New Questions About Spiritual Systems Answered And Why You Must Read Every Word Of This Report

2021-12-24T06:59:13Z

EllisYbarra0: Created page with "We hear a whole lot of people using the phrase "more spiritual than religious" these days, causing us to ponder what they really mean when they label themselves this way. It h..."

We hear a whole lot of people using the phrase "more spiritual than religious" these days, causing us to ponder what they really mean when they label themselves this way. It has been our experience that there really is a soul deepening difference between spiritual and religious -- a difference we have termed spiritual emergence versus religious emergency. Spiritual emergence is a gradual unfoldment of spiritual expression that causes a minimal 'disturbance' in our everyday functioning because we have been somewhat prepared for it, given our disposition for the mystical. On the flip side, there are actually people who experience what we call religious emergencies, which will cause significant disruptions in their day to day living, as these folks tend to be unprepared for mystical experiences since they consider themselves to be more religious than spiritual. Emergent spiritual experiences like visions, deeply felt meditations, out-of-body experiences, apparitions and precognitive dreams are often exhilarating and life-changing and may be very transformative -- for anyone that have moved to an area of being more spiritual than religious. These same experiences, however, can also be deeply unsettling for individuals that fall in the category of being more religious than spiritual. Folks that will be more spiritual than religious seem to have less difficulty with these types of transcendental experiences. Why? Spiritually-inclined people are often more open to mystical experiences. They feel more linked to the transcendentalness of life purpose ([https://git.sicom.gov.co/allanstandfield Ongoing]). They have a spiritual, not religious, mindset! Their openness to the non-material and ethereal dimensions of reality make them the perfect recipients for these life-affirming experiences. A component of the challenge highly religious people face in transformative experiences is staying grounded after they experience these 'higher octaves' of reality. These 'altered states of being' can be foreign, and even taboo, on the subject of handling their ingrained religiosity. Due to their denominational inhibitions, mainstream religious people usually be quite reluctant to integrate highly spiritual experiences into their religious practices. They might even feel they will be bedeviled by these experiences. Great spiritual teachers and mystics alike assure us that these transcendent experiences are natural and healthy. They see these experiences as proof of our evolving spirituality and enlightenment. They encourage us to willingly allow highly spiritual/mystical experiences to touch our lives and also to use the memories of those experiences -- and thus the transformative value of those experiences -- to flow into our everyday lives. Living our lives based on embedded religious theology causes it to be challenging to allow spiritual and metaphysical teachings into our world view. What usually happens will be the cognitive dissonance caused by the new mind-stretching 'experiential information' causes people to tighten their dogmatic reins so that any progress -- and openness -- to potentially transformative truths is shut down completely. In all reality, that's the troublesome dynamic we see occurring in spiritual communities/New Thought churches/liberal churches today. Should the leadership in those communities is stuck in embedded religious theology, it causes it to be very difficult for the membership that considers themselves to be more spiritual than religious to get a spiritual, not religious, message. Additionally, it can make it very difficult for the minister and music director to find out eye-to-eye if the music director is hesitant to -- or outright refuses to -- change the song lyrics to complement the minister's spiritually-oriented message. It's an old story -- you know, the one about pouring new wine into old wineskins! However, in the event the leadership happens to be more spiritual than religious in a church setting (holding services in a church building seen as stained glass windows and pews), the members who consider themselves to be more religious than spiritual demand a message and music that are more dogmatically religious than universally open and spiritual. The 2 factions behave like oil and water. And also the ministers who serve those divided communities operate between a rock and also a hard place because making both factions happy is impossible! If you have ever been associated with, or are currently involved with, a spiritual/religious community comprised of a culture of religious-oriented and spiritually-oriented folks within the same sanctuary at the same time, you know it is a recipe for conflict and division. Congregations have a tendency to blame their difficulties on going from a family size to a pastoral size to a program size, etc. While there is some truth to that perspective, nearly all the difficulty lies within the philosophical and religious differences between the spiritual and religious cultures who are at odds.

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2021-12-24T06:59:07Z

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New Questions About Spiritual Systems Answered And Why You Must Read Every Word Of This Report

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