Optional belief in Anam Cara spirituality, generated bottom-up

Anam Caras may exist in physical or spiritual form, or both. In practice, personal belief about the existence in anam caras in spiritual form is optional rather than required. Such beliefs are generated bottom up, by the users of Anam Cara themselves.
  f your personal beliefs embrace anam caras only in physical form (i.e, you consider yourself to be an atheist), the anam cara fundamental process ontology, as presented here may still be of use, but none of its spiritual elements will be available to you. Aman caras can still exist for you as temporal friends. However, if your personal beliefs embrace anam caras in spiritual form, they will be available to support you eternally

 A fundamental requirement for Implementations guided by Anam Cara is that compassion is threaded everywhere throughout each implementation.  this requires recognition of a single, universal compassionate God (who may be characterised by various names in particular implementation contexts) . This Deity acts as a super anam cara: available throughout eternity to everyone who chooses to believe in this.
 This property of Aman Cara makes it ideal for underpinning implementations (operations and Applications Anam Cara in complex lands exhibiting diversity with respect to religion and spirituality worldwide: particularly as Anam Cara does not, in itself, promote any form of "religiosity" or theological concepts that may be a hurdle to maintaining and developing relationships with spiritual anam caras.
 
On the other hand, it is important to realise that implementations guided by Anam Cara as a fundamental process ontology, rather than as a theology, should be developed bottom up in all contexts and such developments must be personally driven, independent of any prescriptions emanating from religious organisations (Churches, Societies, etc) on spirituality beliefs imposed top-down on their members. While Anam Cara presumes that members of religious organisations re e free to construct personal implementations of Anam Cara bottom-up jn any context of their own choosing, their own decisions on the acceptance or rejection of belief in each of its each of its spiritual components in this context must take priority over conflicting religious beliefs propagated top-down by their organisation. But these beliefs must always be based on compassion. If you believe in a God who espouses, condones an/or promotes hate, violence, aggression, exploitation and/or competition, then Aman Cara is not for you.
 
Another fundamental requirement for implementation of Anam Cara is the realisation that conscious experience of its spiritual aspects cannot be explained away on a "scientific basis", as attempted within Cartesian Dualism. In other words, whether you like it or not, your own consciousness is spiritual activity located in within in a unified world of which you are a part.

Tombstone for Elizabeth Southwood, whose Spiritual anam cara was Jesus Christ.
Located in Saint Michael's church yard, Newhaven, UK