[Betty]

This isn't exactly religion - but under my definition of "spirituality" - if you're going to put a label on it...

I believe that there is a some "life force" (for lack of a better phrase) that's in everything alive - from people to trees. Something that makes them alive - electricity type of thing that makes each person grow, age, heart beat etc...

That "life force" can affect other things and other people - in both good ways and bad - and that life force is apparent in very minor ways as well. It connects people in ways as silly as my making for dinner the very thing my husband has eaten for lunch (over and over and over again.) To the point now that I will email him in the afternoon and tell him: So, you had spaghetti for lunch and he'll reply back and laugh knowing that I was planning that for dinner and he'd aleady eaten it.

The same sort of thing when large groups of people pray. I don't believe it's a man in the sky doing anything - but all those people focusing their energy on the same thing can have an effect.

We are all good. We are all bad. We all make choices everyday that affect ourselves and everyone else and the energy or life force is affected by those decisions.

I've been christian and wiccan and various points in my life. I really liked wicca but had a hard time with the god and goddess feature. I think I identify with the energy of wicca, but not so much to praying to any sort of entity.

I have been known to repeat "nee stell thu" over and over because in high school I read a "spell" book which used that phrase as something to say when doing a protection spell. It sounds rather silly putting it down like that - but I do it anyway. It's a way for me to focus my thought on protecting what I'm interested in. Similar to prayer I suppose.\