In the context of personally inclined views, the differences between spiritual truth and spiritual opinion in an individual context vary as greatly as the differences between those facial characteristics and the placement of names that identify each individual soul's presence in this existence. The differentiations that take place on such a subject as spiritual opinion vary according to the ways that one engenders ones own variation of truth. It's important to recall however that there are differences between individually understood truth and individually understood fact and this is one of the dividing lines that separate many people from one another and always have.

Truth in most forms is rather considered more the substance of a philosophical concept that can be debated and discussed in all of the guises of its meek and mild differences just as the shades of the colors of the spectrum are interpreted to each and every eye and mind.

Fact however tends to remain a rather indisputable concept related to such subjects as the science of numbers, empiricism, or some relation of the foundries of statistics. A fact is firmly rooted and usually something that is measurable to the mind while a truth is a varying and usually a fluid concept of either discreet or general relative opinion.

Here is the crux of why spiritualism in any form is not a thing to be measured or limited through condemnation but it is instead a subjective truth to be relegated to each individual to engender for themselves.

It is a matter of some form of faith. Faith in the self, faith in ones own vision of the Great Spirit or that of God in some form, or a bit of faith in what lies beyond the boundaries of the measurable in existence. Hence this is why each and every immutable word of faith remains rooted in the allowance of personal belief and the ability and the desire for one to want to open ones own system of belief to a form of believing.

Any form of declaration in the manner of any belief carries with it the responsibility of endearing such a belief and thus the trend for many centuries has been to communicate the message and the spirit of such beliefs to others in a form that is more a closed thought than one of a philosophical truth to be thought through and this doesn't open a belief up for understanding. It rather presents a system of belief for acquisition by others as a rendering of something to simply be accepted instead of internalized through the thoughtfulness of the soul. Many labels have been used as a means to popularize this practice but nonetheless it remains a practice in belief according to opinion instead of a practice of belief according to ordained spirit of the soul. This is when belief begins to span the vestiges of mere acceptance instead of acceptance through true inner belief. There is a difference.

Even the greatest of those spiritual philosophers whose words were ever cast to a book or related in verse all well understood this and thus, their words and their presentations of spiritual truth were usually veiled in metaphor and storied verse in order to allow the listener to absorb and then subsequently to carry on an inner debate with the self of what was really being conveyed versus what some in recent ages demand "IS" their form of the truth to belief.

It might be wise to consider that any verse, any tale, or any conveyed spiritual truism may best be related as a truism to the relater and not necessarily always to the listener.

This is the difference between spiritual philosophical belief and empirically aligned belief.

The spiritual is not measurable, it remains an interpretation of belief and thus very subjective and personal.

This also by the way is why this particular spiritualist always attempts to best talk in terms of personal spiritual belief as a nexus to inner individual debate and never in a way as to tell others what their "rule" of life and spiritual existence "should" be or would best be.

It also is why this spiritualist yearns to respect and admire all forms of belief to their own best practices for the benefit of others in the spirit of life and of the Great Spirit.

It is why this spiritualist remains intensely cautious of instant adoption of another's conveyed necessity of belief without some soulful inner-dialogue of the spirit.

No way of belief is a necessity to another without a spark of inner-truth being both recognized and accommodated in a soulful sense to each individual. But rather all ways of belief remain a respectfully understood love of life and a loving form of affection and a seeking for and to the Great Spirit, or yes, a love of God. Perhaps this has become a rare thing in recent ages? Perhaps this is becoming a more popular a way of recognizing the spirit of the self and the state of be-ing for people in recent ages? Perhaps the ways of spiritual belief are finally be-coming and not merely being because someone says they are so?

Perhaps people are beginning to return to the spiritually philosophical ways of those very masters of spiritual thought to whom so much reverence is recalled and practiced?

Perhaps we are returning to the wiser spiritually understood qualities of ourselves and not merely accepting ways of being because someone else tells us to? There is much struggle in the constructs of belief taking place in the world right now due to these sorts of questions that directly affect many of the age-old religious establishments. Institutions that are finding themselves struggling with the same questions just like each individual. They are forming trends of thought, they diversify spiritual abstraction of the mind, and these sorts of internalized questions change the world's way of thinking of the spiritual in itself.

Remember, in ages past there were spiritual philosophers who due to such thinking were eliminated while their philosophical thoughts stuck like glue and went on to change the world!

Everyone has a right to be respected for their opinions and their own views. The greatest thing about sharing and discussing these many views in a genuine and a soulfully spiritual manner is the capacity and the opportunity we all have in such a discussion to expand ones own values.

Just some thoughts on the many views being related out there.

As Always,

WD Allan

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