Abstract

- How to Create Your Own Religion - This is a work on the philosophy of religion (2024) and discusses how to create a personal religion. We live in a progressively more horizontal and lonely society, driven by floods of indiscriminate information and disinformation that diminish any pretences to authority, with the socio-economic unit moving down from a family to an individual. In the democratic West people have never been freer but lack initiative to choose from wider options. As vertical power structures that support anything institutional wane, combined with more and more time at our disposal thanks to AI, we may find it helpful to have a methodology of finding one’s own religion, instead of being lured into any unsavory institutional religions. The shortcomings in reality are balanced by the wealth of imagination via the thin thread of a ‘miracle’ transmuted from coincidences by the duality of mind between the rational predictivity of coordinative mind and the solipsistic collapse of the coordinative centre. This is where a personal religion hides and also makes the philosophy of religion so distinct from the philosophy of psychology.