For me, having a Christian upbringing before destroying it completely, I was always the child that would speculate way too much to the point where I engaged in comparative analysis from other religions and belief systems and how people cop-out with the "find truth in all of them" to avoid being hurt or having insecurities swelling up. Especially when people use argumentum ad populum and think that many people believing a particular faith and gaining truisms from experiential truths from others makes that objective truth. But even when they're going through this, someone else just pitches in and goes in for damage control because people will think it's relentless bickering.
It's easy to spot these people, and it's easy to produce their breaking points (they turn it around, then question the person's tonality, way of words, etc. without trying to get their underlying message). And even in a Dreaming Forum like this, there's so many ways people self-stultify themselves, especially when there's people who make too many big leaps of faith before understanding the wonders of the unconscious mind and what it can produce in dreaming in general.
Of course, when I state unconscious mind, I just mean it as a concept, not direct dualism between conscious and unconscious. Anyway, seeing people on this forum and other dreaming and spiritual forums, how these people develop predispositions like:
- Those who believe everyone has a dream guide/spirit guide/astral guide/etc., as if it was a monolithic entity that's been there since they were born when it's mostly just people underestimating how the unconscious mind works to fit the expectations based on the person's experiential totality, belief systems, emotions, etc.
- People who tend to encroach Pantheism, Utilitarianism, Deontology, and other ethical belief systems into their religion to try make their beliefs more "true" or trying to gain truism. Then the fact that they also have to cherry-pick phrases, statements, anecdotes and focus mostly on those rather than seeing the many contradictions behind them.
- People who want to activate their third eye, 7 chakras, Using crystals to make certain frequencies, etc.
- People who claim to acknowledge their religions fault's and are open minded to other probabilities and possibilities with finding truth in other religions, but they're just denying themselves of shifting towards Agnosticism, Atheism, or other belief systems that questions other religions because they still have 2% of their religion ingrained into them.
- People who see these life-threatening moments and being saved by some entity and end up making experiential truth and think that clever wording, emotionally-packed language patterns, and such makes it objective truth for everyone in general.
The list can go on, but for the sake of staying on topic, my driving force, it's pretty hard to really condense how I would conceptualize it. But for me, with all of the possibilities and things a person can learn, I'd prefer not to lend any invested faith towards something unless I see a process that consistently produces that (i.e. Lucid Dreaming). And even with that, I still want to question the process and dig a bit deeper, because when people state it's the work of a higher entity before for once analyzing what Lucid Dreaming in general portrays with the creative potential of the human brain, it gets tiresome seeing the irony behind these people's logic.
The thing that sparks me the most is the workings of the human mind, and how Science continues seeing the concepts behind the Unconscious seemingly in more control because of the person's conscious intentions, desires, and totality of all sorts of things is stored within. And when I see all of these people go about in their lucid dreaming endeavors trying to gain some self-actualization or reaching closure with these dream beings/entities, I would presume that anyone, whether you have a religion or not, would question how the Human brain can create all of these thought-forms in your natural sleep.
That they would question how they can create a dream at will (or it occurs in non-lucids) with practice to emulate those same feelings of closure, solace, having sense of value and other emotional and psychological predispositions with believing in a religion. Personally, those same feelings of hope when I used to follow the Christian upbringing can be easily emulated in different ways in dreaming and waking life. And because of this, this is what makes me more adventurous with things metaphysical, spiritual, and such, because seeing how the unconscious mind is able to connect the dots (with implicit knowledge, etc.) to make a convincing phenomenon for the conscious mind.
But of course, I will admit that shifting through Agnosticism and Atheism can create existential issues, questions, and concerns personally. Which is why I feel that people who believe in a particular faith and religion have it easy with avoiding that. Of course, I know there's religions that makes one question their reality (i.e. Tibetan Buddhist and how they create thought-forms to give them a basis to question their reality and such), but even with that, I would personally want to dive deeper into the processes of the Human Brain.
And it's doubly ironic going on this forum and seeing people interact with countless of thought-forms in their natural sleep and never really taking the chance to wonder what actually keeps their self-identity reigned in after what would be deemed as Schizophrenic by an uneducated individual. And yet they somehow manage to capitalize on people who would create thought-forms that's still within their perception of reality, and the irony is augmented exponentially when it's people of religious faith that believe in deity/deities that think other people doing this are insane or have to go through a completely reformatting of their biological makeup.
But the moment someone questions their faith in something invisible (that doesn't seem to be simulated through hallucinations or other hallucinatory effects that still makes a person have a tangible grip of reality) and has yet to be proven scientifically, they backpedal before they realize they're just being hypocrites. Especially when I realized a lot of people are either too indolent, incompetent, fearful, or other factors towards diving into things that creates existential questions. I marvel more on how with practice, one can be better with psychosomatic self-control and see how they can collaborate with their unconscious mind (in a subjective way of course) to emulate sensations that creates the strong urge everyone will have when it comes to self-actualization, enlightenment, and such.
So to me, my driving force is that I acknowledge the wonders of how the human mind works, mostly the concepts behind the unconscious mind does things that would make one presume it's out of unconditional love, that a person would lend faith towards themselves and how the mind can cope with things in life rather than lending absolute faith to some invisible deity/deities or supernatural entities. To be resourceful with what the mind can do to survive in general, and having that assurance towards sense of self and consciousness on other levels would be a practical safety net in morals, ethics, and just experiential totality in general.
It shifts me into having those small moments of wishing there could be a way to extend one's life in some way to accumulate their experiential totality even more, but for now, I'm doing just fine with states of consciousness that comes with meditation, dreaming, etc. and seeing them as conduits towards knowing more about myself than I thought I knew. I don't need a deity/deities, a bag of magical seeds, or a trick up my sleeve, just simple rationalization, implicit knowledge, resourcefulness with experiential totality and expanding from that, along with other things like Science that has a more practical approach than Religion in interrogating the Universe.
Cliff notes/TL;DR (for those who are indolent on Extended Discussion):
Instead of making huge leaps of faith, I rather not underestimate the human brain (mostly the works of the unconscious mind and its potential in creativity and such) and how it can make neurological connections and actually be resourceful. Because of that, it just becomes an endeavor of seeking as much knowledge, insight, and perspectives as possible, and being able to go back and forth, adding on to personal experiential totality and learning and actually being able to use it when I need it.
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