blog # 11

I was raised as a Seventh-day Adventist, but my religious background has no effect on my view of spiritual ecology. My family nor myself identify as being Adventist and have not done so for over ten years. After having left the Adventist church, my family “church-shopped” for a while, but never really found that sense of community we had felt in the Adventist church. We wanted that sense of belonging and purpose, only without all the negative aspects of church. Then we found the Unitarian church, which has thus far served our spiritual and communal needs. The Unitarian church encompasses spiritual ecology and all other accepting and loving ways of belief and living. They are egalitarian, open-minded, non-judgmental, and spiritually fulfilling. The Gaia Hypothesis was a bit hard to understand, but from what I got out of it, it seems to make sense that our universe is a cosmic whole and that everything simultaneously relies on each other in order to survive and thrive. I also do believe in a hyper-masculine culture, but I think the world is slowly but surely changing. If you look around you, most of the world’s power lies within white, male hands. I see it changing by spreading awareness of this and by empowering women to take more roles which they shy away from because of socialization.