Blue Chamber

Have you ever been in a thunder and lightening storm where there is sheet lightening flashing across the sky, and massive lightening bolts like giant trees striking the ground all around you?

No! But I really want to be!

love how the whole landscape lookes like someone has rubbed it out, and how it feels like it's only myself left, and the little circle of grass around my feet. Everything becomes muffled too, you can't hear any traffic or birds or barking dogs...it's like my own little personal non-religious heaven

Okay, I know we're similar in lots of ways but this is getting eerie. I thought that when I'd been born I broke the mold used in my construction. I'm beginning to wonder if your parents didn't find it and glue it back together...! (In a girl shape, obviously )

Question: have you ever meditated? I've a sneaky suspicion you'd really enjoy it...

*puts teaching hat on*

Mediatation is a complex beast. It can be used purely for relaxation, but is also the first step - some say the most important step - in exploring Spiritualism and all the things spiritualists offer; healing, mediumship etc.

Meditation isn't easy! The hardest thing in the world is to get your mind to shut up, to stop constantly thinking and planning and asssessing and doing all the things modern life requires of it. As with any discipline, it takes practise and dedication before you will really begin to feel the benefits, or are able to take yourself through guided visualisations for various purposes.

As for what you feel, it varies. Ideally you should feel the stress leaving your body, and a sense of inner calm filling your mind, heart and soul. This sensation can be profound - there is really no way of describing it until you've achieved it yourself.

You're probably right, I wouldn't say you needed it at all. i was just curious to know if you'd ever tried. Oh, and you don't need to sit cross-legged. I know people who lie down to do it, although this runs the risk of them falling asleep - easy to do!

p.s - glad you like it! It's an old joke, but a goodie!

Let's answer those in reverse order:

Have I meditated? Yes.
Do I meditate often? No.

Am I a spiritualist?

Uh, that's a difficult one to answer. I have been a Spiritualist, since about the age of 19, but recently, as in the last year or so, decided I'd had enough of exploring it and beating myself up for not meditating enough. Therefore the answer - as of 14:47 today - is I think I'm currently Agnostic (there's something there, I just don't know what it is) however...I still tend to think of the world and life and people in spiritual terms.

There, clear as mud

Let's answer those in reverse order:

Have I meditated? Yes.
Do I meditate often? No.

Am I a spiritualist?

Uh, that's a difficult one to answer. I have been a Spiritualist, since about the age of 19, but recently, as in the last year or so, decided I'd had enough of exploring it and beating myself up for not meditating enough. Therefore the answer - as of 14:47 today - is I think I'm currently Agnostic (there's something there, I just don't know what it is) however...I still tend to think of the world and life and people in spiritual terms.

There, clear as mud

Going by what you've said, techinically you're not an Atheist. Atheism is the specific belief that there is no god or supreme being out there. What you've described sounds like agnosticism: you have no firm beliefs either way.

Spiritualism is...probably too complicated for a dscussion in this here comment thread! I'd suggest googling it and seeing what you find.

There is a Spiritualist church that you can attend, we have two in Aberdeen that meet every Sunday, but I believe that true spiritualism does not need the artifice of church and sermon. It's more a...way of life rather than a religion in the classical sense. A way of thinking, of acting, of experiencing the universe around us.

I was never christened either. My parents wanted me to make up my own mind when I was old enough to do so. Smart people, my parents.

But beware, Kirsten! Once a conversation about this stuff gets started, you might find months of your life slip away while you get engrossed...! If you really want to know more, by all means ask away in an email and I'll tell you what I can.

The wedding has been set for three days after my birthday - your invitiation should arrive shortly. It'll be a Pastafarian wedding, so we'll be writing our own vows specifically to be blessed by the Flying Spaghetti Monster.