Spiritual Path

 

The Spiritual Path

By Gregory David Roberts

 

The author of Shantarum, the best book I have ever read, delves into essentially lessons learned from him experiencing/writing Shantarum.  It should come as no surprise that Shantarum would launch him onto his own spiritual path.  While its about his path, it comes across as an instructional manual. 

Spiritual Reality, the Universe is the forest for which Robert’s path explores.  The universe is always there…for you to tune in to.  A popular 2023 phrase would be there you to vibe (vibrate) with.  That vibration requires commitment.  It requires an elevation of consciousness to things that are not necessarily material.   He expresses the vibration of the Universe as divine.  The reader if any orientation to God, could interchange the words Universe and God.  The giving to the Universe of you creativity in spiritual vernacular is really harvesting the bounty of what is there for you to wake up to.  By  giving as such you could call yourself a ‘co-creator’ with God. 

Perhaps the reason Gregory David Roberts resonates with me is because he makes connection with Unity, a religious organization that expresses Spirituality in real terms.

 

Below are highlights from the book that underscores my review.

 

1.      "Everyone is spiritual. Everyone is on the spiritual Path. Whether we know it or not we’re all on the Path, we all find our ways to spiritual connection naturally, and many of us connect without ever striving for it. But it’s also possible to walk the Path consciously, with awareness and active commitment. Six years ago, I had the motive, the means and the opportunity to walk consciously on the spiritual Path. The motive was that I wanted to know – after decades of research into theology, mystical traditions and the spiritual, I wanted to know: is there something there? Is there some kind of Spiritual Reality, or not? The means was a conch shell – my spiritual teacher had assured me that blowing the conch shell with utmost Innocence and sincerity in active, physical Devotion could, and would, connect me with the spiritual."

2.      "But there is a lot of stuff, perhaps even a Multiverse of Universes of stuff, so therefore the Divine Perfection must be creative, not destructive. And all that we see around us in the perceivable Universe is an expression of the Divine Perfection’s perfect Creativity."

3.      "It seemed to me reasonable that a Divine Perfection, creating everything from a perfect, Giving Creativity, would imbue the Universe with a spiritual component that, although not the Divine Perfection Itself, may provide a conduit or wavelength for indirect connection to The Source."

4.      "Spiritual Reality were to exist, one way to connect with it might be through Giving, because the entire Multiverse of Universes is an expression of the Divine Perfection’s perfect Giving. Love is Selfless Giving. Devotion is Selfless spiritual Giving."

5.      "In the Spiritual Reality, this relationship changes. In the Spiritual Reality, the dimensions collapse, joining Intention to Outcome, Cause to Effect and Means to Ends, among other connections. In the Spiritual Reality, the Intention is the Outcome, the Cause is the Effect, and the Means is the End. This is"

6.      "Because the Spiritual Reality is non-material and beyond dimensional space and time as we know them, the words of the spiritual language are interchangeable."

7.      "From the perspective of the Spiritual Reality, what we call the “flow of time” is an everlasting now of Intention, a constant “reboot instant” of everything possible."

8.      "The scientific method is predicated on experimental validation for third parties to observe. The spiritual is predicated on experiential validation for individuals uniquely to experience. It’s the difference between knowing something as a fact, or information, and knowing it from experience: between knowing that LSD inspires hallucinations as a clinical fact, and actually having the trip your Self. One is a set of facts out there, and the other is a set of Truths in here, within the Self."

9.      "I’m sure that the meteors would’ve scratched across the sky in the same way, and at the same time, whether I was there or not. It was an Affirmation because I was in exactly the right place, at exactly the right time, doing exactly what I needed to do be doing, and with exactly the right Intention, to experience the event as an Affirmation."

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11.   "It’s not the Universe consciously telling my Self something specific, so to speak, it’s my Self, consciously tuning in to the Universe’s constant language of Affirmation."

12.   "It’s not about the Universe, coming to you. It’s about you, coming to the Universe." "Such interactions happen constantly, but we need to have a special lens through which to experience and perceive them. That special lens is not merely required to apprehend such phenomena; it’s required to even think about them." For a very large black bat to swoop and touch my head at the commencement of a ritual for the Goddess, and an owl to hoot at exactly the moment that the candlelight reaches the sky, and a wild creature to acknowledge my Devotion with five bows of the head is both coincidence and beyond coincidence in the language"

13.   "For a very large black bat to swoop and touch my head at the commencement of a ritual for the Goddess, and an owl to hoot at exactly the moment that the candlelight reaches the sky, and a wild creature to acknowledge my Devotion with five bows of the head is both coincidence and beyond coincidence in the language of the spiritual. It is the Affirmation of connection."

14.   "Faith is Freedom from fear. Faith is also Freedom from the most painful emotions arising from attachment. Faith is about Giving, and in the Faith-filled moments of pure Giving, without asking for anything in return, we are free from the drag of fear or desire."