We have established that Regulatory Agencies will not function in a society where the reward ( jobs in industry after leaving the regulatory commission, for example ) for ignoring problems exceed the rewards ( ones wages ) for addressing problems.
This begins to give us insight into statements about "transcendent focus", such as " The modern age has lost its transcendent focus" and other euphemisms for talking about religion.
Transcendent focus is usually tied to a transcendent reward structure. The loss of the reward structure is what people are actually referring to when they say we have lost our transcendent focus. We still wander out on Sundays to church - some do not - but we have no real anticipation of reward. Those who do have a real sense of rewards to come have already been rewarded. So it's all about our gifts, and the transcendent is indeed invisible, and a synonym for non-existence.
There is no reward for the Holy. For us, the Holy is seen as the end of a process, but it is the process itself in its entirety, past, present, and future. The reward, if reward you need, is your own "transcendent economic appraisal" of the process.
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There are a tiny minority of people across the globe who will understand your last paragraph from personal experience, I fear.
Sometimes I'm not sure I understand them. A lot of the things I write do not come from thinking in language. Hence, I'm sure many people would think me illogical, and I would have to admit to it. It is sort of like thinking in time, taste, smell, and emotional tides that sometimes totally escape from me.
There's a whole lot of stuff we don't understand.
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