(June 29, 2014 at 12:58 pm)rasetsu Wrote:
In a nutshell, it's largely an enduring intuition that the Shakti and the path of dharma is the right path for me to be on. I can't explain it in terms of logical reasons. I don't believe that logical reasons strongly inform belief or disbelief, it's our biases and inertia that shape our path more than anything. My path has been thusly shaped, and there is no other guide for me but that strong intuition that this path is the right one. If that should change, I could easily see myself becoming a skeptic of theism, as I am of a skeptical bent about things in general. However, until now, the trend has always been to go deeper into religious belief. Perhaps that's inertia. Perhaps that's sense. For me, there is only "the path" and wherever that might lead. I can't step outside of myself to use something different as a guide.
Thank you for this. I've wondered exactly how you hold your theism but have been reluctant to intrude. I don't have the same explicit attachment to a particular discipline, but I identify with the acceptance of a similar inner compass toward what gives meaning and understanding. I don't think it is all reducible to a dry, rational enterprise. I guess that means I also rely on intuition but I don't know how to distinguish that from feeling. Perhaps the two together inform reason and establish perspective. Regardless, I refuse to turn it all over to pure reason or to authoritative experts.
