INSIGHT 22

Richard Dell's INSIGHTS, that inform the poems in his STARS IN OUR SOULS, are being prepared in a brief and readily accessible form. We include here a further taste as these original spiritual insights are worked through.

RELIGIOUS AND SPIRITUAL INSIGHT 22

These insights, that were begun by Richard Dell right back in the early 1990s, touch on all the most meaningful and indeed important religious and spiritual issues of our times. They are the same now as they were then. These Insights see religion just as firmly grounded in the Earth and in the stars as it is in the spirit and in the heavens. Richard sees no distinction between the material and spiritual realms. ALL is ONE. This comes through so clearly in these Insights, and that is why the environmental movement – our awakening at last to the needs of Gaia, of our planet – is as important as any spiritual quest, as important as all our need for healing, and is and must be an integral part of that holistic oneness that we must achieve in all that we do. It is also why issues such as Black Lives Matter are deeply spiritual. Richard sees inclusivity as being at the core of all our spiritual and religious endeavours. ALL is indeed ONE. And that mantra is the key to humanity’s future evolution: spiritual, social and political.

The holistic approach is a healing process in all sorts of ways; ways that can transcend its customary focus on our personal physical and mental wellbeing. The holistic approach which instinctively sees the parts that make up a whole as being intimately connected, will also need to be focussed on our social and political arenas if we are to make our societies properly functional, and if we are to bring our societies into a state of ‘good health’ where each and every one of us is seen as a valuable and integral part of the whole. We are all connected. We are all part of the Oneness that characterises a vibrant and healthy society. That does not mean that we will thereby lose our individuality. It means, that we must recognise that we can only achieve true individuality for ourselves and each other when we recognise that we are part of the whole and have responsibilities to everyone else who makes up that whole with us. Only then can we bring about a healing of the social and intellectual fragmentation of Western society, and indeed of all societies, that has been so extraordinary in modern times, yet also so damaging.

Image of a mystic waterfall, with a sculpture of Aquarius and his water jug lying atop the waterfall. As lightning strikes, a woman in a red dress ponders the scene.