What I Pray To

"I see meditation as praying to your higher self." I like that thought.

Small world I just wrote this in reply to a different post;

Like you, I believe there is no such thing as separate or greater. I feel we all have everything we need, but sometimes we just do not tap into all available resources. These resources include faith and other positive aspects of religion. These resources include scientific knowledge which is a positive aspect of mental capacity.

I think this applies to your feelings on meditation and religion as well.

"Trying to find God, running from self, looking everywhere else"
I'm glad I can believe in myself more than anything, this is who I'll be till I die, and then whatever remaining energy there is afterwards

i'm sorry to read you gave up christianity. i hope one day you come back. i just got saved a year ago so i have no real say in what you wrote here but i don't believe God is a cruel God. I have been buddhist, islamic, and even mormon. i grew up with a stepfather from tunisia (africa) i have always just fell back into christianity ..it just always felt right in my heart.

I know what you mean. I never understood organized religions either. For ex:the oxymoron "holy war".

How do you become spiritual, I always wanted to know but don't know where to start. Sure I heard meditation will be a good start but I don't even know where to start there. I know one thing though I would rather be spiritual than religious any day. It's too many religions out there and most represent different gods. I believe spirituality is more divine and from the research I've been doing I believe it'll be a better suit for me.

I was going to start meditation but then i saw read it was bad o_O (devil worship with a peacful approch).

I agree with everything you say here,and although I follow no religion,I know the creator exists,and believe we are all extensions of Him/Her.Which consolidates the points you make here. :)

Hello klegendo. I agree with your rant and l agree with you when you say 'something cannot come from nothing', energy can be changed into different form but it has to have something there in the first place. I grew up in a wonderful presbytarian atmosphere and my grandmother's faith in her patriarchal God never wavered, she was blessed with a powerful gift of healing and had such happiness from her faith. Yet our family were kept dirt poor despite the hard work which usually wore them out so they died young, our language was taken away too and our young men were sent to die in wars not of our making our young girls were sent off to work 'in service' from as young as 12, my own mother and aunt worked up to 17 hours a day and were obliged to go to church every Sunday, the lower working classes in Britain were 'kept in their place through Religion and warnings of dire consequences if they broke even the tiniest of their master's or mistresses rules. Like you klegendo l am spiritual but not religious anymore, but l am grateful for the moral values my grandmother's Christian beliefs instilled in me, l may not be religious but l do honour the brave words of Jesus and other's like Him, telling us that the the only way for mankind is the way of unselfish love. I did not realise this until l had an ndr at the age of 49, l found myself catapulted out of my dead body, l did not want to die but l did not want to come back either, l discovered that my careful strict religious view's meant nothing but my soul having learned 'by my life's experience' that only love caring and honesty mattered, that was very important, and that 'l' am important too!, my years of growing up living by all the strict religious doctrine l was taught 'took away my self esteem because no one said they loved me' it was all rules of 'do this and don't do that'. After dying l was not aware of a 'patriarcial God' but l was aware of a 'higher loving intelligence' l learned so much but not what religion taught me to expect! and also that animals go on into spirit too! now l no longer follow any religion because it is not the empty platitudes that matter. What matters is non judgemental kindness forgiveness and love.These are actually difficult lessons to learn yet from a selfish point of view it is in our own best interests to learn them even if it is through the bitter experiences of this often painful life.

So how did everything (people, trees, rabbits, the moon, the ocean, the water cycle...) come into being my friend? ....Just wondering what your thoughts on this are.

Wow. This is a powerful essay. Thanks for sharing. I particularly love your take on meditation - makes me want to practice it right now.

Praying to your higher self I like that.

Wow that's interesting,believing in myself as much as my grandma believes in god.I would be unstoppable lol.The thing is though,It's easier to believe in something else than in your own self,especially when that one thing is the popular thing to believe in,its all around you.In this case god(and by god I mean not a higher power,the universe etc.not a deist or more liberal god,but a religious god,Christian,Muslim etc.) and believing in your higher self isn't really something that is preached,the "popular" thing to do.Even worst sometimes some people see it as egotistical or wrong.