Wonders of Spiritual Unfoldment

John Butler

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Even if there is a realm beyond mortality, would finding it improve our lives on earth? What use is Spirit to a troubled world? Do prayer and meditation work?

As a young man in search of love and a purpose to live for, the author could not fit within the world he found. Longing to be useful but unwilling to conform, he went out to South America. It wasn't so easy. Alone on a mountainside one day, an inner voice said, 'To make whole, be whole'. This was a turning point. He realised that, before being able to help others, he first had to work on himself. Once back in England, he found a method of meditation.

Love of nature led him to become one of the first organic farmers but, when asked what he really wanted in life, he answered 'God'. He'd been schooled in the Christian faith but was not at this time attracted to the Church. Meditation proved an ideal accompaniment as further adventures took him to Africa and, in particular, the desert.

Later, at a low ebb in the USA, he 'met Jesus', which brought his practice of meditation and Christianity together. At the age of 51, he re-entered university to study Russian prior to visiting his mother's homeland for the first time in 1991. This led to several years living in Russia, where he realised the similarity between his own practice and traditional Orthodox 'prayer of the heart'.

The book is based on notes of the author's unfolding spiritual experience, which taught him that the wholeness he sought is actually - Spirit. How is it attained? With many encouraging examples he shows how, with patient perseverance, the grip of the ego with all the restrictive unhappiness it brings, can be released. Being then more open to the influence of Grace, we may come to discover the Kingdom of God - our original, spiritual and perfect home.

Dear John,
'I hope you won't mind my addressing you by your Christian name but having read your book twice as well as highlighting many paragraphs to study, I feel you are a dear friend.

Über John Butler

Once back in England, he found a method of meditation. His love of nature led him to take up organic farming, but when asked on initiation what he really wanted in life, he answered, 'God'. He had been schooled in the Christian faith but was not at the time attracted to the Church. Meditation proved ideal as his restless nature led him to take off for the Kalahari and Namib deserts. Later, at low ebb in the Arizona desert, he 'met Jesus', another turning point in his life, shifting the focus of his spiritual practice from meditation to prayer. In the late 1980s he returned to university in England to study Russian so that he could visit his mother's homeland, which he first did in 1991. This led to a period of teaching in Russia, where he learnt more about the Orthodox practice of 'prayer of the heart'. The basis of this book are notes the author kept, but he stresses that it is a not a guide book. It is offered as evidence that with patient perseverance the grip of the ego, and all the unhappiness it brings, can be loosened, that through grace we may find our way back to our true nature, to God. As he expressed it in a poem: It is obvious enough when one looks at the sky, that the sun is obscured when clouds pass by, with this natural fact I'll endeavour to show how the problems of life can diminish and go, for problems arise when we take by mistake, changing scenes for our permanent state, within each of us shines a similar sun, dependent on nothing, beholden to none, in all things sufficient, with freedom and bliss, it's there from our birth, and it's what a man is, now that you may query, but look and you'll find how your sun gets hid by the clouds of your mind.


Verlag:

Shepheard Walwyn (Publishers) Ltd

Veröffentlicht:

2012

Druckseiten:

ca. 418

Sprache:

English

Medientyp:

eBook


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