I think religion can stop people from reaching a deeper spiritual experience, I don't know what the nature of god is, but I know what religion teaches us isn't the right one.

submitted by HibikiBlackCaudillo from self.conspiracy

I usually have dreams of things to come. They are weird dreams about power, myself in different times and common events related to synchronicity. Because of that, I'm sure that destiny and a higher power exist to some extend, but it surely isn't what we are told since we were little, if I was chosen for a mission, why are so many others not that lucky? I refuse to believe in a just and fair god.

I like to practice active imagination in order to make sense out of the whole thing sometimes, I've seen things to come many times, althought right now I usually have nightmares. I wonder how different the spiritual experience would be if it wasn't because of the influence of the mainstream religions?

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Religion is a funny word:

Religion may be defined as a cultural system of designated behaviors and practices, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that relates humanity to supernatural, transcendental, or spiritual elements. However, there is no scholarly consensus over what precisely constitutes a religion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion

So I usually rant about institutionalized religion as the 'big evil'.

Some practices like mediation (mindfulness, not the new age-power trip ones) ritual and inner-vision can be found in institutionalized religion (The morning prayer sessions of the catholic nuns I visited are not what you see in movies or anything you get in Church, it's proper mindfulness meditation except their 'go to' thing is not the breath, but love for God) inner-vision is captured in prayer and ritual, well, visit any religious church/temple and you'll see plenty of that).

What you describe comes close to Gnosticism: http://www.gnosis.org/gnintro.htm

http://www.gnosis.org/whatisgnostic.htm

Or even some funky Zoroastrianism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoroastrianism (I call it Funky because a study-mate insisted Freddy Mercury was a devout Zoroastrian)

As long as you know that words aren't human and feelings are just material, you're at least on your way.