A DIFFERENT WAY OF THINKING

Have you ever asked yourself what's it all about this life?

I have.

I am now 61 years old and have decided that it is this; learning to accept myself for what I am, and accepting others for what they are, because we are all children on a path of experience.

Sound too simple?

So, lets examine that statement. 'We are all children' means that we never grow up in the spiritual sense here on earth. I do believe that can only happen in the spirit world, we just don't have the equipment here in our human brains.

'On a path of experience', is different from saying that "we are here to learn", that sounds like we can fail to learn and that's not true, we will all get back to where we want and need to be, in good time. It’s not possible to fail, why do I think that? Because we have a built in homing device – it’s called a spirit!

The message I give most often in church from the spirit world is "BE PATIENT!" There is no time in the spirit world so there isn't any hurry to be in any place, there or here, spiritually speaking.

Think about that for a moment, if there is no time in the spiritual world  then our path of experience has no time limits, for this physical one is very short indeed. How liberating is that?

Because we are all children on the path of experience we will, in the ‘end’, arrive all at the same place.

Question: What and where is that?

Answer: It’s where we came from. No, not just to the spirit world to exist in a kind of limbo, I mean at the end of time where will we be? 

All the prophets and great men of all the ages agree, we are all part of the Great White Spirit, made by it, and with it, and of it. So that is where we will go back to, it’s a neatness that appeals to me, nature here on earth has a kind of roundness and a direction that progresses in a natural way, earth to earth and dust to dust, so why not spirit to spirit? 

It stands to reason that if we need to come here to the physical world to experience the life path of the egotistical human nature, [because we can’t do that in the spirit world,] perhaps then the character we take back will have earthly factors mixed up with the pure selfless energies of our own spirit template – to put it simplistically maybe we just won’t fit in, and so have to  ‘burn off’ those energies either there or back here again. 

What do we conclude then?

" Learning to accept myself for what I am, and accepting others for what they are" means we are in the same boat.

Other people have to get to grips with their human and spiritual nature too, and how they each do it is up to them as individuals. I am in no position to sit in judgment because I am also trying to make the best of it, in sometimes very difficult circumstances too. In other words, what is obvious about some things to me, might yet to be learned by others, umm.

 Judgment is a tricky subject, the masters tell us that we are not judged by anyone but ourselves, and I can understand that, rather than a committee or kind of law court of the heavens. It makes sense to me that on arriving at the spirit world we see all our character credits and debits lined up, and where we are placed in the ranks of the angels.

These are my understandings, after years of pondering on the subject, years of talking to spirit, years of getting the answers that I sometimes didn’t expect – or want for that matter, both before and after coming into the modern spiritualistic church.

After going through all the years of training to be a speaker, healer and demonstrator for the union, learning about the subject of spiritualism, the philosophy, healing and all the evidential testimony given to me both directly and indirectly, I – like all my spirit friends – am full of hope for the human race, that we all are getting there, yes, back where we know in our hearts that we are going, at our own pace, and we will arrive in due time, spirit time.

Have patience my friends.

Amen to that.

Stella Rodgers

Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one’s bath like a lump of sugar. - Pablo Picasso

Another way of thinking....

  A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, go together to visit their old university professor. Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life.

Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups - porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite - telling them to help themselves to the coffee.

When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said:

"If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress. Be assured that the cup itself adds no quality to the coffee. In most cases it is just more expensive and in some cases even hides what we drink. What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups... And then you began eying each others cups.

Now consider this: Life is the coffee; the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life, and the type of cup we have does not define, nor change the quality of Life we live.

Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee God has provided us.

God brews the coffee, not the cups.......... Enjoy your coffee! "

Spirituality - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopaedia.

Spirituality, in a narrow sense, concerns itself with matters of the spirit. Spiritual matters are those involving humankind's ultimate nature, not only as material biological organisms, but as beings with a unique relationship to that which is beyond both time and the material world. As such the spiritual is traditionally contrasted with the material, the temporal and the worldly.

A perceived sense of connection forms a central defining characteristic of spirituality — connection to a metaphysical reality greater than oneself, which may include an emotional experience of religious awe and reverence, or such states as satori or Nirvana. Equally importantly, spirituality relates to matters of sanity and of psychological health. Spirituality is the personal, subjective dimension of religion, particularly that which pertains to liberation or salvation (see also mysticism)

Spirituality may involve perceiving or wishing to perceive life as more important ("higher"), more complex or more integrated with one's world view; as contrasted with the merely sensual.

Many spiritual traditions, accordingly, share a common spiritual theme: the "path", "work", practice, or tradition of perceiving and internalising one's "true" nature and relationship to the rest of existence (God, creation (the universe), or life), and of becoming free of the lesser egoist self (or ego) in favor of being more fully one's "true" "Self"

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"Our Life is what our thoughts make it." - Joy Gower