p_shift90
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Alright, my name's mike, and I don't really have a steady religion. I call myself Chaoist right now because it's the best explanation, but I constantly shift religious paradigms and I could feel Wiccan one day, Buddhist the next, so on, so forth. I try very hard to find a religious path that I can stick with, but I'm aware of my own tendency to shift unpredictably. It can be influenced by external stimuli, but more often than not I just get bored with the religion I'm currently pursuing. As such, I'm very open to different religions because I can understand the experiences that cause a person to believe in something. On the negative side, I have no religious stability. I was raised into a family that's practically atheist, but inexplicably, I have a deep yearning to find a single form of belief. My attention-deficit disorder coupled with my intense spiritual inclination sucks balls. Right now I'm studying Wicca. But I can almost already feel another shift coming on. There are a few general spiritual beliefs that I've held on to, and those are:
-the meta-belief of chaos magick, which is basically that magic or any other miraculous occurances are a placebo effect created by placing belief on the idea that if you do this-->that will happen.
-the belief that some form of extraterrestrial life influenced early human life and later on was deified through myths and legends, and that perhaps these beings were the cause of humans inhabiting this planet, an idea known by the term exogenesis.
-a belief that self-deification is possible by removing the conceptual "I" from your worldview and developing a self that exists beyond the worldly self.
-A belief in chakras, points in the body that influence the emotional/mental/spiritual spheres of self.
as of yet, I have not been able to find a spiritual belief system that encompasses each of these four beliefs.
-the meta-belief of chaos magick, which is basically that magic or any other miraculous occurances are a placebo effect created by placing belief on the idea that if you do this-->that will happen.
-the belief that some form of extraterrestrial life influenced early human life and later on was deified through myths and legends, and that perhaps these beings were the cause of humans inhabiting this planet, an idea known by the term exogenesis.
-a belief that self-deification is possible by removing the conceptual "I" from your worldview and developing a self that exists beyond the worldly self.
-A belief in chakras, points in the body that influence the emotional/mental/spiritual spheres of self.
as of yet, I have not been able to find a spiritual belief system that encompasses each of these four beliefs.
I like Buddhism for it's philosophy, it seems like more of a study of the mind than a religion to me. I've also read about Sikhism, but it was also intimidating to me. Is it really necessary to abstain from cutting one's hair?