A "Realist."

I spoke with Rachael about her beliefs, and asked her if she felt the needs of the world could be met under one religion?...

"You as a person have the ability to make whatever life that you want. We all have a different way of thinking, of living,..and of loving.

As for things in life such as animals and plants, we can meet those needs by not being selfish and pulling together to pick up our own trash, watering our own plants, and volunteering to help out with places that need our help in meeting the needs of this world.




















I wondered if Rachael believed in afterlife ...
She said,

"I will not say what I think happens after our time is over on this planet for I am a realist in a sense that I do not believe in fairy tales and I do not play make believe... But I will say this; as far as I believe, what happens after our time is done here is that our souls (our light) goes to some where much greater than any of us could ever imagine, for our minds are too small to hold the greatness of where our souls go.




















You know that feeling that you get for that one person or child when you can't say why,... but for some reason or another, you feel close to them? You can't understand why, but it is a closeness that will last longer than a life time.

Strange Anachronism

"I am the eldest of six girls. We were raised in a very religious household (Seventh-Day Adventist) where our parents took what the bible said literally. I was home schooled until I was 15 years old so I really got religion pounded into my head with no chance of escape to the "real" outside world.

Strange thing is, I never really believed it. I was always skeptical. I never really FELT any of what was being taught to me; I never FELT the presence of the god that my parents taught.

I was 14 years old when I stopped going to church every Saturday. My reasoning was, why go when all I did was fall asleep and disrupt the service with my snoring? Why go when I clearly wasn't present or interested? My father tried to force me and my sister to go, but we flatly refused and he soon gave up.

As I got older I started searching for myself. I moved to New York City, completely alone, and started meditating every day. I got into energy healing (Reiki) and spirituality. I read a lot of science, metaphysics and spiritual (mostly Buddhism) material. Practicing meditation, yoga and Reiki infused me with a peace I'd never felt with religion.


I now identify as atheist because I reject the notion of god. People are constantly searching for something outside of themselves to answer to, when really, they need to look within. All of the answers we seek can be found by turning inward. There is no god "out there." The god we seek is right here, living within each of us."