Spiritual Beings Having a Human Experience

There are so many spiritual websites, blogs, social media accounts on the Internet that it is astonishing. When I browse through what is available, I notice that most talk about how you can get brighter spiritual experiences as a human being. When you want to reduce spirituality to that, then you are missing the point.

All the Awakened Ones, the Masters who have been among us, talk about leaving the human identity behind. About remembering the Christ, the Buddha, or the Real Self That We are. Or, as Pierre Teilhard de Chardin stated it, “We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.”

Jesus has mentioned in the famous spiritual classic, A Course In Miracles, that we do not ask for much, but in fact, we ask for far too little. When we reduce our spiritual experiences to things that are related to the body, to the personality, we don’t expand to having a full Awakening to Oneness.

It is all about letting go of the world, the body, the personality, and turning to the Divine for help with remembering the Truth that shall set us free. What Truth? That we are spiritual beings temporarily caught in a human experience. That we can wake up from this human experience to our Divinity. That That is our God-given birthright! YAY!

On behalf of Magnum Opus Ministries NL,

Thijs Hottenhuis

The Great Awakening

It is interesting to see how things work in the collective human consciousness, and what changes in the way the “general population” thinks about things. What often happens is that a few people start doing something out of the ordinary. They are ridiculed, but then eventually everyone starts doing and thinking the same.

Take running. In the 1950s and 1960s, if you were into long-distance running, people would laugh at you, yell at you, and if you were unlucky, even throw beer cans at you. Then, after Frank Shorter won gold for the USA at the 1972 Summer Olympics, this all changed. Now, running was something truly positive, admirable.

People picked up jogging, and started to run marathons, and it became a hype. More and more marathons were organized, for young and old, and this movement kept growing. Running was no longer weird. No, now it is weird if you are happy with only sitting on your couch and driving in your car, and you don’t pick up running!

I believe that the same thing will happen with spiritual Awakening, with the teaching of pure non-duality. Now there are pioneers like you and me and a couple more, who are genuinely interested in pursuing the path of Awakening from the dream of the world. We are the trendsetters.

What I hope and think is that more and more people will realize that the world can never offer us lasting happiness. Only the Divine, our Source, can give us permanent happiness. Then, a shift in thinking can occur. Then, Awakening to Oneness becomes a mainstream event, not just for a select group of individuals!

The Great Awakening! 4Him wrote a beautiful song about it; check it out.

On behalf of Magnum Opus Ministries NL, Thijs Hottenhuis

There Are Two Powers

Many messages from Masters have inspired me over the years. One of the most powerful messages that I have found, is from The Mother, the principal collaborator of Sri Aurobindo.

The Mother

In the audio recording below, she talks about the two powers: the Grace of the Divine, which is 100% all the time, and the devotion of the spiritual aspirant, which should also be 100%.

She emphatically points out that if your Divine Experience is not 100%, you should not blame the Divine, but “The imperfection of your own surrender.” A powerful reminder of my responsibility.

I highly encourage you to check out this YouTube audio recording, which also shows the text to read along. May these reminders of the importance of devotion bring more Light to all of us!

On behalf of Magnum Opus Ministries NL, Thijs Hottenhuis