence.

The above excerpts from your comments are somewhat confusing for me. Would you be so kind as to elaborate it a little more? To me, the statements appear somewhat contradictory. If God is hard-wired in brains, why then experiencing God is not a proof of His existence? If there is a hard-wiring, then experience should be the proof and perhaps only proof necessary. If there is a hard-wiring for God in brain then let it be "the cause of untold human suffering" and what not; the same way as we can not do much about inherited genes like our height, complexion and some diseases also. I am also wondering, what is the exact data on the basis of which our learned professor maintains existence of such ‘Hard-wiring’? I’ll be grateful to learn from your insights.

 

(The content of this e-mail somewhat different from original discussion of mysticism. I leave it to the discretion of Pervaiz Sahib whether it suits for a private e-mail or not? I am fine either ways.)

 

Regards.