Disclaimer: This post is an unfinished draft. It has not been fully thought out.
I am initiating a conversation about god.
I believe that if you ask, the universe will provide you with whatever it is that you seek. But what does this mean? First, I guess 'ask' must be defined. For a time, I 'asked' by 'casting a spell' within the Wiccan practice. To illustrate, I'll use the example of 'asking' for a romantic partner. The first thing I did was make a list of the qualities I wanted the person I was seeking to possess. Strong, I listed, courageous, funny, intelligent, fashionable--on and on. Then I performed a ceremony. Lit candles, set up a kind of alter where I represented multiple elements, chanted a phrase that embodied my request, and cut off a lock of hair. There wasn't a lot of science behind what I was doing--I wouldn't have been able to explain why it was important to create an alter, to have elements represented, to chant, to sacrifice my DNA. The list was important but I knew not to make it too specific, that by keeping it vague I was allowing the universe to fulfill my request sooner, easier. But by doing this, is all that I am really doing, making myself aware of what I want and making it a priority in my life? Once I have a list of the things I am looking for, it is that much easier to recognize them when they present themselves. By keeping things vague, once I meet someone I am attracted to, it's easier for me to look at them and apply these things to them. Now I've heard rumors about people 'asking' (be it casting a spell, visualizing, thinking positively, or meditating) for something extremely specific. Say one woman asks for a blond haired Korean man who owns a bank and a private jet. After having performed whatever ceremony this woman prefers, I should like to suggest that this action has, in fact, inspired confidence in her. She knows that the universe will bring her whatever she wants, and that all she has to do is let it happen. Now, when she one day does meet that blond haired, bank and private jet owning Korean, she already knows that she has him--that the universe brought him to her, and so on some level, she is relaxed, and that relaxation translates into confidence.
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I am initiating a conversation about god.
I believe that if you ask, the universe will provide you with whatever it is that you seek. But what does this mean? First, I guess 'ask' must be defined. For a time, I 'asked' by 'casting a spell' within the Wiccan practice. To illustrate, I'll use the example of 'asking' for a romantic partner. The first thing I did was make a list of the qualities I wanted the person I was seeking to possess. Strong, I listed, courageous, funny, intelligent, fashionable--on and on. Then I performed a ceremony. Lit candles, set up a kind of alter where I represented multiple elements, chanted a phrase that embodied my request, and cut off a lock of hair. There wasn't a lot of science behind what I was doing--I wouldn't have been able to explain why it was important to create an alter, to have elements represented, to chant, to sacrifice my DNA. The list was important but I knew not to make it too specific, that by keeping it vague I was allowing the universe to fulfill my request sooner, easier. But by doing this, is all that I am really doing, making myself aware of what I want and making it a priority in my life? Once I have a list of the things I am looking for, it is that much easier to recognize them when they present themselves. By keeping things vague, once I meet someone I am attracted to, it's easier for me to look at them and apply these things to them. Now I've heard rumors about people 'asking' (be it casting a spell, visualizing, thinking positively, or meditating) for something extremely specific. Say one woman asks for a blond haired Korean man who owns a bank and a private jet. After having performed whatever ceremony this woman prefers, I should like to suggest that this action has, in fact, inspired confidence in her. She knows that the universe will bring her whatever she wants, and that all she has to do is let it happen. Now, when she one day does meet that blond haired, bank and private jet owning Korean, she already knows that she has him--that the universe brought him to her, and so on some level, she is relaxed, and that relaxation translates into confidence.