Catching on Fire:
Discovering Your Spiritual Path
We might imagine that we choose our spiritual path, but rather, it chooses us when the time is right. We have the choice to turn our back on it, refuse it for a while, but likely it will keep presenting itself to us, stimulating our remembrance, again and again. It follows us around because it’s a part of us, braided into our soul. Sooner or later, we take notice.
My path finally got my attention in a vivid way when I was 35 years of age, living in Sedona, Arizona. At that time, I was already investigating the spiritual life, meditating, reading spiritual books, attending workshops and events. I was actively seeking, exploring various paths, teachers, and teachings. In retrospect, I can see that there were many little happenings and experiences that were prelude to discovering my path, and foreshadowed what it would be. But there was in fact a moment that lit me up at an entirely new level when my outer life intersected solidly with my spiritual path.
It occurred near the close of a five-day workshop I was attending called Soul Merge, taught by a gifted channel and energy healer, Moneca Taylor. Even before it started, there was for me a potent aura about this workshop, a magnetic pull, with synchronistic events, and powerful inner shifts that occurred in preparation. I didn’t register it in quite this way at the time, but I was being called, and I was responding to that call from a place deep within.
On the final day of the workshop, Moneca worked individually with each participant, doing what she called Soul Merge, This is an energetic process that helps to clear the body and chakras and brings down levels of the soul’s light and consciousness, anchoring it in the body and to the earth. The experience of this was elegant yet simple, and it was positively the most sacred thing I had ever experienced up to that point in my life. I felt opened up, in awe, and profoundly touched and humbled by the beauty of the Soul Merge. It caused me to encounter my own spiritual essence, opened a new intimacy with myself, and ignited an irresistible desire to go deeper. My own soul light caught me on fire that day, and the spiritual burning has never ceased.
We often think of the spiritual path as something outside of self, a teacher or teaching, a journey taking us somewhere better where we will awaken and shine more brightly. But it’s actually an inner journey, a remembrance of Soul, of the True Self, and of our Divine origin. When you find your path, you will be captured by it, captured by your soul light that calls you deeper and deeper into knowing and ultimately being the love that you are.
