A watered down spiritual message is just as adulterated as one that is contaminated with artificial spiritual thickener.Effective meditation does not replace our present recovery with anything new but it does allow it to come alive - without feeding us 'improvements' or 'additives'.
The meditation is a simple opening of the mind through the technique suggested that allows truth to enter the psyche without anyone pushing it in, and without anyone's greasy fingerprints all over it.
This meditation will automatically and effortlessly bring us to a place where our request for God inspiration and intuitive thought is answered. The answer is "Yes".
After being freed in this manner we lose our reliance upon people or books or hypno-suggestive thought implants (mantras, platitudes, slogans). Also gone is that odd egotistical craving to replace objectionable old thought with newer, 'better' ones. No matter how “spiritual” or inspired we feel those new thought or ‘teachings’ to be, like geographic cures, such spiritual 'geographics' are just as useless in the long run. (Those who are frequently relied upon and looked up to will likely disagree vehement with this – Beware. Watch them closely!)
There are several metaphysical reasons for this. But it is enough to realize that truly spiritual humans are spiritual because they have leaned to NOT do exactly what YOU are trying to do, each time you access them in order to willfully and faithlessly influence an outcome through some form of human propulsion. Since it isn’t self propulsion, you have been told it’s OK.
It is not OK.
It is represents faith in man and not faith in God. But unfortunately some many of us never fully pursue an effective Step Eleven lifestyle – or else mesmerize ourselves with pantheistic spirituality and are unable to break free of our reliance upon things human. It will kill us.
Truly spiritual people will not allow you attach to them for long if at all, but will instead redirect and guide you to their source of guidance: God.
They have learned to place reliance, not upon others but instead to rely upon God.They have taken that leap of faith already and are more likely to steer you away from them and to God for guidance and not allow you to adhere to them.
Faux spiritualists and those addicted to control and self–reliance may have all the right spiritual buzzwords and make pleasant spiritual noises but will be more apt to have you “call me” for guidance to give you ‘support' and 'comfort' in your times of doubt and faithlessness. In that way they become your god and neither of you even know it – except that you have no real faith and life remains one big string of indecision, doubts and worry indicated by continued bedevilments.
This is why the co-founder of “Alcoholics Anonymous told us that, “In thinking about our day we may face indecision. We may not be able to determine which course to take. Here we relax and take it easy. We don't struggle. We are often surprised how the right answers come after we have tried this for a while."
The reality is that God doesn’t ‘speak’ through anyone. Any
one who tells you otherwise is seriously misguided and trying to mislead. God speaks to us directly through our inner understanding and not other people, can be hard pill for egotistic folks to swallow.This can be especially difficult for those of us who have already been plugged into addictive relationships with sponsors, codependents, gurus, and book authors for great lengths of ‘sober’ time. For most of them it means that they really have had nothing worthwhile to say all along -- nor have they been listening to much worthwhile either.
Ouch! What a blow. How hard that would be to face.
Transferring reliance away from ‘self’ is necessary and certainly commendable. It is a Twelve Step Principle. But the full objective of the move is to get it off self but onto God. Unfortunately many of us never get to the God part and instead transfer our reliance to other human beings creating sick, parasitical relationships with them, all under the guise of a spiritual endeavor.
You will never find happiness, joy or freedom as long as you have transferred reliance upon 'self' to reliance upon people - instead of God.As despicable and deadly as retooling and perverting of AA’s "this" message is -- ramping it up and trying to make it do things it was not designed to do is even more sly and more cunning. It is a kind of atrocity that has become very prevalent, even in "12 step" circles - and there seems to be no shortage of folks to join in.
Of course most of us cannot see this because we haven’t an effective method of establishment conscious contact with God to help maintain our clear vision. We think we do. Purveyors of various religious theories and spiritual movements have told us we have. But in reality we are too wrapped up in seeking outcomes and engaging in all sorts of mental distractions that mimic spiritual centering of the mind but are really just hypnotic placebos designed to enslave us to someones control, whether it be a sponsor, a movement, a book-club or even a religion.
The telling revelation is that we are still subject to anxiety, depression, fear and hosts of physical and emotional ailments all of which emanate out of our emotional states.If you use the meditation technique above, you will not need to be involved with that stuff anymore. You won't be confused about how to 'fit' spiritual concepts into your life so as to install your own happiness because you will see that truth is already inside. The sound and sane principles in your Big Book will come alive and you won't have to constantly struggle through its text to see if and where the Steps can be stretched to fit foreign theories.
The '"Aha!" begins and never stops; not even in your sleep. The Principles in your Big Book and even in your Scripture will begin to make sense to you like they never have before, without anyone telling you what those writings mean - and you will find the peace of spirit you have always known existed. Finally.
Peace and Love,
Danny S - RLRA
Real Live Recovered Alcoholic
http://recoveredalcoholic.blogspot.com
