Spiritual Dating Site (Page 1 of 2)

Andy ... great idea and I'm sure you'll do a terrific job.  AND, better yet -- these sites make money!

My ideas are: 1) name several of the top books which have helped in your spiritual search.  2) Do you watch TV?  How many hours?  3) Do you take hang around with friends who smoke pot on a regular basis?  4)  How often do you drink liquor?  5)  How important is your own spiritual quest?  6) What "drives" you?  7) Do you meditate?
8)  Are you free enough of material possessions, to pack up and travel? move?

Just some ideas.

Christine

Do you think a spiritual dating site could let go of the age thing?
I've never liked telling my age even when I was a kid.  Now, I'd
prefer to think of myself (as Seth advised) as being no particular age.

And, I like what the Abraham channel has to say about this:

Be interested in peoples' thots on this one.

I probably wouldn't use an internet dating service, but if it were integrated into another service--such as a spiritual version of LiveJournal, with some serious profiling/publishing/matching tools--I might make use of it. The problem with niche dating sites is that there aren't enough people on them, and members tend to abandon them after a while for lack of results. You've got to offer people a reason to stay, so the site can grow.

I would like to see a site where people can build a profile of likes and dislikes, keep a dream journal, keep a regular daily journal, publish articles, enter their astrological information, enter their enneagram type, whatever. Most importantly, the site would use all of this data to offer automatic matches. Ideally matches could be based on compatibility--not just similarity! This would be attractive to "spiritual" users of all kinds, not just singles. It would take a lot of work to program the backend for such a site, and that's probably why nothing like it exists right now. (Some sites offer individual elements, such as astrological matching, but none that I found offered the whole package.)

I did some searching, and here are some of my complaints about the spiritual dating sites I found:

--Most sites look sketchy and unprofessional, like they're a front for somebody selling books or looking for ad clicks. Ads for "Pheremone sprays" and "free psychic readings" abound.
--Visually unattractive. Full of generic clip-art and bad color choices.
--Muddled and unfocused. Worthless options like document libraries, bulletin boards, time-wasting quizes, success stories, etc.
--Very little information about the members. Just a short blurb and a picture.
--Old profiles from people who probably never check the site anymore.
--"Spiritual" is just a euphemism for "religious" with many sites. The sites use "spiritual" to mean a focus on many different religions instead of one.
--On the other hand, many sites are too focused on one type of alternative spirituality. There were lots of pagan-only sites.
--Not very interactive. Too similar to newspaper personals. Not using available technology.
--Very limited previews for prospective members, with too many hoops to jump through. Just let me do a quick search and see how many attractive and interesting people come up!
--Some sites are utterly nuts. One looked like it was related to new-age cult.

Here are some of the better sites I found, although none really blew me away:
http://www.dharmamatch.com
http://www.soulweavers.com
http://www.spiritsingles.com

I hope this is helpful to you!

Ayahuasca,

Good luck with this project A. Tho' it holds no personal appeal for me. Just can't imagine myself looking for dates or mates online. I feel the same way about blind dates or arranged ones, too.

But, then you never know. And besides, different strokes for different folks. So good luck with it all. And when you do get it online, pls let us know. I still would like to see it, as I'm sure you'll do it justice.

Jen,

I think I feel the same way you do about the age thing. I've always felt this way too. Whenever someone asks my age, I usually don't remember it, and have to think about it or do some quick calculation. Weird, huh. Especially when you realize that I have a fantastic memory and recall.

Maybe it's related to my "perception" of time. I don't seem to have a "normal" or typical perception of time. And it was only when I became aware of how most others seem to always know what time, date, year, etc. it is, and how easily and automatically they can plan events long into the future, and how blissfully ignorant of time I am, that I realized that I'm not in the same time warp!

I always find it funny and curious when people say, for example in new-agey stuff, that you need to live in the moment.  I'm always in the present moment, I used to think that this was normal and typical. Apparently not? Also, I cannot for some reason project (feel/sense) into the future, not even for several hours. I can plan, however. But, it does require real mental effort on my part. My husband, who's a good planner, finds this trait of mine at times exasperating, but now he mostly finds it amusing.

And, I've also found that we do tend to label/categorize/stereotype people on the basis of many things including age, unfortunately.

Age [for the most part] ain't nothin' but a number, imo. Btw, I don't "look", feel or "act" my age, most of the time.

Sorry Ayahuasca. Hope this isn't too far off topic.

thanks impatiens, it's good to know I'm not alone in my feelings. Recently a guy wanted to know how old I was and for the first time, I  said I prefered to be ageless.  It was very freeing!

This particular man (an emale friend) doesn't want to share his pic with me, for some reason. Maybe he's not photogenic, whatever.  So, now I tell him:  "You want to be faceless.  I want to be ageless."  We're even, I guess. 

One channeled entity--I forget his name--recommended that when people want to know our date of birth, we say:  "I was never born."  Thought for food. It's the truth--we are eternal.

That's great that it's so natural for you to be in the moment. I think most of us are still working on that one!

Jen

Or how about this....

Next time we're asked our age, tell them, "I'm 30 rotations."  "43 rotations..." "27 rotations..."  etc.

That will puzzle them for a few seconds. 

In the time that I've been alive, the Earth has made 30 rotatations around the sun.   I've been alive for 30 whirls around the big fireball!   Woohoo!  It puts it all into a whole new perspective.  It's been so programmed into our minds what the different ages are supposed to mean, all this delineation of "decades" - your 20's, your 30's, your 40's, your 50's....bunk bunk bunk.   It's time for a redefinition of it all.  Time to start using new terms!      "Yeah, I've been around the big fireball like, 30 times now....."   "Man, 550 moon cycles already and still kicking!......"

I think the website is a great idea Andy.  I would definitely check it out.

As for the physical age idea and people getting married/partnered later, sure, age is not real in the spiritual sense, but my eggs will only last so long.....

Time is an issue when you are in a female body if you are looking to reproduce during your present incarnation.

But as for spiritual exchange, well then age is not relevant, only the relationship of the Observer to their programming.

When two people exchange with honesty and truth, time does not matter.