On God & Spirituality
I have recently starting talking to God a lot more. By a lot more, I mean I’ve gone from 0–100, real quick. A lot of that is born from a re-reading of Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way. That book is, without a doubt, the most influential book that I have ever read.
I first came across it in 2015 when I had dropped out of my second university degree. I had begun a full time pursuit of stand-up comedy and creativity more generally. I listened to it on audiobook and the philosophy it espoused captivated me. Touted as a ‘spiritual path to higher creativity’, I was skeptical but curious .
I was a high-school atheist, and a fervent one at that. The type that would sit outside the school chapel with a copy of Richard Dawkins’ God Delusion in my hands. I would dare the chaplain to debate me. Despite that, I maintained a deep curiousity for the principles of religion. I took a class in grade 11 that changed my perspective . The life-long Christian teacher had such an open-minded approach. He showed me that I could disagree with the institution of religion. I didn’t have to decry the underlying messages. He helped me see religion as philosophy. I learned to meditate that year, which only added to my appreciation for the sense of eternal mystery.
Several years later I became enamoured with the work of Joseph Campbell. He showed me that ‘truth is one, the sages speak…
