Has spirituality become sterile?
Just follow this process and you will manifest the man of your dreams.
A simple ritual.
A list.
An NLP process.
Just clear your way to success.
Just embody your future self and the rest will fall away.
Some kind of inherited advice that has been passed down from one teacher to the next with very little concern for the organic and diverse nature of the individual human experience.
A formula to make you feel safe in the front of fear that you feel when facing head on to the mystery.
Because if you do x + y then z will surely follow, right?
Another mechanism to keep us feeling safe and to stop us from feeling our innate fear and terror of the unknown.
Spirituality has become sterile.
Another mechanistic process to keep us feeling safe; to save us from having to really feel.
Because if we just follow the signs, everything will work out for us, right?
Using spirituality to serve our desires, only ever validates what we want to see; what feels safe.
The reality is: our true spiritual nature does not care for any of this.
As Joseph Campbell once said in The Power of Myth, “People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. I think that what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances with our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.”
Our true spiritual nature and the very point of it all, the final stage in the Magnum Opus, is to become The One. To embody the Philosophers Stone- to experience the absolute.
It is not to have the thing we want.
It’s to merge with the rapturous current of life and to become one with it.