Religion

[Pluto!]

I believe that each brain cell we have is a galaxy, and that the entire brain is a universe, ever expanding until it gets too big and implodes or it just slowly dies out.

i believe that at one point the "god" in who's brain we reside in was conscious and aware of the goings on inside his head, but has since become dormant due to heavy coma brought on by antipsychotic medication given to him in his universe (yes, our god is simply a crazy man in another dimension). he does still dream however, and thats when crazy shit happens.

also, each one of us has our own macrocosm inside our microcosm and each sentient being in our brain has their own universe inside their heads and so on.

[lewds]

Originally Posted by KandyGurlSDC

Thankyou JP. I dont personally know if there is anything after this life but I do share your hope that there is something. It would be nice, to either live eternity after life somewhere or be reincarnated.... or whatever else there is... I dont want to think about just rotting into the earth. That dosnt fill my dreams with hope.

agree


JP, Lewds

[PaulieWalnuts]

Navajos, like everything else in the Universe, are part of the power and wisdom of our Mothers and Father and their kin, as expressed in their physical manifestation of us in this world, one of many.

We have no afterlives nor require them, for life never extinguishes but transforms.

We have no churches nor require them because we are constantly in contact with our spirits and our spirits will never leave us.

We have ceremonials to rally our kindred spirits and help us find our way through life. The stories behind these ceremonials and the ways of them, most of our verbalized 'beliefs*,' if you will, are passed down verbally from mothers to daughters, fathers to sons, as they happen to be the best ways to rally our kindred spirits. Some make a study of them, a researching of spirits, and become Medicine people. They display particular aptitudes in finding ways to find the wisdoms ancestors have left for us. Some ceremonials are particularly effective in combating or thwarting certain evils and promoting certain goods, and we observe them, though we sometimes make changes to them because, hey, the world changes, too, right?

However, we have no tradition in the strict sense of the word except as it applies to family. There, we are strictly matrilineal, respectful of our ancestors, particularly women, and we are home-based. We like big families around to share our blessings with, and as our brothers and sisters are not related by blood to us necessarily, we tend to be big on sharing!

It's best for me to write that I have no religion because the concept of a distinct religious 'state' is, uh, rather weird. My spirit can't "be turned off," so to speak, even with my body's death, so me trying to define anything regarding my life as distinct states of being** "on" is silly. It's like trying to think of the Universe as a binary concept; it's not "on or off," it's always there. Same thing with my spirituality. Navajo belief is not a religion. It's me.

* 'belief' must be conceptualized in a most abstract and loose interpretation and encompass all states and varieties of mindfulness as there is no disbelief or belief, there is life.











** we are all brack people.