(December 30, 2015 at 3:05 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote: I came to my belief through intuition. As long as my belief remained an intuitive truth, I didn't have to question it. I was a believing Hindu, but not a very knowledgeable one, as I had not been raised in the tradition. So I knew what I believed, but I didn't know all the stories and texts. I decided I wanted to change that, but I faced a practical problem. Which stories to take as meaningful to my faith, and which to disregard? I came to realize that the only way to enrich my faith was by picking and choosing based on a rational sense of what was and was not useful. But I had been avoiding reason as I 'knew' it couldn't trump my intuition. But I was faced with a turning point in which I could only depend on reason to illuminate my belief. So I chose reason. Once having made that choice, I re-evaluated what my intuition had been telling me, and, over time, realised that rational explanations made as much sense of my experience as intuition. So I abandoned my intuitive grasp of reality as interpreted by Hinduism, and over time, embraced the rationalist account of reality instead. I'm still somewhat uncomfortable distrusting my intuition, but I had to make a choice, and the only options available to me were reason and reason.
Wow, thank you...I never knew your ''story'' all this time. ''Intuitive grasp of reality'' ...these insights are not lost on me, so you all know. It is very interesting to me to read of what led people to faith, even if it was indoctrination (like I had been through in childhood, but didn't return to it now, due to that, although, it might seem that way lol).
Do you at all believe that life can be a mixture of objective reason towards reality AND intuition? I mean, I know intuition (let's call it in the case, spiritual intuition) is subjective.
