ABSTRACT (Public Lecture: October 3, 2008)

The primary goal of this paper is to present a common ground wherein multi-religious perspectives would strip away biases against each other due to self-built dogmas. To attain this goal, the notion of Karl Jaspers’ cipher and Transcendence were utilized to form a perspective open to the possibilities of communication between particular religious revelations, their other counterparts and even history. Part of the findings were the inevitable role of human freedom in the process of making the religious experience a ‘truth-for-me’ and the possible appropriation of cultural religious perspectives in the political realm as a ground wherein the formation of individuals takes place. This does not discount the danger wherein one may lose one’s identity in the process of claiming a truth imposed by religion. Hence, the importance of the human freedom and the value of personal experience of the Divine nature when it comes to practicing a religion are once more stressed.