Welcome to Inner Divine Spirit

Living in conscious or knowing relationship to the inner Divine Spirit is the key to accessing and extending the beauty of your soul into your thinking, feeling, yearning, emoting, moving, acting, and creating.

Christians think of the Divine Within theologically as the Holy Spirit. Jews use the term Shekinah. Carl Jung used the term Self (with a capital S) to name the organizing principle of our psyche or soul that is also described as "a part of God that God put in us so we'll know there is a God."

Cultivating a conscious connection with the Self occurs as we experience the Holy Spirit or Divine in us. We experience God within through the stirrings of our life force in impulses, yearnings, automatic responses, sensations, intuitions. Sometimes the seeds of the Self or Divine Within have grown into expressions that are destructive to us; yet, the Divine is still present.

Learning to relate to these aspects of ourselves as symbolized in the Bible stories and teachings provides a way to grow beyond the "natural man (humanity)" to the "spiritual man (humanity)." This means one moves from living unconsciously to living consciously.

Reading, studying, and contemplating sacred texts, here The Holy Bible, stimulates our conscious connection to the Divine as the spiritual truths resonate with an innate inner knowing that's present because we are created in the image of God. (Genesis 1).

Natural humanity feels and believes itself to be at the mercy of outside forces (that is, the environment, other people) and its automatic responses. Spiritual humanity knows itself to be one with God and to have the ability to mediate the internal states of feelings and thoughts that are automatically triggered by outside events. Living in conscious relationship to our internal process or sense of self/Self changes our internal experience, which changes our relationship to the outside world (that is, other people, our work).

My writings are a reflection on the applied meaning of the scriptures in living with ourselves, with our internal processes--thoughts, feelings, emotions, sensations, agreements, conflicts, etc. The reflections offer a perspective on the truths presented, but are not The Truth.

Whether you agree or disagree with what I say, my hope is that the meditations will stimulate your heart to discern the voice of the Inner Divine Spirit that is accessible to those who seek it.

Adair Gillis


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