"The only way to know the spiritual is to experience it."
"We all seek connection with the same spiritual source."
"At each moment in time we are in exactly the optimal position to learn each of our spiritual lessons. It is a true gift when our focused consciousness is in tune with this cosmic reality."
Spiritual Experience and Tranceformation
Many people seek help because they are having a spiritual crisis, or a crisis of
faith. All people who connect with the existence of a God, Great Spirit, Yahweh,
Allah, Divine Creator of the Universe, "Spirit" or "All That Is" believe in the
same God or divine entity or presence. They just think about it and experience it
differently. Words cannot express the divine; they are too limited. They can only
point toward the experience of the spiritual. The finger that points to the moon
is not the moon. The only way to know the spiritual is to experience it, and everyone
experiences their spiritual life in a unique way.
For many people religion and "spiritual life" is not the same thing. For them the
capacity for living spiritually is independent of religion. After all, which came
first, spirit or religion, the experience or the words that attempt to describe
it? Others are able to find themselves spiritually in Christianity, Buddhism, Taoism,
Islam, Hinduism, and numerous other faiths. We all seek connection with the same
spiritual source: "There is no God but God"; "One truth, many paths."
The desire for spiritual connection and fulfillment is a universal human motivation
and it is our deepest human need. The path to spiritual awareness and expression
affects, informs, and runs through all aspects of our lives. Like the blueprint
and wellspring of the life force contained in the DNA of every seed and every human
cell, the spiritual impulse comes from the very center of our being.
Our spiritual self is constantly finding a way to continue developing, unfolding,
expressing itself, and manifesting in our lives. The river of our spiritual expression
cannot be stopped-it will find a way to fulfill all of its possibilities. It connects
directly to our purpose for being here and it is intimately connected with our individual
will and volition: we deeply want and need to give it expression in accord with
our gifts and with the opportunities afforded us in this lifetime.
Since it works within divine will and purpose-as all things do-the river of our
spiritual expression cannot stop, but it can become impeded or blocked by our
bad
habits. Any deep level distress, pain, and frustration of your spiritual fulfillment
and expression is caused by a bad habit that can be released and
tranceformed.
TRANCEFORMATION AND YOUR SPIRITUALITY
Spirit, Spirituality and Divine Nature
Apart from our individual intuitions about it, we know or sense that we have a spiritual
nature in part because we unceasingly long for answers to the "big questions."
THE BIG QUESTIONS:
Who and what am I? Why am I here? What is the meaning of existence? What am I supposed
to be doing and why? What is my individual path? How do I get on it? What is my
purpose? Where am I going? What is divine nature and what is my relationship with
it? What does the divine want with me? What does the divine want for me? How can
I feel connection with something bigger than myself, including with other people,
other creatures, the planet, and the universe? Why does anything matter? What is
important and what isn't? What is forever? How can I identify with divine spirit
and its purpose for me? How do I find the meaning and significance of my life?
Our spiritual nature is the source of all our energy, our mind, our personality,
and our physical characteristics and existence-spirit is the root source of everything.
Spirit is the uncreated or non-physical source of the created or physical universe.
Spirit is the source of our underlying path, direction, or purpose in life-spirit
is the meaning, nature, and purpose in everything: it is the life and the way.
People call spirit our "center" because spirit is thought to come from the middle-or
center-of our being. Since everything works in a circle, then every circle-everything-has
a center. In Western thinking the center is the "mind;" in Eastern thinking the
mind is called the "heart," and that is our center. Contemporary bioenergetics has
discovered that more neurobioenergetic activity originates in-and radiates from-our
heart than from anywhere else in our body. The heart symbolizes love, and love means
"moving toward the center," where pure connection with the universe becomes possible.
"That which is most personal is most universal." The center of everything is the
heart/mind of the divine. Either heart or mind may be thought of as our spiritual
center. The universe itself has a center, or heart, which is positive in nature.
We carry on our existence from "inside" that divine center.
Since Mind, Consciousness and Energy underpin the entire physical and subatomic
creation, fundamental reality, like subatomic reality, is nonlocal, meaning that
it is everywhere at once. Therefore "our" center is really the center, not just
of us but of everything. When we connect with our center we are in connection with
the center.
Our personal spiritual nature is an inseparable expression of our divine nature
and of the divine nature. All is all.
Our spiritual characteristics are manifestations of unmanifested (non-physical)
divine or spiritual qualities. The unmanifest or non-physical spirit gives birth
to the manifest or physical. The unmanifest or non-physical is the source of both
our divine and our physical/human nature. Just as our mind is a metaphor or expression
of divine mind, the body is a metaphor or expression of the human mind. (See
INTRODUCTION.)
The qualities of our "inner" or "original" spiritual nature are wholly positive
in nature. They are the qualities of love, mercy, charity, kindness, inclusion,
compassion, connection, creativity, surrender, unity, joy and peace. They are the most powerful
force in the universe. They never stop seeking expression in both our "inner" and
"outer" life. They are present in everything. They are unstoppable. Like water,
they will always find a way to be expressed.
The negative experiences in our life that cause us to feel distressed in so many
ways are not caused by spirit. They are all brought about by our free will in the
course of exploring all the possibilities of life. The negative habits that result
from our explorations are caused by fear, and especially by the fear of
loss, that
results from a sense of separation from our core spiritual nature, and therefore
from our self. These bad habits can be cleared up in order to restore your sense
of connection with your indwelling spiritual nature.
When bad habits are cleared from your path you have clarity, you feel whole; you
are in a position to recognize and connect with your spiritual nature and your path,
purpose, and direction in life.
Bad Habits, Tranceformation and Spiritual
Evolution
Our spiritual being and our path are core natural aspects of our being. They are
"built in" to what-and who-we are. They are original equipment. When you are distressed
and your way is blocked by bad habits, your vision is obscured, your senses and
intuition are clogged with pain, confusion, and mental baggage, your windshield
is covered with mud, and you are struggling to cope with the obstacles in your road
of life-obstacles you cannot even discern (you don't recognize them; you can't see
them for what they are). Often your experience is one of surviving and coping, and
little else. In this condition it is difficult or impossible to connect with your
spiritual self and your spiritual goals.
The processes of Tranceformation are used to clear the obstructing bad habits out
of your roadway. When your road is clear your vision is clear: you can see. What
you can see is the natural path that is an expression of your personal spiritual
existence, experience, and spiritual learning needs. We are each on a unique spiritual
path or journey that is guided by the wisdom and wholeness of divine nature. When
we are free of the obscuring effects of bad habits we can experience our self as
being fully in the present. When we are fully and consciously present we naturally
see what and where we are.
Each person's spiritual path has a direction, or naturally unfolding and orderly
progression: we are all spiritually evolving. We are here in the classroom of an
earthly, three-dimensional experience so that we can learn certain specific lessons
that will propel our spiritual development-our spiritual evolution-forward. At each
moment in time we are in exactly the optimal position to learn each of our spiritual
lessons. It is a true gift when our focused consciousness is in tune with this cosmic
reality.
Since divine nature is working patiently with each of us individually, at our own
individual pace, essentially we have eternity in which to evolve. And yet, despite
the eternal patience of spirit, we feel spiritual pain and confusion for a reason.
At such times we feel a strong pushing or pulling forward, as if the river of our
spiritual development is backing up and pushing against our humanness, pushing against
our psychological defenses, urging us to examine some falsehood, clear some bad
habit so we can move forward toward spiritual illumination and freedom, just as
divine spirit intended.
For the sake of your spiritual evolution, the baby that represents the next level
in your spiritual evolution needs and wants to be born-and you want it to be born.
Often people contact David Kohlhagen when they
are ready to be "reborn," or break through, develop, and bloom into their next evolutionary
level of being. With the help of what might be called a spiritual midwife you can
clear away the obstacles from your path and give birth to your next level of spiritual
evolution. Then you will move into a greater sense of your spiritual self and purpose.
The divine or spiritual self is always whole. When you get connection-or re-connection-with
your spiritual self you will know what spirit knew all along: at your center you
are whole, connected, peaceful, and well.
David Kohlhagen is not affiliated with any religion.
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