As is evident from the success of the current Republican
brand, the separation of religion and politics does not work. Appeals to
fundamentalist, traditional, judeo-christian religious beliefs is working for
them. But the fact is that the demographics of those who carry those beliefs
are against them. Hopefully, we are seeing the last hurrah of that kind of
thinking.
Meanwhile, people of all demographics, even those favoring
the Republicans, hunger for spiritual connection and succor. The kind of spirituality I've been posting
about is politically Progressive spirituality, connecting Science and Spirit,
heart and mind. It is cutting edge spirituality, not religion. By learning
about this kind of spirituality and practicing it, Progressives claim the
future.
And actually when we release our ego identity and accept our
reality as spirit we don’t just go ‘poof!’ and disappear, we experience a
miracle, a healing, a gradual shift from living lives of fear, disappointment,
anger and blame to lives of hope, optimism, generosity and compassion. The
miracle and forgiveness are similar aspects of healing the ego’s nightmare illusion
of separation. The miracle is not about external changes but solely about a
change of mind from ego to spirit.
“The miracle is taken first on faith, because to ask for it
implies the mind has been made ready to conceive of what it cannot see and does
not understand.”
Gradually, as we go within and shift from the ego’s guidance
to spirit’s, we feel more peaceful because we realize we that we, not anyone or
anything else, are the ones that give things all the meaning they have for us.
We thus are choosing differently and interpreting differently and feel less
victimized by what goes on around us. Faith in the constant presence of
spirit’s love and support and our oneness with it--the inside-out approach, shows
that our happiness does not rest upon external happenings: whether someone has
a good or bad day, does or does not smile, the weather is nice or nasty, or
whatever we believe secures our happiness and peace.
“Faith will bring its witnesses to show that what it rested
on is really there. And thus the miracle will justify your faith in it, and
show it rested on a world more real than what you saw before; a world redeemed
from what you thought was there.”
This happens, not because something magical occurred, but
because we practice our faith. We
bring the ‘problem’ to its source in the mind, shift from ego to spirit and
that changes how we interpret and feel. As
we increasingly experience release from the ego’s nightmares of judgment and
pain, we recognize the joy in learning we are not figures in this dream, but
the dreamers of the dream. As our faith
bears wonderful fruit, we realize the illusory dream has never left its source
in the illusory mind, that we have been wrong about everything here, and acting
on our faith in our reality as spirit brings us what we truly want.
“Miracles fall like drops of healing rain from Heaven on a
dry and dusty world, where starved and thirsty creatures come to die. Now they
have water. Now the world is green. And everywhere the signs of life spring
up.”
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