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Postmaster- i do not believe in a god. certainly not a personal god. no. i believe in the ability of people to reach out to one another. to cross paths and make a positive difference in one another's lives. this is what i am familar with, and how i see change come about in the world.

i love it when the people i love can learn to love themselves i love it when i can go through the day mindfully i love it when i find a really cool book and have the time to sit down and enjoy it i love it when things fall into place

thipps- thank you again, friend. though i still disagree on some of these points of gender, i'm glad to see where you're coming from on this. thank you for the info!

thipps- thank you for your reply! that was a typo sorry! i meant to say "if you worship AT a mosque" and wondered what the situation for men and women's worship spaces was at your mosque. thank you for answering, thipps. much appreciated!

thank you for your answers, thipps. :) thank you for the suggestion. may i ask, if you worship as a mosque, what are the prayer spaces for men and women like at your mosque? are they "seperate but equal" as Islam requires? is not, what reasons are given for this?

wonderful quote, earl. thank you for sharing! this guy sounds really cool. essentially this is what i believe, as well. truth is relative and personal. we can project some notion of truth on to big, general questions if we want to, but we can also discover truth through living day to day...

dayaa- you ask some great questions, and path_of_one has given (as per usual!) wonderful answers. i've struggled with trying to figure out which religion is "right" for years, and have wondered how on earth God expects us to know which one is right. i feel that if God intended for mankind...

Mason- i can relate. i was looking at Islam for a while. before that, Buddhism. the best thing to do is ask questions of knowlegable people and decide for yourself. best of luck on your path!

thipps- well, i've heard that in general, while it's obligatory for a man to pray in a mosque, it's acceptable for a woman to just pray at home. also, from what i've seen on the interior of many mosques, the men's section for prayer tends to be spread out over the entire first level, while...

InLove- some of my favorite books are written for children on ths subject of death. there's one beautiful book about a girl and her mom and dad who go out on a fishing boat one night to remember her older brother and how he used to catch crabs. how the older boy died is not touched on, but...

i agree with Awaitng The Fifth- i don't think it's religiosity that's innate to children, but spirituality. there's nothing like having a kid drag you by the hand and point out things like cool bugs, clouds, nifty cars, weird plants, music you hadn't heard of before... many kids' enthusiasm...

i'm not sure if we're born with belief... belief in what, or in whom? what kind of assumptions would an infant make about the world? :confused: we may be born with an ability to feel awe or seek spiritual well-being, though. in this regard i don't see children as a blank slate. most if...

hey habibi- what got you interested in mysticism? are there any particular traditions or teachers you're interested in? i wish you luck, habibi! let us know how things go.

i'm alright with pericings and tattoos, though i have varying feelings about cosmetic surgery... for example, a friend of mine has recently gotten a nose job. she had been receiving brutal treatment from other kids for years, motivated mainly by anti-semitism. she felt that her getting a nose...

hello, all thank you to Mason for your questions, and to Friend and thipps for their answers! i have a question of my own regarding Islam: how do men and women's spiritual obligations and spiritual lives differ? i've heard Muslims say often that men and women are equal before Allah and...

it's funny, but i see many books in the "spirituality" section of bookstores that try to explain or break down broad mystical ideas such as "living in the moment" or "getting rid of distinctions". one can't just buy mystical insight for $24.99 in softcover format. these books may point the...

i feel it works both ways. in many people it seems there's a will towards spirituality, something in them that responds to the transcendent and meaningful and seeks it out. on the otehr hand, i know of many examples where people have described feeling guided on their spiritual path (e.g. "i felt...

like others have said, i'm not sure one can define spirituality, only give their own definitions and testimonies. spirituality is, i suppose, a personal connection to the transcendent, within or without the context of religion. i get the impression that mysticism and spirituality are closely...

hey, all i was raised Lutheran, but never really fell in with the beliefs preached there. i didn't agree with the deification of Jesus (i generally saw this as an excuse to worship as opposed to being like him), and i disliked the amount of emphasis placed on the human experience, as i was...

Brian- while not a neo-pagan, i can give my own experiences with gender / sexual identity and spirituality. i have many friends who, upon coming to terms with being glbtq, began to look at their religion of birth and see the overwhelming emphasis placed on heterosexuality and traditionally...