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Crud wrote I am a faithful person. I suppose it is similar to being spiritual, I just believe I'm being driven by a singular force that relays moral integrity and ideas to me, especially through dreams. I know the entity as God, though I'm not quite a religious type. Most religion has sought to divide people or close their doors to those whom they disagree with, with is accurately opposite of the Bible's teachings. So I do believe in god, but I take a more realistic approach than beating somebody over the head with a book and then asking them to donate to my building once a week. Very articulate and intelligent answer. Religion is set to divide and that's why I initially stated spirituality because that's about the soul as we are all one consciousness experiencing itself relatively what it had already knew subjectively which is love. Jesus wasn't Christian, Buddha wasn't Budist. They were teachers of love and that was their religion. So much has changed from old times to create the unwell society currently playing out but it'll work out. Ying and Yang etc have to experience the dark to see the light. Wanted to ask on here just because it's a massive part of my life was intrigued to see how many can relate. |
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| i once went on a long weekend trip camping with my cousin last year during the summer in rural georgia, we were chilling outside our tents till around 10pm then the fire started to die down and my cousin dozed off, went to go wake him up and a shining bright light like as bright as an LED came over the heads of the tree and went right into my cousins mouth, i screamed and that woke him up and he seemed fine after that, we cut out trip short by 2 days and went back to atlanta as soon as the sun rose. i dont mess with ghosts or any or the occult stuff since that happened. |
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Ok I spotted this one a while ago and now I have time to answer...
Yes and no. I have no religion, but I do believe in 'God' and the other hundreds of labels we use that point in the same direction. I believe in a creative and destructive force that flows through everything in our universe. A force that connects us all to each other and to everything around us. But I have a problem with the term 'spiritual'. I've never liked it but never really known why, but lately I've been seeing more clearly what it is that I don't like about the label. I'll have an attempt at putting these feelings into words. So, thank you for this topic and the push that propels me to clarify these scattered thoughts and feelings. Even if I don't hit my nail on the head, it'll be some fine mental exercise for me The spiritual is commonly defined as that "relating to or affecting the human spirit or soul as opposed to material or physical things" (Oxford dictionary). It's in the phrase (and concept) of 'as opposed to' where my opposition arises. The spiritual is at the heart of many of our modern day religions, and within their doctrines, they often encourage a denial and rejection of the material in their pursuit of the spiritual. This creates a mindset in which we disrespect and disregard the material for it's perceived lack of perfection. We reject the idea that life force flows through the material just as it does that which lays beyond the material, and in doing so we are no closer to God than if we concentrate only on the material and reject the spiritual. This collective mindset has played the leading role the the ecological and social crises' that we are observing with complete dejection and horror today. The world as we know it is literally collapsing in front of our eyes, and there seems to be nothing we can do to alter it's trajectory. We constantly look to new ideas and scientific innovations to 'cure' the issues that we are facing. But the truth of the matter is, we've known about these issues for decades now, we've had the ideas and tools to change the direction we are headed, but we've been completely incapable of doing this. In fact, everything is getting worse at a drastic rate. The snowball just keeps on rolling, keeps on growing. We need a shift at the core of our collective and individual being, not a new idea stemming from the misalignment of our being. We try to force everything that we want in this world. Whenever we want to change ourselves, we revert to forcing ourselves to stop a certain negative behaviour, and that usually just diverts the underlying need/suffrage to rear it's head in a different area of our lives because we try to find a cure, rather than find and face the root / cause of the issue. But this world, and all of the beings on it have developed smoothly without the force of the human willpower for millennia before our awakening, and subsequent separation from the Earth. There are great similarities in our socio-economic and religious pursuits that we must make sacrifices in order to be rewarded at a later time. This causes us to reject ourselves and our realities in order to be appraised in the future. Our continued self-repression will not bring about an explosion of light, it will only push more of our innate gifts into the darkness. So many of us are ****** up today, and the inner devastation we experience is mirrored in the natural devastation that surrounds us. I think that our way forward is to stop trying to make everything better, and to surrender to the life force that flows through us and everything around. To trust in 'God', our life force, akasha, the universe or whatever and let it flow and work through us. Perhaps one day, when we are on the verge of depleting all of nature's gifts we will reach a state of such deflation that we will grow bored of pushing and forcing our will on everything and there will be space for real work to begin. I don't think people are truly evil, just lost, confused and nursing wounds that we don't know how to heal. Work which benefits the whole, rather than just the individual and his manipulators (employers (because let's face it, there isn't too much time left to continue hyperfocusing on the useless **** that most of our jobs entail)). Work which we enjoy doing, where our innate gifts are nurtured and able to grow, work where all which is mutually dependent on one another works in harmonious tandem. Maybe the space for this to blossom is already opening up. I suppose time will tell. |
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