Deep Spirituality: Choosing Our Path and Making a Difference

"Deep spirituality" is a term I use to highlight a recognition that inner and outer worlds inform and create reality; that the whole of the cosmos is interrelated, that sustainability is the heart of our soul's yearning, and that social justice is the result of a heightened spiritual awareness.

This concept is ancient at the same time that it is new...and my intention here is to connect old wisdom with new manifestations and get us conjuring together! Is what you practice deep spirituality? How so?

In our own ways, we at SHARANYA are planting seeds for conversations about all aspects of human engagement in and with life when visited through the lens of deep spirituality and our heart-felt love of Maa. We know and experience ourselves the challenges of how to be spiritual in the mundane world; how to be fully who we are during our day job; how to show up as someone who practices what I call choice spirituality (rather than alternative spirituality because of its marginalizing characteristics and connotations). Can deep spirituality help us with these challenges? Can community? Can our individual practice, especially when offered and undertaken from a place of deep spirituality?

No matter what your spiritual inspiration or longing, deep spirituality recognizes the need for individual change, the reconciling of worlds, the opening of hearts, and the surrendering of egos. In doing so, we individually and collectively affirm that life-affirming change in the world is possible, and moreover, real. At SHARANYA, this is at the heart of our tradition, Sha'can, a Western Shakta Tantra. It is much of what our committed practice with one another cultivates, and we invite you to journey with us in your own way!

Proponents of deep spirituality understand that being deeply spiritual is not enough. Deep spirituality says that we each have a sacred charge to take that spirituality out into the world, again, in our own unique way--even if that is by virtue of merely living from a place of the authentic, as a willing participant in life with commitment to a transforming self/Self, honoring that which we are and that which we are becoming. What does this look like for you?

Deep spirituality is an evolving (r)evolution of thought and practice set in the contexts we individually and collectively inhabit. It is inspired and informed by transpersonal psychology, various wisdom traditions, ancient truths and mysticisms, and other "deep" movements (deep ecology, deep ecumenism, depth psychology, etc.).

What resonates with your own engagement of this deep spirituality? I welcome your thoughts and assistance in helping to crystalize more concretely these ideas about what deep spirituality is and does while at the same time instigating insights and potentially the impetus for more!