Post by gruntal on Sept 17, 2022 18:42:32 GMT
I am reading a book by Ralph M Lewis called Yesterday Has Much To Tell. Published by AMORC in 1973 it relates events more like in the 1930's. I can't help but think about my brief stay in that organization as a Rosicrucian. I also have memories of going to church as a kid up to my college years.
My spiritual journey culminated to what it is now on that fateful day around ten years ago when I showed up at a local meeting of the Rose Brotherhood. It was nothing more or less then one old lady allowing people into her home. She acted as a channel. You had to be careful not to step on one of her many cats! I felt vindicated at last: for so many years I felt uncomfortable about these things. I BELIEVED there was something out there and I had not found it yet. Beneath my shy Autistic manner was a tiger ready to pounce on the truth. When I found it I there was no going back or hesitation.
But returning to the start of this article and early Mysticism. It could be DANGEROUS back then to go against the establishment. Plus most people had little or no idea what spirituality was beyond going to church or being saved. At this point in time - at least where I live - there are endless numbers of 'Gurus". No clubs not cults and just barely qualifying as groups the number of advanced human beings out there ready and willing to assist in your spiritual journey is staggering.
The age of the dinosaurs came and went. Using that as a metaphor I think the Wonderful World of Spirituality no longer wants or needs the "strength in numbers" gambit. We already know right from wrong intuitively. And most of all we comprehend how incomprehensibly HUGE it all is. It will take many many lifetimes to even get our foot in the door to deal with all this.
It is indeed a New Age.
My spiritual journey culminated to what it is now on that fateful day around ten years ago when I showed up at a local meeting of the Rose Brotherhood. It was nothing more or less then one old lady allowing people into her home. She acted as a channel. You had to be careful not to step on one of her many cats! I felt vindicated at last: for so many years I felt uncomfortable about these things. I BELIEVED there was something out there and I had not found it yet. Beneath my shy Autistic manner was a tiger ready to pounce on the truth. When I found it I there was no going back or hesitation.
But returning to the start of this article and early Mysticism. It could be DANGEROUS back then to go against the establishment. Plus most people had little or no idea what spirituality was beyond going to church or being saved. At this point in time - at least where I live - there are endless numbers of 'Gurus". No clubs not cults and just barely qualifying as groups the number of advanced human beings out there ready and willing to assist in your spiritual journey is staggering.
The age of the dinosaurs came and went. Using that as a metaphor I think the Wonderful World of Spirituality no longer wants or needs the "strength in numbers" gambit. We already know right from wrong intuitively. And most of all we comprehend how incomprehensibly HUGE it all is. It will take many many lifetimes to even get our foot in the door to deal with all this.
It is indeed a New Age.
