The Inside-Out Understanding

The past couple of years, I have spent exploring the inside-out nature of life. Also called “The Three Principles” by Syd Banks. Syd was an ordinary working man who had a profound and spontaneous spiritual awakening in 1973.

Have no fear, this is neither a cult and he is no guru. He does, however, explain rather clearly and simply, that we don’t really experience “life” - rather, we live in the feeling of our thinking about life. And then we believe that all of that is REAL, and that is the cause of most (or all?) of our challenges in life.

The Truth, with a capital T, is that we only truly experience Life when we stop paying attention to all our thinking. That’s when new thought, also called “Divine inspiration,” “inner wisdom,” “inner GPS” pops in. The more we become aware of this Truth, the more easily we learn to distinguish the difference between the experience of out thinking, and inner wisdom.

It’s a feeling.

It’s “that” feeling that is not really possible to describe in words, but that we have all experienced at some point in life. That feeling when you have a sudden insight, a new realisation, an “aha” moment. That deep peace, that overwhelming feeling of belonging….

I believe all spiritual circles and religions attempt to point to “that” experience. Yet as the saying goes “the finger pointing at the Moon is not the Moon.” Which I take to mean that we’re not meant to be looking at the path a person is taking to “find” enlightenment. Rather, take it as an invitation to go on your own personal journey of exploration.