You will have your reasons for being here. You will have your story of how you discovered this place, the teaching…even me. Perhaps you heard me in person somewhere. Perhaps you watched a YouTube video and it intrigued you, perhaps even drew you. Now you find yourself here. You might be wondering whether this space will help you, whether others here will help you, whether I will help you. I wonder if you sense the Spirit here? That something is beginning here, and you wonder if you have a place here… or that this space has a place in you?
So why is this space here? Why is Spiritual Realities here? Is it because there is a life in the Spirit that is just so much more than many people experience? Is it that the words we use when we talk about life and God, can get in the way. That we need to shed words that we are labelling as religion so that we can reach out for a new way of thinking. A thinking that better grasps the life in the Spirit that we want? Is it that there is just, well, ‘more…’, and we don’t know what it is, but we can hear it like a distant voice in the wind that we sometimes wonder why others don’t hear. Well, I think it is probably all of those things. But.
Let’s come towards this from a different direction. Perhaps you’ve never really read the last book in the official collection of books that has been labelled ‘the bible’. A bunch of bishops made a decision hundreds of years ago about what you can hold in your hand and call ‘the bible’. They decided what was in and what was out. Perhaps there should have been more books in? Perhaps, but one of the books that was a challenge to accept in was the ‘last’ book. To put it simply, because it was extraordinary, even weird. But boy, is it powerful. If you’ve read it several times, you may have formed an opinion about what its most important message is. Some of us have probably had our opinion of the book given to us by others strong opinions. Many of us might just want to avoid it, or strong opinions on it, because of the ‘fight’ around it. I want to suggest something.
To me, it has a pinnacle. A high point. The most important point. It’s in the area where it talks about a new world coming. The old has gone and the new has come. I don’t want to go near all the different angles on that now. But in the middle of that, something is mentioned. And then, in a final extraordinary vision, an angel (yes, a divine being. If you know me I don’t like using the word ‘angel’ that much), comes and says ‘John, let me show you that again in detail…’. John sees a place that is full of life.
It’s easy to look at church, and church meetings and the way we do church, and the way we talk about what church could be and… miss something. I believe what John was shown was what we are after. It’s what God’s after. It’s the connection between heaven and earth that converges on a group of people, in the heavens and on the earth. New people. In Christ people. Some in their earthly bodies, some in their heavenly bodies… but operating as one. Harmonising with all the ‘angels’. The river of life, which flows from the essence of Father’s being, flows through these people. You might think that they were the source, as it flows through them, but they will say and display that the source is Father. I think the ones in their heavenly bodies know this… and are waiting for what they have seen as a promise. The earthly ones joining them as if there was no separation.
This is the reason for Spiritual Realities. Something, which is called by Hebrew thinkers, the new, heavenly City. The new Jerusalem. The actual joining of heaven and earth. I started this, to help others move into this realisation. And then more… to enter in through experience.
That Electric City of ALL new humanity, who have lost focus on the difference between material and spiritual reality will constantly be at the heart of this journey. It’s why, currently, the zoom modules and connections are the heart of this ‘academy’. Because those community experiences move us towards that higher City. We are joined by others who are already higher. It is more than just learning skills. More than improving our own lives. This is not a resource. We ARE the resource. And that journey together will always be at the heart. New people will join. People will join us who are at different places. They don’t have to do two years catching up to be with us. They will be drawn into our journey together, to the extent they are able, as we give them grace and help others join with us. We can all engage, on the same journey, at the depth that we have reached.
Community is not enough. Being spiritually mature is not enough. It is beyond those on their own. These three things will remain… Faith, hope and love. There will always be love, but there will always be a seeing of something that we need to form and reach for as a loving people… hope… and there will alway be the spirit mechanics of how to get there… faith. Just like God, full of love… loving community… dreamt of more… sons and daughters in harmony… and reached for it.
We are a City. On earth and in heaven. That’s where the life flows that brings in a new Epoch for this creation. For those of us still in bodies, we are invited to engage with that City whilst still on earth. Then NEW fully comes.
Who knows what is next after that…
