In another interview she says \u201cCarl felt this way and we learned this together\u2014 the impulse to find something sacred\u2026 there\u2019s nothing foolish about that or necessarily reactionary about that. It\u2019s the supernatural aspect that is corrosive\u2026And so, yes, informed worship\u2014 but not worshipping some primate projection, some alpha in the sky, no\u201d (Ann Druyan, transcript<\/a> of an interview with Point of Inquiry<\/a>. She sagely recommends that language about \u2018worship\u2019 and \u2018spirituality\u2019 be reclaimed from fundamentalists and irrationality rather than surrendered or jettisoned.<\/p>\n For those unaware of it, today is the Carl Sagan Blog-A-Thon<\/a>. If you are reading this and don\u2019t have a blog of your own, just contribute a comment here or elsewhere<\/a>. There is now a meta-post with links to the various Carl Sagan Blog-A-Thon posts<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat Carl did was he reunified skepticism with wonder-and never one at the expense of the other, but always in equal parts. I think that what we all long for is something that could raise goose bumps, could make you feel something in your heart without requiring that you lie to yourself\u201d (Ann Druyan, speaking […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-4752722452013470489?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\")