I often get asked something along the lines of the following:

“What is it with all the spiritual stuff Si?”

And really I don’t like to talk about it too much unless I think the person asking is genuinely interested, in which case I’ll normally point them to an article or video. There’s nothing more I like than talking about our true nature but I’m realistic about the prospect of converting an old football friend to the spiritual path in Sainsbury’s.

Or to be more accurate, you are Awakeness (the True Self, Consciousness). Always have been, always will be. You, like me, like all of us, just lost sight of this. When you see a baby it is so apparent that they are awake. Even when they are asleep, they are awake. They are brimming with awakeness.

I have always, as long as I can remember anyway, known there is more to life, to what appears out there in the world that we see through our eyes. Back in my early twenties amidst the parties and the chasing of a good time I knew that wasn’t it. The “good time” was a distraction. I remember going to the book shop and looking for a book that would give me a clue, an answer…