PurpAnd

I’ve recently had a potentially life-changing opening of the mind. An awakening, if you will. Last summer, I purchased a stack of books from in an effort to replenish my dwindling stash of unread material. The purchase included fiction novels, some non-fiction, and a book on spirituality, Radiant Mind: Awakening Unconditioned Awareness. I’ll leave a review for some other time, but I do have a little to say about it.

For some reason, I let this book sit on the shelf for four months before opening it. I had bought it off of a recommendation from a novel I had purchased a few months earlier from Amazon. (You know how Amazon has that ‘maybe you’ll like these’ section?) The week of Thanksgiving I grabbed it for my flights across country knowing that I would be in the air for nearly 12 hours.

The book was tough to get into as a lot of the talk was about ‘nothingness’ and the absence of need and rejection. Pretty intriguing stuff now that I am 2/3 of the way into it (you’ll have to take my word for it). But that isn’t really the point. The real interesting part for me is just the fact that I enjoy reading it. I can relate to it, or I am at least open to try to relate to it.

I am very much a logical thinker. Until now, there hasn’t been a whole lot of room in my head for things that were not based on evidence. I guess I am just at the point in my life where my path is to see where spirituality fits in for me. I may not be ready for it and I will soon enough realize it. Or, I may be very ready for it, which is why something told me I had to read this book.

Anyway, I just wanted to throw this out there as somewhat of a start of my exploration. I also wanted to see if anyone else has had a similar experience. To see if any of my readers are spiritual in the sense that they strive for a connection with the energy that surrounds us. (I’m such a spiritual virgin that I don’t even know what to call it). Feel free to comment.