"Living on purpose is about making life choices from a place of spiritual awareness, taking direction from my divine compass within instead of the chatter of the material world." - Daily Word for Tuesday 12/18/18, A Unity Publication

We were created and incarnated to wrestle with concepts of holiness, morality, and larger life purpose. As human consciousness evolves, we grow into greater capacity for connection with Universal Truth or Sacred Source. It is inherent upon us to ask questions and seek wisdom for ourselves.

Expanding understanding of the holistic human and the nature of divinity makes this an exciting time to experience spiritual freedom and opportunities for education, expression, and community. With the joyous expansion into global exploration of indigenous beliefs, ancient teachings, and newly revealed wisdom, there comes a proportional contraction for some people.

For me, moving into a vigorous, daily, personal relationship with God has been joy-filled, empowering, comforting, challenging, educating, and enlarging. But we are all on a unique personal path of spiritual evolution, and not everyone is here to have the same experiences.

Our metaphysical community, as with spiritual seekers and mystics throughout time, has recently been targeted by fear-mongering and judgment from a former mystic and spiritual teacher. She now insists peace signs, dreamcatchers, all contemporary spiritual revelation, yoga, crystals, acupuncture meridians, chakras, and even sage leaves are evil, bad, and gateways to hell.

This is not my experience and belief - quite the opposite! You and I have the divine right not to be limited by someone else's fear. Each person's intimate experience of the holy is what matters, and no external preaching can substitute for what you have known in your own spirit.

All great spiritual traditions and religions are ways of pointing to the ultimate Divine Power. There is truth and beauty in Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhist and Sufi tradition, Islam, Native American religion, global expressions of shamanism, Wicca, et cetera.

As a human being, you have the right and dignity to choose your own way, make your own assessments, and define what spiritual connection means for you. Never let anyone tell you that your ways of healing, prayer, meditation, wisdom seeking, or joy are bad and wrong.

Your spirit, lifetimes of experience, karma, and relationship with Source belong only to you. Living robustly is about having your own experiences, not living in a cage of someone else's projected fears and perceptions.

You have permission to take the road less traveled and follow Goodness in your own way. May we all be blessed with discernment, clear vision, and loving hearts along the path!

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Elizabeth S. Eiler, Ph.D. is the author of three metaphysical books exploring spiritual topics including women's spirituality and the Sacred Feminine, animal souls and totems, and energy work.