Spirituality Has Nothing to Do With Religious Dogma

I am a spiritual (not religious) person who collectsreal.
religions and celebrates God wherever It is to beIt's not that what you believe isn't what you get
found. That one sentence is enough to make thewhen you die-you absolutely do...until you wake up to
brainwashed religious dogma people go apoplectic.what is real. Since Time doesn't really exist out there,
Before I get nasty emails from the clueless hordes,that could take anywhere from a second to several
allow me to first explain that I have an extensiveearth lifetimes. Imagine the shocked expressions on
religious background. When anyone inquires as to mythe faces of those who think they have entered
religion I get to giggle first before launching into theThe Pearly Gates and been accepted by St.
definition of my particular brand of belief systems:Peter...and then discover that it is all a facade hidden
".in the recesses of the non-local mind.
Raised Roman Catholic by very devout parents,What is really real is more incredible than most can
brought up in a family enclave of equally devouteven start to imagine. The Creator of all we
aunts, uncles and grandparents, I am the familyexperience is not some old guy with a white beard
anomaly. My education included attending Catholicsitting on a throne in the clouds. Our Creator is
school and then Catechism classes that ended inconstantly expanding and the really exciting thing
Confirmation. Oh yeah, and marriage in an Episcopalianabout that is that we are all a part of It. We are so
church...and then by a Justice of the Peace...and thenmuch more than we have been led to believe. Why?
by a priest friend who was a prison chaplain (no I--because the rulers didn't want the masses to think
was not in prison and neither was my husband).for themselves.
Along the way, the six Near Death ExperiencesSo here we are now, in a big mess, thanks to those
changed my beliefs pretty drastically. Once you haveselfish rulers, who didn't know as much as they
stood out in the Cosmos with the one we call Jesusthought they did. The good news: it is not too late
Christ, or melted into Bliss upon reaching thefor us. Put on the thinking cap of the non-local mind
furthermost edges of the brilliant Light of the Great(the real mind that thinks the thoughts that pop up in
Mystery, religious dogma just doesn't make the cut.our brains) and look into what is real.
The really fun part of the whole experience for me©2010 Dr.
was seeing the True Believers wake up to what is