Openness And A Prayer

Whenever I write an article to be published, I have to include links to primary research for everything I claim. So for example, when writing an article on the connection between food and mood, if I claim a particular food is detrimental or beneficial to mood, I need research to back it up.

The funny thing, I have noticed is that spiritual claims in publications don’t need this kind of backing up. If you are writing about how to heal your chakras, or the benefits of visiting a psychic, or how astrology is helping you lead a better life, then no research is needed.

We see the spiritual realm as something subjective, it’s my truth and your truth, it’s whatever you want it to be. Spiritual information seems exempt from any kind of fact-checking in a way physical claims would never be.

When I used to consider the spiritual truth, I’d base figuring it out based on my experience. If something happened to me during meditation; like time and space dissolving, or a deceased relative speak to me, then I’d assume that was exactly what the spiritual realm was like.

However this method for discerning spiritual truth started to confuse me because different people have spiritual experiences that often contradict each other.

We can’t study the spiritual realm in the way that we can study the physical one.

However, that doesn’t mean simply giving up and just accepting that there are multiple subjective, contradictory spiritual truths, all vying for our attention and distraction.

How do you find spiritual truth?

I think perhaps it starts with an openness, an openness to know the truth, no matter what, even if it’s that boring book without a cover, even if it’s the thing you’ve rejected.

Openness and a prayer, 'Jesus is it really you, are you the truth?'

‘And you will know the truth and the truth will set you free. John 8.32

For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. Matthew 7:8