A Fundamental Human Problem

Most human problems take place on contact with the boundary between our inner and outer world. Specifically, how we feel and respond to the conflicts between them. How we adapt to our environment, and what we personally choose to do with our understanding of it. Accounting for most problems are our relationships. Establishing life in a competitive and crowded society. Being able to financially support ourselves, work-life, food, heat, shelter/housing, health care, financial sustainability in later life. Crime, a crime against ourselves, property, and in our environment. War, including both personal and collective conflict. Environmental conservation, and more recently, global pandemic.

A Limited Lifestyle

The greatest danger we face is coming to believe that the world outside of us is a fundamentally untrustworthy and brutal place, and that we are powerless to change the direction of our own personal lives. We can find ourselves limiting future hopes or activities, investing our self into only those areas that feel safe. By doing so we avoid those areas that would otherwise have personal and special meaning for us. As human beings we need to 'benefit from a range of positive experiences to achieve a reasonable degree of self-worth and happiness.' 

The Spiritual Dimension

Spirituality is a dimension of human experience that has been especially helpful in alleviating this inner - outer tension. The physical and spiritual dimensions might be likened to the emotions and the mind, both providing solutions for each other’s failings and limitations.

The Physical Dimension

The physical earth itself offers us extraordinary experiences. It is a visually stunning globe full of possibility and a star-studded space with the potential for infinite energy and life. According to some schools of thought, this magnificent place could be an extension of our own consciousness, consisting of both a personal and collective cognisant. It is in this physical dimension where the self is fashioned. It is a self that develops from the life of others until eventually we become so distinguished and separate from everything and everyone else, we become a complete individual that can function without them. Without our experience of this physical world, we might not be conscious of ourselves, of our separateness, of our individual.

The physical world provides the body, and maybe the solution for the self which would otherwise have no distinct nature or personality. In turn the spiritual dimension provides meaning for the failings of the physical world, like those of suffering and death. This is how life works, nothing exists in isolation, and it is the spiritual dimension that has superseded everything that has gone before. The spiritual dimension provides the world with the possibility for something perfect and eternal and exists both inside, and outside of ourselves. There is no comparison in the whole of human history the depths to which the spirit can journey, into an eternity. 

Like the physical dimension, the spiritual dimension functions in the individual, and in the world. Personally, it helps us understand and expand on life’s deeper meaning, whilst offering us the opportunity to surrender our most difficult trials and fears to a greater power - God. 

Values

Being conscious of God involves opening to the possibility that God values our existence far more than we may value ourselves. That God is the original architect with an intention to eliminate suffering and illuminate our souls.  Such experiences of God help us cope with the larger issues, those which we as individuals do not have the power to change. 'It rouses us to accept the things we cannot control and live with the problems not yet resolved.' It enables us to lend our power to God. When something or someone dominates our personal domain, be it power, people, addiction, thoughts, compulsions to act, or fear, we can draw strength from a higher order.

Human Essence

It is not necessary to hold formal religious beliefs or engage in formal religious practices to experience the spiritual dimension. Spirituality may be experienced as a deep sense of knowing, purpose, of exploration, prayer, or meditation. People report having union with God, Angels, source, or connecting with higher spiritual beings. Human beings often sense the spiritual dimension 'as an interconnectedness, enabling them to observe the whole of life and consciousness as a single unified sphere'. According to one definition: ‘The spiritual dimension tries to be in harmony with the universe, strives for answers about the infinite, and comes especially into focus during times of suffering. This desire for wholeness of being is not an intellectual attainment but lies in the essence of what it means to be human.’

A Higher Order

When we personally explore religious language, image, archetype, sacred text or inspired word, we experience it as a personal revelation, something exposed, or disclosed that we can fully connect with at our core. It frequently brings healing, often a sense of inner harmony, higher thought processing, forgiveness, a message, a desire to share it with those close to us. People often report of becoming conscious of how truly magnificent their own and the whole of creation really is, despite its current limitations and suffering.

The Holy Experience By Neale Walsch.

‘Walk through the world not as one who seeks to convert or convince others of anything, but simply as one who seeks to know others - as everything. When you know all of it as everything, then you know your Self as everything as well. You see your Self in every other person. Indeed, in every other thing that exists. Suddenly, the magnificence and the glory of who you are becomes apparent to you. It becomes part of your experience. It is no longer something you know intellectually; it is something you know experientially.

While many people have had this experience momentarily, the trick is to have it continually. Or at least a great deal more of the time. That was the yearning of the Buddha. It was the journey of the Christ. It is the opportunity placed before each of us. Many Masters have shown us the way. The way is for us to BE the way. I am The Way and The Life. Follow me. This is what all masters have declared. This is what all Students have understood. Therefore, do not look for your Master, BE the Master for whom you have been looking. Do not seek the Truth, BE the Truth you have been seeking. And do not attempt to change another, BE the change you wish to see (in the world). That is your mission, and there is no other.’

You are a multi-dimensional being, living from physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual dimensions. Your spiritual dimension supersedes all others. It is the only dimension that can change all the other dimensions, simultaneously.