#christiantradition

I think a vast majority of our lives we are ‘should upon’. We are told at a very young age by those older than us that we ‘should do this’, and ‘should believe that’, and ‘should live like this’. And eventually what I found was that those who ‘should upon’ me were nothing I wanted to be like. Not only that, but there were profound inconsistencies in what they ‘should’ on me and then how they played out their own lives.

In a spiritual sense, once I was caught in the cycle of ‘should’, I eventually began to question whether or not my yearning for God was true or not. I found that most of the ‘shoulds’ stemmed from a lack of faith. The Western religions are so fascinated with their respected rituals, and I would go so far as to say trapped by them, that they miss the mystic traditions on which they are founded. No one in Judaism, for example, seems to care about the experience Moses had on the Mountain, but rather what he brought down. And no one in Christianity cares to understand the consciousness and metaphysics of Christ, but rather the dogma created by the apostle Paul fifty years later.