Most people go on a spiritual journey at some point throughout their lives. They quest for the answers to the unknown. In my decades long quest, I now believe that one has to find the belief system that fits with your own soul.
At the age of eight I rejected organized religion, although I was forced to attend church every Sunday. At age eight however, I was told that animals’ souls did not go to heaven. Now at the wise age of eight, I knew that could never be true. My personal heaven has to include my beloved animals or I would not want to be there. So at age eight I had a serious disconnect from organized protestant religion and began my personal quest.
I do believe that the journey is a process. One has to find what fits one’s soul for various stages of age and life development. In my twenties I proudly carried the atheist placard. Now I know that you have to tear down the structures in order to rebuild afresh. This is Pluto energy that forces one to destroy what has always been a part of your life, so that you get a fresh and new beginning. We all go through the death/rebirth and like the phoenix we rise again to a higher level of thought and emotion.
In my thirties, I investigated all the world’s greatest religions since the beginning of mankind. So I expanded and examined every conceivable notion. Then I began to narrow my focus, by discarding what just did not fit for me and my soul’s journey this lifetime.
I’m just a simple country gal. So to me it all boils down to the Maple Leaf theory. It’s a four stage process.
The leaf is born as a bud in the spring time.
The leaf grows and expands.
The leaf matures turning gorgeous colors. This is the signal to all others in it’s world environment that it has arrived at long last by gaining its spiritual wisdom.
It falls off the tree laying down it’s life to feed the roots of the tree with energy. It provides nourishment to all who come after.
No energy is ever lost. The energy of the maple leaf is recycled. God/Universe/Creator is the original recycler of all energy in the Universe.
Tell me about your spiritual journey. Where were your thoughts at different decades of your life?
"All things are possible until they are proved impossible –
and even the impossible may only be so, as of now."
[Pearl S. Buck; 1892-1973, Novelist’]
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