Edgar Cayce on Mastering Your Spiritual Growth. Kevin J Todeschi

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      Preface

      “Who am I?” “Why am I here?” “What is the purpose of life?” Throughout the history of the world, questions such as these have driven every generation of humankind in search of meaning. Many have discovered partial answers in religion. Some have encountered personal revelation in philosophy. There are even those who have found clarification of their life’s purpose in psychology. Others, however, have spent a lifetime in search of answers to questions that they didn’t entirely know how to ask.

      In much of religious thought, one’s ultimate identity is connected with the soul—that portion of each individual that is believed to experience some form of eternity. Generally, it is thought that, through the evolving process of life, each individual begins to shape the “eternity” which becomes one’s destiny. In spite of the fact that some people have always maintained a narrow and exclusive look at the liberation and salvation of the soul, for many interested in spirituality, the purpose of life is much more than simply being “bad” or “good” and then receiving the corresponding punishment or reward. For example, in Hinduism there is the belief that, eventually, within each individual, the desire arises to discover an understanding of Brahma, the Creator. Although every soul is a part of Brahma, it is only as the soul ponders and experiences the knowledge of Brahma, the Supreme Universal Soul, that the individual soul gradually begins to awaken to its true selfhood. In time, the soul begins to discover the same powers and attributes within itself that belong to the Creator. The result is that the soul is released from limitation and bondage and truly becomes at one with Brahma, the Whole.

      This same idea—that we are somehow integrally connected to the Divine and are destined to become like our Creator—is found in legends, myths, and stories such as the Buddhist parable of the wealthy man and his poor son, contained in the Lotus Sutra. In the parable, a young man, apparently in search of himself, leaves his wealthy father’s home and roams the country СКАЧАТЬ