March 21, 2005

Witches Weekly Q&A

(Questions courtesy of Witches Weekly)Jay Gordon slept so long mp3

What are your thoughts on what happens after you die?
I believe we are all part of a larger spirit than we know right now. We manifest here to experience a physical world and to learn and grow and experience (Amy calls it "Learn, Grow, Be.). Afterwards, we regroup and review, seeing if we learned what we expected to. Then we decide what's next, and choose some of the starting conditions that'll lead to more. We need to experience both hurting and being hurt to really grasp forgiveness, for example. So I believe we choose our parents, for example. Jay Gordon slept so long mp3

Has this belief changed at some point in your life from a different theory? If so, how?
I was raised going to church, believing in Heaven. I never really bought into Hell, though. I couldn't reconcile a forgiving god who loves us unconditionally turning around and going for eternal punishment for screwing up. Jay Gordon slept so long mp3

Around high school I drifted towards the more "rational" scientific just nothing after death. But that was cold and not reassuring. It didn't help, in other words.Jay Gordon slept so long mp3

It was mostly during college that the current beliefs started forming.Jay Gordon slept so long mp3

Do you belief in any sort of karma and reincarnation?
Maybe not the conventional karma, but basically. To me, the concept of karma is more that whatever you do you're going to have to live with--forever. Somewhere along the line you'll eventually learn to forgive yourself for all the bad things. On top of that, at a higher level we're all connected. We're all part of a higher, unified whole. So what we do to others, what we do to the planet, we do to ourselves.Jay Gordon slept so long mp3 Posted by fictionman at March 21, 2005 05:45 AM | TrackBack (0)

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Do you belief in any sort of karma and reincarnation?Jay Gordon slept so long mp3

I believe in multiple lives and that we as individual souls exist in a lifetime to learn a specific leason. Sometimes they are easy leasons - joy, happiness, relaxation - and other times they are difficult lessons - pain, suffering, destruction. As we learn these lessons we come closer to {God, Nirvana, Enlightenment, fill-in-the-blank}.Jay Gordon slept so long mp3

What are your thoughts on what happens after you die?Jay Gordon slept so long mp3

When we die, our spirit is released from the mundane body and we are "assigned" a new lifetime. I do not believe we get to choose many things (would you CHOOSE to be Hitler or an HIV-positive infant?)...it's more like school where you end up getting "good" and "bad" teachers.Jay Gordon slept so long mp3

Has this belief changed at some point in your life from a different theory? If so, how?Jay Gordon slept so long mp3

Growing up, my dad was agnostic/atheist and my mom was a lax Catholic. Ironically, it was my GRANDPARENTS that insisted on paying for Catholic schools, which I attended K-8th grade.Jay Gordon slept so long mp3

I never really "got it" in religions class...I had my hands slapped with a ruler by the Sister while I was in kindergarten for questioning faith. My dad used to promise to give me $50 if I could bring home an F in the class... Jay Gordon slept so long mp3

I was 8 when my mom was diagnosed with cancer, and she started checking out all these alternative healing concepts...meditation, crystals, Chinese medicine, etc. I found it very interesting (still do!). I was 12 when I was told that the reason my mom was dying of cancer was because she had a great, unconfessed sin on her heart. Uh, yeah...right...That was really when I let go of any real heartfelt Catholic practice...although there are some things that you just can't forget after 8 years of schooling.Jay Gordon slept so long mp3

Mom died my freshman year of high school, and I just couldn't deal with her going to hell, but there was more than just this horrible ending for her... I checked out Wiccan and other heathen religions... I took a class that studied Hindism and Buddhism. Through college I kinda drifted around...Jay Gordon slept so long mp3

My beliefs today are a patchwork of all of that experience. I'm not going to "claim" any RELIGION, mostly because I think there are too many rules with any RELIGION (branded pagan versions included). *shrug* What I belief changes with the seasons, with the people I meet, and with my own experiences...and it changes all the time.
Jay Gordon slept so long mp3 Posted by: Lissa at March 23, 2005 09:32 PM