Contemporary Spirituality for an Evolving World

Breakdown in order to Breakthrough

We are living in unprecedented times of accelerated change. Change that is evident all around us and which we experience in every arena of our lives, from the political, the economical and financial, to the social, and the religious.

More and more people are asking fundamental questions regarding their basic human rights and overall well-being, and beginning to question the influence that external ‘powers’ have over our lives. No longer content with dismissive answers from those in positions of ‘power’, people are beginning to recognize that they have the freedom to choose. The balance between ‘power’ and empowerment is beginning to shift.

Humanity stands on an imminent threshold which is about to take it into a New Paradigm. We are witnessing the early stages of the birth of a New World. As this New World emerges – as prophesied long ago by many  advanced indigenous cultures, and portended by rare astronomical alignments currently taking place in our Galaxy, including the completion of a 26,000 year Galactic Cycle – everything is set to change.

We are now bearing witness to the collapse of political, economical, social and financial systems, as people respond to the call of the New World, the call of our time and the call of their Soul. These courageous people are reaching out for a better quality of life, for equality, for their basic survival needs to be met, and for an overall sense of well-being, all of which are our fundamental birthright. People are reclaiming their individual power, and if they can use this wisely, this will help to empower millions of fellow humans across the globe. We are bearing witness to a re-evolution, on a global scale.

The energy of change is sweeping the globe. People are literally ‘waking up’ to the reality of their lives and to the current state of the world.

Under the spotlight of radical questioning and these sweeping changes is religion, or in a broader sense, spirituality. Are religion and spirituality one and the same thing? At the centre of all religion lies a spiritual heart. However, this spiritual heart, like the human heart, lies buried under thousands of years of conditioning and distortion, which has dominated and hidden the pure heart of religion. The heart of religion and the human heart are not dissimilar in their historical fate. For the most part, both have remained buried under eons of fear based constructs, which have manifested a distorted and unrecognizable caricature of religion, and of the human being.

It is said that all rivers lead to the same ocean and, in that, all religion leads to the same fundamental message and meaning – Love.

Contemporary Spirituality.

What is Contemporary Spirituality? We could say that Contemporary Spirituality is an extraction of the purest essence of all religion. It is what lies at the heart of all religion and at the heart of any spiritual practice or philosophy which has developed a complex doctrine, a fundamentalist and inaccurate set of scriptures and texts, and a dysfunctional set of rules and code of conduct.

Contemporary Spirituality is a contemporary spirituality that speaks directly to us now in the times we live in. It is a Way which brings our spiritual focus into the Now.

Religion is an ancient system that was birthed in a unrecognizable (to our modern mind) and vastly different time in our ancient human history. Its rise to prominence took place when our conscious evolution was in its formative stages. The heart of religion was adapted beyond all original meaning by those who held power, in order to control, manipulate and dominate the human being of 2,000 and more years ago. Our conscious evolution has come a long way since then. We are no longer in the infancy stages of our conscious evolutionary development. Therefore, it is entirely out of context to be following antiquated religious doctrine created by, and for, our less consciously evolved predecessors.

Contemporary Spirituality consists of a Way, which is uncorrupted, uncomplicated and non-fundamental. It is an expression of spirituality and religion in its purest form. It represents the true heart of all religion, which was hidden by power hungry rulers, long ago. The heart of Contemporary Spirituality is open and available for all to see. A heart that is exquisite in its simplicity, transparency, beauty and purity. Contemporary Spirituality invites ALL, no matter what race, denomination or creed, to be inspired and to seek to aspire and embody its proposals. A Way which is an infinitely pure and true expression of what lay at the heart of religion and certain spiritual paths.

Contemporary Spirituality invites us toward Self-Mastery, to master our bodies, our senses, our emotions, our thoughts, and the way we live our lives. It encourages us to cultivate Self-discipline, Self-love, Self-awareness, Self-knowing and Self-realization. Contemporary Spirituality leads us along a clear path, devoid of rules, judgments, expectations, dogma, or fundamentalist belief systems. It guides us towards enlightenment. Contemporary Spirituality requires no intellectual pre-disposition, as it is a language of the heart. It invites us to explore, practice and master the Seven Cornerstones of Contemporary Spirituality. (see below). The joy of Contemporary Spirituality is in its simplicity. It is a stripped back to the core Spiritual Way forward for humanity. It gently encourages and guides us to let go of dualistic and separatist religious indoctrination, and instead, embrace the concept of equality, unity, and unifying as one global family, with one ‘religion’, one spiritual practice, at the heart of humanity, that of Love. This is something that we are now ready to embrace as contemporary, consciously evolving human beings.

The Light Shadow

Contemporary Spirituality embraces the human shadow, recognizing that when we explore ourselves with consciousness and awareness, and are therefore engaged in our own evolutionary process, the shadow is not dark, but indeed Light. Contemporary Spirituality discounts the notion of the existence of a fundamentally dark nature within the human being, and instead acknowledges that there exists, within each of us a primal wound, one of separation from Source/God/our God Selves/Divinity/our Divine Nature. However, this is not a wound we must bear as part of being human. We experience it only because we have been steeped in dualism, brought about by the misinterpretation or obscuration of what lay at the heart of religious and spiritual philosophies throughout human history.

The Light Shadow is referred to as such because by the process of becoming aware of the human shadow and healing this, its existence has brought us further enlightenment. When compassion and empathy are offered as balms with which the human shadow can be healed and transformed, this results in its integration, and the conscious evolution of the human being.

For thousands of years we have lived under dictatorships, flawed regimes and a misinterpretation of the fundamental meaning of all religions, this being Love. We have lived in duality, at a personal and collective level. We have been separated from the heart of religion and spirituality, and therefore our own hearts. The primal wound of humanity, separation from Source/God/Divine Self, is a wound which can be healed. The way to healing all perceived sense of separation, (for we have never truly been separate, only perceived ourselves to be so), is to become Love and only Love. To live, breathe, sleep and live Love in every moment. To be a Master of the Heart. To reclaim and embody our natural state of being -  which is Love. This is what lies at the heart of Contemporary Spirituality – a New Way forward for a New Human and a New World.

Seven Cornerstones of Contemporary Spirituality

The following is a list of the Seven Cornerstones of Contemporary Spirituality. Each is a teaching in itself, and all tend to be explored, practiced and embodied at the same time. Each supports the transformation of the Light Shadow into a vast and beautiful Light which can surround and radiate from us.

Unconditional Love

Empathy

Compassion

Forgiveness

Conscious Communication

Unconditional Positive Regard

Compassionate Action

When all seven of these foundational qualities of Contemporary Spirituality are mastered and lived realities, every day, we have attained Self-Mastery. This is when our True Essence is fully awakened. This is when the heart has become fully transparent. When all humans embody this Way, as a lived reality, we will live in a Transcendent World.

If you would like to explore Contemporary Spirituality in more depth, including the Seven Cornerstones please come along to one of our Contemporary Spirituality for an Evolving World events.