A Path of Spiritual Learning
By: Shirley Willett
Tags: Teaching, Opposites, Learning, Love, Spiritual Secrets

Spiritual Saturdays

Two opposites connecting

Physical reality no longer teaches me, but glows with my love for all who create it. There are some issues to write about, sparked by my desire for teaching. Spiritual reality now holds my attention to learning, and I am like a young child eager to learn more about this higher dimension. It’s as though I jump back and forth in my mind, from physical reality as a teacher, and spiritual reality as a student. When a child and first going to kindergarten I would come home, gather the ones younger than I on my doorsteps, and tell them what I learned for the day. It seems learning and teaching has always been in my nature.

It was through a spiritual awakening in 1975, and TM meditating that I became aware of bits and pieces of spirituality that as yet had no connections to physical reality. It was three decades of trying to balance these two opposites worlds, as Claire Elaine so eloquently expresses. A great deal of that time was spent in both teaching and learning extensively from others in art, literature, technology, and yes, even in politics — and mostly from my students and protégés. When I say learning I do not follow or believe. There always was an inner intuition that guided my own beliefs, even though I accepted others’ beliefs for them.

“The Genesis of Opposites is the Soul of All Matter” (From my book, 1985, “Do You See What I See?”)

The 1980s was a period of discovering my spiritual path, and intense searching to learn from everyone, all books, and some groups that were not cults. I wrote of my experiences in a poetry book, “Do You See What I See?”- As a way of teaching with poetic license, because the larger society did not accept much of this spiritual learning.

Gradually, around the turn of the century and toward my last aging years, I came to give most of my attention to spirituality that has so many synonyms in various spiritual disciplines. I like what Darshak Rana says, “Spirituality is not a religion, and hence it is free from any prejudices.” And therefore it is most wholistic, encompassing so many different ways of learning for each who travels the path.

My mind is like the “Last Rose of Summer” (Photo by author)

Aurora Eliam, CMP, in a poem captures some of my feelings:

“The breezes of dawn have secrets to tell you. Don’t go back to sleep! …

People are going back and forth, across the doorsill where the two worlds touch….

There is a greater intensity to know more about spiritual reality, which is the one experienced after death of the body with no physical capabilities. The deep desire is a kind of preparation for that event, so I will glide peacefully and willingly in to it. Upon reading Joe Luca, “Hello, your past is calling “, I thought of all the books and experiences in my past 1980s, and realized I can review them again. I have been rereading Rudolph Steiner’s “Knowledge of Higher Worlds and How to Attain Them”. He talks of the importance in physical life to develop this knowledge and the faculties for seeing, hearing, and feeling in those higher spiritual worlds. It is here, in physical reality we learn, and our spiritual mind is to study what we have learned here, and prepare for whatever is next for us.

Another book that I recently picked up again is, Ruth Montgomery’s “A World Beyond”. She channelled the famous psychic Arthur Ford in the hereafter, explaining his experience. Some things that especially impressed me:

“It was like coming home … What we make of it here is influenced by what we had expected on your side … Here we communicate, work, grow and thrive only through thought … [we are taught] how to remember, how to forget and what to know without learning. … It seems we create in the spirit world but no one here to admire the creativity. It seems in the afterlife we make our own reality with meeting like-minded souls … Idea of a computer in the physical world was carried there in the minds of men who had operated segments of this system here, and thus they tapped into the unlimited resources of this spirit plane, as Edison and others have done with their so-called inventions.”

There is never an end, but there are many beginnings.

Thank you for reading. Love to you all.