SPFPP 399: What Herpes Taught Me About God

I challenge people to ask themselves what they want. Typically people who can’t answer this question find it easier to explore when they look at what they have. When you ask yourself this question, life becomes what the Bible, Yoga, and most spiritual teachers describe as a “holy” or “divine” or ALIGNED life. The teachings are consistent with just not doing anything you don’t want to do. The word “sin” simply means unalignment. To live an unaligned life doesn’t mean “be good” in the context of others’ opinions. It means be authentic and act from a place of alignment. Anything we see as sin from the interpreted concept of something like being punished for having sex outside of marriage, objectively the wording is just not to align yourself with what doesn’t align because it’ll cause suffering. Hell isn’t a place you go after death, it’s a state of reality where we are unaligned and therefore suffer. Heaven is a state of mind rooted in contentment, peace, and an aligned life where your outer world matches you inner world. Herpes itself may not have “taught” me that, but my experiences that came after my diagnosis gave me that insight and guidance in the direction of finding the rhythm of God and living from that place. My language has come from Yoga, Anime, and structuring atomic language through the consistent metaphors from quantum physics, and I now see the value of practicing this more and living it out loud.