聽神談【關於「新靈性」New Spirituality】
現在你們得面對一個重要的問題,這是一個此刻所有人類都得面對的問題:
你們是否願意航向新的覺知領域?或是你們寧可讓事件的浪潮,再次把你們推向曾把你們的希望粉碎數千次的岩礁岸上?
你們是否要回到舊宗教逐字逐句、按字面意義詮釋並應用的方式,正如同每個宗教
的基本教義派所要求的?或是你們將勇於探索、建議、推薦和創造一個新靈性—它
並不完全排斥舊事物,而是將它們改進,將人類提升到更恢宏的高度。
你們可以考慮看看,對現今世界真正有效可行的——就這個世界表示想要體驗的
和平與和諧而言——一種建立在新啟示上的「新靈性」觀念。
尼爾:我們在談的到底是哪一種「新靈性」?
一種能夠擴展目前宗教組織格局的新靈性。因為正是許多傳統宗教的固有框架,阻礙了你們去體驗真正的神。
它們也阻礙了你們去體驗和平、喜悅與自由——這些都是神真正所是的其它名稱(which are other words for God as God really is)。
摘自《與神對話之新啟示》第7 & 13章
And so now you are faced with an important question. This is another stating of the question asked before, the question facing all of humankind in this moment.
Will you move forward into new and unchartered seas?
Or will you allow the tide of events to sweep you back to the rocky shoals upon which you have already crashed your hopes a thousand times?
Will you go back to the exact words and phrases and to-the-letter interpretations and literal applications of your old religions, as fundamentalists of every religion would have you do, or will you dare to explore, suggest, recommend, and create a new spirituality—one that does not reject everything about the old, but improves upon it, carrying humanity to grander heights?
A spirituality that enlarges upon organized religion in its present form.
For it is many of your old religions, with their inherent limitations, that stop you from experiencing God as God really is.
They also stop you from experiencing peace, joy, and freedom—which are other words for God as God really is.