Our Pathway to Unity
On our pathway to spiritual growth our first steps are to come to grips with the things that life has offered to us which may have been a challenge. For it is these experiences which stay with us and help form our perspective on life as we head into future pastures. At some point we take a look at them and reflect, open up the challenge, wrestle with it a little or a lot but often find something amongst it that has taught us something about ourselves, how it made us feel, perhaps we will try and make peace with it, let it go and stride towards another day intact and better for surviving and getting through it, knowing a little more, armed and wiser for the next hurdle that comes along.
The next stage of the pathway may be self-reflection and improvement, finding out who we are and who we can be without the expectations of others and our past experiences haunting us. We aim to feel free to be.
Then, once we have got to grips with all our baggage and perhaps learned how to be present, interactive, offer our skills to the world then maybe we progress to understanding a larger mission, a greater goal every soul on the planet undertook to try to achieve, before they become the physical being they are.
The task is to find the reason we are here above all else, beyond our soul growth, beyond experiencing a whole range of states of being, beyond our learning about our own unique being. We seek for the ultimate meaning of life.
Within us, in our DNA we all do know we are part of this greater mission. This part of us, together is what we have come from and what we return to. Some describe it as God, Creator, Universe. All religions and ancient belief systems and even science today encompass the idea of connectedness of a united form of consciousness that is greater than an individual soul.
This greater mission, our goal, our meaning for existing then is to create and expand through our collective being and add to Universal Consciousness.
It means our own individual life experiences are interactive and connected on a deeper level, the work going on in our individual lives feeds into another layer and we realise we have never really been operating as a separate entity but as a soul collective towards unity on Earth and beyond.
This has always been the case, the difference in this era is we are becoming more aware, we are awakening sometimes consciously but mostly subconsciously, we are knowing that there is more to life than what everyday activities provide.
We are becoming aware of our connection to each other and so we are becoming a more caring collective. This is quietly taking place underneath the surface of what can appear chaotic circumstances in global events, but it is happening. Though the more we feed consciously everyday into the idea of unity consciousness the more the energy will shift in this direction.
This cannot be otherwise for we were all connected before we came to the Earth as individual personalities and will return to this Spirit, energy, light being collective once our physical lives are complete.
So, if this is the way forward in our spiritual pathway bringing the ideas of love, peace, harmony, respect and security to the everyday lives of the souls on the Earth then how can we attain this lofty mission?
I believe we can do this simply through aiding and helping others and offering our love and compassion in many situations within our everyday world to include, embrace, connect and respect all those on Earth.
Oh my word, that can be tricky with some personalities seemingly making such a mission more of a trial however perhaps they are simply here to shake things up and maybe even show us what we don’t want and what we should be aiming for instead. Then we may be called to action to do more. To bring people together creating communities centered in love and compassion.
Our spiritual growth starts with practices of self-care and self-love, perhaps a yoga class, meditation, walk in nature, connecting with family and friends. This is the beginning of awakening you and your soul to a deeper understanding that you are a greater being than the personality you show the world.
‘We are all connected’ is a phrase used many times and infers that what happens to one happens to all on a certain layer of the energy levels of our existence. The butterfly effect demonstrates this, the fluttering of a butterfly’s wings across the other side of the world can impact someone thousands of miles away through setting in motion a chain of energetic events. What happens to you happens to me. This concept I find heartwarming knowing on some level we are all in it together.
Science has made connections to many ancient spiritual ideas through investigating frequency and vibration. Whatever faith you follow and even if you follow none there are connections to be made to do with the energy of love. The highest vibration in the energy of states of being.
We are sentient beings; we are that first. To survive in this world, we have almost switched off this conscious sensitivity to the energetic frequencies between us all. Our light being antennae has been taken over by the rush of everyday living. Occasionally we bring it to the forefront, and we feel we are more. We must tap into that and turn that tap full on.
I believe we can all open our hearts and awaken to a higher purpose. I believe we know in our hearts who we are and what immeasurable love we carry within us. I believe we can share that in a way that benefits us all and pulls us together. I have seen it in action. I just think we are not yet consistent enough and our faith gets knocked, we get a little battered along the way, but we can get there.
We need to shout out more of the good things going on in the world, the charity work, the caring that goes on for each other, the new discoveries that make life better. That is what we need to focus on first and build from that.
That light and love exists, it’s burning brightly, we just have our antennae switched to a different wavelength. So, let’s switch it over, get tuned in to what is working and what is helping us to be “all connected”.
This era, this lifetime has been earmarked, this age is a time for less separation from God, Creator, The Universe, it is a time like no other which harkens a continuum of unity consciousness. You are here now because of what you can contribute to this greater purpose and how honoured I feel to be able to remind you of that.
In gearing towards this aim we will in fact as a byproduct receive what we have been searching for in many other places and sometimes yet to find. We will find peace, love, compassion, respect and security in loving and bountiful measure.
It is in our hands, it is in our DNA, in our being and with what is innately us we can achieve great things together. That is what I call a true spiritual pathway.
Article by Patricia McDowall
More to Life Elder
Article published in More to Life – Edition 70
