The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #26240   Message #314489
Posted By: WyoWoman
08-Oct-00 - 09:20 PM
Thread Name: Alternative Beliefs - a pattern?
Subject: RE: Alternative Beliefs - a pattern?
SKeptics, people sKeptic. Skeptical.

I believe in spelling.

Other than that, I try not to hold many beliefs. But I do think a lot is interesting. And a lot is also not interesting at all.

I'm a dyed in the wool adherent to the Whatever Works School of Most Things. Acupuncture has worked amazingly well for me on certain stuff. Chiropractic has made those very same things worse. Ergo, I have a couple of acupuncture sessions when that particular stuff flares up. I do not try chiropractic any more at all. Western medicine has made a hash out of several different medical problems I had. Ergo, I only go to the doctor when it is utterly unavoidable. I do my best to stay healthy through other means - diet, exercise, vitamin supplements. Being happy. Forgiving. Practicing a spiritual discipline.

Crop circles are beautiful. I just love to look at them. I don't speculate much beyond that, except to admire whoever created them and to wonder, as I wonder with other cool stuff, how they DID that ...

Astrology is nothing I believe in -- except that I'm a textbook Libran. ;-}

But I have a friend who's an astrologer and I believe in her. She may use Tarot cards and astrology charts to access the wisdom she does, but whatever her method, I believe she is a wise woman and I take heavily into account what she offers in the way of insight and advice. My sister is an ordained Christian minister and I listen to her and seek her counsel as well because experience has taught me that she also is a wise woman and her insights are to be treasured.

There is much more we don't know about this remarkable universe than we do know, so I have a fairly large region in my brain and heart and psyche under the banner "Awaiting Further Light." I try to keep my attention focused fairly close to home, to the quality of my relationships and the work I do and let the other stuff sort itself out as it will. And to play as much as I possibly can, as often as I can.

But my animal medicine card says I'm Otter, which is playful female energy, so, well, I would ...

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