There were times when I questioned if I should continue with seminary, and then there were times when I wondered if the course work would ever come to a completion. It was a long journey, one which required that I draw upon all my spiritual practices to persevere. The Experiment with Light is one of those practices.
Trust is a thread that ran through many of my Experiments during that time. Trust. It is such a simple concept, yet one that is not always easy to know when and how to apply. Trust. There was no other guidance, suggestion, or direction given. Trust. It wasn’t just the studies that were causing a strain. Trust. I’d traveled over eighteen hundred miles and missed my friends and familiar surroundings. Trust. At times I wondered if my marriage would survive. Trust. And what difference would seminary make, anyway? Trust.
There were many forms of support around me—my wife Jaimie; Gil, my spiritual companion; there were new 12 Step connections; fellow seminarians, professors, and staff; and of course, God and all those on the other side of the veil. Still, there was often an underlying sense of doom and impending catastrophe which, I realized, was of my own making through replaying messages from conscious and unconscious stories I’d been telling myself most of my life. The Experiment with Light meditation helped me to move through these impediments and arrive at a more wholesome state of being.
The Experiment with Light is a simple guided meditation that is most often practiced with a small group, though the meditation is effective when practiced alone. What is this Experiment with Light? Let’s explore this over the next little while. Daniel+
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