Hello!
Even though I already belong to way too many forums, I felt like exploring some new ones. This one looked a bit different. I don't know that I've ever come across any other interfaith forums before.
My main forum is INFPglobalchatter. Its a Jungian personality type forum for INFPs. I'm INFP and so that is where I hang out to chill with people similar to me.
I suppose I could tell you something about my beliefs. I sometimes call myself an agnostic gnostic. I've had my share of 'spiritual' experiences, but I don't always know what to make of them. I was raised in New Thought Christianity, and the only reason I don't still attend a church is because there isn't one nearby. I was attending a Unitarian Universalist church for a while. I might go back there again some time.
I'm a seeker. I seek experience and I seek insight. I seek knowledge and I seek understanding. I seek because I'm very curious and very dissatisfied.
I've been attracted to the goddess Saraswati for maybe the past 5 years or so. She is the goddess of knowledge, creativity, and spiritual aspiration. I never felt a connection to Jesus, but I've slowly begun to feel a connection to her.
I was watching again the movie A River Runs Through It just the other night. The father was preaching about how even if we don't completely understand someone we can love them completely. I agree to an extent, but personally I'm drawn towards the ideal of understanding. Christianity downplays the importance of knowledge, and so that is why I've been drawn towards Eastern philosophies. That said, I do enjoy studying early Christianity in terms of Gnosticism and astrotheology.
I do consider Saraswati to be my patron deity, but I don't consider myself Hindu. She just inspires me is all.
My personal practice mostly consists of meditating on my heart and repeating the mantra of the secret heart. Supposedly, the secret heart is where lord Narayana presides(Godhead) in the sense that this is the spark of God in each of us. The secret heart is where all spiritual visions come from which is to say that God comes in whatever form we desire deeply enough. Unfortunately too many people get stuck on a particular form and miss out on what is truly universal to reality and the human experience.
I try not to worry too much about whether such things are true in an ultimate sense. They feel true to me and that is good enough. If it doesn't feel true to someone else, then that is fine. I think of spiritual ideas and practices in the terms of Buddhist 'skillful means'. Either I find it useful or I don't.
I'm loyal to no particular tradition. I take truth where ever I can find it. However, I tend to see the bigger picture through an integral lense. I feel that integral theory and practice has the greatest potential for helping create a better world whatever that may be.
*marm takes a breath*
Nice to meet ya'll!
Even though I already belong to way too many forums, I felt like exploring some new ones. This one looked a bit different. I don't know that I've ever come across any other interfaith forums before.
My main forum is INFPglobalchatter. Its a Jungian personality type forum for INFPs. I'm INFP and so that is where I hang out to chill with people similar to me.
I suppose I could tell you something about my beliefs. I sometimes call myself an agnostic gnostic. I've had my share of 'spiritual' experiences, but I don't always know what to make of them. I was raised in New Thought Christianity, and the only reason I don't still attend a church is because there isn't one nearby. I was attending a Unitarian Universalist church for a while. I might go back there again some time.
I'm a seeker. I seek experience and I seek insight. I seek knowledge and I seek understanding. I seek because I'm very curious and very dissatisfied.
I've been attracted to the goddess Saraswati for maybe the past 5 years or so. She is the goddess of knowledge, creativity, and spiritual aspiration. I never felt a connection to Jesus, but I've slowly begun to feel a connection to her.
I was watching again the movie A River Runs Through It just the other night. The father was preaching about how even if we don't completely understand someone we can love them completely. I agree to an extent, but personally I'm drawn towards the ideal of understanding. Christianity downplays the importance of knowledge, and so that is why I've been drawn towards Eastern philosophies. That said, I do enjoy studying early Christianity in terms of Gnosticism and astrotheology.
I do consider Saraswati to be my patron deity, but I don't consider myself Hindu. She just inspires me is all.
My personal practice mostly consists of meditating on my heart and repeating the mantra of the secret heart. Supposedly, the secret heart is where lord Narayana presides(Godhead) in the sense that this is the spark of God in each of us. The secret heart is where all spiritual visions come from which is to say that God comes in whatever form we desire deeply enough. Unfortunately too many people get stuck on a particular form and miss out on what is truly universal to reality and the human experience.
I try not to worry too much about whether such things are true in an ultimate sense. They feel true to me and that is good enough. If it doesn't feel true to someone else, then that is fine. I think of spiritual ideas and practices in the terms of Buddhist 'skillful means'. Either I find it useful or I don't.
I'm loyal to no particular tradition. I take truth where ever I can find it. However, I tend to see the bigger picture through an integral lense. I feel that integral theory and practice has the greatest potential for helping create a better world whatever that may be.
*marm takes a breath*
Nice to meet ya'll!
