Spiritual Treasure

Silver and Gold

What is life’s greatest treasure? Is it silver and gold, an abundant retirement, or the ownership of a nice house? How about a new car, the ability to travel, and the financial freedom to treat your family to dinner out each week? What about several years’ worth of food and supplies stored up for emergency times, an off-grid energy system, and an amazing community around you? If I told you none of those things mattered to me, I would be lying. Having lived a teacher’s life and all the material challenges that come with that, I can tell you how important material health/wealth is. However, is it enough to create lasting happiness? Or, do we need something immaterial for that?

Uncertain Times

We live in uncertain times. Between rent doubling, inflation skyrocketing, and countries saber rattling, the near future looks questionable at best. The disruptive planet of Uranus presently sticks around in the sign of Taurus for a couple decades…which means upheaval to all that makes us feel stable and secure in life. Therefore, what good’s a car if there’s no gas or the electric available? Or, what good is a retirement if your country’s currency is no longer worth anything?

The Modern Malady

For the thousands of years of human culture, nobody doubted the existence of a divine, eternal world. “Having no religion” is a modern notion that began with the Enlightenment. While this emancipated humankind from the dogmatic church-led stranglehold on truth, it also made materialists of us all and turned “science” into the new religion. Don’t deny it, we’ve all been infected at some level.

The End of Materialism

Yet, the truth that we all know deep down is that materialism does not have a future. To vainly grasp at material security alone leaves our lives bereft of meaning. That is why people like John Vervaeke have been warning us of the meaning crisis. This is the inevitable fruit of a materialistic culture.

What, therefore, is the greatest treasure in life which puts all other human activities into their proper place? It must be something that allows us to touch the eternal spiritual. That thing must lift us above the precipice of sensory walls which confine us to limited bodies in space and time.

There are tools and methods that give us access to this Pearl of Great Price which already lies within us, albeit dormant. We only need knock and the door shall be opened to us. I’m not here to preach, but if you seek, you shall find what YOU need. The eternal world wants to be sought out, and my experience is that one step taken towards that world engenders a thousand back.

The Children

Since I’m a teacher, I’ll bring this back to the children. As a dear colleague recently said to me, “In my experience, the children of today don’t need less spirituality, they need more. I couldn’t agree more. We’ll touch on these topics in our upcoming Parent Webinar Series.