For much of my day, every move I make is in response to a constant invitation to enter into the realm of the spiritual. My body is becoming accustomed to being attentive to a reality that had previously escaped me. For most of my life, I never understood how the spiritual, unseen realm is simply manifested in what I see as physical.
Only my mind regards my experiences as physical. All this time I have been experiencing the tip of the spiritual and never quite realized it. I was being invited into the realm of the spiritual and got stuck in the merely physical manifestation.
I now regard my body as a receptor, a receiver of sorts for the energy that makes up the universe. I constantly experience the unseen energy of the universe, and it shows up in my mind as an experience, as awareness. I don’t think I’ve understood how to interpret the coded signals.
For most of my life, it has been possible for me to stop at the perception of the physical manifestation and not accept the invitation to experience the unseen spiritual. I have mostly experienced the spiritual reality only as it appeared as a physical manifestation. I have seldom opened my mind to become aware of the deeper energies that are the foundation of my relationship experiences. I simply have not been tuned in, and I mostly passed on the invitation.
I think that I have in my body / mind the ability to experience the spiritual. I mostly, however, have stopped at the sense perceptions coming through my eyes, my ears, my imagination. The intricate and delicate integration of the spiritual and physical are slowly becoming easier for me to grasp. I am learning to live in that relationship.
Art can be an invitation to realize the combination of physical and spiritual. I recently listened to a youTube presentation on Bernini’s rapture of St. Teresa. It was so clear to me that the words of the lecture were pointing to the relationship between the spiritual and physical.
Bernini expressed that relationship in a combination of religious metaphor and marble. The intermingling integration is so clearly represented. I’ve heard people refer to the marble statue as a sexual expression. I think that is true, but it is so much more. The rapture of the figure is a wonderful combination and unity of the physical and spiritual reality.
I often find that music is an invitation to experience the spiritual energy of the universe. It is a further invitation to sing, to dance, to be aligned with the flow of energy that is suggested by the sounds. I do have to relax and allow my body / mind to plunge uninterrupted beyond the physicality of the sounds. Then my heart soars with music. I easily move through the physical manifestation into an experience of the spiritual.
I am pleased that I am learning how to accept the invitation into the realm of the spiritual. I am also beginning to see myself as an invitation for others to enter that same spiritual realm. I want to be a portal for their awareness. I realize that my own vulnerability is required to be such a portal. I must be fully present. Allowing that presence to be seen is a vulnerable action.
The universe is waiting, offering me an invitation. I too will wait and by being transparently present pass that invitation on to others.