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Personal Communion with the Spiritual Realm

It is possible for everyone to attain personal communion with the spiritual realm, and it is essential to strive for this communion. When your approach to spirituality is based on direct, inner experience rather than outer understanding, your spiritual life will be enriched immensely.

By Kim Michaels

The central idea behind all religion and spirituality is that the material universe is not all that exists. There is a spiritual realm beyond the material universe, and there is no impenetrable barrier between the spiritual and the material worlds. Virtually every religion and spiritual philosophy claims to originate from a communion between the spiritual and the material world.

By looking at history, you will see that the tradition of human beings communicating with spiritual beings goes back as far as we have recorded history. In some cultures, there has been an attempt to monopolize the communion with the spiritual realm, saying that only the pharaoh, temple priest, prophet or church leader can have such communication. However, other cultures have had a more open approach in which many people have achieved some degree of inner communion.

Opposition to spiritual communion
As an example of a closed culture, let us look at Christianity. In a traditional Christian culture, only the Vicar of Christ is supposed to commune with the spiritual realm. However, if you study the history of the early Christian church, you might realize that this was done partially for political reasons.

In reality, Jesus trained his disciples to have spiritual communion. He did not send them out with a written doctrine; he sent them to preach by the Holy Spirit. Many Catholic saints attained spiritual communion, and many modern Christians (from every denomination) have done the same. In fact, it is not unusual to hear a Christian minister state that he or she received instructions from Jesus. Many lay Christians have had the same experience.

The logical question is whether attaining inner communion is a natural part of the any faith? After all, if all people have the potential to "let that mind be in you, which was in Christ Jesus," then it would seem that all have the potential to achieve direct communion with the spiritual realm.

Another source of opposition to spiritual communion comes from science. However, as we have already discussed elsewhere) Einstein's theory of relativity opens up the possibility of spiritual communion. The theory proves that everything is energy, and energy is vibration. This opens up the possibility that there could be levels of vibrations above the material realm. The fact that people throughout the ages have had spiritual visions indicates that the human mind has the ability to act as a radio receiver that can tune in to the frequencies of the spiritual realm. (For more on this, see the section The universal path behind all religions.)

Another factor that points beyond the traditional opposition to spiritual communion is the observable fact that more and more people are claiming to have such communion. This can take many forms, including increased intuition, near-death experiences, out-of-body experiences or a direct contact with spiritual beings.

One of the central themes on this website is that we live in a time when more people are meant to achieve personal communion with the spiritual realm. Is is a time like the one described in the prophecy of Joel:

Joel 2:28 And it shall come to pass afterward, [that] I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:
Joel 2:29 And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit.

Why is communion important?
Why is it important for you to achieve personal communion with the spiritual realm? One reason is that personal communion can give you a deeper understanding of the spiritual side of life. Studying an outer doctrine might not give you a deeply personal understanding, because the words of the doctrine may not give you an "aha experience." However, when you attain personal communion, you receive a higher understanding that is expressed in words and images that have a deeply personal meaning. Such an understanding can give you answers that make sense to you and therefore resolve your inner conflicts.

Another important reason is the question of what kind of truth you want? Do you want a man-made "truth" that is influenced by human opinions and possibly by the eternal human power plays? Or do you want an understanding that originates in a realm that is above and beyond the human level of consciousness? If you study the history of many religions, including the early Christian church, you will see that human beings have an incredible ability to turn a spiritual truth into a relative, political doctrine.

In fact, one of the central teachings of this website is that most people have descended into a lower state of consciousness in which everything seems relative. The true purpose of all spirituality is to help people walk a path that leads them out of that lower state of consciousness and into a higher state of consciousness.

As an example of the influence of politics on religion, you might study the Aryan controversy which split the early Christian church into the Western Church (the Roman Catholic Church) and the Eastern Orthodox Church. The central issue was whether Jesus was God or a creation of God. The arguments used by both sides clearly demonstrate the lower mind's ability to pervert a spiritual truth. Even more revealing is the methods used by the two sides, methods that you might expect from the New York mafia but not from Christian bishops.

An unbiased study of the history of religion clearly shows that religion is not above being affected by the eternal human quest for power and control. In this war, spiritual truth is usually the first causality. Many people have rejected all religion because of such power plays. Yet, the obvious alternative is to reestablish a direct communion with the spiritual realm, whereby you can receive a spiritual understanding that is not affected by the lower aspects of human nature, including your own lower mind.

How to achieve personal communion
One of the central themes of this website is that every human being has a higher self. This self is a higher part of your mind, and it permanently resides in the spiritual realm.

Through this self, you can achieve communion with the spiritual realm. You can receive insights that are not affected by human power plays or your own lower mind. Such insights will be deeply personal and designed to help you take the next step on your personal path.

The main purpose of this website is to help you realize that you have a higher self and to help you establish a direct, conscious connection to that part of your being.

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