Spiritual Path

  “Let’s be clear that “being at the spiritual game” means dedicating your whole mind, your whole body, your whole soul to the process of creating Self in the image and likeness of God.

This is the process of Self realization about which Eastern mystics have written.  It is the process of salvation to which much Western theology has devoted itself.

This is a day-to-day, hour-to-hour, moment-to-moment act of supreme consciousness.  It is a choosing and a re-choosing every instant.  It is ongoing creation.  Conscious creation.  Creation with a purpose.  It is using the tools of creation we have discussed, and using them with awareness and sublime intention. (Walsch) That is quite a statement, yet it is also what I do and I know the truth of it.  In my case I follow that path partly because my life depends on it — at least that’s how it began for me.  I now follow it because of the overwhelming love I find there.  There is no other choice for me.

Service

  During my NDE I was offered the chance to return to the world of the living and be “of service” which was the choice I took.  In order for me to be of maximum service it is important for me to realize that I made that choice easily and purely because of the love I felt there.  There was no coercion, feeling of attachment or wanting to be worthy leading to that choice.  It made no difference to me that I would be returning to a life of discomfort.  I came back because part of the inherent nature of love is it produces more love — it spreads.  I am helping that spread.  I need not do anything remarkable in order to be of maximum service, just spread the love.

Internal Conflict

  This morning, as I wake up and begin moving around, my muscles feel like there has been a battle or conflict raging within them during the night.  I often feel stiffness, small pains and tightness in the mornings when I wake up reflecting an inner conflict.  During my early years, I grew while believing I was flawed and unworthy, though I never knew compared to what.  Since that time I have endeavored to give up those thought and move on with my life.  Those feelings reappear at times and remind me of the past.  "As we stop the war, each of us will find something from which we have been running -- our loneliness, our unworthiness, our boredom, our shame, our unfulfilled desires." (Jack Kornfield)

Beyond Understanding

  I suspect I am not alone but I have had several occurrences in my life that are beyond the understanding of my linear, logical mind.  These are occurrences that could not have happened, but, never the less, did.  The first that I recall happened when I was a child growing up in Michigan and the last happened a couple of years ago in Maryland at the age of seventy.  Some happenings were spectacular and memorable like being “jerked out of space/time” or having a third degree burn healed in minutes, while others were less notable like seeing and feeling a cigarette butt flung at me when by back was turned and I was wearing clothing that would have prevented my feeling it.  I end up knowing, feeling and experiencing things that could not have happened.  It would be foolish of me to not admit that there must be some sort of power “out there” looking out for me, a Loving and protective presence.  “A mystical touch is a deep, intimate contact-union-experience of God in one of His attributes such as power, light, goodness, beauty, or joy.” (Thomas Dubay, S. M.)