Keith wrote: I have been to more than a few places the Native Americans have called Spirtial Vortexes. Located in Sedona Arizona and upstate New York.
As my years dwindle I now look back at those times and realize now how important they were to my development as a man of spiritual belief. There is so much more than ever taught us in Church. Knowledge unknowingly passed there to me. I, at the time, never realized the gift given there was priceless and shared by few.
We as humans take so much for granted. There is a reason that things happen in our lives and sometimes we fail to see those reasons. Then other times we see them and don't realize they are a gift. But on a few occasions in our lives we see the gift. A new born held for the first time. The first time we felt true love. A kiss never forgotten.
Are these Vortexes and the spirits found within a philosophy or is it a gift? Keith
To be sure, the vortexes are a gift; the result of one's intent within, recognized by those who open it to you. The native Americans know and can teach people more from a spiritual standpoint than anyone in the church ever can. I can say that because I was in the church for many years; and it was an experience on a mountain with what you described that helped to shape my thinking and helped me and my family out of a religious system that would threaten to stunt our spirtual growth if we stayed in it.
For those in religion that may be reading this, I do not condemn you for your belief system. I just find that I nor my family can evolve any further spiritually by staying in it. For us, every religion is a constructed box which was created by man to limit and stifle "self growth".
I can relate to everything you say Keith. When we quit listening to what's going on on the outside and start listening to the inside of ourselves, we will learn in a way that we know once and for all that we know very little; but now we can begin a quest for truth that will take us an entire lifetime. But at least we will grow our entire life and be separate from a majority who have chosen to follow; thinking that they are striving for the same thing, but all the while searching for the truth from the wrong sources.
Bravo Keith.