Discovering Spirituality

Hello and welcome to the Discovering Spirituality podcast. Episode 6: Spiritual Being. In this podcast I will be sharing my thoughts on the writing " Spiritual Being " taken from the channeled book "The light in Your Life is Spirit" by George A. Thompson. Atonement. We all make mistakes and if history is to judge us, we have continued to make mistakes despite the obvious lessons set before us. History, both personal and social should always be viewed as a guide to redemption, because should we take the time to truly think about our transgression we could learn valuable lessons and insights. But in order to make any significant changes we must act upon what we learn, so that we do not repeat the same mistakes or inadvertently copy negative behaviours from our peers. Life always finds a way to confront us with our inadequacies since many of the situations we struggle with occur with a degree of frequency. You could shut yourself away and avoid that...

Hello and welcome to the Discovering Spirituality podcast. Episode 5: Soul. In this podcast I will be sharing my thoughts on the writing " Soul " taken from the channeled book "The light in Your Life is Spirit" by George A. Thompson. There is something that strikes me about mans evolution and it is the key factor that helped man evolve, emotional intelligence. Emotional interactions that evolved beyond the instinct of pure survival, interactions that involved care, sharing and tolerance, which created more cohesive emotional bonds. As a result, social groups became more cohesive and structured, relying less on survival of the fittest. Eventually reaching a point where the capacity to reason began to evolve. With reason came more complex social structures. Nomadic tribes came together and created permanent settlements. Crafting and farming emerged, more sophisticated means of hunting evolved and animals were domesticated. Survival rates increased as did...

Is a life that is considered normal really abnormal? Does conforming to western social definitions of success really end up being successful? When we look at how a successful lifestyle is achieved and what it is built from, can we truly say that this is successful? The image of success of course revolves around obtaining material wealth; you have the car, the house, the good looks, the holidays, the boat, the big TV and on and on. We could say that the successful individual has intelligence, they have vision, determination and passion, which are to be commended. But are these virtues more about image or being seen with the appropriate milestones of success? They are for all intents and purposes social cliches. What if there was another kind of success; what if you redefined you own success milestones that did not revolve around accumulating possessions? For example, today you say to yourself "I will not lie", or "today I will be thankful for what I have", o...

For many, the most sought after state of being is happiness, people just want to be happy. The trouble is, most people have a rather limited perception of what happiness is. It is usually associated with the external, wealth, power and the satisfaction of desires. But when the fleeting success is over there is still a yearning for more and so the cycle continues.  This is in general, how society frames success and when all is said and done, what are you left with? Mores to the point what did you have? It's funny how the path of true meaning is at odds with the false meaning which is defined by society, in fact they are polar opposites.  When the individual succumbs to how society defines life's purpose it is clear that they are not thinking for themselves. To exist within a society there are certain responsibilities and frameworks. Most of the population live confined within these frameworks, which creates varying degrees of resentment that is tolerated by the po...