What was good about my religious experiences growing up. I would have to say the ability to center and to self discipline and the addage: "What you put your attention on you become".
Also, when I had a concussion that caused seizures from ages 10 to 15 until my cranium grew enough to release the pressure on my brain I stayed alive partly by becoming very religious and having personal experiences with God ongoing.
What was bad about being raised in a religion?
When I parted ways with my religion in 1969 I had to spend the next 5 years trying to stay alive and not commit suicide.
When you are programmed in any religion when you separate from your friends around the world in that religion often you want to die because you love all these people and don't want to lose them all.
However, as I grow older I'm also glad I didn't have to go to all their funerals around the country and world as they all died one by one until only people my age and younger are mostly left alive. And most of them under 70 I never met.
So, this is my experience of religion in my life. I tried in about 1975 to join the Summit Lighthouse which is similar to the Saint Germain Foundation but realized I'm too much of an independent thinker to be in the heart center as a leader in any religion. I tend to be a natural leader so when I get into the heart center of a religion I feel claustrophic like I want to pass out and this isn't good because I feel so restricted by what I can and cannot say or do that I find I have to either leave or become a hypocrite like 99% of all people in religions worldwide.
I won't live as a hypocrite like they do. If I cannot be perfectly honest with myself and others I want no part of any religion so I can face God and pass away in any given moment and not feel I have failed God in some way.
By God's Grace
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