Hi, I'm Shawn Matheson
Now in the space between
About me
Lifelong member of the LDS church, until my 2021 resignation.
Knowledge/study/prayer helped me to discern past and present issues.
It took courage to separate from a doctrinally absolute, socially-integrated church; I've lived in Utah most of my life and the LDS church was a strong component of my self-identity, family, social structure, and belief system.
I had a beautiful walk with Community of Christ for two years. I really respect what they've done with the restoration root and who they've become. I am so appreciative of Pastor John Hamer of the Toronto Beyond the Walls (online) congregation. Community of Christ and John Hamer provided me a safe restoration space to transition out of Mormonism. I saw parallels in my own journey to that of Community of Christ's, which has been willing to address the uncomfortable history and present issues. I experienced church community with a beautiful group of people, many of whom had also had their own faith transitions out of the LDS church.
I'm now non-church affiliated and more of a universalist; I appreciate all teachings and traditions. I am Christian (Christ Consciousness). Culturally speaking Mormonism will always be part of me for what I learned and experienced.
I find beautiful harmony (no separation) in simplicity and universality. I love what I have learned and experienced in Christian (spiritualistic, one'ness), Judaism (transcendence, God without a body, rites which inspired Christian writers: mikveh, temple, Passover), Hinduism (karma, growth, cycles, patience, inner peace), Taoism (such a perfect antidote for me to unlearn Western literalism and centralized authority, i.e. it's the lessons to walk the middle of the black/white, yin/yang s-curved cyclical path, go with the water flow, cut with the grain, don't take yourself too seriously, be unassuming like a crooked tree, they don't get cut down), Buddhist (beautiful philosophical way of living, ending suffering and attachment), Sikh (honor, service to the underserved, cleanliness, being at peace with all), Sufi Islamic (renunciation of materials, mystical contemplation of God), Gnostic (spiritualistic view of Jesus in his contemporary time, squelched by Pauline Christians), Stoic (virtue, knowledge, living in harmony with Divine reason), and other traditional texts and practices. Religious teachings are all congruent and beautiful harmony at their core-essence (without churches trying to claim exclusivity of knowledge or authority).
I also love the experiences I've had in modern books/podcasts of MindValley (Vishen Lakani, free podcasts from top minds in self-transformation), Deepak Chopra (quantum), Sri Preethaji (Four Sacred Truths), Thich Nhat Hanh (such simplicity and practicality), Eckhart Tolle (he has a great way of wrapping all together), Terrence McKenna (plant medicine for spiritual practice), Esther Weaver / Abraham (manifestation, transmutation), Colette Streicher (MAP Method, neuro reprogramming of a negative to a positive), Dr Carl Totten (What's This Tao All About?, he really makes philosophical Taoism so approachable and fun), Rumi (piercingly simple poetry), Pastor John Hamer of Community of Christ (spiritual vs literal, using contextual history and literary analysis and reason, being good with the spiritualistic value, i.e. deconstruction doesn't have to be demolition), Deloris Cannon (Quantum Healing), Sadhguru (such sage simplicity), Allen Watts (seeing religion and this quantum experience for what it is, learning how to observe and reason), Asha Nayaswami (such a clear teacher of warmth and wisdom), Dr. Joe Dispenza (law of attraction, retraining the sub-conscious), kellymagicalmediumbrey (star seed boy and his mother, such simple and beautiful insights), Next Level Soul podcast (many guests), John the New (amazing and unique views of Jesus), etc. I have decades more of learning/experiencing ... my learning list will go on! It's liberating to allow myself to be open to ideas outside of one church!
I appreciate and value all expansive spiritual learning and experiences ... which help me flow in one'ness. I'm simply now expanding and leaning in, being present with where I am. I used to have all the answers in my former religion (haha, my ego, that was fun too)... and now I am comfortable in the fun and engaging nature of questions.
Life is a playful dance with people in various roles -- and awareness of this consciousness-stage makes it that much more fun! Seeing life as a play or creative matrix is not to trivialize it, but empowering to know that I am the writer and co-creator of my own experiences! I now look inward and directly to God/Source, simply being one in vibration with whatever it is I want to know about or experience. Life is a magical experience in emotions!
God is perfect love, and downloads into our experiences what we believe is true (i.e. what we are vibrationally putting out ... returns to us). Call it Law of Attraction, Manifestation, Faith, Belief, Self-Fulfilment or what you'd like!
Supporting this, I love what Jesus taught, that the kingdom of heaven is within you (Luke 17:21); all things are possible to those who believe (Mark 9:23); all things whatsoever you ask in faith, nothing wavering, you will receive; the works that I do shall you shall do also, and greater works than these shall you do ( John 14:12); Matthew 17:20-21 if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can move this mountain.
And a couple similar modern quotes: "Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right!" (Henry Ford); "Words without thoughts remain below, never to heaven go" (Shakespeare). John the New has amazing insights and material on this, it's really coalesced my feelings. Nothing is impossible for us, we are endless, and what is potential, already exists within!
We create our own realities with our beliefs (often self-limiting). For example, for 40 something years I believed the Mormon church to be the only true church --- because that's the belief I created, which downloaded to my experience as my reality, and I heard the echo chambers and felt what I wanted. Similarly then in energetic transmutation, I wanted to see the truth behind the Mormon-Oz curtain and I was willing to look painfully inside myself at my own dark places, and that's the dark cave and subsequent refining fire I walked through ... shedding my fastened fears and dogmatic dross (products of my mind and ego).
Differently said, we all have our own truths based on our beliefs, and our sacred beliefs (religious, political, etc.) can be like sacred cows if we let them get that extreme! My own religious, spiritual, political views have evolved as I've allowed myself to expand. We should not try and convert anyone to our beliefs, but rather we should ask questions of others' experiences, so we can better learn and love. We are all beautiful expressions!
When we love as God loves, unconditionally like a parent for a child or a child for anyone, we experience one'ness, or Christ Consciousness, Bliss (Hindu), Nirvana (Buddhist), Mukti (Sikh), etc. Most importantly, that is not a future state, but a present, because there is no time and space outside of our 3-dimmensional reality, thus, all is in the present moment, or quantum field of simultaneous. Heaven, is here and now!
Similarly in deconstruction (not just of religion, time and space), I've discovered that there is no separation or war of good vs evil; if there was and God was all-powerful, God would have won by now, or if there was and God allowed evil, God would not be all-loving.
There is however the all-inclusive nature of duality, yin and yang, light and darkness in coupling, balance and interdependence, all-in-one, all frequencies existing --- or a space of neutrality and balance. When there is a push in one extreme, the other extreme offsets. And the space between that yin-yang s-curve is the space of stillness, the space between breath, the space of neutrality where everything exists, the eye of all around.
My understanding of God has developed, I believe God lets us create and has pledged non-interference, individual agency, and co-creation -- and that is Ultimate Love. There is no time outside of this 3-dimmensional space, so we can have all the time we need, we can learn from our experience, and we learn by contrast. Everything returns to us as needed for growth. For example, what lessons would a bully need to learn, perhaps that of being a victim in a future state? Would that cycle of the bully's suffering not repeat until the lesson is learned? The answers and experiences from God/Source are not binary (good and bad, black and white), but infinite qubit (synchronous and multi-dimensional). Our experiences change by way of our observation (beliefs, emotions) and intentions (words, actions).
Each of us create our own realities by what we believe and put in motion, like a magnetic mirror of energy we put out, downloading back to our experience. I think of this life like a dream in that respect, which does not trivialize my life experience, it just that cool fact that I am the script writer, director, and actor of my own scenes, and my present reality is what I already put into motion. Our past and future selves simultaneously exist by what we do in this present moment (like a horizonal figure 8, this moment at the intersection, energy flowing and returning). Yes there is past and future, but it's all a qubit of this present moment. We co-create with God, we turn the possible into actual by way of our beliefs and actions.
God is the Glue of it All. God is in You, Me, Everything. There is no separation. We choose what vibration we attune to, and it comes about as our reality. We can stay in whatever vibrational state we want for as long as we'd like.
There are no right and wrong answers, there are just experiences, and pain will teach us (ouch) ... or easier is to awake and see the matrix/dream for what it is (a beautiful dharma of creative, experiential playground, set our intentions, and let go and go with the water flow, leaning into every experience with full embrace, then letting it flow and go.
That's how Mormonism was for me, I was all in on that action, and then I woke up from that part of my dream and realized, wow, that taught me so much and exposed parts of me I liked and did not like. That's learning (dharma from karma, consciousness from observation without judgement, and detachment).
In my Mormon deconstruction, I similarly no longer believe in hell or Beelzebub (although Bus to Beelzebub was a great song in the 90s by Soul Coughing)! There is no boogie man under our bed or skeleton in the closet -- unless we create one. There are no dark forces conspiring against us -- unless we attract them by believing in them and talking about them, and then we let those programs or low-vibrational entities in, by our attunement and conscious focus. There is only Love, and darkness is just the absence of Love/Light, just as low vibration is the lack of high vibration. Everyone has the same potential, and everyone and everything plays a role. Low and high vibration people or entities are more like actors on a stage, with roles to play, and we choose our own roles based on what we believe and want to learn, and God then sets the scene for us.
Everyone has the same potential for Love, and we are all God's creation with the same beauty. God loves us all unconditionally, as we should love. We are embodied in a low-vibrational earth (we only need to turn on the news). The majority of people are beautiful beings of light and love, and the earth and humanity are beautifully transforming and elevating. I see a world of hope and love. And the more darkness that a minority of people cause, the more simultaneous awakening it stirs in people's hearts for the want of higher love and light. Everything is always in balance.
My 40 something years in Mormonism was high-spike energy, as it's a really strong sauce version (theologically and socially) of religion. And similarly in deconstruction, it was the opposite directional spike for me on the energetic curve, me going through mental and emotional pain. Buddha taught that what we are attached to (our ideas, our religious dogmas), we suffer from. Jesus taught about the lilies of the field and the birds of the sky, how they toil not or think not for tomorrow. Lao Tzu talked about walking the middle path (middle of the s-curve). My life experiences and these sage teachings, teach me that we can experience something simply by observing it without judgement, and that there is pain in extremes. In the same lesson of agnostic observation, I've also learned that radical forgiveness (empathy) elevates our vibration and makes us un-fu*k-withable!
Mormonism was my vibration and soundtrack/jam for a long time, but then I grew tired of uniform, breathy, somber Sounds of Sunday music. And funny thing is, musical exploration was a key part of my faith expansion! From MoTab and JKP to Sikh, to Islamic Sufi, to Christian Evangelical, to Buddhist Zen, to Taoist, to Hindu, to ambient/chill/vibrational, Hz/Solfeggio/binaural ambient/meditation ... that's been my spiritual playlist, in that order! Music is such a powerful tool for vibrational transformation!
Speaking of low vibration, I've found that most religions are simply codified belief systems (councils of past dudes, usually with a high-bend on authority (secret sauce), with a particular set of observances and rites (Mormonism certainly has some unique temple rites, and Christian sacrament is symbolic cannibalism). Religions by nature are credal/doctrinal, dogmatic (incontrovertibly true, that is until that policy or doctrine changes with the times :)), legalistic (rules to be a member), literalistic (mythical stories from thousands of years ago believed to be actual events), absolutist (our way is the only way), and gaslighting (we'll soft or hard shun you if you ask uncomfortable questions or bring uncomfortable question to light). Religions also stratify people unnecessarily (when we should be one), and start wars. Religions are good for having a sense of community, cultural identify, teaching good morals (mostly, some churches are still very behind socially and still very stuck on their own teachings and self-made authority), and taking care of each other. But I'd argue that religions can be both helpful and harmful, and the goods of a religion or church are mutually exclusive of the religion or church authority. We can simply trust ourselves and trust in God.
True communication and devotion of Love with God is in the intentions and vibrations of our heart, loving for Love's sakes, doing good for Good's sake (for the love and want of the reason itself), i.e. loving ourselves and all that is.
The Mormon church taught me many good principles, and it was a structure where I observed misogyny, racism, homophobia, piety, and abuse of religious authority. Because I was willing to see in myself the same troubles I was observing, I was able to learn and grow from my Mormon construct.
I now simply enjoy the spiritualistic path (non-dogmatic, legalistic, mythical, ritualistic, absolutist). I've renounced religion as a need in my life, and embraced spiritualistic love. (and I find it so fun now to be able to read and listen to what I want and to ask questions and explore! Living in Mormonism was a past place where I was only to follow the counsel of my leaders, only read from church-approved material if it had to do with the church or its teachings, and it was a constant testimony echo chamber!
We go deeper and wider in love when we separate ourselves from our religious dogma, when we quiet our mind (meditation, breath of exhale and in-between), when we simply observe without judgement, when we open our heart to see and feel God and love in all that is, and when we live a life of love for the good of ourselves and others. We are all in God, the Creator is never separated from the Created, we are all God Particle, God-Source ... so self-love and loving others is the simple path (and taught by all religions).
I'm not mad at Mormonism or anyone in it (that's a common misconception which members carry, that people leave because they were offended). That is not true for my experience, I had great experiences with 99% of members, just like I have with all people I've encountered in my life.
I also did not leave Mormonism to begin sinning (that's another common misconception which members carry, that you just want to live a life of immorality). Unless you consider beer and coffee an abomination, haha!
These misconceptions that many members have about people who leave the church, are just fear-based reductionisms. People's morals and character go well beyond the church they attend or don't!
I ended my quantum agreement with Mormonism because it was no longer serving my greater good, and in fact my church attendance was actually giving me weekly opportunities for being overly critical and judgmental, because I had come to a point of discordance. It was better for my inner harmony to say thank you and move on. We are not made to suffer something that no longer is a good fit for us, and something we no longer wish to identify with or support.
I left the church because I had unwrapped the church's past AND present issues, and my heart distanced from it.
A short list of things that troubled me about the LDS church:
a. Racism: the church was practicing and preaching racial prohibition until 46 years ago (1978). The Book of Mormon teaches that the Lamanites skin color was cursed to dark because of their disobedience, but that if they live righteously they can become a "White (changed in 2010 to 'fair') and delightsome people."
b. Misogyny: women still today do not share equal callings or authority and they play a much lesser role in Mormon culture (Relief Society presidencies aren't even allowed to sit on the stand). Polygamy was male abuse of religious authority. The church still practices spiritual polygamy, as a man can be sealed to more than one woman in the temple (if the man is divorced or widowed), and the sections of the DC are still there about that (New and Everlasting Covenant, Celestial Marriage, Highest Priesthood), or the idea of eternal procreation with plural wives in the highest degree of the Celestial Kingdom).
c. Homophobia: my last straw was when Apostle Jeffrey R. Holland said to BYU faculty members in August of 2021 that they need to defend the church's LGTBQ+ policy with "musket fire" (he used the term 7x in his address).
d. Overuse of authority: President Dallin H. Oaks was asked about the Mountain Meadows Massacre (Cedar City area Mormons murdering 120 men/women and children, an Arkansans emigrant wagon company passing through the Utah Territory in 1857), and he stated that "the history of the church is not to seek apologies or give them." The church is so focused on its authority from God (priesthood), that it has difficulty acknowledging its hand in wrongs or apologizing for them (as the Oz factor of exclusive authority from would be taken away).
Above are social issues, I could give a much longer list of doctrinal issues (temple ceremony rooted in polygamy and Masonry, necro/posthumous baptisms for dead people, Book of Mormon being a book of fiction, not a historical document, Book of Abraham the same, delayed and differing versions of priesthood restoration and first vision, etc.), and other social issues (church's secrecy around the size of its Fortune 50 investments/portfolio size, and giving more tithing money {via Ensign Peak Advisors} each year to their investments, than to charities), etc.
I came to a point of realization about these social and doctrinal factors (I allowed myself to see and understand), and I realized that the institutions I belong to, support, and identify with, are a reflection of me. For those who know Mormon culture, you'll appreciate what a difficult social consequence it is to leave Mormonism. I'll not speak of my family interactions here, other than to say they have good intentions and I love them for who they are. I empathize with them, because I used to think in the same way -- so I understand. I'm grateful to have broke my Mormon chain, which I in-part did to give my girls a sense for their own freedom and inner authority.
I'm happy now to have LGBTQ+ friends and to be a queer ally, to call myself a feminist, and to be honest with my family's direct involvement with racism (Facebook posts I made about my family's involvement in LDS Social Services Indian Placement Program of the 70s/80s).
I used to be part of the social problem for people on the margin, and now I'm part of the solution.
Jesus embraced the people on the margin of his society (lepers, women, Sumerians) (not the pious temple priests). I lived a life of piety and was part of the religious-social problem ... and then I woke up and stepped into being part of the solution. I changed me.
I now bow to my Mormon experience in genuine gratitude, because it helped me see aspects (good and bad) of myself, and it helped me see how organized religion is both helpful and harmful.
I've ended my agreement with Mormonism, said Thank You, and let it go. We never forget though, as there is value in the lessons. Mormonism will always be in my dimensional presence and field, and I learned and experienced so much! When we treat our past timelines (Mormonism for example) with radical honesty, self-reflection, self-love and forgiveness and compassion -- we radically transform ourselves and influence others. I've learned and experienced the changing of electrical charge from negative to positive, and remapped my experience.
We are never alone, we are already abundant and imbued with God's love, and we don't need to doubt because in quiet stillness we already know. Plane after plane opens to us when we let go of our ego-minds and we become comfortable in the questions. The Universe/God always has our back. There are no right or wrong answers, there is only experience serving to teach us, and we create our own experiences. We can stay vibrationally low or elevate ourselves on our own timeline, and we can take as much time as we need. We will all graduate to higher planes of vibration with each other from our experiences together.
Damn, it was hard for awhile, I felt like ashes in my Mormon deconstruction because it was the only world I knew and what I had attached to in belief and even self-definition. I found out that my church heroes and even Jesus, weren't what I thought (although my relationship with Jesus is even better now, Jesus is my home boy)!
But there was always the Source Ember there which my spirit/soul/lifeforce was part of, we are all God-source. It took me finding that Ember and nurturing it, breathing in and allowing oxygen and space, and watching my flame begin to flicker again.
We rebuild from our Mormon deconstruction-ashes, and the only thing important is our internal Ember and the present moment -- to know we are of God's Spirit/Source. Our flame grows stronger as we let go and go-with-the-flow and as we allow ourselves to breather. We create right knowledge and right action. ... until pretty soon we realize that life and eternity is right now, and we are all sitting around the same fire with each other (concept of Ram Dass, with my applicational thoughts).
I walked into my fear-filled Mormonism cave at first with curiosity, but then with vulnerability and open-mindedness, willing to reexamine what I thought to be true ... and I came out a different person and improved being.
I am a new person religiously, spiritually and energetically. I'm much more nuanced now, more accepting, more open-minded, more inquisitive, and more present. Our fears it turns out, and even the bits of low vibrational honey of habits that satiate us, are simply paper dragons or sand castles. Our ego and mind (lower energy) tries to keep us safe from the unknown -- and religions and people who center in authority play on that, saying they have the answers.
But liberty is seeing the play and matrix for what it is, and realizing we are own co-creators with God, writing our own journey, and nothing can harm us. We release fear. We embrace faith/belief in God and ourselves (what Jesus taught, Buddha, Lao Tzu, modern (Sikh) and ancient (Vedantic/Hindu) gurus taught. Harmony is present resonance of our thoughts, words and deeds -- without expectation on the how ... just being in the moment and letting go of expectation, but having a clear belief and emotional confidence in the What it is that we want.
Wisdom is everywhere and no tradition or church has a monopoly on Infinite God / Source. The source of claiming such exclusivity, or reducing God to a man, is our ego and need to have answers. Our religions and spiritual traditions are simply a product of where we grew up, and a language of understanding and approach. I believe our Beautiful God is agnostic to our religious languages ---it's not about codified beliefs or books or rites and rituals (religions), it's about our heart energy (intention) and our deeds (helping ourselves and others).
Wisdom/Sofia is everywhere (Grace, Divine Feminine), as is Truth (Logos/Word, or Divine Male); we just have to ask believing we've already received, being in alignment with that vibration and celebrating, and it appears! I know this for a fact. I've had amazing information and synchronicities of experience and encounters come to me. When the student is ready, the teacher will appear (Buddha). A tea cup that is empty, can receive (Lao Tzu).
I'm enthusiastically happy with my Mormon experience, it was a trip! Holy shit do I have some crazy stories from the 80s and 90s, but you know the best ones and the majority of my memories are what I saw in pure love, people simply serving each other in their own faith language of expression, living their best lives how they knew how and honoring their faith legacy. That is beautiful. Mormonism is a beautiful structure, and I did the best with it I could.
I've learned that letting go is about radical gratitude, radical empathy, and radical perspective, i.e. turning negatively charged memories into positively charged memories, because life is a dance and it's all a lesson module! Radical gratitude and radical empathy ... these make us Un-Fu*k-Withable! :) (a beautiful verb created by Vishen Lakani in the same-named book).
There's also a great book called, "The Art of Not Giving a Fu*k" (Mark Manson). YI love these books because it's really about detachment from the illusory trap of dependence, seeing things clearly, and turning negatives into positives!
Suffering in contrast, is what we choose to carry with us (Buddha's teaching). But why do we need to suffer? How can we be mad at something (a church), if it was our quantum agreement to be here at this time and place and part of it? Instead, what were the lessons we were/are supposed to learn from it? Do lessons not come in good and contrasting (uncomfortable) ways? Is it helpful to lean into discomfort and fear, to realize it's just a paper dragon that our mind has created to keep us safe?
So, I simply see the past with gratitude, I see my past trappings in religious dogma and my ego-mind ... and I now see with greater consciousness and awareness in my higher-self and I'm evolving each day. I embrace Divine one'ness (myself in everything, Satcitananda, quantum), etc. God is one with all, we are one with God, all is interconnected -- therefore we can simply observe and experience. It's a choice to let go and be grateful, just as it's a choice to hold on and be pissed! All choices are valid, and we download into experience what we believe.
Most every day I drive by the Washington, UT temple. I hold that place with gratitude, and I appreciate the sacred holiness (intentions) which its patrons give it, and therefore it is a holy place and unique expression. Mormonism is a beautiful religious expression and construct, and like all churches and religions it has its healthy and unhealthy aspects -- and I learned from what I experienced!
In my faith transition I regret the strong Facebook posts I've made in the past, which I've deleted or strongly modified months ago. It's normal to want to prove our point with evidence, but people stuck in dogma (I was there most of my life) just use that information against us or hear what they want. And I've realized, it's nobody's place to convince anybody of anything, but it is our place to ask and appreciate the path of others! (empathy, love).
The organizations we belong to and what we support with our time and money, reflect us and our personal ethos. For me, Mormonism was no longer a good fit once I started to see through the glass clearly, and it's with gratitude that I can look back with hindsight for the lessons I learned.
If you are looking for a summarized deconstruction, I have hundreds of pages of notes by topic and I'm happy to share with you (I had to mentally unpackage things first). But a quick and revealing shortcut to Mormon deconstruction is missedinsunday.com/ (navigation by topic in upper right, so easy to quickly see the foibles of the leaders and the doctrinal missteps).
and of course you can find great deconstruction information in more depth at cesletter.org/ or letterformywife.com/ or mormonstories.org/truth-claims/ etc. Mormon Stories also has a great series of articles in their Truth Claims section. Information from source documents is now readily available in this information age, and allows us to better see present issues -- but we have to be willing to hear and see, i.e. to read, ponder and pray.
The information age is here and the church can't run from its history or legacy-present issues anymore. The art of illusion ("pay no attention to any content other than what the church correlates and publishes") or the art of control and fear, ("the worst thing you can do is leave this church," or "Satan will trade you 1 lie for 99 truths," "you will be burned at the second coming if you don't pay your tithing' --RMN), does not work as well in the information age of original documents scanned, nor does it work with people willing to learn and see. Information is liberation and reality (and a tough-as-hell pill to swallow, but believe me, it feels good to know and to see things clearly, even if it does come with social consequences of discomfort).
Our emotions get easier with time via trust in God and ourselves, and a healthy community with whom to share experience and journey)! I'm happy to be in your faith transition community, I'll be a positive person for you, just ping me on Messanger and we'll find time to connect. Deconstruction does not have to be demolition, and you don't need to make public declarations if you don't want to.
Deconstruction is by nature reconstruction, and the sooner we find ourselves in the middle path the easier life gets. My wife is a beautiful example of someone who never made one declaration, she just discerned things on her own, gave me the space of where I was, and she quietly moved on and exited stage right.
We had very different upbringings (mine was as orthodox as it gets, hers was a part-member family and her parents are so cool). The lessons I've learned from my wife are enormously valuable, including to exit the Mormon Matrix as quietly as you'd like, not being attached to detachment.
Whatever works for you and is good for you, is good for you -- it's your journey! Mormonism worked for me for many years, and then it did not. There is something to learn from everyone. I honor whatever works for you, so long as it doesn't harm others. Namaste.
I believe we chose to be here in this life, where we were born, in a type of quantum agreement and for whatever reasons we needed. It's our journey to discover our purpose. I believe I've discovered why I was a Mormon, and I believe that model I'm now creatively working on will help people.
I love the Hindu principle/greeting of Namaste, or the divine light within me bows to the divine light within you; we honor together the place in us/all where the entire universe dwells.
We have so many beautiful spiritual and religious expressions. In the end all is a language of praise to God, right down to first and last breath we take on this earth (YH-WH).
Cheers to you and your journey! and thanks for taking the time to read about mine! If you want to reach me just ping me, I'd love to hear about your journey.