Our Spiritual Life

This episode continues to discuss the importance of love... being love, choosing to feel love rather fear, loving yourself, and sharing love with others. In the episode, I read excerpts from spiritual teacher Matt Kahn's book Whatever Arises Love That, and I add my own commentary. Kahn addresses the emotional aspects of spiritual growth, relationships in particular, and the physical effects we feel in the body. The theme of the book focuses on a powerful solution for life... as the title indicates, he teaches that whatever the difficulty you might be experiencing, whatever negative emotions you might feel, no matter had badly someone has hurt you, or how badly you feel, the answer is love. In that moment turn to love. Love yourself. Love the other person. Replace your negative feelings with love, and love will heal you to whatever degree you allow. Kahn also teaches that, as you learn to turn to love more easily and more frequently, you will begin to awaken from the trance of fear, and you will participate in ascension or awakening of mankind.

Per Raymond Posch (host) - All 108 episodes of Our Spiritual Life remain accessible, but new episodes are not being added. All new episodes are being published under my New Ways of Being podcast. Learn about me and New Ways of Being at RaymondPosch.com. Listen to new episodes at www.NewWaysofBeing.world.

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In the two previous episodes, I read the first 3 chapters from A Return to Love by Marianne Williamson and discussed some of the key points that were covered. In this episode I read chapter 4 from the book which is about Surrender, and I discuss key points from the chapter. When we surrender to love we turn away from fear and choose the power of love instead.  Then I read from an article by Craig Hamilton entitled "Do You Believe in Love? How to Align Your Life with the Most Powerful Force in the Universe", and I comment on how Hamilton's article adds to our understanding of love. He didn't speak about surrender per se, but he said that when we take a stand for love - by committing to the belief that love is ever present and having faith in its divine transforming power - it enables us to "know love all the time". He is really talking about an awakening to love, and he emphasizes that this can happen without feeling a particular away. We can live love and express love without being attached to it . We do that by having unshakeable faith that love exists in the world regardless of what our ego is telling us.

Per Raymond Posch (host) - All 108 episodes of Our Spiritual Life remain accessible, but new episodes are not being added. All new episodes are being published under my New Ways of Being podcast. Learn about me and New Ways of Being at RaymondPosch.com. Listen to new episodes at www.NewWaysofBeing.world.

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This episode continues to focus on the importance of spiritual love. Continuing from the previous episode in which I read the first 2 chapters from A Return to Love by Marianne Williamson, I read chapter 3 for the benefit of my listeners. Following that I discuss some of the key points from the first three chapters of her book. As her book and A Course in Miracles both teach, love is the means by which we can connect with Infinite Intelligence (God) and become whole in all ways. Love allows us to connect to the Oneness of the divine and all of life. Love is the answer to all problems in the world today, and love is the way in which we can awaken and evolve both individually and collectively.  We need to return to our true state that we were born with - the state of unconditional love. And that requires us to shift away from our ego, which only knows fear. This and future episodes will help you continue you to learn about the power of love and how to move into it.

Per Raymond Posch (host) - All 108 episodes of Our Spiritual Life remain accessible, but new episodes are not being added. All new episodes are being published under my New Ways of Being podcast. Learn about me and New Ways of Being at RaymondPosch.com. Listen to new episodes at www.NewWaysofBeing.world.

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In this episode, I put the primary focus on the importance of love. If humans could learn to fully understand that we are part of a great Oneness, that we are all one and every person is an individuate expression of the Infinite/God, then they would finally realize the importance of love. This is not just a good idea, this is about awakening enough to see the truth of who and what we are. I had actually not planned to read from a book in this episode, but I found myself finally reading A Return to Love by Marianne Williamson (which had sat on my bookshelf unread for a year), and I was so moved by her wisdom about love, that I decided to read the introduction and the first 2 chapters for listeners. The subtitle of her book is "Reflections on the Principles of A COURSE IN MIRACLES", so this is also the first time I've covered (indirectly) ACIM teachings. I personally have found ACIM difficult to understand, and Williamson does a beautiful job of explaining pertinent ACIM principles. The awakening of mankind would be a return to love and could save the world if it comes in time. WE NEED TO RETURN TO LOVE.

Per Raymond Posch (host) - All 108 episodes of Our Spiritual Life remain accessible, but new episodes are not being added. All new episodes are being published under my New Ways of Being podcast. Learn about me and New Ways of Being at RaymondPosch.com. Listen to new episodes at www.NewWaysofBeing.world.

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This episode addresses the question How do we change the world and overcome hatred, divisiveness, injustice, violence, and myriad other problems that we see today? And I believe very much that the answer lies in increasing numbers of people awakening to oneness, evolving in consciousness, and ultimately awakening the species. There is an urgency to this because humanity is on the cusp of either evolution or devolution. So I talk about awareness, awakening, oneness, conscious evolution, co-creation, and more to keep you thinking about these very important ideas. But a significant portion of this episode is in teaching spiritual practices that can help us take on more of these attributes within ourselves. I teach the practices of presence (i.e., awareness without thought), conscious choice-making, aligning with oneness, and choosing to awaken. Doing these practices regularly can help you awaken and grow in your oneness with the Infinite and all of life.

Per Raymond Posch (host) - All 108 episodes of Our Spiritual Life remain accessible, but new episodes are not being added. All new episodes are being published under my New Ways of Being podcast. Learn about me and New Ways of Being at RaymondPosch.com. Listen to new episodes at www.NewWaysofBeing.world.

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In this episode, I explore conscious evolution in some depth with content from Craig Hamilton, world renown meditation teacher, and Barbara Marx Hubbard, spiritual teacher, visionary, and author of the book Conscious Evolution: Awakening the Power of Our Social Potential. I also point out that BMH believed and Hamilton, Lipton, and others still believe that we are at a critical cross-over point where humanity will either join in the evolutionary process and continue to evolve, or will steadily devolve and face self-elimination from nuclear wars or will destroyed by the 6th mass extinction. Barbara was calling loudly, and Craig has been and still is calling loudly also for spiritual leaders and all spiritual seekers/explorers to step up to the urgent calling for us participate in conscious evolution. I also make note that we need to "grow up" as well as wake up, which means that in addition to awakening spiritually, humanity needs to grow from ethnocentricity to the levels of being world-centric and cosmos-centric.

Per Raymond Posch (host) - All 108 episodes of Our Spiritual Life remain accessible, but new episodes are not being added. All new episodes are being published under my New Ways of Being podcast. Learn about me and New Ways of Being at RaymondPosch.com. Listen to new episodes at www.NewWaysofBeing.world.

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In this episode, I discuss awareness and presence in greater depth. I begin the episode by reading a wonderful talk by Craig Hamilton which was posted as an audio, with transcript, on his website IntegralEnlightenment.com. It was posted on 12/18/2020 and is called "Opening to the Mystery of Consciousness: An Experiential Journey". I ask listeners to follow Craig's guidance into an exploration of awareness. But his article emphasizes why we experience awareness as something mysterious because "we have no idea how or why or even where it it's happening". But he explains that most of us go through life experiencing awareness as always focused on things, but a breakthrough - an awakening - can come if we can become aware of awareness itself. That is when we begin to awaken to our true nature beyond the mind, concepts, and ego stories -- and that is our Infinite Self, and which I recognize as the source of all awareness and knowing. Then, I walk the listener through the process of going deeply into the body again in order to experience inner body awareness and some level of presence. And finally, I talk about awareness and why you want to practice being aware more of the time. One definition of awakening is being fully present (aware without thought) continuously or most of the time.

Per Raymond Posch (host) - All 108 episodes of Our Spiritual Life remain accessible, but new episodes are not being added. All new episodes are being published under my New Ways of Being podcast. Learn about me and New Ways of Being at RaymondPosch.com. Listen to new episodes at www.NewWaysofBeing.world.

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This episode is all about presence - present moment awareness - as taught by Eckhart Tolle. To me, presence is a great place to start  when we want to move toward personally awakening spiritually, the awakening of mankind, and the evolution of consciousness on Earth. In this episode, I talk about presence and why it is so important and such a powerful skill for living life more fully and successfully. And, in fact, I read a key portion from Tolle's book Practicing the Power of Now about staying present in everyday life through the practice of inner body awareness.  It basically walks the reader/listener through a 5-minute meditation of "going deeply into the body". Presence, in its deepest form, is present moment awareness without thought. It shifts you away from the domination of mind and ego, and it opens a portal to the higher self, our soul, and the Infinite Intelligence of the whole Universe. So, as you can begin to see, presence is a very powerful way of being. And when more and more people begin to live in presence, not only will their lives change in powerful and wonderful ways but the world will begin to change in positive ways as well.

Per Raymond Posch (host) - All 108 episodes of Our Spiritual Life remain accessible, but new episodes are not being added. All new episodes are being published under my New Ways of Being podcast. Learn about me and New Ways of Being at RaymondPosch.com. Listen to new episodes at www.NewWaysofBeing.world.

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This episode is about: 1) becoming more conscious in the living of your life, and 2) becoming clear about what success means for you personally... Or said another way, it is about developing greater awareness and especially becoming aware of what is important to you and why.  Although the abundance of good things is important to everyone, success ultimately is about what makes you happy and fulfilled.

This episode is aimed at spiritual people who have some inner awareness, and it begins with reviewing the importance of knowing that we are 3-part beings, and there is especially an important distinction between mind and spirit. But this episode addresses very practical aspects of conscious success as well. It covers the powers of awareness, thinking, purpose, confidence, creativity, taking responsibility, conscious communication, love and wholeness.

Per Raymond Posch (host) - All 108 episodes of Our Spiritual Life remain accessible, but new episodes are not being added. All new episodes are being published under my New Ways of Being podcast. Learn about me and New Ways of Being at RaymondPosch.com. Listen to new episodes at www.NewWaysofBeing.world.

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Our Spiritual Life was honored to be included in the FeedSpot 100 Best Spiritual Podcasts (blog.feedspot.com/spiritual_podcasts) in May 2023. 
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If you care about the state of the world and mankind, you should listen to this podcast which is about Neale Donald Walsch's book The Essential Path. The book's subtitle is The Daring Decision to Be Who You Truly Are, and the book is about the need for mankind to awaken to the recognition that we are each an expression of Infinite Intelligence. In this episode, I discuss the book with my guest Danny Rongo (That Oneness Guy) and, in the midst of that discussion I also read chapters 22-23 which talk about the changes that are likely to result when a significant portion (10% or more) of humanity chooses to make the daring decision that we are spiritual beings that are expressions of the One Essence (God).  I urge everyone to read this small, important book. But if you don't have time, listen to these episodes about The Essential Path. If we truly knew that we are part of a great Oneness, we would behave very differently than we do now and we would put an end to all forms of alienation, division, injustice, and violence. 

Per Raymond Posch (host) - All 108 episodes of Our Spiritual Life remain accessible, but new episodes are not being added. All new episodes are being published under my New Ways of Being podcast. Learn about me and New Ways of Being at RaymondPosch.com. Listen to new episodes at www.NewWaysofBeing.world.

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Our Spiritual Life was honored to be included in the FeedSpot 100 Best Spiritual Podcasts (blog.feedspot.com/spiritual_podcasts) in May 2023. 
Please feel free to contact me at any time at [email protected].