The University of Spirituality is an expanding educational resource. We’ll provide you with plenty of guidance in the form of concepts, ideas and suggested activities, but it is wise to acknowledge that all guidance is delivered to the prospective student through the tool of language, which is subject to individual interpretation. The material and course work on this web site is associated with spirituality. Words such as God, the Holy Spirit, Spirit, Love, Light and Energy are used repetitively. You’ll also come across the words Karma, Reincarnation and Past Lives frequently. Before venturing deeper into the University of Spirituality, we’d like to provide you with a bit of advice concerning the nature of words. Words are interpreted by the receiver. The meaning of words can be absorbed internally as deep as the heart is open to receive them. Words can indeed provide us with much needed inspiration, however, they can also be misinterpreted and misunderstood to where they loose much of their intended meaning. Therefore, the true nature of deep and profound spiritual experience is through feeling, intuition and a continually expanding perceptual awareness of noticeable change occurring within your inner reality. Although sometimes you cannot pin point exactly what is happening through rational analysis, you simply know that something has been stimulated within you. In short, words are not necessary to confirm an experiential feeling. For those of you who have had an authentic divine experience, you’ll resonate with what we have said. Spirituality is an expanded inner sensual awareness of empathetic connectedness with yourself, other people, animals and the life energy that permeates all that you see, hear and perceive. Although not always readily apparent, life energies can be experienced as a bubbling sensation that often produces mild euphoria mixed with both positive and negative reactions. You begin to know that a subtle tide of undefined change is occurring within you. You begin to identify more closely with your needs and desires and evaluate who you are and what you really want out of life. You also begin to intuitively sense that there is something much greater out there for you.

This is the emergence of spirituality.

While all of this may sound intriguing, you will have to face yourself on all levels. You will confront head on all of the feelings of despair, depression, abandonment, loneliness, worthlessness, frustration, worry, doubt, lack of self-confidence, guilt, vulnerability, irritability, and a sense of meaninglessness. These negative characteristics are what we might refer to as the personal aspect of emerging spirituality and are directly related to the internal purification process. Making matters worse, there is also an impersonal aspect of expanding spirituality looming on the horizon that also centers around negativity and darkness. For example, instead of just observing the various environmental problems, you will feel the pain of the earth. Instead of just hearing about the poor, starving and poverty stricken people of the world, you will feel the suffering of those people. Instead of just watching violence, war and people killing one another on the television, you will feel the darkness associated with these atrocities. In fact, you will be deeply affected by these opposing energies because they stand as irritating friction to the energies of love and harmonious flow. Your spirit will cry out to correct all of the moral inequities taking place in the world. This is the empathic nature of the spirit. Believe it or not, by resonating with the mentally stressful energies arising from the inequities taking place in the world, you are playing your part to help calm the energies of the storm raging across the ethers of the earth.

This is the emergence of spirituality.

Your spirit, by its very nature, is integrally interlinked with a much larger pool of spirits. The larger pool of spirits consists of a collection of individual spirits, just like yours, as well as the spirits of animals and the spirit of the earth. Reaching inward to purify your individual spirit, you automatically add to the purification of the whole pool. Purifying yourself helps to purify the polluted waters of the larger pool. When you awaken to spirituality in your own way, others awaken in their own way and as such, Universal Spirituality begins to manifest on the earth. The process begins with each individual pursuing a close bond of kinship with the soul and allowing spirituality to gently emergence.

What you just read is in a certain aspect a description of the power of prayer. Words can be powerful, particularly when used in affirmations, but they are not as effective as the collective power of spiritual silence. Upon communing with the sacred space within the silent depths of your soul, the spirit expands exponentially like rays of sunshine illuminating everything it touches. The power to bring about world peace rests within you. Each step of progress that you make in brining about peace within you, somewhere someone is benefiting from your efforts because we are all intricately connected.

We have described the emergence of spirituality in a somewhat negative context for a reason. Have you ever wondered why few have achieved enlightenment? Have you wondered why the Christ and the rest of the white robbed ones have not returned to our line of sight? The reason is because there is too much dark energy permeating the world stage and negating our efforts for positive change. The Emergence of Spirituality will, without a doubt, assist immensely in offsetting that disparity and the eventual transformation from darkness to light.