MonSno_LeeDra
June 8th, 2008, 04:17 PM
Why do we do and believe as we do?
I think at times we all must ask ourselves; "Why do we do and believe as we do?" Yes we go about our lives and do the things that we do but do we really know why or what it is that motivates us to do so? Do we just go through the actions and really have no understanding of the why and what for’s of it? Though I wish I could answer this for everyone I realize I can’t so it will be my answers.
I guess the first place would be "Why do I believe as I do?" Really, it should be an easy question to answer but it is not. When did I first discover what I believe? Perhaps that is the place to start on my discovery.
Like many other’s I think I first became aware of the religious fact of my life in the Church. Yes, many where the hours I spent in Bible school and sitting through sermons. Yet, I never quit felt it as my siblings and others about me did. Oh yes, the charge was there and the energy that made the nape of the neck tingle and caused the heart to race. But it felt shallow in comparison to my siblings.
It was but a shallow sensation of what I experienced when I sank my hands into the Earth and felt the energy of life and growth. The sensation of cupping the roots of some plant in my hands and placing it into the damp, coolness of mother Earth. In contrast to the church, the land did not belong to me; I co-existed with it and was part of it.
Yes, that was the truth! I co-existed with the land and was part of it, not the lord and owner of it as the Church told me. So if I was outside of the teachings on this what else was wrong to me?
The core of my beliefs was being laid at that moment. Yet even as that was ongoing the next stage was being set as I was introduced to two important people. One was a man that taught me the joy of growing things and to listen to the land and seasons. The other being an elderly Italian lady that made me her adopted son and introduced me to her families religious beliefs.
Before I reached the age of 12, I had developed the sensation of Earth, Gods and Goddess, the energy of the land and the flow of the wheel of the year and my place within and upon it. While my friends read comics and such I read about the Bermuda Triangle, Ancient Civilizations, Mythology, and things occult. History became a passion for it was always filled with Why and Why Not with a great helping of What IF?
Those became the three guiding principles of learning, Why? Why Not? and What IF?
Through that search I discovered that religion and spirituality are not the same thing. Religion was the way I approached things that dealt with divinity. It was the ceremonies and rituals and talks with the gods and goddess. It was the offerings and conditions of offering and times and places. Those things that set the stage for the inner dialog that would follow.
Spirituality, now that was different. That was the way I felt and the charge and excitement I felt when I spoke to my gods / goddess. It was the charge that filled the church in my youth but now I understood it and why it touched me but not deeply as it did my siblings. It was the realization that all I had to do was close my eyes and open my heart and they where with me. The ability to recall a sensation and I could be in their presence again.
It was the ability to look upon the world and see the under lying energies that made me think of them. No, not to look for them but to think of them and see their energy and charge in the entire world about me. It was also the realization that all things where possessed of a given life force and we where all part of it. By using the sensation of the spiritual I could feel and sense the great vibration of the physical world about me.
I realized that the religious mundane formulated the concept and placement of my world and expectations from it. It was the "Do unto others" and the "See each for what they are not what you would have them be!" It became the rules and guiding factors that would be molded by my morality and experiences to mold the pattern. It is the reason I view things the way I do.
Yet my spiritual placement is the thing that allows me to look beyond the right now and see the what if’s and the way things might be, could be or even should be. It is the emotional and spectral facet of myself. It is the part that lets me look upon a thing and see the beauty and special-ness of it. It is the fuel that ignites my mind to explore and be open to new things and try to grow beyond the limitations that hold me in place.
My life experiences expectations and beliefs are the framework upon which I build and maintain my beliefs. They form the physical boundaries and structures of what I think and believe to be true. The constants of my path are the things that give me perspective of time and passage of time and life. They are the means I use to mark the points that hold importance to me and give me guidance in the life path I walk.
The spiritual is the blood and energy that moves me within the framework of my path. It is that which is pliable and allows me to consider other options and recognize the divine in all things. It allows me to understand that while I may view in one fashion it does not make it all right, for divinity will reveal to others as it feels best for their growth and its purpose. Even if that purpose were of no purpose or reason I may comprehend.
I ask the questions and ponder for that is the product that Spirit has created within me and inspires me to pursue. Spirit is the outside force and catalyst that has made me ask why and not settle for "Because I said so!" or just simply "Because!’
Yes I mark the passage of time with ceremonies and such but they are of little importance once the hair begins to tingle on my neck. They serve as the trigger to create the condition to move me into the realm of my divinity. They pale under the power of inspiration and mental expansion I feel as I stretch my self, my earthly and spiritual perceptions and energy to touch and experience the land and world about me.
Yet, I wonder have I answered my question though, "Why do we do and believe as we do?’
I think at times we all must ask ourselves; "Why do we do and believe as we do?" Yes we go about our lives and do the things that we do but do we really know why or what it is that motivates us to do so? Do we just go through the actions and really have no understanding of the why and what for’s of it? Though I wish I could answer this for everyone I realize I can’t so it will be my answers.
I guess the first place would be "Why do I believe as I do?" Really, it should be an easy question to answer but it is not. When did I first discover what I believe? Perhaps that is the place to start on my discovery.
Like many other’s I think I first became aware of the religious fact of my life in the Church. Yes, many where the hours I spent in Bible school and sitting through sermons. Yet, I never quit felt it as my siblings and others about me did. Oh yes, the charge was there and the energy that made the nape of the neck tingle and caused the heart to race. But it felt shallow in comparison to my siblings.
It was but a shallow sensation of what I experienced when I sank my hands into the Earth and felt the energy of life and growth. The sensation of cupping the roots of some plant in my hands and placing it into the damp, coolness of mother Earth. In contrast to the church, the land did not belong to me; I co-existed with it and was part of it.
Yes, that was the truth! I co-existed with the land and was part of it, not the lord and owner of it as the Church told me. So if I was outside of the teachings on this what else was wrong to me?
The core of my beliefs was being laid at that moment. Yet even as that was ongoing the next stage was being set as I was introduced to two important people. One was a man that taught me the joy of growing things and to listen to the land and seasons. The other being an elderly Italian lady that made me her adopted son and introduced me to her families religious beliefs.
Before I reached the age of 12, I had developed the sensation of Earth, Gods and Goddess, the energy of the land and the flow of the wheel of the year and my place within and upon it. While my friends read comics and such I read about the Bermuda Triangle, Ancient Civilizations, Mythology, and things occult. History became a passion for it was always filled with Why and Why Not with a great helping of What IF?
Those became the three guiding principles of learning, Why? Why Not? and What IF?
Through that search I discovered that religion and spirituality are not the same thing. Religion was the way I approached things that dealt with divinity. It was the ceremonies and rituals and talks with the gods and goddess. It was the offerings and conditions of offering and times and places. Those things that set the stage for the inner dialog that would follow.
Spirituality, now that was different. That was the way I felt and the charge and excitement I felt when I spoke to my gods / goddess. It was the charge that filled the church in my youth but now I understood it and why it touched me but not deeply as it did my siblings. It was the realization that all I had to do was close my eyes and open my heart and they where with me. The ability to recall a sensation and I could be in their presence again.
It was the ability to look upon the world and see the under lying energies that made me think of them. No, not to look for them but to think of them and see their energy and charge in the entire world about me. It was also the realization that all things where possessed of a given life force and we where all part of it. By using the sensation of the spiritual I could feel and sense the great vibration of the physical world about me.
I realized that the religious mundane formulated the concept and placement of my world and expectations from it. It was the "Do unto others" and the "See each for what they are not what you would have them be!" It became the rules and guiding factors that would be molded by my morality and experiences to mold the pattern. It is the reason I view things the way I do.
Yet my spiritual placement is the thing that allows me to look beyond the right now and see the what if’s and the way things might be, could be or even should be. It is the emotional and spectral facet of myself. It is the part that lets me look upon a thing and see the beauty and special-ness of it. It is the fuel that ignites my mind to explore and be open to new things and try to grow beyond the limitations that hold me in place.
My life experiences expectations and beliefs are the framework upon which I build and maintain my beliefs. They form the physical boundaries and structures of what I think and believe to be true. The constants of my path are the things that give me perspective of time and passage of time and life. They are the means I use to mark the points that hold importance to me and give me guidance in the life path I walk.
The spiritual is the blood and energy that moves me within the framework of my path. It is that which is pliable and allows me to consider other options and recognize the divine in all things. It allows me to understand that while I may view in one fashion it does not make it all right, for divinity will reveal to others as it feels best for their growth and its purpose. Even if that purpose were of no purpose or reason I may comprehend.
I ask the questions and ponder for that is the product that Spirit has created within me and inspires me to pursue. Spirit is the outside force and catalyst that has made me ask why and not settle for "Because I said so!" or just simply "Because!’
Yes I mark the passage of time with ceremonies and such but they are of little importance once the hair begins to tingle on my neck. They serve as the trigger to create the condition to move me into the realm of my divinity. They pale under the power of inspiration and mental expansion I feel as I stretch my self, my earthly and spiritual perceptions and energy to touch and experience the land and world about me.
Yet, I wonder have I answered my question though, "Why do we do and believe as we do?’