Life Survives!

What is a spiritual experience?

A spiritual experience is going out of your body, or remembering a past life, or perceiving something as a being and not through normal physical universe channels.

There is a big difference in knowing about spiritual experiences and actually having one. The degree of certainty when you have a spiritual experience just shoots through the roof.

It’s also intensely personal. You can’t tell someone, “You are a spiritual being”, when they think they are a body, and have it really be real to them. But if that person gets some auditing or does some training in Scientology, for whatever reason drives them (usually to improve something in their life), and they have their own adventure, then they really know.

On a recent Saturday morning, I was at Griffith Park, sitting at one of the picnic tables, momentarily alone. My daughter was with the Youth Group of the local Mission – they were roaming around nearby with the Mission staff. My wife was out for her morning walk, from home, and had decided to walk into the park, so I was expecting to see her.

Then she phoned me – and I could hear my daughter’s voice on her end, so I knew my wife had found the youth group before she found me.

So I was just chilling, going through my organizer, enjoying my rare moment to reflect.

Then I heard my wife’s voice calling out faint in the distance, “Daddy! Daddy!”.

I looked around but could not see her. However I was quite certain I heard her calling out to me, so I gathered up our things and started walking in the direction of her voice.

Then my phone rang. It was my wife, trying to locate me. At this point, I could see her, so I had her turn around until she spotted me.

She was surprised to see me. When I came up, I explained I heard her calling for me. She said she did no such thing! She was walking around LOOKING for me and then rang me on the phone when she could not find me!

I have noticed lately that my compassion for others/mankind has really grown.

I feel like I understand why we do the weird things we do and therefore don’t judge so harshly as I did before, With this understanding has come a new inner confidence which feels great!!!!!

I actually feel like I know something enough to be able to help another with what I know, and was actually surprised to find myself all of a sudden helping others in the street.

I make an effort to smile at people in shopping malls, on the street, etc., as I walk past them.

People whom I didn’t like/irritated me, I have grown a liking for due to the understanding I have of why they are the way they are.

I don’t get so irritated at my husband when he does something that is out reality to me.

I have this new ability to grant another the beingness to not like me – and not be upset about it………this in particular is really cool because it means I am not subject to random self doubt anymore.

So in short I am really happy with my progress!!!!!!!!! It’s quite amasing to see that just by studying data I can change in such refreshing ways.

Natasha Tsalolikhin

2 Nov 2009