Question: How can I increase my spiritual energy?

Answer: In working with the teachings of the Traveler, there is a certain amount of charged energy available. When you’re listening to an MSIA tape or CD, it isn’t just the words. It’s more importantly the energy. It’s the consciousness that rides with that energy as you’re listening. That consciousness is what you’re accessing. And all of it is a process of atonement.

What I suggest to you is to be open. From Discourse One on, and in every MSIA tape and CD, there are techniques to practice. There are so many, that there are more than we can get to. In some ways, there are so many things we could be doing to be practicing and living the teachings, we may not know which one is best.

Part of your responsibility is to determine how the Spirit is guiding and directing you. Trust that process as you also follow your experience and natural knowing. Whatever is appropriate and working for you in your atonement could be quite different from anybody else’s. In MSIA, we don’t encourage you to compare and ask others about what is best kept between you and God. Doing so tends to be a distraction. It’s better for you to have the direct relationship with the teachings and let the teachings direct you. Let the inner consciousness through the inner master, direct you.

What that often means is just take it easy. Perhaps you just did spiritual exercises and digested a lot of information and new awarenesses. Let yourself digest for a while. Just take it in. Resonate with what you’ve already taken in. Open your eyes. Just relax and be aware today.

Instead of saying, “Oh, I’ve got to go inside and take in some more information and have another inner experience to increase my energy,” let Spirit work you. If not, then your approach could start becoming too much. It’s been referred to as spiritual indigestion.

For example, if you just ate four pieces of apple pie and five scoops of vanilla ice cream, and I put another apple pie ala mode in front of you, what do you think is going to happen? You’re going to have a different reaction to that piece of pie than if you hadn’t just eaten one portion or hadn’t had any food for awhile. Those first couple bites of pie may have been really glorious. But now you’d resist having more for good reason.

So pay attention about being in balance with the Spirit. There’s no urgency ever in this process of going to God. You’re not behind. You’re not late. You’re not early. You’re exactly where you are to be. And you cannot control or manipulate it. So let go of attempting to do more than you can handle.

The work of the Spirit is light and easy. If your relationship to the Spirit isn’t light and easy, then it’s time to pause, hold and find the light and the loving. Light and love are never missing. They always are, and they’re always working. So relax and tune into the light and love that is of the Spirit.

Baruch Bashan