Good Vibes Forum

In a nutshell spiritual development could be termed awareness expansion. To put it in everyday terminology, when we develop the spiritual faculties, which lay dormant within all of us, we open our eyes a little further and broaden our horizons. Many people enjoy watching television psychics/mediums and are often amazed at the results they achieve. Little do most viewers realise that they too have the inbuilt tools to duplicate the self same results. All it takes is to know how to go about honing your latent skills, or abilities. I use the term abilities rather than the word gifts, as I feel they are just part and parcel of the human condition. When I hear others using the term gift it makes me think of elitists and this I feel only serves to alienate people from what is in reality a very natural process of self-discovery. Development like anything else has to be learned and practiced before it can be of any use to the individual. However it can be very free form in its teaching, learning and application. There is a vast amount of ways to go about spiritual development and none are wrong, or even better than the others. Each person must find through trial and error what is the right path for him or her. But this handled in the correct way is a joyous journey of self discovery filled with humour lightness of spirit and loving support, both from others on their own paths as well as guides and other spirit dwellers. We exist in an amazing multi levelled universe I do not ask that you believe this statement, merely that you approach your spiritual work with an open mind and that you question all things. Never take for granted anything that you are told, ask how and why it is so and then only when you are happy and truly satisfied and feel it is the truth within your own heart should you accept it as your own truth. We all have our own truth and this can never be taken from us. We may add to it, or change it, but it will always remain our truth. One of the first and for me most important aspects to any spiritual work, is to respect the belief systems of all others. You may at times feel that the ideas of others are foolish, or extreme. This in no way shape, or form give us the right to belittle another, or even to tell them that they are wrong. We must at all times respect the rights and opinions of others, as we wish to be respected ourselves.