THE GREAT ADVENTURE

Scott Peck’s The Road Less Traveled opens with “Life is difficult.” Pretty much says it all doesn’t it. So what are we going to do about it? Most unfortunately, choose to go through life on self-propulsion, rudderless, seemingly bounding from one situation and crisis to another, never taking the time to consider possible alternatives, different avenues of living. Living on the Spiritual Basis we have chosen the road less traveled, the journey typically begun out of pain. The pain of addiction, of one failed relationship after another, death and/or illness of loved ones or looking at the pain and suffering of the world and knowing there must be another way, our pain that of all humanity. The Great Carpenter first described the road less traveled when he taught, “Enter by the narrow (strait) gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it.
     Because narrow (strait) is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it” (Matthew 7:13-14 NKJV).

Living at ordinary levels of consciousness, we take the broad way, seeking answers and peace by any means. We suffer and as a result, the world suffers for everything and everyone are connected. When driven by pain and discontent we choose a road to travel. To either blot out the truth of existence by any of the methods secular society and carnal thinking provides or to look within for our spiritual connection. The former being the path most chosen since who wants to do hard things like seeking spiritual answers and truth when there are easy things like alcohol, drugs (prescribed and illicit), “activities” and companions living only for physical sensation, surrounding oneself with those who will co-sign, justify or rationalize anything we choose to do.

Living at raised levels of consciousness is the strait gate. Living on a new basis, the basis of trusting and relying upon God, the Spiritual Basis we place our feet on the road less traveled. The good news is this road does not have a lot of traffic, the sights and sounds along the way remarkable, amazing, beyond the human minds true ability to comprehend. The bad news is the road does not have a lot of traffic. Often we will feel as if we are alone on the journey, thinking perhaps we have made the wrong choice since the work seems so hard, others seemingly prospering without doing the work. The adversary, fear, would have us judge by outward appearances, not inward reality. Take heart, for you are on the greatest adventure of all, the raising of your consciousness, which not only benefits you, but the whole world, all humanity because of our connection, one to another. Let there be peace, and let it begin with me.