Spirit transcends boundaries. Thinking we can define the Divine is a form of spiritual arrogance – if you can define God, your god is too small. I love the Sufi story of the blind men and the elephant as an allegory for man’s relationship to the Divine – your understanding isn’t necessarily wrong, just incomplete.

Any time we approach spirituality with rigidity, we risk descending into dogma. It is our base-level ego that yearns to be able to fully understand matters of Spirit, because if we have a complete definition of it, the next step is to be able to control it. When we remember that Spirit is not rigid, that the Divine does not fit in a box, we begin to free ourselves from the bondage of the fear-based ego.

This is the starting point for my upcoming Chakras Workshop. We will be looking at ways to transcend the rigidity with which some teachings approach our various operating systems, so that we can do things like bring groundedness into matters of the heart, or link creative expression more strongly to matters of survival. Rigidity makes us brittle and small; openness and flexibility make us powerful.

This is actually the ethos with which I seek to imbue all my classes. My goal is to empower. I have often said that your spiritual path should be bringing you palpable change, otherwise you aren’t present. If you’re not operating in the present, you’re expending a lot of energy to operate in an illusion. The only moment that actually exists is right now. This is where your power is. This is where you connect to The All.