My Ogham think you should go solo. They provide Coll or Wisdom well-dignified when I ask "What is the outcome of remaining solitary?"
I feel your pain on this one because every church or temple I've ever walked into has left me feeling worse than when I walked in, and this includes all stripes of Christian buildings, Hindu temples, and a Buddhist center or two. There is something very off about organized religion these days that resembles mass formation psychosis more than it does any kind of enlightenment. It is my opinion that a church/temple that can actually manage to exclusively channel higher beings is a unicorn. In my experience, it simply does not exist, or at least I have yet to find it.
Coll, symbolized by the Hazel tree in the old Ogham and the Burr Oak in my Prairie Ogham, is the slow and steady accumulation of knowledge through diligence and daily work, like a tree putting on rings in fair and foul years. For you, the work of self-development is clearly better done alone. Perhaps eventually there will be some who join you or at least are on a similar path who "get it", but for now, expect Manly P. Hall's classic The Path of the Lonely Ones to be your reality.
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Date: 2023-05-08 05:20 pm (UTC)I feel your pain on this one because every church or temple I've ever walked into has left me feeling worse than when I walked in, and this includes all stripes of Christian buildings, Hindu temples, and a Buddhist center or two. There is something very off about organized religion these days that resembles mass formation psychosis more than it does any kind of enlightenment. It is my opinion that a church/temple that can actually manage to exclusively channel higher beings is a unicorn. In my experience, it simply does not exist, or at least I have yet to find it.
Coll, symbolized by the Hazel tree in the old Ogham and the Burr Oak in my Prairie Ogham, is the slow and steady accumulation of knowledge through diligence and daily work, like a tree putting on rings in fair and foul years. For you, the work of self-development is clearly better done alone. Perhaps eventually there will be some who join you or at least are on a similar path who "get it", but for now, expect Manly P. Hall's classic The Path of the Lonely Ones to be your reality.