I was raised with no religious training or influence. Except the influence was to be a moral and ethical person at the secular level. And to be a peace marcher, an activist for civil rights, peace and justice.
Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tones the spirit just as exercise conditions the body.
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
I was raised in a family where vulnerability was barely tolerated: no training wheels on our bicycles, no goggles in the pool, just get it done. And so I grew up not only with discomfort about my own vulnerability, I didn't care for it in other people either.
My own training is in the field of neuroendocrinology and I really became very fascinated many years ago with the molecules of emotion, molecules that we call neuropeptides.
I was training to be an electrician. I suppose I got wired the wrong way round somewhere along the line.
Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.
What we need to be able to do is count all human experience. So I would like to count the secretarial positions as good training places to take over the jobs of the bosses.
Indeed, there is much in pure humanitarian culture, as opposed to rigid scientific training, which encourages absorption in the affairs of mankind, and more or less indifference to the unfathomed abysses of star strown space that yawn interminably about this terrestrial grain of dust.