The Power of Modern Spirituality

I also suggest that you plan a calendar in which you deliberately place yourself in those circumstances that you know are particularly good for you and help you soak and fully absorb your connection.

As she realised all this, her low self-esteem simply dissolved. She knew now that she had nothing to prove to anyone and that she was part of a wondrous universe.

Edmund Wilson, the most well-known scholar associated with this research, suggests that biophilia is the source of our religious instinct.

Candace Pert, a leading researcher in the field, called ‘the molecules of emotion’.2

Our connection with the wonder and energy, with the field, with ‘God’s body’, is a felt experience as we creatures of nature and the universe, creatures of flesh and blood, of chemistry, electricity and magnetism, register that we are fully alive and that we are inextricably part of this extraordinary universe.

We may find the same elitism in the art or food world.

To cooperate with this experience and deepen it or explore it, you need to press your pause button and notice it properly. You need to stop. Wake up. Be more aware. Be conscious and recognise that something good is happening.

The tenth-century Indian mystic and philosopher Abhinavagupta said to his students, ‘Listen carefully. Stop holding on to this or that, inhabit your true absolute nature, and peacefully enjoy the essence of what it is to be alive.’

usually other stimulations in your life that are louder.