A Little Metaphysics Never Hurt Anyone

God’s creation: a flowering common lilac bush.

I remember when I was little, my parents never talked about God. I was basically raised in an atheistic environment. Well, maybe not exactly atheistic. I believe non-religious would be a more appropriate description. My mother always said that God was in nature. My father never shared what he really thought, but I think maybe he did believe in God. My parents were very ethical and I copied their ways, yet that ethics was not connected to any deity. We did right, because it felt right. We always did and we still try to do the right thing.

In school as a little girl I was taught to believe in science. Yet, in my thirties I started to read up on new age psychology and philosophy. Phyllis Krystal’s books and seminars had the largest impact on me. Somehow, I started to believe in God, karma and re-incarnation. These beliefs influenced my book Balancing the Beast and stuck for quite a while.

I still do visualization techniques according to Phyllis Krystal, but I find I do not believe in God, karma and re-incarnation anymore. I listen to the High C (higher consciousness), but I cannot explain anymore where it comes from.

What I really believe in is coincidence. Sometimes bad things just happen. Other times good things just happen. Of course we can cause them both, but not always. Science was the strongest in shaping my views of the world when I was little and I guess early impressions are the most powerful. They came back.

But then again, God or coincidence. These are just concepts of human mind. Each equally imperfect. What I now, in the middle of my mental wanderings, find important is that I still acknowledge something much greater than me. Let us call it THE UNIVERSE.

Take care,

Helena Smole, author of:

– a fantasy novel with romance Vivvy and Izzy the Dwarf: A series about relationships

– Balancing the Beast, a book offering a bright view of schizoaffective disorder ˗ bipolar or manic-depressive type