You Gotta Believe!

Continuing on my religious theme…

Progress in the Paganism book has been slow this past week, for various reasons.  Misty is concerned that my interest is waning, but that’s not it.  I haven’t been very good about reading books consistently for a long time – since college, actually.  I’m determined to make it through this book, though, because it’s important both to me and Misty.

I just finished reading the section on beliefs.  The main point I got from it was that we are free to choose our own beliefs and we are responsible for determining those for ourselves and living up to them.  It really seems like a foundation for the rest of the book – preparing you to be receptive to the ideas that they’ll be explaining.  The authors also point out that, by their own definition, no one set of beliefs is “right”… that we all have to determine what our view of the universe is and that view is different for everybody else’s.  Part of the chapter attempts to comfort the reader who has difficulty with this open-ended concept, but I was already leaning that way anyway, so it serves as more of an introduction – a prelude to the ideas to come.

Misty is going through the book slower than me, but that’s because she is taking the time to do all the exercises and journals that the book suggests.  I admit that I’m not doing those, although I do read them to see what they are meant for.  Once I get into material that is more eye-opening for me, I’ll probably write about it here.    

Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
-- Lewis Carroll