What Is Spirituality?

My friend Gary Bayley, who is a Professional D.J. (and a very popular one with dancers), told me the other day he had completed over 100 'Wainwright's' and has only 64 to finish the 'set'. For those not familiar with the term, a 'Wainwright' refers to a series of published walks in the beautiful mountains of The Lake District in Cumbria, in the north west of England.

Named after the man who took it upon himself to 'way-mark' and publish these walks, so the solo walker could enjoy the majesty and awesome beauty of those wild places...without the justified fear of getting lost.

When I asked Gary why he decided to complete the series, so to speak, he replied that it had not been a conscious decision. Rather, the joy and sheer exhilaration of being able to successfully navigate, what in British terms is, a vast wilderness, not only appealed to his need to find a quiet place where he could.. 'wander lonely as a cloud'... but also gave him a sense of achievement in actually doing it.

We humans need these quiet moments where we can, not only commune with Nature but also ourselves.

When we re-connect to our True Self, it's a silent, subliminal understanding of the true nature of our Reality and our responsibility for creating it. And that's not hyperbole, we really are creating our own Reality, right now, this very minute. But just as we can't see the waveform energy which carries the texts to our Mobile phones and pictures and sound to our TV sets...

We are unaware of the Forces which we are working with and are shaping every, apparently insignificant, event in our everyday lives.

Because, the Truth is...We are Spiritual Beings, who are having, Physical Experiences, through a Human Existence. This can be best understood when we realise that Science teaches us that Matter (seen & known)   and Energy(unseen & unknown)..are the same thing!

In fact, Matter cannot exist without the Energy which sustains it. In other words...

Everything in the whole Universe (including you and me) is Energy made manifest. How?

Science shows us that Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only change from one form to another. And the word 'Spiritual' is an ancient term, used from antiquity, by scholars and Philosophers to describe this unseen Energy. So it could be described as a 'scientific' term but...without the hard maths! Another term the ancients used to describe this unseen Energy can be translated to mean consciousness!
(See... 'The Tau of Physics' by Dr F Capra)

In more recent times Spiritual,  has come to be associated with Religious philosophy which proposes a 'GOD Creator' among other things. There are some, like Carl Jung, who worked with Freud for many years trying to understand what made Human Beings 'tick', who arrived at the conclusion that there was indeed some connection between Spiritual/Consciousness/Energy = Reality

Carl Jung called it...'Collective Unconscious' and a modern scholar refers to this connection in his wonderful book The Biology of Belief  (by Dr Bruce Lipton)

So...in a very real sense, Gary was steeped in the collective consciousness of the whole Universe while he steadfastly, navigated the twists and turns, not only of the paths through the mountains but....unconsciously  through the twists and turns of his own life. 

More on this later!