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SPIRIT

MIND BODY SPIRIT
       
"The mind is consciousness in the form of a will that is positive in direction and purposeful and orderly in development or unfolding."
"Spiritual evolution may be the entire purpose of physical existence."
"Spirit encompasses all of our possibilities, our physical, mental and spiritual qualities and our path."
"If we had only one need in life it would be to evolve spiritually as the universe intended for us to do."
"When we are on our path it is the only time we are in a position to learn the spiritual lessons we came here to learn."

Spirit contains the blueprint for our existence and purpose

SPIRIT is the source of the Mind and the Body. If the body is a metaphor of the mind, Mind is a metaphor of the spirit, and spirit is a metaphor and expression of the Divine, the ultimate source of the Universe, and the Universe itself. The universe is-and contains-everything, both the manifest, or physical, and the unmanifested, or non-physical. The non-physical is the source of the physical. Modern (quantum) physics has demonstrated that subatomic quanta (waves) are non-physical-they have no dimension whatsoever-and yet, in their mysterious dance of creativity they cause physical existence. [1]


The entire universe may be thought of as consciousness or awareness; it is made of consciousness and it is conscious. Everything has consciousness and everything is conscious. Consciousness is the awareness and ability to perceive and to respond to contact, connection or communication. Every cell in your body has consciousness, and the atomic and subatomic energies that comprise these cells, link them meaningfully together, and link us indivisibly to the universe all have consciousness. Consciousness and Mind may be thought of as synonyms; it is possible that all life shares and is unified in one undivided mind.


The mind is consciousness in the form of a will (an intention) that is positive in direction and both purposeful and orderly in development or unfolding. All life is guided and ordered by Consciousness, or Mind, which many people consider to be divine. Some call Consciousness the Mind of God. One of our greatest needs and deepest urges as humans is to find or discover the positive purpose and meaning in our existence and to evolve spiritually. Spiritual evolution may be the entire purpose of physical existence.


Just as our DNA contains the blueprint for our physical existence, Spirit contains the blueprint for our existence and our purpose on all levels, including physical life and our relationship with the divine source. Spirit encompasses all of our possibilities, our physical, mental and spiritual qualities and our path.


We are on a spiritual path

Our path is the name we give to the parameters, limitations, and guidelines that for us define the geography and the topography of a given physical lifetime in a way that makes it possible for us, given our innate qualities, to develop spiritually in an optimal way. We are always evolving on the spiritual level. Class is never out. Like the thousand-pedaled lotus flower of Hinduism, life is always unfolding in order to manifest every possibility. The Creation never ends.


In spite of the dizzying diversity and overflowing abundance of life, it is still all one unified existence without borders or limits. The Universe is united; it is one unified totality.


The Universe is whole; it is one united existence. You are whole too, and you are complete: you are one. To become fully aware of this with one's whole consciousness is a priceless gift which everyone seeks. It is the only route to peace. It is free and we each have everything we require in order to attain it.


When we are weighted down with negative habits of mind we cannot function in a whole and healthy way mentally or physically; we are handicapped by pain and confusion; we cannot see, feel, sense, locate and connect with our natural spiritual path. We lose our way. We feel divided; we feel that something is missing, that we are incomplete. People feel empty, as if there were a hole in their being, which they vainly attempt to fill with emotional and physical addictions and attachments of all kinds. The result is spiritual pain, just as being out of balance and unhealthy physically and mentally causes physical and mental pain. Being out of balance spiritually, in turn, causes mental and physical imbalances, whose energies form closed loops that perpetuate themselves and are hard to break.


When we lose our way we forget that we are whole, that we are connected to the divine, and that we are on a spiritual path. We begin to feel divided from what we need and want, and even from what we are. We begin to lose sight of ourselves. It is then that we begin to believe in the possibility of loss. We become unable to have the spiritual experiences that are both the purpose of this lifetime and our divine right. We are struggling and spinning our wheels instead of progressing optimally along our spiritual pathway.


On our path we achieve our spiritual goals

The imbalance in our perception causes an imbalance in our experience. The resulting spiritual, mental and physical pain is a symptom of that imbalance. Pain is a message, but it is not the source of the message any more than your television is the source of the program you're watching. Pain is meant as a signal and a prompt for us to take action and resolve the problem at its source. Pain tells us that we need to regain our balance, clear up our confusion, recover our sense of wholeness and reconnect with our path. Or connect with our path for the first time.


Balance, health and wholeness is our natural state of being-on every level. When we are fully in balance-when our negative habits of Mind are cleared up-we can see, feel, sense and recognize our path in life. David Kohlhagen is uniquely qualified to assist people in regaining their life's path. If we had only one need in life it would be to evolve spiritually as the universe intended for us to do. When we are on our path it is the only time we are in a position to learn the spiritual lessons we came here to learn, it is the only time we are in a position to achieve the spiritual goals we came here to achieve. When we achieve these highest goals then we obtain our birthright: peace, power and contentment.


David Kohlhagen is not affiliated with any religion.


[1] Michael Talbot (1991). The Holographic Universe. New York: HarperCollins. 33.


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