Spiritual Toolkit

©2007 Joan M. Newcomb
When I first began my journey, I followed only one path (although I'd had experiences that led me to that particular place). I went through five years of training and was involved professionally and as a member for about thirteen years. The tools and techniques I learned have been very valuable, but it was like only having a toolkit for one specific spiritual practice. Like only having woodworking tools, when what I wanted to do was rebuild a house.

I often think of expansion being like a 'spiritual remodel'. You go through the different parts of yourself, removing the wallpaper your parents gave you and the built-ins from your first marriage, and opening up the attic with gables or skylights.

You can't do all of this with just woodworking tools. Well, you can if you don't want indoor plumbing or lights!

My own remodeling kit has tools picked up from an eclectic assortment of places. The books by Tuesday Lobsang Rampa were instrumental in my teen years. Techniques mentioned in Shakti Gawain's Creative Visualization and Basic Psychic Development: A User's Guide to Auras, Chakra & Clairvoyance by John Friedlander were very useful in my twenties. Findhorn entered into my awareness in my thirties, the work of Dorothy McLean and Eileen Caddy, and later David Spangler were inspirational, and specific techniques developed by Machaelle Small Wright and her Perelandra Nature Research center enlarged my toolkit tremendously. I'm in my forties now and my newest tools are Matrix Energetics, developed by Richard Bartlett, and 'Busting Loose' by Robert Scheinfeld.

And I have my own little gizmos that I've created in there as well.

My belief is that we are all progressing to a new level of consciousness and one disciplined way won't do it anymore. However much you internalized that way, it's still someone else's. And what is being required of us is for us to follow our own inner guidance, to operate as our own Expanded Selves. To be the remodeler rather than the remodeled, if that makes sense.

Listen to all of this with your own Truth meter. Listen to everything that way. Don't accept anything that doesn't resonate with you, that doesn't work for you. Fill your kit with tools that you like, and create your home exactly the way you'd love it to be.