Spirituality and Religion

I haven’t written in a while, since my latest trip to Crestone and I wanted to touch base on a serious topic. Spirituality. It gets confused with religiousness and I really don’t think they mean the same thing to most people. I do think they mean the same to deeply religious people but not to deeply spiritual people, if that makes any sense.

Spirituality has a more open meaning to me. You can be spiritual and in touch with a higher sense of what you are without necessarily being a part of any organized religion or any of the usually associated practices such as prayer. You can be deeply spiritual without ever attending a religious ceremony or taking part in any form of worship. Worship always worries me because of the totally devotional connotation of the word. When you worship something or even worse someone, be they dead or alive you are diminishing your self in a way. “That (or he, or she) is greater than I”. I believe there is nothing greater than “I” except “we”. In the one case its just another “I” which you are revering in some way.

Since nothing has any intrinsic value, that other “I” is no greater or less than you. The fostering of group awareness is the key to spirituality. The group is greater than the sum of its parts, but only as it becomes aware of its power. Until then it is just another latent unexpressed potentiality. In the Crestone Videos (and especially the longer one which can be viewed on my site www.Higher-Ground.com you can see leaders in many different religious system alluding to this. Spirituality is a part of every system and greater than any one of them. Madame Blavatski said there is no religion greater than truth. This truth is at the core of all of them and no single religion has it all.

One could say the same thing about God, and man him (or her) self. We are all a part of the God Consciousness and it is an integral part (if not all) of each and every one of us. We are enveloped in the whole and an insufficient expression of its nature just as religion is enveloped in spirituality and fails through its self induced limitations to faithfully express the whole truth.