What is spirituality ?
What is spirituality ? Our answer : That which inspires us to be our best.
That's a very modern definition of spirituality. But it's one that we can embrace once we've shed the religiosity and superstitions which have often smothered and usurped true spirituality.
Inspire, inspiration and spirituality all share the same root word, which derives from our most fundamental act : breathing in life giving oxygen.
Spirituality is a Latin word, which literally means : to breath.
Another way of saying " breath in " is : inspire.
Spirituality is the act of bringing within us, that which nourishes our mind and body. This nourishment enables us to be our very best.
When we bring into ourselves ( through our incoming thoughts & deeds ) beneficial nourishment, we become our best selves, and know happiness.
Meditation is an example of " beneficial nourishment ". It's no surprise, that meditation is THEE foundational spiritual act. At the core of true meditation, is a focus on symbolically " breathing in right thoughts " as we simultaneously honour our breath ( the most life sustaining and sacred thing we do all day ). Almost every spiritual tradition involves . . . meditation.
Beneficial nourishment is what spirituality aims to deliver. Over thousands of years, wisdom traditions have all shared their unique ways of ' doing ' spirituality. Chants in Hinduism, recitation in Islam, prayers in Christianity or silence in Zen Buddhism ; these are all spiritual actions.
Modern spirituality is about inspiring us to be our best. Sacred Spirit offers spiritual wisdom and practices that provide beneficial nourishment and enable us to become our best selves, but without the religiosity and superstitions which impede our practices.
Once nourished through meditation, our minds can be directed to our daily goal : which is to help those around us to be all they can be.
Every day WE can help others to become their best selves.
In doing so, we take the focus, and importantly, the pressure off ourselves. Our focus instead, is on others.
When we help bring healing to others, WE TOO BECOME HEALED.
Much of today’s metal health epidemic is caused by the pressure we put on ourselves by constantly focusing on ourselves. WE are causing our own crisis. This self-pressure is exacerbated by today’s technology - especially social media - where the emphasis is on us - uploading to the world our momentary best image ( the illusion ) whilst inwardly, the constant spotlight on ourselves, is making us increasingly . . . uneasy.
Our feelings of insecurity and anxiety are fed by our constant focus on our selves. We want to be great - but greatness eludes most of us when we desire it. Instead, turn your attention towards those around you. Help them to feel great - to feel loved - and YOU TOO WILL FEEL GREAT. Your insecurity and anxiety will melt away.
If every person on earth committed to helping those around them each day ( and acted upon that commitment ), the world will be transformed. No matter what you do, or who you are, if you begin the day with a commitment to helping those around you to be their best, you will feel better than any drug can make you feel.
At the start of each day, ask not : “ how can I be great today ? ”, but instead, ask : “ who can I help today ? ”. Happiness will come to you as you help others around you. Guaranteed !
What is the spirit in Sacred Spirit ?
The human spirit is also known as the soul, psyche, consciousness, essence ; or simply, that which animates us. Many have believed our spirit is supernatural and outlives our physical bodies. This has certainly been the teaching of the Occults.
The Elite believe that their spirits are destined for eternal life in an all-exclusive realm called heaven.
Many, as a result of a core belief in a supernatural human spirit, also believe in ghosts, demons, astrology and numerology. Today, science is helping us to better understand what is the human spirit.
The good news is, that we all have a spirit and it's nothing to do with the supernatural. Science today, can even explain its existence.
Electromagnetic signals, which in our bodies, are created between nerve synapses and neurones, form electrical and magnetic fields. These electro-magnetic fields are responsible for consciousness. Electro-magnetic fields, produced by our brain's neurones, may be the ultimate explanation of what mystics have for thousands of years, called our spirit.
Electro-magnetic fields enable matter to become animated, enabling the mind to become self aware, and think for itself. Aquarian Spirituality has long been an advocate of the Electric Universe model, which describes electro-magnetism as a key ' creative force ' in our universe ( as opposed to earlier Gravity-centric Universe models, which focused on gravity as the fundamental driver of the universe ). Now, that same energy ( electro-magnetism ) may well explain, not just the function of the entire universe, but the existence of our spirit ; our conscious self.
Electricity and magnetism together, may well be the source of our human spirit. Just as planetary bodies generate electrical and magnetic fields, so do we ( as proven today by brain-scanning devices, such as EEG devices ).
Our brain's self-generated, information-rich electro-magnetic field, may well be the very seat of consciousness and the source of our free will and being. This intricate design and function of our brain, leads many to consider whether evolution could produce such complexity, or was a greater intelligence responsible ?
Is there belief in God in Modern Spirituality ?
Religion and religiosity should be differentiated. Religion is simply the organisation and management of a spiritual method. Religiosity however, is an escalation of hardened hearts within a religion, which leads to fundamentalism, discrimination, hurt and fear. Superstitions are a device for manipulating followers under the guise of offering some supernatural advantage. Superstition is a deception and has nothing to do with true spirituality. Superstitions range from astrology and spells, right through to the mass mind-control rituals of the Occult.
Spirituality is NOT superstition and superstitions are not spirituality.
Aquarian Spirituality is a necessary response to increasing religiosity and superstitions, which have usurped our ' indigenous ' spiritual traditions. Aquarian Spiritual is a restorative movement ; a spring clean that is needed to again, enable us to gain pure nourishment and be our best.
The existence of a creator god is ultimately a sacred mystery. It may surprise some, that the existence of a divine creator is not the central concern of Sacred Spirituality.
Modern Spirituality is about people building loving relationships with other people, honouring the freedom of all beings, and creating a beautiful world. Spirituality is about the quality of our relationships : the sacred spirit between us.
If there is a god, living a love-filled life, protecting liberties and creating beautiful places, would honour that god more truthfully than any form of ceremonial worship !
Most practitioners of Sacred Spirit take an agnostic position on the existence of a god. We neither deny nor affirm the existence of a supernatural deity.
There is simply no evidence . . . either way at present. And neither is there any direct communication from any supernatural being(s).
There are no instructions from any god that we must worship a supernatural being ( at least not from ' above ' - there's plenty of instructions from men - but none directly from " heaven " ). No deity has ever come down from the sky and demanded to be worshiped.
There are also many, many problematic questions which theologians ( i.e. those who promote a Judeo-Christian God ) have failed to satisfactorily address ; such as the existence of suffering ( e.g. innocent children suffering cancer ) and evil ( i.e. whether by deliberate behaviour or by a disordered mind ) in the presence of a supposedly all-loving, all-knowing and all-powerful God, who could create a real paradise on Earth - free from childhood cancers - but instead, chooses not to
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