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Alice, In many ways my life is a reflection of what you say here. In my own case, I was raised in a strict, God-fearing Catholic family, and during my Journey, my religious practice remained a strong supporting structure to me. It gave me identity and a sense of belonging. Even if I went somewhere new, I could probably meet more like-minded at Sunday Mass.

However, one contradiction I could not solve from the viewpoint of within, was why “We” got it right, but all the other religions (poor souls), just got it wrong ?

After many years of personal conflict and debate on this issue, I had to reformed the question. Study of eastern philosophy had me realize that in Eastern spiritual practice, God was always sought within oneself (Me and God, God and Me are One), and in Western Practice, God was always sought outside oneself (..is worshiped and glorified). Through studies of other ideologies and philosophies, I came to see religion as a prism on Truth. It is a prism and like a facet of a diamond, it gives you a filtered version, or an eye-piece view of the truth. But it is not the truth. It is an aspect of it.

And the many other religions, philosophies and ideologies were other facets on this diamond. And this is where my answer came: The Source of Light shines out through this perfect diamond, it’s rays are spread out in all directions across with world, and diffused and diffracted through the many many facets of this Most Perfect Diamond. And this diamond resonates to the sound of the word. Om. and each facet vibrates in many different frequencies and rates and languages and we get to experience a ray of light from The Source, and sometime it is orange like the setting sun, and sometimes it is the blue of a warm summers day, and sometimes it is a crystal clear as a dark moonless night, and yet there are all just colors of the purest, clearest whitest white light. So, it is first for us to learn that there are different colors in the sky, and then to combine what we learn about these colors to refract the colors back to white light, and then once we begin to do this, We can see that we all collectively are a reflection of this light.

So, today I don’t call myself a Catholic, even though I was raised as one. I don’t call myself Sikh, even though I have taken a Sikh name as my spiritual name, and practice many Sikh traditions, such as rising (most) days before dawn for meditation. No, I see myself as Human, and my spiritual practice assists my mind and body to reach a more intuitive, more resonant place where I can begin to see through the filters of Maya and experience a greater truth. Why? So that I have the intuition and awareness to question dogma.

And I do.

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