Spirituality... just say the word and it elicits a response sometimes disproportionate to the six syllables uttered. But what is it? What does it signify? Why is it important?

The spiritual realm is the invisible realm, the etheric, the astral, the energetic realms, a realm prior to the manifestation of solid matter and gross creation. All religions it seems perhaps proclaim, suggest, and imply this realm with an explanation, a doctrine, a dogma, some principals that underlie spirituality. Like "God," the word evokes innate reverence, and in some correspondingly contempt.

Today of course even physics has arrived at the inevitable conclusion that all is energy, nothing is solid in essence. Likewise as a child I would reside in the invisible world and commune with something nameless and wonderful and mysterious. No one else seemed to know about this world and today it is rather similar. Many of us for whom the invisible world is real are marginalized by those who do not recognize, participate, or otherwise doubt its very existence.

The main difference is there are today a lot more of us, at least than there seemed to be in my childhood. But... and it is a big but... just believing or practicing or being interested in spirituality is not enough. It is my sincere belief that without a revolution in consciousness in the modern era our world is truly lost.

The signs have been here forever it seems – the end times, the apocalypse, weapons of mass destruction, the Second Coming, the Maitreya, the Kaliyuga. It appears that if we take our spirituality seriously then love, compassion, respect, and reverence would be expressed in outward expression, acts of mercy and courage, interventions and help.

While this may be true, any amount of acts of mercy and kindness do not address the fundamental question of our being-ness, our truth, the destiny, capacity, and potential of humanity itself.

We are spiritual beings fundamentally animated and nourished by the Divine. We are temporary appearances of Consciousness appearing in the relative realm, temporarily separated from the flow of Consciousness. Will we find a way to honor this source, the Divine Oneness of Life, without practical applications, without treating the symptoms while ignoring the disease?

Humanity has stooped to some of its lowest levels of ignorance today. With seven and a half billion people of which a mere few tens of thousands may possibly be sincerely engaged in spirituality per se what changes can be wrought? To every single person with an earnest calling I say tend the flame, care for the light, because from a single burning ember a great blaze can be born.

BLOG entry #23