These sessions are done once or twice a month with a six month commitment to follow. A person may schedule an initial session to see if it is a good fit for them and for Joey.
What is Spirituality?
First, be clear that spirituality and religion are two different things. Spirituality is the common thread that unites all religions, races, and peoples. Spirituality underlies all of creation. A spiritual practice can complement a religious practice and many people combine the two.
Spirituality is a system of universal principles, much like physics. These laws operate whether we understand them or not. By understanding and living our lives according to the principles of spirituality, we can significantly shift our lives for the better.
The principles of spirituality are the essence of love itself. It is through this love that all form manifests itself within creation. Many beautiful and different spiritual paths are capable of bringing their followers to a place of Self-realization. Most of us find our particular path appears before us when we are ready.
How Does a Spiritual Practice Serve Us?
Most of us live our lives reacting to the outer world, a world that we, in fact, have unknowingly brought into being through our own thoughts and actions. We look at each present moment through the lens of our past experience, particularly our attachments, our judgments and our fears. This produces suffering.
The study of spirituality allows us to become aware of how to move out of this painful reactive state into a loving co-creative one. We learn how to use the principles of spirituality to create what is in our highest good. We understand how to empower ourselves to move from suffering into peace, from depression into joy, and from scarcity into abundance. This new state is often called "Self realization".
By living in a divine state, in a state of peace, joy, fulfillment and abundance, our every action becomes an example and a teaching of how to live in harmony with the earth and each other. Thus, our personal spiritual practice becomes a way for us to serve others as we serve ourselves.
What is Involved in a Personal Spiritual Practice?
The purpose of a spiritual practice is to bring us to a divine state of love, joy and peace. This practice is a commitment just like any other practice or skill - music, academics, or martial arts. Success is the result of focus and steady application. A spiritual practice may include, by way of example, working with our daily thoughts, meditating and chanting either on our own or with others, physical movements, and service to others.
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Joey has been featured at conferences around the world including a recent UN dialogue on peace. We are grateful and enthusiastic that he is joining us.
In the future, we will host a weekend intensive November 2008 featuring Joey as our Teacher to increase everyone's kundalini/chi flow, he will provide love and light attunements (shaktipat) for those who are ready and for those who are able to handle the increased flow of energies, he will later provide advanced workshops at various locations including in the USA and abroad.
Various locations, email us should you be interested in hosting him for a weekend intensive.
