In experiencing the spiritual, I have been conscious of both the forces of good and evil in my life and in the lives of those around me. These spiritual forces ebb and flow like the wind; the good uplifting thoughts and mood and the evil, an ominous presence and darkness. In sacred spaces, I have experienced the glory of a garden lighting up a countryside and then the same garden dark, tattered, and desecrated. I have experienced a general foreboding over our country, a warning of evil taken hold, a battle cry of the wicked. But then as time moves on, I see the evil exposed as a righteous light is shone upon it and an army of angels descending glorious and triumphant. I have felt the darkness and the light within and surrounding others, my body and mind absorbing their pain and joy. I have experienced an evil force descending upon me to extinguish my light, and I have been immersed in a sinless earth everything sparkling like a sunny day after a winter snow. None of these visions scare me, because I know the goodness and love of God, and I know he shows them to me for a purpose.
Much has been written about judgment of humans and our souls. The great mystic St. Teresa of Avila wrote of the soul as an interior castle with many defensive layers, the most inner part pure and of God. To me, our souls are the spiritual energy within our bodies - a light flooding surrounding areas with love or a dim light desecrated and broken. Although we are individual souls, we are part of a field of consciousness that rises and falls together. We can shine a collective bright light or diminish ourselves. Fr. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin said we are evolving towards a collective spiritual singularity, sometimes experiencing a downward period only to move upward again. Our human and spiritual journey forever linked.
We can never judge another human being or soul because only God from whom nothing can be hidden, can know what is in our hearts, our soul, and our life experience. Only God has the power to breathe life back into someone’s soul that has been diminished. But what we can do, is to ask God for mercy for ourselves and others asking for his deliverance.
Christians write descriptions of the final battle, judgment and coming of Christ. But my thoughts are when spiritual singularity is reached (transcendence of the mind to the spirit), all that is not of God (love) or is sin will be wiped from consciousness shared by the body of Christ. And our thoughts will be like a pure azure blue sky with a fresh blanket of sparkling snow.
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