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[quote=Anonymous]My faith has been tested by unimaginable trauma. What I believe now is a personal spirituality that is loosely based on the religion of my childhood (an Eastern religion), but is more accurately described as my own personal theology, which is how I understand the God and Existence. I don't require anyone else to share my beliefs, nor do I advertise my beliefs.

But I don't have faith because it's a coping mechanism. My coping mechanisms are meditation and cooking. I have faith because I have directly experienced astral travel, have received psychic information of things I had zero way of knowing, even subconsciously, and and have had these experiences repeatedly. At some point denying that consciousness transcends matter, in the face of what I've experienced, becomes delusional.

That does NOT mean I believe everyone should have faith in God. I don't think the universe works that way. Some of the most spiritually potent teachings come from atheist religions that don't believe in a creator deity (Jainism and Buddhism).

But neither do I think it's fair or accurate to say that people who have faith in God despite their hardships can [i]only[/i] mean that it's a coping mechanism to help them deal with life. I have actively tried to be an atheist in the past, because atheism was my way of coping with trauma.

But gnostic experiences, including ejecting myself from my body and astrally watching my cousins get into a huge argument 2000 miles away and then repeating every word of the conversation to them verbatim the next day over the phone, don't go away just because I don't want to believe in them.[/quote]

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