Connecting with Spirit

Recently during Spring I had the wonderful privilege of visiting a large natural botanical garden near my home. It is up in the hills of a low lying range reaching an elevation of about 630 metres. The garden is set deep in an indigenous Australian temperate rainforest filled with Eucalyptus, Acacias, Ash, and Tree Ferns. Beneath the leafy canopy lie many varieties of colourful shrubs.

During my visit the thing that I noticed most was the silence in the garden – no noise pollution from automobile traffic, industry, or even screaming humans. There was also no garbage lying around. The air was clean and cool, and you could smell the earth. There was birdsong from hidden birds. Looking up into the canopy you could see overcast skies with the occasional blue peeping through breaks in the clouds. The most striking feature of looking up was how tall the trees were and how high they reached into the heavens. I was a tiny creature standing amidst natural “columns” of a majestic cathedral. I was in the presence of the ONE.

Often I write about how we can find the ONE in this sick world we live in. I think we have to find places like the natural garden I recently visited – places where we can quiet our minds and stop our reeling negative emotions.

In places of natural beauty and majesty, free of material distractions, we have no choice but to stop and be at peace. When we experience that moment, where we are suddenly consciously aware of the natural peace in the surroundings, we must integrate with it and stay in it for as long as we can – several hours if possible. While immersed in that natural tranquillity we must free our minds and hearts, and hand them over to the ONE. We do not have to be in control; it is quite possible to just “be” with all of our trust placed in the ONE. It is in those moments that we can allow our soul to connect with the spirit of the ONE and experience the “truth” of our existence and purpose on earth.

We are not on this earth to fulfil the Fallen mission of dominating and destroying everything; of taking creation away from the ONE so that we can hoard and own it. By opposing the ONE and trying to destroy creation and our connection with soul and spirit we achieve nothing – we do not win in the spiritual battle between the ONE and the Fallen. We merely destroy. 

Through our destruction we do not obliterate the ONE – that is impossible. The ONE will always exist; has always existed; is infinite. If we think we can destroy and annihilate the ONE, we are misled because all we are doing is deepening our unconsciousness of the ONE. We foolishly think that once we stop – annihilate – our consciousness of the ONE true God, that ONE is dead and no longer exists. To those who are fully unconscious, the ONE is dead (in their minds and hearts) but is not eliminated because humans do not have that power over the ONE. 

In truth, and very sadly, we have no power other than that of destroying our world and ourselves. We are very good at this.

So, for those of us who are conscious of soul and spirit, we must detach from the world of the Fallen and spend as much time in natural majesty and beauty as we can, while that natural beauty is still alive and available to us. This will increase our consciousness of soul and spirit, and restore our union with the ONE.

The alternative of a world with no such beauty is really what we mean when we speak of “hell”. We make hell on earth – we make a place of suffering filled with ego-centrism, domination, ridicule, hatred, destruction, regret, and despair. Is this really how we want to live on this earth as we prepare for our transition from this life to the next?


Image: Alfred Nicholas Garden, Dandenong Ranges, Victoria, Australia. Copyright - Michael Beaton

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