On reading the post Living Spiritually (June 23, 2024) a reader asked how my revelations come.
Also, the question of knowing what is spiritual and what is merely mind stuff also came up.
ME: I replied with a slightly edited version of my post on Writing Teaches:
Spiritual Writing is like a dynamic magic that reveals your true self to yourself.
The spiritual truth can emerge from spiritual writing’s gift of spiritual sieving.
It lifts the veils from the human cultural accretions that encrusted you from birth.
The real you, that is in fact a ‘what’ not a ‘who’, lies dormant, “entombed in man’s mortality and man’s defaulting mind” as I wrote in the poem, ‘Marooned’.
One of the reasons I started writing was wanting to explore that revelation, live a daily life steeped in the spirituality of my mystical experiences of Reality (MER).
I also hoped this would counter my feeling of being marooned here, having to live with the overwhelming distractions of being partly human.
This spiritual writing process has to be secret so you are free to exercise the absolute integrity of your spiritual submission.
It has to be completely honest to Reality without any consideration for human totems or mind fashions of the day.
You can’t let yourself write stylishly, be second hand, risk losing contact.
You have to remind yourself constantly this process only works if it is for the development of your consciousness in Reality, yours only.
To work, this reminder must be your focus and constant correctional device.
Eventually the revelations from the heights and depths will begin to show.
Eventually you will hardly recognise what you never knew existed as your real self, your true consciousness as it emerges.
So here are a few tips on how to focus. (In fact you are contemplating and meditating. This is a deepening state of primary enlightenment. The rest, as they say, will follow as the night the day) :
State your deepest purpose in why you want to write spiritually in your first sentence. (As I did for this piece: “Writing is like a dynamic magic that reveals your true self to yourself.” (See first sentence above).
Use no more than 16 words per sentence.
Use only one sentiment per sentence. Don’t overload.
Don’t join sentences with conjunctions like ‘and’, ‘but’, ‘yet’, ‘so’, ‘which’, ‘therefore’ or commas, colons or semicolons. Load your sentences with one idea at a time.
Use no more than three sentences per paragraph.
Don’t write more than 750 words – equivalent to three double spaced, typed, standard sized sheets of paper, (A4 sheets in the UK).
End with a strong reference to the first sentence you used to start your piece of writing, eg., “Writing teaches. It is like a dynamic magic that reveals your true self to yourself.”
READER: It seems you are referring to auto writing, which is oddly coincidental (or should I call it synchronicity?) that most of my ‘came ups” occur through writing something for my blog, or even a correspondence or research notes.
It seems that something outside of my conscious/ego self takes over and I begin quickly typing with no awareness of the intent but just the individual words, if that makes sense. The reason I have asked is because I think I am receiving insight or answers during a meditative state and am just curious if that is accurate or just something I’m feeling and supposing.
ME: Yes, it does make sense. I think you are receiving insights, answers. They are not just your mind stuff intruding..
To make sure I record these nudges, I sift my choice of words by deleting, resorting to thesauruses and dictionaries. I look for more accurate ways to portray the meaning. I concentrate more on words than sentences or paragraphs …
Mostly though, the words present themselves. I often wonder who or what writes my posts anyway.
READER: The awareness of the expression from the words comes when I read it back.
ME: Reading aloud can deliver a very satisfying creative magic too.
However, the mundane explanation of what we’re corresponding about here is, we like editing. But not mundane editing.
Mundane editing is what egoistic secular writers have traditionally called their Muse. However, I’m convinced what we’re corresponding about is not ‘auto writing’ but spiritual, ‘enthused’ revelation, (that is, ‘of God’ – or in my case ‘enthused’ byReality).
READER: I struggle with intentional auto writing. I get in my own way. Too aware I suppose that I am trying to auto write.
ME: My themes come to me from I know not where. From then on I seem like a mere scribe. Ego, ‘me’ or ’I’ isn’t allowed expression by whatever is sending the words.
READER: The same is true for meditation. I simply cannot meditate as others do.
ME: ‘Others’ have nothing whatsoever to do with Reality’s personal call to you. It’s a waste of time thinking ‘others’ matter in this relationship.
In my experience these mystical relationships are unique, ringed by Reality’s impenetrable security between the two of you that nothing else will ever be allowed to penetrate.
READER: What I can do is contemplate – where I sit in focus of a subject or question. Sometimes an insight ‘comes up’, sometimes it is much later when the answer seems to just pop into my consciousness while I’m washing dishes or something.
ME: In my experience ‘I can do’ arises less and less as the relationship with Reality develops.. ‘I’ is redundant to Reality’s purpose.
Reality has no interest in our lust, anger, greed, attachments and ego. They are not required, are not allowed in to clutter Reality’s purpose, simple as that.
READER: In either situation I have to somehow disconnect from my ego self which I struggle to purposefully do.
ME: Yes! I don’t think your ‘I’ has anything to do with Reality. ‘I’ didn’t understand my Quaker mentor when he spoke at a Meeting about “letting go and letting ‘God'”. Experience has put that right …
READER: Fortunately I have reached a degree of intuitive knowing which starts as awareness from writing or contemplation, followed by confirming synchronicities, and finally it settles as a firm knowing, not a belief but a knowing. I know it’s true from the depths of my being and it’s no longer shakeable.
ME: Congratulations. You are called, no doubt about it. It is shaping your life, your family, relationships, friendships, reading, even dress and employment, like it or not!
READER: My blog (like yours?) is a means of discovery and traversing my spiritual journey.
ME: Yes.
READER: Your responses help me better understand and I will try the method you suggested to auto write. And I will quit worrying that what I write may mislead or offend and just let it be.
ME: ‘Auto write’ is only a human word, it claims the spiritual experience we are writing about here as human. It isn’t. It’s another device Reality uses to advance Reality’s purpose, in this case through you personally, through no one or nothing else devised by humans.
Please feel free to let me know how you get on.
Mystical Experiences of Reality 