{"id":2112,"date":"2017-03-11T02:47:22","date_gmt":"2017-03-11T10:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/?p=2112"},"modified":"2017-03-11T02:47:22","modified_gmt":"2017-03-11T10:47:22","slug":"religious-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/2017\/03\/religious-redux\/","title":{"rendered":"Religious, Redux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;Shit! <em>Shit!<\/em> Remember how, the last time this happened to me, I described it as <a href=\"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/2013\/03\/religious\/\">feeling religious<\/a>?&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Yeah.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I was wrong! It's actually the feeling of <em>acquiring a new religion<\/em>, getting eaten by someone else's egregore. It's not that the God-shaped hole was <em>empty<\/em> before; it's that I didn't <em>notice<\/em> what it was filled <em>with<\/em>. It's tempting to describe the psychotic <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ideas_of_reference_and_delusions_of_reference\">delusions-of-reference<\/a>\/anticipation-of-Heaven\/fear-of-Hell state as a 'religious experience' because the process of the God-shaped hole getting filled with something new is so <em>intense<\/em>. But that's only because once the hole is filled and you feel safe again, it doesn't feel like a religion anymore; it just feels like reality.&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;Shit! Shit! Remember how, the last time this happened to me, I described it as feeling religious?&quot; &quot;Yeah.&quot; &quot;I was wrong! It's actually the feeling of acquiring a new religion, getting eaten by someone else's egregore. It's not that the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/2017\/03\/religious-redux\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[58],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2112"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2112"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2114,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2112\/revisions\/2114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}