New Way of practicing Old Beliefs

[Alan V]

- Which is why I am not totally antagonistic toward “classical” spiritual systems. I think that they provide us with some of the basic materials (when we are younger) that we can study more deeply as adults. But as Alan V is pointing out: Not all of us (unfortunately) get to a point where we can study this deep spiritual wisdom.

For the record, I studied Sufi wisdom literature for over two decades before I abandoned it entirely. It all depended on the unproven and unlikely assumption that God existed.

These days I think simple honesty about factual information is the basis of ethics and self-improvement, not religion or mysticism. "Spirituality" is too vague a term for me to use except in such conversations as these.

But like I said, different people learn in different ways -- and some the hard way.