First off, I'll recommend a reference: Angeltech, A Modern Shaman's Guide to Reality Selection by Antero Ali. Its like a workbook for understanding your internal processing, and developing a custom belief system for yourself with the tools provided. Its great stuff. I'd love to work with it more but people keep stealing it from my library, which ought to tell you something.
Personally, I went through this a couple of years ago. My approach was to question everything I believed in until I deprogrammed the lot of it as all based ultimately on nothing more than faith. And then, I asked the important questions about what I wanted in my reality. Does existance have a purpose? [y/n] Is there divinity? [y/n] Is there a spiritual afterlife, or spiritual body at all that can exist beyond the physical? [y/n] Etc. For further specifics, I noted each assumption I took without evidence, and made the conscious choice to believe them as a part of my belief system. I ended up with something like transcendental animistic chaos with stress on the importance if imminant divinity when I was done with it, which has worked well for me so far. Its a constant effort of reassessing my needs and rewriting it as I go, however. |
