Because why should people hundreds or thousands of years ago define you?
Your relationship with God and the Universe is your own. Why not write down what your experience of the universe actually is?
This could be the most empowering thing you ever do for yourself during your entire lifetime.
When I began to study Anthropology when I was about 21 years old I noticed that every tribe of American Native Americans or indigenous tribes around the world EACH had their own creation story.
And I realized right then how important writing your own creation story is to your physical and mental and emotional and psychological and spiritual survival in life.
Without writing down your own experience of the universe often you are JUST a victim of everyone ELSE's experience of the universe.
And WHY should you be limited by people's thinking before Cars and planes and space travel was even thought of or invented.
I remember in some ways how limited I saw people I met who were born in the 1800s including my own grandparents on both sides. I realized just how bigoted most people were always.
Even as I grew up the rivalry between high schools was sometimes very violent in many different forms like in especially gangs from different high schools in the same area.
So, this bigotry mostly comes from being afraid of anyone different than you are. So, of course everyone was made (one way or another) by 1950s when I grew up to think pretty much the same way or they were beaten up or killed.
I was aware by age 5 to 10 years old if I didn't toe the line or at least appear to toe the line without saying anything different that I might be beaten up or killed for having any point of view but the ones people were espousing and I think many of you my age also had this experience. So, for the most part I just shut up and went outside and climbed a tree or read a book leaning against this tree like Heinlein because I liked Scientifically possible science fiction like Heinlein and Asimov and Arthur C. Clark wrote even in the 1950s then.
So, I would read Popular Science magazines and popular Mechanics magazines so I could talk about the latest new technologies with my father especially whose hero was Nicola Tesla who invented the Alternating Current used all over the world now in homes and businesses. Also, he was an electrician.
However, writing down your version of the universe which you experience is important to your survival and well being always.
If you look around you at all the people you knew who are dead now too young mostly they were trapped in religions and ideas that they could not escape from without dying.
So, if you want to stay alive you have to create your own version of reality often different than the people around you.
I have found I never fit entirely in this world like many of you.
So, I learned I had to build my own world from the ground up and then this worked.
First, I became a part of the Back to the Land movement of the 1960s through the present where you go out and develop wild land and build your own home on it and home school your children. This worked for me and in many ways saved my life from 1980 to 1985 when we came back to the San Francisco Bay area and bought another business.
However, we all have to start somewhere and if you are only a victim to other people's belief systems then you might be dead before you are 30 years old like I was almost by age 25.
However, after creating my own life and world and reality I have been very happy mostly since I was 30 years old. Then at 32 I got remarried again and was before this a single Dad and bought 2 1/2 acres of undeveloped land in the wilderness and began to live my dream of my own reality here on earth.
Often when people cannot fit into the world as it is they go out into the country and build their own world like I did. Doing this somehow saved my life all the way to now when I'm 77 years old.
I have always been a very creative and inventive person like my father and grandfather and so this worked for me and I'm still alive and happy now at age 77 living in the SF Bay area of California. I've spent most of my life now in Southern and Northern California because I find it the freest place to live on earth with the least restrictions of who you can be.
By God's Grace
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