Wednesday, June 6, 2012

A new dawn in spirituality- JEFF FOSTER


Written by Jeff Foster.

I have just returned from a wonderful few days at the Science and Non-duality Conference in Holland. It was a joy to meet fellow humans who are sometimes also called teachers - Isaac Shapiro, Pamela Wilson, Rupert Spira, Unmani, Karl Renz and Florian Schlosser, to name just a few - to sit with them, to laugh and cry with them, to share our perspectives.

It is becoming clearer and clearer (and yes, yes, ultimately even this is a story) that a new age of spirituality is dawning, a radically inclusive and accessible spirituality free from the dogma and ideology and blind belief of the past, a spirituality in which nothing and nobody - including the teachers themselves - can escape the loving light of ruthless inquiry and blinding transparency, in which nobody can claim any kind of absolute truth or privileged knowledge.
Equality, deep friendship, honesty and integrity are the new gods.

The disembodied, detached, disengaged, anti-personal, life-denying and often arrogant spirituality of the past, the "I know and you don't" spirituality, the "I have it and you don't" spirituality, the "I'm awakened and you're not" spirituality, the "I'm no-one but you're still someone" spirituality, is dead and dying, and this ordinary life is shining through. Separation, of any kind, cannot stand, for it is ultimately without foundation.

Fundamentalism, of any kind, eventually collapses under its own ridiculous weight. And here, we finally meet, teacher and non-teacher alike, in the unconditionally loving rubble of the present moment. Here, we are all teachers, and here, nobody knows anything at all. Welcome to this new dawn, my friend.

Jeff Foster

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