Understanding New Age Spiritualism
The Alchemist, The Secret, A New Earth
It doesn't matter what religious background you embrace. In spiritualism, Hindu, Christian, Muslim, Buddhists, are all in the same room together with the same purpose in mind: to be one with the universe and God.
Spiritualists are seeking peace, happiness, laughter, joy, and understanding. If you can pray, you can meditate. It is in meditation (which anyone can do) that spiritualists listen to God. In prayer, you talk to God.
The Secret by Rhonda Byrne only touches lightly on letting go of our own egos, as taught in Eckhart Tolle's A New Earth. Even when our own universes have completely destroyed us, no matter what we are battling, we can be at peace once again.
Even an atheist can find God if he/she truly searches for him. Even if you don't believe in God, that peace that comes from silencing your own mind and listening to your own inner voice can be your ticket to understanding your own universe and your place within it.
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho teaches there is a higher purpose to why things are happening -God and the universe bring you closer to your fate. When you think about the home of Christianity as being rested purely on power and not on faith or God, wouldn't you question why you are in this religion to begin with? Why is that when we pray we come to God as if we are his children?
Those who hurt others that don't believe as they do or condemn them for believing differently make up false stories about what it means to be a spiritual person. We have learned to have a deeper understanding with our own souls and the souls around us. We listen to the soul of the world. We listen to what the universe and God is saying to us.
When you are connected to God, the universe becomes a much more beautiful place. You begin to understand the secrets of the universe and you are at complete peace. You learn not to worry, because they it is self-defeating and unfounded. You learn to live in the present, instead of wasting your life in a past that has already gone by (and cannot be changed), or focusing too much on a future (that never turns out quite the way you planned).
You learn that you can stop your own worries by acknowledging your worries. You ask yourself why you are worried. You tell yourself that you will get exactly what you are afraid of if you keep projecting into the universe what you fear. It is when you acknowledge your fears and worries that you can change them into something positive and walk away.
No one likes the feeling of worry or fear. Worry and fear is only within our own imagination. It's not real. We have the power to solve our own problems. We have the tools to make changes How does worrying about a problem help the situation? It doesn't.
You don't have to go to a Meditation Center or attend classes to learn how to silence your mind and meditate. You can do it at home without interference from someone telling you what to do or how to believe. It just takes work to silence your mind so that you can listen to God. Sometimes what you hear is your own voice (your subconscious) telling you things that you never took the time to realize.
When you realize your place in this universe, when you become connected to God and the universe, you see the world differently. We must be the change we seek in the world.
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Hi Bud,
I am going to agree and disagree with you at the same time.
1. It is wrong for you to judge the level of my spiritual relationship with God.
2. You are correct that God and the universe are the same, but for all intensive purposes, describing this to someone who doesn't understand that God and the universe are one, it's just better to say that they are two things, because people relate to either one word or the other.
3. I don't profess to be an expert on spiritualism, because I am still in my beginning years (I believe I always will be). My aim here was to make people understand spiritualism to a degree (and not write an entire novel on it). I am defending myself and others who are being called a witch or someone trying to be God. That's not our aim.
4. This isn't really a so-called "New Age" thing like the rest of the world is claiming. This is something that has been around for centuries. Jesus and the Sufi's spent many years learning about spirituality thousands of years ago. So I don't know how you could refer this to being a social movement.
5. You are correct that it only takes an inward look to find God. That's the message I was trying to get across. This is what spiritualism is trying to teach people. It's not necessarily a movement or a cult. Sometimes people have problems trying to silence their minds and learn how to meditate. Just read "Eat, Pray, Love." It's a national bestseller. Gilbert talks a lot about how difficult it was for her to learn how to meditate and to pray. It's not a practice that is as simple as people make it out to be. It's easy for some (like myself, and probably you), but extremely difficult for others.
6. We've had ancient texts throughout the centuries that try to describe meditation, life and God. Some people need texts to help them to understand what is going on in their minds and in their lives. There are some of us who prefer to refer to all forms of literature on the subject matter before judging what is truth. It takes more than just an inward meditation to reach God. Sometimes there are things going on around us that need further explanation. Sometimes we just need that extra "oomph" that says we're going in the right direction. Texts can be a sort of sign in the greater scheme of things.
7. There is nothing about 'belief' in spiritualism. It's just teaching people how they can connect with God through meditation. They don't say anything about 'believing' in a certain way in order to get into heaven. That's not what this is about. This is about our own relationships with God and listening to that inner voice. I've taken classes on how to be worry free (which ironically I didn't learn anything from except that I understand how to live a life worry free without a class to teach that to me) to understanding raw food and vegan diets. Notice the word UNDERSTANDING.
I agree with a lot of your other comments. They seem to tack on to what I'm already saying as far as listening to that inner voice and having that connection with God.
And to answer your question as to how can you not be connected to God...
Take a look around you. When you are in a relationship with someone and both of you are talking, but one person is not listening don't you somehow lose that connection with that individual? Don't you begin to feel alienated? That is the case with so many people. They pray to God, but they don't listen to what God has to say. They then feel disconnected b/c they believe God is not listening to them, when really, God is talking to them and they should be the ones listening to what He has to say. There are too many people that are disconnected and seeking God...or at least how they can be reconnected with God once again. That's why we have religions throughout the world. People banking on finding God. But do they ever really find God?
Sure, we know God is always there. We know where to find Him. But so many people don't know that. They've disconnected themselves from God. Not the other way around.
Thanks for reading it. It's like when Lu and I talk about this kind of stuff and religion, we are always talking the same langauge, but differently. Then we find we're arguing about the same thing and we're on the same side. LOL.
I have been researching a lot of these things for years. I think prayer has always been meditation for me for as long as I can remember. It was never a one way conversation for me. I was always listening to that inner voice speak. I didn't realize until recently that there are people that don't have that same relationship that I have with God. Before I understood my relationship with God, someone who is twice my age (and a regular church-goer) told me that I had a better understanding of God than anyone he has ever known. I was 25 when he told me that. I believe the reason why I understood God was because I've always had that connection. I just couldn't understand why people who were looking for God hadn't found God. It took reading about other people's experiences in their search for God that I realized that people are trying to find that connection, and it's not as simple to understand as someone seasoned in the process.
It takes a lot of wrongs before people find a right. It's just a shame that so many people try to profit off of someone who is lost.
When it comes to understanding fate (which is something all of us doubts so much), I know I need a lot of direction from the universe because I always feel like I'm turning around in circles looking for an answer. Sometimes I feel like I'm not even asking the right questions. I took some time away from writing my book b/c I was confused about a lot of things. I had to ask myself if I really felt that what I was writing was true. I didn't have the answer, so I had to go searching for it. The universe led me to all of the right texts that I needed and put me on the right track and confirmed that what I was writing was true. It also helped me to find a deeper meaning.
We can never discount other people's experiences, b/c we can learn from them. I am still amazed to read about Carl Jung's spiritual journey almost 100 years later. His journey was almost identical to my own; it made me feel connected to him, even though he died before I was even born. It was good to read about his journey, because it just serves to remind us that we're not alone in our search. We're all asking the same questions.
There is definite beauty in realizing it all, every step of the way.
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