(05-01-2019, 09:10 AM)Nau7ik Wrote: I see mainstream religion as a step on the path of spiritual development. Most of us are passed that point; religion is not helpful to me. I am a man of Will and I like to think for myself and make my own choices. I think many of you are also like this. That’s why it won’t ever become a religion: only those who are consciously aware of their spiritual path and wish to accelerate it will be able to appreciate it.
I also see religion as a gateway toward spirituality.
I always had a notion that we lived in an intelligent design and at some point it was the faith of a christian friend that inspired me to seek to connect deeper with God and this, alongside initiatory experiences, led me to a phase where I sought through Christianity for many years. At some point it was not satisfactory to my thrist of seeking the mystery of existence and I was led to other things, which ended up bringing me to the Law of One and this forum, which from day 1 I felt like would have a place in my life like anything before.
Most of my core beliefs are ones I had during my christian years and that I found echoed in the Ra material in an intelligent manner. I guess because faith is truly the enabler to touch what is. I had a good inner conception of the Octave and manyness of it, of which without the notion of a timeless Source I saw that outside the time and space of our Universe lied a singularity in which infinite big bangs existed in simultaneity. Just the idea that God was the alpha and the omega had me dive deeply into contemplation and many things simply triggered resonance and insights. My conception of the afterlife and heaven was extremely close to the notion of what time/space is. Before having the notion of wanderers I had a deep desire to be something like a prophet, not like that I wanted to work on becoming a prophet, but that I wished I had been born one, a messenger of the heavens and their truths and in some way connecting things with the concept of wanderers I saw that maybe I was and had been born a bridge between Heaven and Earth.
I think I had a lot of luck in that I never felt there was something to fix within myself or the world, my seeking was always driven by sheer curiosity in the mystery of life and existence. The only thing the material really brought me is that I had a distortion of disbelief in reincarnation because of the bible. The material and the notion of the veil allowed me then to pierce the forgetting and connect with my own spirit in a manner I had not yet before then.
I thought to add that oftentimes when sharing may seem as dogma, there is still a kind of desire to want to alleviate another's despair or helplessness regarding something. So it's rarely because it is important to convince and more about helping in the ways that are known. Like I probably focus more on Unity than most in my posts, but that is because I do believe it is the great peace bringer. If I had no faith in that All is Well, and that I have succeeded in turning to it again and again throughout the last years, I would not of share it.