The acronym ORSE stands of Omni-Religious Seekers of Enlightenment.
This is the name of a multi-faith establishment seeking to convey universal truths, in a method accessible to people of all religions and facets of secular culture, to a generation for whom they are irrelevant.
ORSE exists currently as a fictional plot device in The Ratchwood Prophecies but it is my desire to communicate the philosophies and ideologies of ORSE to the world. It has the potential to bridge the gaps and differences between all sectors of society and culture, and ultimately achieve world peace.
If you already subscribe to a particular understanding of reality, congratulations. You can read The Ratchwood Prophecies purely for their aesthetic and cognitive benefits. If however you have questions about life, religion, truth or consequence, ORSE may provide the answers.
My own crisis of faith and subsequent time as a seeker, opened my eyes to profound truths about religion that apply to everybody, religious or otherwise. My spiritual background is that of a Christian and after exploring several stances on this universal truth, I decided that Christianity provided my own most accessible understanding of what I have come to call The Incommunicable Nothing.
The Incommunicable Nothing is the source of everything.
Every religion, philosophy, ideology or guiding life principal has an understanding of the nothing and how it applies to everything. Each of these theories can be explained to some degree and accepted by others to a lesser degree. The fundamental nothing at their source however, is literally incommunicable without becoming something.
Over the years, communication of the incommunicable has resulted in such concepts as God, Allah, Ik Onkar, eternity, heaven, paradise, nirvana, enlightenment, being nice to each other and sublime inner peace among innumerable others. It represents the ultimate goal of existence, towards which everybody is striving, whether consciously or not.
This truth permeates absolutely everything and everyone. All things and all beings originate from the Incommunicable Nothing, giving rise to countless religious and secular creation theories. We come from nothing and the meaning of life is to return to the nothing.
There is no purpose, within this life or beyond it, greater than that presented by ORSE.
ORSE encapsulates everything, all theories, paradigms and approaches to anything. It does not demand exclusivity and no varying belief systems can disagree within it. It is the key to harmonious relations between nation, faith, belief, opinion, and thought. ORSE could lift humanity from its despondent roots on earth, fighting among ourselves over essential insignificance, to a higher plain of, love, endeavour and interaction, bringing with it eligibility for membership in the galactic community.