Experimental Spirituality

Because life lessons involve confronting one’s own limitations and fears, knowledge is always hard won

What they are driven by is an underlying fear

Those who consider they know The Truth are using what they think they know to hide behind

Assumed truths are inherited and conditioned beliefs and assumptions

Language, education, family, social norms, work, opportunities, and so on all contribute to the formation of the socialised self. Where the biological self is shaped genetically, the socialised self is shaped by social and environmental conditioning and by the way the individual responds to that conditioning

Self-calming behaviours vary between different people and depend on their psychological make-up, but may include eating, drinking, smoking, exercise, playing, shopping, violence or running away. Self-defensive behaviours are a form of self-calming

the problem of observing via the emotional centre is that judgement, or self-deprecation, or envy, or blame, or some other negative emotional attitude, is often embedded in the emotions. As a result valid observations become caught up in subjective emotional experiencing. To be useful, observations need to be carried out in a detached, non-judgemental way

Spiritual intention remains constant, but motivation is impacted by an individual’s reactions to life experiences and so waxes and wanes.

Each species has its particular everyday awareness it uses to construct its own unique meanings from what it perceives

Agapé has no projected desire other than goodwill