Radical Spirituality

well as ken wilber himself said transformative spirituality is inherently radical by its nature I think he said in his first the article he wrote for our magazine what is enlightenment that radical or transformative spirituality doesn't consult the world it destroys it so what does that really mean it really means that that if we are compelled to follow the spiritual impulse all the way it means we are following it all the way to a transformation that's not partial it's kind of in there's an absolute shift of consciousness and of identification it turns the world inside out and that changes us in the most dramatic and profound an important way and the thing is that a lot of people who are genuinely interested in incorporating aspects of enlightenment into there into the lives that are already living there usually interested in usually they're usually interested in finding a way to feel better finding way not to suffer so acutely trying to find a way to experience more clarity but but seeking for relative improvements while there's nothing wrong with that it's very different than aspiring for what the Buddhist was aspiring for when he vowed the night before his enlightenment to sit down under the Bodhi tree and not get to get up until he was enlightened he wanted to go all the way and he was committed to going all the way and never coming back and when we say we're committed to going all the way never coming back it means we believe that there's such a thing as an absolute as an absolute truth as a state of consciousness that is sublime beyond measure beyond imagination that there is inherent that there is an inherent divinity and goodness that the rational mind cannot even begin to conceive of there's a a trans rational gnosis is the discovery of which catalyzes us into a completely different orbit in relationship to the human experience so if so a radical spirituality would be predicated on the fact that we we would know from the very beginning that a dramatic transformation couldn't even begin until we had a deep and profound and prolonged awakening to this love love gnosis of realization of awakening that this is the spiritual process in all its profundity and glory couldn't begin in earnest until this dramatic flip had taken place that would be the beginning not of the path so to speak but of the spiritual process itself and it would be the beginning of a completely different relationship to life and and a different relationship to life is the egos agenda including our own hero's journey become superseded by and replaced by the journey of the journey of evolution the journey of the interior of the cosmos of evolution itself at the highest and deepest level becomes our journey because when we really discover who we are there were that we are the energy and intelligence ultimately that created the universe and is creating the universe our relationship to life becomes less personal because we know that this body this mind in this personality are just this is just these are just vehicles through which energy and intelligence who created the universe cannot only awaken to itself but ultimately begin to consciously take responsibility for itself and this is this is this is what a radical this is what the radical agenda of transformative spirituality is really all about and it's not for everybody it's really only for people who want to go all the way and are ready to let go that much and that's very few people and there's no saying that everybody needs to be interested in transformative spirituality but I think what's important is that we are able to make it distorted we were very good distinction between a relative of approach to transform in a spiritual practice that's very much about self-improvement which is all good versus the kind of approach that's truly radical it's not about sale that's not really about self-improvement anymore anymore it's about a total transformation of our very motive to exist