... or just post the story of your personal spiritual growth.
While we have other more specific threads for discussion of this type of topic, this one is designed to be as broad and inclusive as possible. If you've had revelations that were meaningful to you personally, please share them. Or if there are paradoxes that you've struggled with, this is the thread.
I'll post more in this thread later, but one source of information that was very transformative to me personally was The Golden Bough. I started reading the twelve volume version of this when I was 14 in a school library. It offered an amazing glimpse of the breadth of human religious experience throughout the world and through the ages. Umm ... it should be noted that a lot of what's in The Golden Bough isn't the most *accurate* information, anthropologically speaking, but it's written in a way that fiercely captivated my 14 year old imagination. It also put the idea in my head for the first time that there are hundreds and hundreds of different Gods and religions out there that people have believed in through history and belief in any of them is usually exclusive to the possibility that another one could be right. Probably they're just all wrong? I struggled with that through my teens but came to the conclusion that I wished Santeria or voudoun were real because being a bokor would be fucking awesome.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_Bough
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