Thread: Spirituality in my eyes. part 1 open mind vs closed mind.

Ok so well first off, this is my perspective. Ive had many experiences that has aided me in thinking this way. Ive done countless numbers of readings and talking to people, and people that can be credited, my professors in philosophy and sociology, theripests, religous people in all sorts (from chrisitanity to budhism to satinists). So before you think that i dont know what i am talking about. i do haha. So take what you want, and leave what you want.

Oh and sorry if any of the topics im going to talk about has been coverd before.

Well ok lets begin.

In this thread i would like to talk about an open mind vs a closed mind, and the between.

What do you think of when you hear the term open minded? Is it some crazy drugged person who claims that he has been abducted by ufo's, the government is one big conspiracy? Or is it that you have to believe in everything? Well thats not what having an opened mind is at all.

An open mind is someone that knows that well, anything is possible. You dont necessarily have to believe in ghosts, aliens, god, or special powers to be open minded. Having an open mind, is just knowing that well ghosts can exist, who am i to say they cant? Sure it is possible that there is another form of life somewhere out in the universe. God? Yeah sure he can exist, and heaven as well. Can people claim to be psychic? Read minds? throw objects around the room? Sure why not?

Now even if you do agree that all of the above is possible, and are like ok so im open minded, now what? Now before you jump to conclusions, just because you agree that anything is possible, or can be possible. You got to acknowledge that they as well cant be as well. Now this might be confusing, and well it is.

Being open minded consist of more then just agreeing and knowing that the impossible are possible, you must also know that the possible is impossible. And at the same time I know, this might be hard to grasp by i will go further. Sure you might think that aliens could exist, but well you must also see the other side, and that is that they might not exist. Sure there might be god and heaven, but well it is just as possible for us to just rot in the ground as well. Yea sure, people can have special powers, but well they could just be 'crazy'.

Is this making more sense? In order to be open minded, you must be able to adept, learn and know that everything is possible, and that everything that is possible could be impossible. Sure we all could be unique and in our own way, and that everything matters. Or what if nothing really exists and were just a random thought or what if this is just one big dream? Can you prove either?

Now we have an open mind out of the way, lets talk about a closed mind. Now to some of you this might seem like an open mind, but well... its not.

God exists and were all either going to heaven, hell, or wonder the world as a spirit until we go to the correct place. Closed minded. But wait? God, heaven and hell exists, as well as spirits? Sounds pretty open minded to me, WRONG. Just because you believe in something unexplainable, it doesnt make you open minded, you have to be able to see all sides of a topic. If you talk to a pure christian, they will say that Jesus, god, and Satan are the only gods that exist. What about all the other gods that other religions believe in? Are they fake? or not real? If you hear a christian say that there only one god, well he is being closed minded.

So to make it simple, being closed minded is only seeing one side of a topic, or maybe just not the whole side of a topic. For there can be many sides to a topic, and not seeing all of them, is closed minded.

Pssssh aliens ? Really come on. You really think that there are other life forms that have technology that we cant even begin to think of? Closed minded.

Now we have open minded and closed minded explained, there is a between. And well this between could be anything that doesnt fall in the open or closed mind slot. Which is not a lot. Maybe someone that says they believe that aliens could exist, but they do not. Confusion is the big factor here, and you can really stop people and make them think if you really wanted to

So are you open minded or closed minded?

Now this is part one, and well its kind of explanatory i know, but well i have to hit all subjects that fall into spirituality. Next topic im going to talk about is mindset, and how mindset is key to life.

Comments appreciated, good or bad. Again this is only my perspective.