Hudson Valley Astrologer

“The answer lies here on Earth – but transformed by the power of a new ‘seeing’…”

~ Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet

Religion isn’t necessarily spiritual in practice. A teacher once told me that “all religions are crystallizers of the truth.” What she meant is that certain events in the distant past were interpreted in a significant way but through a static way of seeing that clings to the old only because it is familiar.

Take the concept of original sin for example, Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet excoriated the notion of negative and limiting beliefs rooted in a sense of guilt and separation from the Divine, rather than a transformative process rooted in the reality of the world. She envisioned a new spirituality as a conscious integrative process aimed at unveiling the Divine within — to reveal deeper truths — a Direct connection of the Divine within the Lived Experience.

There is nothing more important than a right and proper poise of one’s heart and soul in terms of seeking alignment with integral knowledge grounded in objective cosmic principles. This describes the new spirituality well. Getting there in between the grocery lists, house chores, kid duties, relationship entanglements, and money woes is not easy, but these distractions are also just grist for the mill.

Great “spiritual” thinkers and writers like Thomas Merton had it all wrong. He even titled a chapter in his book Seven Storey Mountain, Prisoner’s Base. But Earth is meant to be divinized and not something to escape from. We are not on a journey to ascend the seven levels of Mount Purgatory in Dante’s Inferno, each level meant to represent the overcoming of some new obstacle, or sin, seeking purification, to make ourselves worthy to be next to God. The journey is quite the opposite, a descent of the Supramental Consciousness wherein the Divine force descends, transforms, and integrates with matter and the body/Earth.

We are discussing here a reversal of sorts, as the ananyms of this title suggests, true spiritually does not focus on suffering and death but life, and living one’s bliss.

HVA

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*Trom is MORT (Death in French); Etreum is MUERTE (Death in Spanish)1

1. Norelli-Bachelet, P. (2023). The Sacred Fullness: Letters from Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet. Æon Books.