Living a Spiritually Embodied Life

For most of my teaching life, my work has focused, and undoubtedly will continue to focus, on expanding awareness outward, guiding people to extend their consciousness into the subtle regions of being that lie beyond our familiar experience of mind. That journey of reaching into the unseen, of touching what exists beyond ordinary perception, has always been and will always be central to my path.

But my work with Susan Kullman is an important emerging aspect of my work. It’s not only about moving into subtle awareness, it’s also about bringing the totality of our being, all of the physical, energetic, mental, and spiritual elements of ourselves, into the lived experience of life, moment by moment. It’s about being here, now, fully embodied, awake and alive.

In the past, I have taught that living our highest realizations is often a gentle, passive process. We allow the fruits of our practice to seep naturally into our lives, maintaining a calm stance of conscious contentment and embracing an attitude of spiritual abundance. And that remains beautiful and true.

But the practice of spiritual embodiment adds a new dimension. It asks us to actively bring all of ourselves into life. It invites us to meet each moment profoundly present, seeing everything from the fullness of who we are, and opening to the subtle dimensions of existence as they exist in every act of being human.

There are always two movements of spiritual practice. The first is an evolutionary movement from inside us toward the Divine. This is the practice of our earthbound self to surrender its compulsive engagement in the futile attempt to make everything perfect. It is the release of our familiar sense of self, and the effort we make to reach, stretch, and open toward something greater. The second is an involutionary movement. This is a grace that originates in the Divine and moves through us, manifesting as a higher perfection in the world. In this movement, we surrender to playing our part as a vehicle of the love and wisdom of the Source, allowing our lives to be transformed in ways beyond what we could engineer or imagine.

And I find myself wondering—what happens when we truly live this way? When our bodies are awake and sensing, our energies alive and perceptive, our minds open and free, and our spirit sees everything from a vantage point that embraces all of it at once? What does human life become then? I imagine a life of radiant coherence, where every breath, word, and action becomes an expression of wholeness. A life where we no longer feel separate from the world, but realize ourselves as part of its living, breathing pulse. A life in which we not only see the divine everywhere—but live as a conscious participant in its unfolding.