Questions & Answers

I cut and pasted your post into Google translation. You can do the same if you need to regarding my comment. Why do you believe the 66 books in the Protestant Bible are inspired by God?

There is not a single reason why one chooses to be a deist, there are at least four: cosmological, teleological, moral and personal experience arguments.

Deists can believe all four arguments, or just one. They are not dogmas, they are reasoning.

When you remove religion from your life, you need a replacement. I have found Transcendental Meditation to be a good alternative. As a person of science, I can confirm that Transcendental Meditation has demonstrated scientific benefits. https://www.tm.org/benefits/health. I'm not here to advertise the TM technique, but I do recommend it. I also believe in the core principles of Buddhism. Buddha, before what we now call the "modern scientific process," used scientific principles and told his followers not to blindly follow him, but to do"your own research." Buddhism is not a religion; it is a lifestyle. He challenged cults. Born a prince with access to luxury, he experimented with the opposite extreme and advised finding the Middle Path. 

As Deists we observe nature and look for the Creator within the observable phenomina of nature, correct? And yet we allow Elihu Palmer and others to install in our minds a new "revealed religion" Deist cannon that is so often quoted one would think we have a creed. One of Palmer's commandments is that the supernatural is false. To a large extent I agree with him but not in the area of life after death. We have observable natural phenomenon to study and consider and as Deists, we ought to be able to say we have the freedom to do just that. NDE's are one area of study but those are often poluted by the individuals own mind and expectations so I'll put them in a gray area. But almost 100 years ago there was a Doctor who studied abnormal psychology in Chicago. This man was Dr. Carl Wickland and with the help of his wife were able to document hundreds of cases of Earthbound spirits that fastened themselves to the living and making a misery of their host's lives. His books, "Thirty Years Among The Dead" and "Gateway To Understanding" are non-religious and scientific in nature and I think, a missing part of the Deist concept of life. I firmly believe that the Creator has not only created the visible but the invisible spirit world as well. Our progress is ongoing and no matter what our state of spiritual development is at death, eventually we will progress and learn just as we are meant to on Earth. I'd like honest and kind opinions on this from anyone who knows of Dr. Wickland's work.