There is a certain sense of clarity I feel when I can step not just out of a particular story like Christianity but out of the meta-story - which in this case is the paradigm that says spirituality is *out there*, and our choice is thus which prophet to follow, which holy book to study, which priest or guru to look up to.
Why exactly should we exist in a world in which some few have access to the divine and then distill their visions for the rest of us? We don't accept that only some of us can see, or only some of us can reason, or only some of us can grow food. If we understand that we are part of a greater whole, aspects of source, then *of course* we can have personal and immediate access to that understanding through our own intuition and awareness. Step outside of this meta-story and it starts to seem rather silly - like the sort of thing that would-be leaders would invent if they wish to have power over others, and that followers would only accept if they have given up their own inner authority and capacity for connection.
Thank you for illuminating this imbalance and shining a light beyond it, and for sharing this in the 11th hour of 11/11. It felt aligned with my own explorations of ending separation, balancing masculine and feminine, shifting from codependency to co-creation, so I re-posted it.
I hear you brother, I feel it is a journey many of us are taking right in in recalibrating our relationship with that which is holy. It is like a revolutionary act to reclaim that oneness with source in a world that tries to disconnected us further. Removing the middle man that unfortunately abuses or misuses their role. It is important to ask these questions rather than follow blindly the ways things are, and in this questioning, hopefully, one finds their own truth in the matter. I feel like if we were all invited to explore our relationships to god, given the tools to nourish our communion with source, life would like very different than it does now. We are a fragmented world. Our lack of faith and our disconnection from truth - god - is reflected in so many people I see around me. We weren't given the tools. Yet we have the resources now as adults to find our way back, and to teach a better way moving forward. Peeling away the fluff and puff, stripping it back down to the essence of ~ god ~ . Remembering how to be in true connection.
There is a certain sense of clarity I feel when I can step not just out of a particular story like Christianity but out of the meta-story - which in this case is the paradigm that says spirituality is *out there*, and our choice is thus which prophet to follow, which holy book to study, which priest or guru to look up to.
Why exactly should we exist in a world in which some few have access to the divine and then distill their visions for the rest of us? We don't accept that only some of us can see, or only some of us can reason, or only some of us can grow food. If we understand that we are part of a greater whole, aspects of source, then *of course* we can have personal and immediate access to that understanding through our own intuition and awareness. Step outside of this meta-story and it starts to seem rather silly - like the sort of thing that would-be leaders would invent if they wish to have power over others, and that followers would only accept if they have given up their own inner authority and capacity for connection.
Thank you for illuminating this imbalance and shining a light beyond it, and for sharing this in the 11th hour of 11/11. It felt aligned with my own explorations of ending separation, balancing masculine and feminine, shifting from codependency to co-creation, so I re-posted it.
I hear you brother, I feel it is a journey many of us are taking right in in recalibrating our relationship with that which is holy. It is like a revolutionary act to reclaim that oneness with source in a world that tries to disconnected us further. Removing the middle man that unfortunately abuses or misuses their role. It is important to ask these questions rather than follow blindly the ways things are, and in this questioning, hopefully, one finds their own truth in the matter. I feel like if we were all invited to explore our relationships to god, given the tools to nourish our communion with source, life would like very different than it does now. We are a fragmented world. Our lack of faith and our disconnection from truth - god - is reflected in so many people I see around me. We weren't given the tools. Yet we have the resources now as adults to find our way back, and to teach a better way moving forward. Peeling away the fluff and puff, stripping it back down to the essence of ~ god ~ . Remembering how to be in true connection.