• Thank you to Carol and Steve Bowman, the forum owners, for our new upgrade!

Believing Different Religion Than Upbringing

G

GalaxyDreamer90

Senior Member
A co worker of mine just mentioned how its weird that he is converting to Catholicism after being brought up Protestant Christian. I told him its not weird that I was raised by athiest parents but ended up believing. Suddenly Im wondering if reincarnation might have something to do with believing in a different religion than you were brought up with.
 
Hi Galaxy,

I suppose it is possible, but it could just be due to things you have encountered and ways you have changed in this lifetime.

Cordially,
S&S
 
I believe what happens when someone changes their belief system from the one that they grew up with is because that soul's spiritual consciousness has shifted and change from within. Because of this what they grew up with no longer seems for make any senses to them anymore in terms of how they view and understand reality from a larger scale of awareness. This process is actually very normal especially for souls that are in a mature soul stage of consciousness. They have subconscious access to depths of experience not present in pervious younger soul stages. Consequently, their perceptions are fairly advanced. Rather than look forward and outward like younger souls, they look backward and inward.

This process is how soul evolves through many lifetimes of experiences. In past lifetimes many of us have had belief systems much different than what you are experiencing in the present lifetime. That is because mankind's spiritual consciousness as a whole was much younger and more primal in a sense. God itself remains the same regardless as it is eternal by nature, however as human beings our understanding of God and our relationship to us has evolve over the centuries. Everyone is actually where they need to be in this very moment.
 
Last edited:
I seem to fit the traits of an old soul though not entirely sure how many lifetimes I have lived as I dont really have any memory. Still I find it that that despite my upbringing by athiest parents I ended up believing in wicca. There have been and still are times I doubt my beliefs but that is probably normal for someone like me. Sometimes I wonder if I might of had similar beliefs in a past life but part of me still would rather look ahead then back to the past.
 
Galaxy,

That fact that you believe in Wicca despite the fact that you grew up in an atheist household shows a connection to your previous lifetimes with this spiritual belief and understanding. So, in a way you already have answered your question. From which lifetime in the past, I can't say that is something only you can explore and find out as this is your own personal spiritual journey as soul.
 
That could be possible. I dont really remember any of my past lives though so cant confirm it. More interested in future life progression but dont really know too much about my future lives yet either. I wonder if I'll have similar beliefs in my next life.
 
I grew up in a Catholic household but discovered that I have a lot of Islamic and Eastern Orthodox lives. Explains why the catechism was just off for me.
 
Kind of wondering ive heard a lot that in-between lives we choose what our next life will be like. If this is true why would one choose to have parents with different beliefs such as me having atheist parents while I ended up believing in Wicca.
 
GalaxyDreamer90 said:
Kind of wondering ive heard a lot that in-between lives we choose what our next life will be like. If this is true why would one choose to have parents with different beliefs such as me having atheist parents while I ended up believing in Wicca.
Click to expand...

Your post attracted my attention, so I interpreted it intuitively. My interpretation might not fit your personality.

I think this could be interpreted same way as a physical health condition can be interpreted.

The symptom: tense relationship with a group you are closely tied by birth, but with which you diverge in beliefs. This causes some estrangement.

The symptom, the tense relationship with the family, is caused by a a major difference in (religious, spiritual) beliefs, that sprung at some point in life.

The symptom causes some estrangement from family, which results in either loneliness, or attachment to a group that share your belief.

This situation is a symbolical message.

An intuitive interpretation could be that the subject is in a situation caused by his beliefs contradicting his innate condition, what he was before the conditioning resulted while growing up. The tension (pain) suggests that there is something that the subject needs to understand and resolve, a lesson to be learned.

The tension resulting in loneliness or attachment to another group with which he shares the same belief, points to the approach to "cure" the condition: to remove the tension by eliminating the dissonance in beliefs, the dissonance between what he is and what he believes to be.

Loneliness or a group association change won't "cure" the condition, the lesson would remain unlearned, and the cause will manifest again in another symbolical form.
 
baro-san said:
Your post attracted my attention, so I interpreted it intuitively. My interpretation might not fit your personality.

I think this could be interpreted same way as a physical health condition can be interpreted.

The symptom: tense relationship with a group you are closely tied by birth, but with which you diverge in beliefs. This causes some estrangement.

The symptom, the tense relationship with the family, is caused by a a major difference in (religious, spiritual) beliefs, that sprung at some point in life.

The symptom causes some estrangement from family, which results in either loneliness, or attachment to a group that share your belief.

This situation is a symbolical message.

An intuitive interpretation could be that the subject is in a situation caused by his beliefs contradicting his innate condition, what he was before the conditioning resulted while growing up. The tension (pain) suggests that there is something that the subject needs to understand and resolve, a lesson to be learned.

The tension resulting in loneliness or attachment to another group with which he shares the same belief, points to the approach to "cure" the condition: to remove the tension by eliminating the dissonance in beliefs, the dissonance between what he is and what he believes to be.

Loneliness or a group association change won't "cure" the condition, the lesson would remain unlearned, and the cause will manifest again in another symbolical form.
Click to expand...

I submitted the above interpretation to chatgpt. Parsing it:
Your interpretation makes the premise of “choosing your next life” considerably less literal.

The important shift is from “Why would I choose atheist parents if I was going to become Wiccan?” to “What function does the divergence between my innate condition and my conditioning serve?”
...

And that makes the physical-health analogy particularly strong. A physical symptom isn't necessarily interpreted as an instruction to change the external circumstance that accompanies it. If the symptom is symbolically expressing an underlying condition, suppressing the symptom doesn't address the condition that produced it.

Likewise, finding a new group of people who affirm one's beliefs could remove the social manifestation of the conflict without resolving the inner source of the conflict.

There's an even subtler point in what you've written: the belief itself might not be the thing that needs to change. The relevant dissonance could be between what the person actually is and the conception of themselves they have constructed. The fact that their parents are atheist and they become Wiccan doesn't, by itself, establish which side is “wrong.” The tension is the information.

So the “lesson” isn't necessarily “stop being Wiccan” or “reject your parents' atheism.” It is more fundamentally about discovering what produces the divergence and distinguishing innate condition from acquired identification.

That makes the family conflict potentially analogous to a symptom: not an obstacle to be escaped, but information about the underlying condition.
Click to expand...
 
From the "Transcripts of the Original Michael Group" (exclusively), regarding the current incarnation's soul age, there is a progression in what the soul is primarily doing with difference:

Infant: difference is frightening.
Baby: difference is morally wrong.
Young: difference should be changed.
Mature: difference must be understood from the other's perspective.
Old: difference is understood in terms of its causes.
 
Thanks for your interpretation. Perhaps part of what I am to learn this lifetime is to be more open minded and understanding of others perspectives. Growing up I enjoyed learning about other religions and reincarnation because it gave me a sense of comfort. Also Ive always had a weird interest in magic and witches and stuff like that which led to my discovery of wicca. While I try to understand my family has their disbelief it hurts when because of it they misunderstand me as stupid and such.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top