Faith is a mission in itself of searching for your own answers. One of the seven rights of humanity is to interpret the deity for on your own. The culture we are born into will present a set of beliefs that we challenge and decide to keep or toss.
A catastrophic event in my life snapped me free from Catholicism. I went on for many years believing in nothing at all.
My religious conversion evolved from a diet of books. The reading list included authors’ Joseph Campbell, Jane Roberts and Geshe Kelsang Gyatso.
When I found the Jane Roberts books, I spent two years reading them all. These books were so revolutionary that I was aghast when I first began. I stayed the course and finished reading all the books she wrote. I have never read any other books that completely opened my eyes to quantum physics and the metaphysical ways we create our own reality.
I was also reading books on Buddhism. The Jane Roberts books could be a generic discussion of Buddhism. Her books are not about religion. They describe in detail how our minds work and how we are connected to the universe. Buddhism teaches us to train our minds because they know all too well that we all create our reality by what we think. The mental continuities of thoughts bring us happiness, and unhappiness.
When I started believing in Buddhism, I was slipping on my promise to myself not to join any more “organized religions.” I said to myself I will not believe in any of this until I have read all the books on it first. I will just study this. The Jane Roberts books provide extraordinary illumination for all the things that Buddhism is based upon. I found Buddhism so hard to grasp that if it were not for the Jane Roberts books I would not have accepted their theology at all. In fact, it has only been in the last 50 years that Geshe Kelsang Gyatso brought Buddhism into the English language by translating many of the Sacred texts that he studied as a young monk. The series of books that he has written dumb-down Buddhism for us.
My conversion to Buddhism came 50 years into my life. The framework it provides will allow me to complete this life with deep satisfaction. What I have found is a treasure of inestimable value.