Hi, Olwyn. I'm Shelly. My beliefs are rather different from most people, I don't really fit in one certain belief system.
Obviously, I practice witchcraft. If I didn't, I wouldn't be here. I believe in karma and that everything you do comes back to you threefold (The Threefold Law). I do not believe that wrongdoing is the result of an evil spirit (i.e. the Christian devil), or any other supernatural being. I believe that to do wrong is simply a part of human nature. Likewise, there is no supernatural reason for suffering, it's simply just the way things are.
I believe in a creater God and Goddess. I believe that the universe has always existed because they are the universe. I believe that they created all lifeforms on earth in the way science believes life came to be-evolution. I believe that there are different clans of spirits and that many of the pagan gods (Artemis, Anubis, Neptune, etc.) are actually the Spirit Mothers and Fathers of these clans and that the spirits existed on this earth long before humans were even thought of. I believe that the Spirit Mothers and Fathers are the offspring of the creater God and Goddess. I also believe in what I call Shadows, or what Christians might call demons. Shadows were once normal spirits, but they devoured another spirit's essence which caused them to become Shadows, which are evil and are bound to earth.
My beliefs on the afterlife: I believe that everyone reincarnates until the creater God and Goddess decide to destroy the world. When the world is destroyed, you soul will be weighed against a feather (like in Ancient Egyptian beliefs) to determine whether your good deeds throughout your countless lives outweigh your bad deeds. If your soul is lighter than the feather, then you will go to something akin to heaven, a place in between the planes of existence where the God and Goddess dwell, along with the Spirit Mothers and Fathers and all the Spirit clans, where you will live with them for all eternity. However, if your soul is heavier than the feather, you go to a place akin to hell, which is not a world of fire, but a dark never-ending put where there is no light and complete silence, where you will be alone for all eternity.
Those are my beliefs. I'm not sure what religion I'd fit into, but its what I believe, what I feel in my soul is the truth.
