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What Is Spiritual Growth?

Thru John L. Payne (copyright)

Internal Reflections

Often we may find ourselves worrying about the direction humanity is taking as well as what is happening to our planet. These conditions actually distracts us from our spiritual growth of reconnecting our center of love.

It is important to remember that all external circumstances are a reflection of our inner world — the world of thought and emotion. The condition of our planet, which is the creation of the collective consciousness, is our mirror. Our world, the Earth, is a belief system. Our senses tell us that it is a physical world, but it is far from physical, it is energy that has gathered together into density and has created form. All energy, whether ‘physical’ or ‘non-physical’ is molded by thought. Thought is the originator, the creator, the source of all things. We exist within the Mind of God, the All-That-Is. We spring forth from energy of intelligence and information.

Our ‘problems’ and ‘challenges’ are reflections of our current evolutionary stage.

Solutions to these problems exist. They exist within our minds, our hearts, and as technology. All technology that will ever exist already exists. This information exists in the non-local world of energy, the realm of our Soul. However, we must conceive of the possibility it exists before we can manifest it. Those of us concerned about the environment do as much to add to the ‘pollution’ on the planet just by adding thoughts of ‘this is an impossible situation’ and ‘the world is sick and dying’. Worlds do not die, they simply evolve and transform. Species do not become extinct, they discover other possibilities, they return to the non-local world of Soul, from whence they came. Nothing, NO THING, is ever lost in the Universe. How could it be, all exists within the All-That-Is, and within the All-That-Is is All-That-Was and All-That-Will-Ever-Be.

Our world is polluted with fear, contaminated with anguish, poisoned with self-loathing, tainted with doubt, and defiled with the lie we are not loved. This is the greatest pollution. Our thoughts, our beliefs, if they be not of love, are cancers that eat away at the spirit of humanity, at our own spirit if we allow it.

So, as we experience our inner world, so it will be in our outer world. Allowing ourselves to be contaminated by fear, doubt and feelings of worthlessness, will manifest outer pollution. Surely, we have forgotten that we are loved beyond all measure and that we are God’s essence.

So our challenge is how to use our mind and emotions to conquer the fears and doubts and to emerge as beings of love.