According to the logic of many so-called “spiritually aware” and religious folks out there, being connected to Spirit is something accomplished by having an understanding of God, of Divine Will, that we possess Divinity within us, or that we are becoming more spiritually aware as a species supposedly progressive in understanding quantum mechanics, transcendental theory, worldwide belief systems, and the fact that we are all bound by an eternal and infinite energy.
What this implies then, is that our intelligence, our sentience, is the catalyst or the bridge between our Earthly existence and God. It implies that as we learn more about how the Universe seems to function on a scientific level, and as we learn more about religious doctrine—what of them “works” and what of them doesn’t—that we grow, tacitly, in spirituality. We are taught about interpretations of Love, of Compassion, and of the teachings of significant spiritual “leaders” of the past. We are inundated with information of the New Age spirituality, the “Discovery of Self,” and how we all have an opportunity to shine the brilliant light of divinity from within us, as long as we believe in the faith being, passed-down or presented in the best-selling book for $34.95. We love to be told “how to do” in our very hectic, time-is-money, instant-gratification world, rather than being taught “how to learn.”
The further implication here is that spiritual awareness and connection demands sentience. Our society insists that spirit can be found in being well-read of a broad spectrum of interpretations, philosophies, and ideas of what Spirituality, Love, Self, Compassion, Truth, and Oneness are. We seek the doctrine of aged religions, steeped in mythology, to guide our very disconnected souls in a fabricated world. We thrive on assigning parental figureheads authority to give us guidance and restrictions so that we feel as if we are adhering to Divine Will, when what we are really doing is catering to fear, guilt, spiritual void, and subjective ethics that define what we are taught to believe is justice. We are the two-year-olds that run ahead of our parents, seeking a sort of independence, but continue to stop to look back over our shoulders to make sure they are still following closely, safely. We are taught to adhere to human codes of morality, all based upon the evolution of ourselves and our cultures against fabricated worlds that defy Natural laws.
The corollary to this is that without understanding, without sentience, we cannot attain spiritual awareness. (It also implies quite incorrectly that spirituality can be enhanced through technology, which is created via the demons of fear and contrived necessity.) Thus, flowers, trees, fish, bobcats, cardinals, and mosquitoes cannot be spiritually connected to God. If they cannot understand, how can they possibly be spiritually connected? Our perceptions of spirituality come from a strictly humanized standpoint, rather than from a holistic, connected standpoint (which is no standpoint at all, but rather a neutral center of Unconditional Love. See how this works?) Our interpretations of Love are shallow and mostly selfish, even when we believe they are selfless. Our ideas of progress violate Nature by creating a net-deficit, as do our ideas of the value of life, compassion, and justice. We claim to value life, but we only demonstrate that we love some HUMAN life under some circumstances. Otherwise, we create imbalance in the world that is created by God by infringing upon and eliminating ecosystems, entire species, and treating other flora and fauna as commodities. We don’t value life so much as we value what life we can Take and use. Our world is rampant with conditional love, which breeds segregation and hatred. Our conditional truths breed contempt and delusions.
Truth is not personal. That concept is garbage. Truth is not what we decide works for us or fits in our lives. That’s selfish, and anti-spiritual. We selfishly and arrogantly see ourselves as little fountains of Divine Will, sanctioned by God because we say we believe in Love and Truth, as if we are separate but become enlightened and imbued with the power of the Divine upon an epiphany or because we have adopted a belief system that seems to fit our perceptions of Reality at the moment. We actually say things like, “What’s true for me is,” and, “I have to live my own kind of Truth.” That kind of “truth” is ephemeral. As long as we see ourselves as SELVES, then we function not unlike the perpetual water fountain that re-circulates the same water via electrical pump. We re-circulate a concept of Truth or Love or “special gift” and offer others to drink from our pool of “Divine Energy,” albeit, a gift we’ve been bestowed by God. But this is not Real.
We are more like the spray attachment installed at the end of a garden hose. The garden hose is our thread to Reality. The water is Spirit. All we do is let it flow through us. That’s it. Some settings might be “spray,” while others might be “stream” or “trickle,” but everyone is a spray-attachment for spirit. If your attachment is gummed-up with the mud and gunk of religions and faiths, then you are not going to have a pure flow—if any flow at all—through you from the source. This does not take sentience. This takes Original Instructions. Forget the books and the prophecies and the scriptures. It’s useless, I promise. Truth is not relative to each of us. It’s not about how we perceive it and how it fits into our lives, but on the contrary, it is about how we see the purity of it, unclouded by bias, judgment, and teachings, and how we fit into it.continued
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