You don’t need a spiritual path. In fact, once you find one, you get in the way of what spirituality could have been.
Just becoming a fuller, more integrated human being, with the goal of clearing the backlogged pain in our hearts—usually from childhood—is enough. What often emerges from this experience is greater oneness and connection to all life—feeling more passion, joy, compassion and empathy. Sounds kinda “spiritual,” right? Yes, but no supernatural beliefs or spirits are needed, thus the quotation marks.
Whatever we think about spirituality is limited by our minds. So, what if we simply let go these imaginations and focus on removing what blocks the unnamed, uncontrived experience of living more fully? This is what’s called a via negativa path, which means experiencing something by which it is not. In this light, we don’t experience spirituality by reaching for it, via a belief system, but by clearing what impedes it from emanating from us. That’s why once you reach for spirituality, you get in its way.
We uncover and become this best version of ourselves by way of serious inner work, without reaching for the light. We let this figurative light shine from us (as our best selves) merely by clearing the pain and trauma that blocks it. This is spirituality by negation, and in my experience, a more organic and authentic experience of what we call “spirituality,” which I’d like to instead call becoming more fully human.
After all, we are humans having a spiritual experience. Better yet, we are humans having what we call a spiritual experience....<<<Read More>>>...