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| With some friends, I visited a haunted house recently. At least they told me it was haunted, supposedly by the ghost of a former owner who had committed suicide there in the 1920s. My friends said they felt different energies in different rooms, and cool spots in various places. They commented on the psyche of the ghost and drew conclusions about what its intentions were. |
| I perceived none of this. If there was a ghost there, I was quite open to its manifesting itself to me. But I was also aware that I could want so badly to experience it that I might talk myself into "sensing" things that were, in reality, only the products of my own mind's desires. So, while my friends had their experiences, I had my own also. I felt warm and comfortable. That was it. Not bad. |
| The incident reminded me of years ago, when I was told by others that God could be found here - or there. I did try so hard to produce in myself what they told me I should feel, by doing what they did, or praying the prayers they prayed, or going to the churches they attended, but the feelings were always hollow. They were not my own. |
| I'm convinced that many people have a "second-hand" faith, just as I could have had a "second-hand" ghost. When we rely solely on what others tell us, we get a "hollow" God. And the more we strive to make that hollow "god" real, the more militant we become to defend it, the more stridently we voice our "convictions." When we relax and let the God/ess Who Is manifest him/herself to us in the ways that are natural to us as individuals, the warmth and comfort are truly real, Supremely our own. Beats the hell out of the second-hand stuff!!! |
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