the full dignity of our being. Instead, they
remained guarded in the esoteric lineages,
movements and traditions, waiting for
humanity to be ready to receive it as one
family. As this occurred, the outer, exoteric structures of organised religion grew
around these seeds of esoteric wisdom,
and because of humanity’s stage of evolutionary development not having yet moved
into a world-centric honouring of all human beings, began to define those seeds
in a way that was specific to a particular
culture, tribe, or nation. This enclosure of
the sacred in ethnocentric and often pathological expressions of religion around the
globe is one of the single greatest contributing factors to conflict, war, and suffering,
today.
Increasingly though, things are starting to
change. As the grace of technology and
the ever increasing world-centric phases of
collective growth permit us to see that we
have always been a single human family,
all the wisdom that has been cultivated
in the diverse lineages and pathways of
planet Earth is flowing back into humanity
as a whole. There, in the heart of every
human being whose soul is vibrating at the
frequency of the New Earth, the unconditional freedom of Reality and our dynamic
connection with the creative evolutionary
impulse are being remembered. As one
humanity, we are waking up to know that
these are the unconditional birthright of all,
beyond any and all ethnocentric boundaries or dogmas.
As such, we are starting to recognise
that each of the Earth’s wisdom lineages
represents a stream of a continuous and
universal spiritual process – a universal
spirituality. This universal spirituality is the
collective inheritance of wisdom from all
traditions and pathways throughout the
entire arc of human history. And as we shift
our focus from the life story of any one
particular founder of a spiritual tradition to
the majestic dignity of what a human being
truly is, this universal approach is increasingly becoming informed by such fields as
psychology, cosmogony, healing and wellness, neuroscience, and others, which tell
us about what it means to be fully human.
All of the wisdom cultivated by these different communities can now begin to be
shared at the communion table of an emergent universal spirituality. All of it, when
seen as a single body of wisdom and love,
can point to what it means for humanity to
stand awake, integrated, and globally engaged. All of it can rest on the recognition
that there is really only one humanity, one
tradition that is our collective awakening,
and one Infinite Radiant Consciousness that
is Reality.
The Birth of a Universal Spirituality
The central question at the heart of a universal spirituality is: what does it look like
for humanity to stand awake, integrated,
and cosmically participating on Earth today? Powerful and extraordinary contributions to answering this question are in
abundance on Earth, coming from the mystical core of the spiritual traditions, from the
fields of psychology and psychotherapy,
from the sciences, cosmogony, evolutionary studies, and multiple other domains. In
order to be able to understand how they