[Mr.Arch-Vile]

I notice threads that have a theme around "Knowing your on the right path", something along these lines.

SO to start, what does a spiritual path end up looking like?

Think maybe that you have a map and starting point, and you want to get to another point on this map.


Two points connect them.

(POINT A) (POINT B)

Of course you draw a straight line to them, idealistically

(POINT A)------------------------------(POINT B)

But life isn't so much like this,
an ideal spiritual journey in this life would be perfect straight lines.


IDEAL Spiritual PATTERNS

Now if you are more about going with the flow of life, I'd say the pattern your spiritual journey takes is like this.





Take the four corners of the picture and call them the four seasons.

Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer.

X's being moment of enlightenment, or spiritual realization.

Now, if your certain of your spiritual goals, Your pattern would maybe look like something like this



Yellow dots are moments of spiritual enlightenment/ realization.

The height of the wave being how good or bad the times were at the moment.

Now I want point out that when you are certain of your spiritual goals in your life you will tend to experience enlightenment more often. That's would be in part because you have clear vision of where you would like to end up in your journey.

Now the problem I am facing with showing you all this is how do you plot points?


I have ideas, but I wanna see how this develops before I go any further.

[Katieissweet]

It's not a logical path,linear I don't think,it's intuitive and circular.

[Gus1234U]

feeling the need to "KNOW", and plot and graph is the very opposite of the "wide open to new awareness" posture which i value.

[alchemy63]

I've often viewed my spiritual journey to be an ascending spiral, repeating the same mistakes until I learned whatever lesson it was I needed to learn, taking a step up to the next level, and circling around again until the next lesson was learned.

I have to be careful though when I speak about ascension. I wish not to convey a relationship between inferior and superior, that would be an indication of egocentricity and lends itself to concepts of a hierarchical spiritual order, which, in my view, creates an atmosphere of competition that soon devolves into a battleground.

For me, I didn't ‘plan' a spiritual journey. It only seemed like the solution to the problem. There isn't a concentric diagram that fits the history of my path. Its design would like more like bouncing from one point to the next, sometimes making wild arching swings, then swinging back again.

[Thunder Bow]

Originally Posted by Gus1234U

feeling the need to "KNOW", and plot and graph is the very opposite of the "wide open to new awareness" posture which i value.

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