Hi, I'm not sure if this is the right place.

[HumbleWalker]

Hello,

After spending several years working on converting towards Judaism I had a visionary experience if you will call it that and have since been reimagining and questioning everything. I've found some draw in the spiritual use of crystals and am also finding myself wanting to learn about a host of other ways of being spiritual but not necessarily religious.

Could anyone care to point me in some interesting directions? Looking up has kind of lost its touch.

HW

 

[columbus]

Greetings HumbleWalker!
Glad you joined us.

You might want to start a self introduction thread in that forum up at the top.
Tom

 

[George-ananda]

Hello,

After spending several years working on converting towards Judaism I had a visionary experience if you will call it that and have since been reimagining and questioning everything. I've found some draw in the spiritual use of crystals and am also finding myself wanting to learn about a host of other ways of being spiritual but not necessarily religious.

Could anyone care to point me in some interesting directions? Looking up has kind of lost its touch.

HW

You would have to be more specific but I have found the greatest spiritual wisdom is to be found in the eastern/Indian religious tradition myself. Try Prahmahansa Yogananda's 'Autobiography of a Yogi'. An exciting introductory read.

 

[Treks]

It must have been some vision to turn you from several years of study towards Judaism. Did you lose interest in Judaism overnight, or was it a long time coming?

Perhaps Wicca will appeal to you.

 

[Kirran]

Nice to see you @HumbleWalker.

Hope you find exploration here on RF useful, there's a huge variety of people. I wonder, do you believe in a personal God?

 

[HumbleWalker]

Well, this vision may have been a hallucination, or a vision, it depends on who you ask I guess. I found deep personal life meanings in the things that occurred and maintained a grasp on reality throughout. A part of the experience was a sense of the ultimate nothingness of the self... almost like what I believe Buddhists call satori. Other experiences also took place. I "lost" my "faith" almost immediately and have since felt drawn to less religious, more spiritual sources of... well.... spirituality that celebrate and embrace universal concepts such as energy and nature.

I don't really find myself believing in a G-d that answers to specific requests, but perhaps there are godforces and goddessforces and such. Sorry for the hyphenated spelling, old habit I can't get myself to break.

I have read "Autobiography of a Yogi". Agreed, great book!

 

[Emi]

I think it really depends on what beliefs you hold.