Sunday, July 15, 2012

My spirituality is a conundrum, to myself and to others.  It encompasses, Neo-Paganism, Druidism, Heathenism, Buddhism, and even atheism.  No possible way these things can work together.  And yet, for me, they do.

I don't believe that taking a creation story/myth, any creation story/myth, to be factual is a necessary part of religion.  I don't believe that religion is external to the human experience, or at least doesn't have to be so.  I don't believe the concept of an external Grand Designer/Creator is necessary for creation of the universe or human existence.   The ancients, those that as they became self-aware and reached beyond themselves tried to relate and explain their surroundings, developed these stories, and as they were passed down generation to generation, they became larger and more integral in their culture.  In time, probably fairly quickly, such stories grew to be accepted by the general populace as fact.  however, there were always those who understood the stories as limited observations and metaphor.  Those who looked beyond the stories to search out the evidence and observe the true facts of the surrounding world, scientists.  Even in the earliest days of human existence, there were the scientists, those whose curiosity drove to experiment with what was edible and what was not, how to build and create and mimic the natural world.