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paranormal, spirituality and religion

do they go together

By Lena BaileyPublished 4 years ago 3 min read
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At first when I started my journey with the paranormal I didn't consider paranormal the same thing as spirituality. Now that I looked into it I changed my mind. Spiritual is defined as relating to or affecting the human spirit or soul as opposed to material or physical things. With paranormal you are dealing with spirits and things that don't have to deal with the physical realm. There are some things that have to do with the paranormal that are physical like cryptids. I think that what had made me not want to consider paranormal as spiritual is that when we talk about spirituality we think more of religion. Also with paranormal people can believe in it without believing in spirits and religious stuff. People can just believe in ghosts (different than spirits) or cryptids. Spirits and religious things are only part of the paranormal world.

People think that to believe in the paranormal you have to believe in a religion. Ghosts are different than spirits and religious figures. Ghosts are the souls of the dead who have not yet able to cross over. Spirits are those who have crossed over but choose to come back to visit the living. Religious figures are like God (or gods/goddess), Jesus, the devil, demons and angels.

In the paranormal world we talk about light and love. People think that this light and love is about Jesus and God but this is not 100% true. Light and love can be anything you want it to be. It could mean a good spirit. It could also be spirit guides.

Faith and religion focus more on the religious figures and religious text. There are how to books or educational books when it comes to the paranormal world but that's different than the bible or other religious books. Faith/ religion is more about stories and rules.

With paranormal and the spiritual it's a good way for people religious or not to explain the unexplainable. There are things in this world that we don't have an rational explanation for and that's where the paranormal or spiritual world comes in. Some people use their religion to explain things but of course that doesn't work for the people that don't subscribe to a religion.

So I looked up the difference between being religious and being spiritual. They are similar but they approach topics differently. They both teach that there are more than one universe or realm. One main difference is that religion presents a core set of beliefs and holy men. Religion is more matter of fact and has rules. Spirituality is more based on finding out things on your own and it's more personal.

Spirituality is more related to the paranormal world. They're more personal. They are also more focused on looking and figuring stuff out. The spiritual and paranormal world is not just about what you believe it's about finding out what's out there and why we believe what we believe. This is not to say that you can't figure out why you believe what you believe in religion but in religion they mostly ask you to have faith. We have all heard the phrase "just have faith" in religious circle.

You can learn a lot in the paranormal, spiritual and religious world. In the religious world you can go only so far before you hit the "just have faith" wall. There are questions that are asked in some churches or religious circles that don't get straight answers. So you may not learn as much in the religious world as you would in the spiritual or paranormal world.

I hope that this made sense. I know this may have seemed ramblely. If you have questions email me ([email protected]) and I will address all questions.

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Lena Bailey

Georgia born writer. Specializing in dating and true crime

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