The Anthroblogogist 

If you don't want to get vaccines or get your child vaccinated, you might think you have no choice. But you legally have the right to refuse vaccinations based on your religious beliefs with only a simple letter declaring their your bona fide religious beliefs do support the use of vaccines. You also have the right to refuse any medical treatment for yourself or your children. So I am sure there is another way out of vaccines if they do not agree with you. Its YOUR body and/or YOUR child, no one should tell you what you have to put in your own body or that of your children!

In NC only a "bona-fide" religious belief will allow you exemption, not a personal belief. I am not 100% clear how someone distinguishes personal belief from religious belief for example I have a religion that I follow in my daily life, but it is not one of the 3 mainstream religions or something that was made up by someone else. I incorporate many religions into what I would call my own religion so I could see how some one trying to force me to go against my beliefs could use that fact to try and disqualify my religious beliefs from their definition of bona-fide BUT, in the exemption letter you do not actually need to write down what your religion is, or belong to a church etc. But I would guess that if you say in your religion you are not allowed to consume unnatural products but the judge (if for some reason it gets to that level--it shouldnt) sees you smoke a cigarette outside of the court house, its not gonna float.

I am also curious about if Veganism qualifies and vegans do not condone the use/consumption of animal products and vaccines are made of all types of animal junk. Also many use cells and parts of aborted fetuses in the mix, if you are Christian or any other anti-abortion religion you also should qualify. I don't support abortion which is why I waddled around campus pregnant for two semesters. No one is going to make me knowingly consume parts of someone else's aborted fetus…

One of the cornerstones of my spiritual regimen is the use of metaphysics with respect to a spiritual or energy frequency correlation between things like colors, gemstones, astrological charts, herbs, etc.

I am not sure whether the objects themselves actually interact with said corresponding universal energy or if it is our belief in such that enhances our own spiritual/psychic/telepathic energy to a manifesting extent. Perhaps it is because we believe that holding a citrine gemstone in a green satin cloth, during a prayer, spell, meditation, ritual etc, concerning finances on a friday that boosts the power of our own intent, thus increasing the effect it has on universal energies and increasing the likely hood of resulting in our desired outcome.

No matter what the case may be, if it is the stones or color etc, themselves that possess such energy or not, I have experienced consistent success by incorporating metaphysical elements into my spiritual work. From and anthropological stand point metaphysics in the form of gemstones, etc have been used for thousands of years by a diverse number of human groups. The collective and timeless use suggests much.

A huge part of being able to benefit from that, I believe is having a sensible awareness of the metaphysical self, ie understanding your current astrological/universal identity. Knowing about yourself will open the door to being able to tailor a spiritual and metaphysical regimen that is best for you.

For anyone interested in metaphysical jewelry or "spirit wear" you might want to visit this shop.  

<---MetaBling sells natural handmade gemstone jewelry & have a pretty high code of ethics. I suppose this type of jewelry might be useful for anyone from Christians to Wiccans!

This is a personal entry and is no way meant to undermine your personal way of thinking or your own faith. I am simply sharing a little bit of my own beliefs. Understanding this, please feel free to comment.

The Bible calls the faithful, saved and the end the faithful will be taken from the earth in the rapture. To my knowledge and in my personal beliefs the Bible, like most other religious texts is based on a number of earlier versions of religious texts from various cultures. These modern versions have been heavily edited, changed and tailored to suit political and social agendas. I do not believe these human made texts reflect the essence of God/the Highest Power, although I do think original forms of these are based on a divine psychic connection with the Highest Power. That being my understanding, I observe a number of prophetical truths that can be interpreted from these texts that connect with the corrupted state of the reality these texts were redesigned to create.

Lets say for instance the Bible is a doctored version an early divine religious text with many of the main context changed and distorted in order to yield political social ends. The Bible says that the faithful are saved. Faith is a strong belief in anything in the absence of proof. I do not believe that the True Highest Power exist in absence of proof, to me it is not faith that is actually required for a connection with God but an understanding of the path to regain that connection. This concept is lost in our society. A society molded by the tainted texts.

Belief in the absence of proof in spite of contradictory proof has been deemed a desirable character trait in American culture, a culture that is biblically influence.

In the end the faithful will be removed from the Earth during rapture. Indeed the people who believe, will also partake in the spoofed poison our society preaches. They unknowingly worship social institutions and not the True Highest Power. They are actually idolators. These…

"God" is not male. God is also not female. God does not have a penis or a vagina and thus cannot belong to a sexual category. The highest power is the source of all things and did not use the method of sexual reproduction to produce the universe or human kind. If there is only ONE "God" as many religions claim, there would be no need for God to have a penis because there would be no female Goddess for him to use it with.

Referring to The Highest Power as a male or female is inaccurate, and at most an over simplification of the essence that the Highest Power is. It is a personification of a non-human entity that has contributed to the mass misunderstanding and misinformation on the identity of "God". Many religions take this a step further and apply other human emotional characteristics to "God". This is also false. The Highest Power is the source of emotion but does not manifest human emotion in and of itself. If God is the creator of all things who would it have to be jealous of? Jealous means that you want something that another person has. The Highest Power does not want, it simply is. God can but does not speak with words through a mouth. That is the human, bodily, physical way of communicating. The Highest Power is far beyond that. How can you be one thing, if you are everything? God is everything. God is one God and God is many Gods as each "God" that man has created is only an incomplete and crude representation of The Highest Power

Oversimplification of The Highest Power leads to the creation of incorrect, incomplete, corrupt, etc man made religions that have described The Highest Power in ways that are not factual but satisfy a simple understanding. Some religions have moral laws against creating false images of The Highest Power. Most people assume this only means creating and applying a physical image to The Highest Power. I believe, more than just physical images, this referred to falsifying the cognitive understanding of The Highest Power. All…

I was browsing around on a facebook forum today when I came across a post by one, Sokhna Aminata DIOP, that really related to my philosophy on spirituality. I have included that post and my replay to the right.

Like I said in my reply to her the most profound part of her post, for me, was when she said "Atheism, in my opinion, is just a step away from true faith, it's the opinionated reasoning that comes before true knowledge." Lets take a trip back into my more youthful youth to understand why that is.

When I was about four years old my mother and father decided to terminate their relationship and my father moved out. Not too long after when I was about five he met a "devout Christian" woman (the ""'s due to the fact that this women although she goes to church regularly, talks the talks and goes through the stereotypical motions of they typical southern Baptist Christian is not a very deep, spiritual, or even moral person). My father became "saved", married her and soon after I, an innocent five year old was asking Christ into my life as well.

As I grew up and attended this church nothing inside felt quite right. I always felt so many contradictions when it came to my perception of churches, christians, etc. Some of the teachings contradicted my spiritual knowing of God. I remained a pretty devout Christian until I was in high school. Prior to that change I would carry my Bible to school, read it daily and had read it from cover to cover by the time I was twelve. Then I became an Atheist, but that didn't satisfy me either because I felt that "something" was there. I and a few of my friends became Wiccan and through my study of Wicca I learned about various other religions, their methods their teachings. Wicca is for religions as Anthropology is for research methods. They are both well rounded gateways through which a number of other religions, methods, cultures etc, can be studied. When I learned of all of these different religions I found something common between…