Spiritual Being Puns

I (36F) am a practicing Christian, I go to church regularly/ watch online if I can’t go in person and then fellowship with other Christians for Bible study once a week on average outside Church. To be specific, I consider myself born again as a Christian. I understand this lifestyle may not be popular anymore and may be a dealbreaker to some. Fair enough. I am also liberal and looking for someone who is an active Christian and also liberal -I guess a somewhat rare combo (correct me if I am wrong). Seems like every other person’s (male) OLD profile says they are Christian -but just as a label because they don’t practice as such or go to Church (which, the older I get, seems to be a dealbreaker). Also, they say they are more spiritual than religious. I would think that given my background, I consider myself both spiritual and religious.

So I honestly, really want to understand what does being more spiritual than religious really mean. Especially for DOT-ers who identify as such. Thanks!

Political change, even a truly anarchist society if that can be achieved, won’t magically make our lives better. We’d still probably have things like social media ruining our lives, we’d still be rapidly urbanizing and growing increasingly isolated from other people. What do you think can be done (namely outside of politics) to address this? A religious framework that works for people, some ideology that puts charity and benefitting your fellow man at the forefront?

I have nothing against atheism and what matters to me is who a person is and how they treat others. Just wanna make sure people know this isn't a rant against atheists in general.

But being an Exchristian who still has spiritual beliefs can be a frustrating experience. I get people dislike religion but seeing so many exchristians go on like all religion is evil, all theists are bigots, etc is really disturbing to me. It feels very lonely sometimes. It feels like there's no place for me to really connect with others like me.

Then I dive into places that talk about important topics I care about as an Exchristian and a religious minority. There's here of course. Then there's r/atheism, which I was just permanently banned from because I responded critically to a comment that said that theist = racist, sexist and bigoted. I'm not twisting the situation, it's right in my comment history. It's hateful and wrong. People don't have to agree with me or be religious or theists but the level of assholery I see directed at spiritual or religious exchristians is really gross and isolating. We can't question the narrative.

I wish I could have a space with others like me where I don't have to see 1000 comments dishing out diagnoses of mental illness because some people dare to believe there's more than the absolute physical to this world. It's demeaning. It's rude. It's hypocritical and it's surprisingly... Christian behavior.

This happened a couple weeks ago, and after a week straight of crying and staring at my phone all day I actually feel motivated to find myself again, like the parts of myself I lost by being with him for almost 2 years.

I don’t even know where to begin to get back into witchcraft! I feel like the possibilities are endless but I don’t even know anymore

(Bonus: this feels really synchronistic because I found out on the full moon and I ended things on the solstice)

Hello,

Please read my post if you'd like to understand what is happening. I just posted on r/paranormal but quickly realized I need the advice of someone who understands and practices Hinduism. This post is here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Paranormal/comments/rmpw00/new_entity_visited_me_today_trying_to_understand/

The Bhuta's name is Tagile (తగిలే). She is positive and I want to show my appreciation for the way she is helping me. She is showing me mindfulness, to trust myself, and how to be in the absolute present moment. (Perhaps she is not a Bhuta, but from my research, this seems to be the most accurate-- I believe she used to be a human, a woman of Southern India, and this is her spirit).

I'm having a difficult time finding what kinds of offerings to make. I am entirely unfamiliar with Hinduism and practices. I have rice that I can make and set out. I plan on buying milk and fruit for her as well.

Please, if there is any advice you have, I would welcome it and put it into practice.

There’s no solid definition of smart but people who are in this kind of community tend to be considerably smart according to the societal standards.

Interested to know what people think about this. When i think of someone spiritually awakened and following their soul path…I imagine them as a light worker or some other type of healer. I don’t imagine them being a corporate CEO necessarily. Do you think the two are mutually exclusive?

hi, i have no other clue where to put this, but has anybody else noticed that the spiritual realm veil has been super thin? i'm sensing super dark energy coming with this. am i going insane or are others feeling this too? and if u are feeling it what do u believe the cause is?

edit: i don't know what else to call this feeling, other than an overwhelming sense of high spiritual energy so i was assuming it was a spiritual veil thinning

Where do I even begin?

First, I believe it's imperative that context is necessary to understand my current situation concerning my relationship with my mother. I was born in North Africa, and at some point, my parents decided to immigrate to Canada. They analogously compare the West to land, in which "all dreams are fulfilled." Last year, my dad got a dream job in the United States and currently lives there by himself. My family plans on moving there when my brother finishes school in Canada. My mother is a feverish believer of a specific Abrahamic relationship (i.e. unnamed to deter divisive religious dialogue). I find myself currently apathetic to spirituality - given that I am a 20-year-old male presently going through an engineering stream that has continuously pushed me to study frivolously, leaving me with little-to-no time. To add on, I also believe that I have ADHD, through looking at conceivable symptoms, and have pursued a therapist and psychiatric help. However, my mother believes that my issues are stemmed from a wavering belief in religion.

So what does she decide to do?

One quiet night, she starts an interrogation process in which she pushes for answers concerning where I stand spiritually. After responding with "I don't know" to her series of questions, she quickly admonishes me for being a non-believer. This isn't the first time I've been subjected to this experience, so I quickly brush it off. However, with tears in her eyes, she continues to reprimand me and then unexpectedly drops a bombshell ultimatum. "If you don't start praying and reading holy scripture, I will divorce your father. He didn't travel to Canada for his kids to forget about their religious beliefs." Let me candidly say; this was beyond traumatizing. I don't know how to feel, and honestly, given the current status of our relationship, I am strongly considering cutting ties with my mother. I think that leveraging divorce - a topic so conspicuously life-altering - to assert religious beliefs within someone is evil.

Also, let me say: this is just one of the varying examples of emotional abuse my mother has subjected us to throughout the years. From emotional neglect to her constant use of religion through conversation, it's become beyond unbearable.

Any advice would be appreciated.

TL;DR - My mother is trying to leverage a potential divorce between her and my father to make me more spiritually "fulfilled."

It said it wasn't battle strength.

Having options is power. I can say that now that I have a circle, the alone time seems to be more appealing than ever. It’s good to know there are good spirits who have your back.

I've oscillated between extremes of being very spiritual/religious to complete materialism throughout periods of my life. Ultimately, I acknowledge that my life is better in all aspects when I am more spiritual, but I always struggle with over doing it. How do you achieve a good balance?

First off, my mom is a nurse working in a hospital who and is also anti COVID vax. Not anti vax because I’ve had all of my shots since birth, and she’s encouraged me to get a flu shot every single season… she’s just anti COVID vax. My dad, sister and I are all vaxxed but she is the only immediate family member that isn’t. I’m kind of confused about how seriously she takes COVID in general because she’s extremely cautious and double masks in the hospital and changes her clothes before she comes home, but she always makes a point to downplay the pandemic whenever she gets the chance and obviously refutes the vaccine and the science behind that. She claims she has a friend and coworker who suffered from nerve damage after she got both doses of her COVID shot, which I honestly don’t know to be true. Either way, I’ve pointed out so many times how my dad, sister, everyone else that all of us combined know who is vaxed and myself are completely fine so many months later. I keep saying how I don’t know what I’d do with myself is something happened to her since she works in a high risk environment and she’s heavily asthmatic, and she just says she doesn’t know what she’d do with herself did I became paralyzed like her friend. There’s no point in arguing with her and she keeps all of her “sources” closed off. She doesn’t try and convince me or my sister or dad, and shuts down the conversation about vaccines.

She’s been hanging out with this group that does yoga and spiritual meditation meet ups (sorry I don’t really get it and that’s the best I can explain whatever goes on there) for a while now, and my sister and I were talking about how vulnerable she is to influence by anything that makes her feel like she has a larger purpose and that we’re scared she’s going to go down q rabbit hole soon, when I realized I’m pretty sure she already has, it’s just under the guise of a bunch of hippies. My sister looked into the leader of the group and she saw he has ties to Scientology. I can’t elaborate too much on what goes on in this spiritual hippie thing because like I said she closes off where she gets her “sources” from, but I know she spends a lot of money to get to her spiritual enlightenment and that they are feeding her info.

I thought that I had a positive COVID test when I was with my grandma, aunts, uncles, and my young toddler cousin. I freaked out and apologized and left immediately. I had taken three rapid COVID tests two days prior, one at my college, one at

A heavy topic, I know, but I’m curious how others have dealt with it, more for sake of understanding others’ stories to better understand some of my own.

Today will be my first time attending church as an adult in my 35 years on this earth. I’ve worked on myself physically, career wise, and overall health, but I’ve always ignored my spirit, my mental health, and my emotional self. Also doing my first therapist session this week. Positive steps towards life.

IWNDWYT

Don't get me wrong, I appreciate the opportunity to take complete responsibility for myself, and to "own my destiny". But it's been rough. The number of times I've almost been arrested are unfortunate. Not something I'm going to talk about here.

Psychedelics really are tools for accessing other layers of reality. And the Christians know this, and they hate it. That's the funding and moral support for the Drug War right there; American Christians in powerful places. Ugly, useless and malevolent devils.

We, as a community, are obligated to utilize cognitive liberties and morphological freedoms in pursuit of accessing the future.

This subreddit is a special digital space. I've learned so much from having interacted with you all. I am still writing an article about technology and spirituality. After which I will begin writing a book on similar topics, but in much greater detail. I know it's already been 2 years, but I need more time.

I expect to be ready to publish the book sometime before the 2024 US Federal election season.

I joined the spiritual path 5 years ago with expectations that I now know were unrealistic. The path is rewarding, but it'll probably be more pleasant for beginners if you go in knowing what to expect. So I'm summarizing what I've learned through experience. First sentence from each bullet point is the main lesson and the rest are explanations.

1. There is no quick miracle cure. All healing modalities are helpful, but they require time and effort, and bring gradual healing. I tried multiple healing modalities in search of one that'll cure me quickly. Each one I sampled helped me, but it never felt fast enough since my problems ran deep. After 5 years, I now believe you have to put in the grunt work
2. Reading about a spiritual concept and processing it with your logical brain is different from actually feeling it within your subconscious. The former will be interpreting the concept through the filters of your own bias, whereas the latter will actually be a form of inner knowing. This is important because if you don't feel it from within, you will not really heal inwardly. You'll just be adding a layer of dogma on top of what you already have. In order to reach a state where you can "discover" the spiritual truth for yourself and feel it from within, you have to meditate. Meditation takes you to a state where you can realize for yourself the stuff that is said in spiritual books
3. As you progress on this path, there will be moments when you "regress" to your former self. There is no need to be overly alarmed about this. It does not mean the work you have done to heal yourself went away. When you regress, it's because a part of you that has negative thought patterns/habits still needs healing, and is trying to get your attention. No need to fight off this part of you. Just allow him/her to give their negative thoughts and feelings an outlet, and they will improve over time.
4. It is okay to cry. When you feel like crying, it's your body's way of releasing painful emotions. If you block yourself from doing it, those emotions stay stuck inside your body. They don't go anywhere, and they get triggered and hurt whenever you are reminded of your wounds
5. Healing work should be balanced out with self care.  Focusing on healing work all the time can be draining, so it's important to give yourself the rest that you need, and give yourself time to do things that relax you and bring you joy. The road ahead is long, so you've got

I wanted to write out where I began on my journey with the Kemetic deities and that it wasn't actually a god that reached out in that way. I wanted to see if anyone else's soul was familiar or comfortable with people in history or feel oddly drawn to it?

When I first started to look into egyptian thing. I started with Tutankhamun. Now I think of him every day. He has become so important to me because of the interest I had with him that started all this.

I catch myself thinking about him. Sometimes it's a small fleeting thing. That I remember who he is. Often though it's a constant thing. I think of stupid things like how he was as a person. Was he a good person?

I find myself thinking about his death a lot. Was he scared. Was he alone. Did he have comfort. I think about his life was it a good one? Was he loved enough. Stupid things that I shouldn't wonder about but I can't help but do. I can't explain why he's so special to me.

Why would a person that died over 3000 years ago mean so much to me. I hope he's somewhere safe now I hope he's with his wife and his two babies that were not made for this world. I hope he's happy. He's content and well. I hope that he's adjusted to his afterlife. I have to hope and believe that he made it somewhere else. That he's okay. Because if not I don't think I could bare it.

I dream about him all the time. Sometimes it's small. Like he will appear briefly. Sometimes I have a whole dream about him. The other night I dreamed that I was watching him sleep. I know it's werid but I think it was comforting that I knew he was safe. I don't get why I do.

The other dream I have a lot is:

I'm running from something and I end up in front of tutankhamun's tomb. I'm scared and afraid but I can't go inside. Anubis stands behind me and tells me it's okay. That Tutankhamun won't be angry at me for invading his place. I'm so worried that I'm gonna make him mad for being there. But I listen to anubis and walk inside to hide from whatever is chasing me. I sit down behind his coffin. And anubis sits in the corner to watches me. And I feel safe there.

It just bothers me a lot because I can't really explain the  connection. I don't watch things about him or really Egyptians history because I get so overwhelmed and sad.

I just wanted to write this here. I dunno if anyone will get it. No one in my life gets it.

It's like my soul feels so familiar with him.

I was convinced by a friend to start sharing these messages I've received through my dreams since I was a child (starting with the most recent one). My friend says I am "channeling" messaging that can be shared with others.

I have a a "recurring character" that I dreamed about for the past 30 years, I have many of them but this one is unique because it's the only "male" entity that speaks to me. He randomly shares insight on how to improve magical rituals; i'm a business man, I rarely dabble in spirituality or magick but the past 2 years got me curious due to these dreams and other experiences.

He informed me of the following that I found slightly concerning:

• He said that human beings can be used as (for the sake of understanding) "antennas" that amplify the will and intent of any entity simply by believing, loving, or fearing that entity.

• He informed me that being loved by the masses is difficult but usually results in positive manifestations that help both the beloved and the one who loves. This was the goal he was implying I try but stressed that it takes quite a bit of work.

• Because love takes so much patience and effort it's easier to have people fear (or hate) you, which he said many lower humans and entities use constantly (right now) to gain power. He said that being feared or hated is so easy that someone doesn't need to even believe in you, they just have to hate and fear you to energize your will.

• The most powerful is to be loved, feared, hated, and believed in at all the same time.

• He showed me many examples of how this technique naturally unfolds even by those who are unaware that they're doing it: pop stars, politicians, religious characters, cults, businesses, etc.

• He explained that there is a kind of "war" going on by those who understand this process to collect as many "antennas" as possible so that they can "exist" and so that their will can manifest. He explained that this is why religions pressure people to have as many children as possible, and why politicians keep people within easily manageable "dualistic" belief systems (because if we were spread out in 3rd or 4th options we wouldn't be so easy to "harvest").

• He explained that there are even spiritual entities looking for ways to exist in this plane of existence by finding those who love, fear, or believe in them. These are not always good or bad relationships, "they're just doing what's in the nature of any living thing: they want to survive and ex

About 2 years ago I took some psilocybin mushrooms (aka magic mushrooms) with two more friends. We were in some woods in the middle of nature. At first, nothing happened so we decided to take a walk through the woods.

So the first thing I started feeling was a different spacial position of my own thoughts, its hard to explain but I could physically feel that my mind was a little bit higher in the skull. I could literally feel the inside of my brain, it was so weird. My first thoughts were: "so this is the real state of mind that humans are ment to have? Interesting"

The second thing I felt was that my eyes had become extremelly sharp. I could see textures within the textures, the complexity of the smallest particles that build the physical. For example a normal person could not see his finger without blurring the sight if very close to it. But in that state it didnt matter if it was 1 feet away or 1 inch from my eyes i could the entire textures of my skin.

The third thing was being blasted with an enormous feeling of happiness, joy, freedom and love. I was in love for everything around me, it seemed to me that everything around me was alive and talking just like we humans do. You know we are so closed in the concept of life that many times we do not see every piece of reality as equal to ourselfs. And at that moment everything was the same, just one thing.

So, after a while we decided to sit on the floor to see if anything happened, because when we got the mushrooms we were expecting to see dragons or fairies, to have some visual experience but we werent seeing anything at all.

So each one of us were in a different place, I was on the grass, one of my friends near a three, and the other one in the grass too, but we were all farelly separated by some distance. I closed my eyes, crossed my legs, and decided just to see what comes to the quiet mind.

The image below on my comment representing a mandala was exactly what I saw in my mind at that moment. I felt like I was being breed, or breath, i dont know, felt like I was inside a womb. Every time I inhaled or exaled I felt like imy breath was syncronized with the womb I felt it inside my body.

The thing is, it wasnt me that was breathing with the womb. It was the womb that was breathing me, thats what I felt. So, this is the time when the praying mantis camed. While I was seeing this mandala breathing like a womb, a very quick flash of a praying mantis body would come in the middle of that, like in ha

At times it seems there is some hard lesson to be understood from life that the vast symbolism of the spiritual world usually cannot offer, or escapes understanding for what it means, and only after that can I for instance go back in. Often times, as steiner wrote once, its that sort of experience of it, be it in some form of initiation or another that continually seems to diminish in potency and one has to continually do steps to keep it being potent and eventually runs into a sort of disappointment after awhile. Steiner saying this was so dead accurate for me I was amazed, though I am having a hard time finding the lecture in which he spoke that about initiation. If anyone can find that for me I would be gratefully appreciative.

Perhaps I am in part missing a point in character development? All of this happened to be when I was young in the ages of 10 to 22 and continued in a way that I kept feeling like everything was ever as good as times past in this, even though that doesnt seem to be true. Is there some reason for this?

A late night rant for not being able to sleep.

About 2 years ago I took some psilocybin mushrooms (aka magic mushrooms) with two more friends. We were in some woods in the middle of nature. At first, nothing happened so we decided to take a walk through the woods.

So the first thing I started feeling was a different spacial position of my own thoughts, its hard to explain but I could physically feel that my mind was a little bit higher in the skull. I could literally feel the inside of my brain, it was so weird. My first thoughts were: "so this is the real state of mind that humans are ment to have? Interesting"

The second thing I felt was that my eyes had become extremelly sharp. I could see textures within the textures, the complexity of the smallest particles that build the physical. For example a normal person could not see his finger without blurring the sight if very close to it. But in that state it didnt matter if it was 1 feet away or 1 inch from my eyes i could see the entire textures of my skin.

The third thing was being blasted with an enormous feeling of happiness, joy, freedom and love. I was in love for everything around me, it seemed to me that everything around me was alive and talking just like we humans do. You know we are so closed in the concept of life that many times we do not see every piece of reality as equal to ourselfs. And at that moment everything was the same, just one thing.

So, after a while we decided to sit on the floor to see if anything happened, because when we got the mushrooms we were expecting to see dragons or fairies, to have some visual experience but we werent seeing anything at all.

So each one of us were in a different place, I was on the grass, one of my friends near a three, and the other one in the grass too, but we were all farelly separated by some distance. I closed my eyes, crossed my legs, and decided just to see what comes to the quiet mind.

This image representing a mandala was exactly what I saw in my mind at that moment. I felt like I was being breed, or breath, i dont know, felt like I was inside a womb. Every time I inhaled or exaled I felt like imy breath was syncronized with the womb I felt it inside my body.

The thing is, it wasnt me that was breathing with the womb. It was the womb that was breathing me, thats what I felt. So, this is the time when the praying mantis camed. While I was seeing this mandala breathing like a womb, a very quick flash of a praying mantis body would come in the middle of that,