Have you ever hit a point where
everything you’re doing, reading, seeing, thinking, practising, all come from
the same place? And it makes perfect sense because everything you’re learning
about lately is about how everything is a part of something, all
interconnected, and so everything is everything and something. Clear? No, I
suppose not.
Well,
time is meaningless but still let me try at a
beginning if not the beginning.
For
the spiritual who aren’t faithful, trying to sort out your existential feelings
is tricky. Many find themselves drawn to pure atheism or to some sort of
traditional religion but with several asterixis attached. My own walk has
always seen me drawn to nature, to the Gaia concept but free from a particular
deity’s involvement and certainly free of all church dogma. I don’t believe
there is nothing because I cannot look at a river or a lovely tree and not feel
something. I once famously quoted to myself that “You can’t be an atheist on
the side of a mountain.”
The
good thing about religions is they offer answers. However, the bad thing about
religions is the same thing. Those of us who don’t need answers but need to
feel like we know why we do what we do and how to follow our own moral compass.
Alright,
so rocks and trees are good. Don’t pollute. Be nice to birdies. All fairly
granola. Yes, I believe in renewable energy, I’m anti-tarsands, and I do think
humans are spoiling the planet for everyone else. But I’m also a meat-eater,
and I don’t think the universe hands me stuff, has a plane for me, or is the
reason my battery died.
I
believe in an interconnectivity in our world, that all things and all people
have some kind of a connection. And I believe what will be will be. I call it Eรค. I stole this concept from the Tolkien creation story in The Silmarillion.
