Attracting Proof of Our Beliefs
I’m noticing an interesting trend in my life, along with the same trend in my friends’ lives, and that is that we attract to us proof for our beliefs regardless of what those beliefs are.
For the past few years, I have been on this mission to awaken to the spiritual, to discover Truth. Of course, I’m not alone in this quest, and I have attracted many people to me on the path of Truth. One is a good friend who I share much in common with except for our attitudes about the spiritual and Truth. We are at opposite ends of the spectrum.
I have been discovering that Truth lies within us. That God is not a personality, not a judgmental being, but rather that we are god, that each of us holds the divine within ourselves, and that everything we see or touch is also a part of this divinity. I am meeting more and more people who share this belief, and books and videos keep coming my way to bolster that belief. My personal inward experiences prove this to me most of all. It’s easy to come to the conclusion that since all this information keeps coming my way, that this belief is indeed correct, that the universe is showing me, “Ah, Dana, you are on the correct path!” But wait . . .
My friend who holds a very different view, one in which he accepts the literal interpretation of the Bible. In his view, God is outside of us. God has rules, one of which is you must believe in *HIM* through Jesus, through absolute faith, or you end up in Hell. Heaven and Hell are not here. They are there, somewhere after we die. To me, this all feels absolutely wrong, and I keep coming across text that talks about the corruption of how the church formed in it’s early days, how the Roman Constantine gathered parts of Biblical text and created *The Bible* according to his views, and then later the Catholic church hacked it up some more, and refused to include other biblical texts, and so on.
Yet, my friend keeps coming across books and people that reassure him his view is correct, that this New Age paradigm of borrowing prime nuggets from many different religions and philosophies is all wrong, that there is only one way and that is the literal view of the Bible, of Jesus.
We are both attracting to us information that bolsters whatever beliefs we are comfortable with! Our different views have tons of information and people to back us both up, even our personal experiences, which are very real back us up, yet we are on different ends of the religious spectrum! We both claim to have enough proof. We both claim personal experience!
This is making me realize the true power of free will. In fact, this is free will to the extreme. Somehow in my quest for Truth, I have to be more careful in putting my willingness to be open, my desire to get to THE TRUTH. Otherwise, I’m just sending out a request to the universe to bolster my ideas. I get a thread of thought going, an “ah, so this must be how it works idea” and the universe delivers proof for that idea even if it’s wrong! This is what Dana wants, so ok, here you have it.” The same thing is happening for my friend, I’m sure.
This is manifestation in it’s purest form, I suspect, and now I’m trying to figure out how to manifest gnosis without guiding it in a specific direction. Yet, I’m also aware that it’s possible there is no TRUTH, no ultimate reality, that the All is made up of our various individual realities in however we create those for ourselves. This is wild, fascinating, and just a little disturbing. Can we each really wield such power as to create our own realities? Is it possible that as soon as we start to form a belief that that belief does actually becomes very real and concrete in our daily lives? How else could it be that each one of us is fed proof of our beliefs simply because we are looking?
I don’t know these answers, but as I pursue my spiritual path I’m going to question more and more what is happening. I have determined that my experiences are real, no matter what form they come in. But how is it we can each have real experiences of God and each have them be different? How is it we each have valid proof for our beliefs when they vary so wildly?
Another of my very good friends pointed out that no matter who experiences God or any other event of the spiritual, that experience is coming through the filter of a human being, a human mind, so it is never going to be 100% accurate. Always, it will be filtered through culture, health, and psychosis. Even when we leave our bodies through astral travel or dreams, we still have that bodily connection. We can only get a glimpse of what is there.
This place we call life just gets stranger and stranger the deeper I look and the more I become aware, the more I explore within my own mind.
