What Does It Mean to Walk A Spiritual Path?

Ben Willemsen is the author of "A Human Energy Trilogy" three important and deeply engaging books about the psyche, the spirit and personal growth: This Human Energy Trilogy is a must-read for anyone interested in the healing arts, physical and spiritual well-being, the spirit world, and personal growth. At 40, Ben began having experiences that his logical mind could not explain, demonstrating to him that there was a reality beyond the material world, a non-ordinary reality that influenced our everyday life and, most importantly, gave meaning and purpose to all physical existence. Leaving his engineering profession behind, he embarked on a path of psychic and spiritual development by means of mental disciplines and research. During this period, he was the subject of a two-year long study of diagnostic imagery and distance healing with anthropologist and shamanism expert, Dr. Joan Townsend. Walking a spiritual path is the impulse or drive to grow, motivating us to seek a path of personal or spiritual development, comes from the deepest level of our beings and is the very same drive that expresses itself in a child's curiosity or, in its most basic form, in the sprouting of a seed. As we age, that drive expresses itself in a multitude of ways, including the desire for self-understanding and wisdom, the yearning for knowledge and personal fulfillment, the urges to discover and to create, the wish to help others, the pursuit of spiritual awareness, and the search for answers about life and its purpose. The impulse to grow may lead a person in a variety of directions, some helpful, others not so helpful. How do we choose a path that will facilitate our growth rather than one which offers comfort but in the end leaves us exactly where we first began?