This article was originally published at BelievePerceive.com.
I want to give a brief summary of spiritual life help, the process that I teach and advocate as a way for responding to problems and discord. I say this will be a brief summary because I prefer to keep the articles in Believe Perceive fairly short so that people can read and consider them without too much of a time commitment. Beyond this I’ve created other resources that explain, in significant detail, what spiritual life help is and how to apply it. Those who are looking for more thorough explanations and deep analysis can check out a book I’ve written, Believe Perceive: What You Are The Problem… And The Solution, and a free to access podcast that I created, Problems Are Not Real.
Spiritual life help starts with a concept: God is real, God is the only power, and God is only good. This might sound like a fairly reasonable concept, at least from a spiritual perspective, but it’s actually quite radical for this reason — it claims that God is the only power. Many people believe in God but very few people believe that God is the only power. What most people believe is that God is a power among powers, the greatest power perhaps, but that God is essentially in competition with other powers. Why don’t people accept that God is the only power? Because if God is the only power then heaven should be at hand but our human experience, our perceptions, deny this; in fact, the typical human experience is closer to hell than heaven. So either heaven is not at hand at all, which means God is not the only power (and only good), or our human experiences, our perceptions, are something false…
Read the full article here: The spiritual life help practice