What is a Spiritual Path?

On a spiritual path often you might start with a Philosophical question: For example, "Who Am I?", "Why Am I here?", "What is the purpose of my individual life?", "What should I do with my life?"

If you ask priests or ministers of ANY religion often their motivation is to enslave you to their way of thinking.

So, as a person who chooses to be on the spiritual path you might ask: "Why are you trying to enslave me to your path?"

Then they might beat you up or kill you or shun you because you are not acting like a slave or they might not talk to you anymore.

So, my way of describing what a Spiritual Path is would be to say that through your experiences and your scientific proof in your life you are creating your own personal religion. Should everyone join you in this religion? Usually not, because you have proved what you have proved only to yourself. So, they could only honestly join you if they had either proved what you have proved to yourself or they decide to trust you from what you have shared with them already.

The longer you have survived proving these things to yourself and still have your mental and physical health the more likely people will be able to be helped by what you have discovered about life. IN other words, the religion that you have proved to yourself based upon science and beliefs just might be superior to what anyone else has come up with. So, for this reason it might be good if they at least listened to you about what you have discovered.

So, scientifically choosing your path is important to your well being and the potential well being of all around you. As you grow the human race thereby grows to in understanding and awareness and in a greater sense of well being and oceanic experiences that encompass the whole universe and beyond.

For example, if the religion you were raised in answers all your questions in a satisfactory way you might not need a separate spiritual path. But, if you are constantly coming up against hypocrisy and incongruencies in your religion then you might have to embark on a spiritual path that may or may not contain some or all of the religion you were raised in.

You have to be true to yourself and to God if you believe in God.

One of the more remarkable things I experienced in 1985 and 1986 was to be around hundreds of thousands of Tibetan Buddhists in Bodhgaya who were receiving the Kalachakra Initiation from the Dalai Lama. So there were about 500,000 of them there.

Here were 500,000 people who were amazing in their auras and peace and compassion in a way I had never experienced before. Because these were not Theists which means they didn't necessarily believe in God. However, they were precious beyond belief and in many ways more sincere (because their lives often depended upon it) than most Christians and especially secular Christians here in the U.S.

So, I had to deal with this paradox of "Here are 500,000 people mostly not believing in God who are amazing and compassionate and helpful in a new and really wonderful way. Even Atheists likely would be happy with these people simply because they don't believe in God.

And yet, even not believing in God they were amazing people and helpful and loving and compassionate. They were rich and poor, educated and uneducated and all the rest just from mostly different cultures than I came from. And on top of this there were about 10,000 westerners from North and South America, Europe, Japan etc. who were very educated like myself which made this even more interesting.

So, I found a home there in Tibetan Buddhists that I had never found before. Because these people accepted more people the way they were than anyone else I had ever met before on Earth.

They believe in 49,000 paths to enlightenment and more than one of these path includes believing in God. So, I can be a good Buddhist and a good Christian at the same time without rejecting any life on earth human or animal in a spiritual sense which was my original goal. So, I can believe in God, be  mystical Christian still and also be a Tibetan Buddhist in practice as well.

This has been a truly wonderful experience.