Creating your own religion

[art-vark2323]

Curious to see if anyone here has a religion they created themselves or otherwise heavily altered what is "traditional" to fit themselves. Did you discover a deity, for instance? I've asked this in other forums and gotten some interesting answers from people, say, worshipping river spirits and giving them or receiving personal names for them.

For me, I usually just call myself Wiccan, but I feel as if some of my experiences and what I choose to call the Wiccan God and Goddess are very personal to me and not something I share with anyone else. I don't really relate to the gods and goddesses usually ascribed to them.

 

[Robert Ramsay]

Nope. I personally consider all spirits to be egregores, so would not worship them, let alone build a religion around them.

 

[Sedim Haba]

Curious to see if anyone here has a religion they created themselves or otherwise heavily altered what is "traditional" to fit themselves. Did you discover a deity, for instance?

Yes, not created but heavily altered. Looked at all the Abrahamic religions and found them lacking, but took a long time to figure out what exactly.

Spoiler: Spoiler Alert

The Divine Feminine is what's lacking.

 

[Saint]

My religion is 'myself'.

I've came across situations where I should have name what am I practicing, and I found no word to it. For a while I thought I should know, since I am practicing actively for decades, but I realised, it is pointless.
ㅤI does not consume books to know how to smear words all around, and force acts and systems into categories, because I needed none of it, for what I was and am doing is working terribly well. Always did, still does, and will; and as I grow I understand more of what truly matters and what does not. I don't try desperately to 'belong' and 'attach' my experiences and knowledge to systems put onto pages, and that expect people to firmly get followed. I am fine with making sense of reality on my own.

As for 'companions'. I does not pick who I'm working with based on 'how' or 'where' a deity, Infernal, Angel or spirit is categorised, neither worship any one of them. They call for me and I either respond, hold or skip. They are a significant part of my life, but not in a 'worshipping' way.
ㅤThe only being I 'worship' is myself, and I put a lot of work into doing it right. Not out of pride or ego, but out of respect for the value I am responsible for; myself and what I possess. Who am I? An important questions everyone will come to conclusion sooner or later.
It's not the body I (mhm) possess, not the mere, limited human consciousness, but the soul. It is 'me'. No being is more responsible for me than myself. This is something must be understood eventually.

 

[Ohana]

Yes, not created but heavily altered. Looked at all the Abrahamic religions and found them lacking, but took a long time to figure out what

I agree with the spoiler. Its feels so masculine. I'm comfortable with masculine energy but even I think that abrahamic religion went way to far with the masculine energy. Needs to tone it down.

I kind of made a religion which is little bit mix of everything. I think I believe in what I need to believe. I believe in future lives because it calms me down. If I thought that this was my only go at life then I would get really stressed out by that idea. So it feels like a benefit to my own mind that I believe in that. That is so I can go about my day to day and not have an existential crisis every 30 minutes.

I had one of those not to long ago for a couple weeks and it was not fun. I could barely do the work I needed to do.

 

[Amadeus]

When I was a kid I wanted to do that, to create my own religion, a sect. I thought of it as an opportunity to sell nothing to gain everything, to retire early and buy some mansions. My mother still remembers how we were outside and I said "I wanna be a sect leader and scam people", and others around were staring.

The Divine Feminine is what's lacking.

I got approached by some Korean missionaries and they started talking about their Christian faith. It was something about divine feminine and god being feminine. Some kind of a sect I guess.

I don't really follow any religions I just use whatever I like from there, mixing together practices from different faiths. It's always about "take what is useful and discard the rest". I have thought about creating something but never really got to it.

 

[Nell]

My religion is 'myself'.

I've came across situations where I should have name what am I practicing, and I found no word to it. For a while I thought I should know, since I am practicing actively for decades, but I realised, it is pointless.
ㅤI does not consume books to know how to smear words all around, and force acts and systems into categories, because I needed none of it, for what I was and am doing is working terribly well. Always did, still does, and will; and as I grow I understand more of what truly matters and what does not. I don't try desperately to 'belong' and 'attach' my experiences and knowledge to systems put onto pages, and that expect people to firmly get followed. I am fine with making sense of reality on my own.

As for 'companions'. I does not pick who I'm working with based on 'how' or 'where' a deity, Infernal, Angel or spirit is categorised, neither worship any one of them. They call for me and I either respond, hold or skip. They are a significant part of my life, but not in a 'worshipping' way.
ㅤThe only being I 'worship' is myself, and I put a lot of work into doing it right. Not out of pride or ego, but out of respect for the value I am responsible for; myself and what I possess. Who am I? An important questions everyone will come to conclusion sooner or later.
It's not the body I (mhm) possess, not the mere, limited human consciousness, but the soul. It is 'me'. No being is more responsible for me than myself. This is something must be understood eventually.

My religion is 'myself'.

 

[Johny111]

When I was young and foolish, I fancied the idea of creating my own religion, but then I matured and realized that I didn't want to have anything to do with other humans. With people, there always come various problems and unpredictable situations. However, the idea of 'my' religion didn't leave me. So, I ended up inventing certain rituals and began carrying them out in combination with prayers to the Moon, the Sun, the Earth, certain planets, stars, and constellations, without naming any specific spirits or gods. And things started to happen. In that sense, there is a certain pattern. So I can say that 'my' magical religion is an invention for my personal and completely individual use and devotion, without involving other people.

 

[Kepler]

After watching The Testament of Ann Lee some granular aspects of starting a religion from sharing a spiritual experience came into sharper focus in my ongoing thoughts.

It does restate that once a path of spiritual experience is traveled that it's possible to convey it to others as shared structured religious worship branching off from an established system.
It's avoiding the traps of a personality cult that's been personally concerning, but revision to the Abyss in an immanent model of nature with letting go aimed by know thyself is liberating of encumbering idolization for a flourishing of others and conscientious alignment in the spiritual inheritance.

Also in starting a religion, rather objectively stated, there's gathering the fiery tinder, witnesses to a resurrection in a transfer of the spiritual flame from a regimen of devotional friction, as it were...

 

[Morell]

No. Work with pop culture stuff is not founding a new religion. Besides in my opinion religion requires more than one person.