Oct 5, 2012

Day 19: Still praying



 I’m still at it, and I’m surprised to be nearly half-way through.  I haven’t seen any signs that I’ve recognized, and I haven’t heard audible voices, and I haven’t even been sure the frequency was open. 

I pray out loud, because it’s what I would do if I were trying to talk to any other person I didn’t know.  Sure,

For most days, I’ve prayed a something like the prayer I prayed on Day 6.  I pray that if they’re the sort of supreme being or god(s) who communicate with human beings, then:

·      I want to hear from them.
·      Even if I don’t like what they have to say, I’d rather have hard facts than a pleasant illusion.
·      I recognize that I may have misunderstood everything about how the world actually works, and
·      I’m willing to change my views if I get an explanation that makes sense given the evidence, and that doesn’t require me to ignore what I know about how easily the mind can be fooled.

Then I listen for a few minutes.

I pray out loud, because that way I know there are at least sound waves bouncing around with my prayer on them.  If I pray in my mind, it feels an awful lot like daydreaming, and then I might have a hard time remembering if I’d actually prayed on a given day.  So far, I think I’ve missed two days.  In both cases, I didn’t pray in the morning, so by the end of the day, I was distracted.