My spiritual autobiography begins during my second year of high school and will cover about until the end of this class. There are many changes I went through during this period of time in terms of spirituality, and how I perceived the world. This autobiography will mainly focus on my transition from a catholic to everything else, and how I was able to use this experience to relate to Otto and Lauren and their own spiritual journeys. My journey began at St. Ignatius high school where we studied theology frequently which at first allowed me to be more immersed in Catholicism but soon I was just studying further into the areas where I disagreed with the church and the faith. All of this started sophomore year of high school which when I was
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This began my search for a religion that fit me better during my first year of college. I found that I really enjoyed studying Buddhism but felt that it was really just not the right fit for me and that there was still something else out there that fit me better. At this point in my journey I knew that I was going in the right direction but was looking for something that was a little less spiritual and maybe more in the how you live and how you see the world direction. It was during this key point that I was watching my favorite movie The Big Lebowski again and started to wonder about some aspects of the movie so I pulled up the subreddit for the movie which contained a couple of posts about Dudeism so I started to look at it. After a couple of days of looking at it and reading what it was all about I realized that I had found something that really fit what I was looking for from a religion. After immersing myself in the website for a couple of days I registered as a Dudeist Priest and received an ID card. Shortly after this my dad picked me up a book called The Abide Guide which is written by the founder of Dudeism Oliver Benjamin who analyses the movie and explains each part and how it relates to the dude and his life. My Dad had no idea I had just started to look into Dudeism and just knew that I liked the movie so he figured I would like it because I love reading (although I read almost exclusively
This began my search for a religion that fit me better during my first year of college. I found that I really enjoyed studying Buddhism but felt that it was really just not the right fit for me and that there was still something else out there that fit me better. At this point in my journey I knew that I was going in the right direction but was looking for something that was a little less spiritual and maybe more in the how you live and how you see the world direction. It was during this key point that I was watching my favorite movie The Big Lebowski again and started to wonder about some aspects of the movie so I pulled up the subreddit for the movie which contained a couple of posts about Dudeism so I started to look at it. After a couple of days of looking at it and reading what it was all about I realized that I had found something that really fit what I was looking for from a religion. After immersing myself in the website for a couple of days I registered as a Dudeist Priest and received an ID card. Shortly after this my dad picked me up a book called The Abide Guide which is written by the founder of Dudeism Oliver Benjamin who analyses the movie and explains each part and how it relates to the dude and his life. My Dad had no idea I had just started to look into Dudeism and just knew that I liked the movie so he figured I would like it because I love reading (although I read almost exclusively