A NEW INSIGHT 203. A NEW INSIGHT FOR A NEW AWAKENING. THIS TIME OF GREAT SPIRITUAL MEANING THAT TOUCHES OUR SACRED AND MYSTICAL PATH. OUR AWAKENING. AND WITH THIS AWAKENING, SO SHALL COME OUR SPIRITUAL HEALING OF OURSELVES, OF EACH OTHER, OF OUR COMMUNITIES AND OF OUR MOTHER EARTH, OUR HOLY GAIA.

A poem, still being edited, that speaks of how our present-day churches and religions will be viewed in the future in terms of their claims to be the bearers of the only truth about God, about what is truly spiritual, about the sacred. This is a constant theme in Richard Dell’s STARS IN OUR SOULS. And surely it is one of the most important points that we can make about men and women and their spiritual pilgrimage. We invariably look back on past practices and wonder how such practices and beliefs could have been not only tolerated but espoused and considered invaluable. We no longer consider it moral or ‘Christian’ to burn heretics at the stake. We look back at such practices with repulsion. Our churches are rightly embarrassed that their institutions held such divisive and exclusive opinions and indeed acted upon them. Nowadays we would see nothing of spirituality, or Christian love, in burning heretics at the stake, or in condoning slavery. We do indeed know better now. But what of the fact that although churches on the whole do not condemn outright other belief systems, be them beliefs held by fellow Christians or by adherents of other faiths, our churches do not seem to be prepared to embrace other belief systems, to rejoice in the ways of other belief systems? In a hundred years – or fifty? – such implied exclusivity will be seen as un-spiritual and un-Christian just as the beliefs and practices of five-hundred years ago were. We are all on the same journey, the same sacred and spiritual pilgrimage. We are all struggling towards the light, and we need to help each other in every way we can. Inclusivity is ALL. The inclusivity of love is ALL. The inclusivity that is the only pathway to spiritual and religious healing is ALL. This is one of the key sacred duties and spiritual missions of our time.