Our emotional responses to things are determined by our previous emotional moments, responses and experience. The key word here is experience – anything and everything we do is a governed by our prior experience and this is why your beliefs MUST be based upon your experiences. If you try to follow a path governed by what others have experienced only then you are living a lie.
This is not to discredit the value of shared experience and calling upon the experience of those who have come before us, but true discovery can only come from when we then leave the comfortable realm of surety and cast our ship out onto the astral by ourselves, trusting our instincts and experiences to guide us to where we need to be.
Many neo-pagans today criticise, sometimes myself included, the concept of congregational faith, in that by having those sitting on the sidelines observing ritual they are not really gaining anything fromm it. What they are doing is essentially staying in that comfort zone, taking their religious comfort from the experiences of others.
So my thought for the day on this? Want something doing, want to understand something? Get off your bum and do it yourself, it’s the only way your ever going to “get it”, the only way you will ever truly understand those things that you seek.
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