Spirituality in the city Exploring the meaning & feeling of Unity

spirituality & the city

Our readers on : UNITY

Doug Gordon

Unity is all about connection. It can be with a person, with nature, with the earth, with an animal, or it can be with God, universal energy or your higher self, depending on your beliefs. Let’s face it – everything is made of energy, and everything is interconnected in some way. Unity can be dramatic – like a near death experience I had, during which I was encapsulated in an amazing feeling of love and connection. Or it can be simpler, like making love to your partner, connecting with them on a soul level. During healings, I have often felt as one with the person, connected to them in a state of divine consciousness. Creating unity with others is all about getting out of your head and into your heart.

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Ursula Schloer

I’ve experienced many moments in my life when I felt unified with somebody, or in general, with a unity consciousness. As a child, I was mostly out in nature, going alone into the forest and meadows, watching the tiniest insects or smallest flowers, feeling at one with everything around me. When the sun rays came through the tree tops, I was completely in awe. I have a joy and zest for life which has hardly left me, ever, even in the most challenging situations. I now live in Northern Leitrim, by a lake, where unspoiled nature is all around me. No traffic, no artificial sounds, no light pollution. I feel very fortunate that this home came to me as I had imagined. As a mother, I can say that holding my own babies in my arms also gave me a total sense of unity with those tiny beings for whom I had been a portal to come into this world.

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Ashen Tennege

Mine is a story of love and destiny. Born in the mountains of Sri Lanka, raised on the seashores of the Seychelles, I find myself in Ireland. I came here to finish off my degree, which I managed to do. Then the coronavirus hit, and I have been floating around since then. I have always lived life to the full, appreciating every moment. I was born Buddhist – therefore, I followed its philosophy. As time passed, I started to connect with every coincidence and every twist of fate, which is how I found myself in the mountains of Wicklow. There, I found the heart of my heart, in both a physical and spiritual sense. I found the love of my life, and she became a reflection of this planet: all the beauty, the design and the pain. A sunset, the moon, the dew on the leaves, the songs of the birds, the roar of thunder – all had her embedded into it. Flowing with this love in my heart, I found myself and connected to the truth of life.

I discovered that there were higher levels of consciousness, healing and feeling when I started learning the Wim Hof Method in 2015. That brought me to plant medicine a couple of years ago, and this is when I really began to se the world differently. I had only ever heard of a universal consciousness, loving everyone unconditionally and feeling connected to absolutely everything. I had heard that we are everything and nothing at the same time (God). I could understand this concept on an intellectual level, but I didn’t really identify with it. Plant medicine gave me actual experiences of these states, which taught me so much. Basically, judgment and fear keep us away from the love and connection we can feel with anyone, at any time. One specific time when I felt a sense of unity with another was when I met my partner. We hugged after a ceremony, and I knew that he was the man I would marry.

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Rob Hough

For the best part of a decade, I undertook many mind-altering meditative adventures – from cold breathwork journeys in Iceland, to the sweltering heat of the Amazon, working with plant medicines, and everything in between. Each, to their merit, had varying degrees of success, but there was still an eluding void within, which left me feeling spiritually disconnected and too immersed in the rational mind. It wasn’t until late 2018 when I had my most significant breakthrough. After a close friend of mine sadly passed away, a series of profound synchronicities ignited a new life force in me, which has had paradigm-shifting consequences. I’ve now surrendered my life now to a higher calling unfolding in each moment, bringing me a sense of unity with all that is. I now thrive on turning my passion into purpose, through coaching and galvanising others to unlock their true potential: harnessing the powers of collaboration, synchronicity and flow. . soulsync.life

Noirin Roper

I feel the strongest sense of unity and connection to the world around me when I walk the land of my ancestors. Though raised in a different area, this part of the world is where I feel rooted, where I belong. As I trace the route that my uncle Batty walked to my granduncle’s cottage on Christmas day 1984, a few days before he died, I feel that connection most strongly. I have been led to read and explore the connections we have with our ancestors, examining ancestral trauma and unexplained events that pass down the generations. For example, in my own family, my father lost his sibling at an early age. Similarly, I lost my brother at the age of two and my daughter lost her brother – three generations of the same family experienced the loss of a sibling and the parents suffered the loss of a child. Coincidence, some karmic pattern or a challenge to heal unresolved ancestral grief? What was it like to stand in my mother’s shoes, my grandmother’s shoes, my great grandmother’s shoes? What were their strengths and weakness, and what were their unfulfilled desires that I may carry today? These are all questions that I ask myself.

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