Book: Sceptical Spirituality
How can you be sure to ‘get it right’ spiritually?
Spiritual metaphysics #3
How do we get our ordinary, familiar, everyday minds to help us think the ‘right kind of thoughts’ which will send us in the right spiritual/metaphysical direction?
In other words, how can we make sure we aren’t deluding ourselves, and ‘getting spiritual insight massively wrong’?
There is a way. And the principles of self-salvation (and there is no other) are absurdly simple and straightforward, and are open to anyone and everyone. All you need to be able to do is think and observe clearly and objectively. Nothing else required: no special intellectual capacities, divine connectedness or goodness of heart.
4 simple principles:
(1) You use your ordinary, everyday, worldly mind, and your everyday ‘mind’s eye’
(2) to look at what’s directly in front of you with your own observational and analytical capacities
(3) while abandoning all religious/spiritual doctrines, theories and imaginings
(4) while treating everything with a radical scepticism: try always to be objective and impartial, and not ‘believe’ in anything that you can’t see directly and objectively…
