‘The real devil is your egotism, selfishness and self-centeredness. It’s only when you first realize that you are because you have a divine mission to perform and that you must get on the giving side of life instead of the getting side that the first rays of the spiritual Sun can illuminate your consciousness and the mysteries of the inner sanctum of your soul become visible.’ Edward Doane.
If love is the most overused word in the English language, then spirituality is the least understood.
Making sense of what it means isn’t easy but a growing interest in spirituality is one of the most striking aspects of contemporary Western culture.
Past civilizations have viewed spirituality in their own unique way and today it’s viewed as a subjective experience that puts the emphasis on the deepest values and meanings by which a person lives. It’s even defined as an individual’s search for ultimate, or sacred, meaning and purpose aka religious experience.
It’s become an important academic subject and there are spirituality journals and internet courses where increasing numbers of people are exploring a diversity of spiritual experiences in both traditional and nontraditional contexts.
Spiritual teachers teach spirituality: personal growth, interconnectedness, mindfulness, and the search for meaning beyond material existence.
Spirituality is often associated with mysticism, theology and esoteric religion. In India spiritual tourism – visiting religious sites and shrines – is booming.
Places are described as spiritual and spiritual giants are individuals who establish religious movements and teachings.
Things have changed since spirituality was a simple belief in a supernatural realm or afterlife; and a spiritualist was someone who served as an intermediary between the living and the dead or who was connected with spiritualism.
In the 1970s spirituality was associated with crystals, mystical astrology and human reincarnation. Neptune was having the most fun.
In 2026 spirituality is the word.
It’s closely associated with religion and you probably had what is called a religious-spiritual upbringing. Christian spirituality and Buddhist spirituality both emphasize the spiritual aspects of being and living.
Christian spirituality
Christian spirituality teaches you to love your neighbor as you love yourself and to do unto others as you would have them do unto you. In 2026 it’s very popular amongst the young and often intelligent who find the answer to their quest for meaning in its practices.
Feeding the hungry and healing the sick are acts of true spirituality but the Ten Commandments are ten thou shalt not guidelines for living.
There are many things you should not do, including those prohibited by the Ten Commandments, but it’s bad psychology to place the emphasis on the don’ts. It keeps your attention focused on these forbidden actions, vitalizing their mental images and draining energy away from mental images which prompt you to do spiritual acts.
You won’t become spiritual by refraining from doing things. You become spiritual by what you do. And if you keep your attention on truly spiritual things, and use your energy up in spiritual actions, you are not apt to be tempted toward ignoble deeds; for temptation only arises from mental images which become insistent because of the energy they require.
The world will not become a better place in which to live because of those who obey the Ten Commandments. It will become a better place through the intelligent efforts of people who do things.
Buddhist spirituality
Buddhist spirituality combines ancient traditions with modern practices and is popular with those who find meaning in new age spiritualism.
Awakened Academy, the international spiritual life coach training, certification and sacred online business academy for empathic, spiritual souls, reckons the signs of spirituality are:
Feeling peace with meditation and other mindful practices; Feeling compassionate and positive; Asking questions about life and death; Finding meaning and purpose in life; Being hopeful when things are challenging; Believing that life is sacred and should be embraced; Having a greater level of empathy and intuition; Feeling at peace when being alone; Feeling connected with your soul; Having a strong sense of self-worth; Believing that life is sacred and should be embraced and; Being in the present moment.
Awakened Academy’s mission is to restore Dharma to the world.
Dhrama is a fundamental concept of Buddhism, Hinduism and yoga. It refers to the moral law and principles that govern conduct and the universe. In Buddhism it refers to the teachings of Buddha and the true nature of reality. In Hindu philosophy it signifies righteousness, duty and cosmic order.
Buddhism teaches rebirth and the concept of anatta which denies the existence of a permanent, unchanging self or soul.
Hinduism teaches human reincarnation which implies the existence of a soul that moves from one body to another after death.
In new age of spirituality Lower-Pluto’s disinformation runs deep. Its negativity encourages passive living; and its teaching of human reincarnation is the greatest inversion of a universal truth and its greatest deception.
In 1889 T H Burgoyne in Light of Egypt warned: ‘... these inversive brethren achieved the greatest theological and metaphysical success in the relaunching forth, throughout the world, of the doctrines of reincarnation, karma and disembodied shells, as formulated and taught be the decaying priesthoods of the dreamy Orient. Viewed in its true light, this gigantic movement of the inversive brethren was aimed as a deathblow to the rapidly spreading spiritualism of the Occident...’
With every human soul reincarnating on the Earth plane the astral and spirit planes are lifeless. There’s no one there for the mediums and psychics to contact! but if you can read the Book of Nature correctly, you’ll see the truth of the matter plainly visible.
Your life is a journey. Through progressive experience your soul is expanding its consciousness and when it acquired enough intelligence and ability it incarnated as a human soul and was rewarded with self-consciousness. There’s been no repetition, no sin and no retribution. Just progressive development through experience.
The pain you feel is your soul’s misguided thought-cell response to painful experience. You’re not being punished, your being educated; and with more experience you’ll take action and mend the discordant thought-cell activity that’s causing the pain you feel.
And when your earthly life is done, your soul will continue to expand its consciousness: eternally progressing in the glorious vistas of higher astral and spiritual realms.
What is spirituality?
The Concise Oxford Dictionary simply states: ‘Spiritual: having the higher qualities of the mind. Spirituality: having a spiritual quality. Spiritualize: to elevate your thoughts and character.’
Hermetic astrology teaches there are two types.
There’s the negative feeling type ruled by Neptune which has a belief in a spiritual afterlife and indulges in so-called spiritual feelings that are beautiful, even ecstatic. They incline towards lazy (negative) self-indulgence and prompt fanciful notions of moral superiority.
And there’s the positive feeling type ruled by Pluto which expresses a positive response to take action and do something worthwhile. It produces a positive selfless mood that desires to contribute to the welfare of others.
Rational objective thought (Mercury) is capable of perception, analysis and reason but by itself has a low spiritual vibratory rate. It lacks the dynamic mental attributes needed to clearly comprehend the spiritual significance of the inner workings of the natural world.
Spirituality is a feeling, or sense of belief, that there is something greater than yourself – something more to being human than sensory experience – and that the greater whole of which you are apart is cosmic or divine in nature.
Spiritual consciousness scans the universe and perceives that the universal mind has formulated a plan and commenced the building of the universal structure.
It seeks to work out how it can be of the greatest possible service in furthering God’s great cosmic plan and realizes that opposing its advancement thwarts the tides of universal life.
Those who participate as constructive workers unite with the deific work and the perpetually expanding life and consciousness of the infinite.
Spiritual describes feelings, or moral attributes, that motivate noble behavior.
You’re spiritual when you live a moral life and a completely moral soul contributes its utmost to universal welfare.
Your spirituality expresses as noble deeds and other acts of kindness.
Spirituality is a way of living life. It’s what you do that counts so your actions are a clear measure of your spirituality.
Materialistic western culture, driven by fear and insecurity, has coarsened and lost the ability to feel the subtle energies and delicate life-forces that define true spirituality.
To wish or cause any creature pain indicates a lack of spirituality.
Your spiritual journey
Your journey of self-discovery involves a spiritual journey; and your soul’s spiritual impulse and path to spirituality is depicted in your birth chart by Pluto.
It’s the spiritual planet and you can use its creative energies to induce a spiritual mood and to generate the electrical energy to sustain it.
Your spiritual thoughts and feelings have a spiritual vibratory and only you know what you feel.
You act on your feelings and only you know if you feel the delicate forces that define true spirituality.
A spiritual life is grounded in noble aspiration. It benefits the world and requires spiritual desire guided by knowledge and adequate information.
Your spiritual states of consciousness affect spiritual substance: The enduring substance of eternal life and your future home. Your noble thoughts and feelings secure your soul’s future in spiritual realms and beyond.
You won’t find your spirituality in a church or laboratory. You'll find it in your soul: check out Pluto in your birth chart.
The Aquarian Age spiritual motive, contribute your utmost to universal welfare, when adopted ensures a rich spiritual life.
Altruistic spirituality does unto others as you would have them do unto you.
In 2026 you’ve got an important, problematic task. You’ve got to navigate all the false spiritual teachings – reject all the misguided beliefs – and actively engage with the world so that you come out on the other side a far better version of the person you started out as.
The article contains words written by Elbert Benjamine and Edward Doane.
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