How my heritage shaped my beliefs
See also: Jane's autobio Since I am now 60, I thought I would reflect on my spiritual history. It has been shaped by exploration, openness, and change rather than commitment to a single doctrine. I was raised largely without formal religion, although my maternal grandmother, Inez Heyman Campbell , occasionally took me to a Unitarian Universalist church, and there were some loose spiritual influences in my family. By the time I left college, I felt intellectually informed about religion but spiritually empty. I had studied religion academically and read the Bible as literature, but I didn’t feel connected to any particular belief system. I was open, however, and that openness became the starting point for my spiritual journey. In my 20s, I began exploring spirituality through paganism and Wicca, influenced by feminism, astrology, and countercultural ideas. I also worked in a liberal bookstore in Portland (The Catbird Seat). I felt drawn to the idea of a feminine divine, which...
