The Universal Spirit View thru the eyes of Wilda Spalding
Going Green on the Universal Spirit Path
Almost all known Faith traditions recount creation stories that include a pictorial of either an original or an ideal place of balanced plenty, of some kind of intimacy both with the Creator and with the other created non-humanoid species of plant, animal, and mineral. Humanity seems to be entering a time when, whether by spiritual illumination or rawly desperate survival instincts, it is increasingly intensifying seeking ways to move beyond this apparent, uncomfortable time of knife-edge survival: for many this means more powerfullly experiencing the intimacy of intrinsic Oneness. May this be achieved albeit in spite of the membranes of fear and the illusions of incapacity that have encased so much of humanity today. It is said that the retina of a single human eye contains 127,000,000 rods and cones. May we open the eye of the mind of our heart and the eye of the heart of our mind that sees as if through the unquantifiable, infinite eye of the Creator, so that we can exercise the intentionality to both see and be sensitive to the largest picture of what it means to “go green” and its layers of consequences. May we bring forth an unending “green” harvest of dignity, hope, and peace.Click for more....
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Living in Peace on the Universal Spirit Path
ETERNAL NECTAR OF THE GREAT ONENESS: PEACE
Breathing life-giving Prana, imbibing the balanced sweetness of your hand-sculpted Mudras; running tiny Mother of Pearl Rosary Beads clicking through your fingers; wrapped in the ancient’s Prayer Shawl; burning with love, lying prostrate on craggy, ancient, stonebuilt floors worn almost soft with prayers for peace, praise, and surrender; calling out from the heights of a delicate, lace-like minaret’s tower; immersed in the silence of lighting and Eagle-fanning a sage bundle-offering; bathed deep within the mayyim hayyim (living waters) of a Mikvah, or being lovingly submerged backwards at Calvary Baptist Church; ears drenched in sparkling alpine bells or warmed by a much-used, chant-filled wooden harmonium; swirling with Sufi brothers or standing balanced, in the complete stillness between monastic prayers with ones Ethiopic Sisters; blending into the harmonics of the Divinity School choir; jingling your tambourine with the Praise Team in Apostolic joy; being the breath passing through the shofar or conch; emboldened by the thunderous sounds rising through the freshly pungent wafting of Island flowers swathed around the neck of the Kupuna chanting an oli or the snowy mountain Elder’s words accompanied by the savory perfumes of a crackling campfire.
Peace always is…Peace is a “right-now” Reality.
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Breathing life-giving Prana, imbibing the balanced sweetness of your hand-sculpted Mudras; running tiny Mother of Pearl Rosary Beads clicking through your fingers; wrapped in the ancient’s Prayer Shawl; burning with love, lying prostrate on craggy, ancient, stonebuilt floors worn almost soft with prayers for peace, praise, and surrender; calling out from the heights of a delicate, lace-like minaret’s tower; immersed in the silence of lighting and Eagle-fanning a sage bundle-offering; bathed deep within the mayyim hayyim (living waters) of a Mikvah, or being lovingly submerged backwards at Calvary Baptist Church; ears drenched in sparkling alpine bells or warmed by a much-used, chant-filled wooden harmonium; swirling with Sufi brothers or standing balanced, in the complete stillness between monastic prayers with ones Ethiopic Sisters; blending into the harmonics of the Divinity School choir; jingling your tambourine with the Praise Team in Apostolic joy; being the breath passing through the shofar or conch; emboldened by the thunderous sounds rising through the freshly pungent wafting of Island flowers swathed around the neck of the Kupuna chanting an oli or the snowy mountain Elder’s words accompanied by the savory perfumes of a crackling campfire.
Peace always is…Peace is a “right-now” Reality.
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Why "bad" things happen from the Universal Spirit Path
“Why do bad things happen to good people?” For a universal spirit, the juxtaposition of ‘good’ and ‘evil’ is a non sequitur of two expressions of experiences within time and space. It might be said that ‘Good’ is meant to indicate that which is in balance with and enhances the well-being of a person. ‘Bad’ usually means that which is destructive to the harmony and balance needed for well-being. A somewhat surface expression of things happening to people, can lead one into a dualistic response of questioning rather than to a more unitive understanding of ‘happenings’, ‘good’ or ‘bad’, that occur in life. Many religious and philosophical pathways do utilize worldly, dualistic answers to ‘explain’ the question posed above.
Click for more....The Shelter on a Universal Spirit Path
Perhaps, ‘shelter’ is a hidden wondrously raw cave in the Negev, or stories told of a tent with one flap of welcome always opened, a crowded downtown Rescue Mission cot on a bitter cold night, or the warming words of a shared Creed, loyalty to a flag, the encircling embrace of the arms of a loved one, the aromas of Thanksgiving meals, or the bubbling words of fountains of Faith mixed with the clay of daily living? ...Click for more....
The Tenets of Universal Spirit Path
Does your spiritual tradition acknowledge a higher power? If so, what is the nature of this higher power? Is it a personal divine being or a non-personal energy or state. How do you refer to this higher power?
Yes. Oneness. That is the beloved paradox of divinity being both Infinite (omnipresent and transcendent) and fully present in each finite ‘now’ lived throughout the linear rhythming of time and space. Click for more....
Yes. Oneness. That is the beloved paradox of divinity being both Infinite (omnipresent and transcendent) and fully present in each finite ‘now’ lived throughout the linear rhythming of time and space. Click for more....
Welcome - getting to know me, Wilda Spalding, and my view along Universal Spirit Path
What is the ultimate expression of the highest teaching of your tradition?
Oneness.
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Oneness.
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