“Obtained new evidence that made you change your mind about some belief”
I am becoming increasingly fearful of an existential paradigm shift with regards to personal religious beliefs based upon what I always considered to be personal, spiritual experiences. I am beginning to think what was at one time thought of as a ‘Divine Spark‘, which I always considered as part of my essential being, wasn’t Divine at all, but rather just my own intuitive (for the lack of a better concept) intelligence guiding me. If this is true, what then of my ‘personhood’ -- my consciousness surviving death? Will I really cease to exist in just a few more years?
However these ‘spiritual’, maybe even metaphysical events or moments at various times in my life indeed have moved me, enlightened me, and comforted me. In fact, I was beginning to think my ‘belief’ was shifting more towards ‘a knowledge’ that most assuredly some things can be attributed to some sort of real as can be ‘god factor’ pertinent to our existence.
Notwithstanding, I am beset with this persistent, tentative thought that this spark, which never may have been ‘Divine’, hasn’t gone out. Instead, it has ignited a fire to burn over and cleanse my mind of the tangled underbrush and dead growth of my previous notions. Or, in fact, is in the process of obliterating the whole forest so that a new type of more vigorous (rational) growth can commence.
It should be interesting (again, for the lack of a better term) to experience what eventually unfolds as time passes.
LOL! You have divinely plucked me from de vine of ignorance for pointing that out (I completely missed it).
Goes to show you that neither Divinity nor Spell Checker is going to be the salvation for a tired mind at one or two o’clock in the morning.