Hello and Welcome to Spiritual Pathways!! My name is Rob (essenepathways) and this is my spiritual and inspirational blog. Here’s a little about me:
I am a Transpersonal Facilitator and Life Coach as well as an ordained Interfaith Minister. I have over 30 years experience working with people. I have one book published and soon will have another book published (hopefully in June 2010). If you are interested in purchasing either book post a comment and I’ll give you the site where they can be purchased.
I have a Ph.D. in Transpersonal Studies, a Master of Arts in Interfaith Pastoral Counseling, a Bachelor of Science degree is Social Work/Sociology, and an Associates in Social and Behavioral Sciences.
My goal with this blog is to help people make their lives and those around them better. I’m really big on CONSCIOUS LIVING. Sadly, most of us go through our lives on autopilot and this is a great mistake. When we “breeze” through life it’s really no wonder that our lives are often disasters. Another thing I’m big on is MAKING CONSCIOUS CHOICES. We make choices all the time, conscious and unconscious. Sadly, many of us go through our lives operating on unconscious choices and, again, it’s no real wonder why our lives turn out to be disasters. If you want to change your life for the better then you MUST start making conscious choices! You must become something MORE than you are now and you CAN do that by starting to live purposefully and by making conscious choices instead of living on autopilot.
I’m a firm believer in that Love is the opposite of Fear (yes I got this “revelation” from A Course in Miracles). It’s true! All things can be traced back to either love or fear I believe. Much of the time we make choices and set our intentions in line with fear. If we want to live better and be better people then we must start making choices and aligning our intentions with Love, the opposite of fear! There is really no other way!!
In terms of God and spirituality, I do NOT believe one religion has the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Rather, I believe ALL of our faiths have a part of the truth and we will never understand God’s Truth until we put all those pieces together. You’ll find stuff here from Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, Sufism, Hinduism, Native faiths, etc. God is much MORE than our religions I think. Whatever your chosen faith, I welcome you.
Also, I enjoy nature and doing things like hiking, camping, etc. Throughout my own life I’ve always felt closest to the Divine when I’m out in nature “ruffing it.” I sometimes think nature is God’s first and most fantastic “cathedral.” I’ve never really felt comfortable in our churches and I’ve always felt a greater presence of the Divine when out in the midst of the wilderness. I do not worship nature but I have a great respect for the Earth our mother. And that is really the way I see it, God is our Father and the Earth is our Mother. Afterall, God gave us our spirits and the Earth has given us our bodies to which one day each shall return.
Anyway, read the stuff I post here and please feel free to comment and/or discuss. The only thing I ask is that we all be respectful of each other here because, when it comes right down to it, we are ALL God’s sacred children. So let’s treat each other as such. We don’t have to agree but we do have to respect each other and be compassionate to one another.
Finally, I want to say that if you find just one thing on this blog that helps you to make your life better and/or the lives of those around you better then I’ve accomplished my purpose for creating this blog. That’s what it is all about folks!
Again, WELCOME to Spiritual Pathways!!
