INSIGHT 39: THE SPIRITUAL EMPTINESS FOUND IN THE DISSEC...

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INSIGHT 39: THE SPIRITUAL EMPTINESS FOUND IN THE DISSECTION OF NATURE AND THE DISSECTION OF WHAT WAS CALLED THE WORD OF GOD, AT LAST LED TO SPIRITUAL INSPIRATION BEING FOUND IN THE EXPERIENCE OF NATURE, OF EACH OTHER AND OF COURSE THE COSMOS ITSELF. THIS IS THE SACRED AND SPIRITUAL TRUTH TO WHICH WE MUST AT LAST AWAKEN. THIS AWAKENING IS OUR MYSTICAL ALLING AT LAST. AND WITH THIS AWAKENING, SO SHALL COME OUR SPIRITUAL HEALING OF OURSELVES, OF EACH OTHER, OF OUR COMMUNITIES AND OF OUR MOTHER EARTH, OUR HOLY GAIA.

These insights, that were begun by Richard Dell right back in the early 1990s, touch on all the most meaningful and indeed important religious and spiritual issues of our times. They are the same now as they were then. These Insights see religion just as firmly grounded in the Earth and in the stars as it is in the spirit and in the heavens. Richard sees no distinction between the material and spiritual realms. ALL is ONE. This comes through so clearly in these Insights, and that is why the environmental movement – our awakening at last to the needs of Gaia, of our planet – is as important as any spiritual quest, as important as all our need for healing, and is and must be an integral part of that holistic oneness that we must achieve in all that we do. It is also why issues such as Black Lives Matter are deeply spiritual. Richard sees inclusivity as being at the core of all our spiritual and religious endeavours. ALL is indeed ONE. And that mantra is the key to humanity’s future evolution: spiritual, social and political. It is the key to our sacred purpose, and the sacred and spiritual meaning of our very being.

THE WORD WAS THE TRUTH, REGARDLESS OF WHETHER IT ACTUALLY WAS TRUE, AND TRUTHS THAT WERE NOT CONTAINED IN THE WORD WERE SEEN AS IRRELEVANT AT BEST AND AT WORST AS QUITE SIMPLY UNTRUE. SUCH HAS BEEN THE SPIRITUAL CALAMITY OF OUR RECENT TIMES. SUCH WAS THE DENIAL OF THE SACRED IN THE NAME OF THE FROZEN WORD. SUCH WAS THE DENIAL OF TRUE SPIRITUAL MEANING IN THE NAME OF LITERAL MEANING.

The scientific revolution of the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries, and of course subsequently, led to an undermining of long held religious beliefs, as the scientific methodology and its extraordinary consequences in terms of understanding our world and then manipulating our world through scientifically based technologies, seemed to make a mockery of long-held and long-cherished religious beliefs such as communion wine actually turning into Christ’s blood, or heaven being a real place that existed just above the clouds, and hell being a real place somewhere deep underground. Accidents were invariably seen as divine retribution. Pagan superstitions were still rife. Complementing the scientific revolution was the protestant revolution. With the old certainties gone, faith and trust were invariably placed in the ‘so-called’ Word of God. The great swathe of traditional church teachings, that were not grounded in the Word of the Bible, even though they might actually have touched on deep spiritual truths, were swept away. There was only the Word. The Word was the Truth, regardless of whether it actually was true, and truths that were not contained in the Word were seen as irrelevant at best and at worst as quite simply untrue. Perhaps it was only with the 18th Century Romantic movement, itself a reaction to soulless science and a stifling Word, that spiritually inclined ‘adventurers’ began to look for spiritual inspiration in the experience of nature rather than in the dissection of nature or the dissection of the Word. An overly mechanistic view of the universe, linked with an overly literal view of the divine, gradually began to give way to an appreciation of a universe that was in some way sentient and thereby actually more human.