SPIRITUALITY

We need not only to understand a new spirituality, but create that new spirituality. We are in the process of enlarging and refreshing the traditional understanding of spirituality. In this process we will not abandon the best of our traditions, but select the best of those traditions while adding to them that which we are discovering and creating in this spiritual awakening. The result will be a new spiritual model that synthesizes old and new in a comprehensive system that is evolutionary, life supporting for our time and our future.

Spirituality is simply the quality or state of being spiritual. We are all spiritual. We are all spirit. Existentially human beings are spirit. That is the nature of our being. The spirit is by nature unbounded love, peace, joy, fulfillment. We were born, came into existence, in the spiritual realm of the unbounded absolute.

We are, in reality, an individuation of that which is All. We were created so that the All could have the experience of the All not merely the knowledge of All. Experience is the key to fulfillment. We were created to create the experience of life taken to its fullest. For this purpose we were given the gift of Life. Life is God expressed. The manifest realm floats on the ocean of spirit.

The journey of life is the continuous, eternal interplay of the spiritual and physical realms of existence, the absolute and the relative. In the spiritual realm, the realm of the absolute, we 'know' the reality of who we are. In the physical realm, the realm of the relative, we experience. In order to live fully, to experience the fullness of our Selves, it is necessary to be immersed in the relative, physical, experiential world . The result of that immersion for most of us is that we forget our spirituality to varying degrees. Yet it remains with us because it is us even if our awareness of that truth is temporarily overshadowed.

We are spirit beings who can have minds and physical bodies. During our lives in the physical realm when we have taken on a body, or we could say when we have chosen to allow a part of ourselves to vibrate at a lower frequency, we have difficulty being aware of our fundamental natures as spiritual beings. This is because our consciousness is focused or absorbed in the physical forms in which we are immersed. But we are not a body. We are not an intellect, or even a mind. We are a spirit that can assume a three part form of spirit, mind, and body.

Our journey in life is to create the fullness of our true nature, our spirit, our spirituality through experience. It is for experience leading to fullness that we come to the physical plane. As we live here we grow in the experience of our spirituality. This is the purpose of life, the purpose of a spiritual path, the purpose of our politics, our society, our culture, our science, our philosophy, our art, and our religion. Life is about the spirit becoming spiritual, growing in spirituality, in love, peace, joy, compassion, forgiveness, fulfillment through experience as a means of creating these spiritual qualities on the level of our growing awareness of who we are in reality.

Nor are spiritual principles any longer conceived as mere maxims or guides to right living. In this awakening spiritual principles have come to be seen as actual laws of nature as surely as any law of physics. Morality is that which works. That which works is that which functions in accord with the laws of nature, God's will. This realization has spurred extensive inquiry into the relationship between science and spirituality.

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