(October 14, 2018 at 1:14 am)Dragonfly Wrote: I'm 50 as well. I didn't know Sufi mysticism had a Hell. Sad that your process took several years. I wish I had work as a distraction, but I am off work due to health problems. I need to find some kind of thing that will be a passion and a distraction from all of this, but I'm still searching for it. The quoted part I colored blue really grabbed me. You're right--they're habits! They're patterns of thought like grooves on an old record. "I stuck by what I considered true no matter what my fears said." I really want to be able to say this. I added this quote to the desktop of my computer where I'll see it frequently. Thank you.
I was 50 when I became an atheist. Now I'm almost 63.
The Sufi orders all recognize the validity of basic Islamic teachings. Though they do have their own liberal interpretations of those ideas, I still worried that I was bound for hell when I abandoned my studies.
Now I'm not worried. I've learned so much more about how consciousness is brain-dependent that I consider any afterlife scheme to be impossible.
