How to Think About Prayer I

A Guide for the Perplexed

Prayer, like religion, is one of the most fundamentally human things. By that what I mean is that we, as a species, and really as a genus, have been praying as long as we’ve been around. We pray to the natural world, to animals, to the spirits of places, ancestors, and special phenomena, to heroes, deities, Sun, Moon, Stars, the universe, hypercosmic go…