When a Rational level mind hears the word, God, there is a recoil.
What do you think the Rational equivalent would be? The Universe?
What about the Pluralistic level? Maybe, Nature?
What about Red? Maybe, Ultimate Power?
The “rational mind” as you call it, doesn’t exist. What we call mind is merely an amalgamation of thoughts and images which have a physical reference point we call “my body”, and a mental reference point we call “me”. That “me” is the artificial self. Our mind is calibrated for one thing: survival. Awakening to higher levels of consciousness has nothing to do with our survival, and therefore nothing to do with our rational minds — which are not actually rational at all. If our mind’s function is to ensure a status quo (thus providing a sense of security, which is conducive to our survival and mental well-being), but the very nature of the Universe is change and unpredictability, then there’s nothing rational about the function of the mind. It is always fighting a battle it knows it will eventually lose.
Are you referring to the “irrational premise” of a God? To believe in a God is not necessarily irrational. To believe that the God described in Judeo-Christian religions is both the essence of unconditional love, AND an authoritarian who judges — now that’s irrational. A God cannot be both of those things.
A belief is a lens through which we view the “outside” world. Our experience of belief is subjective, however, a particular belief (i.e. conceptual framework) is an objective phenomenon. If we look at the sentence, “I believe in unicorns,” “I” is the subject, “believe” is a verb, and “unicorns” is an object. However, when we consider “a belief in unicorns” we are referring to a framework within consciousness — which is an object.
I’m just meaning Rational in terms of the standard levels of development generally agreed upon in Integral theory; Traditional, Rational, Pluralistic, Integral etc or Amber, Orange, Green, Teel.