I believe we are spiritual beings who have chosen to have a physical incarnation as a human being at this time and that our soul lives on long after this physical body passes. Part of our purpose is to live rich and fulfilling lives now not someday in the future. Having achieved this for myself my aim is to empower others to align their goals with their own soul's purpose and be happy NOW in the present. But a rich and fulfilling life is different for everyone.
We often hear people say things like ‘oh he is very spiritual, he meditates every day’. Or ‘she is very spiritual she reads tarot cards’. Or ‘I am a very sensitive spiritual person – I communicate with spirit every day. Occasionally we hear ‘I want to develop my spiritual side’ but what does this mean?
Being spiritual is not about any of the above. It is not and never has been about the paranormal or about any esoteric skills you have or wish to develop. It is not about whether you are connected to your spirit guide or the angels. It is about how you live. Becoming adept at the skills, especially meditation, becoming knowledgeable and experienced in the unseen forces that govern our world, like universal energy and how it works is important. Whether as a quantum physicist or as a metaphysician, it is necessary. But spiritualism has never been about spirits and what’s out there, it has always been about us, what’s inside and who we choose to be. It has always been about BEING spiritual not about DOING spiritual things. About Being a human BEING and especially in our current society not a Human DOING. It is a ‘way of life’. Speak to any Buddhist and they will tell you that Buddhism is not a religion, it is a way of living.
Throughout time our great Philosophers and teachers have sort self-realisation through a variety of different routes and then offered their experiences, wisdom and teachings in service to others. Going back since time immemorial all our great poets and teachers from Confucius and Lao Tzu?, through Lord Krishna, Buddha, Jesus and Mohamed. Through, Rumi - Longfellow. Via St Francis of Assisi, St Teresa of Avila, Alice Bailey and Rudolph Steiner, to the modern spiritual greats like Mother Teresa, HH Dali Lama, & Babaji. As well as more contemporary writers and teachers such as, Deepak Chopra, Caroline Myss, Wayne Dyer, Eckhart Tolle, and Paul Carvelho. It appears that most of us at sometime seek out who we are and the deeper meaning of life. We seek the answers to those questions.
Science has also been trying to answer those questions with the work of Newton and Einstein, through Geoffrey Ingrave Taylor, Dr. David Bohm, Rupert Sheldrake and modern theories of the holotropic universe, particle, wave and string theories, to the reassessment of the big bang, Einstein’s theory of relativity with recent discoveries at Cern, to Stephen Hawkin & Leonard Mlodinow’s latest book ‘The Grand Design – New Answers to the Ultimate Questions in Life’ where they talk of 11 different dimensions interwoven in time. All of this upholding and proving what indigenous peoples from all over the planet have believed and lived by through the ages.
David R Hawkins in his books --- speak of raising our consciousness. Of calibrating our vibrations to the highest levels to reach enlightenment. Science tells as that everything in the universe vibrates at different levels. All matter vibrates. if it appears solid the molecules vibrate slowly, if it fluid they vibrate more quickly and if it is gas it vibrates very quickly. IE air, we can't see it so it vibrates quickly and without it we can't live. We breathe it every day and we know the more polluted the air is we breathe the more dis-at-ease we become. (example passive smoking).
We can see from our own history and that of our universe how everything goes through cycles of change. The main one being the cycle of birth, life, death and rebirth. Whether that be the eons life of a galaxy or the life of each and every unique snow flake.
My interest and journey, like yours, began many lifetimes ago but for this life it began when I was 3 years old and has continued ever since, mainly unconsciously and over the last 20 years consciously.
I believe we are each unique individual beings, like snowflakes. Each and every one of us has inherited our own ways of hiding our light, of restricting ourselves, usually through some kind of egoic pattern based on fear either inherited or experienced in this lifetime or another. We are not here to be Human Doings but as divine beings who have chosen to experience a lifetime as a Human Being NOW. To manifest into the physical those individual unique soul qualities and to let them shine in the present, not one day when...
Our lives and experience has left us hiding our light. Living as expected by our families and societies. Our role is to transform those egoic patterns based on fear and experience and the misconceptions that we are ‘not good enough’ we need to ‘try harder’ but to shine our soul’s essence by Living with Soul now. By being true to our soul essence. I believe we are each unique individual beings, like snowflakes. Each and every one of us has inherited our own ways of hiding our light, of restricting ourselves, usually through some kind of egoic pattern based on fear either inherited or experienced in this lifetime or another.
Like snowflakes we are all individual but also the same. We are all made up of the same elements as the rest of the universe. Just put together in differently. Like snowflakes are all made up of atoms of hydrogen and oxygen and float unseen in the atmosphere. As time passes like attracts like and they join together. When two atoms of hydrogen connect to one atom of oxygen they become moisture and when combined with low temperatures, they become a unique individual snowflake. One snowflake alone soon melts and becomes water, but many together together become a beautiful blanket of snow shining like diamonds in the sun.
The common purpose for each and every one of us is to be living in integrity with our soul’s calling each and every day as best we can. We will then all evolve consciously into being the ‘best of the Human Being we are meant to be TODAY’ and being HAPPY TODAY not ‘one day sometime when....’. So that each individual snowflake shines brightly in the sun creating the blanket of beautiful snow as we create our own destiny together, Living with Soul.