Okay this is going to border on the mystical but it’s the way I view things…raised in a modest Protestant faith in Texas, mostly fellowship and volunteer work, not a whole lot of guilt tripping.
Eventually I moved into meditation and more pantheism relationship with the world - or universe. All things are energy, energy is infinite, open my antennae for the universe to send signals and let me body interpret. As you said, the gut feeling.
In the past year it has been uncanny how often I think about something serious, kind of stare off into nowhere, and have a good path or at least next step I can believe in. I can honestly say it has been calming when for years I’ve had a lot of anxiety about doing the best thing or whatever. Eh that’s a myth, life is situational but we can have a foundation.
Full disclosure: I’ve had serious deja vu since a teenager several decades ago. It’s not frequent, but it’s significant. Not just a feeling or a chill mind you, I see and hear up to about 15 seconds and that includes dialog. Like I know the words about to be spoken. It was extremely eerie until a lady friend in university told me “oh that’s just the universe letting you know you’re on the right path” and it felt so good I’ve believed it ever since.
Hence the duo of deja vu and gut feeling basically being my version of religion, because I can’t really prove them, they take faith, and I make no guarantees outside of this sample size of one!
Eventually I moved into meditation and more pantheism relationship with the world - or universe. All things are energy, energy is infinite, open my antennae for the universe to send signals and let me body interpret. As you said, the gut feeling.
In the past year it has been uncanny how often I think about something serious, kind of stare off into nowhere, and have a good path or at least next step I can believe in. I can honestly say it has been calming when for years I’ve had a lot of anxiety about doing the best thing or whatever. Eh that’s a myth, life is situational but we can have a foundation.
Full disclosure: I’ve had serious deja vu since a teenager several decades ago. It’s not frequent, but it’s significant. Not just a feeling or a chill mind you, I see and hear up to about 15 seconds and that includes dialog. Like I know the words about to be spoken. It was extremely eerie until a lady friend in university told me “oh that’s just the universe letting you know you’re on the right path” and it felt so good I’ve believed it ever since.
Hence the duo of deja vu and gut feeling basically being my version of religion, because I can’t really prove them, they take faith, and I make no guarantees outside of this sample size of one!