I was born into a deeply religious family. My father was an itinerant preacher and we traveled across the country offering our service to rural communities. My father would preach, my mother would sing, and my brothers and I would perform puppet shows to entertain the young ones. My early life lessons were to respect my elders and to offer myself to the greater good.
This is the first in the series of articles from the book Radical Spirit that we will be posting on a regular basis and is focused exclusively on Generation X spirituality. Albert Wong the author of this article is a past Marshall scholar and has assorted degrees in physics, philosophy, politics, and economics from Princeton, Oxford, and the University of Michigan. He won numerous national awards as a budding young scientist before working for the Esalen Institute for five years. He now works with Jeremy Tarcher in Los Angeles as chief research director at a think tank start-up that studies independent thinking and pioneering individuals.
One of the first priorities of the Universe Spirit mission statement is to be a supportive place for individuals to have or expand transformative, direct spiritual experiences with Ultimate Reality. The direct spiritual experience of Ultimate Reality is one of the most powerful, quickest and most directly transformative spiritual growth process that has ever existed. With a process this powerful there are historic spiritual safeguards developed throughout the ages to help the individual know that they are having an authentic spiritual experience or a safe spiritual practice and --- these safeguards shown be known by all! By Lawrence Wollersheim
Universe Spirit is unique in that we are the first Open Source, integral and evolutionary spiritual organization co-created from evolutionary science and the wisdom gathered through all written and oral spiritual traditions along with current science, philosophy and art. Its focus is to help you: expand your direct spiritual experience(s) of Ultimate Reality, achieve a more successful personal life and be more effective in doing your part to help co-create a better world to thrive in!
