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Post by WeAreOne on Jun 9, 2017 9:53:19 GMT -8
1. Connecting to intense highs of lighter frequencies, floating and flying sensations, blissful rushes of love.
2. Lucid dreaming, astral projection, energetic healing upgrades.
3. You see through politics, you understand the link between corporate politics, pharmaceutical, drug and arms industry.
4. More sensitive to energy fields around us. A lot more sensitive!
5. Breathing deeper and slower, into the solar, sacral and root chakras. Flexing muscles we didn’t know we had as the chi, the energy is drawn deep into our being.
6. Appreciating synchronicity, number codes, nature’s language as an integral part of our understanding of how this new world operates.
7. Experiencing deja vu, dimensional slippage, time fluctuations, flashbacks.
8. Renewed need or drive to get on with your mission to change, heal, protect the world.
9. Chakra activations causing heart palpitations, low blood pressure, nausea, aches, flu symptoms.
10. Some people being drawn to you like a moth to a light.
11. Other people being averse to you, staying away from your energy.
12. Being less able to adopt stealth mode, hide behind your matrix avatar. As a result being more careful about who you spend time with.
13. Moving your body to enable and encourage energetic flow. Being drawn to chi gong, reiki, yoga. Becoming more flexible, looser, more fluid in movement. Hips and pelvis opening, chest and shoulders opening, back straightening, hips aligning.
14. Increased empathy and a need for energetic self care to transmute and clear negative energy regularly.
15. Trusting the universal flow of love frequency more. Knowing the right thing will come to you.
16. Consciously reprogramming yourself from matrix algorithms. Heightened awareness of how, when, why the programming works and using tools to unplug. Simplifying your life.
17. Practicing manifestation consciously. Using mantras, focused intentions and meditation throughout the day and night to reset, rebalance and realign your internal vibration.
18. Intense periods of release of karmic and matrix toxins. Expect physical symptoms shaking, shivers, heat waves or nausea, aches and pains. Surrender. Allow. Accept. Be. Release. Practice selfcare.
19. Feelings of depression, anxiety, despair, restlessness, sudden mood swings and very low energy can be experienced. This is the unbearable lightness of being. The overwhelming need for expansion of consciousness.
20. Feeling connected to everything. Interconnectedness, oneness being experienced at a fundamental soul level.
SOURCE: operationdisclosure.blogspot.com/2017/06/20-signs-that-show-youre-receiving.html
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Post by WeAreOne on Jun 8, 2017 10:19:05 GMT -8
Would you happen to have any information on the significance of 72? sacredscribesangelnumbers.blogspot.com/2011/07/angel-number-72.html
Number 72 is a blend of the vibrations and energies of the number 7 and number 2. Number 7 brings its attributes of spiritual enlightenment, development and awakening, mysticism, independence, psychic abilities, persistence of purpose, the inner voice of wisdom, learning, knowledge and good fortune. Number 2 resonates with balance and harmony, duality, benevolence, peace, co-operation and partnerships, intuition and insight, faith and trust, receptivity, love and your Divine life purpose and soul mission.
Angel Number 72 brings a message from the angels that you have been working from your heart and soul to help, assist and serve others, and you have been living your Divine life mission and soul purpose with passion and commitment. You have found balance and harmony within yourself and this is being reflected outwards to others. The angels applaud you in your efforts and fully support and encourage you to continue on your current path. Keep up the good work!
Angel Number 72 is a message from your angels that you are using your inner-wisdom, intelligence and your intuition when making decisions and life choices. Your angels encourage you to continue in this vein and trust that you are being fully supported by your angels and the Universal energies.
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Post by WeAreOne on Jun 8, 2017 10:18:23 GMT -8
Would you happen to have any information on the significance of 72? Hi Zimcat!
whenever I find a number sequence that stands out to me the first thing to do is search online for it. I always put the number followed by spiritual meaning or angel number if its one that ive seen frequently. Then looking at the list of sites, I avoid anything that talks about the bible or any religion as I know those are not what my angels are asking me to look for. I find a site and read what information they have, and I can tell in my soul if that is what my angels wanted me to read or not. If that's not it, then I return and find another site.
my most frequent numbers I see are 808, 88, 33, and 17
www.sunsigns.org/angel-number-33-meaning/ - this is a really great site I recommend!
sacredscribes.blogspot.com/p/angel-numbers.html - a list of all angel numbers <3 highly recommend bookmarking this one so you can pull it up whenever you feel a calling.
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Post by WeAreOne on Jun 7, 2017 11:54:31 GMT -8
Dear Ground Crew,
How is the Ascension process progressing with you? From what I gather in speaking with other lightworkers some are “at the end of their ropes.” They feel exhausted with the third dimension. They are more than ready to move into the fifth dimension. This connotes that we are nearly at the completion of the third dimensional way of life. It is always the hardest when running a race at the very end.
Some of you might be feeling like you are under attack from the dark forces, which many lightworkers have also reported to me recently. One of my lightworker friends said the other day, “There is a disturbance in the field.” These words rang true. Surely it appears there is a disturbance in the field. The dark sees us as obstacles to getting their dark agenda accomplished.
How do these cunning disturbers accomplish their nefarious attacks? One of the main ways is by getting us distracted. Any time we are distracted we get taken off of our paths. What I know from working with many people is that every person’s concern, whether we would view it large or small, is important to them. Some of my clients have life altering the challenges with which they are dealing, and others have issues that are just as important to them. Combined with the intensity of the energies and the dark chaotic attacks, one can find themselves stressed out.
When under attack some of the feelings one might have are: headaches, stress, obsessing, exhaustion, sickness for no apparent reason, feeling out of sorts, inability to focus, challenging sleep, loss of deep connection with your spiritual helpers, depression, change in appetite, wondering if you might want to leave your incarnation, and feeling like there is no end to what you are experiencing.
Just think about it! This feeds right into what the dark forces are looking for. They want us to give up. We need to remember that we are being tested right now. This is our graduation. We are spiritual warriors working for the light. We cannot give up. It is not the end of the world but it is the end of the third dimensional world as we have known it. It is the beginning of our new Golden Age and soon the dark will know that their ways are over and futile. As we continue to roll up our sleeves with our light work we need to keep our eyes on the prize.
Once you realize that you are being played, you will see that no matter what you are going through might not be a serious as it appears. You will get through whatever challenge you are having. Call it a distraction and get some help to nurture yourself out of it. Rest is much as possible. Meditate. Eat well. Get out in nature. Know that you are getting through it. Look for the wisdom from the experience. Please rest assured that all will work out far better than you can imagine. This is part of the higher dimensional energies. We are being looked after.
If you feel as if your head is spinning as you are attempting to make order and sense out of all the information and disinformation that is coming to you, you might as well turn your head the other way. Ask yourself why you are wasting your precious energy and time trying to ferret out the truth when the dark intention is to keep our heads swimming? As you know the information that we are bombarded with is loaded with distortions, other people’s opinions and psychological warfare. We are being played by the cagy dark forces that are full of trolls and unworthy opinions. What matters is that we remember we are the “X factor”. The dark forces cannot control us. The lightworkers are the big players in this endgame. We work for the light and there are a lot of powerful beings here working to bring closure to the third dimension.
source: eraoflight.com/2017/06/07/mira-of-pleiadian-high-council-your-progress/
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Post by WeAreOne on Jun 3, 2017 11:00:02 GMT -8
I try to eat vegan as much as I possibly can (in this day and age its so hard to commit every moment of every day when im on the go and at other peoples homes) and the main thing I struggle with is people tend to say "it costs too much to eat healthy" or "its so boring to eat vegan how do you survive". Those are both valid concerns and it takes a strong person to make the choice to eat vegan. Its standing up against the norm and against the cruel treatment of animals, its realizing that we are all in this together on this planet and we have to respect every living thing as if it were a part of us (because it is). Below are some tips and tricks to help with eating vegan. And even if you still choose to eat dairy and meat, try to find products that are certified organic or buy local so you know exactly what the animals were eating and weren't treated horribly. Huge meat factories don't give one shit about the animals they are slaughtering and feed them the lowest quality of food on the market because its the cheapest which is usually full of GMO corn or soy. The animals there are kept in tiny cages or packed inside huge rooms with hundreds of thousands of animals living on top of one another in their own feces, forced to spend their days without sunlight and freedom. If that doesn't make your heart sad then maybe this will. Milk comes from mother cows who had just given birth to calves and they are taken from their mother so the cow can be attached to a machine to pump her milk. The cows can usually be heard crying for their babies as their being taken away. Im only trying to help you realize the lies in our food industry. And this is only the tip of the iceburg and only a few reason why I personally chose to be vegan. Im hoping you will do some of your own research into the industry and make your own choice as to your health and wellbeing. We all live on this planet, we are all equal and all one. Not one living this is better than another and I believe as humans we are coming to realize that fact.
As I coach people on becoming vegan, one common refrain I hear is that it’s too expensive. When funds are low, the cheap burger or basket of chicken can appear to be the best value — the most calories for the lowest price. We’ve been aggressively peddled the idea that a healthy diet is an expensive diet, something only for rich folks. And our experience seems to bear that out.
I understand the frustration. It doesn’t seem right that meat should be so cheap and fresh vegetables, especially organic ones, relatively expensive. But once you look into it, the true cost of eating animal protein is higher than you can imagine. And being veganish in your approach to food is not only healthier by every measure, but it can actually be considerably cheaper as well. In fact, many staples of a vegan diet cost very little and can be found in any grocery store — not just in specialty markets. Whole grains like quinoa or barley or brown rice, legumes like chickpeas or soybeans, and other beans like black-eyed peas and black beans are very inexpensive — certainly cheaper than processed and packaged foods. Bought in bulk whole grains and beans can cost just pennies per meal. And because they are full of fiber they make you feel full and satisfied (put them into soups, stews, salads, burritos, etc.), without the dangerous saturated fat of animal protein. Fresh vegetables and fruits can be found at supermarkets and farmers’ markets for very reasonable prices. Organic and specialty stores are great, but it’s certainly not necessary to empty your wallet in order to eat healthfully.
Beans, grains, veggies — these are the staples of populations around the world. Think of Mexico and South America, where inexpensive rice and beans coupled with corn tortillas and avocados are part of every diet; or rural China, where tofu with vegetables and rice, and maybe a very small bit of meat, is the norm; or India where people eat lentils or chickpeas and vegetables every day. Not only are these populations by no means wealthy, they also don’t have the diseases of wealthy countries. The general populations who eat these simple diets may get waterborne illnesses and lung infections from bad environmental conditions, but they don’t have anywhere near the rates of cancer, heart disease, and diabetes that we have — until they are exposed to our Western diet, that is.
And that’s something to think about. Not only is a healthful plant-based diet less expensive at the grocery store (unless you go crazy for packaged convenience foods, of course), it saves you personally and saves us societally in health care and many other direct and indirect costs. If you think these don’t affect you so much, think again. On the individual level alone, consider that your health insurance never pays for everything: even the best of plans charge deductibles and disallow certain medications. Being sick is expensive. More than that, a huge part of our country’s annual budget is given over to health-care costs, paid for by your tax dollars. And indirect health-care costs due to lost productivity adversely affect you in the form of higher taxes, too.
On the health-care front, when you consider that meat and dairy foods clog our bodies with saturated fat, growth hormones, and antibiotics, things that have been conclusively linked to cancer, heart disease, and obesity, as well as a general “blah” feeling, it’s certainly a lot less expensive — and less painful — to prevent debilitating diseases through our food choices than it is to treat them later (through bypass surgery or angioplasty, for example, which can run up tens of thousands of dollars in medical bills).
source: www.huffingtonpost.com/kathy-freston/eat-vegan-cheap_b_840191.html
I will add more into this thread as I do more research and find different articles that pertain to this topic <3
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Post by WeAreOne on Jun 2, 2017 8:59:30 GMT -8
Greetings. We are the Arcturian Council. We are pleased to connect with all of you. We are beyond satisfied and pleased with the progress you are making when it comes to settling disputes in your personal lives. We see the efforts that you all make to come to agreements with each other, to bring peace to situations where there has been turmoil and even bad blood. We are recognizing the movement forward that you are making as a collective in the settling of the smallest of disputes. Whenever one of you decides to take the high road, to apologize, to forgive, to give someone else the benefit of the doubt, you are making enormous headway, and you are bringing yourselves closer to the full ascension of your consciousness. The coming together of individuals with different perspectives is one of the most beautiful things that we witness on your world, and we witness it happening every single day. We want you to know how powerful the effects are of your solving the minor issues that come up between you. The effects are enormous because of the ripple effect. The energy that gets sent out across the universe is one of unity. Bringing yourselves together, you create the Source Energy experience. The Source Energy experience is all beings coexisting harmoniously in the same one Being. No matter how different the perspectives might be, they are peacefully coexisting within Source. This does not mean that Source is schizophrenic. What it simply means is that Source Energy understands perspective, understands the power of difference and variety, and seeing all of that synch up on one planet is something that brings you closer and closer to having heaven on Earth. You still have a long ways to go, but you are making progress every day. When you think about the very large disputes and how they are playing out on your world, recognize that those are extrapolations of the experiences that you are having with each other in your relationships, in your friendships, with your neighbors, with your co-workers, with authority figures, and all of these disputes can be settled when you give your ego a break and you let yourself have the experience of knowing that everyone and everything is a part of you. Therefore, when you are at battle with another you are only battling yourself. And when you recognize this, it is very easy for you to lay down your arms and coexist peacefully. We are the Arcturian Council, and we have enjoyed connecting with you.
source: eraoflight.com/2017/06/02/the-9th-dimensional-arcturian-council-you-are-making-progress/
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Post by WeAreOne on May 20, 2017 7:21:44 GMT -8
What is Karma? Karma is the Sanskrit word for action. It is equivalent to Newton’s law of ‘every action must have a reaction’. When we think, speak or act we initiate a force that will react accordingly. This returning force maybe modified, changed or suspended, but most people will not be able eradicate it. This law of cause and effect is not punishment, but is wholly for the sake of education or learning. A person may not escape the consequences of his actions, but he will suffer only if he himself has made the conditions ripe for his suffering. If he were to continue acting in such a way that the retribution cannot come about, because the conditions are not appropriate, then he may postpone the fruition of his karma. If he can suspend it until he is in the spirit world, then he may work at this particular karma in this intermission between death and next life. Or he may wait until another life in which he is more developed so that he can gleaned the educational value of this retribution. Conversely, his life could be so derelict that the blessings due to him cannot fructify until a later date or a subsequent life. All these fall into the category of suspension of karma to a more propitious period or life.
Ignorance of the law is no excuse” whether the laws are man-made or universal. To stop being afraid and to start being empowered in the worlds of karma and reincarnation, here is what you need to know about karmic laws.
The Law of Karma is the Buddhist and Hindu version of the Golden Rule, basically, that what you do to others will return and be done to you. It’s stated in similar terms in almost every religion in the world.
In the East, the law reads (in translation):
“For every event that occurs, another event will follow that was caused by the first, and the second event will be pleasant or unpleasant due to and indirect relation to its cause”
The belief teaches that the person who takes action is responsible for that action, if not in this lifetime, then in future lives. In effect, what you did in your past lives comes forward to your present life and determines the events you experience now.
Buddhism takes these beliefs much deeper, delving into intention andthought as well as spoken words and action. With everything we feel, say, or do, we make choices. Whatever you choose to do produce ripples that travel through time. Those choices are our karma, good or bad.
Instead of seeing bad karma as punishment for actions in your past lives, you can better understand it as a lesson toward living in Oneness with all people and things. The Law of Karma – as simple as: You reap what you sow – extends from your past lives into your future lives. How you apply it in your present life determines your results.
1: LAW OF NEUTRALITY – Just as the “Law of Gravity” always works to pull things toward the Earth, these “Laws of Karma” apply to all equally, no exceptions. The universe is neutral: there are no favorite ones, there are no cursed ones, there are only divine beings created the Creator and all these divine beings are loved by Creator equally, deeply, and completely.
2: LAW OF AGREEMENT – The most terrible truth that anyone will ever learn while they are on Earth is… that they agreed to come here and to experience all that has, is, and will happen to them. The universe operates under this simple rule: all that happens is by prior agreement based on karmic justice between all the parties involved to balance past karma.
3: LAW OF LESSONS – We reincarnate to learn what is and is not like love. In the worlds of duality, we learn from experiencing polar opposites: “good-bad”, “problem-solution”, etc until we evolve into divine love, joy, and awareness. We walk the divine circle – where there is no saint without a past and no sinner without a future – until we learn our lessons.
4: LAW OF CAUSE & EFFECT – What you have done unto others in past lives or in this one (cause), weaves the karmic agreement of your present and future (effect). Consciously acting from loving kindness to yourself and others instantly reweaves the present and future karmic agreements into greater pathways of empowerment and unfoldment.
5: LAW OF BALANCE – The point of learning lessons is to achieve balance. Imbalances drive your personal cycle of reincarnation. “What you bring hate to, you reincarnate to” is how balance is achieved. For you can only truly understand a thing when you become that thing and cease to judge it, cherish unloving opinions, or harbor unrealistic expectations about it.
6: LAW OF ATTRACTION – Your consistently repeated thoughts packed with your consistently felt emotions become magnetized and attract similar thoughts packed with emotions to manifest your desires into reality. Whatever thoughts and emotions you focus on the most – with the most intensity and the most time – whether intentionally or unintentionally, becomes your belief-karma. The more you invest in them with your focus, the stronger they become. Your belief-karma generates your thoughts, forms your attitudes, guides your actions, and creates your results.
7: LAW OF CONNECTION – You connect with the people, opportunities, and events necessary to manifest your desires if you allow, believe, and expect it will happen for you. Allowing means you open yourself to let manifestation flow to you by believing what you need to manifest your desires will come to you and by expecting if-when you take consistent and appropriate actions your desires will manifest into reality as you have asked.
8: LAW OF EXPANSION – Since everything in the universe is energy, the universe is always expanding from lower to higher vibrational states. Change and growth are inevitable because energy is always expanding. The universe expands through chaos, reorganization, and order in an endless cycle of change and growth to create continuous improvement.
9: LAW OF UNFOLDMENT – Your internal map of reality is always changing to reflect your personal state of learning and growth. Your map of reality is always being refined into greater levels of truth as your consciousness unfolds. Unfoldment is a gradual process so that you can learn life lessons at your own pace as you reincarnate through time.
10: LAW OF EMPOWERMENT – If you “let whatever happens be ok”, you are accepting the “default” pattern of karma. Empowerment comes from a conscious decision to take control of karma by accepting absolute and total responsibility for your life and by always consciously acting with loving kindness.
11: LAW OF ALL POSSIBILITIES – There is no end to the joy you can experience or to what you can create. For all the power to get what you want comes from within you. Every moment brings with it new possibilities and opportunities for action. Whatever you can dream, you can do, be, or have in the universe of all possibilities… this is your birthright as a divine being.
12: LAW OF LOVE – Karma begins and ends with love. Karma was created to propel you as Soul on a personal journey of reincarnation through the universe. Karma ends when you have perfected yourself in your ability to love unconditionally. The sole purpose of karma and reincarnation is to bring us all to a state of divine love, joy, and awareness.
source: eraoflight.com/2017/05/20/the-12-laws-of-karma/#more-29606
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Post by WeAreOne on May 13, 2017 9:13:22 GMT -8
Greetings. We are the Arcturian Council. We are pleased to connect with all of you.
You are making progress in ways that you cannot measure with instruments. These are not quantifiable steps, and therefore, they are a mystery. There is a part of you who can track the progress that you are making, but it is not a conscious aspect of self. And therefore, you must rely on those beings like us, and you must trust that we are giving it to you straight.
The progress that you are making is with the creation of a new Earth, the creation of a new fifth dimensional reality. So you can see why it is immeasurable and difficult to detect from where you sit. Many of you are reaching for and yearning for this new Earth to take hold in your experience, but ultimately it is something that is still under construction.
However, we can see the completed result of all of your efforts, and we are here to tell you that you are inheriting a magnificent planet filled with love and equality, filled with peace and acceptance. You will not get to this new Earth by hammering away at the old one. You don’t need to chisel away at the governments, the economic systems, and the corporations and banks in order to get there.
You simply have to embrace your inner realm. You have to believe that this new Earth exists inside of you and that it will appear in front of you when you are ready to inherit it. So that is why it is more important for you to go within yourselves and feel for the energy that you are using to create your reality. And at times it is necessary to let go of your attempts to change the physical reality that you currently experience. And certainly, you want to let go of any need to change any other person that you experience in your physical reality, no matter how much power that person seems to have.
There is a letting go of the old Earth that is necessary in order to move to the new one. And you are capable of doing this gracefully without large natural disasters or other catastrophic events, because you are creating this new Earth within yourselves. And you are allowing yourselves entry and passageway to the new Earth you have created.
We are the Arcturian Council, and we have enjoyed connecting with you.
source: eraoflight.com/2017/05/13/9th-dimensional-arcturian-council-the-new-earth/#more-29223
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Post by WeAreOne on May 9, 2017 10:50:39 GMT -8
thank you so much for posting this! we are included in that 144,000 lightworkers <3
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Post by WeAreOne on May 6, 2017 9:47:45 GMT -8
I’ve been there.
At church, closing your eyes, lost in the moment. The piano, the guitars, the perfect ambience, hundreds of people…feeling so beautiful and clean inside that tears are streaming down your face…
And then, the pastor gets up to talk about the Bible. And he says that what you were doing was worshipping God, and that God doesn’t like sin. He dislikes it so much that he died for it.
He died so you could feel love — the same love that you were feeling a few minutes ago, that you were lost in. To do that, he had to get rid of sin.
And sin is listed in a big book that indicates that you have to think the beautiful marriage that a gay couple has is bad.
It’s confusing. You were feeling so beautiful inside…but in order to feel that, you have to believe that things are wrong that don’t necessarily seem all that wrong. Things that hurt other people.
And they’re based on fantastic things in the Bible that seem…a bit unbelievable. But you have to get your spirituality here and only here, somehow, if you don’t want to go to hell forever…
As an atheist, I’m not trying to take away the positive feelings you get. Really, I’m not. When I rant and rave, it’s often because I’m outraged that people joined the beautiful feeling you get in church with a bunch of rules that hurt people and a God who makes you feel so inferior that you have to thank him for every breath you take.
I think it’s a simple point, but one that often gets missed: you can have a connection — even a deeply spiritual one — to the entirety of existence, and get lost in it and inspired by it, without believing in all of the other nonsense. You don’t have to think gay marriage is wrong in order to close your eyes and lose yourself in the beauty of connection that you can experience in the here and now.
And spirituality isn’t a commitment, either. Sometimes I like to be contemplative and connect deeply to nature. Sometimes that’s boring as hell and I want to get involved in the hustle-bustle of life. That’s awesome. Life isn’t the one thing. Religion may try to consume you and say it is, but…I think it’s better to just live, man. You can have deep personal, “spiritual” feelings on your own time.
And what I have to say is…you do you.
If you don’t like spirituality, if it gives you a bad taste in your mouth, if you want to get rid of it — go ahead. Get rid of it in your life.
If you find those feelings you got in church in the mountains, on hikes, in a canoe, etc., like many atheists I know…find it there.
If you find it through art, through music, through dance, through painting, through singing, through doing your job well, through movies…indulge.
If you find it in watching and/or playing sports or exercising, do it there.
If you get it through video games or other forms of technology, congrats. Play Candy Crush if it makes you happy, and give haters the middle finger (no, I don’t play Candy Crush, but you get my drift). Life is short, and happiness is hard to find, so if you find something that makes you happy, reward yourself.
If you get it through meditation, then go ahead and meditate.
If you get it from reading…wow. There are millions of beautiful books we’ve written over the millennia, and we have the Internet. Read to your heart’s content.
If you find that feeling of spirituality in any other of hundreds of ways…go ahead. Go after it. Hell, if you find it through ritual, you can go join a really liberal church like the Unitarian Universalists or something (been there once when a Wiccan spoke — pretty cool). Where you get those feelings from is up to you.
And wherever you find it, if you look, you can find a community of people who get it from the same place. And you can drink in the “spirituality” or lack thereof together. It’s not just in church. Sure, it might be necessary to look beyond your atheist community…and that’s OK. There are very few people you’ll have EVERYTHING in common with.
Ultimately, spirituality is a feeling of euphoric connection to yourself and things outside of yourself. That’s it. And I really don’t think you need God to do it.
Here’s the thing though — don’t try to unjustly hurt other people. Either inside your group or outside. And look at the world rationally when you’re making decisions for other people. Like…it’s one thing to lose yourself in a video game. But please don’t pretend you’re playing Grand Theft Auto when you’re driving down the freeway in real life.
Here’s what I think happens: People go into these churches, they get these deeply spiritual feelings, and then they’re told that in order to keep them they have to fend off “the world” who may take try to take it away, and as a result they become tribal and insular, developing rules that hurt themselves and other people in the process, and their feelings of spirituality get entangled with the rules.
The key here, I think, is to separate that. Realize that deep sense of connection is your own — you own it. You decide what contexts you’ll express it in. And if it makes you happy, express it in a way that doesn’t hurt people, and be happy. You only get the one life. Get as much beauty out of it as you can.
So yeah, I’m an atheist. And I’m very vocal. But those feelings of spirituality are not something I’m trying to take away from people — I’m attacking religion. If anything, I think getting rid of religion increases the ways we can express ourselves through the feelings we label “spirituality,” and without the barrier of God-enforced rules, the intensity of the feelings we express can develop.
I’m against much of religion because I think it takes away or limits happiness, and I’m very interested in ensuring that people are happy after they leave. And once you look past the moneygrubbing preachers who say that that’s impossible…there seem to be a lot of ways it is possible.
Feel free to embrace them. As long as you’re not hurting people, or making rules you’re illogically forcing others outside your group to follow or be held accountable to…you are free to take advantage of all the world of beauty has to offer.
Life is hard enough as it is. Don’t make it harder by letting other people intrusively qualify your sense of euphoric spirituality with arbitrary, cumbersome rules that take away from the beauty in yourself and others.
Hopefully that helps.
Thanks for reading.
PS: I have a Patreon, in case you want to support what I do.
source: www.patheos.com/blogs/barrierbreaker/spirituality-religion-arent-thing/?ref_widget=trending&ref_blog=rationaldoubt&ref_post=real-reason-left-christianity
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