Those of us on a spiritual journey of exploring the inner spaces and places within the temple of our soul’s light know the transformative energy that resonates there. When we enter, we are leaving behind the illusions of the physical world and joining with the unseen, but vibrantly real and pure energy of love, light, and truth. While there, we are lifted up to a state of bliss and all-encompassing peace. We can feel the celestial flame of transfiguration removing all the dark and distorted deceptions that have inadvertently seeped onto our consciousness from a world filled with fear and obsessed with mortal power.

What is real is not of this world. We cannot find the truth by wallowing in the egoic mind of the collective consciousness. The only place where we find our truest self and that of the world, is within that glorious, transcendent, nonmaterial world of God’s imperceptible and unfathomable adoration, power, and love.

Yet the physical world is persuasive, confusing, and seductive. During times of great stress and fear, both personally and globally we may suddenly realize that it’s been many days, weeks, months, or even years since we have made the journey to that sacred place within. Amnesia of sorts, clouds our mind, and obscures our memories, and we start to believe we are just fine without spending time there each day. We may tell ourselves that we spent enough time there in the past and have taken from that place all that we need to live a life that is spiritually directed and virtuous.

Those ego driven thoughts may work for a while until they don’t. That familiar feeling of emptiness and loss creeps back in. We miss being in the intimate presence of the infinite light of our sublime Creator and our devoted team of light. Neither has abandoned us and has continued to try to reach us and invite us back to ourselves and to them, but we may just tell ourselves we’re too busy today, maybe tomorrow. Yet, tomorrow never seems to come.

Maybe some of you reading or listening to this blog are feeling a bit forlorn, despondent, and perhaps even a bit hopeless from having detached a bit from your soul’s light. I know this has happened to me a number of times. When I finally realize I need to return to my temple, I find it’s not that easy to get back there.

Let’s do a short meditation to illustrate what I mean.

Find a place where you will be comfortable and undisturbed and close your eyes. Take a deep breath in and hold it then slowly release it. Take another deep breath and again hold it and feel the light of peace grow within you.

Imagine ahead of you is a path that you are very familiar with. You have been down this path many times and you know that it leads to the inner temple of your soul. You begin walking and notice that it is thick with overgrown brush and fallen trees. The farther you walk the less familiar it seems. You know the side road leading to the temple should be close, but you can’t seem to find it. You keep looking down different trails, but none seem right. You think to yourself, “Why can’t I find my way back? Has it disappeared in my absence? No, It has to be here. I can’t live my life without being able to spend time there!” Finally, as you search down a very narrow pathway you see a dim light far off in the distance.

You decide this must be the one, so you walk slowly picking up branches and climbing over fallen trees until you reach the end. There in front of you is a beautiful, ornate, and opulent temple made of crystals of all colors and sizes. Yet, it’s dark except for a small light shining through a lovely crystal sconce on the outside of the temple. Fear begins to rise in you as you wonder if your team of light had waited too long and decided that you would never return so they left. You feel remorseful and sad. You fall to your knees and begin to weep raising your head to the heavens and asking for forgiveness and pleading for a chance to begin anew.

Then, the flame in the sconce becomes suddenly brighter, the debris that had accumulated on and around your temple is dissipating. The crystals that make up the walls of the temple begin to glow with an iridescent, other-worldly light. Then slowly the door opens revealing an angel who welcomes you back home. She escorts you into this sacred space and down a long hallway to a chamber made of rose quartz. Within that chamber your guides and many other angels await your arrival.

As you enter, you can feel the love and appreciation from each being who is there with you. You can hear soft celestial music that seems to be coming from the very walls themselves. You begin to understand that there is and will never be any judgement for having been away so long. There has never been a punishment waiting for you for unconsciously or consciously turning your back on your spiritual team and the deep connection you had forged together. The only consequence is the perceived absence of the consistent availability and love from your trusted spirit advisers and friends.

One of your spirit guides greets you and reaches his energy outward to embrace you. One by one each of the guides and angels send you loving thoughts and appreciation that fill your energy and renew your spirit. They begin to offer you their guidance as you ask question after question about your life, your struggles, your confusion, and pain as well as the chaos and disorder in the world outside of this precious place. After a long time of sharing your thoughts and receiving their assistance, you realize you must return to your life in the physical world. You assure your team of light that you will return regularly, and they promise you, they will never abandon you. You begin to weep with shear gratitude and joy as you turn and head back down the path that is now miraculously cleared of debris and illumined with the infinite light of God’s eternal love.

You may now open your eyes and return to the present moment.

The important thing to remember is we can never do anything that will cause our team of light to abandon us. The only thing that can separate us from their loving guidance is ourselves. God never turns His back on us. His arms are always open wide ready to receive us. All we need to do is to run into them and allow His love to transform and enlighten our lives.

If meditating and going to your temple is not something you do regularly and you aren’t sure how to begin, I recommend a guided visualization meditation like the one I wrote above. That can help you become accustomed to the feeling of being in a deep meditation and eventually you can get there all on your own.

So, Let us complete this blog with a short prayer.

May our sacred temple be always vibrantly illuminated and our visits there be infinite. May we live in the peace, love, and light of the eternal truth of who we are … glorious children of an everlasting universe and eternal souls of pure beauty and Divine love.