The Seer

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If this is to be a spiritual age, until being spiritual is ordinary, we ain’t there yet. Ah, being spiritually ordinary doesn’t mean what we usually think of as being spiritual — sweetness and light etc. In other words, we do not need to reinterpret the word “ordinary”, which means the natural order that is everywhere in all our lives. What we need is to re-interpret what it means to be “spiritual.”

You can’t be spiritual or not be spiritual. Everything is spiritual. Everything is consciousness appearing and consciousness is spiritual. Everything, even material things, reflects a quality of spirit, some useful, some wasteful, some healthy, some poisonous, some loving, some hateful.

We all pick up on and recognize the quality of spirit we encounter in others and in situations. However, there is an important difference between being unconsciously spiritual and being conscious of the spirit one represents (re-presents). To pray without ceasing is to be
consciously aware of the spirit you are expressing without ceasing.

When I say that we are not there yet until being spiritual is ordinary, I am saying that we have not gone beyond the belief in good and evil, in human judgments and egotism until we consciously recognize we are spiritual beings manifesting physical bodies.

When that happens we can look out on whatever is taking place in our lives and, without ignoring the problems we face, we can appreciate that there is a divine purpose in every experience. In other words, until we can look at life subjectively in terms of the quality of spirit appearing, we will never realize that the kingdom of heaven is actually right here right now.

Frankly, more and more, I have become increasingly hot under the collar by the practices, gatherings, and talks that make being spiritual seem other than ordinary. I know, for many years I gravitated to exercises that professed being avenues to the spiritual. Now I realize that being ordinary is “now” while seeking something different than ordinary life is future and is the denial of God’s omnipresence here and now.

Now I feel that anything, including mystical practices, that imply we should be something other than that which we are as human beings creates the very duality that mystical religions claim does not exist.

We hear a lot about the power of imagination. I’ve even written on it, but though imagination is how consciousness creates, it can also be dangerous. In imagining that you can become something you are not now being, you affirm that you are not already that, or even worthy of being it. Being happy with who we are replaces imagination with reality.

by Walter Starcke, author of It’s All God