Law of One as a replacement for religion

[Shin'Ar]

I don't believe in any religion but as a human being I feel the need for some kind of spiritual practice. What do you guys do to fill this need with the Law of One? e.g. how can I replace prayer or going to church?

What exactly you mean by spiritual practice will make all the difference in how you go about solving that issue.

If you mean the associations of the religious environment and atmosphere, like the buildings, altars, priests, rituals, etc. etc., then what you seek is not spiritual practice, but rather religious atmosphere.

It is not much different than the protestant who goes to his family's Catholic Church just to have the atmosphere of divinity, even though he may not be in synch with the doctrines of that environment.

In my thinking, every single person sitting in that church will have their own connection with their own version of their god, based upon their own comprehensive abilities. This is manifest in the various divisions of Christianity with regard to interpretation of doctrine.

With that in mind ask yourself, " is the respect of the one who understands one way any less credible or respective than one who may see things a little differently?

They both sit in the same building offering their respect to the god of their own degree of understanding.

They both sit on the same planet under the same natural forces looking for the god of creation.

The Truth is there for the respecting, regardless of the degree of understanding.

So how does it matter where, why, or how a person should choose to express their beliefs and show some form of respect to that which they choose to believe?

Your sense that you are replacing one thing with another is simply pure misconception and misunderstanding.

Faith is worshiping that which you do not know, or can believe in while lacking undeniable evidence. In that mindset you choose to accept what others offer you for information, evaluating it at your own level of understanding.

Believing is having the substance to support what you are evaluating.

In either case the atmosphere and environment is created by your participation and acceptance.

No church could stand as a working experience without the people who would commune there. It would be an empty building.

Jesus tried to teach this to people as he attempted to equate them as the Body of Christ, assuring them that the temple was the body and not the building.

The question for you Turtle is, "can you understand this?"

Are you able to bring your self to understand that what you desire to offer to the Unknown Mystery as respect and recognition is completely individual to your own comprehension and desire to connect?

If so then you should know that communion with the creator is between It and you, regardless of the locale, methods, or the others around you.

And as you gain higher understanding you will also come to realize the relationship that those others have to your own evolution,the evolution of humankind, and that communion with the Creator.