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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Grimhelm" data-source="post: 2642869" data-attributes="member: 37079">I would instinctively have to say yes, religions probably ban books precisely that deal with those issues, though the reasons might not have to do with taboo so much as control.  Religion would like to step in and attempt to offer explanations and answers to just these mysteries.  Other explanations are viewed as hostile and threatening, and are therefore banned.  Where some religions ultimately miss the boat is in their symbolic expressions of these mysteries.  Their mistake, in a sense, is their attempt to explain at all.  Religion would serve humanity's needs better if it re-introduced symbolic ritual, rites of passage, and mythological themes, for it is on these thematic/subconscious levels that we truly understand life.  When logic does not coincide with our instinctual knowledge, I believe that it can cause distress, sometimes even breakdown of the spirit.  I believe that we have suppressed our instinctual knowledge for too long, and that many of our societal problems can be traced back to the need to have our truest feelings validated through ritual and symbolism, not contradicted by Modern explanation.</blockquote>