Atheist & Agnostic Business Community

1. Strong theist. 100 per cent probability of God. In the words of C.G.Jung, ‘I do not believe, I know.’
2. Very high probabliity but short of 100 per cent. De facto theist. ‘I cannot know for certain, but I strongly believe in God and live my life on the assumption that he is there.’
3. Higher than 50 per cent but not very high. Technically agnostic but leaning towards theism. ‘I am very uncertain, but I am inclined to believe in God.’
4. Exactly 50 per cent. Completely impartial agnostic. ‘God’s existence and non-existence are exactly equiprobable’.
5. Lower than 50 per cent but not very low. Technically agnostic but leaning towards atheism. ‘I don’t know whether God exists but I’m inclined to be sceptical.’
6. Very low probability, but short of zero. De facto atheist. ‘I cannot know for certain but I think God is very improbable, and I live my life on the assuption that he is not there.’
7. Strong atheist. ‘I know there is no God, with the same conviction as Jung “knows” there is one.’

A history of my belief in Agnosticism and some reasons that led me to Atheism:

I was agnostic for a very long time. I believed in a life force or benevolent energy that could be manipulated by thought and emotional energy.

These are some of the things I studied when I considered myself agnostic. (Not in any order):

• I studied Applied Kinesiology (5 weekend workshops of muscle testing).
• I did a 10 day intensive of Body Electronics which included living on raw foods, highly mineralizing our bodies, iridology, rebirthing (I believed that I smelled chlorine – my instructor said it was the drugs they gave my mother), manipulating the skull bones to increase the space for our brains (and enlightenment) in our heads, I watched a salicylic solution be applied to a scar and disappear right in front of my eyes (later – when we were out of the bright sunlight, the scar was still there) and curing other ailments through energy work.
• I went to dozens of psychics, tarot readers, and pendulum swingers.
• I read tarot cards for a long time.
• I was Wiccan for years and did rituals with every form of earth magic.
• I was hypnotized for a past-life regression. I ended up believing our minds can be hypnotised but seeing no glimpse of past life.
• I was attuned to the second stage of Reiki.
• I did meditation classes and energy classes. Once, I even saw my instructor’s face change before my eyes – I saw many different faces appear in that setting after sitting and staring at him for 30 minutes to an hour.
• I read books like Vibrational Medicine and other “energy healing” books eluding to the fact that we can cure ailments by laying on of hands, or using certain machines that produced different energy fields.
• I used essential oils (around $1000 worth), homeopathies, have traded lots of Acupuncture, Jin-Shin-Do, Reiki, more rebirthing, used tons of different healing gems/stones, used magnets, listened to many “Gurus”, bought Purple Healing Plates.
• I studied various religions and religious based healing systems (looked at their similarities and differences).
• I asked the universe for many things – even lived my life as if I had the things I wanted (by practicing knowing that I was wealthy, integrating all of my senses into knowing that I had what I wanted, manipulating my mind into thinking I was smelling the “new car” smell, imagined my friends emotions as I told them I came into lots of money, or seeing myself with a certain partner – the list goes on).

Then, I read more about how the mind works and can be manipulated (I also believe that this is the only thing close to energy healing – that our chemical makeup is changed by emitting hormones and releasing various chemicals in the brain whether by chance or by joy or sadness (emotional energy)).

I looked at how the Scientific Method is so abused when research is done (on so many things – not just the research paid for by some biased corporation)

I studied the probability of God’s existence through reading.

I really thought about the vastness of our universe from a physics point of view (matter / anti-matter, string theory, light as waves and particles), and the energy that we put out in thought forms and any other form of energy emitted by humans (energy that we think we may be able to manipulate); and I discovered that it is pretty preposterous (and also vary vane) to think that we could control that energy (no matter on what plane or dimension it travels) or reach out into the “ethers” to read the future. Energy is chaotic – that is why physicists haven’t been able to see smaller particles or recreate experiments on sub-atomic levels.

I looked into the psychological reasoning behind needing a God – that our very base existence is manipulated by fear (self preservation and fight or flight) and the need to feel that we are here for a purpose, the need to feel that we have control over our “fate” and dying.

I realized, through practice, that Applied Kinesiology is only right 50% of the time (better odds than winning the lottery!) and that flipping a coin can work just as well.

I realized how psychics can make you think they are telling you something divine, using vagueness to wrap up all loose ends.

I realized that homeopathic cures really only worked as quickly as the body would have normally ridded itself of illness (can anyone really say that a cold lasts for exactly 7 days?)

There are so many factors involved in illness. Saying that something has been cured by one certain thing is ridiculous.

And, just because we can give something a name, doesn’t prove any theory behind its existence or the implications of its ability to manipulate anything else.

So, the only real things I believe in are chaos and the human capacity for love.

This is what I have come to know.