Spiritual Journeys - Some Definitions
Spiritual Journeys – Some Definitions Back when I was at the University of Georgia, before I had arrived at any particular set of religious beliefs, I had a roommate named James who was spiritual in the most cliché sense of the word. He lit a lot of incense and candles and owned lots of crystals and pictures of the moon. I basically thought of James’ view of the world as silly but mostly harmless. James also had a girlfriend whose belief system ran along similar lines. However there was one particular practice that this girlfriend engaged in that bothered me. Whenever things went wrong, whenever she was disappointed, she would repeat this mantra to herself, “Everything is perfect, everything is perfect.” I think I loosely understand the underlying philosophy behind the mantra – that the plans of the universe are too complex for us to fathom as individuals. But it was apparent to me that the mantra was in fact terribly destructive for this young woman. Every time she said