Spiritual lessons you learn differently

By Nico Cost for GlobalSouth.co

Spiritual lessons are like learning to ride a bicycle, not by thinking but by feeling. Learning to ride a bike has mostly to do with balance and you can’t explain that. As a novice cyclist, you will have to learn to feel and use balance. No one can teach you how to ride a bike. You can only learn to ride a bike yourself. By doing. By using your body. Balance doesn’t have to be understood; that comes later. You get on a bicycle and then you learn to ride by trial and error.

Spiritual lessons you learn the same way. By doing, i.e. experimenting and practicing. By feeling, that is, using your body and not your thinking. Understanding comes later if needed. And there is another important point. Every body works differently. What works for one person may be useless for another. Learning is an individual process and is therefore always customized. A spiritual teacher knows this and is therefore always focused on letting the student experience it for themselves.

At the same time, we live in a mental world where we need words to communicate with each other. Therefore, we always begin in that mental world, including that spiritual teacher and his student. Just like the parent who wants to teach the child how to ride a bicycle tells the child what roughly the intention is. Those words are a beginning, but at the same time they can be a hindrance. In the mental world, we prefer to understand first and then do. Don’t pay too much attention to the words; they are not that relevant to the experience.

The word “spirituality” can already be so loaded. After all, what is spirituality, what is spiritual? Eight billion people on Earth and therefore possibly eight billion definitions of spirituality. For me, spirituality is the connection to the unseen world. We live in the form, in the material world of space and time, our universe. At the same time, we are connected to the formless, the energetic world where everything is connected to everything, divine consciousness. Science discovers that something can be both matter and energy at the same time.

Spirituality involves that energetic world. Our ears and eyes are not attuned to that; they are already satisfied with the material world. To explore that spiritual world we need other senses. We speak of the sixth sense or the third eye, but in fact our whole body is a sensitive antenna that we learn to use. Even our DNA has an energetic component, yet to be discovered. We don’t know more than we do, we “know” a lot “approximately”.

Every human being is spiritual; it is nothing special. What matters is to what extent man is aware of that unseen world and can use it in his life. There is not much point in reading books and watching videos if you do not do something with it yourself. What is important is to experiment and experience, use your body and learn to feel. Reading this text is at most a start, but then it comes down to discovering for yourself by doing. Meditation is like that.

Meditating is not an end in itself. Meditation can be done in so many different ways with different goals. It is a discovery, individually, what suits you and what can benefit you. When I write about it, it is only an opening move. After that it’s your game. Of course you can spend longer together, but each time you will be thrown back on yourself because only your own experience matters. Once you have felt the balance, then the reward becomes great.

Spirituality encompasses many different things. Religions are built on spiritual insights. Energy work like acupuncture and Reiki stem from it. Prophets, soothsayers and inventors use it. All the way back to the basics, the beginning, you can say that all life stems from spirituality, energy, divine consciousness. The one consciousness (energy) that created the dual matter. Thereby the third component is introduced, which is the balance between the two main forces in our universe, attraction and repulsion.

We emerge from energy and we are spiritual beings. In our human development, we are learning to think, but we are not doing that very well yet. It requires our attention and therefore we have drifted away from our feeling. It is time for man to learn to feel in conjunction with his thinking. That is why spiritual teachers are committed to teaching man to feel for himself. Just as Jesus indicated that people should seek their own connection with God instead of believing and imitating him.

Our spiritual potential is enormous if we learn to use it. That is the only way out of the cycle of thinking. Everything important comes from spirituality, that which the divine world whispers to us and makes us feel. To do this, however, we must descend to the core and not get stuck in imaginative constructs of our thinking. Man is a master of fabrication. Our thinking can impersonate feelings incredibly well. Emotions are not feelings; emotions come from thinking. It is a choice.

I don’t want to add too much, but still give a context. And mind you, this is my fabrication. It is what I came up with after all my discoveries in the world of feeling. But so this does not have to be true by any means. It is true for me, right now. I share it to make a beginning. It is up to you to want to embark on the journey, a journey to your own truth. But above all, a connection to that divine world as an important complement to the material world in which we are still so plodding.

How do you want to take it on?