Spiritual Vocabulary

In spiritual circles discussions can quickly turn from normal family, career, and sports topics to things like illusion, karma, and dharma. I am currently swimming in this sea and I contemplate words like this daily.

What is illusion? How is it different for the normal everyday life and for the spiritual soul researcher? What is karma? How does it affect me and the people I love and care about? What is dharma and how do I know it in my life different from desire or illusion or even karmic debt being played out in my current life? Is this the longing to know how it all works and who I really am?

It is a gnawing feeling to be in such mystery and know there is so much more to every move than meets the eye. It is hard to trust my humanness and yet I live in this body and operate from here. How do I make peace with it all?

I can hear Jonathan’s voice now, ” Do your sadhana and build resistance power. Build your protection circles and just keep going in faith and patience.” We are so blessed, having had such incredible guidance from our teachers Jonathan and Alx. They are never afraid to tell it like it is and we were prepared before coming here. We heard references and stories about the illusion. We were always encouraged to be honing in on what we deeply want. We talked about karma and yet, to be here peeling back the beliefs and looking at the essence of these words leaves me speechless.