Do you have personal spirituality beliefs that are independent of organized religion? What are they?

Why do you need to know?

Spirituality is an independent pathway. Personally I am a college student that is studying to be a social scientist so when it comes to organized religion I find little to offer. However the books of Ken Wilber brought much to me and as you read on him you will be shown a whole branch of independent thinkers on spirituality to business. I find life to be spiritual and even the objective facts of reality I translate as being a creation of whatever.

Recently I found myself mixing religious beliefs. I am native american and raised catholic. I attended church on a daily basis till I was around 11. I know some about my native american heritage. Recently I also been getting into Hinduism and buddism. I love there spiritual beliefs. Instead of going to church every Sunday, I meditate on a daily basis. All I know is that we believe in a higher being in the heavens. Since incorperating these religions with my own beliefs I have a new outlook on life. I know people have there own belief but as long as it is positive I don't see nothing wrong.

I was raised to go to an evangelical Christian church. It never felt right to me, it just didn't fit although I tried really hard to believe.
As I've grown older I thought I didn't believe in anything at all and I've come to realise that this belief didn't fit either.
I wanted to understand the overwhelming feeling I get when looking at a beautiful sunset or looking out from the top of a mountain. A feeling of being so full up I think I'm going to explode. Its beautiful and vast and something I can connect to any time I want to.
I then started to listen to my own instincts. Instinctually I feel we come out of the one and go back into the one when we die. No religion is going to convey to me what I should feel or think. I know inside what is right and true for me.

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Originally Posted by theranger

I wanted to understand the overwhelming feeling I get when looking at a beautiful sunset or looking out from the top of a mountain. A feeling of being so full up I think I'm going to explode. Its beautiful and vast and something I can connect to any time I want to.
I then started to listen to my own instincts. Instinctually I feel we come out of the one and go back into the one when we die. No religion is going to convey to me what I should feel or think. I know inside what is right and true for me.

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In that case I suggest you try some poetry of the Romantics. Coleridge, Blake, Wordsworth and the like.


Now my friends emerge
Beneath the wide wide Heaven-and view again
The many-steepled tract magnificent
Of hilly fields and meadows, and the sea
With some fair bark,perhaps, whose sails light up
The slip of smooth clear blue betwixt two Isles
Of purple shadow! Yes! They wander on
In gladness all...

S.T. Coleridge

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