” But at some point we may meet the shadow of a spiritual authority…”

From The Holy Longing, by Connie Zweig, Ph.D.

I write about purpose and specifically about life’s real purpose.  It appears that more and more people are doing the same. While this is to be celebrated it also raises other issues about the shadow of spiritual authority.

Those seeking purpose in life are often vulnerable.  They are often ready to give their authority over to teachers and experts who they think know more than they do about the endless journey into love.  There is too little written about the what I refer to as the ‘the dark side of the light worker.’

The purpose of this article is to remedy this in part. This storyteller and writer is intent on providing the direct experience of friendship with the soul.  To this end he works every day to promote this work both on the web and beyond the web.

This journey into divine purpose, which is the allowing of love to express in form through you, has many surprises.  One can expect to meet darkness from sources that are intent on resisting its emergence.  What this storyteller is finding more and more is the resistance to the light by ‘light workers.’

On the spiritual journey you are going to have to be, as the Bible advises, “As wise as a serpent and as peaceful as a dove.”  You are going to have to trust deeply in order to come into your true purpose.  However, you are also going to have to be extremely discerning.

There are teachers, experts, gurus, coaches and writers out there on the World Wide Web who promote the light but who claim this light is their own.  The spiritual journey is the hero’s journey.  It is a journey that each and every one of us will take in to what Marianne Williamson calls “The return to Love.” However, you need to be a spiritual warrior and test those who would claim to be invitations to divine purpose, which is your divine purpose.

Let this writer be clear.  Your divine purpose is unique but paradoxically it is not yours. We human beings are unique. While a flower, a tree, or a river lives its divine purpose we have to unfold ours.  The tree cannot resist becoming a tree. The rose cannot become other than a rose.  You and I, however, can resist becoming who we are created to be.

The invitation to your unique and divine purpose is assisted through language.  Increasingly, this storyteller is finding that some light workers are trying to patent or trademark or legally circumscribe language as their own.

There could be some who will email me with warnings not to use the language such as ‘spiritual invitation’ unless it is agreed and permitted by them only.

Is this new?  I think not. It has been going on throughout history.  Forces that brand themselves with the authority of the divine ‘seal of approval’ have always threatened the language of the mystic lover and seeker after the direct experience of the Divine

As a storyteller and writer I will continue to write the way in which grace moves through me. I will continue to invite the perfume of the holy longing into this.  With intention, I will work to expand the light while taking the Biblical advice about wise serpents and peaceful doves.

Please remember to listen to the true wisdom voice within you but do not claim it as your own.  This is the paradox at the heart of the spiritual journey.  The more you are not the more the Divine is.  In the end, which is not an end at all, you realise your Divine purpose when you become a Nobody through which everything is given.  Purpose becomes you as a revelation rather than something you do.

Those who have lived the purpose of the Divine do not claim the language of spiritual invitation as their own.  They are not searching the web with the intent of protecting what they own.  The very fact that they are doing so tells you more about them than the people they see as a threat to their claim to the language of love.

So, use discernment.  Choose wisely. Remain peaceful even when all hell breaks loose, which sometimes happens.

So who can you trust? 

Rumi, Hafiz, Tagore, Jesus Christ, the Buddha, Lao Tzu, Thomas Merton , John O’Donohue to name just a few.

Oh, and YOU!

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