Religion
In reply to the discussion: 3 universal truths all religions agree upon: [View all]tama
(9,137 posts)It's always fun to realize something that you've always known, on some level, but become at a moment conscious enough to be able to put in words. As slow and clumsy they are:
Also academic studies show that children with imaginary friends in fact learn a lot from those relations, and that they help to adjust and to adopt to various "consensual realities" and to go beyond those. And imaginary friends of children are not different from guardian angels, spirit guides, etc. Carl Jung (and many other) shamans without flesh and blood tradition and just spirit guides of "imaginary friends" to teach and guide them - without underestimating the difficulties and suffering of those journeys and sufferings - the "spirit words" of imaginary friends, who people sense in various ways and in my experience not necessarily always just alone - are great teachers and friends. The concepts of "subjective" and "objective" don't always and necessarily much apply, as the teachings and friendship is more about the relation of part and whole - and the holographic creative aspect of that relation between "parts" and "wholes".
To be honest, I don't have much experience of such relations, but the thought that "shamans" are just big children with lots of imaginary friends, guardian angels, spirit teachers, healing helpers etc. etc. gives me great joy.