Going for broad strokes here, but Western philosophy and religions are mostly searching for an “objective” God, as it were, as something that must be proven. An

Going for broad strokes here, but Western philosophy and religions are mostly searching for an “objective” God, as it were, as something that must be proven. And while the early Christian cult had gnosticism and other strands, those mostly got snuffed out as it became more of an established religion and part of the power balance. The current day image and majority of the history of Christianity has always been problematic to me, as in “believe or be guilty”, with little grey or choice. When I went to a service a few years ago to a fairly mainstream easygoing church here, this guilt was still pretty much core of the teaching. That to me pretty much qualifies as “either-or” and all but inclusive. Instead in some Eastern philosophies (the yoga school and Daoism, probably others) focus on the subjective experience. In the yoga school for instance it allows us to connect to mind, our purusha (soul like quality) and find other teachings and qualities within ourselves. Something that Alan Watts also emphasized in his book “Wisdom of Insecurity” Current day spirituality is broad and commercialized and has its own problems due to poor teachers who start with barely 200h of study, which is not conducive or effective on the whole.