INFJ and Spirituality

Nah, They're just brainwashed

 

I would say the latter. But I'm just cynical of organized religion so my views on things are most likely completely biased and one way slanted. Sure, there's nothing wrong with being spiritual/ religious, if you [generic] are, good for you. But I'm not =D

I think the reason INFJ's have this spiritual complex is because they are 'deep thinkers' and eventually every 'deep thinker' comes to the point where they wonder the meaning of life, and as that comes about they adopt a religion or form of spirituality. I think the INFJ religious factor is interesting in the fact that they will join so many churches, try out so many different things, all in order to discover this answer. And I'm sure most of them have. I, for one, am satisfied not knowing.

 

Funny. I was atheist for a while when I lived in my INFJness denial bubble, but that's excatly how I would describe myself, as spiritual, as opposed to religious. I don't follow any religion but to me being spiritual means believing into something, whatever the form it may have, for religions it's god, but it can be reason, a mover, a motive - just something, I'd like to think a reason. What's the reason there is anything? If there wasn't a reason, wouldn't there be nothing, no existence, no development, no movement. But as I think all religions have got that idea but as I don't necessarily relate to their view altogether I wouldn't call myself religious but spiritual.

I get in touch with the spiritual side in myself when I'm for example in the nature - a certain oneness and peace, the most natural state there is.

 

When I was younger I would always get frustrated by religion. What bothered me at the time was that I couldn't understand why people would follow a truth based on what others told them, I needed physical proof of the existance of something. On top of that, I couldn't see the point and or its relivence to our lives. Then it became more apparent to me that religion was a method of control.

A few years ago it hit me. Although I felt that way about religion, there were some teachings within some faiths which I could resonate with. I had a mind blowing experience which led me on this path of discovery, I became interested in quantum physics and started practicing yoga which opened my eyes to spirituality. I can't explain it, I think spirituality is a personal thing, based on your own understanding and feelings but I've never been so happy =) Inner peace is a beautiful thing.

 

I absolutely love anything to do with my religion and spirituality.

 

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Not the end of the world!! We didn't spend billions of years mutating to get to a point in the clockwork to stop. It's a continuous cycle.




Think about the last 200 years and how we have progressed, think of that as a racing car building up speed, at some point it needs to change up a gear. It's still the same car on the same track but moving at a different rate.

I don't know much about astrology but I do know a bit about the fibonacci code and the golden ratio and how it relates to the macro/microcosm.

So the Mayans developed a calendar, infact they had 2 calendars which together calculated movements of many stars in our universe on a mass scale. Then at some point the western world was forced to take onboard the gregorian calendar, in the scheme of things thats not a very big cycle.

Every now and then apparently the poles of the Earth swap, apparently due to in 2012.
Check this talk out, I've picked a clip which is a quick look at it but set some time to watch the whole thing...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuHrqObcovk

 

Maybe there is no deep purpose/reason to discover. Just deep beauty, below the surface of things.

That's what religion/spirituality does for me.

 

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