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| What I think is great about spirituality is that it is so diverse, that there really isn't one right answer to the question "What do we need spiritually?" I also think that you can have spirituality without religion, but you cannot have religion without spirituality. All of us have a different background spiritually, and - like our naked bodies - we should not be ashamed of them. For example: my spirituality has roots in Roman Catholicism, Mormonism, Taoism, some Neo-Paganism, and nudist philosophy. I now invite you to share your spiritual backgrounds, if you wish to do so. | |
| My roots are in Roman Catholicism. I find the messages of John Paul II in his his Theology of the Body works and writings of particular interest. | |
| 2buns, excellent post my friend. I couldn't agree with you more. I usually tell people that I am not religious but I do have a personal RELATIONSHIP with God which to me has more meaning. I will definitely check out the book you've recommended. -Fred | |
| I am Pagan, having been initiated into the Celt-Gael Tradition, an Irish Trad, in 1962 while serving with the British Army in Germany. Celt-Gael is a skyclad (nude) Trad brought about as a renewal of the old Irish traditions which later had, I think a Gardnerian influence grafted onto it which would explain the skyclad mode of worship/practice. My experience of late has been primarily with eclectic Pagans in Kingston and privately with my late wife and a few others in the Celt-Gael manner. Pagan spirituality is extremely diverse primarily due to the vast amount of information, both true and false available today. Most however, do consider a duality of God and Goddess in whatever form they manifest. The Celt-Gael is, being Irish, triplicity based but does include the God and Goddess figures. If there is enough interest I would be willing to open a Pagan spirituality thread. | |
| I am Jewish, more culturally than religously. I do not subscribe to any one religion. I do find things in each I agree with. I am mostly into spiritual growth and closely follow yoga more than others. My Grandfather had on his desk while I was a child, a sign stating "any religion that causes men to be good is worthy of respect". Religions are institutionalized spiritual paths. Follow what suits you and gives you comfort. I do believe we all get to the same place eventually. At that point I don't think it matters which path you followed. | |
| My religious background is eclectic! I was raised a Methodist, attended the Southern Baptist Church, became baptized a Mormon (where I spent the next nearly 49 years), and now I am Pagan. That is because I believe in the plurality and dual genders of the Gods (heavenly Mother as well as Heavenly Father). I believe She is a powerful as He and does NOT subjugate herself to Him nor He to Her. I believe in the Sacred Feminine as well as the Sacred Masculine. Christ? The jury is still out on him. I do believe that he existed, that he came with great power, and that he was to restore the original religion and scriptures. I'm not sure he was devine. MP & BB John ))0(( | |
| I didn't get much spirituality until I hit my mid-teens, and then I started going to a methodist youth group because my girlfriend at the time went there. After me and her broke up, I started going to an Assemblies of God church (pentecostal), and had gone there until about this past January. It was then I told them I was a nudist, because I wanted it on the table before starting a ministry for them. When they found out, they told me to repent or I would get kicked out. I decided to do them a favor and I simply left. I go to another Assemblies of God church on occasion now that I have moved, but currently am going to an interdenominational college christian group more instead. I don't plan to give up my belief in the God of the Bible, as I've seen the deaf hear, the blind see, and the mute speak; but I don't plan on giving up the truth about social nudity either. So I walk a bit more alone, but it's okay, because I know I'm helping to protect people who are being wrongly condemned. | |
| I was raised Roman Catholic, although I had some exposure to the Byzantine Catholicism growing up, since my mother's side of the family is a mix of Polish, Belarusian and Ukrainian. In college, I explored a variety of spiritual traditions, including Judaism, Unitarian Universalism, Neo-Paganism and Episcopalianism, among others. As a young adult, I made the decision to be received into the (Eastern) Orthodox Church, which is more or less the tradition with which I identify today. I have also come in contact more recently with something called the "Independent Sacramental Movement", which consists of a variety of small Christian denominations and jurisdictions with Catholic, Anglican/Episcopal, and/or Orthodox roots, so currently I have one foot in canonical Orthodoxy and one foot in Independent Sacramentalism. | |
| In my childhood yrs, I was brought up as an Episcopalian. I was confirmed etc..practised eveery sunday until my middle twenties. Through those past years I learned to watch and listen to the congregation, it had quite an impact on me. My faith and spiritual needs were at risk. I watched hungover individuals take there morning naps sitting in the pues. Those with large domestic problems would come to take their communion every weekend. Needless to say, I stopped going when our priest was caught having an afair with one of the congegation. Saving my self I turned to meditation, alot of reading, etc.. Becomming a nudist at a young age, I'm harmonious within myself, the outer enviorment feeds my spirit and my soul. I feel grateful for the seeds planted in me, I fertilize them daily. | |
| I was raised in a Roman Catholic family and went to a parochial school in Detroit. Didn't take it seriously from about the age of 12. In my teens, I read a book on reincarnation and that struck me as so true. Got into Scientology, even working on staff at the local (Ann Arbor) mission for five years. Gained a lot from that, but recommend Metapsychology as the secular means of pursuing the technology that was organized in Scientology. I believe that we are spiritual beings who incarnate into physical bodies and that we could incarnate into a different species. I believe that as incarnated beings we become composite beings - though we are still who we are in essence - as physical beings we interact with the physical universe in ways that are controlled by our physical bodies - so that in a human body we are being human (human beings), in a cat body we are being feline, etc. We often carry with us spiritual scars from past lives which we need to overcome (Metapsychology helps with that). Being nude, especially when being active or socializing, makes me all the more aware that I am a spiritual being that possesses a body, not a body that possesses things. | |
| Hello all, I am new to the group, but not to NCH. I would probably be labeled a Christian. I do follow Christ, but not really Christendom. I desire a more personal relationship with the divine. I have a rudimentary knowlege of Hinduism, Buddism,Judiaism,Islam, Shamanism and Wicca. I am currently studying Gnosticism. |
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