I Am Spiritual But Not Religious
I believe that caging ones self inside any one religion limits spiritual growth. When we put those blinders on, we block out teachings that may come our way.
Everyone has their own truth. When we connect and communicate, we share our truth. I take a little of your truth and you take a little of mine. We evolve through sharing pieces of our experience and knowledge with each other. When religion comes into the equation, the listening to other points of views that comes from being humble is lost and walls come up blocking one from evolving spiritually.
I call myself Pagan, not because I have chosen a specific Pagan path such as Wicca. I call myself this, because it is a basic term that refers to one that believes in a poly god/goddess aspect and is earth based. There are many aspects common among all Pagan traditions that I hold to be true from personal experience.
I believe that all things are connected and learned to work with energies at a young age. Everything we touch, everywhere we go, we leave our energy print. Sometimes what people see as spirits is simply a memory left behind, a strong energy print. When something intense happens in an area, some of that energy lingers. I believe this, because of my own experiences with energy work.
I also believe in spirits, because for some reason they seem to be attracted to me. Everywhere I live, they seem to come into my space. Maybe they are not attracted to me and I am just more aware. Maybe others just overlook the obvious. I just know what I see and feel. I have had many experiences with the spirit world, but I don't tend to share them, because people sometimes look at me like I'm crazy when I do. When I am around someone that is obviously open minded enough to listen, I do share though.
Some of those spirits are teachers and guides. They reach out to me in my dreams. I still dream of the older woman in the cave that also came into my dreams as a child. Recently, I found out that my brother dreams of the same woman. She looks the same and the cave is the same.
I don't believe in all the aspects of the Lakota belief system, but I am drawn to it, because of the spiritual experiences that I have had in the sweat lodge. There is something magical that happens there. Sometimes you can actually see the prayers being lifted up. I have never felt more at peace and spiritually clean than when I crawled out of the lodge.
I have had outer body experiences. This happened when I was a child and it scared me. I remember walking around the house, seeing my mother do things in the kitchen and having a conversation with my father. When I mentioned it the next day to my father, he looked at me strangely. I should not have known those things, because I was in my bed sleeping.
I believe things that I feel, see, and experience. In search for explanations, I seek out truths among others with similar experiences. It's natural to want to find out why, but the reality is that it is too complex for our human minds to handle. There are many truths, nothing is concrete. So limiting ones self to religion, limits our growth.
Everyone has their own truth. When we connect and communicate, we share our truth. I take a little of your truth and you take a little of mine. We evolve through sharing pieces of our experience and knowledge with each other. When religion comes into the equation, the listening to other points of views that comes from being humble is lost and walls come up blocking one from evolving spiritually.
I call myself Pagan, not because I have chosen a specific Pagan path such as Wicca. I call myself this, because it is a basic term that refers to one that believes in a poly god/goddess aspect and is earth ba
I believe that all things are connected and learned to work with energies at a young age. Everything we touch, everywhere we go, we leave our energy print. Sometimes what people see as spirits is simply a memory left behind, a strong energy print. When something intense happens in an area, some of that energy lingers. I believe this, because of my own experiences with energy work.
I also believe in spirits, because for some reason they seem to be attracted to me. Everywhere I live, they seem to come into my space. Maybe they are not attracted to me and I am just more aware. Maybe others just overlook the obvious. I just know what I see and feel. I have had many experiences with the spirit world, but I don't tend to share them, because people sometimes look at me like I'm crazy when I do. When I am around someone that is obviously open minded enough to listen, I do share though.
Some of those spirits are teachers and guides. They reach out to me in my dreams. I still dream of the older woman in the cave that also came into my dreams as a child. Recently, I found out that my brother dreams of the same woman. She looks the same and the cave is the same.
I don't believe in all the aspects of the Lakota belief system, but I am drawn to it, because of the spiritual experiences that I have had in the sweat lodge. There is something magical that happens there. Sometimes you can actually see the prayers being lifted up. I have never felt more at peace and spiritually clean than when I crawled out of the lodge.
I have had outer body experiences. This happened when I was a child and it scared me. I remember walking around the house, seeing my mother do things in the kitchen and having a conversation with my father. When I mentioned it the next day to my father, he looked at me strangely. I should not have known those things, because I was in my bed sleeping.
I believe things that I feel, see, and experience. In search for explanations, I seek out truths among others with similar experiences. It's natural to want to find out why, but the reality is that it is too complex for our human minds to handle. There are many truths, nothing is concrete. So limiting ones self to religion, limits our growth.
By:
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Age:
26-30
