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Written by Bob Guyer
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I grew up in Southern California during the 1950’s, 60’s, and 70’s. My fascination with consciousness and exploring the depths of human experience started in my early teens. I was reading about Einstein’s theory of general and special relativity in an encyclopedia on a warm southern California summer day. Two ideas, a finite universe due to the effect of gravity on light, and the use of thought experiments to evaluate the efficacy of ideas were very interesting to me. I decided that I would do a thought experiment to evaluate the notion that the universe was finite. I laid down on my bed, closed my eyes and began to imagine traveling out through the universe at the speed of light as a point of conscious awareness. The dark and stars and planets all whizzed past and as time went on I puzzled about how the curve in the universe would be noticed. Eventually I decided that there must be some sort of boundary or impediment that would prevent my movement on a straight line. I imagined a brick wall and started to break through it, there were more and more bricks, on and on the experience of breaking through the bricks went on until suddenly I realized that the bricks themselves went on forever. There was no end to the universe. At that moment I found myself in and identical to a featureless, timeless space and experienced perfect peace, unlimited knowledge, and infinite love.
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Written by Bob Guyer
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Spiritual development, in my experience, has been associated both with organized groups and independent of involvment with organized groups. Religious and spiritual groups all have some sort of social hierarchy based on the experiences, activities, and purpose of the group and often attainment of specific spiritual experiential objectives are, in addition to being personal experiences, markers of social status within the group. The framework of seeing spiritual devleopment as being associated with social hierarchy, authority, or status has been an obstruction to my own spiritual growth. After realizing that my own spiritual development was inevitably appropriate to me and not a marker of status in any way my spiritual development began to change into a more personal and flexable process that fit my needs.
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Spirituality-Religion
