Hello, my name is Jones and I am starting my spiritual journey (and struggling to find my way). I live in Brazil and as a country in latin america, we have a strong influence of christianity because of colonization but also we have big influence of religions of African origin. These are the most influential religious practices, but we are a very diverse country with other religions, so even the most beliver of christ of this country has done some kind of magic ritual or has some kind of superstition that comes out of their religion. Our culture is heavily based in religion, so I have known many beliefs and ways to express spirituality. My whole family comes from Catholic church and i was baptized as well, and even though one of my grandmothers was almost a nun and the other has always frequented many churches, my mother has never forced me to stay in this belief and my father and his siblings go to a Shamanism center since i was 10 , they only wanted me to believe in something and express my spirituality in some way. My sister has frequented this same place with our father in the past, even went to a Umbanda temple for some time (mostly because of a girl she liked), but she found her way in chaos magic and everything related to sacred feminine along the way, also my mother took us to a Spiritism house and it is mostly a very free and nice place to go, so I had contact with a lot of interesting beliefs and practices but nothing really caught my attention enough for me to base my spirituality and sometimes i feel loose and not attached to anything. I don’t think that having a more free perspective is a bad thing because that’s how i prefer, but I really think it’s important to have some kind of base otherwise i feel like i will fall. I Already study and do tarot readings that work very well, but other than that I really don’t have way of expressing myself, and I don’t feel like frequenting a temple or attaching myself too much to a religion. I know I’m making the journey harder than it needs to be, but I don’t want to disrespeect any religion. Anyways, I hope to find some light to my way while here and I would like to hear if anyone has some advice to give in how to create and strengthen my spiritual base. :)))
A free perspective is nice. That is an option that a lot of people have and it works well for them. Why not just enjoy your life without any spiritual obligations or beliefs ? Spirituality can sometimes take a lot of time, energy and money.
If you do not feel any particular obligations then why go looking for trouble ?
Fall ? Do you believe the things that the Catholic religion teaches ? Are you worried about what will happen to you when you die ? If that is the problem then what is wrong with what the Catholic religion teaches ? You were baptized and the sacrifice of Jesus pays for your sins. You can enjoy a nice life and not worry about anything. The blood of Jesus pays for anything wrong you might do. Why would you feel the need to look for anything else ?
Welcome @jonessaturn
Do you have any practical magical experience?
not in a catholic sense, but more in a psychological way. I feel like if I want to have a strong spiritual life I’m not going to have consistency and strength, and if I borrow a little bit of everything I will end up in a shallow place. I know a lot of people who don’t go deeper in their beliefs and they end up believing nothing in the end, like it’s a facade but they don’t realize until it’s too late. Maybe I’m being just anxious and tragic, but I really feeel like I have to strengthen my spirituality, not in a sense that I have to attach to ssomething, but deepen my beliefs.
Thanks!! I have experience with sympathies that are basically little spells very common in brazilian cuture and one time me and my best friend made a bigger spell with chaos magic servitors, but other than that I have only seen people close to me do more complex magic