Spirit - Higher Consciousness - Conscious Contact with God

A New Look at the same Questions, but more than that, some real answers are offered here.  As I understand it, the pages that link behind this link are part of a growing awareness that there is One Reality, and that Enlightened Beings call It by many names and approach It by many paths.  This is where synchronicity begins for me... on one of the paths to an understanding of God, the Universe, and Everything.  

Change Your Mind

An Earlier Realization of Thought

Namaste: a Hindu greeting roughly translated as "Seeing the divine in you, knowing the divine in me, we are one." (from the CD Namaste produced by Real Music.)

Define spirituality?   Spirit in me.  It IS me.  It's you... and you, and you, and you, and all the other you's out there in all the realms of existence.  Religion is only a set of behaviors or actions we take (what we do) as a result of our belief system and/or faith.  Religion is limiting.  Spirit is what we are.  Spirit is unlimited.  Spirituality is the practice of being who we are. The Connection.

Philosophy comes from two Greek words and literally means "man's wisdom".  When we try to explain why things are the way they are, we are practicing philosophy.  This page about spirituality is really just my philosophy of spirituality.  It doesn't have a lot of meaning of its own.  Spiritual practice is a set of things we do in order to help us really connect with who we are and bring about a clearer view of reality.  Reality isn't what we see, touch, smell, and hear.  Reality is what's behind all that.

Reality goes by a lot of names.  God, Buddha, Allah, Divine Mother, Great Spirit, Krishna, or the Tao are just a few names people have given it.  Nobody really knows Its true nature.  By that I mean nobody knows God exactly in all of God's totality.  Finite beings cannot know Infinite Spirit without themselves becoming infinite.  There's a lot of evidence of that Power I call God, or Great Spirit, or Divine Universe, or Higher Power.  The evidence is sometimes seen in the transformation of people and things when they have been touched by God in such a way that nothing else will do, and they become true seekers of Reality.

All  true religions, at their core, say they are trying to improve the state of humankind.  Maybe they do, maybe they don't.  I couldn't say.  But I do think that Individually, we do just that by trying to improve ourselves.  If everyone on this planet would just improve a little bit, can you imaging how much better the world would be?  Even if only one improves, the world is still a better place.  If each of us practiced just a little more tolerance, a little more peace, a little more love... what would this place look like?  Hmmmm......

One day I prayed that God would show me what faith to follow.  A question came to my mind that asked, "What religion does God belong to?"  I heard someone say that Christ was not a Christian, Mohammed was not a Muslim, Buddha was not a Buddhist, and Krishna was not a Hindu.

God reveals Him/Herself to each of us in many different ways.  So the God that I understand is not the God you understand.  Today I don't have to convince you that my God is the Only God, or that my way is the Only Way (I don't believe that anyway).  Sometimes God speaks to me through you.  I hope that continues.

If I had a message that I'd like to share (and put into practice), it's that there is greater joy, serenity, and contentment in allowing that Divinity within each of us to guide our actions, our thinking, and our lives.  "Thy will, not mine, be done."  God Is, I Am, We Are... All One.

"Be still and know that I am God."  

Cleanliness is not next to Godliness, stillness is.

"The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao."