What Religion Best Suits Me?, I need some help... Options

I've been studying many religions for months now, and I've found not one that I am comfortable with.

My bare personal beliefs are as follows:

Reincarnation, when the soul learns enough it passes on, to what I can't say.
Either numerous individual entities as in Asatru or just aspects of one as in Wicca both seem plausible to me... I have a hard time believing in one single entity.
Practices of magick, divination,alchemy,psi etc. are accepted.
No "believe me or suffer" crap.

I realize this isn't much information to go by, but any help would be nice. I'll answer any questions that could help you give a decent suggestion. Bluntly... I'll help you help me. Many thanks in advance.

Many thanks, nocturne....

It's just a suggestion, but what about just looking at different religions your interested in and developing your own belief system?
It wouldn't be choosing a religion exactly but kind of a diverse mix of your beliefs stemming from different religions, it might work better for you?
Like you don't really need to choose one religion and stick to it. I think it's good to have a diverse range of knowledge.
Plus you already have some staple beliefs that come from different religions, Buddhism/Hinduism, Wicca..
On another note, I'm Hindu and we believe in reincarnation and alot of wiccan traditions are influenced by Hinduism, and although we do kind of believe in one entity, as in it's more like 'many faces, one God' type thing, you can pray to different Gods and Goddesses as they're different.

I hope this helps anyway

I've been studying many religions for months now, and I've found not one that I am comfortable with.

My bare personal beliefs are as follows:

Reincarnation, when the soul learns enough it passes on, to what I can't say.
Either numerous individual entities as in Asatru or just aspects of one as in Wicca both seem plausible to me... I have a hard time believing in one single entity.
Practices of magick, divination,alchemy,psi etc. are accepted.
No "believe me or suffer" crap.

93,

you may like Shintoism then, you need to look past the illussion created by the short lived State Shintoism and the royal version down to the heart of the belief system and you may find what I feel many who turn to Wicca are looking for, a none dogmatic personal connection within and in nature with divine connections.

(also no scripture at all) it believed to be more a personal connection with nature and with your own higher self.

Good luck 93 93/93
Noxifer

Give the Kybalion a read (google it, it's online for free) - it's not exactly a religion, but hermetic spirituality seems to me to be very much a universal spiritual practice. It adapts well to all religions and in and of itself is an excellent guide for coming to understand your own personal place in the universe. I keep a copy of this book on me at all times much like a christian does the bible.

All religions focus on particular aspects of universal law, particular faces of 'God'. I say, why not cut the fancy ritual and dogma associated with one religion or another, and focus on the core of all religions?

No matter what religion you become enamored with, more than likely you will grow out of it eventually, if you're already dealing with this kind of spiritual quest. If you were not so inclined, you'd most likely have been comfortable in whatever religion you were raised with.

Good luck in any case!

peace

Don't get me wrong... but you have a funny problem. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/haha.gif) WHY in the name of some unknown god do you Need a religion? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/mf_popeanim.gif) Believe in You. Isn't that enough? If not, then why not continue After Knowing Thy Self to reason out what you want to believe in? I suggest You go on an Adventure Inside! There You Will find what you seek, Then you Will know what name you want to give to that what you want to believe. But fine, if you sincerely wish to put yourself in a box for safekeeping for a while. Do it. But the dogmas of any systemized spiritual practice will only take you for some short journeys. There is No way of avoiding your inner self. I didn't actually want to give any advice to you. But I couldn't resist: if you try to escape what comes up from inside by external spiritualistic materialism, you will take a step backwards. But actually that is ok too... so what I really want to say to you is this: Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law. Love is the law, love under will.

Be brave and follow your Hearts desire. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/rule.gif)

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Have Fun!

Don't get me wrong... but you have a funny problem. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/haha.gif) WHY in the name of some unknown god do you Need a religion? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/mf_popeanim.gif) Believe in You. Isn't that enough? If not, then why not continue After Knowing Thy Self to reason out what you want to believe in? I suggest You go on an Adventure Inside! There You Will find what you seek, Then you Will know what name you want to give to that what you want to believe. But fine, if you sincerely wish to put yourself in a box for safekeeping for a while. Do it. But the dogmas of any systemized spiritual practice will only take you for some short journeys. There is No way of avoiding your inner self. I didn't actually want to give any advice to you. But I couldn't resist: if you try to escape what comes up from inside by external spiritualistic materialism, you will take a step backwards. But actually that is ok too... so what I really want to say to you is this: Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law. Love is the law, love under will.

Be brave and follow your Hearts desire. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/rule.gif)

(IMG:style_emoticons/default/sun.gif)

Have Fun!

Agreed. I'm a mix of christian, buddhist, hindu, and pagan. I ended up calling my "religion" simply as Spiritualist and make my own rules and path of believes. Why do we NEED a religion anyway? We can believe in anything we want as long it serve our needs and purposes.

Interesting. I agree with the above two posts. And Kinjo, my belief system is quite similar to yours, but I'm still leaning on Christianity a bit more than the others (for the moment) as that is what I'm most knowledgable in and have practiced the most.

This post has been edited by Slayden: Aug 17 2007, 06:27 PM

Good advice so far. Kinjo and Ile are both right. I dont need an established religion. I'm probably going to give Shinto a good look anyway. Right now I feel comfortable calling myself a wiccan because my beliefs resemble it quite a bit. I was almost certain I mentioned spiritualism... but ok.

To clear up something though, I dont really need a religion. I'm just looking for a name for my belief system. Neo-pagan comes to mind but which pagan belief? Oh well, if shinto's much different than my personal beliefs,which are strikingly similar to kinjo's as well, than I'll settle with calling it spiritualism or I'll just stick with wicca. whichever

Vagrant Dreamer : I'll look at the kybalion, I like reading. But the religion I was raised around is christianity, which I am in no way comfortable with for numerous reasons that I will refuse to state here because I respect what others choose to believe and I try my best to avoid conflict.

nocturne

This post has been edited by EmpireNocturne: Aug 17 2007, 09:04 PM

Find Your Self, Discover God

you could worship (IMG:style_emoticons/default/worthy.gif) .... (just a couple of suggestions)

me : (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)...no (IMG:style_emoticons/default/7.gif) ok


Big Brother?

and/or Jesus (the BIG!!! brother)


But what I'VE settled for is worshipping everything and nothing. If we're going for a trinity...the everything, the EVERYTHING and the nothing.
hey its easy . That way you can still explore a bunch of religions and worship anyway you want...that is, if you don't like structure. lol.

Erm. its sounds like your doing the right thing.....Just don't overwhelm yourself with philosophical binging.

This post has been edited by valkyrie: Aug 18 2007, 10:32 PM

believe in me or suffer crap is the main reason of obeying god . like it or not it is in christianity judism and islam (the holy books religions) basicly you owe god evry thing thus . you sould obey whith understanding not obeying blindly like a dog
you may obey your teacher . your parents . yourfriends . or obeying rules and laws . dodnt u think that god deserve to be obeyed the most

This post has been edited by arabian mage999: Oct 23 2007, 11:22 PM

The only thing that matters is that your religion is something that you derive strength and character from. Its technicalities are irrelevant. If you must in some places break parts of an existing faith, so be it.

Flip Kennedy's famous line and swap country for religion and voila!

This post has been edited by AcidFaucet: Oct 24 2007, 10:38 AM

I understand why you are put off witht the idea with believe or suffer. I have gone through this. I started having faith in islam but it all got to me too much. Of course the true Gods way is the right way, he is the father of the heavens and earth so you are bound to suffer but it too me it is expressed way too much in the q'aran. I am now a thelemite. The book of the law if find is an extremley unargumentable book that brings great happiness. ' Do what thouh wilt shall be the whole of the law, love is the law love under will.' Nuit- 'My joy is to see you joy'