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Hello Thomas, I share your concerns pointed out here: There is definitely a danger in the realm of the subjective. Perceptions and "intuition" can be illusory and the perfect platform for supporting psychosis, and more so, neurosis. These get in the way of authentic spiritual experience. One...

Hello again path_of_one, Thank you for your in-depth replies. :) The exceptions you talk about are difficult indeed ... persecution and social apathy are two real-life concerns. Persecution for one's identity is seen regularly, although the rift is more in how the "outside" world identifies and...

May I add too something about "who" we are, as we're talking about identity here. The whole point of looking for identities is that really, I think, we are looking for "who" we really are, where we belong. As my previous post explained, I don't think that our true essence lies in different...

Hi path_of_one, You've hit an issue that has been going round in pagan circles for a long time. Six years now (not that long really) I've been intensely involved in different facets of paganism, but have never really gotten into it as a "religion". I was drawn to it specifically for its...

Yes, I hear what you're saying, but would probably explain it a bit differently. Take the image of water. The universe is a great big ocean. We are just the ripples and waves rising out of that ocean. We are still water, we are still part of the universe--but we are a unique one-pointed...

Thanks, NiceCupofTea. And a warm welcome, Steph! Looks like two interesting books, especially the latter.

Figured I'd post my top 10 separately. Here they are in no particular order with a little blurb about each: 1. Nature and the Human Soul: Cultivating Wholeness and Community in a Fragmented World, by Bill Plotkin Has got to be one of my all-time favourites as he speaks a great deal of sense...

So we have a top 10 required movies thread ... but I didn't see a top 10 required books thread and figured I needed to do something about that! What are your top TEN books (note: on religion, spirituality, humanity, life, philosophy, etc) that have influenced your faith/path and that you think...

Alan Watts Theater These videos were made using certain key parts of Alan Watts' insightful talks. They all seem relevant to this and other conversations on here. Might help or might not! None of them are very long and they can be kind of amusing ;) My favourite is the one that has a picture of...

Hello again immortalitylost, Mmm good. I figured you weren't fully identifying with that single statement but I thought it was a good opportunity to focus on something which touches what I see to be one of the main reactions to matters like death. I'm also glad to hear that you aren't too...

Hi immortalitylost, I totally understand what you're saying. I agree -- it would be horrible if there was no "point" to our existence, no meaning, no reason or purpose. In this respect, I disagree with existentialists. At the same time though, I also would encourage you to look deeper then at...

After doing some reading, I found something that might be of interest here in regards to the values of being open-minded and a good listener. It seemed relevant to an Interfaith forum. The Sufi Order International --- North America There is nothing wrong with being a fundamentalist in the...

Good post, Saltmeister. I can understand deeply the Christian belief that God inspired the Bible, but the way I was taught as a child ... that God dictated every single word to its writers ... well! The one that always rubs me the wrong way is when I'm told that it is actually the KJV that is...

Here's what my afternoon tea usually looks like ;) This was in the summer and we had clotted cream, home-made scones and our own garden strawberries mmmmm And here was a tea last winter ... I made "chocolate honey cake" which was incredibly gooey with marzipan honey bees lol Whenever we...

looks like chamomile and rosemary tea ... and I wouldn't consider it a nice cup of tea! I want a nice normal cup of tea -- a dab of milk and no sugar, please. Let me put the kettle on. :D ... I might settle for chai or oolong or just maybe a few sips of Turkish tea ... Oh btw, hello...

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Yes, much of the esoteric writings have been distorted, by people for their own ends. The same can be done to other sacred texts like the Bible or the Bhagavad Gita. A lot of people think that discussing "race" or acknowledging our differences is not very PC ... and I have even been attacked...

Although I agree fully with you on this, I don't think that is going to be the mass reaction. For the doom-sayers, it engenders a fatalistic belief in which they can hide and confirm all their dogmas and rigid expectations of others. I know for many fundamentalist 'born again' Christians, it...

Hello dark-in-the-whale and welcome. I see you live near Hartford ... I lived in Suffield for a couple years when I was much younger. :) The only thing that you'll be thrown off this forum for is if you behave like those people treated you. So let your hair down and tells us a bit about your...

Thanks, greymare and Dream, for your welcomes. Re: the David Whyte poetry, I'd thoroughly recommend him to everyone/anyone. Can't resist sharing another one of his poems: