Elise Loehnen: What We’re After (Solo Episode) — Elise Loehnen

And when things don't happen that I want to happen, I, instead of going immediately into victimhood or fear or anxiety, I just try to go back to this like, that's interesting. I guess that wasn't for me. Maybe something better, maybe something different. I'm just gonna say in a place of, of faith, and it's not Pollyanna-ish either. It's just. A, th... See more

My faith, my spirituality isn't so much like this is my belief system. It is more a question of having faith that there are forces, powers, energies, beyond the seen world that are benevolent, loving attempting to sort of help us on our higher path to move the collective along. And there are also denser, more energetic forces at play, too.

And the thesis of this gospel is everything that you have is inside. This is an internal experience. And don't do anything that's adulterous to your nature essentially. And by that he meant that's sort of in disobeyance to who you to really are. It's your job to figure out who you really are.

But faith, let's go.

Allen Watts, which I think is the best summation of the difference between belief and faith, he wrote in The Wisdom of Insecurity , “whether one believes in God or believes in atheism, we must here make a clear distinction between belief and faith because in general practice belief has come to mean a state of mind, which is almost the opposite of f... See more

in that quest for certainty in that desire to sort of do the right thing or get to the end or, be good, we want some sort of exterior authority, some system of belief to confirm for us that we're following all the steps and checking everything off the to-do list. And that's a fallacy, certainly.

that's why I think of myself as a person of faith and why my mantra is, I don't know. Because to presume to know, to presume that I can order the universe or understand all of the powers at play, or that I understand or know or can predict with absolute accuracy, everything that's going to happen or that we live in some sort of mechanic, materialis... See more

But I recognize why that level of order and certainty is very reassuring, as is this idea that you do a certain amount of things and you end up getting your reward, your just reward at the. But as we all know, that is not life. Life is not a simple math problem. It's not algebra. It's far, far more complex. And I think staying because we don't need... See more

It's like an undeniable reality. It's not a question of like what you believe in or how adherent you are to your faith. This is just, there's a divinity baked into all of us and, the and also that there are all these false binaries or these systems set up as oppositional.