Make Believe

What we need are good, simple, accessible, non-annoying, long-lasting ways to approach spirituality as individuals. I believe that starts with a spiritual framework that clicks with you and that you can turn to as your spiritual guide.

I constructed a world-view in which the forces I experienced fit within the natural order of science, as what Jung called "archetypes of the collective unconscious". I rejected supernatural explanations, but learned to believe in magic -- the magic of the human mind and hand and heart.

Nobody knows the mysterious abyss from which we come and eventually go back to, and yet so many people’s lives—and our society/culture in general—are crafted and dictated from teachings about this unknown. Everything is speculation for now—but some speculations lead to a happier, kinder, more peaceful world (and some don’t). The point isn’t who kno

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Religion is not a coherent set of propositions that are either true or false, the way a scientific theory is. Instead, many people believe because of their personal subjective experiences. These might include the awe and wonder of nature, the intimacy of belonging to a close community, or the comforting experience of hearing God speak to you in a f

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what religion brings us is not a dogma but a practice. That’s the rich thing it brings us. That’s the significant thing that it brings us, and that the idea of having a spiritual practice is one that’s completely compatible with the idea of being extremely skeptical of dogma; that those two things are not at war. They may be in tension, the way so ... See more