All Roads Lead to Home
There are many Paths that will allegedly lead one to Nirvana, heaven, or Enlightenment. These alternate paths often look very different.
I am sixty-one years old and have been searching for the right path for thirty years now. The first thirty years I’m not sure just what I was searching for. Without those first thirty years, however, I would probably be in a much different place than I am today.
One day perhaps I’ll write a book about that first thirty years. Right now I am much more interested in writing about this last thirty. I have studied Christianity, Judaism, Scientology, Eckankar, Islam, Hinduism, Avatar, The Transformation Method, The Sedona Method, and countless other paths for getting back to my source.
Every one of these roots toward Enlightenment has merit. If you want to get from the East coast of the United States to the west coast there are many ways that will get you there.
There are at least three major freeways that go most of the way across country. The US highway system combined with State, County, and Local roads will get you there. I have no Idea how many Airlines make the cross-country trip. There are even Railroad passages still available.
No one-way is the ONLY WAY each is just ANOTHER WAY. The same holds true with all of the different pathways to Enlightenment. In my opinion no one way is the ONLY WAY, just ANOTHER WAY.
Please understand, of all of the methods mentioned to get cross-country every one mentioned will get you there if you plan your trip carefully and pay ATTENTION as you proceed. Any one of them will fail to get you where you want to go as well if you are careless. It is possible to take a wrong turn anywhere along the way whether you are going across the US or reestablishing a relationship with your creator. It might not be so much a wrong turn as just a lack of ATTENTION to what you are doing.
The point is none of those ways are the ONLY WAY to GOD. Each is just ANOYHER WAY. No little Chinese boy was ever denied his way home to his Creator just because he was not properly exposed to the correct religion.
As we pursue our chosen path we begin to discover clues along the way, Truth, Love, Fairness, Compassion things that Lao-tzu, Mohamed, Buddha, or Jesus Christ, might have suggested. It is not that hard to know if you are headed in the right direction.
I believe that the more information you are given the better prepared you will ultimately be to choose the path for you. In my writing I try to present a diversified enough selection for my readers to make there own choice. It is not that I have the knowledge on every way of proceeding back home. If there is a religion or particular path that you have been reared in, one that you feel serves your goals better, by all means follow your heart. If you are a reasonably normal human being you will know if your choice is going to get you closer to your source.
The bottom line is no matter what path you take be somewhat careful to stay on it and pay ATTENTION to what you are doing.
You can always tell if that feeling you have inside is steering you in the right direction. Our Ego some times has a tendency to try and take us down the wrong path. That Awareness that is really you will never fail you though. The way to be sure that it is your Awareness that you are going to follow as opposed to your Ego is this.
Your Awareness will always let you make the decision. It will never argue to be right. Your Awareness is that little bit of GOD within you. Your Ego has long since made up its mind that it is never wrong and will fight to convince you of the same. God doesn’t try to make your decisions for you. She always lets you decide. Which accounts for a lot of mistake made by many people in their lives. But then that’s why we are here to begin with, to LEARN.
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Jack Egener is a Viet Nam Veteran Marine Corps Helicopter Crew Chief. I have studied Spirituality and New Age material for over 30 years and spoken to many organizations around the US on the subject. I am currently disabled living in Indiana.
