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Spiritual healing
The Fear Standard - Chapter 9 Spirituality
For as long as I've wanted to write about fear over seven years now, I have had the desire to talk about fear from the religious and spiritual standpoint. I realized that fear is a purely spiritual thing anyway when we discover the core of our fears. I know I've wanted to share what has been inside of me on my own journey with fear, especially since my vision. As I mentioned in the Introduction to this book, I wished I could have forgotten what happened, walking down that quiet street on a balmy Fall evening...
The beginning of a turbulent, yet healing journey after the vision and my grandmother's loving appearance urged me on toward my own inner disarmament. I discovered over the years that no matter the struggle, fear was what needed to be disarmed. And fear is a very spiritual matter.
I feel that a great step forward in the awakening of higher spiritual consciousness is the recognition that human transgression involves placing ourselves in a separate, superior, and more worthy position than our fellow human beings, creatures and the earth that support us. The flip side of that is the transgression of believing we are unworthy, unable, guilty, unclean, shameful, powerless and non-creative. That is the sin of old religious dogma.
The inner work of overcoming our fears is the ultimate spiritual work, and we have the opportunity to take it to task throughout our lives before we can truly know a stable peace worldwide. Our own inner place of peace and union with The Divine pours forth easily when we take on the job of facing our personal Darkness and recovering our spiritual and personal truths. Even though our fears are individual, we carry mass consciousness fear from external influences...
Each one of us can consider ourselves free to be spiritual seekers. We have to filter through our fears to get to that quiet inner knowing of our Higher Self where Angels and Spiritual Guidance have always been present. The truth is not something someone else tells us until we know it to be so in our inner self, because our intuition and soul will simply know it when it's good, positive and right. And when it isn't, a clear, open, soulful feeling will shout, stop, question and possibly toss out anything that does not align with internal truth. When we are in alignment with our inner self and work with resolving our fears, we're able to do this. We learn from teachers who help us grow on our spiritual path. We do need teachers as way-showers. The best teachers are those who do not require attachment or that they be held higher than the information or message they have to share. It's the knowledge, the message, that is important. Spiritual teachings can do that for us, but when it comes to doctrine and teachings, we must know that those things are not finite or infallible. We must each interpret things through our God-self. We must practice being spiritually self-governing human beings. And we have to practice it because being spiritually self-governing was taught out of us centuries ago. We have to practice using our inner senses our intuition.
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